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2 fl June 1949 The Lock Karen Express THE LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS Published Dally Except Sunday by THB LOCK HAVEM EXPRESS Panmuo Co. THE DEMON BOOK SALESMAN FRANK D. RKBKCCA F. GROSS President and Publisher Secretary-Treasurer, Editor it Leek Peit Office, Second Mat) Subicrlptlon copy, 8 ctnU) by cirrUr, 10 fl.nti i by In Clinton County CifrUr avillablt, 80 i week; In Clinton County and Penniytvinli, II 112 year) outildi 11.28 month) $1B Tha AiiaclaUd Prut li cntltlid txelutlvily to uit for llcatlon of ill local ntwa printed In thle newtpiper, wall ill AP nawa dltpatchaa. ESTABLISHED MARCH 1.

1882 OUR 67iH YIAR "Let this mind be in you also in Christ Jesus." Phil 2:5. Strike Coverage No Is touchier for a newspaper to try to cover than a strike. Every word printed in a newspaper on aucli a subject i.s scrutinized with critical intensity by partisans of both sides, In the stress and strain of a situation, where it sometimes happens that the nerves of people on both sides are taut and jumpy, everyone is looking for a chance to jump on somebody or something. The newspaper and its reports of the situation are sometimes regarded aa a convenient whipping boy. Our only aim In this kind of ticklish news coverage is to be fair to'both sides.

When a strike breaks out, the first thinjjf we do is to try to get in touch with the responsible people on both sides of the argument, tell them we want the facts about the situation, and ask for a statement giving their version of those facts. In our early experience with local strike news, these requests were frequently met with refusal to talk. Union leaders were especially elusive and unwilling to give information to reporters. Some representatives of management had the same secrecy complex. We met such difficulties yesterday In our attempt to give a fair story of the paper mill strike.

The paper mill management told us what their last offer had been before the strike vote, and also stated what the laat union demand had been, in addition to giving a statement of reasons for their proposal and for their rejection of the union wage request. Our endeavor to get a statement from the union spokesmen ran into a blank wall, however. We talked to Dan Sandy, district spokesman for the U. M. in the morning and asked him to give us a statement on behalf of the union by late morning.

When nothing was heard from him in the next two hours, we made half a dozen additional attempts to reach him. All were unsuccessful. We understand, from unofficial sources, that one of the union requests which is a major factor in the situation at the paper mills Is a matter of seniority. We would have expected thla point to be clarified in a statement from Mr. Sandy.

In the absence of such a statement from him or some other authoritative spokesman for the union, we are placed in the embarrassing position of having no information directly from the union. With Mr. Sandy on hand, others in the union naturally leave it to him to take the lead in any statement of union aims and objectives. So long as he keeps mum, we are exposed to the criticism, which some are quick to the newspaper is deliberately ignoring this aspect of the story. That is nof the case.

We have asked Mr. Sandy for a statement of the union position, not once but several times, and have phoned his office at least a dozen times since yesterday morning seeking to assure him of our interest in covering the union side of the interruption of operations at the mills. He did not call back to answer to our telephone messages. When our reporters reached him in person he said "No statement until next week." We want the public to know that, if there is no statement from the union in The Express it is because the union made none; and if the union made none, it was not because The Express did not invite such a Until Mr. Sandy himself, or someone equally qualified to speak for the union, accepts our invitation to state the union case, it is squarely his responsibility that no union statement is published.

We asked for it both yesterday and today. Past experience teaches us that there will be many critics of The Express who will charge that we printed the "side of management" and not the "side of labor." We well know that many labor critics of the press always make a great point of charging that the coverage of strikes is "one-sided" and features the elements they consider favorable to management. If that charge has any foundation elsewhere, we know that, in Lock Haven, it has no basis in fact. There was no lack of effort on the part of The Express to get facts on both sides of this controversy, and all similar events in the past. We continue daily to ask both sides for information.

In fairness to the members of the union, in fairness to management, and in fairness to the all three are equally involved with equally vital interests at stake in a labor and management should accept the responsibility to state their aims and circumstances, factually and straight-forwardly, to the press as the spokesman of the public. Honor for Joel Cluster His old friends in Lock Haven will be happy to note the honor paid to Joel Claster, native of this community and a graduate of the Lock Haven High School, by his collegiate Alma Mater, Dickinson College. An outstanding business man, not only in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, but in operations that extend widely over the country, Mr. Claster has achieved a stature which warrants the honorary degree, Doctor of Commercial Science, with which he will be invested at the forthcoming commencement. Mr.

Claster will share honors of the day with such fellow-recipients of honorary degrees as Secretary of the Treasury Snyder; Frank Baker, prominent Philadelphia financier and leading Methodist layman, and eminent educators and scientists from among the ranks of Dickinson alumni. Mr. Claster is one of five of those chosen for Dickinson's honorary degrees who are being thus honored in the anniversary year of their own graduation. Mr. Claster and the ftev.

Frank Yaggers, pastor of a large Methodist church in Washington, D. were members of the class of 1914, so their return to the campus as honorary "graduates" is a 35th anniversary recognition. Old friends here are happy to extend their congratulations to Dr. Claster as he dons cap and gown again to receive the accolade of his college. What few laws we have with teeth in them do not seem to have any wisdom, teeth.

emotional Dangers of Another War Are Receding By DEWITT MACKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst President Truman says he believes "We are closer to world peace now than at any time In the past three years. Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declares he has the growing hope "that we may avert forever the horrible vision of £. third world war." What justification is there for such optimism In view of the continued clashes between the Russians and the Western Democracies in Europe, and the sweeping victories of the Moscow-inspired Communists in China? Has the gift of prophesy deserted these two distinguished statesmen? Remember When? Drew Pearson Oil Companies' Unreasonable Price Boosts Studied by Sen. Maybank Car-owners at Tyrone are getting little red cards giving the schedule for the street-cleaning machine so cars and trucks will be out of the way and riot impede the progress of the work. Wonder if that would be a good idea to try here in Lock Haven WASHINGTON What is described as highway robbery In the price of gasoline has Just been made the subject of a sizzling Senate report, hitherto unpublished.

On the basis of this report, Senator Maybank of South Carolina will call the major oil companies before his Banking and Currency Committee and ask them to explain unreasonable price boosts. What Senate Investigators found was that the average motorist must pay an extra $40 a year for the same amount of gasoline that he purchased in 1940. Yet the oil companies justify higher prices on the grounds that they are losing profits. Regarding this, Senate investigators state In their so- far-confldential report: Zooming Profits The oil company profits for 1948 were so nigh as to exert a disproportionate Influence on the general level of profits. "Thus the Standard and Poor's Corporation reported that for 1,548 Industrial companies, profits for 1948 were 23.2 per cent above 1947.

However, If oil companies were eliminated from the sample, 1948 profits were only 16 per cent above 1947. In other words, so great was the oil industry's increase in 1948 profits that for a large sample of all industrial corporations, the 1948 profits increase was about 50 per cent greater as a result of including the oil companies." From 1946 to 1948, oil profits shot up more than times, the investigators report. The oil companies justified this on the grounds that they were expanding to meet the unprece- dented demand for petroleum products. Now the expansion has stopped, as evidenced by- cutbacks In production and imports. Yet the oil companies turn around and boost prices even higher because these inflated profits are settling back to earth again.

Senator Maybank will call the big oil companies before his committee around June 15. News Capsules Paris of State Dean Acheson has cabled the State Department that this week will be the critical period In the Big Four Foreign Ministers' Conference. Both sides have been sparring up until now and no secret sessions have taken-place to date. However, this week several secret sessions will take place and Acheson thinks they'll give an opportunity to find out whether the Russians want to fish or cut bait. If there is no action by next week, Acheson will be home around June 10.

Talks With Acheson has held two off-the- record meetings with Vishinsky one short, one talk over the Austrian peace treaty. And for the first time since 1947 Acheson believes an agreement can be reached to get Russian troops out of Austria. Vishinsky has shown a surprisingly mild attitude in these talks, and Acheson has indicated the United States may conseftt to let the Russians have $150,000,000 in Austrian reparations in return for an Austrian peace treaty. Czech powerful underground movement has sprung up In Czechoslovakia that has the Communists worried. At least three well- organized guerrilla bands have been attacking Communist officials and police in the vicinity of Bratislava.

After each attack, they retreat into the hills and can't be located. Five thousand army troops have been assigned to track down the guerrillas, but this hasn't worked out because many of the soldiers have deserted to join the guerriallas. Mail Bag Robert McKinney, owner and publisher of the Santa Fe New Mexican, writes as follows: "Dear Mr. Pearson: "The shocking death by suicide of Mr. James Forrestal, late secretary of defense, will grieve all who ever knew and served with him.

I had the privilege of a tour duty, in a minor capacity, on Mr. Forrestal's staff, and came to respect him as an American of consummate ability and patriotism. "His suicide, however, means more than a personal Joss to his friends. It must be taken to the nation's heart as glaring proof of the need for fearless news reporting in the nation's capital. When your dispatch came out some weeks ago describing the advanced state of deterioration of Mr.

Forrestal's mental health, it came as more of a surprise to me than did the subsequent news that Mr. Forrestal has now taken his life. I happened to be In Washington at the time you broke the story, and heard among his friends and many TRUE CNOUW BACHS HME, OK1UV5 FlklGEOS IK) EACH- H-AWO WERE USEP OM KEYBOARD AWP 5TH- FIMGEW WECE AS IM government officials the almost unanimous opinion that the Forrestal story was the last Drew Pearson should now be shut up for irresponsible reporting. "Had the officials of the Naval Medical Center been as alert and diligent about their business as you were about yours, perhaps Mr, Forrestal might have eventually recovered and lived a long and useful life. American newspapermen should paste on their walls the headlines of this minor Pearl Harbor at Bethesda, to guide them whenever there is pressure to withhold the news." Public Housing Inside fact is that courteous Chairman Sabath could have squelched the Rules Committee filibuster against the public housing bill and railroaded the bill to the House the benign gentleman from Illinois used the same strong-arm tactics that his foes use against him.

At one closed-door session last week, only one of the committee's four Republicans New York's Jim showed up. This put filibustering Gene Cox of Georgia, the Dixiecrat, in a frenzy. Because Sabath had the votes to vote the housing bill out over his head with three Republicans absent. Cox, who almost always votes with the Republicans, immediately began demanding that the committee postpone action until "all the members are hereto express themselves." Sabath, however, stopped him. "I could take advantage of these gentlement who are absent and call for a vote, but I don't intend to.

I don't be- llvee in doing business that way. I try to be considerate of my colleagues who are against me as well as those who are with me. "However, I expect the same treatment myself in the future," he added, looking squarely at the gentleman from Georgia. Note Last summer, when Cox faced a tough reelection primary, he wrote a newspaper in his district indicating that he favored the housing bill, though later he ducked the vote. Today, safely reelected, he is showing his true colors and is actively leading the opposition.

I don't believe either of them hat, lost his cunning. There are plenty of signs that the dangers of world war have receded greatly in recent weeks. The chief reason Is that the Communist drive westward across Europe has been stopped by the power of the democracies' counter-offensive. Not only has it been stopped but it has very largely spent ita force and is without the sinews for recovery. So much for Europe, which has represented the greatest immediate threat to the western world.

But what ol China, which houses close to a quarter of the world's population and is possessed of vast natural resources? Is there no danger in that situation? China certainly does present grave dangers, but at this stage they are more ideological than military. It is quite in-the cards that Russia, even though dominating that vast country politically, would find it a white elephant. This is so because China, while potentially a great power, is backward and undeveloped. From the military aspect she not only wouldn't be any great asset to Russia, but on the contrary would involve heavy expenditures for development. Progress calls for mountainous efforts and great sums of money.

Putting China on her feet isn't a matter of years. It involves decades. So at this juncture neither Europe nor the Orient hold threats of another world war in anything like the near future. Perhaps, as Churchill says, it may be averted forever. But this doesn't mean the struggle between Communism and democracy Is drawing to a close.

It will continue, but along Ideological lines rather than as a "shooting least so long as the Allies keep themselves militarily strong as a preventive. Daffynitions i i Middle Age: The period when a man begins to feel friendly toward insurance agents. Bakers: Part of the familiar expression, "Bakers can't be choosers." Death Ray: The look one woman gives another who's wearing an identical summer outfit. Liar: A person who disagrees with you in a political discussion. Water: Ice at ease.

Confession Magazine: Where people write their wrongs. Zwieback: A bready-made toast. Bachelor: A man who won't put his autograph on a marriage license. Crematory: A building where cream is separated from milk. Hollywood: The only madhouse that's run by the inmates.

Tongue: What people who don't know you well always have your name on the tip of. River Stages and Temperatures Sheriff Klepper, Grugan And Dickey Pick Jurors 50 Years Ago MISS ALICE M. HANNA was one of the class of six ladles who graduated as trained nurses from the Wllliamsport Hospital. She Ls the daughter of W. B.

Hanna of Lockport. W. O. CLAPP, formerly of this city, now with the New York Sun, is a member of the Sun Wheelmen, and is also captain of the paper's baseball club. Mr.

Klapp learned his trade as a printer in this office. The Express is pleased to learn that he Is meeting with success in greater New York. sophomore year in Yale University, will sail for Europe on the "Aquitania," accompanied by a fellow student, William Greenman of Brooklyn. They will visit England, France and Italy. WEST RA LODGE, A.

O. U. has elected the following officers: Master workman, R. W. A.

Jameson; foreman, A. W. Harris; overseer, W. W. Richie; guide, A.

W. Bare; recorder, George Eadle; financier, C. C. Conser; receiver, David Forsht; inside watchman, Swope; outside watchman, M. B.

Cross; medical examiners, Drs. G. W. Maust, R. G.

Furst, A. M. Klrke; trustee, J. E. Tonery; delegate to Grand Lodge, Dr.

Eadie. 40 Years Ago P. J. HOMLER, the enterprising house furnishings dealer, whose establishment is located in the Opera House block, has placed a neat canvas awning in front of his store. SHERIFF W.

H. KLEPPER, Adam Dickey, and F. C. Grugan, Jury commissioners, finished drawing from the jury wheel the names of talesman who will serve at the next term of court. THE FOLLOWING OFFICERS were elected at a meeting of the Delphian Chapter: President, Mrs.

J. Lynn Harris; first vice president, Mrs. William Kelner; second vice president, Miss Carrie Bridgens; third vice president, Miss Edith M. Kinsloe; secretary treasurer, Miss J. Florence Bitner.

JO Years Ago MISS HANNAH MERVINE, daughter of Dr. G. D. Mervine, is scheduled to be graduated from Bucknell University. She will receive the bachelor ol science degree in biology.

ERIC JAMES arrived in New York after a year's study at the University of Wales. He was met by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Talfryn James. GEORGE SPERRING and Harry Eichenlaub were fishing for trout in Young Women's Creek.

They succeeding in landing a good catch. 25 Years Ago BLANCHARD GUMMO, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. K.

Gummo, who is just completing his MISS DOROTHY McGHEE won the women's handicap golf tournament at the Clinton Country Club. Mrs. Carl O. Hoover was second. 5 Years Ago TWO MEN of the Lock Haven High School faculty, H.

Conley Hayes and William F. Moody, have received calls for Navy duty. Mr. Hayes, supervisor ol the vocational agricultural department for the past six years, is in Philadelphia being sworn in as a lieutenant, junior grade, USNR. Mr.

Moody, who had been auto mechanics instructor in the vocational department for the past foui years, has received a petty officer's rating of motor machinist mate, first class. CPL. PAUL E. EYER, son oi Mr. and Mrs.

Harvey E. Eyer, McElhattan, has arrived home on a furlough, the first since he left for the Army 14 montha ago. He is now stationed at Camp Gruber, Okla. The Nation Today Drama of the Atom By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON, (AP The time: The atomic age. The place: A huge room.

The play: The first great Indoor drama of the atom open to the public. The scene: Blazing lights, whirring cameras, tense senators and congressmen, newsmen scribbling furiously, hundreds of the curious public neck craning in the jam- packed room. The stars: Senator Hickenlooper, Iowa Republican, and David E. Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, facing each other stonily across a shining mahogany table. The plot: Hickenlooper says Lilienthal "mismanaged" the nation's atom program, is unfit to run it.

Lilienthal, "damn mad," denounces Hickenlooper for "smearing," says in effect: "Prove what you say." Prologue: Senator McMahon, Connecticut Democrat and chairman of the congressional committee hearing the case, says: There'll be a "fair opportunity to throw a searchlight on the facts." Curtain raises on Act Tight-lipped Hickenlooper sets out to prove what he's said, fetches little cards out of his various suit pockets in such orderly fashion that he must have memorized where each card was. Hickenlooper says many shifts and changes all add up to bad management in the AEC. Lilienthal says it'i not easy to get or keep qualified people. He says "Men find It very discouraging to have to spend as much time explaining what they have been doing, as they do in getting things done." Acts 2, 3, 5, 10, 20, 40, No one can predict how many acts there will be, how many days this will go on, or where it will end. It's up to Hickenlooper to prove the charges he's made against Lilienthal.

The latter has challenged him. This much seems certain: If Hickenlooper tries to prove bad management by showing mistakes in details, Lilienthal will try to show that he and the other four AEC commissioners can't be accountable for every detail if they're going to keep their eyes on the big target, the whole, wide program. Although Hickenlooper is shooting solely at Lilienthal, and says so, Lilienthal made it clear in yesterday's hearings that Hickenlooper's charge of "incredible mismanagement" must be aimed at all five AEC commissioners, not him alone. Today's Birthday He looks at each card, reads off the name of some official who worked for the AEC and quit or shifted jobs within the AEC, asks Lilienthal if he knew that man, what he thought of him. Better English VVEKEOPTtM EXECUTEC7 DIRECT fZEPETttTONS OF A SIUSLE RAMD WAS USEC7 SIMPLY FDC BEATTNS 1.

What is wrong with this sentence? "I shall now fix breakfast." 2. What Is the correct pronunciation of "incongruous?" 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Charlatan, chas- tizement, chimerical. 4. What does the word "labyrinth" mean? 5.

What is a word beginning with eve that means "to come out finally?" Answers Say, "I shall now prepare breakfast." 2. Pronounce in- kong-groo-us, as in on, oo as in groove, accent second syllable. 3. Chastisement. 4.

An inextricable or bewildering state of things. "We were confronted by a labyrinth of facts and figures," 5. Eventuate. MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Max. 82 74 83 87 91 92 94 73 77 73 66 69 77 76 76 78 79 84 90 87 56 68 71 76 72 62 60 63 61 65 74 Min.

54 56 52 46 47 56 59 38 38 47 32 34 37 37 47 50 58 56 56 50 37 38 53 59 48 44 33 34 32 33 39 Free. .09 .23 .09 .23 .18 1.58 .38 .54 .06 .30 River 8.88 8.77 8 88 u.uo 8.55 8,45 8.39 8.34 8.24 8.19 8.12 8,10 8.05 8.00 7.95 7,90 7.93 7.93 7.90 7.85 8.03 10.04 9.58 9.25 9.55 9.60 9,64 9.05 8.86 8.58 8.57 8.43 Brain Twisters i i Ten Dollar Words There are a lot of letters in each of these ten-dollar words Don't let them bluff you. See If you can correctly pick each definition. 1. Plenipotentiary person invested with power, a wealthy man, an oracle.

2. Ambidextrousness speed, ability to use both hands, beauty. 3. Apocalyptically approximately, definitely, like a revelation. 4.

stub- borness, fierceness, serenity. 5. Incon trover tlbility un- denlableness, fairness, haughtiness. 6. Consanguineously wisely, with the same blood, sickly.

Answers 1. Person invested with power. 2. Ability to use both hands. 3.

Like a revelation. 4. Serenity. 5. Undenlableness.

6. With the same blood. Grover Aloysius Whalen, born June 2, 1886, on New York's Lower East Side, son of a general contractor. He left law school when his father died in order to take over the business. He became interested in politics in 1916, backed John F.

Hylan for mayor, and became Hylan's secretary. passed through many official i posts and general manager of IW a a maker's 'New York department store. He was Jimmy Walker's official city greeter in the 1920s and later police commissioner. In 1938 he started planning New York's World's Fair, of which he was president. Mayor LaGuardia appointed him to several important posts in World War II and Elmer Davis remarked, "London has the British royal family, but New York has Grover Whalen." Birthday Club Nora R.

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