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THE KANSAS CITY TIMES SATURDAY APRIL 8 1961 The Strange World of an Ozarks (THE Morning KANSAS CITY STAR) abc Kansas City States The Kansas City Star Company Owner and Publisher MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press exclusively is entitled to the use for reproduction of all iocal news pub lished herein as well as all AP dispatches Net paid circulation March 1961 Evening average) 338988 Morning (daily average) 333791 Sunday (average 367175 Weekly Star Farmer (average) 361506 to be incorporated into private collections Often to be sure it is no more than a result of carelessness On other occasions it comes from the pressure of a classroom assignment A thoughtless student may walk off with a volume that is needed by perhaps 30 or 40 other youngsters Even if the book is eventually returned it arrives back too late to be of any benefit to the other students Tact and public relations sense will be required if this trend is to be reduced Obviously the public doesn't want harassment especially at the library At some large Eastern libraries the problem has been solved by requiring all readers to pass through turnstiles or by a checker at the door Such measures may not be necessary or desirable here However the conscientious people who use the and the are entitled to some reasonable safeguards EXPORTS: A RIG PART OF li ECONOMY is only one workable way for us to meet the challenge of friendly (international) competition We must trade more not less exchange more not less of goods capital and Henry Ford man Bethurum of Prescott Ariz Maj Wayne Aho retired Army officer world traveler and reputed saucer sighter UFO leader George King of London Indian Chief Frank Buck Standing Horse of Tulsa and local saucer club presidents from all parts of the nation Some speakers have told of journeys to other galaxies Debates are heard between believers and skeptics One in the latter category is Luther Rowlett of Eminence whose Current river exploits have made him perhaps the most famed Ozark hillbilly of all He and Buck nevertheless remain friends Mystics in Their Midst Mysticism and Messiah-expectancy underlies the convention with some speakers asserting the space brethren have endowed them with powers of omniscience Others watch for an omen in the heavens Moderation is urged upon the disciples for the convention next June as Buck cites REGIONAL SCHOOLS UNITE FOR QUALITY Most widely known of in this area is Buck Nelson of Mountain View Mo whose tales of space adventure are as bizarre as the travels of Jules Verne's fictional heroes Here is an account of his reports and what has happened to him in consequence By Bob Koonce Mountain view mo In a letter to a Springfield newspaper the last day of July 1954 an Ozark farmer named Buck Nelson reported that disc-like had visited him He added that they had shot him with a ray which cured his lumbago and neuritis and so improved his vision that he discarded his glasses Nelson who was a lonely man on his farm near Mountain View has little time for loneliness these days That first report was followed by others and soon Buck Nelson was in the forefront of flying saucer believers corresponding with letter writers around the world and traveling over the country to make speeches Just now he is planning the annual flying saucer convention at his farm the last weekend in June In the past he has had as many as 2000 visitors for these conventions As Nelson tells the story of his first in late afternoon his radio went and his horse and dog Stepping outside he saw a huge silvery disc over his kitchen door and two more high in the heavens Ray Him Buck ran back inside and returned with a camera get- ting one fair picture he says has been repeatedly checked by scientists and aerial phe- From This Cluttered Room in His Farm Home Near Mountain View Mo Buck Nelson Keeps in Touch With Flying Saucer Believers Around the World and operated a sawmill sev eral years before retiring in an incident last year A dele-a house he built himself THE formation of the Mid-America State Universities association opens large possibilities for raising the standards of higher education It can save the taxpayer's money as well Ten schools have joined in the new association: Colorado Colorado State Iowa Iowa State Kansas Kansas State Missouri Nebraska Oklahoma and Oklahoma State Co-operation in the best use of faculty specialists and equipment is the key to this program Missouri for example does not teach architecture But Missouri students with the early prerequisites behind them could finish the work for their degrees at K-State Kansas Oklahoma or Colorado Students from the other schools could learn forestry at or Colorado or mining at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy The benefits in co-operative research also appear obvious The Ames laboratory at Iowa State is an outstanding facility Oklahoma specializes in petroleum engineering Kansas is developing an extensive computer center Nebraska has become known for meteorology research And in the same field the schools would work together to bring government and foundation research proiects to the region The logic of such a plan seems evident Soon the universities will be struggling to handle the enormous enrollments that are bound to flood existing schools and departments It will be difficult if not impossible for them to move into new fields The emphasis must be on the expansion of present facilities Every dollar must be made to fount Expensive duplicate programs on two sides of a state line would be an utter waste For the future the association plan offers the state universities a tremendous opportunity to attain excellence with economy gate got lost in the woods at night His wife and children were frantic with worry so Buck called the Texas County sheriff and a search posse was organized Many guests speculated that the lost man might have been picked up by saucers A rainstorm added to the general Speakers who had boasted all-seeing gifts from their space experiences could do no more than the others stumble all night over the rocky hills and get soaking wet The Buck attributes the saucer visits to favorable magnetic currents in his area of many caves a rare mineral in his spring the space men want and his own humility and willingness to serve as their missionary In the last respect Buck qualifies a lonely man he also is possessed of a strong urge to crusade for a better and happier life In Demand as Speaker Today Buck is kept busy with lectures TV appearances THIS is a voice from Detroit one of the cities hardest hit by foreign competition But Henry Ford II speaks in the over-all interests of the nation For despite the effect on certain industries foreign trade has become an essential part not only of the cold war operation but also of the economy Unquestionably strong undercurrents of protectionism still exist They are noticeable the pronouncements of some labor unions and of some industries particularly those affected by imports from Japan They were noticeable too in the happily unsuccessful effort to sabotage in the Senate the new Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Xo one will deny that certain industries have been seriously hurt by imports The conditioned response in such circumstances to run to the government for succor Obvi-ausly as Ford also pointed out in a recent speech in Birmingham Ala we seek instructive means to ease the problems of producers who are put at an unfair disadvantage with low-labor-cost foreign producers as a result of our trade For the 'constructive to result in a return to protectionism would deal a seri-us blow to the entire nation Last year American exports totaled some 20 billion dollars Consider the many jobs this business created Or subtract 20 billion from the gross aational product and the problem of growth Rould become a problem of emergency proportions Part of the increase in exports last year can be attributed to European prosperity Part was due to more determined sales Efforts by industry But nothing like a 20-aillion-doilar overseas business would be attainaole if this country did not also purchase abroad Those who buy from the must also sell here to gain dollars Barriers might seriously limit imports thus would also seriously limit the potential of American prosperity Reasonable Precaution deeded at the Library them was a dog named Bo weighing 385 pounds They promised to take Buck to the other planets if he would tell the world about it Buck agreed to do so On April 24 1955 Buck writes they returned for him ruling out his watch or other objects that might react to magnetic impulses Before boarding the saucer he wTas required to write Laws of by which the space men live As quoted in the book they incorporate love honor and obey and other principles of the Ten Commandments rephrased Buck and his dog Ted spent three days with the space men the book reports The man from the Ozarks was even allowed to sit at the control panel of the and operate it a time or two is very Buck reports people there use solar and electric Quarry on the Moon Rock from the moon supplies building material for the other planets according to Buck He mentions nomena investigators When he waved for the to land they responded with the ray and brighter than the which knocked him down behind a barrel When he got up the objects had disappeared but his ailments were healed He never had heard of flying saucers then Nelson said James Hill of Seymour sent a clipping of the letter to a (unidentified flying objects) club in the East and shortly Buck was a favored speaker at meetings over the country During the next 18 months the farmer from Mountain View related new saucer experiences including an tour He wrote a booklet Trip to Mars the Moon and published in paperback form In the pamphlet is recorded a second saucer appearance six months after the first one The saucers circled the house and asked permission to land unmolested in a clearing near a spring behind the house Nelson wrote Buck gave his consent but they left without landing Midnight and correspondence from all missing man returned at noon parts of the world His itinerary for January included speeches at St Joseph Mo and Hibbing Minn with other local bookings besides The annual space convention at his ranch the last weekend in June is the climax for Buck who loves company Saucer-believing guests numbering up to 2000 attend either camping on the ranch the next day having weathered the storm under an overhanging bluff along Fork river moral is don't make claims that are not Buck concludes in his convention report incident hurt many folks interested in flying As for Buck Nelson he intends to go on being himself THE RED RECORD IN Cl BA or staying at nearby motels a humble man who wears Bands and concessions are overalls in metropolitan ho-brought in Itels and makes no pretense Speakers have included Tru-jto great learning FORTY YEARS AGO A month later Buck con- clustered around huge hang-tinues a saucer landed at the ars used for a in a spring about midnight and its tremendous crater being quar-3-man crew came to his ried there On Venus he rehouse One said he was an ported he saw a 17-hour clock earth-man 19 who had livedjears skimming along four feet on Venus for two years The off the ground and a other was an and wrin capable of reading kled" space ship trainee while back Drinteri material nr nlav- Fl the third allegedly was 200 back printed material or play ing music placed in it This Says Buck Nelson Was the Result When He Aimed His Camera at the Flying Saucers Photographers Have Various Pledging Buck to relay to years old but outwardly as rriHE United States white paper this week A on the role of communism in the Castro regime presumably bring any sharp response from other Latin American governments The same charges had been made before by high Washington officials But the document does put the Kennedy administration on record as clearly aware of the extent of Red infiltration and the dangers of this Communist foothold in the hemisphere A report that Cubans are being trained as jet pilots in Czechoslovakia indicates the potential gravity in the situation of a Soviet satellite only 90 miles distant from our own shores But already the Castro armed forces by far exceed those of any other southern republic In theory Castro has built up this huge establishment to repel counter-revolutionaries It could be employed against other nations as well The Cas'troists have talked loudly about exporting their revolution Jet planes would make the task easier Their implication is not apt to be lost south of the Rio Grande CL (Biblsi (JcAASL ftcfc JodajLj Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise Proverbs 17:28 as Bucky the ex- world their laws of God rom the Fll of April 8 and 9 1921 A drilling outfit operated by A Hershfield on Badger Lumber company property at Fifteenth and Elmwood is reported to have brought in a gas well with an estimated production of 150000 cubic feet patriate earth -man With the use of natural unrefined foods for health and their message of peace and goodwill to prevent atomic destruc- Certainly no one wants any Gestapo-like action at the library However the reading public does have a right to assume that the aook collection will be protected as far as practicable from both carelessness and deliberate theft Each year some 1000 titles are permanently removed from the library Others are 'taken for prolonged periods but eventually find their way back Some months ago for example a patron asked for good on Not a single volume was found in the stacks None had been checked out None was ever returned So the librarian reordered same 30 to 40 titles to serve the public interested in that game This is costly to the taxpayers It is annoying to readers who are denied books that have been purchased with public funds only tion the space men returned per day The jitneys now consider themselves not auxiliaries but competitors of the street railway which incidentally makes ithe announcement that it is him to earth he relates Subsequent contacts have been mainly reminders Buck says adding that saucers land at his spring at intervals light a mouldering sign on a battered gate reading Stand Around This The Community council gave its first Country Club Spring Flower show at Sixty-third and Brookside Dwight Vandel 20 2502 East Forty-second is a junior class honor student at Chicago university in a 2-year pre-medic course he is a Central high school graduate Frank Cromwell of Ararat Temple has been elected president of the Shrine Association of North America in Dallas Tex The Missouri Valley oratorical contest at April 8 was won by Milton Eisenhower of the Kansas State agricultural college What Is Real? The therapists agreed some early shock Had caused the small mental block To life's reality never they said false from true And likely live his lifetime through In a world of But one his teacher thought she knew What love and faith might do Patiently she listened to the tales he told Fanciful and beautiful and bold As bright argosy Until one day she said to him Do you know the difference between Make-believe and real? Tell And suddenly he knew again old heartache and old bad he said make-believe and real is Gene Davis Born 65 years ago in Colo- making operating expenses rado Buck completed the taxes and "a little bit sixth grade and began a long The Social Service league pilgrimage traveling all of changes its name to the Coun-the then 48 states as a cow- cil of Social Agencies New boy railroader special police- trustees: Purd Wright Mrs The John Pirch Society Ridicule Might Well Squelch It man and parking lot attend ant Finally of it he bought an isolated farm 12 miles from Mountain View Harry Minty the Rev Maurice Coates A relic of old Electric park in the East Bottoms comes to The Kenned y-Marniillaii Talks Issues Behind the Issues Lie Unresolved President Roosevelt instantly saw its real vulnerability was to ridicule Noting as Rex Tug-well has recorded that wealthiest and most powerful members of the industrial elite and their described their mission as an effort to reclaim the freedom of the American people he publicly inquired with an innocent air what liberties the du Fonts and General Motors had Having read in the New York Times that morning he continued that hailed the formation of the league little short of an answer to the President said he had laughed in bed for 10 minutes The country laughed with him joined the society because of its anti-Communist dedication experience suggests that the ridicule to which its founder and some of its leading spirits have exposed the group would have shamed more of this type into quitting The emasculation of the Liberty League by President Franklin Roosevelt was achieved by making the general public laugh at it This history is recalled only to emphasize that point not to imply the slightest comparison between that truly patriotic distinguished and responsible organization with the John Birch society When the league membership was published with its galaxy of multi-millionaries ritorial possession of Hong Kong for Britain are both more important than they appear to be on the surface Participation in programs of financial aid to underdeveloped countries is looked upon as a desirable policy if it tends to increase the sale of European goods To ignore the past is called and policy It goes along with the viewpoints expressed by some so-called in the United States who say that Red China must be recognized as a The real concern here is whether President Kennedy will succumb to these new doctrines called or whether he will stand up for American idealism when he is confronted by European states men He is inexperienced in the wiles of 'macy though being something of a politician himself he may not be as naive as the Europeans think he is By Arthur Krock to 1961 Xete York Timet Next Servictj WASHINGTON The attacks and defenses of the John Birch society including a call for Congress to it that Congress very sensibly seems to have no intention to heed support a growing impression that ridicule as Attorney General Kennedy has indicated is becoming a lost art in American public controversies No citizens however well meaning have made their movement and its followers more vulnerable to destruc tion through ridicule than have the founder and some of the prominent members of the John Birch society The reason wrhy senators and others are bracketing it as a fascist menace to American institutions with the international communism the group was organized to combat may be the overpowering gravity of these troubled times Or maybe low points have been reached both in the native ability to detect when ridicule is the best instrument against fanatical extremism and the ability to make effective use of that instrument Because of a recent spate of newspaper publications about the Birchites the direct aspersions by their founder Robert Welch on the loyalty of President Eisenhower Chief Justice Warren and others is now a matter of common knowledge Since it is probably true as Senator Gold-water said on March 29 at Los An 'Me? that manv citizens of type we need in poli True Conservatism Imperiled By Raymond Moley (the John Birch society is re ANY fine people in Book asked me about the ad It is reported that this direc player He drew the schedules wrote the ads created the strategy picked the team ran the ball kicked the goals and led the cheers When it was all over he wrote books telling the story the way he wanted it told Macmillan is content with being manager although once in a while he will pick up the ball and run say to Moscow or Washington But most of the time in a cozy room having a quiet drink and organizing things As a boss his control is more firm than ever was Because of quiet ways few Britons realize that Macmillan is in his fifth year as the nation's 43rd prime minister He has already lasted longer than most and is likely to become the 20th most durable prime minister roots were firm in the greatest empire the world has known He could never admit to any nation's superiority over Britain But No 2 position has never depressed Macmillan only determined his methods He told fellow Britonj at headquarters: we are the Greeks in their Roman empire Our job is to change their minds without their knowing And that really is what been up to in whether the new young American administration would have an agreeable discussion of such specific issues as Laos and the Congo and Berlin The answer seems to be that faced with a radical problem they have had a traditional discussion of specific questions all of them based on the proposition that they can go on roughly as before with perhaps a little more and a great deal of talk about Both men use the word freely but neither is in a mood to face the domestic political consequences of what it means De spite the loss of its empires Europe is still larger and potentially more powerful than the Soviet Union but it does not want to make the sacrifices necessary to organize its power Macmillan has ended the military draft in the United Kingdom He has abandoned the effort to produce the Blue Streak missile He had done virtually nothing to oppose the rising pacifism )n Britain so reminiscent of the psychology of the and he has opposed the movement in Europe toward economic and political unity Kennedy likewise is avoiding the hard domestic questions He is urging the Brit ish to join the economic mon in Europe but like President Wilson in 1919 Bv James Reston 1961 Sew York Timex Sews Service ASHINGTON The dy-Macmillan conversations in the White House and on the Honey Fitz on the Potomac have been extremely friendly which is another way of saying that they have avoided or at least minimized the main issue Since the last war the main fact in the world has been that the Western powers have been breaking up several vast empires while the Communists have been building an empire The West in the name of justice and self-determination not to mention necessity has been creating a vast catalogue of weak independent sovereign states while the Communists from the Sea of Japan to the heart of Europe have been moving in the opposite direction In the last generation for example the French have given independence to more than 40 million people and the British have done the same for more than 600 million while China and Eastern Europe have allied themselves to the Soviet Union and the Communists are now extending their influence into Southeast Asia the Middle East Africa and even the Caribbean and Latin America The question before the prime minister of Britain arrived here this week was is arguing that is a good thing for the Europeans but impossible for the This does not mean that the conversations here on Laos the Congo and Berlin have not been useful and even important but as usual a great deal of time has been devoted to chirpy triviality and to establishing By David Lawrence (Copyright 1961 Herald Tribune) It is opportune to put into perspective President venture into personal diplomacy His talks in Washington with Prime Minister Macmillan and Chancellor Adenauer and the later visit Kennedy plans to make for conferences with President De Gaulle in Paris are the direct result of the American presidential election a change in personnel here and maybe in international policy Macmillan is an old hand an experienced diplomat and De Gaulle and Adenauer have a long-time background in international controversies The big question is how these experienced diplomats will bargain and trade in the next few months with the relatively inexperienced President of the United States In making a settlement in Southeast Asia benefits to British trade and maintaining friendly relations with Red China so as to preserve ter tive is to create a body to be operated under authoritative control at all Also that are not going to be in the position of having the work weakened by raging de Also that members who cease to feel the necessary degree of loyalty can either resign or be put out Those Americans who are drawn into this society be cause they believe it to be an expression of conservatism are helping to discredit all those who seek sound and conservative solutions for our national problems Birchism is the antithesis of conservatism (Aasociated MewspaptTt) visability of joining the John Birch society that rapidly growing organization and several of my good friends have been published as sponsors In response to questions I have strongly advised against having anything to do with the society For the published statements of Robert Welch and his society have been in large part inimical to fundamental American principles The peril in the Welch activities is that they will endanger the growth of a true conservatism in this country For he uses the livery of conservatism to serve a very dubi-ous purpose The truly dangerous part of By Arthur Versey (Seri'ice of the Chicago Tribune) LONDON The British prime minister Harold Macmillan been busy in Washington this week is a puzzling fellow He never seems to be doing anything yet things get done Running Britain is a little like running a football team The former prime minister Winston Churchill -was manager coach captain and star.