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Uust Me and My Shadow Charles Dumas tho Evening Times Editorials Peaceful Nuclear Use Soon to Take New ack terior Department. A 26-kiloton device will exploded some 4,000 feet below the earth's surface. The goal is to increase the production of natural gas in northern New Mexico, and, if successful, elsewhere. The flow of gas will be enlarged, it la believed, by breaking up underground rock formations. The estimate is that some 44,400 wells similar to Gasbuggy could be exploited by atonvic fracturing, as the technique is called.

They would add 317 trillion cubic feet to the nation's proved reserves, more than doubling the present total. Project Gasbuggy is a $4.7 million experiment. The Atomic Energy Commission is footing $2.8 million of that sum, with the remainder coming mainly from the gas company. It sounds like a lot of money, but if successful, the test would set in trend a method that would yield about $46 billion dollars' worth of gas to be attained by atomic mining. The whole venture could go far toward meeting the country's grow-ing appetite for gas, now estimated at 30 trillion cubic feet a year.

Gas is only the beginning. Commercial nuclear power now seems to have achieved a long-awaited breakthrough. Gasbuggy is the only industry-government nuclear explosion under contract. But more are on paper, and the future seems unlimited, particularly in the extractive industries. Kennecott Copper Corp.

in early October disclose plans for a $13 million experiment to use a nuclear explosion in the mining of low-grade copper. Continental Oil and 17 other oil companies, including Texaco and Mobil, use a hydrogen blast to release an estimated $3.5 trillion of oil shale deosits in Rocky Mountain beds. Columbia Gas Systems, Inc. wants to blast out a huge underground storage reservoir for gas in the Renovo, area. Coal people in Wyoming are talking about an explosion that would provide some 20 billion tons of coal, All this planning depends in part on the availability of federal funds, and hence in part on the mood of the Congress.

7 V. It Seems Like Valley Area Notes from Newspaper 20 Years Ago Dec 2, 1947 Mrs. Henry Arnold and daughter, Jean, and son, David, and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Bird all of Athens have gone to Philadelphia where they will witness the Army-Navy football game today.

The group will meet Midshipman Henry C. Arnold, son of Mrs. Arnold, who is a first year student athe U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.

Mr. and Mrs. M. son, LaRue, and of Troy and Miss Elmira were Thanksgiving the home of Mr. Van Sice East Athens.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mr. ond Mrs. Bloomsburg spent Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Elmira. The ground will shake and heave, but with luck no mushroom-shaped cloud will, appear. Gasbuggy, a subterranean nuclear explosion next Wednesday in the Carson National Forest about 175 miles north of Albuquerque, N.M, will be the 19th in a series of Project Plowshare tests for the peaceful use of atomic explosions. It will also mark the first time that anywhere in the world government and industry have got together to use nuclear explosives an industrial application.

partners are El Paso Natural Gas the Atomic Energy Commission, and the In- Russia's New Navy The Soviet Union is going to sea. The USSR eince 1963 has been reversing a previous neglect of naval power. In the past, Soviet ships and naval aviation have operated primarily near Russian coasts. Now, Fleet Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, head of the Soviet Navy, asserts "We must be prepared through broad offensive operations deliver crushing strikes against sea and ground targets of the imperialists on any point of the world ocean and adjacent territories." Vice AdmJ. William Ellis, chief of staff of the Supreme Allied Command, Atlantic, on Oct.

21 said that Russia had "the second largest and best navy in the world" and was moving up fast. Since World War II the Soviet Union has built about 200 destroyers, 25 cruisers, and more than 400 submarines. Nikita Khrushchev thought both the Soviet air force and navy aside from submarines were obsolete. Before him under Stalin-supporters of Admiral A.T. Mahan's theories of the dominance of the battleship over the submarine paid for their views with their lives.

"Though the Soviet Union possesses a very large merchant marine and the world's second largest writes Capt. Paul R. Schratz, U.S. Navy, "her national strategy is not that of a maritime power. Like Germany in two world wars, she follows the philosophy of a land power whose entire military establishment is tied to support of the ground forces.

Barren Arctic wastes and castellated land masses deny Russian access to the sea and emphasize her territorial isolation." Capt. Schratz wrote, however, before our own Navy announced in late October that the Soviet Union is building its first aircraft carrier. The news here was considered as evidence that Soviet naval strategists were abandoning their traditionally defensive strategy and thinking more boldly of cruising the open seas. The Soviet navy until its recent adventures in the Mediterranean and elsewhere had been used largely to support and supplement the Russian fishing fleet, merchant marine, and oceanographic program. Now it has become an important factor in future history.

Its new naval role just possibly was thrust upon the Soviet Union by the rearrangement of the Communist hegemony and the rift with Red China. George F. Kennan, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, observed several years ago: "People who have only enemies don't know what complications are; for that you have to have friends; and these the Soviet government, thank God, now has." Washington Merry-Go-Round C. Knight and Willett Brown all Alma Munsey of guests at and Airs.

Smith Smith of Athens, Freas Harmon of last Sunday with Campbell in Mr. and Mrs. Edward Campbell of Elmira spent Thanksgiving Day with their daughter and family Mr. and Mrs. Francis Ryman of Center Athens.

Leon Daniels is visiting at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Daniels of North Main Athens, during the Thanksgiving vacation. He is ti student at Mansfield State Teachers College. Miss Phyllis Benson, Mansfield State Teachers College student, is spending the Thanksgiving holidays with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Reed Benson of South Main Athens. 10 Years Ago Dec. 2, 1957 Ray K. Bolinger, administrator at the Robert Packer Hospital, was Along Capitol Corridors ALBANY, N.Y.

(AP) Gov. Rockefellw obviously has begun the softening-up proces designed to prepare New Yorker for a major Increase in state taxes next year. At the series of "town meetings" he Is coo-ducting across the state, Rockefeller deftly haa guided discussion of state fiscal affairs to an inevitable conculsion that taxes must go up. He always stops short of making such a flat statement himself but sets forth the facta in such a way that the listener is invited to seal his own fate. "I hate to say it," Rockefeller told an Up-ttate audience this week.

"But we've got to be realistic." When Rockefeller first scheduled the November-December town meetings, with the avowed purpose of securing citizen views on his 1968 legislative programs, observers looked for a more subtile political motive, Some suggested that his real purpose might be to keep himself in the public eye and attract attention to himself as a polished political performer worthy of next year's Republican presidential nomination despite his repeated disclaimers of White House ambitions. To others, this seemed to be stretching things a bit. As the road show progressed, a different pattern began to emerge, and it appeared that one of his motives, at least, was to pave tho way for a tax increase. Gradually, Rockefeller permitted his audiences draw him out on the fiscal situation. He listened sympathetically to their pleas for rnwo state aid to meet the soaring costs of the medical-aid program and of operating the public schools.

He agreed that the state should do more, then asked where the money was coming from. Last week, Rockefeller laid the facta on the line, this way: The state faces mandated aid increases for education and welfare programs totaling $378 million, while local school districts are seeking further aid of nearly $800 million. Additional help to defray medicaid costs would run the bill much higher. At the same time, the state's present tax structure is expected to produce only $300 million more next year from normal growth, but all of this money is needed for state services, including State University expansion and state-employe pay raises. Rockefeller suggested then and at later meetings that the only answer was to raise taxes.

But he did not recommend this directly. Instead, he has appeared to be inviting his audiences to make this recommendation them-selves. The message came across clearly enough for Democratic leaders of the Legislature. Assembly Speaker Anthony J. Travia and Senate Minority Leader Joseph Zaretzki quickly raised a clamor of protest.

Travia, who runs the Democratic-controlled Assembly, growled that Rockefeller had better try cutting expenses instead. Zaretzki declared there was no chance that legislators would vote a major tax increase in their re-election year. But Rockefeller was undeterred. He continued to pursue the same strategy, telling New Yorkers in effect, "I'm willing, if that's what you want." Obviously, his mission is to amass enough evidence at his town meetings to go before the Legislature next January and say that the people are willing to pay more taxes to obtain more state aid. Then, the election conscious lawmakers will take it from there.

James Marlow LBJ Remains Impassive WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson is just beginning to get a taste of the fever of the 1968 presidential election year. To nobody's surprise, he is being very impassive about it. It would be bad politics to be otherwise. The confusion over Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara's departure from the Pentagon to be president of the World Bank had just begun to quiet down when Johnson's fellow Democrat, Sen.

Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota, became his rival for the White House. Also to nobody's surprise, since he had been murmuring about it for weeks, McCarthy he will enter at least four presidential primaries in 1968 with the war in Vietnam his main theme. He said there is so much dissatisfaction over the war "there is a good possibility" Johnson will be denied renomination. At this point it is not likely many people, including McCarthy, think he has a chance to get the nomination away from Johnson although, if he can generate enough heat, somebody else might.

As ho said: "If not roe, then someone else." But Johnson's reaction when he expresses it to those not close to him is a political cliche: (Continued on Page 7) THE EVENING TIMES SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1967 PiibHfhi Omm a Johnston Dana S. Johnston PVasWant Harold C. Yingling Editor Paul E. StibeT Editor Waverly Offlta Jusnlta Wast 421 Fulton St Phooa 565-9634 Sayre Offic Business Office 99 Packer An. Phone 8S3-9241 Athens Offic taura Allen 304 S.

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Published daily except Sunday by the Sayre Printing Company, a corporation at Sayre. Pa. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Poet Offio at Sayr. Pa 18840. MEMBER Associated Press ANPA PNPA Audit 8urNi at OreuiaUaa i '68 AVENUE Yesterday Files of Past Years elected to the board of directors of the Pennsylvania League of Nursing at its annual meeting in the Hotel Roosevelt, Pittsburgh.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Frank Dodge of 108 Hospital Place, Sayre, visited friends in Canadaigua on Thanksgiving. Mr.

and Mrs. Ernest Smith of Woodhull and Mr. and Mrs. Park Smith of Jasper, N.Y., were Thanksgiving guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Ray S. Smith of 31 Spring Waverly. Mr. and Mrs. Damon Lamphear of 23 Orchard Waverly, spent Thanksgiving at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Fred R. Lamphear in Hor-nell. Miss Kathryn Howell of Washington, D. is visiting her mother, Mrs.

Alice Howell of 28 Orange Waverly. Mrs. Albert Holbert of 228 Chestnut Athens, has returned home after spending a month with Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kraus and infant son, Patrick Michael, in Alexandria, La.

W. Cornell in the World of Religion cularly among right-wing conservatives. A church organizational style similar to that of Protestantism. Greater flexibility in worship forms, under pressure from spreading experimental movements. An increase of the so-called "underground" new communities, outside traditional parish bounds, with recognition increasingly accorded them.

An uncertain future for clerical celibacy, with no clear indications that the rule against marriage for priests will be abandoned soon. Continued tensions over doctrinal and devotional matters, but no mass apostasy or heresy. "American Catholics are changing their minds about many tilings, but they are not losing the faith and they are not leaving the Church," Father Greeley emphasizes. "Nor are they likely to in the foreseeable future." Father Greeley, 39, has for five years headed the research center, gathering and assessing material on Catholic outlooks, particularly in the fields of education and youth. In a new book, "The Catholic Experience: An Interpretation of the History of American Catholicism," published by Doubleday, he offers an intimate portrayal of the church's development He also lectures widely, and writes a column for Catholic newspapers.

In a recent series of them, he drew together the various findings about church trends to deduce what will to the institution in the next 25 years. Capital Comment By The Associated Press The government has announced proposed customs changes to require foreign-made motor vehicles imported into the United States after Jan. 1 to conform to applicable government safety satndards. Rep. Chet Holifield, has suggested an electronic voting system be installed in the House and he has proposed a survey to leam how other congressmen feel about the idea.

Johnson Reluctantly Approved Pound Devaluation Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 1967. There are 29 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On this date in 1823, President James Monroe stated the Monroe Doctrine against European expansion in the Western Hemisphere. On this date In 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself emperor of France.

In 1805, the armies of Napoleon were victorius in the Battle of Aus-terlitz. In 1812, James Madison was reelected as U.S. president, defeating De Witt Clinton. In 1840, William Henry Harrison was elected president. He defeated former President Martin Van Buren.

In 1942, a secret demonstration of nuclear chain reaction took place below the football stadium at the University of Chicago. In 1960, the Archbishop of Canterbury visited Pope John XXIH. It was the first time in more than five centuries that the spiritual head of the Anglican church had visited a pope. Ten years ago President Dwight D. Eisenhower met with his cabinet and practiced golf shots on the WTiite House lawn just one week after suffering a mild stroke.

Five years ago U. N. Secretary-General Thant said he hoped the spirit of compromise that marked negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cuban crisis would be extended to settle other world issues. One year ago President Lyndon B. Johnson was told by his chief economic adviser that continued prosperity and easing of inflationary pressures were in prospect for the coming year.

George News NEW YORK evidence on Roman Catholic the cl.urch in America. results add up vengeance" but The prospects, gloomy, half The Rev. Andrew study director of Chicago's Center, data on trends these Popular of bishops. General the use of birth from a has developed teachings on A "sharp feelings" Other Editors Views Right Thing to Do Governor Shafer's rejection of a state lottery as a source of revenue to help carry the cost of education in Pennsylvania was the right thing to do. We share his reasoning that "I just don't think that.

enlightened society would to a lottery to finance the most important product we have, our young people." The Governor, of course, was stating the case against a Harrisburg-sanctioned lottery in moral and ethical terms, both of which are perfectly logical arguments in support of his position. We submit, however, that there are mundane reasons also why Pennsylvania ought not to get itself involved in the lottery business. As the experiences of both New York and New Hampshire where such enterprises currently are in operation testify, as a dependable and lucrative supplier of revenue, a state lottery leaves much to be desired. Sharon Herald economist, has claimed there is such poignant memory of the 1929-30 crash that investment houses will lean over backward to avoid repetition. But today the investment counselors are all young men who have no idea of the tragedy that came out of the last big crash.

On the other hand, the Gross National Product of the United States is at the highest point in history-approaching $800 billion; and the monthly GNP alone equals two-thirds America. Employment is also high. Unemployment increased slightly during the past two months, birt even so, 3,000,000 unemployed is insignificant for a country of this size. Finally, exports are at an all-time high. We are shipping abroad this year $30 billion as against $26.5 billion of imports a very healthy margin.

But devaluation of the pound will reduce this drastically. And if an isolationist, short sisrhted Congress betrins monkeying with the tariff and the Ex-Im Bank's power to finance exports, we may see these sales go into a tailspin. These are some of the factors the United States faces following devaluation of the British pound. apitel Quotes By The Associated Press "If I had my way and it may be a blessing I haven't I would give draft card burners a good lashing and a good haircut, I would give beatniks the same, and I would give hippies' a haircut on the face and then get a horse curry brush and give them a good bath. If I could I woud put these combinations of odds and ends on the front lines with the enemy in front and a bayonet in back." Eddie V.

Rickenbacker, World War I ace and airline executive. "I only hope the successor will be somewhere near as strong as he has been and that he will continue to exercise strict civilian control" Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield commenting on the pending resignation of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara. (AP) Weighing the the horizon, a noted sociologist has projected coming shape of that And he says the to change "with a "no signs of revolt." he adds, are "half hopeful." M. Greeley, senior of the University National Opionion Research in analyzing recent in the church, foresees developments: participation in election Catholic acceptance of control devices, resulting "credibility gap" that about the church's sexual morality.

increase the anticlerical of Catholics, parti- By DREW PEARSON and JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON Inside fact about the British devaluation of the pound is that President Johnson was worried about it and gave his reluctant approval, provided it was not devalued lower than 15 per cent. This is why the pound was dropped from $2.80 to $2.40, or 14.3 per cent. Further inside fact was that the President was sore as blazes at Rep. Wilbur Mills, the supposedly loyal Democrat, and Rep. Jerry Ford, leader of the GOP opposition, for conspiring together to block the President's request for a tax increase.

It was failure to increase taxes, the economists had warned the President, which inflated our economy, pushed up interest rates, and sucked capital out of England. Today interest rates are so high that the government is now paying the unprecedented rate of 5.75 per cent of U.S. bonds. When the final story of British de-' valuation and its consequences is written, Congressmen Mills and Ford will have to share part of the blame. What the final consequences will be worries the experts who watched tiie great depression of 1930 build up until it spread creeping paralysis around the world.

Some of the same factors are present today, though they are coupled with tan favorable factors not present in the early 1930s. Here are some of them: Vienna And London Factor No. 1 British devaluation of the pound is not unlike the closing of the Kredit Anstalt in Vienna in 1931. When it closed, the Rothschilds in Paris and the Federal Reserve in New York, with the Bank of England, rushed funds to its support. But it did no good.

Bank after bank in Central Europe folded. Reason was that Vienna was the capital of an empire which ceased to exist, just as London is now the capital of an empire which has ceased to exist. The great Austro-Hun-garian empire had been chopped up after World War I into the separate republics of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia and Hungary. Vienna, left alone, was unable to support itself. Likewise, the vast British empire was dismembered after World War II, with India, Burma, Ceylon, Malaysia, Cyprus, Suez, the African colonies, all becoming independent, and Canada, Australia, New Zealand becoming financially aloof.

Factor No. 2 Congress is mov-inc toward a tariff hike exactly as it did in the Smoot-IIawley days when a Republican Congress presented Herbert Hoover with the stiff tariff increase which disastrously disrupted the trade of the world. Sen. Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader, has dropped his current drive for tariff increases, but only temporarily. He promises to renew the drive after Christmas, Facto No.

3 U.S. aid for for-eign countries has just been chopped to the lowest point in its history. This has done two tilings. It undermines American influence for peace, as illustrated by the threatened war between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. When the United States was giving substantial aid to Turkey, we had more influence for peace.

Now we have less. Second, the curtailment of aid will curtail U.S. exports. Eighty per cent of U.S. aid went to finance U.S.

goods shipped abroad. These will be cut back in exactly the same way U.S. loans and credits to Europe were cut off in 1930, thereby causing economic chaos in those countries we were subsidizing. Factor No. 4 The life of the Export-Import Bank is jeopardized by the hamstringing amendments of Rep.

Paul Fino. He would cramp the power of the executive to make loans, by delegating much of the power to Congress. It's another isolationist move similar to the Hoover crackdown on trade which contributed to the great depression. Overheated Stock Market Factor No. 5 The stock market is overheated.

Values of some stocks are far of line with earning power, and have been driven up purely by speculation. There has been so much trading that brokerage houses can't keep up with customers' orders, ers. Ken Galbraith, famed Harvard Trudy FORECPlST g) Kig FtXum SmdicM, 1967. WwM tmtmi. -it 4 "First let me apologize about yesterday's forecast.