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El Paso Herald -Post Invasion Threat Worries Dominican Republic Boss Arizonan Rates High In Politics A IClim-BOWUD MmrAru EDWARD POOLEY Editor Published dell? except Sunday by Herald-Poet Publlahlng Company at 401 Mills avenue Entered as second class matter April IT 1831 at tna rost Office at El Pas Texas under the Act of March 8 1878 Retlstrado eomo artlculo de 2a class en la Admlnlstraciis de Oorreos da Culdad luarea Chihuahua eon fecha 22 de abrll de 1811 TELEPHONE KE M661 ion of muted Press International Scrlppe-Howard Newspaper Alliance Newspaper Enterprise Association Science Service Audit Bureau of Circulation SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By earner tn El Paso and elsewhere evening 20a week evening with Sandsy Times 45a week evening Herald-Post with El Paso Times morning and Sunday T5o week By mall In Texas New Bfeslee and A jna evening only 1 month $180 months 8410: 0 months 8745 1 year 81418 Elsewhere Is Mexico and Canada I month 8178: 8 months 8478 8 months 8870: 1 year 8104A Other foreign countries 8228 per month straight Mail subeerlptlons payable In advance The Herald was established In 1881 The Post In 1822 "Give light and the people wtQ find their own wav" WEDNESDAY MARCH 25 1850 PAOE SIXTEEN WEDNESDAY BEFORE EASTER ASSIST us mercifully with thy help Lord God of our salvation that we may enter with joy upon the meditation of those mighty acts whereby thou hast given unto us life and immortality through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen fi fi unwelcome and unwanted but he has nowhere else to go and Trujillo suffers him to stay on There also is the little matter of a debt for Dominican arms Trujillo has been ever ready to supply arms to those of his ilk who were in trouble But he Is a practical man He expects money for them At any rate bill remains unpaid The Dominican dictator ii not ao afraid that a hostile force actually will attempt a landing on his shores Most responsible sources here agree it be anything like as easy as Fidel landing in Oriente province in Cuba army navy and police ring every bay inlet and possible landing site Every airstrip including those at the big airport here is piled with impedimenta and booby traps and no plane is cleared for landing until it has been well identified What the generalissimo fears most is an attack by way of neighboring Haiti which occupies the western end of this island and is separated only by a narrow channel from old mountain stronghold in Cuba As a precaution the Dominican boss has signed a mutual "peace and pact with President Francois Duvalier whose own foothold is none too firm Meantime Trujillo has ordered every retired officer re serve soldier and veteran to form a special defense corps to help protect the common frontier "Not" as one Latin-American diplomat put it "because he wants to strengthen foe hand of his Haitian neighbor but so that if the onslaught came he could fight on somebody soU helpless little Haiti" By EDWARD TOMLINSON Written far Berippa-Heward Newspaper TRUJILLO CITY Dictator Rafael Trujillo is having sleepless nights over mounting threats of invasion of his Dominican Republic and particularly over the violent anti-Trujillo propaganda campaign being waged against him and his regime from abroad Word is trickling back from Trujillo's intelligence agents about the reorganization of the old Caribbean Legion which figured in several revolutions in Central America and almost succeeded in mounting an expeditionary force against him back in the late 1940s Today exiles from half a dozen countries are congregated in Havana with the open blessing of Fidel Castro to plot the of foe peoples of Haiti Nicaragua Honduras Paraguay and particularly foe Dominican Republic Other groups are operating from Caracas and they seem to be able to get all the radio facilides necessary to wage a war of words The generalissimo has always sought the limelight but on his own terms Often he has bought full-page advertisements in magazines and newspapers in the United States and other countries But foe limelight that has turned on him since the Cuban revolution is something else He blames it all on Cuba's ousted strong man Fulgencio Batista who arrived here almost unannounced last New night Within a few days foe Fidelistas and their sympathizers in Venezuela and elsewhere were laying down barrages of condemnation on Trujillo for giving Batista shelter and they let up Every day the Trujillo press makes known that foe Cuban is City Goes Academic THE CITY ADVERTISES FOR an assistant personnel director and sets forth a silly specification for the Job The person a male from 25 to 46 must have a college degree in personnel management or business administration With that requirement neither the Mayor nor any member of the Council can qualify Neither can the presidents of the largest employers the gas companies the electric companies the' refineries the smelter the cement plant or the commanding general of Fort Bliss Where did the City get that sort of stuff from? Why It do business in a businesslike manner? Perhaps there should be a City Charter amendment requiring the Mayor and Aldermen to have degrees in mayoralty and aldermanic science before they can occupy their positions Yes the requirement is silly and it would be Interesting to know whose idea it is There is to be an examination but the high man necessarily get the Job Why he? Thinking Out Loud Beetles in Granaries Are Nothing New The Fence tunate grain dealers infested by the barbaric beetle 3921 Alameda Side-Bar Remarks By Pooley By DR CONNER MIKE FURMAN and 18 others Jammed into a phone booth at Texas Western College campus but failed to break the record mark of 20 in booth The failure lay in advance planning Smaller men should have been chosen If the men inn this campus contest why not turn it over to the Gold Diggers with 36 22 36 scholastic ratings Speaker Sam Covers Up SPEAKER SAM RAYBURN WHO spent the 'money to buy a limousine and chauffeur for former Republican Leader Joe Martin is running true to form Yes the Texan who said million mean a thing these days" is again supporting his idea about the money 1 The House disbursing clerk refused to tell about the fpending of representatives for office expenses their rela- tlves and the rent of their front porches Speaker Sam backed him 100 per cent Wonder what Sam is hiding? Why? By Ford Very sadly we hear that some granaries of this healthy sunny El Paso are infested by a voracious creature a small hideous beetle belonging to the Khapra or Calandra genus of Indian origin These minute insects entrenched In floor and wall crevices under old dusty papers and ragged sacks are hunted discovered and captured for the State of Texas by a zealous group of intelligent-appearing men who wonder bow such a tiny innocuous-looking weevil could alarm harm and worry our Government which -has spent or squandered millions of dollars unsuccessfully to get rid of it Our Department of Agriculture positively knows that the insidious clumsy weevil existing since the days of Adam and Eve in the wonderlands of Eden today crawling around us cannot be destroyed regardless of the State and national efforts money and scientific power combined The Infestation of this fantastically noxious the rare Asiatic beetle is grossly exaggerated as is the damage it causes especially in our community where grains move fast very seldom become stale rancid and old and hardly allow insidious bugs the opportunity to generate exist and propagate Nevertheless sometimes we come across them in the form of larvae pupae and adults hi small numbers gnawing wheat oats and corn and inflicting negligible damage A sage entomologist in this case would suggest to us that the spraying of a 100 per Jeffersonian INDUSTRIAL IMPROVEMENTS GROW OUT OF WAR By Duncan Montgomery One of foe latest bodu the San Antonio Public Library has added is "The Fabulous It is the combined opinions of some of foe leaders of Industry and labor on foe probable progress the United States will have made in 25 years It causes one to wish he had been born 50 years later Still we who have lived through the last 25 years have seen similar miracles come to pass that the united brains sewn to agree will take place during foe coming two decades and half Sometimes when I think about foe evil of war I feel wgr is greatest enslaver At those times I pose a question to myself something like this "What inventive and may be attributed to foe war efforts in the first and second world conflict that put the United States ahead with leaps and bounds over the former periods of peacetime?" It was foe incentive of War that brought foe automobile to foil growth also foe radio and it was foe work room for the development of the modern airplane Many of foe things today we take as our seeming dues were offshoots of foe First World War The second conflict accelerated foe processes so that today we have every model of mouse trap to fit the needs and size of any mouse There is no doubt in the writers mind but that in 1980 there will be just as many hindsighters among the citizens as there are among us today There will be In Los Angeles with a 9-cent tax it is 279 nothing unusual about El prices we are getting overcharged as always Here the tankwagon price is 178 filling station 255 tax 8 and total to you 335 cents So in Houston the people get gasoline that wholesales at 235 for 289 including tax in Phoenix it is 249 and in Los Angeles it is 279 Then Albuquerque With a tax of 95 cents foe user pays 28 And in Memphis' with a 10-cent tare the retail price Is 289 In New Orleans with foe same dime' tax foe retail price is 24J New England dealers are protesting foe proposed Federal increase in foe tax It will hurt up there where Manchester IL people with 9-cent tax pay 289 or 46 cents less than El Paso with an 8-cent tax and In Boston where an 85-cent tax has got the retail price up to 269 or 66 cents less than El price Up there they use Texas oil but it seems foe 3000-mile trip from Houston or Port Arthur reduces the price Funny business it? STRANGE THINGS happen in the gasoline business In February the national average of the tankwagon price for regular grade was 1595 cents gallon according to Oilgram That was down 027 cent but foe filling station price to you and you and you was down 052 cent That was outside El Paso of course In Houston foe tankwagon price went up 79 cents to 235 a gallon but filling station prices fell 1 cent to 209 cents Figure out that one It was a loss of 26 cents gallon for foe retailer The old wholesale price of 156 cents was enough for Houston which has oil running out of its ears While the Houston oil boys were doing this to their fellow citizens they were selling the same stuff wholesale at the refineries for 125 cents or less Most of it went north by tanker There much consistency In the business The motto seems to be "get all you can!" Another example: In Phoenix foe alleged tankwagon price for gasoline some of which is made in El Paso is 191 but the filling station sells it for less 169 plus an 9-cent tax or 249 a gallon By WESTBROOK PEGLER TUCSON Arizona normally Is Democratic and in the last election unions poured in money to beat Barry Goldwater the Republican senators who has fought for the open shop and in the Senate committee hearings has belted Walter Reuther with everything from his letter advocating a Soviet Americatoa standing invitation to meet him in a locked room So re-election by a plurality of about 40000 over Ernest McFarland who then was governor has made him one of the most important Republican senators He is a stylish cool campaigner and henceforth will be courted for help in elections Forty thousand votes would be enormous plurality even for a Democrat Barry is a handsome flat-bellied figure with frosting on the temples of his dark hair and a way with voters which is not tainted with the bellicose cheapness of Soapy Williams who ran Michigan into bankruptcy or with Nelson incoherence on matters fiscal The Democrats had all the money last fall and the union rackets sent in one conspickms ex-convict to lend a hand who proved a handicap in the long run For that matter the Democratic candidate for governor a lawyer known as Robert Morrison who had served as Democratic attorney general was not only an ex-coavict from California but a two time loser as the saying goes in such circles His weakness was check bouncing Apparently Democrats among the new pioneers of die Southwestern boom wouldn't stand for this The oldline Democrats gag at nothing Nevertheless' there was some little surprise when Paul Fannin the Republican who was little known beyond his personal circle romped In ahead of Morrison and Wade Church a third Republican became attorney general During the campaign Gold-water said he was glad the Democrats gave him McFarland to beat instead of Stewart Udall an incumbent congressman from Tucson an upcoming type who probably will become important in the national lineup eie his career is closed These parts are full of Udalls mostly Mormons which means frontier stock and a presumptive following of Latter Day Saints although their clannishness is less strict than in the latter territorial days The situation between Gold-water and McFarland was not tainted with friendship or the slightest pretense of sportsmanship and Goldwater often said that old Mac's kindest word for him was "that damn The fact has been noted that President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon did not even put down anything in Arizona on their way to California to get their ears pinned bade in their effort to save Senator Knowland in his campaign for governor However the Arizona Republicans are not nibbing it in It is noted that Ike has gone conservative in the matter of economy as opposed to extrava-gance and that Paul Hoffman who once bed a latch key to office at last has disappeared along with Sherman Adams Hoffman read Barry out of the party a few years bade in an article in which folded up and vanished almost immedi-atedly Ike offhandedly endorsed this impudence at his next press conference merely because Hoffman had included Joe McCarthy in the same writ of banishment For no known reason Hoffman still has a soft pay job In the woodwork however and he is now drawing salary tax exempt in the United Nations Nowadays in Arizona even the Democrats holler down the issue of the dosed shop as deadly poison In Tucson the Star the Democratic paper repudiates Paul Butler the chairman of the National Committee for daring to say in loud speech in Phoenix that Arizona Democrats in favor of the open shop ought to get out of the party "Every time labor leaders have tried to make closed shop unionization an issue they have said the Star "and -the votes of Democrats have done it They are- not likely to change their attitude" In a few fine-spun doting words Barry Goldwater of the McClellan Committee is an open shop Republican who massacred the Democrats and the union-eers without the help of Ike and Dick and this makes him one of the most important Republicans in the whole country And you may put it this way too one of the most important cent active insecticide twice month In foe premises where grains are stored could eliminate foe worries and terrific expenses of our Government and at the same time greatly decrease foe number and propagation of the exotic beetle So never talk seriously of destroying them completely It is not possible They will be found often lingering where there is grain They are here to stay and live within their destiny as any other creature of God is Did the State of Terras ever succeed in exterminating the boll weevil in its cotton fields? That pest is also here to stay and more or less every year harms our farmers So let us hope that our Government instead in the dutiful interest and anxiety of helping us and in its magnanimous performance uses discretion and does not disregard the serious damages it could cause the unfor- COUPLE of PARAGRAPHS from Charles 'recent report on New Jersey finances are worth repeating: is" Mr Lucey wrote "tremendous pressure in 'New Jersey for a broadly based statewide a sales or 'personal Income which would permit taking some -of the burden especially that for schools off local prop-erty owners "But Governor Robert Meyner believes that the fur-: titer spending Is removed from sources when school fiihds become a handout from the State rather than provided locally for example the temptation is to be freer with the money" i This is sound Jeffersonian Democracy It is a theory which keeps control over spending close to home and keeps the taxpayers acutely conscious they are dealing with their own cash At the Top of the World It Happened In Old El Paso Russia Not Ready for War Inside Reports Indicate By LYLE WILSON the Soviet Union will be foe one vnstiir wmr to back down" -Robert Amory During foe 15 years of peace Jr probably is the second-best or which Amory is convinced the So-third-besfr informed American on viet Union must have and urgent-what the Russian Communists ly wants the CIA expects foe EVER SINCE COMMUNIST CHINA invaded Tibet and "liberated" that vast mountain state behind the Himalayas in 1950 there have been continuous reports of unrest and rebellion Tribesmen in eastern Tibet have been fighting the Reds off and on since 1956 Sabotage of bridges made life hell for the Chinese trying to build a road from China to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa Last December there were reports that the Khamba rebels were waging warfare in central Tibet Now fighting has been going on in Lhasa Itself provoked by reports and suspicion that the Red Chinese were about to kidnap the Dalai Lama spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people In normal times information about Tibet Is almost non-existent So we may never know exactly what has been going on there' The most encouraging thing is evidence that the Red Chinese seem to have bitten off more than even Mao Tse-tung can chew pected expenditure during the year of $2737 for every man woman and child in foe City on foe basis of an estimated population of 130000 Proposalsto change foe name of foe Yexas College of Mines and Metallurgy were aired before foe Board of Regents' of foe University of Texas bat action on a plea that foe board recommend foe change was temporarily postponed A Senate' Labor Subcommittee heard two fervent appeals for construction of foe proposed 500-bed neuropsychotic hospital for veterans at El Paso The appeals came from Warren Hoyt of El Paso and Ward Moody of Austin Mrs John Caldwell was installed as president of foe Austin Terrace Garden Club by the outgoing president Mrs Harold A Witz as many who failed to see the opportunities as we have missed during foe past 25 to 50 years There will likely be people in those days as there are in the present who will bemoan foe good old days when they could buy a hotdog for a quarter just as some of us now look back to the five cent glass of beer and a delicious free lunch This is not pep talk for war but zany emotions during war start crazy notions moving and sometimes foe fools with more money in hands than sense in head stumbles onto the processes of greater production It is merely matter of easy money that starts the ball rolling But we do look for wonderful strides to take place during foe next 25 years It Is something to live for even fopugh we get back the five-cent beer San Antonio are doing think-j ing and planning Amory is deputy chief tor intelligence of the Central Intelligence Agency CIA is foe United States spy apparatus or in more politel language it is al counter intelli- gence organize- Wilson tion This well informed American was making a speech the other day In Columbia speech did not get foe publicity it deserved despite the fact that what he had to say was pretty good news for citizens His story was that the Soviet Union is neither ready nor preparing for war that foe Kremlin does not want a war although Kremlin to follow this general pattern: its Sputnik diplomacy to the limit pat against all preasurse in foe areas now dominated by Communism Insist either upon two-nation talks between foe Soviet Union and the United States or AnawS that aatellite powers sit beside Soviet conferees in numbers equal to foe number of Allies sitting beside foe Americans at high pitch the work of trouble-making among foe peoples of non-Commonist nations But softening this fifth column activity Tfith some show of willingness to cooperate with governments over which the Kremlin exercises no control an effective foreign FIFTY YEARS AGO rtem Herald of Mar 28 1880 la spite of quiet times land sales continue in foe Berino district Besides foe Wilkin sale to Beck of 200 acres at $60 an acre Bailey add his east side holdings of 173 acres at $100 an acre Chamber of Commerce directors met to consider financing foe proposed visit of foe Texas Legislature to El Paso It Is figured that it would cost at least $2000 to transport foe lawmakers to El Paso and return not counting any entertainment costs All trains going west are loaded Travelers are largely homemakers who have spent several days in fids City or have made side trips and returned here to resume their journeys toward foe Pacific Tom Newman entertained with an informal dance at his parents beautiful new home at 1506 Montana street TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO hn TUe SmlUM of Mar X8S4 Trading farmers and businessmen In the Upper and Lower Valleys have widely divergent views about foe county home rule charter Some say that politicians are spreading false statements about the charter to gain Side Glances Communist Russia would fight if policy of "no strings" foreign aid it must Amory said foe Russian toward wHrm which neither are Communist allies nor expected to become allies Amory evidently believes events of the next 15 years largely will shape foe long haul pattern of foe future war or peace or whatever "We face a race for leadership in the world against militant Communists with fervent he leaders decided IS months ago that their Communist economy had to have 15 years of peace to achieve their internal development plans "Their economy is by no means mobilized for war or preparing for war" Amory "said "They Where to Get More Cash IT IS OBVIOUS FROM WASHINGTON reports that the military services are not satisfied with the money allowance given them for next year in President budget They never are And obviously there are many members of Congress ready and anxious to raise the on the theory that simply by raising appropriations any job can be done But Senator John Williams of Delaware has a saner way getting more money' for the Armed Services by making them spend what they have more usefully Senator Williams has introduced a bill "to compel the Defense Department to buy most of what it buys by competitive bidding (He would exempt only secret weapons and then under careful restrictions) Last year according to a recent report the military spent $23 billion on procurement and 84 per cent was bought without competitive bidding That is absurd on the face of it I Senator Williams says the taxpayers would save of dollars a year if the Defense Department abandoned this negotiated contract system All the 'evidence indicates the savings more likely would run in the billions The senator cited a recent report from the comptroller general which said the Navy had permitted excessive costs on a negotiated plane order When the comptroller general complained the contractor reduced the price $3 million A House committee found a' missile item which jppst $3942 under a negotiated contract but later when Competitive bids were asked the price went down to $252 Senate has passed the Williams Bill but jfc always got lost in the shuffle Here is a chance for those dio think our defense should be beefed up It can be done stopping the squander Kin htrr "bald "We must never tempt them strike a balance between military lnto a mMjm wbUe letting down Our strength although and other expenditures just as we He believes foe Soviet Union is not ready to risk a nuclear war over Berlin Nikita Khrushchev instead thinks he can force foe West to out" 'If foe West is resolute" Amory-said "then I believe that they got what it takes rationally to challenge us this spring" Amory said the Russian leaders had no doubts on foe future In a comparatively short time they are confident that foe Soviet Union will be worldwide Railroads are asking lower rates on transcontinental (long haul) freight- shipments to allow them to compete with steamship lines now hauling freight through foe Panama Canal Saunder vice president of the Southern Pacific Lines said in El Paso Views on the News Republicans in either party and A is the distance across the Atlantic Ocean at its widest point? The Atlantic is 4150 miles across its widest part between Florida and foe Strait of for another digging deep hole" for another new House office building in he is an expert on deep holes being treat- urer of the Democratic National Committee i No wonder people look so glum everyone telling them to "have fun'" Henry Ford I invented the mass production and sales formula of high wages and low prices but our economy with automation Is moving too fast to catch foe Model Matthew McCloskey Philadelphia contractor has been many months digging a deep hole Miss Eddie Lou Taylor and Reymond Taylor' will entertain with "skating breakfast" at their home at 1106 Cincinnati street -TEN YEARS AGO Pram lit BmIUM of Mar ft 1848 El record-breaking 1649 budget totals $2778026 an ex been retired from the force for 20 years and been wondering on the cars with no running board where do you put your foot while you mako out a ticket?" i 'Easiest method of learning what Congress costs y6pk at your tax WU AAA.