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NOT BUYING ANY, THANKS- 4 4 4 a ti (ovNrr EDITORIAL PAGE Wednesday, July 8, 1959 TODAY'S EDITORIAL We Welcome A New Light Industry-A Baptist Seminary Marin has a new light industry. The president and managerial staff have moved into their new offices and the first of the are moving into the dormitories. We refer to the new Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, which is now for business" at its new college campus on Strawberry Point. Already more than four million dollars has been spent in construction of the new facilities. There is still much to do.

But more important to Marin than the physical facilities or even the business which such an enterprise must generate. are the people who will come here and what they will bring to us. Expected are more than 400 students when the first classes start to study in September. Many of them are married and will bring wives and children to live here. In addition there will be scores of teachers and administrative staff.

It is not unlikely that the total population of the college will approach 2.000 by the end of the year. We in Marin already know the type of person such an establishment tracts. We have for years lived with and benefitted from San Francisco Theological Seminary, the great Presbyterian college in San Anselmo. These young men and women attracted to the new seminary will not be stiff, blue-nosed reformers, wild-eyed and impractical. They will be warm, friendly, concerned young people, wanting to learn not only about Jesus Christ and his teachings, but also about people, how they live and what these students individually can do to make that life more fruitful and happy.

And the instructors, as we have found, are wonderfully informed, vitally alive individuals with interests which range far beyond textbooks and classrooms. As in San Anselmo, we are sure the presence of these men in Southern Marin will be a valuable addition to our neighborhood, to our list of friends, and to our cultural life. We welcome you. Dr. Harpld K.

Graves, the seminary president, all of your staff, all of your students and their families to Marin County. We hope you all will enjoy it here as much as we know we are going to enjoy having you. WHAT OUR READERS SAY THREE MINUTES A DAY JAMES KELLER HER BABY WASN'T TROUBLE A young mother made an apt distinction between and recently when she took part-time work to mpet an emergency. An employer nearby offered to let her work as many hours as she could spare. But she said her child needed most of her time and attention and she could not be away more than a couple of hours a day.

The employer, trying to be sympathetic, unwittingly commented: baby must be a lot of Quick as a flash, she respectfully but poignantly retorted: baby is not a lot of trouble! a lot of work, sure, but not HAL BOYLE'S COLUMN Those motivated by a sense of love or dedication seldom feel sorry for themselves. Their tasks often involve heartaches and heartbreaks, but in one way or another they become a labor of love. When you realize the importance of fulfilling the particular mission or vocation God ha assigned to you, your burdens will become easier. Purpose always makes a big difference. Come to mp all you that labor and are burdened and I will refresh (Matthew 11:28) Remind all men, Master, that each of fbffn 30 in life to Society Artists Get Best Treatment EDITOR.

Independent-Journal: I would like to know why the artists, who participated in the Marin Art and Garden Fair, and were not members of the Marin Society of Artists. were excluded from the Art Area. There was obviously plenty of room around the gai- lerv, and yet non-members ere relegated to an area near the barn with exhibits that were completely unrelated. This is particularly curious, as last year was the first time that unaffiliated artists were permitted to exhibit in a state and county sponsored fair, and were not separated but all paintings were given equally good exhibition space they were hung cheek by jowl. This year many excellent paintings of non members were rejected for of If this is a permanent policy I would like to suggest that next year the Marin Society of Artists be given the territory and the non-affiliated Marin artists be given the gallery.

LEAH SCHWARTZ Straw berrv Humane Society Is Well Run EDITOR, Independent-Journal: 1 have just read the Notebook written by Diana Bruce regarding the Marin County Humane So- Hildegarde Is Still Reigning Queen Of Supper Club Circuit NEW YORK UP always wanted to make money while I said Hildegarde. did it with my phonograph records and now I hope to do it with oil In 1956 Hildy disposed of 65 per cent of her prize collection of modern art and started out to collect oil wells. She now owns an interest in 10 producing wells in Oklahoma. But dear that made Milwaukee is too energetic to sit idly by and let 011 wells support her. After more than 30 years of song belting before kings and butter-and-egg men, she is still a reigning queen of the supper club circuit.

She has long been called and she still deserves the title. None of the newer lady songbirds has quite her timeless fem- inine charm, her gay authority over a crowded room. Like Marlene Dietrich, she seems destined to roll along forever. want to retire until I get fat and I never intend to get she says. Success come easy for the hazel-eyed, blonde singer.

She dreamed, as a chubby young girl in Milwaukee. of becoming a concert pianist. She performed in vaudeville and played as an accompanist before she became a solo artist. In Paris she sang for as little as $1 a night in small cabarets. Later, as a famous radio, recording and supper club star she earned up to $20.000 a week.

still practice on the piano and take singing she said. never reach the point where you im- THE CYNIC'S CORNER By Interlandi Vs'iRB 6cm 13 satmht HiSTcRy MW THAT prove yourself or learn something HILDEGARDE y- ed more than a million miles by car, train and ship before she got over her fear of the airplane. Now she uses the sky lanes. Hildegarde has a fabulous collection of gowns costing $400 up each, 10 times as many pairs of gloves she plays the piano with her gloves on and hundreds of the lacy handkerchiefs she uses in her act. They cost from $25 to $75 apiece.

HAVE to live for others as well as yourself if you are to find any happiness. Yrou should try to make this world a better place, not only bv religion but by your own is her philosophy. hear so much about evil. 1 think we should stress good more and not be ashamed of Hildegarde has never married. been on the verge many she said, still a bachelorette trying to find Mr.

Right. wonder if I ever will. Everybody seems married FOR Secret Service Men Go To Grade School A tin To WE THE S.P.c.^V 20 YEARS AGO Waldo Giacomini purchased the Palace Food Market in Pt. Reyes from W. Scilacci after managing the business place for eight months.

Clarence E. Fleager resigned as a member of the board of directors and first vice president of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. He had worked his way up from the ranks, having started as a switchboard helper. Bids totaling $18.730 for the completion of the new auto shop building on the Tamalpais High School campus were accepted by the school board. By MERRIMAX SMITH WASHINGTON 0JPI) Travelers from Gettysburg report a small group of secret service agents busily engaged in moving into rented homes and preparing for grammar school next year.

Why? Maj. John S. Eisenhower, the President's son. has moved with his wife and their four children to Gettysburg. It will be their permanent home at least, as permanent as any young army officer can call his dwelling.

Three of the children, who have been in private schools in Alexandria, will attend public school in Gettysburg next fall. Attending with them will be a select group of adult scholars carrying .38 revolvers instead of lunch boxes. A LAW PASSED after the assassination of President William McKinley directs the LT. S. Secret Service to protect the President and members of his family.

As a practical matter, it is not necessary to maintain a watch over John Eisenhower and his 11 wife, Barbara, but the grandchildren rate 24- hour protection. The youngest, Mary Jean, be four until next December. So too young for school. David, 11, will be in the sixth grade next year; Barbara Anne, 10, in the fifth grade, and Susan, 7, in the second grade. AFTER SOME gun-crazy Puerto Rican nationalists tried to shoot up Blair House when President Truman was in office, congress expanded the specific protection of the Se- cet Service to the vice president but not to his family.

Thus, the two daughters of Vice President Richard M. Nixon attend school without accompanying agents. But if Nixon thought such extra protection was necessary, it would be provided without question. THE SECRET Service does not like to discuss its protection arrangements in detail, hut it can be said with authority that at least several agents will be permanently occupied in Gettysburg seeing to the safety of the Eisenhower grandchildren. The will escort the children to school, and then take up stations in the hallways outside the classrooms.

This was done in the private schools in Alexandria. AGENTS ASSIGNED to the grandchildren are chosen carefully. They are low-pressure fellows, quiet, somewhat, on the young side and discreet. Agents have had to go to school with or near the children and grandchildren of presidents on many previous occasions. Some went to college with the Roosevelt hovs.

10 YEARS AGO Jake La Mott a won the middleweight championship after a 10th round knockout of Marcel Cerdan in Detroit. The Novato Community Club celebrated the burning of their mortgage with a and barn dance. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan asked Congress to give his controversial farm-subsidy plan a trial run by authorizing direct price support payments to hog raisers.

REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK By ROSS W. ASHLEY Supervisors' Budget Sessions Are Dull, But They Have Livelier Spots ciety. I am appalled by the ignorance displayed by i Bruce and at the 1-J for hiring reporters who write stories before they get all the facts. We are most fortunate for having such a well-run Humane Society in Marin County. If you have ever seen dogs brutally beaten or starving to death while being kept in filthy cages too small for them to stand up in.

you would know what a God-send our Humane Society is. They stop these things. The sad fact is that most people really care enough. They do not know of the wonderful job Mel Morse is doing as the secretary of the Marin County Humane Society or of the real protection the society gives to ALL animals. Why is it that people will an animai, but when it is sick or poisoned and they can get free veterinarian service they let it die rather than pay the bill.

I personally know these things to be true. I have seen it happen too often. I wish that Miss Bruce were aware of these facts, as she might do the county a service fighting for the Humane Society instead of criticising it. In the future. Miss Bruce should be encouraged to write constructive articles concerning the Humane Society and its program to help all animals in our Marin County.

ADELE DEETHS (Mrs. William R. Deeths) Ross Sitting through the board of budget sessions is dull going for supervisors, press and public alike, but occasionally it has its livelier moments. To wit: ALONG CAME a munique from Marvin Brigham, public works director, advising that providing a drainage ditch at the Santa Venetia Little League ball park, would cost $3,300, and advising that if the board wanted the ditch, it should stick an item of $3,300 in the budget. A couple of the supervisors took a dead-panned look at the Brigham letter, and offered some observations.

observed Bill Fusselman, seems to me this should be up to the fellow they named the park chimed in Jim Marshall. an obligation that goes with the yelped Chairman Walter Castro. continue this a week and look into it some Name of the park: Castro Field. A BIT LATER, along came a claim from one Joseph F. Silveira for two drowned cows.

It appeared that the cows were grazing on the civic center property, under some sort of lease or rental arrangement effective until the county starts to develop the property. They grazed their way onto a covered well, and their combined w' i caved in the cover, sending the cows to a watery grave. County Counsel Lee Jordan recommended the county reject the claim. Fusselman was not so sure, and wanted to know what the liability situation would be if it had been a human who fell in. Jordan said it depends on the circumstances in which the person is on the property.

trespasser does not have the same rights as an invitee or a business he pointed out. The board also set this matter over for future consideration, possibly on the theory that in the instant case the cows qualified as business visitors. SOMEWHAT LATER, the board ran into a budget item of $5.231 for messenger service between county offices. Several of the supervisors were taking dim view's of this, and County Clerk George S. Jones spoke up w'ith a dimmer one.

need to spend $5,200 to get letters carried from office to he said. would help, though, if each office would have a lower-paid worker carry them, instead of having the top people in the offices doing it. he snorted, one department in which the number-one assistant to the department head goes around carrying mail to other offices, and more, he stands at the counter in my office for 15 minutes each time, gassing with the clerks. finally had to tell him to stay out of the Jones concluded. The board went along with Jones, blue-pencilling the $5,231 and indicating it favors a policy of mail carrying by junior clerks, not senior departmental assistants.

LATER, JONES got his ear in again. A discussion was underway about some supervisors having noticed from time to time that some employees in the glass-walled IBM department in the basement were not exactly wearing themselves out on the job. said Jones, w'e bad glass walls on some of the other county offices, see a lot more people not doing ROSCOE DRUMMOND Nixon And Friends Making Headway In Shaking Off Republican Defeatism TRY AND STOP ME BENNETT CERF Aside from strong entertainment values, Bill Wild Tigers and Tame Fleas' provides some invaluable hints to people who may have cause to enter deep woods or jungles or who crave to join a circus. Remember, warns Ballantine, that one should beware of all four sides of a camel; that one should never pat an elephant on its trunk; that those cute sea lions have a devastating bite; and that, aside from even better reasons for not putting head in a mouth, the king of beasts has the worst case of halitosis in the entire jungle. It is not continues Ballantine, back up and run from an attacking tiger.

Better just stand pat and speak sharply try to remember that, Mr. LOS ANGELES Republican leaders in Vice President Nixon's home territory feel that things are looking up. That's reasonable; up is the only direction when flat on the floor. Largely at his initiative, Republican organization is slow ly regaining consciousness from the blackout which came over it last November when it lost practically everything in sight, including governor, senator, state legislation and the will to win. Some headway is visible.

THE RECENTLY completed in Los Angeles bounty, where 43 per cent of Republican voters in California reside, was designed to re-open shop and put the Republican Central Committee back into active business. It has shaken off some lethargy and defeatism. It is beginning to stimulate some financial $50.000 in a month and when finances start to flow', that is a sign that rigor mortis is leaving. It has got Republicans speaking to each other even if they are not getting very far enlisting new support. There is no doubt that the vice president is the spark behind whatever progress is being made.

He strongly urged Republican workers to adjourn idological disputes and put organization-building ahead of everything else at this stage. They took his advise. And it is men, committed to Nixon philosophy and to his presidential cause, who are key figures in whatever has been done. THE ASCENDANT strength of the Democrats here is reflected in the results of the California poll which is published in a number of California newspapers and which has a long record of reliability. Its most interesting findings are these: Nixon is favored by Republicans 49 to 23 per cent over Gov.

Nelson Rockefeller. That Adlai Stevenson is favored by Democrats, 29 to 17 per cent over Sen. John Kennedy. That both Stevenson and Kennedy run ahead of Nixon by approximately 12 percentage points in state. That while a trial heat between Pat Brown and Nixon shows the new' Democratic governor running 1 per cent ahead of Nixon.

Rockefeller runs 7 per cent ahead of Brown. That Rockefeller and Kennedy emerge as the candidates most popular with the opposition party. THIS LAST finding underlines the kind of imponderable question which the Republican National convention will probably have to resolve next summer: If Rockefeller can do better winning Democrats, can he do well enough holding the Republican vote? If Nixon cin do better with Republicans than Rockefeller, can he do well enough with the Democrats to win? These polls do not assume to predict what voter opinion will show six months or a year hence. But they do reveal now how' far behind scratch the Republican party continues to be in California. The Country Parson which has brought us in touch with the whole world, also has taught us how to listen without.