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Qht 3Cu (Crosse Sri bum EDITORIAL PAGE Page 4 DECEMBER 17. 1963 What's The Rush On Name Changes? THE LA CROSSE Common Council now is probably on a par with every other city and village board, board of education and airport commission in the United States: It has a proposal to name something in memory of the late President Kennedy. Here the suggestion of one alderman is that the new South Side High School be named John F. Kennedy Memorial High: another proposes that the city route of Highway 35 (now West Lang Dr. and George St.) be renamed Kennedv Avenue, Both resolutions were referred for study.

We suggest that they be accorded a minimum of six months, and a year or two would be better. vy THE URGE TO honor the name of a young and popular martyred President has swept the country. The Republican mayor of Moline. 111. has asked other public officials to join him in naming Interstate 80 for Mr.

Kennedy. Already a Democratic New York City Council has renamed Idlewild airport to John F. Kennedy International. Other airport name changes are in the works, and pilots in a few years may have trouble sorting them out. And within days of the assassination.

President Johnson had named the rocket and moon base in Florida the Kennedy Space followed that by renaming Cape Canaveral to Cape Kennedy. The latter, of course, is a geographic name that goes back 400 years to Spanish discovery days; and Floridians are unhappy. NAMES BANDIED ABOUT in this fashion do little to honor a memory, particularly when road or building or area so named has no logical tie with the man whose name it is given. It has the ring, instead, of maudlin hero worship with possibly a dash of press agentry. A good rule is to move slowly on such ventures, as the partisan shuffling and reshuffling of names for airports and dams over the years has borne out.

The Kennedy name will be honored. But honors bestowed at random. or in a fit of emotion, are no honor at all. Not Ambassador And Candidate, Too THE PRESIDENTIAL BUG has a powerful bite, but Henry Cabot Lodge should either resist it or give up his post as U.S. ambassador to South Viet Nam.

A few days ago. former President Eisenhower suggested that the name of Mr. Lodge, Richard running mate in 1960 and one of the early campaigners for Ike in 1952. be added to the GOP presidential list for 1964. Mr.

Lodge might have said that he was flattered but consider it because he had a job to do. Instead, he pricked up his ears and let it be known that he is available. NOT LIKELY "that Lodge would walk off with the nomination at San Francisco next July, regardless of what other hopefuls may fall by the wayside. Not enough Republicans in enough states think that highly of him. But that the point making.

What must concern many Republicans (as well as the new man in the White House) is the prospect that job in South Viet Nam, already a delicate and demanding one, could be hurt by partisan rumbles. THERE ARE strong feelings and divergent views already in Congress and among Republican and Democratic leaders on the proper U.S. course in southeast Asia, including part in the overthrow of the Diem regime. We can't afford now the suspicion that our ambassador to Saigon (a Republican named by the late President Kennedy) was using his post with an eye on the next election rather than both eyes on what the American interest demands. Don't Burn Up This Holiday Season IT HAPPENS every year when the mercury plunges to zero or below: There is a sudden increase in home and apartment fires with tragic loss of life and property.

Usually this comes in the months that are typically the coldest, from mid-January on. This year, the wave of bitter cold that has gripped much of the country in mid-December has brought the same tragic storv to our front pages at dav season. the height of the holi- LAST WEEK three small children died, apparently smoke inhalation, as the fire that started in the basement worked up through the walls and floor to their second floor bedroom of a crowded Milwaukee apartment building. A number of adults escaped by climbing down a ladder Two firemen were injured. A few days later two infants at Port Washington, died from smoke and fumes in a fire that began while their mother was over at a neighbor.

We worry about the 38,000 to 40.000 deaths on U.S. streets and highways every year, as we should. Yet there is less public awareness of recurring role played by fire, which last year took 11.800 lives, injured or crippled thousands of others, and destroyed some $1.6 billion in property. Nearly one-third of the fatalities were children, and one out of three of these young victims was at home alone and unattended at the time the fire broke out. VV THIS IS THE A when stoves and space heaters are pushed beyond capacity, when badly adjusted furnaces rebel, and when defective chimneys fail.

Let's not have our holiday season shattered by fires that a little care and foresight could have prevented. Vital Role Of A Fireman Editor. The wonders how many lives would have been lost during the Baldwin Hills reservoir disaster if a guard had not been there to discover the break while making a routine tour of inspection. One wonders too. how many unthinking, unknowing, or biased persons have considered the guard an unnecessary featherbedder; performing no evident work of benefit in all the years the reservoir had been in existence.

In one fleeting moment his time and wages were repaid over and over again He was there to alert the populace to the pending danger. So too. the railroad fireman makes his routine tour of inspection. Many times unfruitful, but the countless lives he saves, the delays to train and commodity avoided, remain untold and unsung, it was only last August that my fireman, by his presence and alertness, saved a life most certainly would have been Bay City, Wisconsin. This, in spite of all the propaganda to the contrary, is the real reason why the men who know, the men who work and operate the trains, refuse to accept the mandate of the V.

1415 Bainbridge La Crosse. MacDonald: Many Recall His Talent Editor. The am sure many in La Crosse would welcome the address of Donald MacDonald III, (1637 Columbia N.W., Washington 20009, D.C., Apt. 604). perhaps to drop him a Christmas card There are a few left who appeared in and Down one of the home- talent affairs he staged at the old La Crosse Theater better than half a century ago.

An operetta, the chorus was of gorgeous La Crosse girls. Male members of the cast were later to become important in the business and civic life. Not the least important of those taking leading roles was Grace (McLinden) Bartl, now residing at 608 King St. A soprano, she was one of the of the show which compared fa- VOTERS MAY 'NO' HOPE CHEST JOSEPH K. KIDDER TWENTY YEARS AGO-1943 Yanks consolidate positions after invading New Britain.

Planes turn back enemy air thrusts. Opposition diminishes after skirmishes at start. Big RAF bombers again blast Berlin. Soviets gain in Kiev bulge battle. House votes to extend life of CCC 60 days Death total in train wreck near Lumberton, S.C., reaches 79.

Among victims are 47 servicemen. Eight more Japanese cargo ships and by U.S. subs. National Lutheran Council, cooperating agency of three major groups of Lutheran Churches, opens service center above Hetland-Wrobel shoe store, 4th and Jay. jury finds newborn twin boys whose bodies, wrapped in newspapers and stuffed in sacks, found along Highway 14 south of La Crosse, came to their death by means and instruments to the jury unknown.

Dr. Martin Sivertson performed post mortem. B. J. Finley heads La Crosse Business Club.

L. H. Seem an new vice president; Ben Stoen. treasurer; Harry J. Hirshheimer succeeds self on board of trustees for three vears.

THIRTY YEARS AGO-1933 NRA finds one employer in 10,000 a chiseler. Defaulters find need for Hugh Johnson declares. U.S. aloof on liquor agreement with France because of tariffs. To parley again in June.

Grandad Skyrocket's to welcome New Year. Members to gather at midnight to revive traditional Indian custom. Founded in 1931. Black Hawk head chief of Skvrockers. W.

W. Magee, St. Paul, low bidder on Lynxville dam. While removing sand on French Island for CWA project, L. Clark and two fellow workers unearth skeleton of man.

Christmas party of Thursday Study Club to be at home of Mrs. G. R. Rasmusson, 221 N. 13th FORTY YEARS AGO-1923 French agree to direct negotiations i Germany about Ruhr and Rhineland.

Dear Bo Trigger your action by checking these three sources for economic components of any community; N. W. Ayer Directory, Editor Publisher Market Guide, and Guide to Marketing (your library should have them). There's still no substitute for Sherlocking on the ground floor level When you get to that stage, subscribe to newspapers in selected areas, and check with Chambers of Commerce on local conditions. After narrowing the field, case the individual situations.

To In On Your Typewriter, send for "Home Typing For ope La BACK TO AY 'THANK YOU' JhibunsL tReadsLfiA. vorably with Broadway productions. It was to Broadway that Donald MacDonald had traveled after leaving La Crosse where he had established himself as a painter of talent while residing between State and Vine Streets on West Avenue North. Joseph K. Kidder, 1918 Main La crosse.

Oh, Heck DEARBORN. Mich. Lee Sprague lost $2,500 worth of his hair in a robbery. Sprague kept the hair on his head, but someone stole nine custom-made toupees from his station wagon while he slept in a hotel here He is a state distributor for Heck Hairpieces Inc. of Dearborn.

Unhappy Dad LOUISVILLE (AP) Jones Jr saw an auto crash near his school and promptly called a local radio station which gives a $25 bonus for good stories. Jones won the money but his father too happy. Jones Sr. is commercial manager at another station. CV BARRETT SAYS: Interest In Others Is Down, But Not Vanished Dear imagine shocked I was to receive a second letter from you regarding my job problem.

They were rays of hope. There are many who know I am out of but they take a minute to find out how I am doing or to offer Hilbert. Dear interest is a paradox. The more people inhabiting this earth, the more impersonal we become. In 1940.

the population was 131,669,275. It is now over 190.200,000. While the population increased over 40 per cent between those years, the personal interest factor probably- dropped well over 20 per cent. Hogwash? Take a look at industry. Normally, the larger the firm, the less personal interest employes have in one the less contact management has with ployes.

In large metropolitan centers, like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, tenants live in the same apartment building as their neighbors, for 20 years, and never exchange more than a glum in the plummeting elevator. A repairman in our community is so friendly you can feel the grease fly. It took me five years to realize he was sincere. Last month, I visited a retired former business associate. On the wall of his study hangs this motto: expect to pass through this world but once.

Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way Corny? Perhaps, in our modern world, but my aging friend's dictum could have been why 1 was motivated to visit him. Perhaps it represents why he has been so successful Dear tired of politics in this town and want to move to another part of the United States, probably the Northwest along the Pacific coast. we move, we want to go into the same business. Our investments are paying off and financially we are doing well.

How can v.e check on business conditions and opportunities elsewhere? Doe and Bo. Dope in Washington is that tax cut, bonus and rate slash are likely to pass. Three McGregor, Iowa men, charged with $76,000 worth of freight car robberies in this area, found innocent at Elkhart, Iowa. Local Milwaukee and Burlington special agents worked on case. Mellon proposes 44 per cent tax cut on small incomes.

Wife of Sailstad, with second husband, taken after stad's supposed death, refused admittance to his cell in Superior, jail. Mexican rebels take Puebla and Cuantla near Mexican capital. Ladies of McKinley Relief Corps hold quarterly supper in courthouse rooms. Guests having birthdays during past summer are Mrs. Sarah Luther, Mabel Miller, Mrs.

Katherine Beck. Mrs. Helen Turner and Mrs. L. M.

King. FIFTY YEARS AGO-1913 Rival rebels to fight for i a capital. Zapata camps 16 miles from Mexico awaiting time to dash. Villa menaced from North. Federals recover from defeat and move forces upon Chihuahua.

Death of Cardinal Rampolla, former papal secretary and choice of Pope Pius as his successor, shakes Pope. Municipal Christmas tree to be 30 feet high. James Webber, five-year- old son of Police Chief John B. Webber, 230 N. 11th, dies of meningitis in St.

Francis Hospital. Eagles take three straight from Nelsons at Voves Alleys. Schneeberger of Eagles has high score of 227 and a 200 average for three games. Eagle bowlers: Hayes, Ritter, Voves, Roth and Schneeberger Nelsons: Paulson, Wiskerchen, Hauser, Hanson, Spoon- ick and Poehling. Mrs.

J. B. Funke entertains bridge club at home. Mrs. George Gordon and Mrs.

C. W. Levis win prizes. Mrs. W.

A. Thompson entertains at small dinner party, a joint birthday affair of Mrs. W. E. Sawyer and her husband, W.

A. Thompson. April Referendum Could Cut Back The Freeways REVIEW OF THE NEWS IN YEARS PAST decision of the Republican legislature to sidetrack he Democratic highway acceleration and bonding plan with a spring referendum may turn out to be a dangerously double-edged device. he private conviction of Republicans and Democrats is that the direct polling of the electorate on a tax and debt plan will inevitably bring about a hostile reaction. Gov.

Reynolds oughly alarmed when he realized. too late, that the Republicans were determined to go through with the referendum idea. As he put it in a hurriedly called news conference to offer an amendment sharply cutting back his original money demand, the referendum could very well set back the cause of super-highway building in Wisconsin by a decade. IF THAT FORECAST is correct, and it is plausible enough on the basis of the record, it may yet arise to haunt the Republicans. For the Republicans gener- WYNGAARD was thor- ally are fairly confident about winning the next election They expect that there is at least a 50-50 chance that Warren P.

Knowles will occupy the executive office a year hence. There is some latent support for a speed-up of major route construction. How much is a matter of dispute. Republicans tend to be cautious about appraising the public appetite, after the record of higher taxation and record spending in other directions this year. The governor seems somewhat optimistic.

But there is a very good chance that if Warren Knowles becomes governor, all other fiscal situations being equal, he will be inclined to examine the highway budget and what can be done to accelerate the main-line traffic artery improvements to a level comparable with the admittedly superior secondary system. His own legislative record in earlier years showed an enthusiasm for highway cause. Some of his running- mates next year are even more ardent champions of road-building. Lt. Gov.

Jack Olson attained his prominence in public affairs largely through work in road promotion organizations. DAVID LAWRENCE Give Congress The Power To Fill Vice Presidency talk is being heard today and serious consideration is being given here to what may soon become a major national issue. The country suddenly realizes that it has no vice president. true there is a line of succession to the presidency, both the Speaker of the House and the president pro tern of the Senate have their own duties to perform LAWRENCE They cannot give their time now to all the tasks performed by a vice president. Jn short, nobody today is in training to take oxer the presidency.

Sen. Jacob Javits, has proposed a constitutional amendment authorizing a joint session of the two houses of Congress to elect a vice president the moment a vacancy occurs. The defect in this is that it would permit either a member of Congress or a cabinet officer to be chosen. No cabinet member, however, is placed in office by the people. THE REASON so many persons have not worried over the recent change in the presidency is that Lyndon Johnson became vice president after eight years as Senate majority leader.

He has demonstrated, in a position of leadership in Congress, skill in handling national and international problems. But would the people have the same confidence if the successor to President Kennedy had been a cabinet officer, with little knowledge of the problems of the executive Area's Warm Welcome To Nisei Troops At McCoy In '42 Is Recalled Here By SANFORD GOLTZ IT COULD HAVE BEEN a Veterans Day story, I suppose. that Andy Fraser of Hopkins. brought to La Crosse, because that was about the time he was here to see some old friends and talk to the La Crosse Kiwanis Club. But it makes a good Christmas story, too.

because of his reason tor coming and what he had to say. Fraser grew up in Hawaii. He was a young shavetail in the Hawaiian National Guard known as the the bombs fell on Pearl Harbor. Understandably everyone began looking askance at any Japanese in the islands, including the Nisei born there who had never seen Japan. And there thousands of Nisei in the Hawaiian National Guard when war broke out.

SIX MONTHS LATER, in May of all Guardsmen of Japanese ancestry were put into a special training unit, loaded aboard ship, and headed for the states. They were practically smuggled into San Franci co. transferred to Pullmans with the shades drawn, and headed for isconsin. got off the train and marched off to the old area of Camp Fraser recalls. the way, we passed the barbed wire compound for German prisoners of war.

And our boys began to wonder if been sold They soon learned differently. PEOPLE AROUND MCCOY Sparta, Tomah, La Crosse the Hawaiians into their homes, took them to church, had them out to civic affairs. A service officer rounded up 900 pairs of ice skates for the newcomers, never seen snow or ice. They were nuts about baseball; somehow they got the equipment for that. Midwest food was a drastic change.

The QM traded potatoes fcr all the rice to be found. They raided Milwaukee for soya sauce. And La Crosse merchants found them Boy Scout Army issue small enough for Nisei who averaged five-feet-two. Not that there was so much time for socializing, or worrying about misfit uniforms. The 1.500 members of the 100th Infantry Battalion were training day and night.

BY THEN THEY KNEW they were Americans, fighting an American war. By end the rest of the country knew it: the 100th racked up 4,340 decorations in combat, including more than 1,700 Purple Hearts, a Medal of Congress winner, and 24 Distinguished Service Crosses. It was the most-decorated unit in U.S. Army history, and still is. was the tremendous hospitality and understanding by the wonderful people of La Crosse and the currounding said Fraser when he was here last month.

maue us feel welcome, and none of us ever forgot And so Andy Fraser, who helped the Orient-based Nisei of Hawaii and the European- stock Wisconsinites understand each other, was back in La Crosse 21 years later to say thank you. And he brought the Kiwanis Club a 50-star flag, for Hawaiian Statehood still means much to him as it does to his wartime buddies of the 100th Bn. BROTHERHOOD, understanding, respect for others, the helping hand: these are what Andv Fraser and his far-from-home Nisei remembered about La Crosse and its neighbors. Perhaps these things come with the common effort of war. Certainly they are a part of the holiday season, when comes easier to adults as well as to toddlers We are indebted to Andy Fraser for recalling a time when the community and the stranger gained so much from an outstretched hand.

branch except in his own department and with no over-all familiarity with legislation The fact is that the present law of succession is inadequate; perhaps even dangerous. It provides no method of selecting a vice president. The existing law' merely designates the Speaker of the House and the presiding officer of the Senate to be next in line when a vacancy occurs in the presidency, to be followed by members of the cabinet in a specified order. No reference is made to a vacancy in the vice presidency. It has been suggested that a return to the law prior to put cabinet members in direct line ahead of anyone in be desirable.

But this is opposed in both the Senate and the House, where the feeling is that the selection should be made by the people's elected representatives. WHAT IS NEEDED is a new vice president immediately. He should be selected by Congress from its own membership, and probably xvould alxvays be a leader of his party. He would then go in training for the presidency in his capacity ice president. He would, as in the past, succeed at once to the presidency in an emergency.

But he would presumably be a man trained in leadership by his experience in the post to which he had previously been elected by the members of his oxvn party in either house. A constitutional amendment is also needed to cover all phases of the problem that arises during any period of presidential disability. Unfortunately, Article II of the Constitution is not clear. It says that Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or inability, both of the president and vice president, declaring what officer shall then act as president, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a president shall be The big question is what is meant by the phrase as Would he possess full authority? Could a president, upon recovery from a disability, vitiate xvhat had been done by an acting president. A constitutional amendment is necessary to clarify the whole problem.

(Copyright 19b'3. New York Herald Tribune, Inc It stays put a lot longer it a knot is tied with just a single beau If there is a hostile vote next spring, ill there be a tendency in that record to dissuade the legislature of 1965 or There is a very good chance it would. More than a decade ago the legislature put the issue of a statewide television network to a referendum ballot. It lost by such a margin that the television boosters have not dared to renew' the proposition seriously since. After World War II there was substantial pressure for a state bonus.

A troubled legislature, not knowing where to turn for financing, put the joint question of a sales tax and a bonus to a referendum ballot. The bonus issue has been dead since the lawmakers rear1 the results. THE ORTHODOX assumption is that if the question is xoted upon without preparatory campaigning, the people will be inclined to vote against another round of tax increases and the unknown burdens of a debt stretching over 30 to 50 years. But the highxvay interest of the state is a big and powerful one, once mobilized. Many of the powerful influences in what is known as the highway lobby stood aside during the appeal for his acceleration program.

Some of them were persuaded that the time ripe. Some of them knew that the Republicans were disinclined to vote the program now. Some were convinced that such a major departure from standard financing could never be achieved under divided government and preferred to axvait the 1964 election outcome. But if these should change their minds, and begin thumping for a favorable vote on the April referendum, the outlook may yet change ON BRIDGE By OSWALD JACOBY NORTH A 8 6 4 8 3 KQ 9 AK J4 17 WEST A A 102 94 2 A 10 8 5 3 EAST A KJ953 A 7 86 3 A 9 7 2 SOUTH A 7 KJ1065 A 107 42 A A 6 Both vulnerable South West North East 1 Pass 1 A Pass 1 N.T. Pass 3 N.T.

Pass Pass Pass Opening 5 reason for his one no-trump rebid was that he wanted to show that his hand was minimum in high cards for an opening bid. This reason is frequently given for such bids, but it is not a good one It is much more important to show your distribution and hand pattern than it is to get across the message that you haxe opened a minimum. Of course, a no-trump rebid does tell partner that you have a minimum hand, but it is more important that you also tell him that your hand is suitable for no-trump play. I could have still saved things had I bid either three diamonds or three hearts as my second bid, but 1 did have 4-3-3-3 distribution and honors in each suit. It seemed that a no-trump raise was indicated and I went right to game.

Things started out nicely. My jack of clubs held the first trick and my partner promptly led a heart toward his hand. Had East played low we would have had nine tricks, but East hopped right up with the ace and led the five of spades to his ace. Back came the ten of spades and were down two. Even three no-trump bid and made would not have been any good from a duplicate standpoint.

Exeiv other South played four hearts and made five. Had South just rebid two diamonds xve would have run with the pack. I would have jumped to three hearts and he xvould have continued to four. chr lLa (Crusur Srtbunr XV T. BLRGESS.

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