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EDITORIALS Shelter Interest Wanes You fciif math itscmt fallout shelters any tnore. A cotqsM years tgo when there were headlines about thf missile gap and various teaJnad Articles about the number rfttstiles Russia possessed, thtft wtl eoftfidertbli thought given to fallout Ifttittft. A fiuffibef of fallout shelters were Charles and A nuclear atttck on this would bring about in transport and We are largely i ftttisfi ef City dwellers and rely on an tfitettfit transport system to btifif til GVt food, ing and other fiUdi. Even a partial breakdown of ouf transport system would create serious food ihofUgts. one shelter instruction.

it was the same all over the country and thi number of family fallout shelters probably in the tens of thousands. Fifnily fallout shelters are expensive, however, afld even today only a minute proportion af American families are equipped with these shelters. Not long ago alter he went into office President Kennedy, recognizing that the vast majority of Americans could not provide their own fallout shelters, inaugurated a practice of designating certain public buildings as fallout shelters. This has been done all over the country and some of these shelters are stocked with emergency food and water supplies. But still there is no protection for most Americans if a nuclear war should start.

At the present time there is a bill before the House of Representatives to provide $175 million for fallout shelters. Rep. F. Edward Hebert of New Orleans is chairman of a subcommittee which has been holding hearings on the shelter bill. Hebert thinks the House may pass the bill but says prospects arerrt too good in the Senate.

However, the hearings before Hebert's subcommittee have not attracted much attention and unless there is a national crisis at the tune the House may turn thumbs down on the measure. The truth of the matter, sad to relate, is that the average person isn't going to get greatly excited about fallout shelters unless there is an international crisis. But crises usually come up suddenly and then there's no time lor building shelters. It's out of the question to build shelters for the entire population. The cost would run into billions of dollars and it's doubtful that the economy could stand the drain.

The President's program, admittedly modest, would provide federal incentive payments to public and nonprofit institutions that build shelters and also for construction of shelters in federal buildings. But if nuclear war should come would be space in these shelters only a small proportion of the na- vion's population. The rest of us (or those who survived the Initial blasts) would have to take our chances In the open. food hand. How many families do this? No one knows.

Man? families do here Lake Charles but it ia probable that the majority do not Last October there was a rush on stores for food and other types of plies, such as candles, matches, ammunition and eampfng equipment when President Kennedy the U. S. Navy into a blockade of Cuba. How many families have retained the supplies gathered then? Again, no one knows. There was a sense of urgency last fall when the supplies were gathered.

The sense of urgency has been lacking since and it may well be that many families have used up those supplies since in day-today needs. And what of the fallout shelters that were built? Are they kept stocked with necessary supplies of food and water. Only the people who have them can answer that. But it is only natural to be lax in the.se matters when there is no crisis pending. The "sword of Damocles" has been hanging over our heads for about 10 years now, ever since the Russians acquired the means of delivering nuclear strikes against us, first with planes and then with missiles.

Perhaps the Russians will never attack. Nikita Khrushchev appears dead-set against any nuclear war. He calls it suicidal, just as President Eisenhower did. But there are other nations. Thant of Burma, secretary-general of the United Nations, believes Red China will explode its first atomic bomb, possibly this year and probably next year.

The coming years are going to bring an increasing number of nations with nuclear capabilities. There are those who hold that a nuclear war is inevitable. Well, nothing is inevitable but death. The Russians aren't as disposed to "missile- rattling" now, since they have seen the awesome power of nuclear bombs. Perhaps the Chinese will experience the same reaction.

If nuclear war does come, however, there aren't going to be enough blast or fallout shelters for Not by a long shot. But there will be enough to insure some Americans will continue our civilization. In these uncertain times that is at least one consolation. ECONOMICS Another Record Co. expels flWPB fljgtJgJMBM fof fol George ft.

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Linage increased 1.9 per cent over 1961, he said, while the cost of space increased 9.4 per cent. The $58 million represented 71.: per cent of Sears' total retai media expense of $81.4 million Advertising through i lars magazines, radio and television and miscellaneous media account ed for the remainder. CWwfftffflf CWKBroB ffawxu mti ift TB ton toft USSaK III dH Wfitliyiitt, StotBS IXV9 IBVtMA tflJTO 1699 fR0Un ft fuwspiplf Aid iht company's sates ttafttei ton B.3 tn 1948 to ItS bfffloD in "TMs is UHigfbti tf eat eeHttwfftf fafft ift the tency of newspaper advertising," Stfutfnri said. "From thf day Sears opened its flttt retail itore," he said, "the company has made greater and grater use of newspapers, it is ebvioos that Seats stare managers continue to regard tin newspaper aa their major medium for more than historical Masons. Their evaluation is based on the day.to-dfiy remits in their stores." Sears has previously announced plans to spend approximately $100 million for expansion this year.

It plans to open new retail stores, including in communities which have no retail stores and 10 which will replace older stores with new and larger buildings. 'Ha Ha Ha And Ho Ho Ho' SIDEWALK SAGE Over My Shoulder CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY JFK Gambles on Job Bills By Congressional Quarterly WASHINGTON (CQ) PRESI- dent Kennedy, as part of his civil rights proposals, has sent to Congress five separate bills to improve job opportunities for the unemployed. In doing so he is gambling that the heightened civil rights crisis will boost their chances. The President's job opportunity package would beef up two exist THE WORLD TODAY Writing Is Task for Justice By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (AP) Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr.

writes in longhand and then scrubs what he writes, even if it takes months, as it did in his recent opinion on the school prayer case, In an interview Brennan, 57, gave a rare insight into a justice at work behind the doors of the court's marble palace. effort he put into this one opinion, which he didn't have to write, illustrates the vitality of tha present court and the dedication of a justice to his job. On this opinion alone he researched and wrote, when he could, for over three months to projduce 77 pages with more than 410 footnotes and references ranging over history, the philosophy of separation of church and slate and much besides. He worked in his office week- daw with bis two law clerks, doing everything in longhand bee he is no good at dictation, at home at night, writing on sa old card table, or on. Sunday at bjs office with bis clerks.

Breiwan added his final touch on June the day before the court gave its decision prohibiting reading and recital of the lord's Prayer as required to public schools, OB that last day he inserted "es- HBtiaUy" in an important sen- tewe, He fewd in book of uoaoyw which be keeps beside bii disk and ussi Hwcb tit thf exact He satf of wiUag aud writing: "i always, try to what I Juve to say in words that cm bt unitefitol This takes an aw. lot ef scrubbing." Meanwhile he had to do all his other work: examining cases, researching them, hearing lawyers' arguments on them, deciding them and writing opinions on some of them. In the 1962-63 term just ended he wrote 23 opinions, none of them fewer than 10 pages, for a total of 511 pages, plus footnotes and references. When a majority of the nine justices reaches a decision, one of them Is assigned to write it. This is the official decision which alone has tho effect of law.

Any other justice can write a concurring or dissenting opinion to explain bis own reasoning. This is extra and is not required. Jn the school prayer case Justice Tom Clark was assigned to write the decision of the court's eight-man majority, which in eluded Brennan. Clark did it in 23 pages, after a lot of research, but his references, explaining how the decision was arrived at, mostly cited previous court opinions. Brennan went beyond that for reasons hi gave in bis concurring opinion: 'Tba importance of the issue and the deep conviction with which views on both sides are held seem to me to justify detail ing at some length my reasons for joining the court's judgment and opinion." Like the other justices, Brennan was sensitive to the criticism the court suffered for a similar deci sion in a 1963 school prayer case But this did 09t deter him or them and the criticism this year wa gajy trickle cowpared with rights program grew out of the series of White House civil rights meetings which the President had been holding since racial tension reached crisis proportions.

It became clear, among other things, that the tensions were mounting in the North as well as the South, and that unemployment was largely at the core of the Northern problem. Furthermore, Northern Negroes for the most part had already Most jittiieM have to sweat over their writing, as Brennan did. at major opinions. Tbere he exceptions like Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1903-32) who could dash off a glistening iece over a weekend at home. But for every Holmes there probably have been 20 like Brentan or, going back, like Chief ustice Charles Evans Hughes 1930-41) and Justice Louis D.

Brandeis. Hughes made endless drafts. Brandeis revised dozens of Jmes. Brandeis had helped steer the court away from rigid dependence on legal precedents in reaching decisions. To make them informed decisions he urged "consideration of the contemporary conditions, social, industrial and political." Brennan's kinship with Brandies showed in the references he used to support his and the court's reasoning against public school prayers In the research he had the help of his two law clerks, Robert O'Neil and Richard Posner, both under 30 and, like Brennan, graduates of the Harvard Law School.

They took over a big room, on an upper floor of the court building and covered shelves and a long table with all they could gather from the Supreme Court Library, the Library of Congress and even university law school libraries. The Brennan research included not only previous court decisions but ranged over articles in law reviews, statements and opinfonj of previous justices, individual book-length studies of the of separation of state and church, the constitutions of India, Japan and the derma Republic, of James Madlsca'j historic protest against nUgjoa in Virginia schools, the views of Patrick Henry and Thomas Jeftersau, ng programs. It would also raise won the rights sought in the ci- he money figure on the other pro- vil rights bill the right to vote, officially desegregated schools, and access to public accommodations. The Northern Negroes' basic problem appeared to be that toe many were unemployed, facec the danger of unemployment, or had no chance to improve their economic lot through better jobs Over-all, there are twice many unemployed Negroes whites, and the unemployment rate for youths between 16 and 21 is slightly more than double the over-all unemployment rate Recent figures indicate that on out of seven youths who are would be working cannot jobs. The unemployment rate fo Negro youths those under 21 looking for jobs is 20 per cent or one out of five.

Furthermore, the number of grams which the President sought earlier this year but which have yet to be enacted. A prime aim of all of them is to improve the employability of poorly-educated and unskilled workers, many of whom are Negroes. The accent of the proposals is on youth. In brief, the President is asking I for: i 1. Broadening of the Manpower Development and Training act of 1982, a three-year program to retrain workers for new jobs.

2. Additional funds to nurture a new welfare program, authorized in 1962, under which relief recipients can be required to perform community work or take training hi return for relief checks. 3. Enactment of three new programs youth employment, vocational education and adult literacy on a larger scale than was envisioned earlier in the year. The youth employment program would set up a federal Youth Conservation corps and a "home town youth corps" for state and local work projects.

The vocational education program would provide federal aid for job training in schools. The literacy program would provide federal assistance to provide the equivalent of an eighth mmediate impact on youths al- eady unemployed. It is believed that younger peo- jle respond to training more and can be flexi- about where they work. Administration officials are also waging a campaign to get some of the dropouts back in school. The President's proposals also emphasize training in literacy and in new types of industrial work.

New jobs continually open up, but a worker who cannot read a blueprint or who has never handled new machinery or products cannot qualify for them. At the same time, the Presi dent and other Administration officials say that these are only short-run and partial solutions. "Negro unemployment will noi be noticeably diminished in this country," said the President's ci vil rights message, "until the to tal demand for labor is effective ly increased and the whole econo my is headed toward a level full employment." Mr. Kennedy followed wit plugs for his tax and depressec areas bills. THE BIGGEST QUESTION IS whether tieing the job training proposals into the civil rights package will help or hurt them or, indeed, will make any difference at all.

There are several ironies in the current situation. Until recently, the Kennedy Administration was not making any major push for civil rights legislation, but was telling civil rights prise about per cent of the groups that its proposals to nd the economy and provide ibs and training would be of as as By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP)-One of life's greatest pleasures is recalling the Nostalgia begins very early. As boy grows older and has more recall, nostalgia will play a arger role in his life. You're probably pretty much of a yore- Ireamer yourself, if you can turn back the clock of thought and remember when- More people drank cream soda pop than any other flavor. Lon Chaney scared more film fans than Boris Karloff and "King Kong" put together.

Remember him in "Phantom of the Opera" and "Hunchback of Notre Dame?" When you changed a nickel, two of the five pennies you got back would have Indian heads on them. The most widespread forms of gambling in America were pitching coins at a crack In the playing marbles for keeps. Hah" the kids in the land thought John Dillingcr was a late-blooming Robin Hood, and the other half wanted to grow up and become a "G-man" under J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI. Every boy knew how to make a whistle out of an old cotton spool or a hollow swamp weed.

All girls played tennis in skirts. Those bold enough to show up in shorts were ruled off the courts. Families weren't afraid to sleep in public parks at night during heat waves, because mugging had not yet become the criminals' leading outdoor sport. Anybody who couldn't learn to repair a punctured inner tube in a jiffy had no business going motoring. At least 100 persons a year were killed in Fourth of July fire uncounted kids lost fingers.

Women spent more time braiding their hair than fixing their faces. Only hoboes or people on picnics cooked meals outdoors in summer. Nobody wore sports jackets and slacks. Only a poor man wore coats and pants that didn't match. A girl who could make good fudge never lacked a beau.

LOOKING BACK Fiffy Years Ago (From the American Preu of July 3, 1913) those who fall to complete high school has been growing, and the unemployment rate among these dropouts hovers around 30 per cent. The labor department has also found that Negroes, who corn- grade education for adult ates. JN HIS CIVIL RIGHTS MES- high school graduates, amount to 20 per cent of the dropouU. About 7,5 million dropouts are expect- great benefit to the lower econom ic groups notably the Negroes. At the same time, it attempted IDLE, to keep implications of civil rights issues away from these proposals, A Chicago alderman has introduced an ordinance compelling "every male person" over twelve years of age, to rise and tender a lady his seat when the street cars are crowded, Good manners and courtesy cannot be legislated into a community, but Illinois' new voters can be made aware that "CodUn's their friend." ed in the 1960's.

TRANSLATED INTO frustrated and energetic young people clustered in crowded urban areas, Administration offic i a 1 are Convinced that these figures spelj'trouble. sage to Congress, President Ken-1 This is why the focus of the nedy argued that employment op- 8 portunities "play a major role" In determining whether other civil rights gains by Negroes will be "meaningful." The decision to hook the job training proposals into the civil President's job proposals is on mow and better training for youths in and out of school. is hoped that this will work as a kind of preventive medicine to keep the unemployment rolls from swelling and will have an lest their chances of passage be damaged. Now, however, the Administration is reversing its tactics and gambling on the possibility that SENATOR CAUCUS 4 WED, JULY I Ctata American Press Uke CharleTAmerican Press on me history, studies of the tution, studies of conflicting liber, the Jewish, Yearbook, id opalian and 8 CaUftolic Look magazine, a renort on. VWW appointment oi chfliHaitw 1ft state aa essay aft Roger wmtrttwrkm to American traditoB.

an nation of the AMMdnMi at time of its ratification in 18S3 report of a SenaJg studies an Avatttlnatlftn QM Oliver CrcmweU's msadate to top action a cqmmittaft in 1789. and WRBMSBjIMiBpiW BSR flPWW fi lat aw the intensity of the civil rights crisis will boost these bill's cbanc- Those who urged the Adminls- ration to include the job training proposals in the civil rights package and this was a last-mln- ute decision-feel that two things have been accomplished, First, they feel that the direct connection between employment opportunity and other rights has been clearly pointed out. Second, they feel that the chanc es for the bsefed vp job training proposals have been improved if not in the first session of the aath then in the second, "If mi fo foUi to aHeest three generations of my ewn IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Today's highlight in history: On this date in 1W4, the first treaty between the United. States and China was signed. The pact permitted the trade and residence in certain ports.

On this tote: in ma, the massacre at Wyoming, was carried out by a force of 600 Indians and border rangers in the service of (Copyright lass, Quarterly QUICK QUIPS a deplorable lad wli year's graduates. A of il tow (we rein, mM sm adve may ing current problems at aonw In 1863, the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg ended in defeat for Southern armies commanded by Gen. Robert E. In 1890, Idaho was admitted to the union as the 43rd state, In IS42, the Russian stronghold of Sevastopol fell to German troops after a siege ia World War II in im President Truraaa signed a bill to repay the Sioux Indians for ponies taken alter the historic massacre of flen- George Custer'g troops to U3i Ten years ago Hall and five other convicted Hawaiian Communists were sentenced to five yaws ia jaJ and fined ISM Huston Leader: Last Saturday afternoon, in the darkened Princess theater, one of the pictures thrown on the curtail) was a rain storm scene. Suddenly the rain began to fall and run rapidly off the roofs of houses and onto the ground.

It was more, than one auditor could stand for. She sprang out of her seat, grabbed her husband by the coat collar and exclaimed: "Oh, Lordv, John, look how hard It is raining. And our spring seats are getting wet, Run quick and turn them over," Franklin Watchman: are getting progressive in West On Thursday of this week C. B. Averett, who occupies the position of town marshal and collector, had his books audited by a New Orleans firm of account' ants, and they reported that the account! of the town had been loosely and carelessly kept, and declared that Averett had been short.

Averett and his son met mayor, who is Benjoa, and proceeded to give him a clubbing. The mayor is confined to his room for the injuries be received at the, hands Qf his That part of Louisiana is an industrious contestant of for the ideas of settling differences, Five years ago Secrete of State Ms said fee United jtftfltfi vug willing to nil .,1114 RUM as a step toward bolstering free world defenses against Uttii Miss Margaret Bay, bomj ia with a few of her fritBds, cdcbraied her ataUi birthday ytsterday with and a Uvaly at which MUs Juae Young was vie- toriaui, and was presented with a lovely A large picture of a fort a pie erected in the center of the little tttefl tg top vttb was bjjBg tte wall and fur- alsbed sport for the will of taff wub piy bt year dejot Curias de Gaulle proclaimed the tadepeftdeaee ftf Alfern- for today; is tie organ MatMtel aod Baton BOUM, Bllll play ia fc aad liJlgw I fMttit.

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