Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, February 5, 1960 Page: 3 of 16
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STEPHENVILLE EMPIRE-TRIBUNE, STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS
PACE THBEE
DREW PEARSON
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WASHINGTON — “The junket
division” of the Defense Depart-
ment has queer standards as to
who should travel free on govern-
ment airplanes at the taxpayers
expense.
For some time, the State De-
partment and the U. S. Informa-
tion Agency have been trying to
get the Defense Department to
give two seats across the Atlantic
to the mayor of Konya, Turkey,
and his wife to come to Torrence,
Calif., to attend an important
people-to-people friendship cele-
bration.
But the Defense Department
sayg it can’t do it. Seats on MATS
airplanes, operated by the Defense
Department, are supplied to con-
gressmen, newspapermen, wives
of air force officials, but two seats
can’t be spared for the building of
people-to-people friendship b e -
tween the USA and a nation which
fought valiantly in Korea and is
the bulwark of NATO defenses in
the Near East.
Under the peoplc-to- people
friendship program, the City of
Konya in Turkey has affiliated
with Torrence, Calif. Torrence is
•planning a big celebration on Feb-
[ruary 26 to emphasize^ |ts close
‘ties with Konya. The citizens of
jTorrence have raised $1,000 to pay
•for the airplane travel of Konya’s
(mayor from New York to Califor-
nia, but hope that MATS can de-
liver him and his wife to New
York. The State Department hopes
so too. But the Defense Depart-
ment says no.
Other Junkets
Meanwhile, here are some of the
other trips authorized by the De-
fense Department in the last year:
The secretary of defense order-
ed a special plane to fly Sen. Dick
Russell of Georgia to his home
town in Winder, Ga.; Congress-
man Frank Osmers of New Jersey
toured Florida for two weeks last
Easter at the taxpayers’ expense,
thanks to military transportation;
Congressman Cliff Mclntire of
Maine spent three days in Paris
for the Agriculture Committee
though Paris is no great agricul-
tural center; Rep. Phil Weaver, of
Nebraska got a free trip to the
West Coals t and another to the
Philippines to “inspect” defense
facilities; Sen. Andy Schoeppel of
Kansas got two free trips to Fort
Riley, Kansas and Argentia, New-
foundland. The latter had all the
earmarks of a fishing junket,
though Schoeppel’s office, when
queried about its purpose, com-
mented: “That’s not public infor-
mation.”
Among the congressmen who
did the most traveling courtesy of
military transportation were Sen.
Tom Martin of Iowa with five
free trips, Rep. Mendel Rivers of
South Carolina with four trips,
Rep. W. R. Poage of Texas, who,
after a junket to Paris last Easter
for the Interparliamentary Con-
ference, immediately hitched an-
other air force ride to Texas.
And while President Eisenhower
has been sounding his battle cry
for a balanced budget, the White
House last year found a unique
way to bring key Republicans in-
to Washington for a big fund-
raising dinner — at the taxpayers’
expense. The Civil Rights Com-
mission and the White House Ad-
visory Committee on aging, which
have many top Republicans as
members, arranged to meet in
Washington simultaneous with the
dinner. Members collected free
travel plus $25 a day for expenses.
Meanwhile, the Defense Depart-
ment can’t find two seats for the
mayor of Konya, Turkey and his
wife for a people-to-people friend-
ship visit.
Headlines and Footnotes
What griped some Republicans
in Los Angeles last week was the
way Ike landed in an isolated cor-
ner of the L.A. Airport, was
whisked by helicopter to the Ever-
Hilton Hotel for the GOP din-
ner, then left from the hotel’s
garage roof by helicopter for the
golf course in Palm Springs. Mil-
lions of Indians, Afghans, Pakis-
tanis, et al, got a good glimpse
of Ike in Europe and Asia, but
less than a thousand Americans
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were permitted to see him in Cali-
fornia. (Nixon had urged Ike to
come to California to bolster GOP
strength.) . . . biggest applause
at the Washington GOP dinner
was for ex-Speaker Joe Martin,
ousted last year by Charlie Hal-
leck as GOP House leader . . .
The U. S. Navy has about 30 ves-
sels on the edge of the Russian
target area in the Mid-Pacific
watching to see what the Soviet
lands there. Only five Russian
ships are in the area — apparent-
ly waiting to fish nose cones out
of the water. U. S. Naval planes
patrol around-the-clock.
From the Bottom Up
The recent Visit of President
Eisenhower to 11 countries was a
dramatic start toward winning im-
portant good will. However, drama
doesn’t score lasting gains unless
there’s a follow-up. No President
can keep on visiting foreign coun
tries, and even if he could, he
would soon wear out his welcome.
In India, however, Dr/SRamkir-
shna Shahu Modak, president of
the All-India Federation of Na-
tional Churches, with Robert Ros-
amond of Philadelphia and Walter
Voelker of the Abington, Pa.,
friends peace committee, are start-
ing a spontaneous people-to-peo-
ple follow-up by planning a Bom-
bay conference in April to begin
the not easy work of carrying out
Ike’s ideals for peace. They want
to get representative Americans
and Indians of all walks of life
to attend. To get started, they are
meeting in Washington this week
and are asking Ike to take an
afternoon off from golf to attend.
So far the White House has said
no, though giving its blessing to
plans for the conference.
Despite not much cooperation
from the White House, they figure
that peace in the long run has to
come from the bottom up, not from
the top down.
Note — Robert Rosamnd is the
man who sold Ike on the idea <tt
“interdependence” which the Pres-
ident has used in several of his
speeches to emphasize tne theme
that all countries' have to be inter-
related
Woman’s Missionary
Society Meets at
Baptist Church
“The Good Shepherd” was the
theme of the devotional given by
Mrs. Emil V. Becker, president of
the Woman’s Missionary Society,
when they met Monday at the
First Baptist Church. Scripture*
were taken froai John 10:7-14 and
Heb. 13: 20-21.
Mrs. Becker presided at the
business meeting. Mrs. J. W. Cle-
ments remembered missionaries on
the calendar in the opening pray-
er.
Reports were heard from Mrs.
J. B. Golightly who told of seven
new members being added in Jan-
uary, and from leaders of the
GA’s, Sunbeams and YWA’s.
It was voted to help defray the
expense of the trip to the YWA
houseparty in Abilene by giving
$14.35 to Mrs. C. J. Bailey, who
will take the girls to Abilene.
In other business it was decided
to purchase flower vases for the
auditorium of the church with the
$25. given to the WMS by the
children of Mrs. L. F. Tate, in ap-
preciation for the many deeds of
kindness shown when Mrs. Tate
was buried here. The gift will be
a memorial.
Mrs. Becker asked that the
members be much in prayer for
the approaching rivival, March 13-
30.
The resignation of Mrs. Thomas
Benton as periodical chairman was
regretfully accepted.
Following the covered dish
luncheon, Rev. Emil Becker taught
the eighth chapter in the study of
"New Testament Answers to Old
Testament Questions.
Mrs. C. H. McKinney offered the
adjuoraing prayer.
FOUND AT LAST
TOLEDO, Ohio CD — Twenty-
seven years after she lost her wed-
ding righ at her former farm home
near New Bavaria, Mrs. Mary
Thomas was notified it popped up
while the present occupant of the
farm, Erford Oedy, was plowing a
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IE k WW W mm II ■■■I %m By HILDA BLACK In three recent surveys conduct- on Cloud Eight and a half,” says
Mr. and Mrs. Horace R. Mann
have announced the arrival of a
son, David Ray, in a Dallas hos-
pital. The young man weighed six
pounds and three .ounce. llis
mother is the former, Miss June
Dale Green and she is a grand-
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Hunt of Stephenville. She was a
Tarleton College student in 1957-
58. The young man’s father is
stationed with the armed forces in
Tennessee. This is the first great-
grandson of the Hunt's.
Ramon De Leon, Sr. and wife,
Amelia Vera, left Wednesday for
their home in Brownsville after
spending several days here with
their children, Ernest who is with
the local area office of the U. S.
Soil Conservation Service, Ramon
Jr. who is a student at Tarleton
and daughter, Nora, who was here
from Denton, where she is a stu-
dent at Texas Woman’s Univer-
sity. Mr. De Leon has an extensive
ranch and cotton farm holding in-
the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico,
and makes frequent visits to this
area. While here he and Mrs. De-
Leon were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Grady Perry.
Will Perry, who is with the
Army Corp of Engineers District
Office Control Section at Fort
Worth was a weekend visitor in
the home of his parents.
for the Fidelity and Casulty Com-
pany of New Y’ork, and William A.
Seymour Jr., of the Continental
Insurance Company of Dallas.
During their stay in the city
Messrs Lorimer and Seymour were
accompanied by Bras J. Cole of
the Ellis Agency on their calls on
local citizens.
Mrs. Pierce Hoggett of Junc-
tion was a guest in the home of
her sister, Mrs. H. G. Perry Wed-
nesday and Thursday of this week.
Two distinguised business lead-
ers from Abilene and Dallas were
in the City Wednesday holding
business conferences at the Ellis
Insurance Agency. They were
Hugh T. Lorimer, special agent
Tom P. Day, who now makes
his home in Haynesville, La., P. O.
Box 694, writes the Empire-Trib-
une that he is interested in hear-
ing from some of his old friends
that he knew during the days he
lived in Stephenville where he liv-
ed as a youth. His father was Dr.
M. Day, a prominent physician
here in the early days but who
moved away more than 50 years
ago. Two other sons were Carl
and Joe Day. Tom Bridges, who
was working at White Drug Store
during the days of his youth, re-
members the family quite well.
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“Teenage marriage is one of to-
day’s most controversial problems.
The producers of the picture you
are about to see do not attempt to
present a solution or take Bides. It
is a composite of several actual
case histories ... a story of a
teenage girl who could be your
daughter, your sister ... or you!”
Such is the foreword to Ameri-
can International Pictures’ “Diary
of ^ High School Bride,” a
dramatic motion picture you will
be seeing soon at your local
theatre.
In this day of space orbits and
expanding horizons, the world we
live in and the values by which
we live have, 0/ necessity, under-
gone drastic changes. Life as our
teenage children’s grandparents or
even parents remember from their
youth is no longer the same.
Viewpoints have changed. Conduct
that a generation ago would have
been frowned upon is today ac-
cepted and taken as a matter of
fact- And whether we approve or
disapprove of teenage marriage,
one thing is certain: it is one of
the fastest growing trends of our
time.
With an almost futile intensity
our young people seem to be
reaching out, trying to capture all
of living in a fliort span of time.
“Going steady” starts at a very
early age. “Being engaged” is only
one step further along, and “get-
ting married’’ only a stone's throw
from that. The^ays when every
boy and girl was expected to have
a wide circle of friends and dated
a number of prospects before nar-
rowing the choice to one person
seem to have disappeared. Such
things to the average teenager of
today seem oldfashioned, outmod-
ed. They are impatient with wait-
ing, they have seen in their own
young lives that the future is un-
certain, the present insecure.
Often it is that very feeling of in-
security that prompts them to
marry at an early age. Married,
they feel secure and mature. They
do not wish to “miss anything”—
including marriage.
According to statistics, teenage
marriages have increased thirty-
three per cent since 1942. Dating
first without proper chaperones
came in with World War I. That
was the first real break with a
tradition that demanded a girl of
good family be chaperoned when
in the company of a young man.
In former times and in most
parts of the world, excluding the
United States, marriages more of-
ten than not were arranged by the
families of the young couple, with
dowries as part of the marriage
contracts. In the Orient and in
Moslem countries it was not at all
unusual for the bride and groom to
eee each other for the first time
after the ceremony, when the
woman’s face was unveiled to her
newly wed husband for the first
time. Whether or not such mar-
riages were happy is another
story. They were the custom Bnd
as such accepted.
In this country, when the num-
ber of automobiles increased,
young people were able for the
first time to get away from par-
ental supervision. But it was not
until World War II that going
seady as it exists today became
popular practice.
ed in the states of Iowa, Cali-
fornia, and Nebraska studies were
made of 300 girls under the age
of 19. It was learned that they
had started dating at the ages
of 12 or 13. By the time they
were 14 most of them were doing
more than holding hfuids and
since they had started dating at
an earlier age they likewise start-
ed steady dating earlier. Nearly
one-third of the girls in the sur-
veys were pregnant at thto time of
marriage.
Campus marriages have more
against the future of the woman
than the man, according to one
medical authority—a woman. If
one of them is to continue going to
school, It is almost invariably the
boy. When that happens, usually
the girl has to work to help him
through school which often means
that 'she is carrying the load for
two, doing the housework, and
worn out from worry and financial
care*. Seldom does the girl get to
continue school.
On the other hand, unless the
boy does continue going to school,
be and the girl face a future of low
income and unskilled jobs due to
unpreparedness.
"Surveys made in various parts
of the United States indicate that
at least 20 per cent of all the girls
graduating from high schools this
June will be married by October,”
states Dr. Paul Popenoe, founder
and director of the American In-
stitute of Family Relations in Los
Angeles. Many do not wait to
graduate from school.
“They get their ideas,” he con-
tinues, “from radio, television, and
popular songs. They envision mar-
riage as a chance to have moon-
glow and honey-suckles for the
rest of their lives. Unfortunately,
it doesn’t work out that way.”
Teenage marriages do not hit
any one certain economic level, ac-
cording to surveys. They take
place from the top to the bot-
tom, although parents in the high-
er income brackets are sometimes
able—by threat to cut off allow-
ances, thus forcing the Thunder-
bird owner to ride buses—to stop
the marriages. But seeing only the
romantic side of marriage, it is
not always possible to get mar-
riage-intentioned young people to
change those views.
Teenage girls who marry us-
ually do so at age 18 or 19, al-
though some marry younger. Us-
ually they marry boys their own
age — classmutes — or boys a
year or two older. Most of them
are incapable of making a living
and have only the ability to get
unskilled labor job*. Because of
financial problems many of them
are forced to live with the parents
of one or the other, seldom a sat-
isfactory arrangement.
And when the first baby arrives
the girl is almost always totally
unprepared. There is, sLj learns,
much more to having a baby and
bringing it up than she had
thought —it. isn’t all just dressing
the Infant up> and showing It off.
Weighed down with duties and
responsibilities, even drudgery,
the girl is apt to become dissatis-
fied and unhappy and long for the
carefree life when she was able to
enjoy herself in the company of
other young men and women.
“She soon learns she’s not living
Dr. Popenoe. And the boy, we
might add, learns the same thing.
Early marriages have the highest
rate of breakups of all marriages
and high school marriages the
highest of all. Some of them are
doomed from the beginning and
quite a few are forced.
“Going steady" is one of the
things to avoid, if teenage marri-
age is to be stopped. Very early
steady dating, that is. Junior high
school pupils frequently “go
steady” although they will be the
first to inform you that they don’t
always go steady for long with
the same person! Going steady pre-
vents boys and girls from broaden-
ing their list of acquaintances, a
situation not at all healthy.
Says Dr. Popenoe, “No girl
should go steady until she’s had a
chance to go unsteady for quite
some time. Only then is she really
in a position to known the real
thing when she meets it.”
Many of these problems are
brought out in American Interna-
tional’s “Dairy of a High School
Bride” although, as the foreword
to the film says, the picture mere-
ly. presents — it does not take
sides. Of course, above all it is
d ramatic/entertainment.
In order to bring out the story
above personalities, James H.
Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff,
heads of America* International
Pictures selected an unknown for
the stellar role. She is Anita Sands,
an 18-year-old girl just out of
Hamilton High School in Los
Angeles. She was selected from
over 400 applicants and it is the
first time she has ever appeared
in a motion picture. She is a sensi-
tive looking young beauty with
large dark eyes and dark hair and
brings to the role a feeling of
authenticity and sweetness. Ron-
ald Foster portrays the young
husband, Chris Robinson is the boy
who tries maliciously to break up
the marriage, and Wendy Wilde is
the girl who fs jealous of young
bride. Burt Topper produced and
directed the film which offers to
filmgoers a look at teenage mar-
riage as it really is.
Junior High
Gridders Guests
Of Kiwanis Chib
Coaches, squad members, and
fathers of the Stephenville Junior
High football team were special
guests of the Kiwanis Club of Ste-
phenville Tuesday night.
Coach Jack Deavenport and Sam
Taylor introduced squad members
and their fathers at the regular
meeting of the club.
Coach C. E. Booth of the high
school and Doyle D. White presi-
dent of the Stephenville High
Booster Club gave brief talks.
Dean Murray, Kiwanis presi-
dent, reminded members of the
Annual Pancake supper which will
be held Feb. 25 at the City Re-
creation Hall. Murray also an-
nounced that next Tuesday would
be “Ladies Night” and the mem-
bers wives would be special guest
of the club.
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