The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 25, 1965 Page: 2 of 14
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SIXTY YEARS AGO
by JOHN G. TOWER
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happen. We must prevent the
seating of Red China, because
If the Reds are seated the
United Nations as we know it
will come to an end
The Alvin Sun
EDITORIAL PAGE
Thursday, November 25, 1965
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FIFTY YEARS AGO
The Danbury people are
organizing a Road District
No. 14 and will have an elec-
tion for the purpose of vot-
ing on a proplsition to is-
sue bonds in the sum of $5.
000 for the hard surface
roads.
;kw.
TEN YEARS AGO
Linda Nell Rogers, daugh-
ter of Mr and Mrs. Paul
R. Rogers of Bay City, is one
of six high schocl graduates
from the Houston area to re •
ceive a scholarship of $2,000
each from the Educational
Fund for Children of Phil-
. i< -ur-ived by his wil
Minnie Mae Miller
B; a daughter, Mrs. Ma
• Cherry of Austin; a si
IN THE SPIRIT OF OUR
COUNTRY'S FOUNDING
FATHERS, IET US
GIVE THANKS FOR
All OUR BLESSINGS
AND RESOLVE TO
PROTECT THEMI
ujlip A Miller. 82.
died in Austin Nr
He formerly lived in A
the Viet Cong and North Viet-
namese Communists in the
war against free South Viet-
nam American troops In Viet-
nam have reported within the
last week that Red Chinese
military ' advisors” are on
the battlefields of South Viet-
nam with Red units from the
North.
Red China is proceeding
with development of a nuclear
weapons arsenal that will en-
able it to spread terror and
subversion over vast dis-
tances in Asia and the Pa-
cific. Red C hina is an active
antagonist on Communism’s
struggle to take over all of
Indonesia and Malaysia.
Yet despite this aggressive,
warlike attitude, many na-
tions voted to seat Red China
tn the United Nations. Weface
the distinct possibility that
within a few years seating
may be accomplished.
If Red China becomes a U.
N. member, it would be eligi-
ble to take part in various U.
N. activities financed at from
40 to 100 per cent by U. S.
taxpayers. America would be
in the position of strengthen-
ing a sworn enemy Americans
would be contributing toCom-
munlzatlon of Asia.
This we cannot permit to
Soyousay
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Alvin, Texas
Gentlemen:
Thank you for the excellent coverage given the dedication
of our new church tn last week’s Alvin Sun. Your paper has
always been generous with the space given to religious news
in Alvin.
Incidcntly, the 75th Anniversary Edition was most interest-
ing and appreciated. We were extremely happy to have been
featured tr. this significant Issue.
Thank you .gain for your cooperation.
Very sincerely,
/i/Roemer Hudler, Minister
First Christian Church
Alvin, Texas
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enough to challenge the two major ones effect-
ively.
As assumed by these spokesmen, a repre-
sentative government usually works better
when the members of its legislative bodies are
provided mostly from two major and competing
parties, rather than from several splintered
factions. But that assumption doesn't hold true
if a large segment of the population comes to
feel that it is not properly represented by the
leadership of either of those two major parties.
Then, as has happened several times in our
national history, there has to be some change
This requires, at least temporarily, the emer-
gence of a third-parry movement. If it succeeds,
it pretty certainly will mean the end for one
of the two major political parties which exist-
ed before - with the obvious result that only
two major political parties remain.
In several cities and states, very vigorous
new • third” parties have come into being.
Clearly the voters felt the need of anew polit-
ical force. And that need has grown to be a
threat to one oi another of the present-<lay two
major parties. It would be reassuring if those
who intone --—• •
system voted and acted as a partisan of one of
lind Oil and Gas
have announced.
Marine Cpl. John H. Hart.
20 whose parents are former
Alvin residents but now live
in Kemah, has been awarded
the Bronze Star Medal for
his courage arid calmness in
____ ... ................ directing the fire of his artil-
lips Petroleum Company Em- lerV secfi°n during the explo-
ployees. The Rogers are for- s’on a near-by ammunition
merly from Alvin.
Roy Pearton celebrated his
ninth birthday recently and to
mark the occasion. Ids par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Pear-
son entertained with a dinner.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
A huge absorption plant,
costing an estimated $4,500,
000, is planned for the Hast-
ings oil field, four miles north
of Alvin, officialsoftheStano-
the agency for the Hudson and
Essex cars. For the present
he will maintain headquarters
at the City Garage and Supply
Co. He is showing the latest
model of the Essex Six Coach
and it is a beauty.
F‘1
In Viet Nam there is a 24-year-old Marine
Lituit'ii.iii iictiHrd •'■•aid S. julmsiiii. Hr u in
charge of a platoon of )eathertM*cks. Lt. John-
son is only two year' out of the University of
Illinois where hi earned a degree in business
administration. His wife wait' in Moline, Ill-
inois, for her man »■• come home Hf- wr >t
her an earthy letter a few days back and sug-
gested that she share it with the editor of the
Moline Daily Dispatch.
A great deal of Lt. Johnson's letter concern-
ed draft-dodger here ar home and rhe ' dem-
onstratnr*'' who protest us policy in Viet Nam
Since it is doubtful tha’ any reader of these
lines falls Into either of those groups we'll
pass over the part of the letter about them and
focu- on the Lieutenant' - remark . directed to
the rest of us - to our indifference
"Don't you know,” writes Lt Johnson, ’ that
one thousand of our youth have died in Viet
Nam and that thousands have been wounded?
’’Win it alway take a ‘sinking of the Maine’
or a 'Sunday morning attack on Pearl Harbor'
to make you pull your heads out of the clouds?
sion of a r-:r .12L.
dump on Iowa Jima.
Pvt. Edward G. Frazier,
who served with the 28th
Division in Germany, his home
on a 30-day furlough.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Notice: Following the
sounding of the fire siren each
Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock,
members of the Alvin Volun-
teer Fire Department will
gather at the station forprac-
Doesn't that group of babbling nitwits that de-
nounce our stand in Viet Nam arouse your
anger?
"How in hell can you permit the voices of
a few thousand to be heard above your millions?
Doesn’t the threat of Communism make you
angry7 When are YOUR demonstrations and
teach-ins being held9 Art you too lazy to pick
up a pen and write to your newspaper editor?
Are you too embarrassed to take part in drives
to get clothing and soap for our Vietnamese
friends9
"Are you too busy to write to your friends
Ai.d relatives overseas9 Are you too selfcon-
sclous to hang a flag in front of your home?
Have you ever stopped to think that your com-
placency may render our nation impotent?
"Those of us in Viet Nam conduct a fight
alone in this war and hope to succeed. The
war will be won. but the victory will be shallow
and insignificant without your wholehearted
support. That is all that we ask.”
Well9 The man’s going to be waiting for an
answer.
How Do They Get That Way?
A Justice Department official has suggested
that a Congressional Committee postpone con-
sideration of a bill to combat obscenity, be-
cause the Justice Department and the Depart-
ment of Health, Education, and Welfare are
thinking of making a "scientific study rodeter-
mine the effect of obscenity on the human
mind.” This strikes us as just one more in-
stance of federal officials wanting to investigate
the obvious Moreover, we wonder exactly what
is meant by a "scientific" study in this case.
Do .hey have in mind to show dirty pictures
or to tell smutty stories to a random selection
of people and record their reactions? Or,
would they use a multiple-choicequestionnaire
containing samples of obscenity? To be truly
scientific, we suppose, it would be necessary
to subject one group of "human minds” to a
substantial dosage of obscenity, while protect-
ing another similar group from any exposure
to It, and then, after so manymonthsor years,
to compare the behavior and attitudes of per-
sons from the two groups.
All that any responsible official should need
to study is one or more of the newspaper re-
ports on events which happen daily all over the
All photogr.
Monday WhUe evei
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columns.
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for damage or lost photographs MMinium si« 0 “yjtwl
Is one column. Maximum si«e for wedding
Society and other new* mu Ft be reported prior to 5 p m
ample space for a news story. it should be reported within
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ol urn.
To dUma. buMu manor* call OL *-*MA
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Reviewing the Past
I Interesting Items liken From the files of The Alvin Sun
y of ten, twenty thirty, forty, fifty, and ixty ,e.,r aRo
Sensing The News
By Thurman Sensing
lucunvs vice nesioini
Southern States Industrial Couta
Rhodesia And The (J N
All Americans concerned for the rr
civilized government «n this troubled
shock and indignation at the c~‘—■ • -
Assembly with respect to Rhodesia
; » disaster for ^1 tit
. ’J^'sla andtht-Z
, !r“ “‘'id I>e t«,.
on the Rhodesian Mtuaif’
they hope to create I
1 base tn Central Africa
c*n plunge Rhodes^ into du’,
os. and take hold of
of power, they win ha<e u«
» major step toward cw,«.
I of the African continent
Part of the tragedy
the Johnson admir.istratt®
and Great Britain herself -
at least the Laboritegovenj.
ment -- has exerted pressure
against the gwernmentof
Prime Minister Lar. Smith lc
Rhodesia. Liberals in thisud
other countries have :«
shameless in application of t
double standard with respect
to Rhodesia. The nations that
signed the General Assembly
resolution calling for force
against Rhodesia say the* want
a ’ representative'’ govern-
ment. Ekit they themselves io
not have such governments.
Ghana, a black African dicta-
torship. recently passed up i
general election because there
was no opposition. Thereasa
is that opposition leaders irt
in jail or dead Ethiopia is ic
absolute monarchy d the old
style, like Caarist Russia.
Guinea has been a fellov-
traveler of the communistw-
tions since its founding Aifor
the communist block com-
tries, none of them have any-
thing approximating ‘ repre-
sentative” governments.
Prime Minister Ian Smith,
who fought bravely as an air-
man in the Battle of Britain
and on other fronts In World
War n. is attacked and sneer-
ed at from all sides Ye: men
of good will, who believe in
sanely organized, civilised
governments, have a big stake
in the preservation of respon-
sible leadership in Rhodesia.
The cause of good government
is worldwide.
In recent years, innumer-
able regimes have beer,
spawned -- regimes which are
run by ignorant men or sav-
ages. The grand workofcMb
ization, carriedonintheAfro-
Asian world in the last cen-
tury and first four decades
of the 20th century has beer
rapidly undone. Everytime*
soundly-led government is ov-
ercome by a combination of
savages and revolutionaries,
the critical situation of our
own government is aggravat-
ed.
The Rhodesians do na !an
great resources, and they hive
suffered from a tide of hostile
and truth-twistedcommenury
on television and elsewhere
It is imperative that respon-
sible voices in the L'nited
States be raised to l>'ecst
of the Rhodesians who havethe
capability of providing intelli-
gent leadership andvhe.
themselves, are pirt of the
Western world and Jediuted
to its concepts of liberty
Somewhere, at some point,
the tide of sivagery must be
stopped A good place to call
a halt to the surging influence
of backward peoples is in Rho-
desia. The way 'or the I'nited
States to help advance the
cause of civilization to Afriei,
and freedom in the world. U
by recognizing the free natioc
of Rhodesia forthwith.
Z! Thejlvin SUN
107 Cost Se^oly Vi*Twas 775’1
Any erroneous reflection upon rhe character standup or r«B*uti« •
person*, firtr. or corporation wturh may appear in the columm ai * *
will hr fladly corrected upon ns being brought to the anewion d
errors or omissions in legal
no« hold themselves liable for dat
them for s
country Involving smut and smut peddlers. For
example: police In a small Pennsylvania town
recently raided a nightclub hangout of homo-
sexuals because ol complaints from citizens
in the community about lewd and vulgar public
behavior of It- patrons outside the dubaswell
as within it And then there Is the case of the
character in Austin. Texas, who was Indicted
by a grand jury on charges of luring teen-agers
Into homosexual “dens” with 'ree liquor, ob-
scene movies and money
Just these two, from among many cases re-
ported every week, should be study enough for
anyone on the "effect of obscenity on the human
mind.”
Perhaps the most sig-
nificant news of recent days
has been the refusal of the
United Nation? to seat the
Communist dictatorship of
Red China
The U. N. members who
favored seating of Red China
in place of Nationalist China
fell short of the two-thirds
majority needed to give the
Red regime official member-
ship in the United Nations.
This was a reaffirmation of
the views of the United States
and of the vast majority of
Americans.
It is inconceivable that Red
China should even be serious-
ly considered as an appropri-
ate government for participa-
tion in the ! ’n?red NatlQiiS
The United Nations charter
specifically states that the U.
N. is to be an organization of
"pesce loving” nations.
Peace is one of the last
concerns of the aggressive,
militant Communist rulers
who now control ma inland Chi-
na. Red China made war a-
gainst the United Nations in
Korea and thousands of U. N.
soldiers paid with their lives
before South Korea was pre-
served
Red CTiina is now assisting
SSSIrjyj
The Controller is receiving
• number of applications
from all over the state to be
placed on the Confederate pen-
one way sion rolls. The reason is that
„ o ------“ 6<ime under the new appropriation
------------church services for savin? J**’ wU1 *n th<-n»igh-
for carrying out the real purpose of the holiday borhooi of »13.so per quarter
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The first American Thanksgiving was celebrated less than a year after
the Plymouth colonists had settled in the new land. The first dreadful win-
ter in Massachusetts had killed nearly half of the members of the colony.
However, new hope grew in the summer of 1621. and the corn harvest brought
rejoicing. Governor William Bradford decreed that a three-day feast be
The first Thanksgiving Day, set aside for the special purpose of prayer
as well as celebration, was decreed by Governor Bradford for July 30, 1623.
The women of the colony spent many days preparing for the feast. The
children helped by turning roasts on spits in front of open fires. Indians
brought wild turkeys and venison, and the men of the colony provided geese,
ducks, and fish. The women served the meat with fish with journey cake^
corn meal bread with nuts, and succotash. Everyone ate outdoors at bip
tables. 8
The custom of Thanksgiving Day spread from Plymouth to other New Eng-
land colonies. During the Revolutionary War, eight special days of thanks
were observed for victories and for being saved from dangers. On Nov. 26,
1789, President George Washington Issued a general proclamation for a day -------- - _____ —
of thanks. In the same year, the Protestant Episcopal Church announced that automobile gameandhastaken
the first Thursday in November would be a regular yearly day for giving
thanks, “unless another day be appointed by the civil authorities."
For many years there was no regular national Thanksgiving Day in the
United States. Some states had a yearly Thanksgiving holiday, and others
did not. But by 1830 New York had an official state Thanksgiving Day and
other northern states s"™ j ———■-
southern state to adopt thecustom. Itproclaimed________
Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale, the editor of “Godey's Lady’s Book”, worked
of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father”.
Each year afterward, for 75 years, the President of the United States
formally proclaimed that Thanksgiving Day should be celebrated on the last
Thursday in November. But in 1939, President Roosevelt set it one week
earlier. He wanted to help business by lengthening the shopping period be-
fore Christmas. Congress finally ruled that after 1941 the fourth Thursday
of November would be observed as Thanksgiving Day and would be a lepal
holiday. 8
There are special ways of celebrating each of our national holidays. Hav-
ing a big dinner with turkey, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie is one v
of celebrating Thanksgiving. Visiting relatives, or going to a football gai
or parade are others. And of course, there are c1-----*■ -
thanks --*
On November 5, the Gen-
eral Assembly adopted a res-
olution calling on Great Bri-
tain to suspend Rhodesia's
Constitution and establish a
new government, using force
if necessary. This resolution
had the suppnrr nf rfe Afrc-
Asian bloc, which now num-
bers 59 nations (or more
states than were in the U. N.
when it was established) and
the votes of the communist
bloc countries. This brought
Rhodesia to the end of her
rope, and now, like any self-
respecting nation would, she
has declared her independ-
ence.
Rhodesia, which occupies
a strategic part of the African
continent north of South Afri-
ca and east of the Congo,
was created by Cecil Rhodes,
the great Britisher who helped
extend civilization through
darkest Africa. The inhabi-
tants of the region were at
the Stone Age level when the
first British settlers arrived.
Over the years, these Rho-
desians have built up a modern
country and given unheard-of
progress and betterment to the
original native population. No
one is denied the vote on ac -
count of race, but there are
definite educational qualifica-
tions. Because the bulk of the
population cannot meet accep-
table levels, the white Rho-
desians understandably and
properly are in a position of
leadership. If the uneducated
and primitive were given the
vote, the result would be dic-
tatorship by those who ruth-
lessly manipulate the native
masses. Rule of Rhodesia by
this kind of regime would be
tice. Residents are notified of
the plan and should feel no
alarm at hearing the siren
at this hour each Tuesday.
E. C. Kimmons, Mayor; Sam
Eernisse. Fire Chief
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bolin and
son. Carl Waverly, spent Sun-
day with relatives in Houston.
Mrs. H. O. Day has been
called to the bedside of her
father, J. L. IvayofGranger
FORTY YEARS AGO
Ed Aker, who has recently
returned to Alvin from Wax-
ahachie. has entered into the
soon followed its example. Virginia was the first
‘’-. - t-t—Ja Thanksgiving Day in 1855.
v’s Ladv'c RtwaI/”
There is no need for any Federal Commis-
sions or Committees to study the effects of that
short of goings-on. The need is for local action,
along the lines taken in the two communities
mentioned in Pennsylvania and Texas. Or, is it
possible that the two Departments in Washing-
ton want to lay the "scientific” groundwork
for making homosexuality legally and socially
acceptable, as has come to pass in certain
European countries?
What Two-Party Syste
We’ve heard so much talk lately about pre-
serving the two-party system that we’ve begun
to wonder if perhaps we missed 3 chapter or
two in that old civics textbook which was used
some years ago Ln the school we attended.
We remember right well that it mentioned
something called a system of checks and bal-
ances in government, a government of limited
powers and separation of governmental powers
between local, state and federal authorities.
But we’re doggoned if we recall any mention of
a two-party system as being a part of the gov-
ernmental design which the founding fathers
laid out for us. Yet. many of our contemporary
political leaders have been warning that, unless
we preserve this two-party system, our form
of government and our freedom are doomed.
Well, now. if the only alternative to a two-
party system were a one-party system, that
would, of course, be very much the case. And
perhaps that Is just what some people are a-
larmed about today, simply because one faction Clearly the voters felt the need of anew 0011“-
of one of the two major political parties I-. pro - iral force. And that need has orown to be a
7 '.ft"'8 Prn'y r'’u8t,shodover anyone who threat to one 01 another of thepresent-daytwo
gets in the way But. weget the feeling that what major parties. It would be reassuring IfXw . - • » > - «
, 'nvi-vPFvminentpolltlflan- who intone .hour the sanctity of the two-party for 30 y^1,5 ’» promote the idea of a national Thanksgiving Dav
WK ve been harping on this theme is thepossl- system voted and acted as a partisan of one of r t- t.t .. 8 .® ''
hie emergence of a third political party strong the parties rather Hunaaa sjSeam" ?oXh
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