Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 124, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 1955 Page: 2 of 8
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'-BRECKEXRIDCE AMERICAN—THURSDAY. Jl'NE 2a, S5
Malta's Request For Closer Link
To Great Britain May Set Pattern
liv t'HAKI.fcS VI. Mci ANS
I ihImI Prnw. tummi Aanalyst
1littl«? .'■irditrrranran ixluml
Malta. which nuuU- itself a
rifciol uf liyiou rvsintaacv in
a.,i IJ War If, lias -t ortnl ; nt>«
|> nti«-ai trrnd.
< <tli *r colonial territories all
th* wurW art* rlamoiiiiK for
ill t** (M' I H it* lit' t*.
•• -<lfci. however, .it-niariiix that
••• linkxl more closely t«- (ireat
I tain, politirully ami eeonomi-
v, ati<I that it h.. given direct
I'-fWutmn in tin liritish par-
t-lit. .
it <|iie«ti<>iiahU- whether the
, ie«.-ntatl«iii in parliament oiuld
' HI I'lleil
M*> Start I'attern
' ' authoritative souic-h are
>|uote i as saying that negotiations
now in progr. ss in Ixindon may
set a pattern for the tuture kuv-
eminent of British common-
wealth islaials all over the world.
Bermuda, (jibialt.i, Mauritius
in th«- Indian (fc-ean, Hons Kong,
and Fiji in the South Pacific are
mentioned a* among those which
til I if ht he affected.
The London n« xotiutions are lie-
in* conducted hv Alan Lennos
Boyd, the British colonial secre-
tary, and T>oin Mmtoff, the new
prime minister of Malta.
Mmtoff. a :!:• year-old architect
wh'i is the leader of the Malta
labor part>. is sometimes refeired
to as the moat revolutionary of
the island's leaders.
It is a strange sort of reVolu-
glamoik shkkk nylons that cling to the
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Oon. hovwvei. tnat Mmtott wants.
He asks that Malta b.- given a
statu* something like that of
N« rthern Ireland and that ita
economy he merged fully with that
of Britain. ,
The hiu reason h -hind Malta s
desire for change is that its econ-
omy is now linked too intimately
I with the requirement* of the Brit-
ish uavy, air fore* and army, anil
| of the southern command of the
North Atlantic Treaty Oigaiuza-
tion.
The island is dependent upon
the fluctuating demand of the
fighting services for labor and
some i ihsis. It wants to get the
benefits ..f Britain's liberal social
i welfare services
dislike 1'urrenl Status
, There is also the fact that Mal-
tese people are sensitive over
their "colonial" status Malta is
a crown colony Hut its people do
not like to think of themselves as
on a par with colonies, say, in Af-
' rica The> are highly civilized
, people. They were civilized, in fact,
about l.an" years before Britons
weri—their history goes back to
the I'hoetiician* who peopled it in
remote pre-Christian day*.
The island is tiny—only 17'a
mile- long and !♦ miles wide. It
has two even tinier satellite
islets. But it had a populutoion
of about M17.*mmi atul it is one of
the important ports of call in the
world.
| In World War II Malta stood
up unflinching for three years
against merciless Italian and (let-
man aerial bombing. It was I.IMMI
miles from the nearest British
positions, for a while, and could
be supplied only by submarine.
In April, 1! 42. King George VI
decorated the island as a whole
with the George Cross, the high- •
est British civil award, for "hero-
ism and devotiton thu' will long
be famous in history." In 1 47,
in further recognition of Malta's
gallantry, it was given a greatei
measure of self-government.
Ten Wanted Men
Opens At Corral
One of the most spectacular,
and little-known, pages of frontier
history provides the major theme
of Columbia Pictures' "Ten Want-
ed Men," Scott-Brown production
stairing Kandolph Scott is to open
Thursday ni?ht at the Corral
Drive-In Theatre in color by Tech-
nicolor. The film reveals how
renegade* from all over the West
congregate on a small, growing
Mex ican-American community in
Arizona and finally erupt in a pun
and dynamite blasting effort to
turn the town into a sanctuary for
outlaws.
That there were such sanctu-
aries for the lawless is a fact;
equally historic is the manner in
which law and order finally was
restored to communities seized by
killers, or was brought to those
communities for the first time. It
took men capable of drawing a
I gun faster than the gunmen they
opposed, capable of out-ridintt
them and out-fighting them.
Such a man is Kandolph Scott
1 in "Ten Wanted Men." In the
i film, which features Joeelyn Bran-
do and Kichard Boone with Skip
"Davy Crockett11
Star's Fame
Zooms Upward
Did mother television has >et to
foster a new male dramatic eta;'.
H-'WvVer, there may be one in tlie
cradU .
His name is Kess Hirker, a.id
he's pretty big for a baby. H •
stands six-feet-fitre, weighs a solid
iiln, and according to Walt Disney,
who discovered him, Kess is just as
Ho iieier, l)onnn Mai tell and Al-
fonso Hedoya, Scott plays u cattle
man vho has carved an empire out
of the West and who now is set-
tling down to enjoy the peace and
prosperity for which he fought He
brint s to the small communitj near
which he lives his lawyer-brother,
who will help establish la* and
order for the first time. Simiiltan-
e< uslv, the community's hotel keep-
er calls iii killers from all over the
range to help him destroy all Scott
has '.vorked for.
This, essentially, is the plot of
the film. Hut history is in the ac-
tions of th,. gun-rider* when they
have achieved what they think is
the successful performance of
their jobs. They decide they have
no use for their own employer,
and they do have a use for the
town. They go beserk. They burn,
assault, loot. They establish a
reign of terror, in preparation for
the day when the town will be a
community of the lawless.
Scott stops them, of course.
La a- ami order, peace atul pros-
perity, even a couple of weeding*,
all follow the fighting.
tuitik endowed with taWtiL
"He'* the only adult I've eeer
put under long term contract,"
ays Disney, "and the fir* actor
I've introduced on television."
Parker made hi* TV bow on
"Disneyland" in the title role of
"Davy Crockett," a lustv frontier
saga based on the life of the Ten-
nessee bear-killer. Indian fighter
and congressman who became an
Alamo hero.
Kess is the son and only child of
Kess and Muckic < Allen) Parker.
He was born in Fort Worth, grew
up in San Angelo, and calls four
or five towns in west Texas home."
He attended Steven F. Austin
Crammer School and San Angelo
High School. He hold* a Bachelor
of Arts degree from the University
of Texas, and has attended gradu-
ate school at the University cf
Southern California. He is working
on a Master's Degree in drama.
Campus airs, however, have
blown clear over Fes*. Possessing
an easy, ouen-faced sincerity and
lankvt outdoor look, he suggest*
anything but bookishness. He be-
longs, and with a great deal of
pride, to the aw-shucks school of
acting—an estimable institution, he
points out, numbering among its
alumni Gary Cooper, John Wayne,
James Stewart and Henry Fonda.
There is always a lot of discus-
sion about Fes*' name. Some like
it. some don't—but at least it
starts conversation.
"Kess is nit name, and my
father's name before nie," he de-
clares. "It means proud in old Eng-
lish. That's me. Been called Fess
all my life and don't aim to change
now!"
Hut Kess has another name now.
He's "Duvv Crockett. King of the
Wild Frontier," and millions of
WMcms la V
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"• the latest tabulation In the Votes, while Williams Wua
poll, which closed July I. Zernial / named on -1.1,5ft-.
CHICAGO Kit)—Gus Zernial of
the Kansas City Athletics Thurs-
day ousted Ted Williams of the
Boston Red Sox from the top spot
in the balloting for the American
League left field position in the
annual all-star pol
Zernial regained
the lead by
movie-gner* will ace him in this
Walt Disney production of tbe life
of the great American hero. The
film is in color by Technicolor and
is a wide-screen presentation dis-
tributed by Buena Vista. It is
adapted from the original "Disney-
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Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 124, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 1955, newspaper, June 23, 1955; Breckenridge, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth135085/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Breckenridge Public Library.