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A new college semester is about to begin. and
everything will be in a state of chaos as usual for
the first few days. A college registration is high
on the list of the most confusing affairs known to
man.
To begin with, there are thousands of students
who have to get signed up in two or three days.
A great line forms outside the registration build-
ing; new sad old students walk up and down the
Hine seeking their proper places it is done in al-
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The ORANGE Leader
MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1961
EDITORIAL PACE
compresses.
A more serious reaction isofan allergic na-
tore. Then, la addition to the eftects of the
venom at the rite of the sting, the victim may
become seriously ill with a rapid pulse rate,
difficulty in breathing, a persistent asthmatic
type of cough, and stuffines of the none. Such
An nttack L.ny further lead to fainting, comvul-
done and even death.
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Department of Agriculture’s Aug. 1 crop sum-
mary shows com 14 per cent less than iseo but
11 per cent above average, wheat 11 per cent
less than 1960 but 10 per coat above average,
oats 23 per cent below average, hay 1 per cent
below average, sorghum grain 52 per cent above
average and an all-time record crop of soybeans
22 per cent above 1M.
Department o* Agriculture reports conditions in
hardest hit North Dakota are not too bad in the
eastern third of the state. They're worst in the
western third and spotty in the center.
Allowing farmers to cut hay on soil bank re-
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Lions clubs of West Orange, for your
Bridge City and Deweyville joined distance
us in presenting the good, clean tunate.
entertainment always found at our
carnival. It is a pleasure for all
Lions to work together to enter-
“‘Aren’t You Going to Compliment the Chef?’
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To the citizens of Orange County:
On behalf of che Orange Lions
Club I wish to thank all of our voiced concerning competition ef-
friends for the magnificent support fered by another carnival during
given our most recent carnival. a porton of the time we were op-
Excellent attendance when erating. I can sincerely state that
weather permitted will enable the we feel this was not intentional
club to continue its normal wel- and in no way adversely affected
fare activities without curtailment the over-all results of our carni-
and allowed us to close the carni- val. We will never suffer from
members which have net helped. N.A.S.C-D. is
recognized as a lobby working for greater fed-
eral aid for developmeot of water resources.
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Across the space of 13 years, a general and
an admit al spoke largely to the same point —
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the
whole duty of man. EccL 12:13.
Hectic Days To Begin
You Can't Negotiate \Mith Government
“We are opposed to the government Minnesota.
sponsorship of the Hanford Atomic Energy Various other officers of the IBEW
Plant conversion to electrical generation have, on many occasions, staunchly
and to the Colorado Transmission Line opposed socialized electric power projects
Project under federal fund* which would and movements. Their reason is both
be in competition with privately owned practical and significant. Hard experi-
utilities.” ence has shown them that they can get far
That telegram was sent to the Con- better contracts from private enterprise
gressmen and Senators representing the than from a government agency. That
state of Minnesota. And if you think it goes for wages, fringe benefits, working
came from a private utility company, or conditions, and the rest.
some other business organization or group, This fact should surprise no one. You
you’re wrong. The sender was W. H. can’t neotiate on a free and equal basis
Foard. business manager of Local Union with government. It always has the final
949 of the International Brotherhood of say—and that’s the way dictatorships are
Electrical Workers, with headquarters in created.
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more money for some project or other, less from the gas taxes than they planned,
h°There‘t anseasy and bvious answer- which will throw highway budgets far
impose new taxes or increase existing ^Hs^rn out b^figuS that Am-ecans must taceup to the heavy burdens
However, that answer is not always released by the Federal Bureau of Public BnGemohal Day, 1340 Gen orrars Bradley,
a true one. For the law of diminishing Foads then Arny Chief of Staff, rose on a village green
returns can apply to taxation as well as in sum, motorists are rebelling at a at Longmeadow, Mass., to pay homage to a sol-
to other matters. tax of a necessity which is far larger than dier, a Medal of Honor winner. killed near the
Doctors Launch Political Project
The medical profession has launched members of their families.
a new project. It is the development of Thu project is definitely in tune with
a political action committee for physicians an important need of these times. Business
to aid them in organizing for more effec- and professional leaders have for several
tive participation in political and govern- years urged citizens to take a far greater
men affairs. active interest in political affairs, particu-
The new committee, known as the larly at the grass-roots level. One big
American Political Action Committee, will reason for this is to establish a balance,
be headed by a former president of the or counter force, against the well organ-
American Medical Association. Its primary ized and effective efforts of such organ-
job will be of an educational nature—the izations as the AFL-CIO’s Political Action
assistance and encouragement of physi- Committee.
cians at the state and local levels in if business and professional people
developing year-round political action don’t work, and work hard, on behalf of
programs. Membership will be open to all what they believe in, they’ll have only
doctors of medicine licensed to practice themselves to blame if the other side
in this country, their spouses and adult wins the political battles.
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Take, as a prime example, the gaso- the taxes on even extreme luxuries. Their close of the war in Europe. The general’s words
line tax—state and federal combined now rebellion takes the practical form of re- deserve full flow:
average some 10 cents a gallon, or about duced gas consumption. They drive less, "We have suffered enough in two world wars
half the retail price of gas before taxes, or they buy more and more of the com- to. know that nonzinvolyement in peace means cer-
This excessive tax, an executive of a pact economy cars, or they do both. » tainiinvo-vement in war..
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2m “If we (now) cringe from the necessity of meet-
mag * The Oblique View * Ing issues boldly with principle, resolution and
m 2______________________________________ strength, then we shall simply hurdle along from
macrisis to crisis, improvising with expedients, seek-
mE M ing inoffensive solutions, drugging the nation with
E Hectic Days To Begin "The American people must put their faith In
mBeR " - stable long-range policies —political, economic
•e R. RTI t FASTFD and military — programs that will not be heated
me” By DILL r--Ek and with the brightening and waning of
- tension,
just drop their cards on a table and beg to be "The United States has matured to world lead-
shown the way out of the madhouse. ership. It is time we steered by the stars, not by
There is a nurse in the line who demands to be ---------------------------------------------------
shown a shot record. She can tell at a glance a
counterfeit card from a legitimate one; and the
hapless student who has neither gets his shots
right there on the spot. It is said that she gives
a counterfeit card holder a couple of shots extra.
As the registration is ebout to start, the students
From Northwest Come Facts
There is usually a delay of two or three deys By PETER EDSON -
after the registration before classes actually start. WASHINGTON (NEA>—The next few weeks will
It is supposed to be for the administration to tell whether the northwest United States gets by
val on schedule. good. clean competition, but will
As many of you know, the pro- accept the challenge and perform
ceeds are used to support a group as a well organized Lions club
of deaf mute children from the would be expected to do.
county at a specialized school in We realize that to operate a full -
Austin. Other expenditures include scale . carnival with music,
eye examinations and the furnish- barkers and crowds that are to be
ing of glasses for those who are found, there is a considerable
in need, support of the Crippled amount of noise and confusion
Childrens Camp at Kerrville, and To the good neighbors in the vi-
wheel chairs for the crippled. cmity of the carnival ground*, we
Also. proceeds allow for furnish- extend our appreciation for their
ing of baskets of food for the indulgence and hope we were not
needy at Christmas time and sup- a great inconvenience.
port of children's seasons! ath- Having thousands of dollars
letic activities. worth of equipment is of no value
You continued support of the without a good location for operat-
Lions Club Carnival will again as- ing. Their permission to allow us
sist in helping those who are not to operate at their front door also
quite so fortunate as are many of goes toward the success w: en-
us. joyed.
This year, for the first time, the We can never thank you enough |
dentials at the door before being permitted inside
the building. Records of past grades for the old
students, high school transcrips for the new. Health
records, shot records, permit to register, a packet straignten everything out But it is realty a respite without a major drought, according to Department
of IBM cards — with different colored tops that Eor., every/body . The profs, once again becoming of Agriculture reports compiled here. Normal Sep-
ell mean something — and library cleanance cards smiling men and women who have chosen this pro- . . . „ .,
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les that he wound up as a Home Economics maior Then, after the initial few thousand changes in A number of scare stories have come out of
with drees design a* Ma specialization. It was rum- classes, the semester settles down and begins to the area reaching roughly from western Minnesota
•red that he did quiet well in the field pass smoothly. Students go to classes and take to the Rockies. Reports that half the Canadian
A professor once became tired of trying to ex tests. Holidays come and go. Toward the end of grain crop has been lost because of drought have
plain to freshmen boys that they couldn't take the the semester everybody starts getting that haunted not helped. The disaster really centered there and
supervised rest course at the same time the females expression that has to be blamed on final exams, edged °^T into the United States,
took it. He departed in the middle of a bus, day. But the real truth is that everybody is dreading the National Association of Soil Conservation
and a card came later from a religious order of rckt>tr*tion that is looming in the near future. Districts has put out a couple of letters to its
mnonkstiensiberia saying be had become a perm- ~
hood"? student became so ratiled that he lost his * THE DOCTOR ANSWERS ★
headiin the line at every registration. He would -----------------------------------------------------------i-------------------■ 20
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tfontoMsdegree.lt took Mm seven years to finish ADS*' 11 .c,. 9822535
Girls often turned up la classes for boys and ABC S Of InSCCt StingS E E 92a
Hice who once went the first . > 1M2T283
hisc"ursebyhmsthavingas"gstudentewandnr,rnto By DR. HAROLD THOMAS HYMAN, M.D. 126 *
the other..profs. He was forever after a respected Stinging insects cause more disability and a
man.in the hizher education circles. larger total number of deaths in the United States
mnOnce. the college president wondered into the than do venomous snakes. On this account, a re-
ane and Was signed up for freshman English be cent study made in New Jersey's rural Hunter-
tore he oou1d explain who he was, don County merits the attention of every con-
A tew students call it quite right there. They an. scientious parent whose children are apt to be Hunterdon group that may help you prevent these
“meJ™1 I setting. Started can be so confus- stung while at play. accidents to your children:
tag, they want so part of higher education. So they Now there ere at least two prinicpal reactions Swatting the flying Insect increases the chances
to the stings of flying insects. The simpler is of being attacked. The child should be Instructed
merely the result of the injection of the venom to stand still when the insect puts in its appear-
that causes pain, swelling and redness of varying ance.
intensity.Always, too, this reaction is accompanied Black, brown and red worsted and flannel
by a certain amount of fright and shock to the clothing seem to attract stinging bees. Apparently
youngster Usually the situation can be controlled white, blue and yellow apparel afford some pro-
by renssurance and the application of ice or cold tection.
Odors, each as body sweat and perfume, at
traet yellow jackets, paper wasps, hornets, bum-
blebees aad honeybees. Seemingly, freshly laun-
derod clothe, are not to their liking serve land and truck it west has supplied
The barb of the honeybee enters the skin and gency feed for stock
shouid beznscrapeduof withgarsharpuoiect. Grasp No forage deficiency is reported otherwise ex-
ing inwith fingernails or forceps will not cause cept where pastures depend on irrigation. Small
_ .moa . .... . _ .. grains in ports of the Dakotas headed out on 10-
- suthclent - anegzetponrentsranapnetdor^V'Z'coro combtas Y^TrTbeZ
of 4osissmafasumgre M aierge **" 486ve avnig ir i
thousands of farmers in the Northern Greet all, he isn’t my husband.” ---— 1 ■ » „
Plains," begins one of its letters. "There’s talk, does Theaksaxeraaearedudna-eventuapiy
in the third year of drought there, that things are and one more hole in his head of golf clubs,
a rus :
out Many farmers end ranchers are at the end find they can be grouped into sev- "on 01 T°" D"atters
of their credit. Business in these areas is af- efhe kind tort close their There are s lot of fishy
fected.” umbrellas until after they board a sounding excuses for staying away l.
Another N.A.S.C.D, letter sums up with, "Mon- crowded bus from the office these days
tans. North and South Dakota and parts of Min- The kind that sit next to youi on -----
niSta are exneriencine one of the most severe the bus and rest the tip of their This is the season when most
nesota aresexperiencing one or we most severe wet umbrela on your fot so that foiks enjoy going out fiiShing. Ir,
droughts since 1935 end ISM. the water drips off and filis your catching.
It is admitted there ere elements of truth in
this, in spots. One reason it can be said this is
the moat severe drought since the great Du*
Bowl and Okie migration days of the depression
ridden 1930s is that the United States has had an
_ unusually good run of weather in the la* 25 years.
By DR. HAROLD THOMAS HYMAN, MD. 25 6 There was a email drought in 1943 and another
“ in 1952, but nothing serious.
accounted for almost two-thirds, paper wasps for This year there is only average or below av-
a third and honeybees, hornets and bumblebees erage rainfall and streamflow in all but a few
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THE ORANGE LEADER
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In midsummer of 1M1, with the dilemma of
Berlin hanging over this country and the world,
Adm. Arieigh Burke, newly freed of his long respon-
sibility as Chief of Naval Operations, spoke in like som. nmbiome in nic. . m. iue - . I
' °P • some problems in life a man just The kind that insists on opening
vein. ...k a , „ v can" do much about. He simply their umbrella again before get ‘
Deliveting his maiden civilian speech in Wash- mu* put up with them, ting off the bus, thus giving evry-
ington, a long address covering many aspects of High on the list is how to cope body within a IS-foot range e free
the world struggle, the admiral found a place for with women carrying umbrellas cold shower.
these wtrds of challenge to the people: 00 rainy days. The kind of woman who, If she
"The pleasures of en easy summer and the A pretty woman peering around Tails to:gore a Passin& man. hur:
comforts of a thriving economy can well obscure the rim of e summer parasol in e ries. aroundothe,block somshe cap
mhe-riousnesermime rose garden is one of the loveliest have e second try at him.
°, r times • , sight on earth. One of the odd things about
We live in a free world, but we are confronted Hana 2. 0.1 . .mE. women who carry umbrellas on
by a world of coercion, a world where men are shot 0 , ame 81.4 shumber rainy days is their feminine chiv-
disciplined by force, by terror and intimidation, however, and she becomes a ram' alrx. It, is nobisss ohlise.with
"Th-ra is only one effective response to this pane traffic menace to male life, themh.nevermto wing children or
challenge. We must provide our own form of limb and property down any pointer "oman: only men &et the
discipline, the discipline thet springs from within: street she. ambles._______ Twenty women with their um-
seif -disc, pine This is the only discipline possible nrouscan.char. her.prosress.by brellas wide open could crowd into
in a democracy ... , the striken priedsnf menp9 • telephone booth and emerge un-
"We must recognize that the very heart of any ' Please ma'am.*may I have scathedaandnunscratched,r, man
nation is its principles. Our principles must be the my eyeball beck?" wari0 Sowonnsltenemann
driving force behind our actions and the standard To each of them the lady sternly eight out of ten women with um
egainst wnich those actions are measured." . rePlesi .... 0.. „ brellas will manage to jab him in
No realistic leader predicts anything for us but umWella "hans "rdoing.con.. my the face, neck, ears or ribseven
continuing challenge in the decades ahead. Let us And she pathsesir nspct her ifheggeisadownonhishands.and
hope the: in those years there will be other umbrella to be sure it is undam- snees. end.t 5 qdesperately to
Burkes and Bradieys to call us sharply to the aged.Thatssan odd thing about I is his doom ii his destiny,
test. 1 women on rainy days when they It‛s life
—--- bump into a man and impale him IAr, 1. Anjy n, w.v fnr ■
-uu on their umbrella, they utomati- reThereotssonly onmw aaforin2
m cally assume he is a masher try- Uehowetas ^roinv omen carrying
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Eae with.themthe hard way... u the doorbell if you do, you’re
825 wTney don‛t,wrry about.his bound to find .strangewoman
.EnR2e wounds. They feel he got what he standing there holding . wet um-
Eeaaa deserves All they fret about is brella
• whether the umbrella is all right. "Excuse me," she'll say, "I i
Ei No womansat least none I have guess this is the wrong apart-
Eawa ever seen—ever feels it necessary ment. ■■
EaI to apologiz for stabbing a hole AS she turns to go, her umbrella i
-- in A man * forenead with her um- will bang against you, and you'll
brella uHer reasoning: reel tack blindly with a brand •
1. What if 11 wasion the wrong new hole in your forehead,
side of the sidewalk? He should You can’t win
have seen me coming.” ------------... - I
2. "What do I care if he doesn't -
EDITORIAL BY BIOSSAT
1»-, _ © 1961
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