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Newport News (Va.) Times-Herald
Here’s something for you figure
filberts to work on, just to sharpen up
your statistical senses.
Detroit tells us that in two years,
there will be something like 125 mil-
lion vehicles on the nation’s roads.
That includes private passenger cars,
taxis, trucks and buses. Let us assume
that these cars are all out on the same
highway, at the same time. One of'the
friendly computer types has reported
that we would be treated to the sight
of a string of cars, bumper to bumper,
223 lanes wide, from New York City
you just can’t win no matter what
angle you try.
Then, more recently, I read
about a fellow who fell in love
with a South Pacific isle while
in the service.-He later realized
his dream by returning there to
live, but eventually drank him-
expreas-
the debate
By PHIL PASTORET
Why do all the sparkling,
brilliant replies occur to a
person 10 minutes after a dis-
cussion is over?
Mrs Alvid
Hazlewood J
man Earl I
this week-eJ
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son and brl
wood, who
Mr. and 1
received wq
Michael tJ
been promol
is serving
199th Aviati
nam
Mrs. Geo
is visiting r
and Sulphun
Among tr
tives here
services of
were Dway
veston; Pan
tin; Mr. an<
Tyler, and
Dallas.
Mmes
Weaver, L
Bridges. Iv;
and Mrs. I
McClimons
Revolt by Rabid McCarthy
Delegates Feared by HHH
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
NEA Washington Correspondent
Mr. and M
daughters, 9
of Newsome
to attend tn
McKinney
Mr. and
visited in
Harold Mai
Alvie Philli
Phillips ovJ
The Rebd
Thursday q
Lodge Hall
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IB drag use in recent-------
Been among our ;
This drug traffic must, ami will
be stopped!
While the Russians and the
Czechs are squabbling over the
amount of personal liberty to
be allowed to Czech citizens, it
is officially reported that the
U. S. is maintaining a “very
low silhouette.'' It is under-
Mr and
Hams and
are visitin;
and Mrs. I
o—o—o
SO THERE ARE two sides to
this desert island situation. You
can find Nirvana if you are
very lucky, or you can blow
your mind If you are not so
lucky.
I am betting the Aults make
it work. After al), they have
been planning this thing for five
years, so they should be pretty
realistic about possible prob-
lems.
If things go well, they will
return to civilization as out-
standing examples of the salu-
brious effects of island life
And if they fail, they prob-
ably won’t be in much worse
shape than if they had stayed
at home all along.
—Clarke Keys.
Mr and
and chiidi
from a thi
in Michigai
His Worn, Good Luck Coat Swti
Wins Votes—or Sympathy
Things Sulphur Springs Needs
e Mere Water From White Oak Crash
e Csurlhouoo Area Medereixoiteu
e CNy BsawHficaHsa
e County Read Program
e Municipal Traffic Advieery Board
e Continued Industrial Devotepmeat
e Mare Parkins FacNNtoo
e Intensified Trade Promotion
e A Mero Prieperouo AfrieuBuro
e A New Armory
e Broader Vocational Education
e Moro Through Streets
e Enthusiastic Cffieene
TO PINO PAULT IS EASf; TO DO BETTER
MAY BE DIFFICULT.—PLUTARCH
By WRIOHT PATMAN
The House has now passed
the Public Works Bill by a sub-
stantially favorable vote of 307
to 85, which authorizes naviga-
tion to Daingerfield and the Pat
Mayse wildlife area in Lamar
County. The bill now goes to
conference between the House
and Senate.
Entrance Fees at Corps of
Engineer’s Reservoirs would
also be phased out by March
of 1970, according to the House
version of the Public Works
Bill. This provision of the bill
to make swimming, boating and
the making of coins. With all
silver removed by the Coinage
Act of 1965, the metal content
of a twenty-five cent piece, for
example, costs just one penny.
LSD Users will face stiff Fed
era! penalties if the Senate fol-
lows the House in approving
legislation to increase fines and
prison sentences for “pushers"
and repeated possessors of hal-
lucinogenic drugs. 1116 bill,
which passed the House by an
overwhelming vote (320-2), at-
tacks the problem of drug abuse
which is recognized as one of
the most serious health hazards
facing the U. S. today, particu-
picnicking facilitius ires to.the iarly since the largest, increase
people passed the House with ■ drug use in recent years has
my strong support and must been amewg Mr youdg people,
now be approved by the Senate
before becoming law.
' The Social Security amend-
ments passed by the Congress
last year make many people
eligible for benefits for the first
time. Although most of these
changes have been discussed in
previous Weekly Letters, since
Social Security officials feel
that many have not applied
who may be eligible, some of
the new provisions are briefly
reviewed in the following three
paragraphs.
Disabled Widows may be en-
titled to benefits at age 50
Formerly, widows of insured
workers could not receive bene-
fits until age 60, but a widow
who became disabled no later
than seven years after her hus-
band's death should apply for
benefits if 50 or older. It is es-
The alarm, the concern for
the safety of presidential can-
didates that followed the as-
sassination of Sen. Robert
Kennedy may have lost its
sense of urgency in the public
eye but not in the campaigns
themselves.
Besides the secret service-
men now assigned to each
candidate, other precautions
are now being taken. News-
men planning a recent flight
with Vice President Hubert
Humphrey were surprised to
receive a new memorandum
well before flight time:
“All baggage traveling on
Executive II will be X-rayed
on each departure. This is a
reminder that X rays will de-
stroy any film or radio tapes
which you may have inside
your luggage.**
Glory has gone up a nickel on
the House side and a dime on
the Senate.
House flags now sell for
92 65 and the ’Senate price is
63.35, the extra 70 cents on
the latter going for more elab-
orate stitching.
Customers are schools, in-
stitutions and organizations
back home that want a flag
that has flown over the
Capitol. Upon request made
through the offices of lawmak-
ers, the flag will be raised ______ ______ _______
oyer the building^before being have removed her appendix.
Another woman who corn?
plained of abdominal pain
was found on closer question-
ing not to have pain at all
but instead, a severe nausea
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HALLELUJAH I THE AULTS
may make it to their island yet.
The Aults are Richard, 30. his
wife Lois, 26, and their four-
year-old daughter, Tracy.
They've been trying for months
to reach an uninhabited island
in the South Seas The trip
represents a dream of five
years.
What they hope to do is “get
away from it all” by spending
a year on the island of Suvarov,
which is 600 miles east of
Samoa.
Nine months ago they sailed
for Suvarov, but had to aban-
don the trip in Hawaii because
they couldn't find a ship that
passed by the island Since
- -tffcn, they have met Capt. Fran-
cisco Foglia, an Italian sea-
farer, who agreed to divert his
ship M miles off course to drop
them at Suvarov.
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THE ISLAND MEASURES
three quarters of a mile by a
mile and a half. It is covered
with cocoanut, banana, mango
represent—and to establish their own
pood faith in the bargain.
So far they have been strangely
unwilling to recognize it.
standable that any degree of
U. S. intervention between
Communist states is a very del-
icate matter, but such diploma-
tic slang is unfair to the mil-
lions of Americans who prefer
to think of their country as
standing proud, straight, and
tall in the community of nations.
Water pollution killed 11.6
million fish during 1967, up 21%
irom the 1966 figure, with 10
states not included in the cens-
us. The reported 33 separate
incidents for a total fish kill of
281,375.
Don't Play "mushroom rou-
lette” this summer — be abso-
lutely sure il is one of, the elible
fungi, otherwise consider it a
toadstool and don’t eat it.
Where Are the Protests?
For a couple of weeks now, the
Soviet Union has been applying the
most naked military power squeeze of
recent years on its small neighbor and
ally, Czechoslovakia.
Russia is demanding that Czech-
oslovakia abandon its newly realized
liberal reforms that recognize some
degree of individual liberty and plunge
itself back into n Stalin type dictator,
►hip.
It is backing up its demands with
Russian troop, units posed in Czecho-
slovakia itself a formidable array of
threats and all sorts of thinly veiled
pressures.
The Soviet stand constitutes diplo-
matic aggression on a brazen scale and
leeks just one fateful step of spanning
the gap into the military variety. Cer-
tainly it ranks as brazen intervention
in the domestic affairs of another
country without the slightest pretext
of justification.
For some strange reason the Rus-
sian power play has been accepted
with conspicuous silen.ee by the highly
vocal claque which attacks the United
States so violently at dvery turn.
No thundering voices are raised
from academic halls or pulpits. Stu-
dents riots aren’t breaking out spon-
taneously in strategic capitals over the
world. Liberal politicians, writers and
chronic bleeding hearts don’t appear
a bit concerned about the plight of
little Czechoslovakia or the destiny of
peace and individual freedom in east-
ern Europe.
Moscow’s clumsy blundering pre-
sents a golden opportunity for all these
champions of. peace, freedom, and: to Miami, Florida! That’s right two
. hundred and twenty-three lanes wide,
'FWft New Ydrk to Mfami?
We’re told it’s difficult to mix com-
pacts and Detroits in computations, in
the same way that it’s hard to figure
apples and oranges, so your slide rule
figures may not agree exactly with our
own printout.
But you get the idea, anyway. If
you plan to drive to Florida, better get
started.
f
shipped off to a home district
customer.
So popular has the trend
become in recent years, how-
ever, that sometimes a Capitol
policeman or two are I..,.,
busy just hoisting the colors.
Special days bring a flood of
requests.
This past Independence
Day, for example, 150 flags
went up for their few mo-
ments in the legislative sun.
At that, it represented a de-
crease from other years.
But the all-time record
seems secure at this point. On
the day marking Hawaii’s ad-
mission to the union, some
5,000 flags were raised and
lowered over the Hill.
toms, including those you may
think are unimportant.
There are a dozen or more
causes for abdominal pain or
discomfort but detail^ such
as when they come on in re-
lation to meals, whether they
are localized in one dime-
spot or are diffused or shifting
from one spot to another,
whether they ever wake you
up out of a sound sleep,
whether they tie you up in
knots, whether they are re-
lieved after a bowel move-
ment and whether they are
associated with other symp-
toms—are important to your
doctor. The more exactly you
can describe them, the more
you can aid him to make a
correct diagnosis.
For some types of abdom-
inal pain it is helpful to keep
a diary of the precise time of
occurrence and everything
you have eaten at mealtimes
and between meals. Remem-
ber, your doctor is not a vet-
erinarian accustomed to deal-
ing.on)^ with inarticulate ani-
“'he more help you can
----:.J
can give you.
Q—You recently stated that
the prescription drug, oxy-
phenbutazone, would be good
for an infected prostate. Has
it any other name?
A—Yes. Tandearil.
Medical textbooks have di-
seases neatly sorted out with
a description of their cause,
symptoms, diagnosis and
treatment. But, tor your doc-
tor, things are usually not that
simple.
A patient may, for example,
come in complaining of ab-
dominal pain and the doctor
has to take it from there. All
pains in the abdomen are not
caused by appendicitis.
A woman I once knew had
> headaches so fre-
quently that she quit thinking-
about her headaches. When
asked what was her chief
complaint she said it was
abdominal pain and she did,
indeed, have a chronic colitis
complete with abdominal
cramps. They were, however,
just a part of her highly
nervous state brought on by
her migraine, which she did
not mention. At the turn of
the century, some well-mean-
ing doctor would certainly
Patman Points Out New
Social Security Changes
"Grandpa always perks up when the commercials came
on—they're the only thing he can HEAR!"
and breaatruit trees, which Ault
said “will supplement our sup-
plies until we can get our own
food growing."
What the Aults are doing is
the sort of thing a lot of us
dream about but never really
try. And anybody who ever has
want to chuck it all and es-
cape can't help but get a vicar-
ious thrill from their plans.
One of the beauties of such
an adventure would be that if
they approached it right, those
involved would get to know each
other as few families ever have.
There would not be the multi-
tudinous distractions that plague
our daily lives.
I once read a story about
Charles Nordhoff and James
Norman Hal), and was capti-
vated by their adventure These
two writers decided they had
endured enough of civilization
and went to Tahiti, where they
continued their writing and
made a leisurely new life for
themselves It all seemed per-
fect.
Mr. and N
Mr. and !
and daughti
were here S
wedding am
Mrs. Martii
By NOEL GROVE
NEA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON—( NEA )—
timated that about 65,000 widows Rep. Frank Tompson, D-N.J.,
were made eligible for disabil- hasn't figured out yet whether
ity benefits at age 50, but only
about 15,000 have applied.
Miner children of deceased
women workers were made
eligible for benefits if total cov-
erage of the mother was suffi-
cient. Formerly, the mother
must have worked 1H years in -
the three years before her
death, but that requirement has
been dropped. It is estimated
that 175,000 children of deceas-
ed women workers were made
eligible by this change, but only
about 25,000 have applied.
Disability benefits for young
workers may be paid with much
less Social Security credit than
formerly. A worker disabled
before age 31 needs coverage
for only half of the years be-
tween age 21 and the time he
becomes disabled, or if he
worked 6 quarters out of the
last 12. Any one having ques-
self to death due to sheer bore-' tions on these provisions, or
dom. wishing to file an application,
should contact the local Social
Security office.
Ths District of Columbia is
attempting to obtain a local
firearms ordinance that would
require both a picture and
fingerprints from the applicant
It is interesting to note that al-
though those in favor of restric-
tive gun controls often compare
guns to automobiles, no state
at present requires fingerprints
for automobile registration _______
This is an indication of the ' American flag. Price of Old
trend to make the possession of
firearms so difficult and oppres-
- sive that, in effect, it would
amount to confiscation.
Ths U. 9. will profit by at least
8200 million this fiscal year
from "seigniorage", the profit
accruing to the government in
You Can’t Win
Time has a way of puncturing the
most firm conclusions along with the
more ordinary run of delusions.
Latest long standing conviction to
feel the sharp prick of the needle is
the fairly common belief that there is
no such thing as too much rain in this
part of the country during July and
August.
It isn’t necessarily so, as current
events are illustrating.
A companion casualty in the ran-
dom class is the feeling that Texas is
the wettest place in the civilized
world just now.
The Wall Street Journal casually
mentioned that the Miami area man-
aged to* pile up 41 inches of the stuff
during May and June. Sulphur Springs
could squeeze out only 12.46 inches in
the same period.
The weather game seems to be one
it elicited two sympathy votes
or cost him a couple in the
last election.
But despite the comment he
overheard in November, 1964,
it's unlikely he’ll change his
clothes habits come election
day again. He'll still be wear-
ing his winning—but some-
what shopworn—good luck
sport coat.
“I’ve followed the same
election day ritual ever since
I was elected to Congress 14
years ago,” he said. “It's be-
come sort of a good luck
charm to wear the same
clothes and visit the same
places.
“The sports jacket I wear
every election day is worn out
on one elbow, but I wear it
anyway because of the good
luck it always brings.”
So on election day in '64 the
congressman was in his old
faithful threads, visiting the
same precincts and stopping
by the same stores to pick up
the same items he always
does on E-day. Just as he was
leaving a store in the wealthy
community of Princeton, two
women passed him, stared
briefly, and he overheard this
conversation:
"Isn’t that Congressman
Thompson?"
“Why, yes, it is.”
“The poor man, he can’t
even afford a decent coat."
2—THE DAILY* NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Wednesday, July 24, 1908.
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I The Gun Control Case
If someone really wants to do you
in, he will, whether or not he can lay
his hands on a gun.
This statement, frequjmtly
ed these days because/m th,
over gun control laws, is plausible
enough. If someone REALLY wants to
do you in, he’ll find a way.
A look at actual homicide statistics,
however, indicates that a, substantial
percentage of homicides result from
attacks that were not made with the
single-minded intent to kill.
Franklin E. Zimring, assistant pro-
fessor of law at the University of Chi-
cago, studied more than 1,400 homi-
cides and 22,000 assaults recorded dur-
ing 1965, 1966 and 1967 by the Chi-
cago Police Department. His findings
show that:
• No less than 78 per cent of all
killings, as classified by the police, re-
sulted from quarrels based on domes-
tic problems, liquor, sex, etc.
• The gun and the knife were inter-
changeable weapons for persons who
resorted to violence to settle personal
arguments.
• Some 70 per cent of all gun homi-
cides resulted from a single wound,
although a "single-minded intent to
kill” should prompt the attacker to in-
sure his result by multiple wounding.
• Knife attacks resulted in more
multiple woundings than gun attacks,
yet there were five times as fnany kill-
ings by gun as by knife.
Zimring thus concludes that the
elimination of guns would reduce the
.^umber of homicides.
Perhaps we can never solve the
problem of interpersonal violence. But
perhaps we can make it a little less
deadly?
WASHINGTON (NEA>
It is supposed to be something of a put-down for Vice Presi
dent Humphrey that President Johnson seems to be stage-
managing the 1968 Democratic national convention as he did
the 1964 affair at Atlantic City.
Actually the vice president ^strategists are far more con-
cerned over a put-down of another sort-how to put down an
incipient rebellion at Chicago by the most militant of Sen
Eugene McCarthy's chosen convention delegates
Humphrey men estimate that upward of 200 of the senator's
committed delegates probably will be in noisy revolt through
out the convention and very likely will walk out under the
glaring eye of gullible television.
As one aide puts it:
“These people are going to look upon Chicago simply as a
place to demonstrate against the war.
The Humphrey camp's fears of a seriously disrupted con-
vention thus are very real, and are not assuaged by triple-
perimeter ticket checks to prevent packing of the hall—or
provisions for a tight security seal to block any storming of
the doors as some hotheads are calling for.
There is obviously no way to bar the doors to legitimately-
chosen McCarthy delegates obsessed with extreme dovish
views on Vietnam and determined to condemn as undemo-
cratic any convention that does not nominate McCarthy.
Humphrey leaders’ think they saw the shape of things to
come in the Minnesota convention a few weeks ago.
A delegate who had been sharply criticized by McCarthyites
in the hall stood up to answer on a point of personal privilege
A cluster of McCarthy delegates, loudly chanting, “We Want
Peace!" from the convention floor, drowned him out for sev-
eral minutes. He gave up.
“It was the first time in my memory,” says a Minnesota
Democrat, “that a delegate was not permitted to speak."
Curiously, not one of the many Humphrey men who voiced
fears of a disrupted convention spoke of racial militants as
a likely focus of trouble inside Chicago’s International Amphi-
theater. The whole stress was on the peace types.
So it is these militants on the delegate rosters, rather than
any gallery shouters or swirling demonstrators outside, who
are believed tb hold the potential for trouble. And there seems
to be little confidence that the permanent convention chair-
man, Rep. Carl Albert of Oklahoma, or anybody else can
contain it altogether.
Humphrey’s managers are careful, however, to distinguish
the no-compromise McCarthyites, whom they consider rela-
tively few in number, from the larger bulk of McCarthy
supporters.
These latter, where they are delegates to Chicago, are
expected to jM-ess hard but reasonably for their candidate’s
nomination and to contend heatedly but fairly for a strong
antiwar plank in the Democratic platform.
But they are also expected to accept the convention verdict
on both these matters and to support the party choices of
man and platform in the fall campaign.
The militants, on the other hand, are considered already
lost to the cause of the front-running vice president and as
virtually sure to launch a fourth party once they have done
their disruptive best at Chicago.
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mals. The more help you can
give him, the better care he
become in recent years, how-
pitoi out insteaa, a severe nausea
kept with its attendant generalized
abdominal discomfort. I men-
tion these two women to il-
lustrate how important it is
to give your doctor an accur-
ate description of your symp-
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