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Tied them up to the attic. “Why
don’t you like to play with them
any more?" inquired Mrs. Le
Gere. The boy explained so-
berly. "They don’t talk back to
me any more.”
• Christmas Day in Heaven
-And Earth Is Beautiful
For New ^v-Gerry9 Show
By BOB CONSIDINE
ON THE LINE . .. “
Provocation Solicited
Try And Stop Me
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. ACROSS THE EDITOR’S DESK . . .
Bucket of Genuine Homemade Syrup Turns Up
By J. CULLEN BROWNING
For the people of Orange County as a
whole, the most Important development of
this year was the appointment by commis-
sioners court of a citizens advisory committee
which is just beginning its work.
The "PACE” group, as this committee has
come to be known, can and, we predict, will
achieve for the county government benefits
as substantial as those achieved for the City
of Orange by its coordinating committee.
And of course, this activity is but one of
a number of major accomplishments of the
Orange County government during this year.
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THE BUSINESS MIRROR . . .
Interesting Questions
Raised by AF Contract
By JOHN CUNNIFF
tion of the new industrial contracts mheans .
that enough additional revenue will be com-
ing into the municipal treasury to allow for
a modest expansion rather than a substantial
reduction in the range of its services
This is of paramount importance to the
community’s citizens, who need and want
improvement in their municipal services but
who already were being taxed to the prudent
limit by the city government.
And, contrary to what some may believe,
industrial cehtracts of the type executed here
enhance rather than detract from the com-
munity climate which has made and kept
this an area of rapidly expanding industrial
activity.
For these and other reasons, a commen-
dation is due the corporate officials who
worked out these agreements with the city
government.
A commendation also is in order for mem-
bers of the city council and the municipal
administration, not only for the achievement
itself but also for the manner in which it
was brought to a successful conclusion.
And a big vote of thanks is owed to mem-
bers of the coordinating committee whose
enlightened and objective approach to the
search for a fair and equitable solution to
problems and prospects of the city govern-
ment laid the groundwork for this big step
forward in community development.
Moment of Meditation
Be plensed, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make
haste to help me. —Psalm 40:13.
Nature so that the hen can see
the rooster coming in a crowd
and can hop Into a taxi or make
a previous engagement if she
wants to. One of the most suc-
cessful roosters I ever saw was
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work every evening?
A. They use Rabbit Transit.
Q. How do you meet expenses
these days?
A. Don't worry. Your wife will
introduce them to you.
Q. What's worse than eating
hash at a restaurant where you
don’t know what's in it?
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DO know.
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The only publicity Howard
Hughes seems to get is the pub-
lication of another book alleged
to be the "real" story of his
life or stories that he has
bought another Las Vegas ho-
tel, plot of ground, or jetport.
Hughes will be remembered
for more substantial deeds. He
is the power behind a remark-
able organization that has made
incredible strides in man's ad-
vance on the moon, the air-to-
air missile, helicopter research
and devices we won't hear about
for months or years to come
After millions of years of ob-
serving the moon, man has ob-
tained more knowledge of it in
the past year or so than all the
ages before. Surveyor, a prod-
uct (often hen-pecked) of the
Hughes Aircraft Co., has a bat-
ting average of .750 on the moon
— three soft landings out of
four attempts.
The Surveyors have achieved
the miracle of (A) finding the
moon, (B) slowing down from
6,000 M.P.H. to three miles an
hour for the landing, (C) send-
ing back thousands of pictures
of its surface, and (D) chewing
at its composition and reporting
on what it is made of.
The Stars Say
FOR TOMORROW
Saturday should prove a highly enjoyable day.
Personal relationships will be highly congenial, so
such interests as group activities, travel and ro-
mance should bring you great happiness.
FOR THE BIRTHDAY
If tomorrow is your birthday, your horoscope in-
dicates that, while you can accomplish a great deal
in the year ahead along monetary lines — espe-
cially in late April, early May, during all of July,
in mid-September, mid-October and November — it
would bp advisable to make no loans and to avoid
extravagance and speculation in late May, the first
week of June and in November. Best periods for job
and-or business interests: Late April; early May.
late November and December.
If you will be careful to avoid friction in close
circles for the balance of this month, in late April,
early June, late August, early September and early
October, you will find that practically all of this new
year in your life will be marked by happy domes-
tic and social developments.
And, as for romance, you will have an exception-
ally good year, with notably propitious periods in
late June, all of July and late September, ereative
workers will have one of their best years in many,
with some outstanding accomplishments forecast for
May, June and September.
Some change in environment, in either your
home or occupation. Is Indicated in early June
and-or during the first three weeks in October, but
the changes should prove beneficial.
A child born on this day will be endowed with
fine imagination and intelligence; would make an
excellent writer or scientist.
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JACKSON, MO., POST & CASH-BOOK: "It’s not
a pretty scene to come upon, shattered glass,
twisted metal, oozing oil and gasoline, moans of
pain and the flowing of a man's life-blood don’t give
you a comfortable feeling. How can drivers be
• made to realize that a bit more caution, a bit more
kindness, a bit more courtesy and a lot more de-
cency would put an end to many of these scenes."
SOMERSET, PA, AMERICAN “Republican
House Leader Gerald Ford has taken issue with
President Johnson relative to LBJ’s request for con-
gressional approval of a new tex hike. Mr. Ford
contends — as do many American taxpayers —
that the federal budget can be cut and, if this is
done, a lax increase will not be necessary."
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Credibility Gaps Are Everywhere
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NEW YORK (AP) - Now
that Burroughs Corp. has won a
$60-million Air Force computer
contract that originally went to
International Business Ma-
chines for $114 million, some in-
teresting questions seek an-
swers.
Specifically:
—Were the Original require-
ments written in such a manner
that only IBM could qualify for
the contract?
—What accounting method did
the Air Force use in calculating
that the original IBM bid, which
not only was the highest but was
nearly double the price of other
bids, represented a price differ-
ence “not of significant magni-
The Orange city government passed an-
other important milestone this week with the
execution of its first "industrial district”
contracts.
These agreements are an outgrowth of a
continuing study of municipal operations and
revenues begun months ago by a citizens co-
ordinating committee appointed by the
council.
Such contracts between city governments
and industrial plants located close to but
outside ofemunicipal boundaries are fairly -
common nowadays.
However, from the information available
—■ to us about agreements of this type, those ex.
cuted here are the most satisfactory for both
parties to be found anywhere.
Essentially, they recognize that any ma-
jor industrial activity located near a central
citytontributes at feast indirectly to the
need and demands for services of the
municipality.
At the same time, they take note of the
fact that the city does not provide a full
range of municipal services to the industries.
This is why the basis for payments to the city
under the contracts is well below its normal
computation for tax assessments
Finally, they protect the Industries from
annexation to the city and payment of mu-
nicipal taxes at the full rate during the life
of the contracts.
In the esse of the City of Orange, execu-
work” (an eminently Republi-
can issue) happen to be Ne-
groes. If Sen. Joe Clark in
Pennsylvania can’t do some-
thing to crack open the build-
ing trades unions for Negroes,
why should they care to save
his political hide?
One of the more popular
games in the Christmas mar-
ket is something called "Cred-
ibility Gap." It isn’t only Lyn-
den Johnson who creates the
atmosphere that makes such
games into best sellers.
It wasn't so long ago that
Vice President Hubert Hum-
phrey was attacking Bobby Ken-
nedy for suggesting that a post-
war governmental "coalition”
with the Viet Cong might bring
peace to Vietnam. This, said
Humphrey, would be equivalent
to letting foxes into a chicken
coop. Now Humphrey is sug-
gesting that some of the Viet
Cong might be safe cooperators.
Who is to believe Hubert Hum-
phrey now?
Even Ev Dirksen shows signs
of shifting on the fox-in-the-
chicken - coop argument. And
that sound you hear is Jan
Masaryk, the Czechoslovak pa-
triot who was betrayed by
“coalition” promises, as he
whirls at jet speed in his for-
gotten grave.
Harry Truman made his big
score in 1948 partly by attack-
ing the “do nothing" Republi-
can Congress which had sad-
dled him from 1946 and partly
because Tom Dewey ran as poor
a race as Dick Nixon did in
1960. LBJ’s attack on the
“wooden soldiers" seems the
work of the same thinkers who
chose this device as HST's horse
and apear.
It’s a better give and take,
I think, than the type of eyeball-
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The inimitable Robert Bench-
ley may have written the very
last word on the subject of
roosters When he pointed out,
“The rooster is an entirely dif-
ferent sort of bird from the hen.
“He has a red crest on the top
of his head — put there by
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AFL-CIO high command would
be more concerned with find-
ing "1 a b o r” candidates who
are on the Lovestone - Meany
side in foreign affairs to run
against Gruening, MeGover,
and company. COPE could, if it
would, be doing something to af-
fect the Republican choice of
senatorial timber.
On the surface all a e e m a
harmonious in the relations be-
tween the AFLCIO and Lyn-
don Johnson But the speech
made at the Bal Harbour, Fla.,
AFL-CIO convention by Roy
Wilkins, the executive director
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People, could prove far more
significant than President John-
son's excoriation of the Republi-
cans.
Wilkins, who is refreshingly
“for real" in an age of phonies,
attacked the AFL-CIO for mov-
ing “far too slow" in removing
racial barriers to union mem-
bership, particularly in
the building .trades.
Despite everything that COPE
may do in its 1968 “political ed-
ucation" campaign, it can
hardly win the Negro vote by
pleading that the Democratic
party is the "labor" party.
In fact, some ot the more im-
portant converts to 'Tight to
to-eyeball, or Adam's apple-to-
adam's apple confrontation
along the lines of the Kennedy
Nixon debates. A man has time
to think and to roll his sen-
fences like John Wayne rolling
a Bull Durham cigaret. There
are laughs, too. And if Ev stays
on the show — and I hope he
will — recipes.
the hard work involved in the activity.
First the cane had to be stripped ot its leaves,
then the stalks had to be cut down and transported
to the syrup mill.
There they were fed into a crasher which had
three ribbed rollers that squeezed the juice out
of the cane. The rollers were turned by gears
attached to a pole to which a horse or mule was
hitehed.
The animal went round and round, the juice
poured forth and was carried in buckets or piped
to the cooking pan
it took an expert to convert the juice into syrup
fit for the table and there usually were not more
than one or two of them in any community.
They went from mill to mill on a pre-arranged
schedule and took their pay in syrup.
tude?"
—Is the electronic computer
Industry, which is as important
to the information revolution as
the steam engine was to the in-
dustrial revolution, really so
lopsided that only IBM was able
to fill the original order?
—Why, of 15 companies which
requested copies of the Air
Force's needs, did only four
companies respond with bids?
This is not to suggest that the
Air Force is guilty of wrong-
doing. It may be that its de-
mands were justifiably high and
that it can defend itself on every
score.
But, if clear answers are
available, the companies, the
country, the Air Force and the
various agencies investigating
the computer Industry should
benefit. These answers are not
that obvious so far.
The computer caper began
July 29, 1965, when the Air
Force released copies of its re-
quirements for a computing sys-
tem to handle personnel and ac-
counting work. Bidders were al-
lowed 130 days to submit plans.
Of the 15 which received
RFPs, or request for proposals,
Honeywell Inc., Radio Corp. of
America, Burroughs and IBM
submitted proposals.
IBM’s oner was lor $114 mil-
lion. The others submitted of-
fers to do the job for many mil-
lions of dollars less, but after
careful deliberation the IBM of-
fer was accepted in April 1967,
"The winning proposal met
the mandatory requirements of
the request for proposal,” the
Air Force explained in a 1,500-
word statement. "The other pro-
posals were nonresponsive to
the mandatory requirements in
some respect.”
Soon after, the Air Force re-
ceived complaint letters from
other potential vendors
Insinuations were made that
in the future the Air Force could
look elsewhere for bidders, that
the losing companies no longer
were interested. It was strongly
suggested that the requirements
fere tailored to IBM abilities.
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NEW YORK (Spl) - I hope
President Johnson puts a rap
once again on the Republican
Party at the earliest oppor-
tunity. The television networks
— tremulous souls, all — will
surely give the GOP "equal
time.” The “equal time” after
the first blast was filled Friday
night by Sen. Everett Dirksen
and Rep. Gerald Ford, stars of •
“Ev and Gerry," a sustaining
show.
Ev, who has the same voice
that John Crosby described in
the case of the late Ted Husing
as that of a contented French
horn, praised the Lord, passed
the ammunition in the direction
of his friend the President, gave
a bisquit recipe, and was in
other ways delightful.
Ford, younger, more serious,
and certainly more tathe point,
said that if it hadn't been for
all the Republicans in the Con-
gress — “wooden soldiers” the
President had called them —
Mr. Johnson would have had a
much tougher time. The Dem-
ocrats gave LBJ more trouble in
vital areas than the GOP, Ford
said.
The others include appointment of a pol-
lution control committee, steps to improve
the status and services of the health unit,
work to organize the Orange County Council
of Governments, and efforts to implement a
countywide system of tax appraisal.
All in all, more groundwork for improve-
ment in services of the county government
has been laid during 1967 than in any pre-
vious year.
For that, on behalf of all our citizens, we
extend thanks to the county judge, the com-
missioners and other members of the county
family.
It was Christmas Day in heav-
en.
God sat upon His eternal
throne far above the fleecy
clouds and watched the pilgrim
souls come into His everlasting
kingdom from the vast fields of
space.
They came from dominiona
within mankind’s ken and do-
miniona beyond that ken. And a
soft clamor rose from them, and
it had the sound of a wind with
many voices.
God looked out at the great
void—star colliding with star, a
comet's tail brushing out an old
world here, creating a new
world there..and pondered His
celestial traffic problem.
He was feeling in a philosophi-
cal mood. He reached down
among the mass of pilgrim
souls plodding toward the gold
door of heaven. He lifted one up
in His mighty hand. It was a hu-
man soul.
"Why, here's one from
earth,” He said, musingly.
“Look at it. So much of fluff
about it—and so little character.
So little of performance
wrapped up in such great pre-
tense.”
God turned and spoke to One
who stood at His right side:
“So many like it crowd up
from that little mudball earth I
sent you down to save, My Son.
And all crying for divine mercy
—the mercy they do so little in
life to win. Shall I extend it to
them?"
And then answered Him the
What's for real these days in
American labor politics?
As everybody knows, Presi-
dent George Meany of the
AFLCIO sticks pretty much to
supporting a hard - line anti-
Communist foreign policy. He
upholds the administration on
Vietnam.
This annoys the Automobile
Workers' Walter Reuther, and
commentators who live on the
other end of Reuther’s telephone
wie are tireless in their de
nunciatioa of Jay Lovestone, the
old anti-Stalinist who is, to quote
the common description of him,
“George Meany's foreign min-
ister."
The people who Worry about
Lovestone’s influence, however,
might as well save their breath,
For when it comes to action,
the AFLCIO flunks the test on
this business of being anti-ap-
peasement in the foreign field
The proof of the pudding lies
in the activities of COPE, the
“political education" arm of the
AFLCIO. COPE goes ahead as
U Jay Lovestone had never
lived. It has announced that it
will concentrate its money and
Influence in 1963 in 12 key states,
working mostly for Democratic
candidates who are on the dove
aide of the Vietnam argument.
COPE plans bull's-eye cam-
paigns for seven senators who
are on the “critical list”; they
are Ernest Greening of Alaska,
George S. McGovern of South
Dakota, Joseph Clark of Pennsy-
lvania, Gaylord Nelson of Wis-
consin, Birch Bayh of Indiana,
Daniel Brewster of Maryland,
and Mike Monroney of Okla-
homa.
Gruening, McGovern, Clark
and Nelson, if reelected, can
almost certainly be counted on
to sabotage anything that Jay
Lovestone stands for in the con-
duct of our foreign affairs, and
the others won't do much to
stand in their way.
So why do Walter Reuther and
the more frenzied members of
Americans for Democratic Ac-
tion worry about Lovestone's
"Srengali" Influence on George
Meany? In action, the AFL
CIO, through COPE, cancels
Lovestone right out.
The COPE excuse, of course,
is that "labor's” first concern
is to elect “labor" senators re-
gardless of where they stand on
foreign policy. But if there were
any sincerity in politics (and I
realize that I am being a ninny
to raise such a question), the
voice that- most men have most
yearned to hear:
“Yes, Father, forgive them."
"But why, My Son? There are
those more deserving."
“Because I promised it to
them in Your name.”
“But I have sent You to many
universes beyond this earth-
larger, more important realms
of matter,” said God. “Why
does Your love always return to
these lost prisoners of earth?
Were they so kind to You?”
“Many did not recognize me.
Father, but I told them that if
they did they would be forever
free."
"But they stretched You upon
a cross of wood and drove a
spear into Your side, My Son.
And You want to reward
them?”
"Forgive them, Father. They
knew not what they did."
The Lord shook His great
head, and said:
“My Son, You think too much
about that single mudball in the .
clouds. Your duty is not one sat-
ellite or a single star. Your obli-
gation is the sky."
And Jesus replied:
"But today it is My birthday
on earth, Father, and the earth
is as beautiful as the morning.”
He held out His hand in mute
appeal. And God put the small
frightened human soul within
that hand. And His Son set down
that human soul with infinite
tenderness, safe in the golden
sanctuary He had promised long
ago.
And the bells of heaven rang
in gladness, just as they did
on earth, wherever men
remembered.
Herbert Strucel dropped into the Lonesome Pole-
cat Den one day this week with a brown paper
bag containing a Christmas gift which is as wel-
come as sny of the number of presents that have
been sent or brought to me in gay y u l e 11 d e
wrappings.
Inside the bsg was a half gallon of genuine Deep
East Texaa homemade ribbon cane syrup. The kind
I mentioned recently as being absolutely larrupin'
with hot biscuits, country butter and side meat.
Herb explained that he found the syrup at a store
in a rural area while on a trip with his wife,
Clydie. While st it, he added, they bought a bucket
for themselves.
I could barely wait until Herb had left before
sampling my prize. And that’s a procedure which
we have long used here in Deep East Texas when
buying a bucket of syrup, whether from the maker
or from a store.
It involves removing the lid. folding a piece
of kraft paper, dipping li into the syrup and by
that meant transferring a sample to one’s mouth.
If the syrup is not thick enough for a healthy slug
of it to cling to the paper, it hasn't been made
properly. And of course, it has to taste just right.
The bucket of It that Harb brought to me met
these tests in completely satisfactory fashion.
Mama almost spoiled things for me when I car-
ried the syrup home by saying, “Goody! I'll go
over to the supermarket, get a can of biscuits, and
we'll have some of it for supper."
I balked at that, Homemade biscuits, kneaded
with her own two little hands, or no go, I told her.
And, maybe because she wasn’t sure I had already
bought her Christmas present, she went along.
Some of the readers may wonder why I use the
term "ribbon cane syrup" when referring to that
delicacy since there actually is very little of
that type of cane grown any longer.
U just proves that you can take a boy out
of the country but you can’t take the country out
of a boy. Back when I was a lad practically all
of the cane grown for syrup making was ribbon
cane.
It s different from what is commonly referred
to as sugar cane because it is green and purple
striped instead of being ellogether purple
Somewhere along the line it became widely
known that improved varieties of sugar cane pro-
dyced a higher yield of syrup per stalk than the
old-fashioned ribbon cane and the latter began to
pass out of existence.
But to us Deep East Texas country boys it’s
still ribbon cane syrup no matter what variety of
the plant It's made from.
And syrup making time down on the farm was
one of the more pleasant times of the year despite
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