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PR AYER: O Father, we thank Thee for Christ, who frees
si from sin and brings rest to our hearts. Help,® daily
to Eve t close to Him that others may be able to see
this peace demonstrated in our lives. We ask in the name
-come to me. cu you toiling and burdened ones, and I will give you rent.
(Matthew 11:28. Weymouth)
Lowly Peanut Has
Come Into Its Own
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS 6-B
Abilene, Texas, Tuesday Morning, September I, INCA_________
T
RUSSIA IS MATCHING O’S
AMERIKy IN SCIENCE
IN MILITARY, IN INDUSTRY 3
IN AVVERVTHING!
Another Lineup? *
United Nations Doesn't
Seem West's Best Hope
The once lowly peanut was hoisted of the nut and, therefore, the market-
one pedestal where it now belongs ing center for the crop. It was quite
UP Eastland last Saturday. A parade, fitting that Eastland decidedto drama-
m and a football event named tize its interest in the important agri
Peanut Bow in is nonor paid tribute cultural product. The timing was right
to the crop which has become so im-too. Peanuts are just beginning
portant in the economy of West Cen- move. Cisco reported its first load of
the 1960 crop last week.
timer was decades past, when the This first crop brought to the East,
poober was not so honored and the land County town represented 17.000
Sue -peanut land" was not a com- pounds harvested from 24 acres for a
term been one But you don’t look yield of 23.5 bushels per acre. The
down on something as provable as peanuts brought S167 Fer tonaeinaird,
the Brazilian herb of the pea family ing a $2 bonus) and that adds up
(as the dictionary defines it) has come money. —ring
The peanut farmers are taking
1orne stimulus of wartime conditions serious steps to improve their product
during World Wars 1 and II boomed and their marketing They have a
production of peanuts and since newly formed organization. South-
the Prost recent conflict the demand western Peanut Research Foundation,
the mestrnas continued. Each member farmer puts in a few
The Eastland - Comanche - Erath cents per ton of peanuts harvested to
area is the state’s leader in production finance the study program. Such .
484r search into new and better uses oi
their product is essential if they are
going to keep their place or improve
it in the competitive markets.
By CONSTANTINE BROWN
The meeting of the Fifteenth
Session of the United Nations Gen-
eral Assembly in New York has
focused the attention of the Amer-
ican people on that gathering and
has taken precedence over even
the electoral battle between our
two political parties. This is nat-
ural. since for the first time in his-
tory we have in our midst, on
American soil, the bitterest ene-
mies of this country who have
vowed our destruction
Other Viewpoints
rapidly throughout thei world for
the protection of their national
interests.
The most powerful, organized
soon after the war, is that at in-
ternational Communism. It ex-
tends from the doors of the Iron
Curtain in Eastern Europe to the
shores of the Pacific and em-
braces one billion people, it is a
ruthless dictatorship. The stran-
glehold of the dictators over the
enslaved people could not be
shaken except by violent means,
as has been the case with all
tyrants throughout the history of
the world
The chief protagonists, Messrs.
Khrushchev and Castro, have
heaped insults of the grossest in recent months a new con-
kind on America and its leaders, stellation appears to be on the
with particular emphasis on the way in the international skies: the
President himself. The govern- consolidation of Western Europe
ment must not only tolerate them into a confederation in which the
but also give them the necessary participating nations would not
protection to prevent incidents lose their nationality or sovereign,
which might have grave interna- ty but would be knit closely to-
tional repercussions. gether in the fields of politics.
The presence here of these defense, economics and culture,
avowed enemies of our nation is Its foundations were laid a few
the price we must pay for the years ago when the Common
wishful thinking of our leaders. Market consisting of France. Ger-
who decided 15 years ago that and Luxembourg came into being. -
henceforth the world would be- It has been in the last two
come a big happy family and in- years, because of the inflexible
stated that New York become the will and determination of France’s
seat of the Untied Nations and President de Gaulle that this
hence the capital of the “peace- purely economic organization is
loving world.” For in keeping being urged to enter a confedera.
with the illusion which prevailed tion with an intergovernmental
in 1945, * was specifically pro- body to regulate the actions of all
vided in the Charter that only its members. The national sov.
“peace-loving” nations could ob- ereignties of all members would
_-------.. ■ tain membership in the organiza-remain intact and the intergov-
Two On A Match tion which would become the ernmental body of the “Europe
. IWO cure-all for the world’s ills. of Nations" would be subordinate
-----------—”------------The vast majority of American to the individual governments. The
political leaders, from President idea appears to be appealing to
A , Eisenhower down, still embrace the European people, although
A that illusion, which may ev entu- there st ill is some reticence on the
prove unrealistic and cost- part of Italy and Holland, who fear
a I , ly. Our arch-enemy, Russia’s dic-that this may mean the allena-
A A L L.. . . /ec v r + t ator Khrushchev. has ma neuver- tion of America and its assist.
Mr. Khrushchev s washpor s=muon de Gawtbe. pointing
c his military 50-50 chance to dominate the in- out that the existence of that new
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captured documents also show, andu tools in the relentless war which is becoming increasingly
the Ghana government actually 1s u warins against us hard-pressed politically and eco-
ordered its forces in the Cone ate But all our political leaders, re- nomically by its Communist ene
defy United Nations-orders, sardiless of party, are convinced, mies. Moreover, the "granite,
was necessary to protect Soviet and continue to tell the .American like French leader does not pre-
front man Lumumba from arrest, people that the only salvation and elude any other free nation, such
As these words are written, Lu- the only chance to prevent an- as Britain, the Scandinavian coun-
other world war is through the tries, the Iberians, from joining
United Nations. In a world which such a confederation. One of his
nas ueLuuase — ... of many arguments is that as the
, , nation. Guinea, which has contri- have also ComtRU"" World War II far more national- United Nations is last 1 losing rts
That gives the best idea buted troops to the U.N. force in Egyptians, the Ghanaians, and istic than it has been before, we peace-maintaining powers be-
Khrushchev’s tone before the the Congo the Guineans, a order to put continue to persist in our inter- cause of its increasingly eclectic
United Nations, at any rate. And The extent of this support for heavy, joint pressure on Congo- nationalism: and we spare neither composition and the maneuver-
the tone Khrushchev took, on this the Soviet design has been reveal- lese President Joseph Kasavubu effort nor diminution of our na- ings of the Russians, it is essen-
important occasion, was more ed by documents captured after to give bis unhappy country back tional prestige nor unprecedented tial that the nearly 200 000.000 tree
truly significant than the sub- Col Mobutu’s military coup de to Patrice Lumumba The out- expenditure of the nation’s wealth Europeans band together to an
stance of what he had to say, tat had temporarily broken the come is uncertain. But it is clear- to save the world singlehanded, antidote to the international Com-
to the ludicrously unreal at- power of the Soviet front man in ly better to judge the opinions of We disregard the fact that re- monist poisonand for sender
mosphere of the modern parlia- the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, “uncommitted nations’ . by their gional groups are being formed fense. — The Belt Syndicate
men of man, the substance of These documents, thus far unpub- actions to this critical situation in
Khrushchev’s outrageous U.N. lished, have been forwarded to the Congo, than by any vaporings A.moL Wachinaton *
speech is of course getting • lot the UN by the Congo govern- here in the United Nations. Assignment: Washington
of attention. The U.N. delegates ment, with the request, thus far The ugly question remains, why
of the “uncommitted nations" are totally ignored, for the removal these five governments, none “
supposed to have been gratifying- of the Guinea and Ghana contin- them Communist, should a
ly impressed by the contrast be- gents in the U.N. force in the parently wish to install a Com-
tween Khrushchev’s violence and Congo. munist controlled government in
President Eisenhower’s modera- The light thrown on the role of the very heart of the African con-
tion. Only conversation about the the Ghana leader Kwame Nkru- tinent? In each case, there are
weather could be less meaningful, mah, is especially interesting The special reasons Egypts Gamal
it is perfectly natural for peo- documents show the organization, Abdul Nasser is oblivious to a
to think that the President is with Ghana s aid, of an immense considerations, for instance. *
D very nice man, and that Khru- influx into the Congo of specially cept considerationshis own
incher is not a very nice man: trained Russian military officers short run advantage in the For
but alas, it is also perfectly and other technical personnel No test for Arab sleadeedr, En. The question was: How to avoid
meaningless if they do so. What less than 500 visas were issued to this eK are Khrushchev - and a potentially
has meaning in this haumceh wi ah Sy S Amba/uador Mam/GHon ha," been an but dangerous
aea coumtey • beoortne * • cu me *== k2 Sum .ortaies
-American.” They have had the problems d Khrushchev s arrogance resulted people bv the Congo Nkrumah has made attorney sen- against running into the Kremlin
all minorities arriving in this country ~ the quite obviously frornersioienet side h hander, quite largely eral of Ghana, in turn handled clown at the United Nations.
Italians, Irish, and others. Their success is dzeah,’ over a partial by the agency o one of the coun- all the transactions involved in They feared a psychological
pleasing. . the Congo tries supposedly acting for the Ghana’s aid to the Soviet design coup for Nikita if the President
Puerto Ricans are well based in small busi- . , UNme Congo, a horde of in the Congo. were to find himself trapped in a
n in trades, and in the professions. The drama in the Congo, was * 5 and personnel But these local and special rea- bear bug. At that point, they felt,
menses, „ dentists. Leaders the direct cause of Khrushchev’s into the Congo. They sons would be unimportant, with- Khrushchev was hurting for some
organizations are respon- shocking attack on ULSCE had newer on the way to taking out • more general reason. With- Western love.
Me men and women with an appropriate tarry Ceperali fammanateate: In over all key positions there, when out this general reason, for exam- Khrushchev’s original seak was
pride in themselves and their accomplish- the Cone
menus. In the field of services E is the Puerto
Ricans who enable the economy of New York Interpreting the News
to function. _ ____3 inicrprc2J22aL—
About a year ago the
Rain. Rain
Guests Have Duties Slowly and gently, just on the heels
- of the autumnal equinox, the rams
New York Herald Tribune: came and with them came welcomed
u the fate of the world weren’t serious relief from the heat left over too long
business, the madcap escapades of Fidel Cas- from summer.
tro and his buccaneering retinue would seem Rainfall early Monday boosted the
like Grade B comedy.______. Abilene total for the year to 17.54,
onty in nofreed rd :mmo.n non just a half-inch over the normal year-
dead, AtuMion, for through the wet Man- ly total for that date
naua gieht to demand that the Secretary As usual the autumn rains have
General of the United Nations find him a new come just as the cotton is beginning to
hotel room. Only there would U. N delegates reach barvest stage. But early reports
tote crates of black beans and sacks of pea- to this newspaper Monday indicated
nuts around town and threaten to pitch their the moisture is doing little damage to
tents in Central Park, the basic crop of this area. Good slow
Castro’s anger about his hotel accommoda ones don’t damage, if not too pro-
tions may have been real, & the "he loused it's the hard, blowing ram
bu fy hieing off to Harlem may have been that hurts cotton
s crude propaganda stunt Certainly a greater — moisture if there is enough of
dos * courtesy would better have become it Tom "set the wheat farmer up for
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tali i that the “climate o jhos- While Abilene’s rainfall is a little
party of which Dr Castro complains is of above normal, other partsofthis area
Ms own making. He is, surely, a guest to have not been so fortunatethis year,
try ths patience of any host. One reason The rains earlier were spotted ones,
biels don't want him is that he and his While the Haskell - Knox area was
retinue can be counted on to make offensive being drenched during previous 1960
nuisances of themselves. rains, the Coleman country would be
If Castro wants to be treated like a grow- dusty. Reports are that from Lawn
up statesman, he ought * stop behaving like on southeast for a good many miles,
a spoiled brat. things have been really dry. Grass
Diplomacy has changed, drastically. But has suffered and stock tanks have be-
there still is a place in it for good manners come low.
and common civility. And guests — even These early fall rains haven’t put
prime ministers - bear some responsibilities out any stock water, haven’t helped
toward their hosts. ,Taker but they are just what the doc-
When visiting, one doesn't grind out cigars lakes- utfor the range land.
on the carpet, trample the flower erden all torerdt rein. West Texans never turn
fishpond. down such.
In Grandstanding
Castro Plays to Puerto Rico
By RALPH MCGILL
The Atlanta Constitution
UN Reflections: Chicken bones, empty
soup bowls, and the partially gnawed pieces
of fowl left in the suite made filthy the
. Cuban Premier and his staff have little humor
FINE: NOW HOD YOU LIKE TO
MATCH THE U.S. CONTRIBUTION TO
SUPPORT THE U.N.
FOR U.N. IN
1960-
U.S. PUTS UP
5120 MILLION
RUSS PUT UP
$ 17 MILLION
By JOSEPH ALSOP
NEW YORK - When Nikita S.
Khrushchev stomped to the ros-
trum of the United Nations with
arrogant self-confidence, he ought
to have borrowed the language of
the old psalmist's chant of victory.
He should have intoned.
“The U.N. is my washpot; over
Africa will I cast out my shoe:
Latin America, be thou glad of
Khrushchev expects success in
me!”
his world plan.
In the Congo, it must be under-
stood, the Soviet design to estab-
lish a Communist base in the
rich heart of Africa has had the
active support, from the very out-
set, of the two most significant
independent powers of the African
continent Egypt and Ghana And mumba is still being duly protect-
this Soviet design has also had ed. At the same time, the repre- ______
the useful aid of another African sentatives of Tunisia and Morocco has become since the end
Guinea, which has contri- have also combined with the
Eisenhower Scored One
Success-Avoided Hug
By ED KOTERBA
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. -
The gnawing problem for Presi-
dem Eisenhower at the moment
was not what to say to the Gen-
eral Assembly, or bow to say it.
the President take the chance of
being pounced upon and grabbed
with the hand still tainted from
the hot, feelthy grasp of Castro’s
mitt?
But the encounter was avoided
when the President slipped onto
the rostrum through a private door
at the side of the hall.
From that point on, for more
than a half hour, both men. 100
feet apart, did a masterful job of
staring everywhere but directly at
each other. Mostly, Nikita’s face
look on a mask of enigma.
As long as Ike rebuffed him.
there would be no applause from
Old Tubby. And there wasn’t, ei-
GAS
GRA
SLAT
CEE Nkelg to sopeal aesthetically. There are lawsent dodent.
at least, to the Russians, however much the
may treasure him politically. The Soviet dele-
gations in trade and economics loose in the
world today are a crew-cut, immaculate set.
They know the right fork They speak several
languages They are an urbane sophisticated "ART T year ago the less responsible el
lot, and they frown, as do all £ m the enty s mass media, and that of
anything "nye kulturno. And Go the nion as well did Puerto Ricans an in-
heaven knows that Castro, among all heads mor m the pnod when an outbreak of
of government, is the utimate in “me kultur- tvion. delinquency got out of hand The
no.” . . delingdents of Puerto Rican ancestry were
one may he reasonably sure that even that marey a part of the over all problem. R was
touch old self-designated sparrow, Nikita him- oereruphasized Once proper methods were
self a man used to harsh reality, must have mo the outbreak was contained. Real
recoiled momentarily before the “kultur" progress has been made in this field.
of Castro. But they will play up to him ‘ PA the newest a groups to come to this
cause he is a very present thorn in the Dem country the Puerto Ricans have had the fur-
of Uncle Sam. He is, also a symbol of revolu a Nariicap of a language barrier. Schools
tion ‘o some students and many peasants and social agencies have not yet been able
Latin land. So. they will appraise Fidel as full to cope with it, but tremendous ad.
- a Dewdible jewel in the diadem e hoped for vaneeP have, been made.
4 satellites in Latin America Meanwhile / every day sees the Puerto
so there was not much humor in the nithy Ricans more and more solidly established in
suite, quit for propaganda purposes the life of this country which, also, is their
Castro’s grandstand move to a Harlem country
hotel was not, as some surmised, a play to They will hardly be excited by Fadel Cas-
the Negro population in that area " was tro’s move to Harlem - (Consolidated News
done with an eye to attracting Puerto Rican. Features, Inr •
ft. major objective was to stimulate the
small group of Puerto Rican nationalists the
not too long ago gave their own government
trouble and attempted an abortive pit of
assassination against former President Tru-
THE ABILENE
RE PORTER-NEWS
What Does Khrushchev s
Proposal for UN Mean?
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Is Soviet Premier Nikita Khru-
shchev trying to destroy the Unit-
ed Nations? .
Canadian Prime Minister John
y Diefenbaker says the Soviet
Premier's proposal for a triumvi-
rate st the head of the secretariat
would do it. So does Henry Sabot
Lodge.
Secretary - General Dag Ham-
marskjold said it was not the at-
tack on him, but on the secretary-
general's office, which threatened
the future of the whole organiza-
If he fails, he says, he will keep
trying to improve the U’N
If he fasts, he says, there will
be “no normal relations between
the states which make up thu or-
ganization" and there will be "an
aggravated situation" in which
we shall have to rely upon the
‘•balance of forces," continuing the
state of cold war.
Those words must be taken
against the background of preced-
ing events. The international Com-
munists have just Uken a serious
beating in their efforts to make
hay in the thaos of the Congo.
U.N. forces, in effect, were inter-
ther,
— — -Mr Eisenhower may have out-
out this general reason, for exam- Khrushchev’s original seat was - the foxy one in sidestepping
pie, Nkrumah would no doubt be far off to the side of the vast treily bounce from Roly. Poly,
turning to his other English ad- hall, well off the ceremonial route M some sidewalk superintendent
viser. Sir Robert Jackson, taken by podium - bound chiefs in the U.N press room thought
And this general reason is of state, the Soviet scored the biggest
the flabby deterioration of the But the new 13 African nations points earlier in the week
American and Western World po- shifted the assembly balls alpha- Pit was argued that Khrushchev
sition, which has persauded peo- betical arrangement, s ho oing scored a psychological advantage
ple like Nkrumah that Khrushchev Khrushchev right smack along the by getting down on the assembly
represents the way of the future, center aisle. . floor with the ordinary delegates.
- Copyright 1960, New York Her- And there hewas in his seat to suffer patiently with them
ald Tribune Inc.) as Ike arrived at the U.N. Wour through speech after monotonous
GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty soenihaoT em w/ea a. common
__________________________________—I suffering. This may have influ-
enced the indecisive little nations.
Why didn’t Eisenhower do the
same? The fascinating answer is
that this very idea was kicked
around for days. Some of our high-
est-level policy makers figured it
would take away K’s headline
NAN
TE
T
SO
HE
thunder.
But the final decision: No why?
Well, the United States delega-
tion, where Ike would sit, ia only
in feet away from the soviet ta-
our people feared that Khru-
shchev, not a man to follow tra-
dition, could easily bounce over to
Ike to stage his own kind of im-
promptv summit meeting. It
could bring nothing but em
barrassment to the Western world.
The only other danger, then,
arose when Ike was to speak.
Thus, you could say Mr Eisen-
hower’s CN appearance was a
great success. He avoided Khru.
shchev’s belly - hug - (United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
tion
Lodge, until recently chief dele- ..... .__,______
gate for the United States also posed between the various Congo
says, however, that the proposal politicians, and Soviet infiltrators
is “frivolous" and "with absolute- were driven out as a side prod-
ly no chance of realisation ‘ uct Action had to be swift in ord-
That’s what most observers er to be effective.
JANE
on Saturday
Published twice ott Ereott .
_______.-.,*** "^— re.
moor • New York To be well financed by ------G Khrushchev realized that?
Castro. They will need to be watched. But :---
Castro almost certainly hit no propaganda Second class man privileges Bothoriee a Amimne
home run -
One never knows but the best guess is that Tex W
the people of Puerto Rico and the citizens mo Wee
from that country now in New York, are too •
intelligent and too politically sophisticated to
be taken in by Fidel The state of affair. In
Cuba is well known to the Puerto Ricans of ,
this country and of the islands. There *
certainly less sympathy there for Fidel than mmbt
anywhere else in the Spanish-speaking COOP MT2
tries
This may be a good time, incidentally, to EG.
note how fast and solid is the progress of the NeWs.
Puerto Ricans in New York and other cities 2*
man.
We. and Puerto Rico, may expect the
money-hungry remnant of “ that discredited
group in New York to be
almost certainly hit no propaganda
By ma
Evening an
outside of
Other rates
think, too. __h . The Soviets, thinking the U.N.
Doesn’t it seem probable that force would be nothing but po-
--------------lice, not daring to oppose in the
Attempting to read Khrush- Security Council the world’s de-
chev’s mind is foolhardy. 1 S are tor an end to Congo atroci-
_ like trying to translate Russian
LECHA* into Engiish—very difficult be-
ormins***"* *nder ----44145
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ties, went along,
er — —— ; , when the true effect of U.N.
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waw the APudstther makes it worse e ofconfidence
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12 move he says there will be no skjold’s place, no effective de-
****** disaTnement." cision could have been made.
aBrenf
"Tell the doctor that 1 see no point in longer life ex-
pectancy if 1 have to spend the added years waiting
* for him!”
Cleaning Music
BRANFORD, Conn. @ — The
case of the musical vacuum clean-
er was solved here recently when
a repairman found a small har-
monica stuck in the floor nozzle.
The cleaner’s o w ne r complained
the machine was producing weird
music. A
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