The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 291, Ed. 1 Monday, December 28, 1959 Page: 2 of 10
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MONDAY, DCCEMIER 28, 1959
Moment of Meditation
Wbo ra* utter th* mighty acts
cm itew forth «D Bte prate*? Paul
Mothball Fleet
Is Not Forever
Bf J. CULLEN BROWNING
Tht Navy * mothball fleet ha*
•ea a Part of oar city and county
» m Woe that moat of a* take
Jw BmW aad assuma teat It
•tructkm of tea facilities began
about tea tiro* of tee first big cut-
back* la waribip construction.
Tbaoa jobs, together with Job* that
war* created whan tea mothball-
gssirnr.Jtt
During tea last few month* of
A* war and for a while thereafter,
thousands of Navy people came
into^the^ community wnUe thou-
leaving town. Without the money
these officers and enlisted men
tea craws which had sailed tease
Of UiCW RICH am own It Ml for
were reunited witn families who - r *
Mtnt SAIUT
*«d fateers^while the ships were
At that time, civilians and per- I ©. tfi
manent personnel of the Navy oc- bcW^
‘ Navy Park and the present KkTfcfW
SOME SLICK OreSATOg.
IS CMNCINO WITH ^
1 MY GIAL FRIENP. /
CLAUDE,
MAY I
MAKE A
WOUKT?
t&t’JS',SS«s.-m
s;«•a^sjrTaSs
trap to punish innocent drivers for s moment doDars whoa they are no longer
coming la.
Fortunately, other payrolls,
large and small, are getting big-
ger aad new ones are coming Into
being. As s result, we are not go-
ing to be badly crippled by tee
eventual loss of the Navy money.
And since the operation probably
will be phased out Instead of being
shut down all at once, tee loss will
not be very noticeable.
And it is to the credit of our
community that nobody is plan-
-----— , - ning to go screaming to Washing-
giving. Our heart is big, but it is bigger for the victims ton because of the announcement
of moments of carelessness than it is for the parties ^ £
responsible for such moments. m&TplSnne^stationed h^
Persons who suddenly find they’re apt to pay the this adtonwiU save tee tn-
lion’s share of auto insurance premiums Art protesting payers a good bit of money dur-
«h, loud«t Th.y mstr th.t fa b. ch-.p.r far th«n g-J- ““
to drop their insurance and take their chances on being K m,y the Navy will find
responsible for an accident some other use for its properties
Those who choose to go-it-alone without liability here. If not, the land could be sold
Insurance are Wring a big chance with «*rtaw> which
require them to be responsible up to a certain point, community because it is Meal for
We must see that they are able to handle this responsi- industrial development,
bility in full, or pay the consequences.
We all have had moments at carelessness behind the
steering wheel. The time has come when those of us who
are caught must be pehalized for such errors.
Progress has made a complicated task of driving.
Progress has given us added speed. Progress is putting j
hundreds—perhaps thousands of new vehicles—our
transportation arteries each day. The traffic load never ,
lessens. =
Speeding can be as deadly aS firing a bullet Into a
crowd. It often is. Running a red light or stop sign is as
dangerous as tossing a stick of dynamite into a busy
supermarket. There fhay be victims there . . . there
may not. But you can’t afford to find out. Driving drunk
poses as big A threat as tossing bricks from s tall build-
ing at passers-by with deliberate intent on hitting them.
No matter how involuntary these deaths may be,
the time has come to cut down on them.
Some of the state’s more powerful organizations <
hive attacked the new point plan on auto insurance as 1
a scheme for insurance firms to make more money. We j
don’t believe in scheming in such a manner, but we do <
believe in cutting down on tragedies as much as possible. *
Traffic will kill more people over the holidays than f
Hurricane Audrey claimed in nearby Louisiana a few *
years ago. And at that time we felt that the storm was i
one of the worst tragedies possible. Yet we accept the *
traffic deaths as a matter of course. It is wrong to accept ,
them as such, especially when we can do something ,
about it p
The new insurance program will have far-reaching «
affects on our court systems, the Department of Public ,
Safety records, and ort insurance records. It may causa j
traffic courts of record to be established in the state in d
order to avoid retrials when cases are appealed to county jj
courts. 1
The State Bar of Texas’ committee on traffic regula-
tion issued a statement in which it said it will make ><
drivers charged with traffic offenses begin thinking b
more seriously about traffic cases. “It undoubtedly will "
clog dockets of trial and appellate courts with traffic C
pates ordinarily disposed of by pleat of guilty and pay- j<
cupied Navy Park sad the present
Riverside Addition was stiff filled
with defense workers. This made
It necessary ter most of the in-
coming. officers Aad men and fam-
ilies who canto hors to Join them
to live In the North Riverside
housing project, which has since
been torn down.
Aad I recalled that hectic time
n few days ago when neighbor
Mamie J. Rogers dropped by for
A moment to wish the family a!
merry Christmas.
I was resident manager of the
North Riverside housing when the
Navy people began arriving home
from the war lit greet numbers.
Mamie J. was the leasing and oc-
cupancy clerk. ;
Each day, there would be a
swarm at effieers sad enlistedl
men and wives of officers and en-
listed men waiting outside her of-
fice. Practically every rating and
rank, from seaman to admiral,
would be represented fat the group.
Attempts to pull rank were fre-
quent among Doth the women and
men.
But rank meant nothing to
Mamie J. She leased tee apart-
ments to whoever showed up, in
the order of their appearance. So
the captains aad the admirals
M" l*LONDIt
Cao am ana Mrs. Mitiinu.
Which, t suppose, is the only
esse in history where i Navy con-
quered an enemy’s fleet and came
sailing home in triumph only to
lose a final skirmish with a one-
human. .JO
of carelessness.
But how many lives have moments of carelessness
cost us? How long must we tolerate such moments. We
have put up with them too long already. We think of
war casualties as great and needless slaughter, yet we
take traffic deaths for granted, and traffic in the past
30 years has cost us more loved ones than wars have in ^
the past 194 years. Momenta of carelessness ere not shut down all at once,
tolerated in war time. We cannot allow them on our
highways and city streets.
We’re not trying to be sanctimonious, nor unfor-
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mv lAurvf
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BUY ONE OF
those rubber
GORILLA
MASKS AND 1
HAVE SOME -P
PUN AROUHO 1
THE OFFICE raS
VERONICA,
ISA TAKING
>OU TO
DINNER *<
AND THE
MOVIES/ ,
THE OFFBEAT NEWSBEAT ...
Information, Oddities
From Columnist's Mail
j By HAL BOYLE
dental shooting casualties each
year in ths United States, includ-
ing 2,MO fatalities, about half take
pises is the home.
Nature lore; If you pick up a
queen bee in your hand, she won’t
■ting you. she usee her royal
stinger oely on other queen bees.
Father bees, known as drones,
won’t sting you either, as they
have no st
Hew do
^----HI/WHO'S
PACK HERE.1 MSutt DATE*
I'LL RAID THE V ^
refreshments J
that*
yt-HE'S A ^
” NtWlS’*
AMO CUTE.'
' HE'S HINTING K
AROUND TO FIND
OUT HOW MUCH T
ALLOWANCE *
l iaer.'^Wi
l THINK
He WANTS
TO SO
STEADY- ,
SOUNDS
SERIOUS
from * molehill? fhis is the usual
test: To be considered a moun-
tain, the land must rise sharply tel
by st least l.ooo feet.
Signs of the times: Outside a *
marriage license bureau, “Are B
you fit to be tied?”
The term "bootleggin’” pro-£TTA KETT
dates the prohibition era. It origi-
nated with the men who peddled
whisky illegally to the Indians.
They carried the bottles of for-
bidden firewater concealed in the
legs of their boots.
Sir Winston Churchill, who once
gambled for th* highest stakes in
human history, used to like to play
bezlqu*. But now his favorite
card game is draw poker.
Family problem: Some 400,000
children under 12 in the United
States have to care for themselves j
while their mothers work-in the
wealthiest land on earth.
How to stay young: “To for-
get,” says author Erich Maria
Remarque, "is the secret of eter-
nal youth.”
OHTtWTOU
TALK TO HIM*
NOOo
SITUATION 19 VERY
BAD IN CRUSHIA/MY
LEADER HAS SEEN
calling me/ „
I DIO NOT LIKE
WHAT HE WAS
calunsmc/
PRINCE SAMOVAR,
YOU LOOK WORRIED/
„ WHAT'S THE
[trouble* Jfr
ITS ME, OILLY!
I qhtfB&ng* True Ufa Adventures t
.•JAN/
Not-eo-dumb.
g^NIMAL.3^
THE ORANGE LEADER
' ^WfiAWV DEER
WCBK3B& SHIVERING!
AF'TSK CWOSG1NO
VMK \CH RM&K.
BUT MS HAS SENSE
SNOUSH TO KNOW
THAT IT WOULD KH
James 8. Quigley
Publisher
—Editor
illen Browning.
Joe Parsley-
Philip Lilly,..
Bob Axelson
THE JACKSON TWINS
.Woman’s News
Herbie Dees ..,
L. R ’’obi McHugh.
Jean „
E. F .rietsch
J. K. Davis__
NldW-JUMP
9 WlNNSU—
Magazine Editor
w®vrsxiFs?3S
Advertising Director
Circulation Manager
WlNWJLl OPTUeVtONG-tUSWO
COHTBST, MISS MSS SSAKCAT'
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 291, Ed. 1 Monday, December 28, 1959, newspaper, December 28, 1959; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth556736/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.