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The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-01
RUTS
Page one--B

When boy had nothing
hereabou They make the finest of when
But oh boy let there rainy nothing
earth like those roads Right down middle
deep ruts and could the
how hard riedand generally there
the rainy seasonand know how impossible get
the
Of such roads history you find in
dividuals travelling rutty long ago
and gosh, have been had
large dog cooped right the middle living
Seven cats Gagged the kitchen The
fireplace had been removed for paper
scattered all the floor Cigarette butts
and dust least inch thick everywhere Everything
covered with dust Dishes piled everywhere dining
Spoiled food the table, dirty clothes
Card board replaced the Only
the door. The beds unmade and filthy.
counted eight people who stayed
had eye The head the belly
children had only Leg and the dirty
remark which, them, excused the whole mess
very poor"
The fact is they and love No desire,
disgrace to be
dirt filth. again
guard.
Yours for nice highways,
"Unce Sam" Shlle
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-01
Make Life Beautiful ...
James w. Sullivan

| James w. Sullivan
Ring out the old - Ring in
the new year!
Yes, we can forget the unpleas-
ant past by looking ahead and
not looking behind; we must
realize our good lies in the fu-
ture. We begin to prepare for
our good by doing whatever may
come our way; the best we can
do today.
The old adage, never put Off
until tomorrow what you can do
today" is very true.
We are looking forward to
dramatic change in our affairs
this year. We each have an i'm
portant role to play. We call this
play our life and each OF us have
a job to do.
We must realize our govern
ment can be only as strong and
good as we are. In the past years,
it has been the trend for us to
serve the government, instead OF
it serving us. We must return to
our old form of democracy: The
government for the people and
| by the people"
We do not have a government
| to tell us what to do. The govern
! ment exists for the purpose OF
protection of individuals and
their rights.
May we stand up for our rights
this year. We, as free people,
need something to believe In
when we are able to transfer
some of the enthusiasm from
sports and put it into our desire
for freedom; then we shall see
a change.
This is the year of new resolu-
tions. We can start today and
give freedom to the world. We
can do this only when we are
free and God has given us
wonderful country. We are free,
only as we declare it for our
selves and He has given us new
year for a new beginning. Each
of us are created equal but we
have created within us the power
to become what we desire.
May this be your year and
happy and prosperous new year
to you.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-01
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR !.

authority from the congress,
plunged Uncle Sam into what he
termed the Korean police" war
that has already prevailed for
more than two and a half years,
with no end in sight at the pre-
sent time.
Last week President Truman
order that the Christmas holiday
be extended to the extent that
no rural mail be delivered on
Friday throughout the country
and none was. In this instance
Mr.. Truman stepped out in front
of the postmaster general who
has all authority in such mat
ters. This was Truman's last
slap" at rural Americans who
gave General Eisenhower such a
tremendous vote at the recent
November election. Before he
goes out of office on January goth
he may attempt to order the sun
to shine only on certain spots
around the world-and maybe
not, most likely the latter. One
thing is as certain as that drops
of rain fall from clouds: No
Democrat will be elected to the
presidency of the United States
during the remainder of the life
of this scribe, who is now in his
85th year and who participated in
nineteen presidential campaigns
and voted in sixteen of them.
Jess S. Harris
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-01

route, is now serving with the
signal corps somewhere in Eng
land.
Deaths: Miss Martha Angeline
Watson. 81, Seneca township;
John w. Williams, rs, Pleasant
City; Mrs. Martha Pryor, 83,
Buffalo, John w. Bates, 62, East
Union; Adam Guy Moore, 46, CO.
lumbus; Mrs. Emma Spence, SIS,
Crum Ridge.
Marriages: Miss Helen Marie
Poulton, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Poulton, Belle Valley,
to Sgt. Robert T. Cartner, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Cartner,
Cambridge; Miss Ruby Ellison,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Ellison, Caldwell route, to Ken
yon Boyd, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyd Boyd, near Sharon; Miss
Alma Faye Lewis, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Lewis,
Caldwell route, to Rudy Manson
Combs, son of the late William ].
Combs, Sharon.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-01
This Week
In
Washington

Article XIV of the Bill of
Rights states: mo state shall
make or enforce any law which
shall abridge the privileges or
immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state
deprive any person of life, liberty
or property without due process
of law; nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws"
This article has not always
been upheld in our nation but
the following victories were
achieved in 1852 by the oppon-
ents of discrimination and segre-
cation:
A Federal Court jury convict
ed three police officers, includ-
ing the police chief, of conspiracy
to deny Harvey E, Clark, Jr. his
civil rights in the Cicero, Illinois
incident in which Clark was
denied protection of the law be-
cause he was a Negro attempting
to move into largely hostile
white neighborhood. Rioting
broke out. Maximum sentences
under the Civil Rights Law were
recommended.
After informal intervention by
the president of the New York
City Council, the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company agreed
to drop eviction proceedings
against l9 families in its giant
StuyveSant Town and Peter
Cooper housing projects who had
been active in the fight to per-
init Negroes as tenants in the de-
| velopments. The insurance COM
pany also agreed to stop discrimi-
nation against Negro applicants
for tenancy.
In spite of violence and threats
in Cairo, Illinois, the transfer of
Negro children to previously all
white schools was successfully
completed. The transfer was
prompted by the threat of with
drawal of state funds from the
local school system in segregation
-outlawed by 1941 state law
continued. After initial violence
against the Negro community, in
cluding bombings, a special
Grand Jury indicted seven of the
Negro leaders (including NAACP
officers) for conspiring to en-
danger the lives of children. The
indictments were later quashed
for lack of evidence.
In Illinois and California, the
! State Employment Services an
nounced abandonment of the
policy Of taking discriminatory
requests from employers for
workers. In Illinois, too, all racial
Continued on 2-B)
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-01
Editor, The Journal;

Editor, The Journal;
Leave it to a Democratic presi-
dent of the United States for
doing the unthinkable thing or
the commission of the "unpar-
donable sim" 1t will be remem-
bered that Woodrow Wilson was
elected to his second term under
the prevailable plea that "he
would keep us out of war" -
then in April following his cleo
ton he caused this nation to
enter World War I; this was in
1917.
Some years ago President
Roosevelt changed the calendar
by ordering Thanksgiving Day
advanced to one week earlier
and which was continued for the
following two or three years.
During his first term of the presi-
dency he had the postmasters
throughout the country appoint
ed for terms of their natural
lives, and many, many thou
sands of them are still holding
onto their jobs.
The Roosevelt administration
ordered the little pigs killed,
every other row of cotton plow-
ed under and so conducted its
foreign affairs as to bring us
into world War II. Besides this,
it limited farmers throughout
the nation to cultivate only such
portions of their land and grow
such crops thereon as was pleas
ing to that administration.
Then along came President
Harry S. Truman, who, without
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-01
NOTIFIED OF DEATH

Friends in Caldwell have been
notified of the sudden death OF
Howard Young, son of the late
Wayne and AIDA Mclaughlin
Young, which occurred Dec. Is
at his home in California.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-01
IN HOSPITAL

HerZle Garrett of Summerfieid,
is patient in Bethesda hospital,
GAINESVILLE, where he is undergo
ing observation and treatment.
He was admitted on Tuesday.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-01
ENJOYS HOLIDAY LEAVE

Ai2c Joseph Sarisky, located at
Tucson, Ariz. with the air force,
is home on holiday leave. He is
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Michael
Sarisky, Sr., Florence.
Evening star., 1953-11-04

II e SCaII as
a sales representative and Will
liam M. Boyden, jr., has been
named military representative
for the airlines at Fort Belvoir
and Quantico. The former has
been with American since 194l
and Mr.. Boyden since 1947.
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Flying Tigers List Many Fsts Career as Cargo Line
By Tom Kelley

A group of World War II vet
Grams who won fame in the
Burma skies as the Flying Tigers
are now winning fame as
pioneers in the air cargo busi-
ness with the Flying Tiger Line.
The Flying Tigers. a pioneer
air cargo line, was started by
Robert w. Prescott and a small
group of flyers who had served
with him in Gen. Claire Chen
nault'S American Volunteer
Group in Burma. Mr.. Prescott
came home after the war in
1945 looking for the means to a
living for his bride and himself.
When he found he could buy
a group of IA war surplus air.
planes for several hundred
thousand dollars, he got a group
Of II of his wartime flying COM
panions to put up $50. 900. which
was matched by several Los
Angeles business men, headed
by Samuel B. MoSher, oil COM
pany president.
The airplanes they put into
the skies in the summer of 1945
were the odd-shaped. bulbous
nosed Budd Conestogas, which
were built for the Navy as cargo
carriers.
Not Practical.
1.-THE Conestoga was not a
practical plane for commercial
operations. Mr.. Prescott said.
Built of welded stainless steel,
it was slow and difficult to keep
in repair"
The first plane successfully
trundled a load of grapes from
California to Georgia. The Sec
ond, with a load of furniture
bound for California, crashed
and burned on takeoff from
Detroit
The young company seemed
doomed and several of the di-
rectors and principal investors
we're ready to write it off as a
bad investment. But they set out
to patch up their nearly bank
rupt airline the same way they
Evening star., 1953-11-04
had patched up their P-4O's

had patched up their P-40's
and kept going in China.
Eventually the Tigers aban-
doned the Conestogas and man
aged to finance the purchase
of some surplus CATS, the mill
tary version of the old work.
horse of the airlines, the DC-3.
The CAT was fairly fast and
reliable and it eliminated. some
of the major flying problems for
the young airline. But these
were replaced by other equally
critical problems.
Their first problem, lack of
operating capital. they solved
by floating $2.5 million public
stock issue.
Their other problem, which
include competition from Gov
ernment subsidized airlines, still
are with them.
Certificate Needed.
The young airline officials
soon learned that business
wanted service every day and
at established rates instead OF
the Observation-Disclosures
operation. When Mr.. Prescott'S
line tried to satisfy the demand
of shippers for regular service
and published rates, it found
that no air carrier could pro-
vide them unless it possessed a
certificate of public convenience
and necessity issued by the Civil
AeronauticS Board!
To this burden another was
quickly added, which was caused
by the Tigers own enterprise, a
rate war.
In 1945, when the Flying
Tigers started in the business,
it cost about 80 cents a pound
to fly freight across the country.
The Tigers decided they could
operate profitably for 20 cents
for the same service. The results
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Smiley Named to Post

Rear Admiral Curtis S. Smiley,
retired has been named assistant
to the president of Sterling En-
gine Co., Buffalo, N. Y, manu-
facturers of Diesel engines and
generator sets. Before his recent
retirement, he was chief staff,
commander, Eastern sea frontier.
Two veteran executives Of
Sears, ROebuck g. Co., each with
Is years of service, were honored
at company banquet at the
Columbia Country Club. They
are Elmer Dentzer, jr., Washing
ton area auditor, and Leon H.
Logan, manager of Sears Arling-
ton. Va, store.
Hugh K. Duffield, general
manager of Sears organization
here, was master of ceremonies.
He presented them with appro-
priately inscribed watches on be-
half of Sears Washington staff.
The value of audit reports in
expediting credit was stressed
by a Washington banker last
night before the District Insti-
tute of Certified Public Ac-
cOuntants at the Willard Hotel.
Thomas j. Groom, president
of the Bank of Commerce e. Saw
ings. told the group, that "by
working together. the accountant,
the banker and the client will
benefit" Applications for credit
will be more acceptable to the
bank, he advised, when accom-
panied by comprehensive audit
report prepared by a qualified,
independent public accountant.
The banker, he added, can meet
his responsibilities only If his
decisions, like those of the busi-
nessman, are based on adequate
and reliable information.
r. Bruce Keiner, vice presi-
dent and cashier of the Ma
tional Bank of Washington, has
been delegated by the District
Bankers Association to represent
this group at the third confer
ence of the. District Commits
sioners on industrial safety. The
session will be held November
IA in the District Building.
A meeting of the Board Of
Directors of the Washington
Chapter of the National Asso-
citation of Cost Accountants has
been called by President Paul
Imler for tonight at 7:30 o'clock
in the Willard Hotel.
Howard J. Briggs has been
named district manager of the
Washington Office of Thomas A.
Edison, Inc, it was announced by
Donald Hamilton, jr., general
sales manager of the company's
Ediphone Division. Mr.. Briggs
joined the company in Boston in
1948 and two years ago was as
signed to its national sales staff.
r. M. Merchant, assistant to
the timber agent of the Southern
Railway has been promoted to
tie and timber agent with head
quarters in Washington. He
succeeds the late w. F. Dunn.
Evening star., 1953-11-04
US. Official Speaks
Al Family Meeting
OF Northwestern Life
BY Nelson M. Shepard

The 45-year-old Washington
Agency of the Northwestern Mu-
tual Life Insurance Co. held it's
annual family meeting" today
at the Statler Hotel under aus
piciouS circumstances.
Highlight was a luncheon
honoring Miss Catherine Cleary,
Assistant Treasurer of the
United States, whose father,
Michael j. Cleary was president
of the SO billion Northwestern
company until his death a few
years ago. Mrs. Cleary, mother
of the Treasury official, also at
tended the luncheon. Miss
Cleary addressed the so or more
statesmen and wives at the meet
ing and was followed by Merle
Thorpe. a trustee of the COM
pany and director, also, of Cities
Service Oil Co.
The occasion marked the end
of a successful year for North
Westerns Washington agency.
Paul r. Harrison, general agent,
reported insurance written in
Evening star., 1953-11-04

counted afterward. To his
amazement, the Texans lawyer
called the next day and asked
where he should send the check.
Mr.. Prescott had never seen
a totem pole, so he didn't know
how to paint the plane. The
Texan solved that by sending
him totem pole.
The flight took off with Mr..
Prescott, Texan himself, and
cc-pilot from Texas flying the
ship in full cowboy dress includ-
ing 10-gallon hats and spurs.
The customer from Texas de-
cided that was the way it had
to be.
1--WE had the biggest party I
ever saw in Washington" Mr..
Preston recalls. He finally fin
ished out the charter by taking
every kid in Vancouver who
would come out to the airport
for free ride.
Freak assignments did not
come often enough to pay for
an airline, however. 1t was the
day-by- day business that paid
the bills. the Tigers learned. But
there weren't enough regular
customers to keep the struggling
line going until they were saved
by a contract to handle all the
air freight going to the occupa-
tion forces in Japan. The Tigers
were awarded the contract in
December, 1916, and in the next
IL months they flew the biggest
all lift ever operated by a COM
mercial airline. When the con-
tract was concluded they had
flown 33,494,0OO ton miles of
freight and 100000 passenger
miles without a single fatality.
At the completion of the air.
lift, the Tigers found themselves
with idle airplanes. The Tigers
verted their four-engine
planes into air coaches and
leased them to independent op-
orators. The Flying Tigers didn't
dare start passenger service
in the United States themselves
because it would. have leopard
lied their air freight certificate
application, which was still
pending before the CAB, but
there was nothing to prevent
them from leasing idle planes.
Deal With Israel.
The success of the air coach
operations in the United States
led Mr.. Prescott to try the same
sort of operation abroad. He
made a deal with the new state
of Israel and it's government to
fly $4,000 Yemenites from a re-
mote spot in Arabia to the new
Jewish homeland to fill the
critical need for farmers in
Israel.
From this operation, the COM
pany branched into a world
wide service for displaced per-
sons. 1t flew thousands of refu-
gees from behind the Iron Cur
tain and from the Far East to
South America, the United
States, the Middle East and
Australia.
While the Tigers were busy
with this operation abroad,
things were taking place on the
home front. The Civil Aero
nautics Board, after studying
the Tigers application for more
than three years, granted the
young airline a certificate to
operate U. S. Freight Route 100
to 40 cities from coast to coast.
At last the Flying Tigers were
what they started out to be, an
air freight airway.
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Kiwunis Club Helps
In FIGHT on Polio
BY the Assoeioted Press

MILL HALL, Pa.-The Kiwan-
is Club of this central Pennsyl-
vania community has set up a
"GG Pony Express" to operate
in case there is polio outbreak.
Upon learning there was no way
of getting gamma globulin-the
polio preventative serum-from
Philipsburg, so miles away. the
local service club swung into
action.
Now all a physician has to do
when he needs GG is to con-
tact one of the club officials and
a member will be dispatched to
drive to Philipsburg with author
ization for the serum and de-
liver it to the physician.
Evening star., 1953-11-04

Of the new rate were startling.
From 1,350,000 ton miles of
traffic in 1945, the air freight
figure jumped to 14,740,000 ton
miles in 1916.
Increasingly concerned by the
rapid progress made by the air
freight carriers the passenger
lines retaliated by lowering their
prices for hauling air freight un-
til one company slashed the
rates to IL cents a pound for
transcontinental hauls. The thin
ly capitalized freight lines could
not stand this kind of competi-
ton.
While the rate war was going
on, the Tigers applied to the CAB
for certificate of public conven-
ience and necessity granting the
company specific routes, estab-
liShed rates and the right to fly
these routes on regular sched-
uleS.
The CAB, aware that the
freight carriers could not sur
vive if the rate war continued,
acted quickly and ended it by
putting floor of about 18 cents
pound under transcontinental
cargo rates. A year later the
CAB granted the Tigers and
three other freight lines tempo
rary certificates, which gave them
the right to operate a scheduled
line until 1854.
Can Fly Anything.
During the period of reorgan-
ization and expansion that fol-
lowed, the line operated on the
slogan, 1--WE can fly anything,
anywhere, anytime"
It's pilots flew the first plane
load of fresh-cut flowers, the
first planeload of fruit, the first
planeload of furniture. They
transported race horses across
the Atlantic and between the
Nations tracks. They hauled a
load of explosives no one else
would touch. They moved the
entire office and personnel of a
large oil company from San
Francisco to New York in one
week end. And before the CAB
clamped down on charter plane
loads of passengers, the Flying
Tigers could be found flying va
cation-stranded sailors or pro-
fesSional football teams.
The biggest livestock move
ment in the history of air trans
portation was accomplished over
a period of several months by
the Tigers. They flew Is plane
loads of bulls, cows, horses,
sheep, dogs and pigs from all
parts Of the United States and
Canada to Columbia to restock
farms there.
Mr.. Prescott said the weirdest
"Trip or all started with tele-
phone call that sounded like a
joke. A man called Mr.. Prescott
from Texas and said he wanted
to fly a planeload of grapefruit
and friends to Washington State
to see his lumber mill and to
let the Washington natives taste
some real grapefruit" Also he
wanted the plane painted like
a totem pole, familiar symbol of
the Northwest Indians.
Mr.. Prescott thought his caller
was too merry, so when the caller
asked how much it would cost,
he replied, $4,000"
II thought that would get rid
of him and, he could go back to
the party" Mr.. Prescott re-
Evening star., 1953-11-04

this area amounted to STA mil
lion. The company'S headquar-
ters are in Milwaukee, Wis. In
his talk, Mr.. Thorpe stressed the
contribution that statesmen in
general have brought to the
growth and welfare of the
country.
A business session preceded
the luncheon. 1t was addressed
by Roe Walker, superintendent
of agencies. He closed the meet
ing in encouraging vein. stress
ing the important part wives
play in contributing to the sue
cess of their husbands profess
sion. Howard D. Goldman.
general agent of the Richmond
(Va) agency of Northwestern,
and Russell L. Law, general
agent of the Baltimore agency,
also spoke on the company's
affairs.
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Air Equipment Exhibit

Lear, Inc, aviation engineers
of Los Angeles, which has an
office at Washington National
Airport, is exhibiting it's equip
ment at the Woodner Hotel.
1886 Sixteenth street NV. Its
military autopilot is being used
in many fighter jets. The exhibit
attracted much aviation interest
this week and closes tomorrow.
Evening star., 1953-11-04
Gas Stored in 16 States

PITTSBURG. - At present
there are more than $50 under
ground pools for storing natural
gas. They are in Is States.
Their present capacity is more
than 1920 billion cubic feet.
Evening star., 1953-11-04

II U u nCeQ. he
joined Ameri-
can in 1947 as
a sales repre-
sc n t a tive in
San Francisco.
Two other ap-
p OF n t m e ntS
w e + e a n
n o u n c e d by
H e r b ert D.
Ford, district
sales manager
in this a re a.
T. d w i a
Hicks Joins
Evening star., 1953-11-04
A. A. Appoints Durroqh

The appointment of Frank J.
Darragh as district manager Of
passenger and cargo sales for
American Airlines, has been an
Evening star., 1953-09-04
Terps Already Scrinmoging;
Sturn Passing Well for CIV

After only three days of fall
practice. Maryland's football
team already has had it's first
scrimmage.
Ignoring the heat, Coach Jim
Tatum ran his players through
an hour of head banging yester-
day afternoon following a Is
minute morning session of the
same.
The Terps are due for some
more body contact work tomor-
row when they hold their first
outside" Scrimmage. In a last
minute move Tatum has invited
Fort Lee for a session at 2::30
pm. at the Maryland practice
field. The scrimmage will be
closed to the public.
Drilling as the first team yes
terday were Bill Walker and
Marty Crytzer, ends; Bob Morgan
and Stan Jones, tackles; Herb
Hoffman and George Palahunik,
guards; Charlie Lattimer, center;
Bernie Faloney, quarterback; :;
Chet Hanulak and Dick Nolan,
halfbacks, and Ralph FELTON,,
fullback.
That lineup is just about as it
was expected to be off the results
of spring training. Lynn Beigh-
toll, back with football after tax
ing off last season, also saw con-
siderable action at quarterback
and did very well. He also punt
ed expertly in a pre- e-scrimmage
drill.
George Washington's workout