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Evening star., 1955-03-17

ber Of questions Of mutual inter-
est. Ambassador Hartman has,
certainly. informed you about all
important Moscow conversations.
I also know that the Prime Min
lister had to send you his esti-
mate of the Moscow conversa-
tions. On my part, I can say
that our conversations were ex-
tremely useful for the mutual
ascertaining of views on such
questions as the attitude toward
the future of Germany, the Polish
question. policy in regard to the
Balkan states, and important
questions of further military pol
icy. During the conversations. 1t
has been clarified that we can.
without great difficulties. adjust
our policy on all questions stand
ing before us, and if we are not
in a position so far to provide
an immediate necessary decision
of this or that task, as for exam
pie. on the Polish question. but
nevertheless, more favourable
perspectives are opened. I hope
that these Moscow conversations
will be of some benefit from the
point Of view that at the future
meeting of three Of us. we shall
be able to adopt definite deci-
sions on all urgent questions Of
our mutual interest.
CHURCHILL TO ROOSEVELT
(Seven paragraphs deleted by
State DEPARTMENT.
: Paragraph 8. ] was delighted
to hear from U. ]. (Churchill's
usual reference to "Uncle Joe"
Stalin) that you had suggested
a triple meeting toward the end
of November at a Black Sea port.
I think this a very fine idea and
hope you will let me know about
it in due course. will come
anywhere you two desire.
ROOSEVELT TO CHURCHILL
Top Secret. 18 November 1914.
-. It does not seem to me
that the French provisional gov
ernment should take part in our
next conference as such a debat-
ing society would confuse our es-
sential issues.
ROOSEVELT.
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shall again work their way to
the top of the heap. I'm going
away to lend the Texans a
helping hand on the high road
to freedom"
Quixotic as this decision
was to his family and friends,
it opened the doors for him to
a hero's death, a growing
fame and 100000 photograph
records.
How Did He Die?
The versions Of his death
are many. One fantastic &C
count says it took a silver
bullet to do it. Mexicans did
have lots of silver and there
were 1000 of them under
Santa Anna at the Alamo.
More logical version is that
Col. Crockett went down fight
ing to the last, the faithful
rife "Betsey" in his hand. An
other likely account is that
Crockett was among six fight
ing men who survived the fall
of the Alamo and surrendered
on promises of clemency.
This is not generally &C
ceptable among his youthful
followers of today. When the
six were led away and Santa
Anna gave the word, soldiers
bounced on five of the sur
vivors with swords.
Crockett is supposed to have
leaped to their defense; died
on the points of a dozen
swords. This version. a par
ent warns, will set Pan-Amer-
lean relations back so years.
When the word of Crockett's
death worked East, an old
hunter is supposed to have in
toned an epitaph:
"Thar's great rejoicing
among the bears of the river
country and the alligators Of
the Mississippi are rolling up
their shining ribs to the sun.
The rattlesnake has been COM
ing out of their holes this
autumn to frolic in the clear
ings and the foxes goes to
sleep in the goose pens. It's
because the rifle of Crockett
is silent forever. and the print
of his moccasins is found no
more in the woods"
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His account of the Indian
fighting was spine-tingling
enough.
1--WE now shot them like
dogs" he wrote. and then set
the house on fire, and burned
it up with the 46 warriors in it.
II recollect seeing one boy
who was shot down near the
house. His arm and thigh was
broken and he was so near the
burning house that the grease
was stewing out Of him. In this
situation he was still trying to
crawl along; but not a murmur
escaped him though he was
only about IL years old"
Rift With Jackson
Years later Crockett was to
split his political ties with
President jackson over what
he felt was i'll treatment of
the Indians by Jackson.
After the Indians came the
bears and other wild game.
With typical humor he told
of being caught in the freezing
wilderness at night without a
fire with the carcass of a bear
near him.
MY blood was now getting
cold and the chills coming all
over me-" he recalled. 80 I
went to a tree about 2 feet
through and not a limb on it
for 80 feet and I would climb
up it to the limbs and then
lock my arms together around
it and slide down to the bot
tom again."
That way, he explained. he
kept warm. II continued this
till daylight in the morning
and how often I clomb up my
tree and slid down I don't
know, but I reckon at least q
hundred times"
The big. strapping Tennes-
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Here's Lowdown on King of Wild Frontier Kids Latest Hero

sean went into politics. did
his campaigning with q new
buckskin suit with two pock-
cts that would hold a peck
each" In one he carried a
bottle, in the other tobacco.
He explained that when he'd
meet a promising voter he'd
invite the man to have drink.
The prospective constituent
would spit out his chewing
tobacco. take. a drink and then
Crockett would offer him fresh
tobacco-"to put every man
on as good a footing when I
left him as when I found him."
BY way Of tempering the
account. the conduct was not
untypical of the frontier.
Doys in Congress
Crockett came to Washing
ton and Congress and stayed
on for another term on rec
ord as a bear hunter, an In
dian fighter, a convivial nat
ure and an honest man. He
embodied the spirit of the un-
tanned frontier. His whimsy
and elemental dignity, COM
bined with a frank confession
of his ignorance opened so
many doors that he was men,
toned for the presidency. The
mention may have been face
tious, but he believed it. He
was a hero-not a legislator.
In April of 1884 he was adj
vised to travel for his health.
he explains, and took off on a
triumphant tour of the East
coast.
One phase of the journey
involved his first train ride.
This was a clean new sight
to me; about a dozen big
stages hung on to one ma
chine. While we were whizzing
along, I burst out laughing.
Why says I, it's no wonder
the fellows horses ran Off
"a Carolina waggoner had
just crossed the railroad when
the engine hove in sight with
cars attached" 1t was night
and smoke and sparks were
flying, his account reads.
The wagon was wrecked
when the horses ran away and
the waggoner ran to a house
for help. When they asked
him what scared his horses.
he said he did not just know,
but it must be hell in harness"
TriumphoI Tour
At New York he boarded a
steamboat where he was shown
his stateroom. 80" he said,
when I had made my toilet
Gas the great folk say that
is, combed my hair and taken
a glass of brandy and water,
I went on deck"
Crowds thronged to him at
every point on his tour; many,
forewarned because the ship
captain was to put up three
flags ''if I was aboard met
him at piers.
He returned to Washington
and defeat for reelection.
Bitter, he is reported to have
declared I'm going to quit
the States until such time as
honest and independent men
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Airmen Like the Idea
Of No More K. P. Duty
By Joseph HuttIinaer

and the life work Of many Of
them has been in the food
field.
They are stable people. and
they like food work. They are
doing the job for less than it
would cost if the military does
it." Col. Porter said. The
civilian gets about 20 cents a
meal, and one estimate is that
it cost the military II cents a
meal.
Refreshments Up
The contract operation re-
leases military men for the jobs
they were recruited for, officers
say. 1t makes for higher
morale, and statistics indicate
that Vance has one of the
highest re-enlistment rates in
the Air Force.
When the Air Force decided
to try the contract food serv-
ice, 1t asked for bids. It re-
ceived II of them. All were
close, about 500 apart over
a years time" officers said.
The bid of Nationwide was to
prepare the first 10000 meals
month at a cost of 21.14
cents a meal; the next 10000
meals for 1888 cents: the next
10000 for 5.42 cents a meal.
The company figured a
break-even operation at $4,000
meals a month. Actually. the
number of meals has been To-
900, due to changes in the
strength of the base. and Ma
tionwide has been losing
money.
I'VE are losing about $3.50
to $500 month";" said Todd
A. Ebbers, treasurer of Nation
wide.
Pioneering Spirit
Yet, the company is inter-
ested in the operation from
the pioneering standpoint.
The use of civilians to cook
the food is not entirely new.
Civilians had been employed
earlier under military officials.
This is the first instance,
however, where a civilian con-
tractor has been awarded a
contract through competitive
bidding to prepare all the
meals for the personnel of a
military base" says Col, Porter.
The whole Air Force Is
watching the experiment with
keen interest"
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that would render death to a
brave man particularly pleas
ant, it is freedom"
Born on a mountain top in
Tennessee ;"
Descendant of a French
Huguenot, Antoine Desasure
Peronne de Crockatagne, who
changed his name for at least
one other reason, Davey, was
born August II, 1876. But the
song is wrong about a noun
tain top. He was born along
Limestone Creek in the Nola-
chucky Rivers Tennessee Low
lands on August II, 1876. 1t
was about as frontier" as you
could get in those days.
Dangerous Childhood
He had a Woodworking
childhood and a dangerous one
from panthers, wildcats,
from black bears and from
hostile Indians. Long before
he could read he had learned
how to kill them all. OF bears
alone he was credited with los
in eight months. He didn't,
however, kill him a bar
when he was only g."
He underwent untold priva-
ton as a 12-year-old wagon
boy on a trek that brought
him up through Front Royal
and Charlottesville, Va, and
on to Baltimore. Davey made
his way back home over the
400 miles virtually alone.
After two disappointments
in romance. he married. then
left his wife and children for
the Indian fighting. Seeing I
was bent on it, all she did was
cry a little, and turn about to
her work. The truth is" he
said, my dander was up and
nothing but war could bring it
right again"
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Dove-e-e-y, Doyey Crockett
By ChorIes J. Yorbroueh

"Dave-e-e-y, Davey Crock
EFT. :"
If public adulation can still
turn the head of that legendary
Lochinvar Of the CanebrakeS.
he's truly spinning in his grave.
BY megacycle. kilocycle and
photograph, a new paean is
swelling to that bear-hunting,
humorous and sociable politi-
clan whose name was ready for
romantic history before he died
a hero's death at the Alamo.
The doleful ballad is sweep
ing the Nation, drawing to
Davey Crockett a vast new
generation of admirers and
awakening in their parents
vague memories of scf1ool-day
history and multi-told frontier
tales.
Recordings of the twanging.
3-minute history of Crockett's
full and hearty so years have
sold 100000 copies. 1t is near
the top of Washington's disc
jockey hit parades; called
for by young and old alike.
Needless to say, Davey, his
heirs and assigns get not one
penny of the royalties.
But anyway, all this fame
and the ballad too must be
music in the ears of Davey
Crockett, who, in a moment of
prophetic modeSty once wrote
that he knew "as obscure as
I am, my name is making a
considerable fuss in the world"
Myth vs.. Reality
The experts are back at
friendly feuds over how much
of the hand-me-down versions
is Crockett and how much is
legend.
Children bicker over who
gets the Crockett role in back
yard Indian wars. One boy,
armed with an inside tip from
his unromantic father that
Davey was a bum, visited
neighbor to see the Disney
television creation of Crockett.
When the boy made his
criticism, the mother of the
host kicked him out, ordered
him home to make his father
prove it.
In all such goings-on, Crock
EFT himself would revel.
With all his real attributes
and those given him in the
feelings, he was hardly a
modest man, albeit a frank
one. He once conjectured
that if he, President Andrew
Jackson, Black Hawk the In
dian chief and "a great eter-
nal big caravan of wild var
ments" were all showing at
the same time in four differ
ent parts of any big city, he
probably would draw tn e
biggest crowd.
A homespun humorist who
frequently worked at it pur-
posely, he was virtually
driven" to writing an auto
biography to scourge detract-
ors. He was vehement in de-
nying that the book was not
his own doing.
But just read for your
SELF" he said. land my ears
for a heel tap if before you
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get through you don't say
with many a good-natured
smile and hearty laugh this is
truly the very thing itself-the
exact image of its author.
AS insurance, he dashed the
critics even before his book
came out. He called them
"vermin" and declared that
II can only say to him, her
or them, that while the critics
were learning grammar and
learning to spell, I was fight
ing the wars" It was his
frank way Of admitting. with
out shame, that he had little
schooling.
With his writing-but more
with blunt. bold. prosaic, some
times racy speech-he won a
place in American literature in
a race of humorists whose most
celebrated member was Mark
Twain. Apparently he was an
early day Twain, Lincoln, Will
Rogers and Bob Burns.
On Bunker Hill
For all his detractors, 1t was
never said of Davey that he
lacked patriotism. On visiting
Bunker Hill, he said:
II went to Bunker Hill where
they were erecting a monu-
ment to those who fell in that
daybreak battle of our rising
glory. I resolved on that holy
ground, as I had done else
where. to go for my country,
always and everywhere"
At Faneuil Hall. Boston:
God grant that the liberty
tree Dough on which this cradle
rocks may never break"
Crockett had said. long be-
fore the Alamo:
IF there Is anything in this
world particularly worth living
for. it Is freedom: anything
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VANCE AIR FORCE BASE,
Okla.-The United States Air
Force is in the midst of an ex-
pertinent that may end the
onerous kitchen police duty
for enlisted men at q number
of its bases.
At Vance Air Force Base,
Enid, Okla. q test Is on which
is eyed with keen interest by
the whole Air Force. The
Army Is cooking an alert eye,
too.
A civilian contractor has
been hired by the base to pre-
pare the food, cook 1t, serve it
and keep the. kitchen clean.
He uses regular military
equipment, such as stoves and
silverware.
At Vance, there has been no
KIP duty for enlisted men since
last August /, when the test
began. At midyear point in
the test, many signs are that
the food is as good or better
than when the GIs prepared it.
90 Per Cent Favor
The results Of a poll. as un-
folded to the reporters, are
these:
One half at the base think
there has been a definite i'm
provement in the food, par
ticularly as to choices.
Forty per cent think the
food is about the same.
Two to 10 per cent think
the food is worse.
Col. r. A. Porter of the
base says of the last group:
These are the fellows who
would object if you served them
on silver trays"
The civilian contractor Is the
Nationwide Food Service Co.,
Inc, of Chicago. Nationwide
serves more than $4,000 meals
a day to some 200 clients.
The clients include the Ford
Motor Co., General Motors. the
American Can Co.. Bradley
University and the United
States Senate restaurant at the
United States Capitol.
At Vance, with a base per-
sonnet of about 5000, a total
of 80 fulltime mess personnel
and a. rotating KPs were
needed to operate the food
service. Under the civilians,
IS persons do the work.
BY and large the IS are
women. They live in Enid,
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Canada Seeks to Block
Foreign Ship Rivalry
By Gerald Worinq

ton costs which may be ex-
pected to result.
Since the seaWay will take at
least four years to build,
there's no need for an imme-
date decision. So the governs
ment handed the problem to
a royal commission and asked
for recommendations - which,
however, it is not bound to
accept.
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OTTAWA.-Behind a Cana
dian government decision to
have a royal commission in
vestigate coastal shipping lies
a fear that the st. Lawrence
Seaway will ruin the Great
Lakes shipping and shipbuild-
ing industries unless precau-
tionary action is taken.
This apprehension has been
put before the government
by the Dominion Marine As
ISOLATION, representing COM
panies which operate the odd
looking, well-decked Takers"
carrying grain, ore, coal, news
print, pulpWood and other
commodities between ports
on both sides of the lakes.
For all that the Information
al Rapids in the st. Lawrence
have been an impeachment to
water transportation. and
consequently to economic de-
velopment of the Canadian
and American Midwest. they
have fostered the growth of
important seafaring and ancil-
larry industries in these five
land-locked fresh water seas.
Some 700 cargo ships, about
one-third of them Canadian
and the rest American, ply the
lakes. They represent an in
vestment of about $500 mil
lion. Many millions more are
invested in lake shipyards
which build and repair these
vessels.
Marine Groups Fear
All this, says the Marine
Association, stands to be wiped
out If British and other foreign
ships are permitted to enter
the lakes through the new sea-
way and compete for cargoes
with the lake carriers.
The reason is cost. The av-
erage hourly wage in Canadian
lake shipyards is about $l50.
In British yards it's a third of
that, and even less in Germany.
Moreover, it costs only about
$3.50 a day to operate British
ocean-going vessel. compared
with about $3.50 for a Canadian
laker, and even more for an
American laker.
The Marine Association
wants two things. First, it
wants Canada to withdraw in
part from a Commonwealth
agreement of 1880 which per-
mlts British ships to engage
freely in the Canadian coastal
trade.
Second, it wants the govern
ment to negotiate q treaty
with the United States to pro-
hibit ships other than those OF
the two countries from parti-
clpatlng in trade between lake
ports.
Limits on Treaty
The proposed treaty would
not affect ocean traffic be-
tween the two countries, or
foreign ships arriving at lake
ports with cargoes loaded out
side the lakes, or taking on
cargoes for destinations any
where in the world except 9TH
er lake ports.
How well the Canadian lake
shipowners will fare with their
plea for special protection is
problematical. The Govern
ment here appreciates the
anomaly of the two countries
spending 1851 million to enable
ocean-going ships to navigate
into the heart of North Amer
lea, and then pushing the door
partly shut on foreign vessels.
Moreover. Prime Minister Louis
st. Laurent is on record as
saying that the only justifica-
ton for building the seaway
IL the reduction in transDorta-
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its frons, 1
a lpured pulls and setback legs and
charcoal banding added combinations
The Lincoln times., 1955-03-14
Swine Production
Shows An Increase

Almost tWo-thirdS of the ma
tlon'S farms now depends on hogs
for part of their income. accord
ING to figures cited by the Ameri-
can Foundation for Animal Health
In the north central states, al
most three-fourths Of the farms
raise some hogs while in Iowa the
percentage climbs to IS percent
according to the Foundation.
Between 10 and u percent of
the national farm income comes
from the sale of swine. the study
continues. More than SO million
hogs were slaughtered during 1853
making an average of 81 to 70
pounds of pork for each person in
the nation. Pork also provided so
percent of the total meat consum-
ed in the country, and swine are
the greatest single outlet for farm
raised grains.
1t was also noted by the Foun-
dation that during the past five
wears a larger percentage of hogs
was vaccinated against hog chol-
era than in any previous year. In
1858, more than SIS percent of the
total swine production in the ma
ton was vaccinated, the Founda-
ton reports.
The Lincoln times., 1955-03-14

to express your ideas. That's just
the way it works.
And. come Tuesday morning. il
you don't have that poll tax paid.
you are going to miss a lot of
the fun. You might even get sad
died with something you don't like.
There's not going to be much you
can say about it, either, if you
can't produce that poll tax receipt:
because the fellow who paid his
tax and voted isn't going to spend
much time listening to you.
From the Suburban List, Essex
Junction, Vermont: When women
get together and start a crusade.
the fur flies. This is shown by the
action of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs of which there are
$4,000 spread across the nation.
In well organized drive these
club women started in to clean
the horror comics off the news
stands. They have been working
in many central states and west
ern cities with definite good re-
suits. Their influence has been so
great that thousands of dealers
are refusing to stock these comic
books.
The drive was very effective in
Omaha, Nebraska. and in that
state it has been extended to 300
other cities and towns. The cru
SADIE extended to many other states
and the good work is just begin
mig to show.
The Lincoln times., 1955-03-14
LOVES H0TF00T
By Maurice Vincent

DOR the tenth time that evening
Lolly Hendricks kicked off her
shoes. held up one dainty foot at
a time, and rubbed aching feet
with great sighs Lolly was a
pretty girl with curling eyelashes
and a trick Of widening her eyes
in amazement that men found ir-
resiStable - especially when she
waited on their table at the Busy
Bee Cafe
"Oh, my feet my feet are
killing me-" cried Lolly to Mabel,
the other waitress on duty They
were all alone in the Busy Bee.
Mabel looked sympathetically at
Lolly's feet and the impractical
high heeled pumps.
Il hope he comes. dearie." an
swered Mabel Mabel was the
practical one She sighed as she
looked at Lolly and her pretty
pumps and then looked down at
her own flat, practical shoes.
$50 do l." Lolly sighed Il can't
bear to wear these pumps another
hour!"
Many men who came to the
Busy Bee found Lolly attractive.
But only one man Lolly found to
be the man for her But Joe
Wendell never even looked at the
pretty waitress as she buzzed
hopefully about his table, Joe was
a mechanic at the village garage
The best derned mechanic IN
seven states" according to owner,
Bill Abel. Joe was from California.
Il Just know it's these horrible
fat shoes I'm wearing Lolly had
walled The fat, ugly tbut COM
fortable) shoes had been an obSeS-
sion with her. So today she had
worn her high heeled pumps. Most
impractical for a girl on her feet
all day. BY noon, Lolly had several
blisters on her tiny feet. By eve.
ming, and still no Joe, Lolly was
almost cripple.
IF he does come IF
I'll be too crippled to wait or
him." she worried.
Why don't you soak 'em ir
cold water?'' asked Mabel. We're
not busy go back to the kitch
en- and soak those feet in cold
water
Il can stand it bit longer