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Negro Educator
Hits Inteqrution

MOUND BAYOU, Miss, July
IA (P.-A Mississippi Negro
educator has called for what he
describes as continued racial
harmony through the mainten-
ance Of segregation.
DR.. j. H. White, president of
Mississippi Vocational College
for Negroes at Itta Bena, told
thousands Of Negroes attending
the 69th anniversary OF the
founding Of this all-Negro town
this week:
Negroes of the South should
have the intelligence to size up
the situation and not throw away
(schools) by attempting to dis
rupt peaceful conditions which
have existed for so many years
just to eat, sit and ride be-
side a white person."
Mr.. White criticized Repre-
sentative Adam Clayton Powell,
Democrat Of New York, for an
indignation amendment he pro-
posed to a Federal aid bill for
school construction. He said
the amendment caused defeat
Of the bill.
Can you imagine a Negro
Congressman blocking such a
needed measure just to make the
headlines?" Mr.. White asked
Yet you will find some Negroes
in Mississippi supporting him. :"
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CONSTANTINE BROWN
Loss of Airfields Would Knock Out
Bat Medium Bomber Defense Line

Our military and diplomatic
leaders are growing more and
more concerned every day with
the seriousness of the trend
toward depriving us of our
overseas air bases, so vital to
the defense of the free world
in the event of a new Com
muniSt aggression.
In the absence of a sufficient
quantity of intercontinental
bombers of the B-52 type, an
unpalatable fact clearly point
ed up in the recent Senate
hearings on the Air Force and
in the testimony of such able
commanders as Gen. Curtis
LeMay, head of the Strategic
Air Force. and Gen. Nathan
Twining, Chief of Staff of the
Air Force, our defense strategy
depends on the use of BAT
medium jet bombers operating
from bases close enough to
permit effective retaliation
should the Reds strike. If we
lose the bases. our entire de-
Tense system is knocked awry.
Yet that appears to be just
what is happening. The great
base at Keflavik, Iceland, al
ready is gone if the results of
the recent Icelandic elections
are followed up. There, the
foes of American military CO.
operation succeeded in con-
vincing enough Icelanders that
the American base must go.
In Morocco, we have four
bases and the newly independ-
ent Moroccan government is
demanding a prohibitive hold
up price in yearly rentals if
we are to continue to use them.
Our Spanish bases are not
completed, and the costs for
them are rising steeply as the
Franco government discovers
new needs and new charges.
There is agitation even among
our NATO allies in Western
Europe for a reduction In
American-operated air bases,
particularly those most vul-
nerable to Soviet air attack.
The most recent threat to a
United States base, although
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the base itself is in a stand by
status and not a major opera
tional one, is in Saudi Arabia,
the oil-rich Arabian kingdom.
Dhahran, on the Persian Gulf.
is a base of immense strategic
Importance principally because
of its location in the vital and
seething Middle East. And we
would ordinarily have the right
to expect that the Saudi Ara
bianS, with their strong anti
Communist sentiments and
their immense stake in the
continued flow of American
capital into their oil fields.
would welcome the existence of
an American outpost of air
power on their soil. But world
politics apparently DEGREES
otherwise.
The Saudi Arabians want
modern arms and equipment
from the United States in
quantities sufficient to create
an immensely powerful strik-
ing force. The army so
created would, to be sure, be
available for use against the
Soviet Union in the event of
a Red attack in the Middle
East. But our diplomats fear
it would also be readily avail
able for a determined Arab
attack on Israel.
For that reason. there is
at the present stage of the
Middle Eastern crisis a deep
reluctance to arm the Arab
states too fast and too far.
And Saudi Arabia, knowing
as do the merchants of the
bazaars the advantages of a
good trade, are using the pros
pect Of loss of the Dhahran
base as not-too-gentle pres
sure on the United States for
a major speed-up in arms de-
liverieS.
Thus, even more than was
the case in Egypt. our policy
makers are face to face with
a thorny dilemma. In Egypt
NaSser simply got his arms
from the Reds and left us
whiStling protests. The Saudi
Arabians have not as yet ap-
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Soviet Upper House
Votes Pension Rise

MOSCOW, July IA (P).-The
upper house of the Supreme So
Wet (parliament) voted unan-
imously today to increase retire.
ment pensions for Russian work.
ers.
The action of the Council OF
Nationalities sent the legislation
to the lower house, the Council
of the Union, for it's approval.
The bill is designed to liberal
ize the Soviet pension system.
Premier Bulganin urged its pass
age yesterday in speeches to both
houses.
A proposal to lower the retire
ment age to so was laughed
down. At present men can re-
tire at so after IS years of labor
and women at SIS.
| Pension OUTLAWS will be in
creased from IS billion to 38
billion rubles under the govern
ment measure. Officially, the
ruble is valued at IS cents. In
terms of purchasing power, west
ern authorities say, it is worth
only 5 or 10 cents
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-14
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Gov Hartman of New York invades Dixie in dele
gates This is expected stir the greatest response of
Yankee expedition since Gen. Shermans march through
Georgia.
Washington doesn't much time enemies any
Congress too busy cutting down foreign aid
friendsand the administration blasting away
One fellow is unucky that when he tries
be good loser, the best he do is tie.
Dulles, Sassen Nixon you've Republican
diplomacy has proved the world is round
Economy If Stevenson and Eisenhower the OPP
posing candidates this fall be the President
won't be spending a lot of money har-cuts
A purporting the inside dope of the Essen
hover administration disappointment The author
names the fellow.
Chandler of Kentucky opens campaign President
there's of health If the Democrats
mated him. half the voters might faint of shock
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Workmen Compensation
To Rise to $50 or More

of the House Rules Committee.
raised this point yesterday in
the House when the bill came up
for debate.
Mr.. Smith moved to exempt
the District from the increased
benefits, but was voted down, 116
to 81, on a motion to freeze the
maximum District workmen's
compensation at the present $35
a week.
He was supported by Repre-
sentative Mcmillan. chairman of
the House District Committee,
and by Representative Miller,
Republican of Nebraska.
Method Opposed
why employees of Garfinckel's
and Woodward & Lothrop should
be Jumped with longshoremen is
more than can understand"
said Mr.. Mcmillan.
He said he would not oppose
raising the rate for District en-
ployes. but he objected to the
way it was being done.
Representative Edith Green,
Democrat of Oregon, author of
the House bill to liberalize the
rates of compensation for long
shoremen, said her bill was in
tended to be model compensa-
ton law for the Nation. She
argued that the average weekly
salaries paid here were above
the average for the Nation and
were in line with those paid to
the harbor workers.
The House District Committee
has reported out a bill to give
the District separate law of its
own for workmen's compensa-
ton, but this did not come up
for action in the House yester-
day in its own right.
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THOMAS l. STOKES
On Stalled Bills and Adjournment

not hard to see why. One rea-
son is that a careful scrutiny
would show contributions by
big oil companies to the cam
paigns Of quite a number of
Senators. The coy club which
is the Senate is taking every
precaution against embarrass-
ment of it's members in its ira
ditional jealous fashion. An
other reason for holding back
on the investigation is that
Senators do not want to scare
off big contributors just before
the presidential and senatorial
campaigns by exposing previ-
Gus contributors. That might
be the effect. too, of the more
intense publicity that would
result from revising the cleo
ton laws.
The "slow down" Of the in
vestigation was skillfully con-
trived by the combined Demo-
cratic Republican leadership
which has kept the special
committee staff under such
restraints as never before seen
by this reporter in over 80
years of covering congressional
investigations. 1t has assured
that the lid will be kept on
through this session of Con-
gress and presumably for some
time thereafter, maybe until
after the election.
The acquieScent and amiable
counsel of the committee, a
local lawyer by the name of
George Morris Fay, who says
he acts only as the committee
specifically instructS, talks of
possible further hearings in
September, or maybe october.
or perhaps it might not be
until November.
There was a time when. in
such Investigations. the COM
mittee would simply call in
persons involved, in this case
oil company officials, put them
under oath and ask them ques-
tions, in this case how much
they had contributed. when,
and to whom. But you can't
do that, oh no, where Senators
are involved. They, our sup
posed public servants. are
privileged characters, though
they never give citizens called
before them any such break as
they now give themselves.
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Highway Official Urged
As Stadium Stoff Chief

Douglas S. Brinkley, chief
planning engineer of the Dis
trict Highway Department. has
been recommended as staff and
technical director for the Ma
tional Memorial Stadium Com
mission, once it has been re-
activated by Congress.
The suggestion was made by
Represen tative Thompson,
Democrat of New Jersey, in
a letter to Robert E. Mclaughlin,
president of the District Board
of Commissioners.
The commission reactivation
bill has been passed by the
House and is awaiting action by
the Senate.
Representative Thompson, one
Of the Congressional leaders
seeking to have a huge multi
purpose stadium built on the
Northeast Washington tract now
occupied by the National Train
ing School, emphasized that q
staff director should be APP
pointed in the immediate future,
since there is a tremendous
amount Of work to be done in
advance planning for the prof.
ect.
1t would be tragic" Mr..
Thompson wrote. Ito permit this
important project to fall by the
wayside as it was allowed to
do by the first commission
established in 1946)."
He added that, in order to
keep commission expenses down.
the District Commissioners would
do well to make some of their
technical staff available for the
stadium planning job.
He explained that Mr.. Brink
ley would be a good choice,
since "the interest of Congress
in the Training School site for
the stadium has stemmed largely
from his work"
I'm view of the kind of re-
port and recommendations which
must be prepared by the COM
MISSION" he said. sit would seem
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Maximum payments under the
Districts workmen's compensa-
ton law are about to go up from
$35 a week to at least $50 a
week.
The House yesterday passed a
bill dealing with the problems of
the longshoremen and harbor
workers of the East and West
Coasts and Chicago-to which
the District is misunderstanding
the maximum to $54. The Senate
earlier had passed a bill raising
the maximum to $50.
Key members of the Senate
Labor and Public Welfare Com
mittee are comforting on the
question as to whether to accept
the more liberal House bill or
whether to send the measure to
a conference between the House
and Senate.
Separate Law Fails
Why the District is tied to the
longshoremen's act is one of
those queer things that happen
in parliamentary maneuvers. A
separate act was proposed for
the District many years ago. but
House and Senate District lead
ers could not come to an agree
ment.
So the District was attached
to the longshoremen's bill, with
The end result that rates are
raised here any time the pres
sure groups are able to persuade
House and Senate committees
that the maximum should be
raised for the harbor workers in
far-diStant ports.
Representative Smith, Demo-
crat of Virginia, who is chair
man Of the House Fiscal Sub
committee as well as chairman
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Lawmakers Criticized on Lobby Probe
And Campaign Expenditure Revision

brought before the Senate for
action.
Nor has much happened in
the oil and gas lobby inquiry.
The committee has held public
hearings on associations and
organizations active for and
against the gas bill in which
it was revealed that big oil
companies created two special
committees. They spent 50
million promoting the bill in
publicity Of all sorts, including
newspaper. magazine and ra-
dio advertising. Consumer or
CARNATIONS, including labor.
as we'll as gas utilities spent
comparatively little in fighting
the measure which would have
exempted natural gas pro-
ducers from regulation by the
Federal Power Commission and
would have boosted prices to
consumers all over the Nation.
But nothing has been heard
from the committee about po-
litical contributions of big oil
companies, including those to
Senators, and only the other
day the staff was instructed to
begin to take a look into about
ten oil companies. 1t was this
phase of the investigation that
became the particular concern
of the public-as it should
have been of the Senate-be-
cause of the sensational revela-
ton on the Senate floor, to-
ward the end of debate on the
natural gas bill. by Senator
Francis Case, Republican Of
South Dakota, that the lobbyist
of a big California oil company
had offered a $4,000 cash con-
tribution to his campaign.
which he had rejected. 1t was
that episode which subsequent
ly led to veto of the gas bill by
President Eisenhower, who
spoke of the arrogance" of the
oil and gas lobby. The Case
sensation also had forced the
Senate reluctantly to vote the
investigation Of the lobby and
Of campaign contributions by
oil and gas, amid predictions
that little would come of such
an inquiry because of the way
it was set up.
Those predictions have been
borne out thus far.
If you know the Senate. it is
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Hypocrisy is perhaps as
common in politics as any
where else, maybe more so.
Currently there is a glaring
example in the virtual sup
preston of the special inves-
tigation the Senate piously
authorized nearly five months
ago into the oil and gas lobby
behind the Inflated natural
gas bill as we'll as into political
campaign contributions made
by oil companies, which have
included the campaigns Of
many Senators.
Stalled likewise is a related
and long-needed reform. This
is a revision of campaign ex-
penditure laws to assure COM
plete and full publicity Of all
campaign contributions so
that the voter may know their
source. It also would raise
present limits on contributions
to make them more realistic in
the light of greatly increased
costs of political campaigns
today.
1t was on February %
George Washington'S birth
day-that the Senate adopted
the resolution setting up a
special Senate committee of
eight members. of which Sem
ator Mcclellan Of Arkansas
is chairman, to explore the oil
and gas lobby and contribu-
lions to political campaigns by
oil and gas interests.
1t is over a year since the
original bill to revise our cam
paign expenditure laws was
placed on the Senate calendar.
a measure sponsored by Sena-
tor HenningS, Democrat OF
Missouri. The public indigna-
ton aroused by revelations OF
the activities of the oil and
gas lobby on behalf of the nat
ural gas bill focused attention
on this long-neglected bill.
That prompted Senate Demo-
cratic and Republican leaders
to take another look at it.
They toned it down and this
watered-down version suisse
quently has been Endorsed by
IS members of the Senate, an
overwhelming majority.
But it still has not been
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to me that the Stadium Com
mission would be extremely for.
tunate if it could obtain the
services of Mr.. Brinkley. II the
suggested arrangements could be
worked out, feel sure that this
great project could be brought
to a successful conclusion"
The District Commissioners,
meanwhile. are expected next
Tuesday to announce the three
Washington members to serve
with the three Representatives
and three Senators already
named as the commission.
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Holding Onto Overseas Bases

peared ready to do likewise,
but probably are fairly GER
tain that American military
equipment will be forthcom-
ing fast if we face the loss of
Dhahran. And we'll it might.
Yet to add to Arab armament,
in the opinion of many who
know the situation, would be
to guarantee war against
Israel, dismal outlook indeed
for our announced aim of pre-
serving the peace in the
Middle East almost at any
cost,
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Lafayette

The Laugh-Yet club of Lima, me-
Tuesday in the home of Mrs. Guy
Larue at Harrod. Mrs. Ethel Helser
and Mrs. Blanche Helser were guests
from Lafayette.
Mrs. Fern Long and daughter Pat
sy left Tuesday for Mesa, Arizona, tc
join her husband Mr.. Clyde Long.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Westphal, Sr.t
spent the week end in Swanton with
his brother, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernie
Westphal.
Mrs. Louise Cloore spent Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. Carrie Lentz.
Mrs. Myrtle brennan and daugh-
ter Lillian of Defiance, visited Thurs
day afternoon with her uncle, MIR.
Paul Cloore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Brackney
left Sunday for Philadelphia, Pa, to
spend the week.
Mrs. Bertha Desenberg and daugh-
ter Lillian of Ada, visited Sunday
afternoon in the homes of Mrs.
Louise Cloore and Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Clum and Mrs. Loretta Clum.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Knudtson of
Wapakoneta, and Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
thur Clark of Troy, o., were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Tom
Robinson. Afternoon callers were
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G.. Helling of Mau-
NEE.
Mrs. Edith Klingler and daughter
Linda of Niles, Mich, are spending
two weeks with her mother, Mrs.
die Arnold.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Sopher enter
tanned in their home Sunday her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Koogler
and family, Miss Linda Klingler of
Niles, Mich, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben
Sandy, Mrs. Mary Sandy of Beaver
dam, and Mrs. Mary Teagarden of
Lima.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Gibson of Lima,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Kline at
tended the 26th wedding anniversary
of their sister, Mr.. and Mrs Hershell
Snyder at Manchester, Mich, Sum
day.
Mr. Harley Mann of Bluffton, and
Junior Bixler of West Palm Beach,
Fla, called Wednesday afternoon in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Hall
and Mr.. and Mrs. Doyt Hall and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oran Brown of st.
Marys, Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin wilkins
of Ft. Wayne, Ind, were Saturday
evening dinner of Mr.. and Mrs. Ev-
erett Crumrine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Holderman
and Mrs. Georgia Watt of Toledo,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Dray of
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Pandora Business
Men Schedule
Summer Events

Annual baseball trip sponsored by
the Pandora Business Mems associa-
tion will be held today, Thursday,
rather than on Saturday as previous
ly announced.
The Pandora -Gilboa high school
band, under the direction of Ralph
Balmer, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Balmer, S. Lawn avenue, will be
heard in concert each Saturday night
from 8 to 9 p. m. through July 81.
1t has been announced that the
election of officers for the Business
Mems association will be held at
their July meeting. The annual corn
roast for the Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts
and Explorer Scouts will be held in
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Roberta ]. Fleming
Weds Charles Smith

An impressive Cermony Sunday
evening in st. Marks Lutheran
church, Ada, united in marriage Miss
Roberta Jean Fleming, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Fleming, Ada, and
Charles Smith, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Smith, Sr., Route /, Lafayette.
The Rev. L. H. Wyandt officiated
at the ceremony. Pre-nuptial music
was played by Miss Charlotte Goss-
man at the organ. Vocalist was Miss
Joyce Hawes.
Given in marriage by her father,
the bride wore a white taffeta faille
dress and white hat complemented
with an orchid corsage and a pearl
necklace, a gift of the groom. She
carried white Bible and her great
grandmother's white linen handker-
chief.
Maid of honor for the bride was
Miss Mary Ruth Dabler, Ada. George
Smith, Jr., Route 1, Lafayette, was
the best man. Ushers were Roger
Fleming, Ada, brother of the bride,
and Wayne Fleming, Route 1, Ada,
the brides cousin.
Mrs. Ray Guider, Mrs. Lloyd Fairly,
Mrs. Guy Fleming and Mrs. Roger
Fleming, all of Ada, served at the
reception in the newlywed's apart
ment in Wapakoneta following the
ceremony.
Miss Smith was a 1856 graduate of
Ada high school. Mr.. Smith, gradu-
ate of Lafayette-Jackson high school,
is employed as a machinist.
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Lima, were guests in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Biteman the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Messick of
Findlay, were Saturday evening din
ner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. R. w.
Robinson and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Justin Blunden were
Sunday evening dinner guests of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Carter Blum
den and son Larry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hawk, Jr.,
and family left Saturday for two
weeks vacation through the Smoky
mountains.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ronald Albert spent
Sunday with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Dewey Albert and daughter
Alice.
Mrs. Evelyn Bowyer and son Ron
aid of Bluffton, were Sunday guests
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde
Williams. Evening callers were: Mr..
and Mrs. Joe Williams and family of
Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-06-21

Marcia Travis and Sheryl Martin.
Dates for the club meetings are June
29, July 13, July 27 and Aug. 10 at
2 p. m. in the library.
Sixth grade met for the first time
Saturday while other meetings are
set for June 80, July IA, July %
and Aug. IL at 2 p. m.
At the close Of school the follow
ing officers were elected for the
Summer Reading Club: president,
Jean Stauffer; vice president, Charles
Amstutz; secretary treasurer, Nancy
Swank; reporter, Sandra Edie.