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Kodiak mirror., 1960-09-24
Opinions of Men Probed Ir1 Prayer Speaker Claims

To meet today's needs, the com mon, unreflective opinions of men must be challenged spiritually and neient1 ca'y, Robert Dblling Wells of Seattle, Wash. toli a large audience here last Sunday.
 There is a practical answer to human needs, an intelligent answer which is indicated in the Lords Prayer, MT. Wells stated.
 Christ Jesus taught and practiced, he said, from a stand point which challenged many of the common opinions of his era. And because of it he was able to heal the prevalent sicknesses and sins with what the Biblical record indicates was remarkable success. He was able to open for mankind new paths of achievement in over coming the fears, Limitations, the
Kodiak mirror., 1960-09-24
Dates Set For Nixon-kennedy Tv-Radio Debates

NEW YORK (P) = Dates and times for the great debate" be- tween Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy have been announced by television and radio networks.
 The first debate will be in Chicago on Monday, Sept. 26, 5:3O- 6:30 pm. PSF, on domestic policy.
 On Friday, Oct. 2, 3:3O-4:3O D. m, PSF, they will appear on the first of two programs of a news panel format.
 The program will originate in New York if both candidates can be here. Otherwise the networks Will follow them and use split screen.
 The second news panel pro- gram will be Thursday, Oct. 13, 3:3O-4:30 pm. PSF, using the split screen. Nixon will be in Los Angeles, Kennedy in New York.
 On Friday. October 21, 6-7 pm. PSF, they will discuss foreign policy from New York.
 The programs will be carried on both radio and TV
Kodiak mirror., 1960-09-24

iseouragements. of human con- cjousness and experience.
 MT. Wells spoke at the investa- ision of the Christian Science So- ciefy of Kodiak in the church edifice on the subject Christian Science Challenges Common Opinion. A Christian Science teacher and practitioner, he is on an extended tour as a member of The Christian Science Board of Lecturship. He was introduced by It. JIG G. B. Haynes.
Kodiak mirror., 1960-09-24

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Kodiak mirror., 1960-09-24
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Kodiak mirror., 1960-09-24
TAKE HEED

A danger sign on a highway can't talk, but it isn't as dumb as the guy who doesn't believe it.
Kodiak mirror., 1960-09-24
KODIAK DIRECTORY

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Evening star., 1960-07-14
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

The Democratic convention nominated the man of the
hour and at least another SIS minutes before dele
gates started to regret it.
The tension great the Democratic convention
that one delegate cracked completely and
fiscal responsibility"
The Dixie civil rights revolt like the spent
building ntercontinental missile base-to shoot
off hrecracker.
Adai Stevenson got terrific ovation at the convention
but declined to become canddae-on the ground he was
too busy writing his acceptance speech
One veteran politician is indignant he wasn't offered
the vice presidency He Vice President supposed
to be coores-and in the party lacks color
he does.
Efficiency expert fellow who can't stand Heaven be-
cause it lets the other place get most of the business
Washington: The city with heart-and somebody elSes
pocketbook.
Evening star., 1960-07-14
DAVID LAWRENCE
Kennedy and the Platform

form as presented by Chester
Bowles. chairman of the re-
solutions committee.
Incidentally. If any Demo-
cratic Party speakers in the
coming campaign refer dis
paragingly to Madison Av-
enue technique" they can
do so only with a sense of
guilt. For Mr.. Bowles dra-
matically used movie film,
with pictures Of Red Chinese
and Russians, to illustrate a
point in the platform-how
strong the enemy is getting
to be. He displayed pictures,
too. to emphasize points on
civil rights" 1t all added up
to a show which interested
the delegates a little more
than the platform phrases.
But, all in all. it was a dis
appointing affair. What
should have been a real de-
bate on party policy was just
a routine presentation. May
be a national convention is
not the place for debate on
serious subjects. But some
day the American people will
ask: Why hold convention
If it isn't to articulate the
wishes of the voter? Why
talk about civil rights"
when a platform is adopted
that would deprive people on
every side of their civil
rights in the field Of en-
ployment and private-school
education? AS one apologist
who spoke for the majority
report put it, a platform is
only a blueprint" and it is
"only for four years"
But Senator Kennedy now
has Endorsed it. Does that
mean he will work to carry
it out, or will he see its pit
falls and evade what the
platform proposes? If so, it
will be added proof that it is
permissible to promise every
thing at a national conven-
tion and, when elected, to
give little.
Thus does a convention
nominate a candidate the
party really doesn't prefer to
the other possible choices,
and thus does a convention
adopt a platform which
pledges the party to do every
thing better than the prede-
cessor administration did, but
never indicates how. The
platform and the nominee. in
effect, promise perfection.
That's what makes party
politics today the essence of
hypocrisy.
(Copyright, Ig60)
Evening star., 1960-07-14
Reservoir Torrent
Kills Housewife

PITTSBURGH, July IA (AP)
"A mother of four was swept
to her death yesterday when
a reservoir wall burst and sent
a 30-foot wave of water past
her home.
Mrs. Jean Aber, 80, a house
wife from suburban Penn Hills,
was caught up in the surging
water while working in the
yard. The torrent Of water
carried her several hundred
yards down a ravine.
The water came from the
north sedimentation basin of
the 25-million- gallon Wilk-
insburg-Penn Hills water au-
thority reservoir. Witnesses
said the 15-foot high wall
bulged, then burst open like a
gate. The water gushed
through the break and thun-
dered down the ravine. 1t
carried with it an automobile,
a cement mixer, small sheds
and machinery from several
homes.
After whipping through the
ravine. the wall Of water
poured into the Allegheny
River.
Evening star., 1960-07-14
Rise Of Gang Influence
Friqhtens Londoners

/ The Pen Club reached the
courts and the newspapers
because it involved violent
death. But every week, people
are slashed or beaten up with
out the police being called in or
even informed. The underworld
code, enforced more by fear
than by loyalty, keeps the vic
Tins silent.
The day after the Pen Club
trail ended. a father and three
sons were charged with another
fatal street shooting that had
the hallmark of a gang murder.
The public stir caused by
these events has brought de-
mands for police action. But
the police. in spite of their
familiarity with the situation,
are powerless to pr, secute the
gang lords without witnesses
willing to talk.
There are bigger gangs in
London today than there have
been for many years, and they
are better armed than ever
before-guns have rarely been
used in underworld clashes in
past years. Unless the police
can find a way to curb gang
Sterdom. London is likely to see
violence and fear spread still
more.
Evening star., 1960-07-14
DORIS FLEESON
Statement Seen Aimed at Pivotal States
Stressing Division With Republicans

LOS ANGELES. - The
baleful headlines on the news
from Moscow and Leopoldville
reinforced the note of uncer-
tainty among the Democrats
in convention assembled.
This sudden burst of alarms
and excursions could not, in
fact, have been better calcu-
lated to lend immediacy to the
efforts Of Stevenson support
ers to achieve a belated
breakthrough.
For it was exactly what
they had been talking about.
Not even the most preoccu-
pied delegate in this isolated
atmosphere could ignore the
new storm signals around the
globe. 1t may not change
their purpose here, but it in
sured that the Stevenson
message would get through.
AS the first roll call ap-
preached, delegates were be-
ing deluged with thousands
of kilograms demanding a Ste
venson nomination. A fancy
badge almost invariably in
vited a siege of the wearer by
urgent Stevensonians.
Again 1t was the only
doubtful note to disturb the
conviction Of the Kennedy
forces that the nomination
was neatly packaged and
ready for delivery.
But if this small nagging
question remained as to the
eventual nominee, there could
be none as to the character
of the Democratic Party to-
day. The adopted platform
of the convention is a full
blown liberal product without
a weasel word. The Southern
attack on the civil rights sec
Evening star., 1960-07-14

LOS ANGELES. = Senator
John F. Kennedy has taken
the plunge-he has heartily
Endorsed the most radical and
divisive platform the Demo-
Gratis have ever adopted.
1t means the loss of elec-
toral votes in the South, but
the Massachusetts, Senator is
confident of offsetting this
with votes in the Northern
States.
This convention has come
to a sad climax. 1t didn't
nominate Adlai Stevenson,
the true disciple of New Deal
ism and so-called liberal
ISM" 1t didn't nominate Lyn-
don johnson, the apostle of
safe and sane liberalism. 1t
gave no thought really, as a
convention, to any basic prin-
cipleS, but obeyed the dictates
of a small clique, hand-picked
by Senator Kennedy, to write
the platform and steamroller
the convention.
Nothing could have been
more discouraging to the
American people to watch
than the real spectacle of
what has been going on in
side the convention. They
couldn't, of course, see this
on the televiSion screen. But
the indifference of the dele
gates-the bored look, for in
stance, on the faces of many
of them as vital principles of
public policy were being pre-
sented in the majority report
of the platform committee
was very revealing. 1t told a
story of the utter failure of
the convention system to re-
fleet the wishes of the people
on the issues of the day.
Senator Kennedy's nomi-
nation was a foregone conclu-
sion long before this conven-
tion assembled. This writer
observed the signs many
months ago as he learned of
the efficiently political way
the Kennedy apparatus -
we'll Financed and well-or-
ganized-was selecting dele
gates and using local inf1u-
ences on the political front
to make all kinds of prom
ises to win delegate sup
port.
This is not the manner in
whiNI the American people
should be choosing their
presidential candidates. A
Evening star., 1960-07-14
RALPH McGILL
All Horrors of War Without Its Glory,
Said Mencken, but He Wouldn't Miss 1t

LOS ANGELES.-What is
it like to cover a national
nominating convention? None
ever said it better than the
late Henry Mencken:
g. meals bolted suicid-
ally or missed altogether,
nights spent in pursuing elu-
sive and infamous politicians,
hours wasted upon the writ
ing of dispatches that were
overtaken by fresh news .
dreadful alarm and surprises
at 3 o'clock in the morning,
all the horrors of war with
out any of its glory"
And yet, for all the sleep
lessness and weariness, and
for all the prepoSterous
qualities of it, 1 would not
willingly miss an hour Of it.
Nor would Mr.. Mencken:
For there is something
about a national convention
that makes it as fascinating
as a revival or a hanging. 1t
is vulgar, it is ugly, it is
stupid, it is tedious, it is hard
upon both the higher cere-
bral centers and the gluteus
maximus, and yet it is some
how charming. One sits
through long sessions wish
ing heartily that all the dele
gates and alternates were
dead and in hell-and then
suddenly there comes a show
so gaudy and hilarious, so
melodramatic and obscene,
so unimaginably exhilarating
! and preposteroUB that one
Evening star., 1960-07-14

Prime Minister Khrushchev
and his Chinese sidekicks
may be OVERRIDING their cal
culated terrorism in the
American electoral contest.
For the time being the men
in the Kremlin have taken
the offensive in their direct
and indirect meddlings in
our electoral affairs. Mr..
Khrushchsv started the ball
rolling when he torpedoed
the summit conference in
Paris. He followed up shortly
afterwards by engineering
unprecedented troubles in
Cuba through his puppet,
Fidel Castro, whose Soviet.
Chinese and satellite ad-
visers are unobtrusively guild
ing his acts, directed not
only at United States citi-
zenS and their property in
Cuba. but also against the
property Of other citizens Of
the free West.
The shooting down on July
/ of an American bomber
outside Soviet airspace by
Red fighter planes is just
another electoral incident"
The Red boss's minions in
Mexico are acting up and arr
attempting to use the STU
dent tactics" to cause fric-
tions between the two friend
ly neighboring states. just
as was done in Japan.
What other surprises Mr..
Khrushchev may be prepar-
ing for us in this hemisphere
cannot be predicted yet. His
ace in the hole is, of course,
East Germany and Berlin. 1t
is uncertain when he will de-
eide to withdraw the Russian
troops from East Germany
and hand over to the military
Evening star., 1960-07-14

lives a gorgeous year in an
hour"
The Democrats are better.
They are not always proper
and are rarely SNUG. The
Republicans come with their
neat suits and their air of
respectability. They have an
aroma about them of money,
of expensive leather chairs in
rich Offices, and of propriety.
The Democrats come in sports
shirts and slacks, in the most
incredible costumes and dec
orations. They do not mind
being loudly drunk in public,
while a Republican always
prefers to over-indulge with
dignity and in privacy.
The Democrats are given
to impromptu parades and to
grand and hilarious evenings
in night clubs. They find Los
Angeles to their liking, If
only the distances were not
so far and the prices so
lofty.
The delegates are the heart
and soul of the show. They
do not. however, have much
real participation in deci-
sions. Now and then a delega-
ton will rebel, or a faction
will defy the chairman. But
by and large, the delegates
are the creatures of the gov
ernors of their States. A few
Of them are chosen by direct
election, but even so, these
few almost invariably are
choices of the organization.
Evening star., 1960-07-14
Nominating Conventions Charm

Delegates are called to
caucuses to hear what has
been decided by their chair
men and governors. The
States with the huge dele
gate totals, such as New
York, Pennsylvania, Cali
fornia, Illinois, New Jersey
and Massachusetts,, swing the
greatest weight.
When political writer's
speak of they" it is the
heads of these State or
ganizations whom they have
in mind. The managers Of
candidates must go to them.
1t is they who will decide
whether Kennedy will win
on the first ballot or the
second. 1t is they who will
determine if Kennedy is not
to be nominated. This is a
very simple bit of arithmetic,
and political skills.
Usually, as now, they"
manage to remain uncom-
mitted. They maneuver be-
hind the facade of a favorite
son. 1t is they" who have
the most power. If they"
can hold 1t in reserve to be
thrown into the scrimmage
at the critical moment,
they" can determine a
nomination.
Henry Mencken, he of the
soaring words and descriptive
phrases, loved the delegates
for their submissiveness, their
good humor. their sudden
angers. their faithful per-
formances in the ritual of
the demonstration ,parades
Evening star., 1960-07-14
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Red Offensive in u. S. Election

Huh Chung, who recently
stated publicly that the un-
realistic goal of former Pres
ident Syngman Rhee to go
north" and achieve Korean
unity by throwing the Com
munist government of North
Korea out Of Office is now
discarded. The former Ko-
rean President never thought
that this could be done with
out the full cooperation of
Washington. And he had
been told firmly that we
would not indorse such a.
policy.
But DR.. Rhee continued to
mention this as a kind of
psychological warfare and
morale booster for his 600, 900
men in the armed forces.
The men in Peiping were con-
vinced that neither Wash
ington nor the Is members
of the U. N. would permit
the resumption of hostilities
across the 38th Parallel.
They regarded DR.. Rhee as.
unpredictable, however, and
wondered whether he might
not order the ROK troops
north, thus placing an ac-
compliShed fact before his
allies. Because of this con-
sideration they were COM
PEELED to keep about 100000
of their elite troops in North
Korea to prevent the COL
lapse of the puppet forces in
the remote eventuality of the
ROKs taking the offensive.
The transfer of these forces
toward South Asia repeatedly
started shortly after Mr..
Hubs statement indorsing
unity by negotiations.
This is the overall picture
of the likely efforts of inter-
national communism to ter
rorize the American people
into inducing them to elect
next November candidates for
Office whom the Kremlin
hopes might be "easy to
handle"
Evening star., 1960-07-14
U-2 Case Touches Off
Soviet Vigilance Drive

ahead-just before and after
the Powers trial. But there are
signs that powerful forces are
at work to keep the drive, still
mostly confined to the press
from getting out of hand.
Just over a year ago, for ex-
ample. before opening of the
tourist season and last sum-
mer's United States exhibition
an earlier vigilance campaign
was under way with no U-2 in
cident to set it off.
One of its more bizarre fea-
lures was a quite unprece-
dented lecture at Moscow's
Polytechnical Museum on the
evening of June S, 1859. The
audience consisted mostly of q
few Western diplomatic at
tacheS and the tails" assigned
to follow them. Before this tiny
group, the lecturer described in
painstaking detail every in
stance of espionage alleged to
have occurred here in the past
dozen or so years. He even
brought up the case of an as
siStant embassy military at
tache caught in Stalingrad a
few years ago with a radal
device in his pocket and anten-
nae going up his sleeves.
Young Villagers Warned
Worst dupes of all, the
speaker warned, are young So.
Wet villagers who follow foreign
styles. Jumping all their sins
together, he said these people
are drawn to symbolist poetry
go on drunken SpreeS and fall
afoul Of foreign agents." Sum
ming up, he said that Americas
Central Intelligence Agency has
wide eyes, 10000 employees ano
a billion and a half dollars q
year" with which to drag un-
whiting Soviet citizens into its
net.
Though this years vigilance
campaign" is barely getting un-
der way, Moscow-baSed news
men already feel the impact
of the Powers affair iE theil
daily work. Interviews, hard to
obtain at the best of times, are
even harder to get than be-
fore. And quite a few tourists
could report experiences like
that of the Yale law school
professor who asked to meet
a Soviet scholar in his field
IF only" sighed the Intourist
guide. you had come before
Mr.. Powers!"
Evening star., 1960-07-14
Candidate Pictured as Risking
South on Civil Rights Plank

platform. for instance, is
supposed to be an expression
of party thought. Yet as the
chairman was reading the
ponderous phrases the dele
gates were busy talking
among themselves or moving
around the convention floor.
Frank Sinatra, the movie
star, came along and began
shaking hands with some
California delegates as the
ever-present p o t ographers
gathered around him. The
celebrities of the Hollywood
stage were very much in
evidence. Sideshows seemed
to interest the delegates more
than the main tent, with its
debate on the party platform.
When the Southern leaders
got to the rostrum to express
their dissent on the civil
rights" plank, there was a
slight pickup of interest.
The galleries booed the
Southerners as their leaders
tried to tell the convention
that they may be making it
hard for the Democratic ma
tional ticket to carry the
South this time.
Senator Erwin of North
Carolina, formerly a justice
of the State Supreme Court,
told the delegates that to
adopt the majority's plank
was to run counter to what a
majority of the Senate, in
cluding a majority of the
Democrats, had three times
voted down in the last few
years. James Gray of Geor-
gia. Governors Hollings of
South Carolina, Barnett of
Mississippi and Almond of
Virginia, and Senator Hol-
land of Florida made elo-
quent speeches. They were in
dead earnest as they pleaded
with the delegates for dis
passionate consideration.
But all this fell on deaf
ears. The audience seemed
cold and adamant. For the
convention was being steam
rollered on the party's plat
form just as on the Selec-
ton of a candidate. There
wasn't even a record vote.
The chairman took it for
granted that, despite the
loud shouts Of the noes"
the "ayes" we're a bit louder
and that this meant a major
ity wanted to adopt the plat
Evening star., 1960-07-14

MOSCOW, July IA CNANA)
Stop, look, and listen! The
life you save may be youl
country's."
This and similar messages
are being beamed to Russians
in Moscow's newest vigilance
campaign" Launched soon
after United States pilot Fran
els Gary Powers and his un-
lucky U-2 fell over Sverdlovsk
on May /, the campaign is still
gathering momentum.
Starting with a warning in
the Soviet Army daily RED
Star" on May 26, these are the
slogans used in the new propa-
ganda drive: Watch out for
U. S. spies. They are every
where, tapping phones, open
ing mail and taking advantage
Of innocents who 'kowtow to
everything foreign They're
not above 'Snooping in ash
cans. public toilets and dump
heaps Even a chance remark
overheard in a cafe may be an
invaluable clew the enemy has
been after for years."
It's not Just military secrets
the foreign agent is looking
for, warn newspapers of the
Red Army, Navy and Air Force,
but secrets of the Soviet gov
ernment and Communist party
as well.
Foreigners Suspected
Target No. l of the vigilance
campaign" is the real, spy
thriller cloak-and-dagger agent
whom everyone has heard
about and practically no one
ever has seen.
1 Target No. 2 is the foreign
resident in Russia, the diplomat
or newSman. The American
Embassy, for example, has
about 95 working members, and
there are IA more or less per-
manent United States cores
pondentS as well. That's Mos
cows entire American colony"
These two groups, cloak and
dagger agents and bona fide
Western residents, make up
what Russians call "the enemy
within"
This enemy" has beer
ghosting through the Soviet
press for the past 18 months
ever since Soviet security forces
celebrated their 40th anniver-
sary early in 1859. At that time,
| it was stated that "the sword of
the revolution"-as the secret
police is called-should be kept
sharp for enemies within"
Drive Held in Check
Over the past year. however,
the term has come to include
Western tourists and business
men. Most of these visitors,
Russians are told, are kind
hearted folk who'll go home and
say nice things about the Soviet
Union. A few, however, are
enemy agents, some of Russian
origin. They'll cultivate a Soviet
friend. then ferret out secrets.
The current beware-of-the-
Westerner campaign is expected
to be stepped up in the weeks