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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-11-30

Miss Wanda Horne, of Mis-
sissippi State College For Wo-
men at Columbus, joined her
parents and grandparents.
Ralph Mcclellan, Jr. of Jack
son visited his parents, the
Ralph McLellan's, Sr. over the
weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Houston
of California visited their pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Nc
Lellan over the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy McNeer
and Elaine spent the weekend
with their daughter, Mrs. Peden
in Jackson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Phil
Terry, end Mrs. Betty Green
visited their mother. Mrs. Ola
dys Terry over the holidays.
Mr.. Alton Morris and family
Of Knoxville, Tennessee visited
their mother, Mrs. Bertha Shee-
by over the holidays.
A Thanksgiving spread was
enjoyed by the following in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Armstrong at Bowling Green
Farms on Thanksgiving Day:
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil F. Travis.
lawyer and owner of the farm.
Mr.. Joe Latham, Miss Margaret
Afford. Mrs. w. E. Patterson.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Barber and
children all of Jackson; Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Mcclellan Of Bowl
ing Green; Mr.. and Mrs. John
ny Bevill of Bethesda Commu-
nifty and Mr.. and Mrs. w. D.
Truitt and fanny of Lexington.
Miss Marjorie Truitt. who is
IN nurses training at University
Hosnital in Jackson was home
for the holidays and joined her
parents at the THANKSGIVING
feast at Bowling Green
Farms"
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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-11-30

Ralph Mcclellan, Jr. Of Jack
son visited his parents, the
Ralph McLellan's, Sr. over the
weekend.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-11-30

Mr.. and Mrs. Roy McNeer
and Elaine spent the weekend
with their daughter, Mrs. Peden
in Jackson.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-11-30

Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Houston
of California visited their pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Nc
Lellan over the holidays.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-11-30

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Phil
Terry, end Mrs. Betty Green
visited their mother. Mrs. Ola
dys Terry over the holidays.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-11-30

Editor and Publisher
Subscription rates: Any
Holmes County, $3.50.
Lexington. Mississippi.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-11-30

Mr.. Alton Morris and family
Of Knoxville, Tennessee visited
their mother, Mrs. Bertha Shee-
by over the holidays.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Dicky's Example

Dicky Bryan, a 12-year-old North
Carolinian, has just taken smile hike
with some of his friends. He has done
so because he wants to be Boy Scout,
second class. He certainly has qualified,
and in a decidedly f1rst-clasS manner.
Of course, lots of youngsters his age
have walked as far as he has, and
farther, but the very special thing about
his performance is that he has carried
it out on artificial legs, only 10 months
after having been run over by freight
train. The example he has set does
more than serve merely as an inspira-
ton to the handicapped; it serves also,
or ought to, as kind of reproach to
those all-too numerous teen-agers who
seem to have come to the conclusion that
walking is for the birds and that the only
way to move from here to there, even
from ones home to the corner grocery
store, is by automobile. Dicky Bryan
knows better, and his contemporaries,
who are fortunate enough to be blessed
with artificial legs, would be we'll
advised to follow his lead.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Give Them q Heorinq

The Senate Armed Services Com
nittee recently received a report from
a University of Michigan study group
which recommends against legislation
to equalize the retirement pay Of mill
tary men who left the service before
June, 1858. Largely on the basis of this
report, apparently, the committee has
taken no action on the equalization bill,
thus frustrating the hopes of thousands
of retired military officers and perpet-
uating an inequity which has existed for
the last three years.
Historically, until 1858, military
retirement pay was geared to active
duty pay for the same rank, with in
creases granted proportionately when
active-duty pay was raised. When the
1858 Military Pay Act drastically ad
justed active duty pay scales, however,
Evening star., 1961-07-17
What Price Sovereiqnty?

Reports OF a near-record increase
in the flight of East Germans to West
Berlin make interesting reading in the
light of today'S Berlin situation"
While Soviet Premier KhruShchev
and his East German "proconsul," Presi-
dent Ulbricht, join in clustering about
peace treaty and the defense of East
German sovereignty, the continuing
exodus indicates less than widespread
popular happiness over the prospect.
There has, of course, been steady flow
of East Germans out of the Communist
controlled country for the past decade.
Many tens of thousands have been
screened in West Berlin, either to remain
in that industrially prosperous city or
to be flown beyond to other parts of
West Germany. That this has been an
irritant to East German authorities and
to their mentors in Moscow has been
obvious. Invariably, periodic steps to
lessen the flow or new threats of an
East-West showdown over Germany and
Berlin have tended to increase the
refugee traffic.
The current pace of refugee flight
follows the same pattern. Only few
days ago, the East German regime an
nounced that registration and work
permits would be needed for all East
Germans committing to jobs in West
Berlin-eStimated at about $4,000. Sub
sequently, it was announced further that
East Germans so employed will be
forbidden to buy (either in East or West
Berlin) certain high-quality industrial
goods particularly household appli-
ances-as long as they earn their liveli-
hood in West Berlin. For more than a
week past, the daily refugee total has
averaged about 1,000-the highest rate
since late 1855. Describing the flights as
"a panic" West German Chancellor
Adenauer told news conference that it
proves that conditions over there have
become unbearable."
Here perhaps is the best explanation
of why Khrushchev and Ulbricht would
like to draw the Iron Curtain against
West Berlin and its promise of freedom
for those in the so-called German
Democratic Republic, sad Showplace
among the peoples democracies" of
communism.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Toxinq Dividends

The House Ways and Means Com
mittee has made an earnest effort to
preserve an element of fairness in
Federal taxation of dividends and
interest. It has rejected, first of ALL
administration requests for repeal of
the modest exemption and credit cur
rently allowed in computing individual
income tax liability on dividends re-
ceived-earningS which, incidentally,
already have been taxed at the So per
cent corporation income tax rate. And,
while approving withholding formula
for both dividends and interest, it has
revised administration proposals in
way to lessen the possible hardship on
those who are heavily dependent on
relatively small income from such
sources
It has done this through two
notifications of administration recon-
mendations. One is to reduce the tax
withholding rate from 20 per cent, as
proposed, to 16 2/3 per cent. The other
is to provide for refunds, where due,
on a quarterly rather than yearly
basis. The Treasury Department esti-
mates that even under the more
lenient provisions of the committee
plan approximately $537 million of
additional yearly revenue would be
realized. 1t has estimated that unre-
ported dividends and interest have cost
the Government as much as 1854 mil
lion annually in tax income,
At the same time, it remains
obvious that the withholding system
at any rate or by whatever formula
will impose new paper-work costs
on the corporations and institutions
charged with this responsibility. 1t is
hard to see, furthermore, how it can fail
also to impose new burdens and costs
upon the Internal Revenue Service,
particularly in dealing with the greatly
increased volume of refunds. In other
words, tax system already too COM
plicated and costly in its enforcement
will become more so-both to Govern
ment and to business.
Evening star., 1961-07-17

1t was decided that old soldiers already
on the retirement lists would merely
be given a per cent cost-of-living
increase-although in many cases their
fellow Servicemen who have retired since
then have received much more.
The Retired Officers Association is
asking now for Senate hearing on the
bill-a day in court to present their case
and to contest the conclusions of the
Michigan study report. We think they
are entitled to this consideration. Last
year, the equalization bill passed the
House unanimously, but it is not likely
to be considered there again unless some
activity occurs in the Senate.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
THE PASSING SCENE
Essence of the Presidency
By RALPH McGILL

Mr.. Kennedy is crisp, literate,
sometimes humorous. Mr..
Kennedy works informally.
cuts across bureaucratic lines
of authority and tries to i'm
pose his personal stamp on
decisions great and small.
1t is an impressive display
of initiative and energy that
has beguiled the press and
the public. But in terms of
positive results achieved,
what this means is not yet
clear. ;"
Problems Make Problems
1t would seem. in consid-
ering these soft indictments,
that the analysts forgot the
truism that politics is the
science of the possible. A
President whose margin of
victory is narrow, who in
herits problems and issues
which long have been put
aside. who begins work in
the midst Of a more-than-
mild recession which has pro-
duced serious congressional
resistance to necessary pro-
grams, cannot set out to be-
come "the country's teacher"
Teaching requires time. Pres
ident Kennedy did not have
leisure in which to teach.
His was the necessity of ac-
ton within the limits of po-
litical science. (Yet, can it
really be said the people are
unaware Of the great issuesO
The Kennedy approach has
been to get things done. The
domestic program is we'll
along. In the field Of race
relations, noted by "The
Economist" the Kennedy ac-
complishments of five
months far outdistance those
of the Eisenhower admins
tration, if we remember the
1854 decision was by the Su-
preme Court, not the White
House.
Both the President and the
United States Attorney Cen
eral have sought to get
things done-directly. A few
weeks ago, for example, it
was learned that Latin Amer
lean visitors, who almost
weekly are shuttled in and
out of Fort Benning through
the Columbus, Ga, airport,
were increasingly irritated by
the segregated facilities there.
The administration asked the
F.AA. to investigate. A rec
ommendation of desegrega-
ton was made and accepted,
thus avoiding an open clash.
1t made a tremendous effort
in Mississippi and Alabama,
through the Governors, to
get things done without dis
graceful violence. The fail
ure was not the administra-
tion's.
The best teachers are not
always those who are most
glib in their lectures.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Showdown on Berlin

In order to avoid conflict
with the Russians over the
Berlin situation, it would
seem that someone has got
to give a little. Over the
years, that someone has been
the United States and our
allies. If we were dealing with
a dependable adversary, we
might even consider making
unreasonable concessions in
the interest of keeping the
peace. But from our sad ex-
periences of the past, it would
appear to be bad business to
continue a program of con-
cessions and appeasement.
One has only to read Khru-
Shchev's latest TRADE against
the United Nations and the
Free World to realize that
Berlin would not be the So
viet's final demand, They
have had things pretty much
their own way since the ter
mination of World War II.
However, Secretary Rusk
made it quite clear in his
recent talk at the Press Club
that the picnic is over.
Herbert SOmmerS
Evening star., 1961-07-17

molSCure-Water V2por con-
tent-of the very high Ant
arctic atmosphere at the
start of winter.
This has just been reported
by Drs. John A. Brown and
Emmett j. Phybus of the
Army Ordnance Corps Bal
listic Research Laboratory at
Aberdeen, Md. The two SCI
entists launched 13 instru-
ment-carrying balloons to al
titudes up to 10000 feet
within a few hundred miles
of the South Pole in a prof.
ect sponsored by the National
Science Foundation.
The observation may prove
of considerable significance
in world weather forecasting,
according to an Army report.
Moist Air Phenomenon
During the Antarctic op-
erations the Army team
learned that there is a def
mite correlation between
water vapor density and tenn
perature in the upper atmos-
phere. During the far south
ern summer the stratosphere
is relatively dry and the
enormous increase in water
vapor apparently comes
quite suddenly. Whether this
phenomenon is caused by the
approach of winter or causes
the approach of winter is not
yet known. It will be the
basis for future studies.
The two Ordnance Corps
scientists have previously
made extensive studies of the
moisture content at high al
titudes through balloon
launching in the Arctic and
in tropical Panama. They
now are comparing Antarctic
conditions with their earlier
findings in the north polar
regions.
The knowledge gained, says
the Army report, may help
considerably in eventual con-
troll of the weather over large
areas by man. Many more
measures of the dew point in
the stratosphere Ill over the
earth will be necessary, how
ever, before definite laws can
be established.
The Ordnance Corps SCI
entists also made measure
ments to help determine
whether the Antarctic ice
mass now is increasing or
decreasing.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
School Aid

A very interesting little
publication seeking parents
civil rights in education is
called Fair Share News" It
is published by the Citizens
for Educational Freedom, st.
Louis 18, Mo. In a small Sec
ton captioned This Is Aid?"
is stated: "A 40-year, $780,
900 school construction loan
from the Federal Government
at 3 per cent simple interest
and refunded at $12,500 per
year would cost the borrower
over 100000 to repay. These
payments would come from
the pockets of parents who
would simultaneously be
paying taxes for the Federal
grants (not loans) to public
school students. If this is
aid words have lost, their
meaning" 1t is an ancient
custom to make a minority
pay through the nose.
Matthew A. McKavitt.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Hiqher D. c. Taxes

AS an interested taxpayer,
I note the growing momen-
tum in the District Building
to increase real estate taxes
here. This is in addition to
the many other tax increases
considered necessary in order
to meet the fantaStically
large current budget esti-
mate. Now we are told that
a crash decision must be
made in order to put the
bite on home-owners in Sep
tember.
Commissioner Tobriner has
been quoted extensively to
the effect that such a tax
increase is absolutely neces-
sary and that he does not
hesitate to assess this in
crease in view of the gen.
orally higher real estate rates
in nearby suburban areas.
District property owners
are fully justified in strongly
opposing the increase both in
principle and in substance,
from at least two completely
valid positions:
Cd There is apparently
absolutely no thought of
budget review to make a Seri-
GUS and honest effort to cut
costs by improving efficiency
and by eliminating dead wood.
That such a critical review
could result in very signifi-
cant savings is obvious from
the fact that I have on good
authority that the number
Of D. C. employees per 1000
residents has more than
tripled in recent years, and
this is the best possible gauge
of the excessive cost of serv-
ices from our tax money.
(2) Most citizens aSsocia-
tionS, and I believe the Fed
Grafton, oppose any tax ad-
justment based on tax rates
in surrounding areas. The
perfectly valid reasoning is
that a large part of the sub
urban tax dollar must go for
schools to keep up with the
youngsters. There is no such
degree of need in this city,
since a comparatively small
amount Of building construc-
tion is needed and because
conditions in school popula-
ton and operation are much
more stabilized.
Bruce E. Anderson.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
The Time Is Now

The letter of Patricia Park
man regarding The Star
editorial, "The Time Is Now"
expresses a view held by
many idealistic Americans.
They fail to recognize that
the principal function - the
final achievement-of the re-
sumption of testing of nu-
clear weapons by the United
States would be a mutual
test-ban with workable in
Spection provisions. To quote
Winston Churchill, 1--WE must
arm to parley." 1t is self
evident that nego 'ations
from a position of compare
tive strength would be far
more likely to succeed than
from one of relative weak
ness, but that is precisely
what we are headed for. We
must remember that the So
Wet atomic weapons and
arsenalS continue to remain
under a program of constant
improvement and expansion.
When the time comes, per-
haps in five years, 10, or even
IS, when the Soviet Union
has established a clear su-
periority over the United
States and the West in the
field of nuclear weapons, it
will be too late to suddenly
awaken from OLr ostrich
like position and engage in
a stepped-up program of re-
search and development.
The time is indeed now!
Our present course is heed
less, and we head not toward
extinction by nuclear holo-
caust, but by failure to adapt
to the world around us. The
great aux failed to adapt to
it's changing world, as did the
Triceratops. Both that bird,
and that dinoSaur are now
extinct. We must face real
ity, or allow ourselves to
suffer a like fate.
Seth KlavenS.
Evening star., 1961-07-17

work the United States has
done for his country.
That experiment is a thrill
ing story which too few peo-
pie know about. 1t is most
gratifying that a Filipino Of
this generation has reviewed
the unusual relationship be-
tween his people and ours
and liked it. The Philippines
have been called a model for
the development of back
ward countries and I feel
that such studies should
benefit the several depend
ent countries now seeking
self-rule. I trust we shall
have more of them.
L. M, p,
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Riqht to Arm

When one considers that
1t was the gun hanging over
the fireplace which was lit
orally the arsenal of democ-
racy-that it won the Revo-
luton for uS-and that the
militia was, in fact, the peo-
pie themselves, it is perfectly
clear what the trainers of the
Declaration had in mind.
"The right to bear arms shall
not be abridged" was a wise
provision to assure that the
people would always have
arms and, Importantly,
would be proficient in their
use. The founding fathers
read history well enough to
know that there would be a
time again when our rights
would be threatened, whether
from within or without. In
consideration of the immedi-
ate history of the era, there
can be no other interpreta-
ton of the intent of these
wise men.
If this provision was smart
in 1776, it is equally applica-
BILE today. Think Of the part
played by the underground in
World War II, and the vital
Importance of secret weap-
ons. While our military and
our police are remarkably
fine defenders of the public
good, in the last analysis, it
is the duty and the sacred
right of every man to defend
himself, his home, his fam
lily and his country until such
time as organized assistance
can be brought into play. 1t
is sheer madness to place
total reliance in organized
defense forces when in the
event of a disastrous attack
and invasion the organization
is the first thing to go. It is
morally wrong and degrad-
ing to suggest that anyone
should jettison this right,
much less to suggest legisla-
ton which would implement
such folly.
Theodore d. Perrine.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used u
letters carry tDrtterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
terS are subject to condensd-
tion. Those not used tCin be
returned only iDhen accom-
painted BY self = addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Questions and Answer.
BY THE HASKINS SERVICE
reader by mail question Of fact
self addressed
BY THE HASKINS Sc

that is foolich." Grammar
ians object. however, to the
addition of the intensive
lever" to an interrogative
pronoun (as in Whoever
heard of such a thing?") and
class this usage as colluquial.
@. Can ivory from ele-
phant tusks be distinguished
from other ivory?-S. C.
A. Ivory from elephant
tusks may be identified by
the small rings. like the rings
in a tree, which give it a
grained effect. A magnify
ing glass will help one see
these rings.
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Democracy at Work

Your paper of July 6
printed an article entitled
"The Philippines: A Success
full Democracy at Work" by
A. L. Valencia, which was
just what I have longed to
see because it showed appre-
citation for the magnificent
Evening star., 1961-07-17
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
U.S.. to Probe More Antarctic Secrets
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

This country will carry out
the most ambitious program
yet attempted by any nation
in the Antarctic during the
coming winter. 1t will in
volve more than 100 scien-
lists and more than Is uni
versities and research organ
izations representing Is
States.
Research fields will include
biology, geology, glaciology,
meteorology, oceanology, up
per atmosphere physics and
seismolofy, according to an
announcement by the Nation
al Science Foundation which
will have overall supervision
of the work.
The biology program in
cludes a survey of Antarctic
bacteria, study of life forms
in ponds and lakes of the
McMurdo Sound area, a
study of pycnogonida, marine
Spiderlike animals, and ex-
tenSive studies of McMurdo
Sound marine life. Among the
questions for which answers
are sought are: How these
animals adapted themselves
to the rigors of Antarctic
life; how they may have ar
rived in Antarctica, and how
they are related to similar
organisms elsewhere in the
world.
Mountains to be Studied
The geological studies will
include investigations of the
Sentinel Mountains, believed
to be- the largest unexplored
mountain chain on earth.
They also will include geol-
ogic mapping of the much
better known Horlicx Noun
tains and a continued study
of patterned ground forma-
tions which are character
istic of nearly all ice-free
areas in Antarctica.
Proposed Pathological in
vestigations include the third
straight year of studies of
the great Ross Ice Shelf,
which covers an area approx
imately as large as that of
Spain. 1t is the worlds larg-
est unbroken mass of float
ing ice. 1t is hoped to learn
how large a contribution the
continental ice cap of Marie
Byrd Land contributes to this
ice mass.
There may be as much as
1,000-fold increase in the
Evening star., 1961-07-17
Not His Theory

Sylvia Porter's economic
theories are cock-eyed as
those of Keynes. She appears
to subscribe to the theory
that the more we squander
and the deeper into debt we
go, the richer we are.
Joe T. LOvett.