The Charlotte News
Tuesday, February 19, 1957
FOUR EDITORIALS
Site Ed. Note: The front page reports from London that Britain had announced this date that a majority of countries using the Suez Canal had agreed to an interim plan for operation of it from the time it was cleared until a full international agreement could be reached, with the plan soon to be placed before U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold for presentation to Egypt. The U.S. had joined a large number of other nations in preparing the agreement, but the Soviet Union was not among them. There was no advance indication as to whether Egypt would accept the secret proposals. The 18-nation Suez Canal Users Association was not involved in the plan, which had been worked out in secret negotiations at the U.N., in Washington and London, with Britain having taken the initiative in making the proposals. The plan was understood to call for a 50-50 split of canal tolls, with payments going to the World Bank account, half to be credited to Egypt and half to be retained by the bank until its disposition would be determined by a final settlement. The British Foreign Office statement said that they had been consulting with other countries interested in the Suez Canal, not only those mentioned in press reports but the majority of other user countries, and that there was now general agreement on the necessity for some interim arrangements, given that the canal would presumably be open to shipping before negotiation for a long-term settlement had been completed or even begun. Other sources said that Mr. Hammarskjold would be asked to submit the plan to the Egyptian Government for its reaction. It was believed that the 50-50 plan had been advanced by Mr. Hammarskjold in private talks with British, French and Egyptian representatives. The World Bank initially was reported reluctant to be involved, but later accepted assurances that it would act only as a financial agent without being required to make decisions. The interim agreement also was reported to call for operation of the canal in accordance with the 1885 Constantinople convention, which provided that the waterway should be open in times of peace and war to ships of all nations.
In Thomasville, Ga., the President would end his vacation with Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey at his plantation estate and return to Washington this date to deal at closer range in a press conference with the problem of obtaining the withdrawal of Israeli troops from disputed Egyptian territory. Reportedly, the President was greatly concerned about the situation which had developed as a stalemate and had decided late the previous day to cut short the vacation, having originally planned to stay until Friday. Upon his return, he was set to confer at the White House with Secretary of State Dulles, planning to perform a fresh evaluation of the Middle East situation, with the President intending to meet the following morning with Democratic and Republican Congressional leaders for a full-scale review of the situation, likely to provide a preview of what the Administration's next moves would be on the matter. White House press secretary James Hagerty declined to provide any hints as to what those moves would be or, particularly, whether the Administration intended to side with 27 Afro-Asian bloc countries in the U.N., demanding that the U.N. invoke economic sanctions against Israel to effect the withdrawal. He said that the decision of the President to return to Washington had not been prompted by any emergency, but rather by the desire of the President to be on hand for resumption of debate in the U.N. General Assembly on the impasse. At the request of the U.S., resumption of debate on the situation at the U.N. had been postponed until Thursday to provide Israel more time to consider U.S. proposals for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and the Gulf of Aqaba. During the weekend, the Israeli Government had twice rejected the U.S. plan, bringing a fresh plea from the President for withdrawal, telling Israel that it had already received "the maximum assurance it can reasonably expect at this juncture" regarding safeguards against Egypt. The sticking point had been Israel's demand for such safeguards.
The National Guard appeared this date to have made some progress toward postponing the requirement of six months of active duty for Guard recruits. Generals of the Guard were preparing to present their arguments to a House Armed Services subcommittee, chaired by Overton Brooks of Louisiana, who confirmed that the subcommittee was considering a one-year postponement of the six-month requirement ordered by the Army. If the Army order stood, six months of active duty training would be required of inexperienced recruits who joined the Guard ground forces on or after April 1. The Guard wanted instead to confine the six-month requirement to recruits over age 18 1/2, requiring the younger enlistees to take only 11 weeks of training, while encouraging them to take more if they so desired. A possible compromise plan apparently had been discarded the previous day when the president of the National Guard Association had said that it would be about as hard to recruit men for a training program split into two three-month segments as for a continuous six-month program. Meanwhile, the adjutant general of the Utah Guard continued to promote the theme that the six months of training had failed for not attracting the expected number of enlistees in Federal reserve programs. He said that the Army's order extended a training requirement of dubious standards of the National Guard to obscure the Department of Defense failure in implementing a recommended program for strengthening an anemic U.S. Army Reserve. He contended that the Department was talking about quality instead of quantity to gloss over what he said was its failure to obtain its original goal, "large numbers of trained reservists."
In London, Britain this date announced the formation of its first guided weapons regiment, according to a War Office spokesman, who said that the outfit would be comprised of officers and men trained in the U.S. by the U.S. Army. It was the latest step in streamlining and reshaping Britain's armed forces to fit the nuclear age. The Defense Ministry also disclosed that it was studying the possibility of cutting its forces throughout the world, including those stationed in Libya, Hong Kong and Gibraltar, to fit the atomic age. The new regiment would begin forming the following month at Aldershot, Britain's top military base 35 miles southwest of London. Its first weapon would be the rocket-powered "Corporal", capable of carrying a conventional or atomic warhead, a weapon which British soldiers had been learning to use at Fort Bliss, Tex., and at bases in New Mexico and Alabama, having a range of 73 miles, flying at a speed of 2,000 mph, guided with the help of radar.
In San Diego, a designer of the Redstone and Jupiter ballistic missiles indicated this date that an ionic rocket could be built with present technology which could reach Mars in 400 days and return to Earth in about 320 days. German-born Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, chief of the Guidance Control Research Section of the Guided Missile Development Group at the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., said that such a rocket would travel at speeds up to 86,400 mph, making the statements to an astronautics symposium, contending that an even faster space device, a photon rocket powered by light, had been proposed but was at present only a mathematical exercise, with no one currently able to build it. He explained at a press conference that an ionic rocket had a power source which expelled ions, atoms or molecules from which an electron had been stripped, in a stream to produce thrust, utilizing a nuclear reactor as a power source, heating to 160 degrees two alkaline metals, rubidium and cesium, to produce a flow of vapor directed across a platinum surface, with a part of the power output converted to electrical energy with which to accelerate and expel the ionized particles resulting. He said that a 600-ton ion rocket with a 150-ton payload could travel to Mars and back. The symposium regarding problems of space flight was sponsored jointly by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp., and was attended by more than 300 military and industry missile experts.
In New York, 45,000 striking longshoremen from Maine to Virginia remained idled this date as locals in Baltimore and Norfolk prevented a general back-to-work movement. Spokesmen for the International Longshoremen's Association were unable to predict an end to the strike, presently in its seventh day, and the situation was confused port to port. The president of the ILA appeared determined to withhold any general work resumption order until contract agreements were reached in all ports along the Eastern Seaboard from Portland, Me., to Hampton Roads, Va. The previous night, he had made a return to work order this date conditional on settlement of local contracts in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Norfolk by the previous midnight, with agreements not having been reached in Baltimore or Norfolk, despite a contract covering 6,000 longshoremen having been reached early this date in Philadelphia. The Federal mediator said that he expected the dockworkers back to work by either the following day or Thursday, as complete agreement had been reached on all major local and national issues. A New York agreement had been expected to set the pattern for all contracts in ports along the Northeast coast and end the strike, that agreement providing for a basic coastwide settlement on wages and fringe benefits, leaving local boards to settle strictly local issues. But at Norfolk, employers and union representatives were still negotiating over the local issues on a contract for 4,500 longshoremen, who were not expected to return to work before Friday at the earliest. The announcement by the ILA president regarding a conditional return bound the Port of New York longshoremen, numbering 25,000, to stay on strike until contracts were settled in all of the ports. The general agreement had provided for a 32-cent hourly wage increase over a three-year period, the first agreement ever reached coastwide on the East Coast.
Charles Kuralt of The News continues his look at Social Security, celebrating its 20th anniversary in 1957, having the object of guaranteeing old age assistance as well as assistance to disabled individuals and their families. He indicates that because it was so complex, most people did not bother to understand it until retirement, disability or death in their families made them eligible for its benefits. The amount of a Social Security benefit was determined from the average monthly earnings over a certain period of time, with payments to one's dependents and survivors figured from the amount of the individual benefit, with no way to formulate the exact amount of the payments until they were sought. He indicates that a way, however, to estimate the monthly payment was to estimate monthly average earnings from January 1, 1951 to the year in which one would reach retirement age, with the ability to omit up to five calendar years after 1950 in which the individual's earnings were the lowest. As all of those formulations have changed, you may go ahead and read the rest of it for yourself should you wish to know how things worked in 1957. A table of benefits is provided for a quick overview.
In Detroit, an irate motorist was upset about a five dollar parking ticket received the previous weekend for parking his airplane in the service drive at Detroit City Airport, parked in a way which prevented other planes from using the taxiway. The airport manager said that all runways were considered as city streets under city ordinances and so the man had received the parking ticket. A police inspector had sympathy for his plight, indicating that he had never heard of an aircraft being ticketed for illegal parking.
In Hollywood, the previous night the 29th annual Academy Award nominations were announced, with "Giant" becoming the favored nominee to win Best Film, and Ingrid Bergman favored to win Best Actress for her role as a Russian princess in "Anastasia", and the late James Dean favored for Best Actor for his portrayal in "Giant". Ms. Bergman, who had been out of the country for the previous seven years, was in competition with Carroll Baker for her role in the controversial "Baby Doll", Katharine Hepburn for "The Rainmaker", Nancy Kelly for "The Bad Seed", and Deborah Kerr for "The King and I". James Dean was nominated posthumously for the second time, the only actor ever accorded that honor twice in death, having failed to win the Best Actor award the previous year for "East of Eden", losing out to Ernest Borgnine for "Marty". Others nominated in that category were Yul Brynner for "The King and I", Kirk Douglas for "Lust for Life", Rock Hudson for "Giant", and Laurence Olivier for "Richard III". Mr. Dean's role in "Giant" had been completed only days before his death on September 30, 1955 in an automobile accident in Southern California. Other Best Film nominations were "Around the World in 80 Days", "Friendly Persuasion", "The King and I", and Cecil B. De Mille's "The Ten Commandments". The nominations contained few surprises, except perhaps for the omission of Charlton Heston, who had played Moses in the latter film. There had been some discussion of providing a special award to James Dean, but the president of the Academy, George Seaton, said that the actor's nomination as voted by 16,721 members of the Academy precluded any special award. The nomination of Ms. Kelly for "The Bad Seed" was seen as a moral victory of sorts for the noted Broadway actress who had not made a movie in a decade, after having once been a contract player in Hollywood, with her talents wasted in a long succession of B-movies. Nominated for Best Supporting Actor were Don Murray for "Bus Stop", Anthony Perkins for "Friendly Persuasion", Anthony Quinn for "Lust for Life", Mickey Rooney for "The Bold and the Brave", and Robert Stack for "Written on the Wind". Nominated for Best Supporting Actress were Dorothy Malone for the latter film, Mildred Dunnock for "Baby Doll", Eileen Heckart for "The Bad Seed", young Patty McCormack for the same film, and Mercedes McCambridge for "Giant". For Best Director, George Stevens was nominated for "Giant", Michael Anderson, for "Around the World in 80 Days", William Wyler for "Friendly Persuasion", Walter Lang for "The King and I", and King Vidor for "War and Peace". The awards ceremony would be held March 27.
On the editorial page, "The Shock Waves Spread to Charlotte" finds that there was a grim lesson for Charlotte in the Missouri retirement home fire reported on the front page the previous day, in which it had been estimated that 70 persons had died.
There had been a recent controversy over safety regulations for nursing homes and institutions for the aged in 1955, when a public clamor had arisen demanding the enforcement of State laws requiring that institutional care be limited to one-story buildings which were of frame construction. During the ensuing slothful investigation, some progress had been made, but Charlotte could not rest easy until compliance was effected.
It suggests that editorials would not help much, as a community had to be shocked into awareness of the problem, as in the fire in Missouri. It urges that there had to be maximum efforts to promote the welfare and safety of invalids receiving institutional care, that the legal responsibility was less important than the moral responsibility to see that every effort was exerted toward protection of those unfortunate people.
"Shyness Ruins Grandiloquent Gestures" tells of Georgia legislators appearing shy in attempting to impeach only six of the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, that a move to remove all nine would have a similar chance of success and bear an equal amount of logic and exhibit more of the audacity of Southerners expected from the state which had once had two governors at the same time in 1947.
The resolution had made no mention of Brown v. Board of Education, the reversal of which would be the ultimate aim of the effort. The six Justices whom it sought to impeach included retiring Justice Stanley Reed. It suggests that if Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas and Reed committed high crimes and misdemeanors in opinions rendered by them in 1943, then the other Justices were also guilty of associating with "high criminals". They all had provided opinions at one time or another and all of them dressed exactly alike and kept to themselves a great deal.
In addition to lacking the "all-condemning touch of a really grandiloquent empty gesture," the resolution appeared to overlook the technicality that the wrong opinion of Justices Black, Douglas and Reed had taken place 14 years earlier and that the statute of limitations had probably expired.
"Artistic Rhubarbs Are Naughty but Nice" finds that the most refreshing thing about the esthetic free-for-all raging in Chapel Hill over the architecture of the new art building was that it was a free-for-all fought with enormous conviction and elaborate zeal, that too often when universities and artists became solvent, they lost their cussedness and vitality and became merely citadels of civility, stifling the free expression which made great art, whether in architecture or pot-making.
It rejects the theory of Jacques Barzun, that art exists solely out of the impartial benevolence of the world's assorted Babbitts. He had suggested that if left to the philosophers and artists, each fanatical sect would suppress the others on the grounds of principle, with the tradesman's interest in the commodity and lack of interest in what it was about being the only basis for impartiality.
But it finds that impartiality could not save bad art or do much to help good art, while an active argument could at least flush some of the badness out into the open where it could be recognized and condemned. Conflict could not hurt architecture, either, with the world's great architects, including Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Ludwig van der Rohe, thriving on it.
It finds the only irony in the Chapel Hill rhubarb to be the fact that it was being conducted amid probably the greatest collection of architectural monstrosities since the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, with the campus already being an "amiable hodge-podge of many architectural modes." It finds virtue, however, in any attempt to avoid further clashing of styles. If the new art building was to be Georgian, then it should be good Georgian. But there should be an attempt to have its design correspond somewhat to the real needs of the people and paraphernalia which would occupy it, with anything less being dishonest.
The real problem with the original part of the building is that there are no windows, and it rather resembles, therefore, a large mausoleum rather than a museum. Cut some holes in the side.
"How Now, Brown Congressional Cow?" finds that New Hampshire Senator Norris Cotton's niche in history was secure, as he was the only U.S. politician to compare Congress to a cow, having stated the previous week: "As a boy, I was amazed and impressed by a lecture on the internal mechanism of the dairy cow. I regarded Bossy with a new respect as a complex machine—a milk factory on legs. She has four stomachs—one true stomach, three for storage. In one day she can cram 150 pounds of wet grass into her compartments. Then she retires to a shady place, regurgitates it in small amounts, chews it thoroughly and digests it in her 'true stomach'. Congress should be equipped with the same kind of apparatus. During the first days of the session, a vast amount of fodder is crammed down its gullet. During the weeks and months that follow, it brings it up to chew and digest…"
The piece concludes that if the analogy was correct, the 85th Congress might be fattened for beefsteak, as after more than six weeks of cud-chewing, it had produced more moo than milk.
A piece from the Smithfield Herald, titled "All the Comforts of Home", finds that as American city dwellers moved to the suburbs, the home seemed to be moving into the buses, requiring that bus passengers be made to feel at home. Thus, in Chicago, a new "dream bus", which carried commuters 31 miles from suburban Park Forest into the city, was being equipped with the luxuries of home, replete with a carpeted floor, papered walls and windows with draperies. Orange juice and hot coffee were served to the passengers and even the morning newspaper was provided so that businessmen would feel at home. Two electric razors were also available for men who did not have the time to shave and catch the bus. It says nothing about alarm clocks.
It suggests that they had overlooked a few details which would make the man of the house really feel at home at the breakfast table on the bus, such as the wife in a housecoat and bobby pins sleepily shoveling out the scrambled eggs, and junior demanding a quarter for school lunch, a dime for notebook paper and a nickel for a candy bar during recess, or the daughter badly scrambling around to collect her schoolbooks from the living room, her coat from the hall, and her hat from underneath the kitchen table where she had dropped it yesterday—just another day. It also suggests that there was need for the barking dog wanting his breakfast and the cat mewing to get out to look for unwary birds.
"In short, if the bus company wants people to feel at home for breakfast, give the people the distractions as well as the comforts!"
Drew Pearson reports from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland that with the White House considering a 20 to 30 billion dollar program for air raid shelters and with Dr. Edward Teller warning that in case of atomic war, a part of the nation would have to spend days underground, it was essential to make certain that enemy planes could not penetrate the nation's defenses, which, he explains, was why he had come to Andrews, where the 85th Air Division was charged with defending the Atlantic seaboard from New Jersey to North Carolina. He had detailed in a prior column his ride on a jet fighter-interceptor and participation in a simulated attack on the U.S.
He indicates that the ICBM, once finally developed, could penetrate the nation's defenses, and that guided missiles released from an enemy submarine close to the nation's shores constituted a serious danger. But he had come to the conclusion that conventional enemy aircraft would have an extremely difficult time effectively penetrating the defenses of the country. Those defenses were laid out so unobtrusively that the average citizen was not aware of them. They began far out at sea, where the Navy had submarines and patrol vessels equipped with radar on duty at all times. Over the sea, the Air Force also was flying laboratories equipped with long-range radar, which were constantly on guard. In the far north, at such bases as Thule, Greenland, which he had recently visited, radar was also on the lookout. In cooperation with Canada, there was an intricate, delicate early warning system, the most important part of which was designed to detect the ICBM, but had not yet been completed. On the ground, within the continental U.S., there were 16 air divisions, of which the 85th at Andrews was one. Those air divisions watched and charted every suspicious or unknown plane which approached the country. Since there were 33,000 flights daily in the U.S., with 600 foreign flights, it was an exacting and difficult task.
On a large glass board in "the block house" or "combat operations center" at Andrews, the flights of planes along the middle Atlantic seaboard were charted, and in similar block houses around the country, personnel were doing the same thing all the time. In a sort of amphitheater looking down on that glass board, officers of the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines and Civil Defense stood watch, with a representative of each always present, ready to go into action when necessary. There was no friction between the different branches when it came to watching for unknown planes. Behind the big glass board, three airmen sat with telephones and pieces of chalk, marking the location of each plane as it approached the area.
Joseph Alsop, in Kemerovo, Russia, tells of having spoken during his Siberian journey to the leaders of eight important business enterprises, ranging in size from the local branch of the Soviet Industrial Bank to the large Kuzbas Coal Combine, the latter controlling all of the mines in that regional center of the Soviet coal and iron industries.
He had found that Soviet business was overwhelmingly the business of mining and industrial production, that the service industries which dominated American business hardly existed, and, with every type of consumer goods in more or less short supply, the chief problem of trading organizations was to keep reasonable stocks of goods in their chains of shops. Each major Soviet industry was organized under a "Ministry", very different from any American idea of a government department, closely resembling the head office of G.M., except for the distinction that instead of doing half of the total business in its industry, the Ministry did all of the business. As with G.M., there were also divisions and subdivisions. An enterprise dubbed a combine dealt directly with the Ministry, and a very big one, such as the coal combine, might be further subdivided into "thrusts" in which several mines or factories were grouped together. A combine might also consist of a single producing unit, like the vast cotton textile plant he had seen which would eventually produce about 250 miles of finished cloth each day, enough to supply most of Siberia.
The capital structure of the Soviet enterprises involved allocation of funds in the state budget, advanced by the Ministry through the local branch of the industrial bank, and once production had begun, the plant director was expected to produce profits. Out of the gross profit, the director retained a relatively small amount each year in a reserve fund which he could spend at his discretion for needed repairs or improvement. The director also paid amortization on the buildings and machinery into an amortization fund at his Ministry. Finally, he paid all of the remaining profit into his Ministry's profits fund, the equivalent of net profit in the U.S. The director could not count on the sums paid into the amortization fund for modernization of the plant, as the Ministry decided where that money would be invested. Nor could the director count on the sums paid into the profits fund being used to expand the industry, as it was for the state to determine which industries would be expanded. The large profits earned by the consumer industries were primarily used to finance the expansion of heavy industry.
There were two kinds of decisions which the head of a Soviet producing enterprise did not have to make, those concerning sales, handled by the Ministry's nationwide supply organization, and those concerning the building of new plants or expanding old ones. Any major capital investment had the status of a "project", prepared by the Appropriate Projects Institute attached to the Ministry. The head of an established enterprise for which a "project" was being drawn up would be consulted by the Institute in charge. Those who consulted the head of the enterprise were likely to be old friends because the higher staffs of the projects institutes were recruited from among the most successful heads of producing enterprises.
Production was the chief business of the Soviet businessman. He had to deal with bankers just as his American counterparts, obtaining short-term loans at low interest rates from the state bank to finance inventory, expansions and other transactions.
Robert C. Ruark, in Palamos, Spain, says that after having escaped the perils of darkest Africa, he was already lonesome for the hyenas after returning to Spain. He was also lonesome for his wife who had been last seen on a beach at Mombasa and had plans to investigate the possibilities of entering a harem at Zanzibar.
A letter from a woman in San
Francisco had suggested that he write a column about his wife
spending her time in Africa and how she liked it, and so he proceeds
to tell of his wife on safari
Unlike the woman in San Francisco, we have exactly zero interest in the matter. Perhaps, in earlier times, we saw one too many episodes narrated by Marlin Perkins on winter-imprisoned Saturday or Sunday afternoons, bleak, cheerless and without respite to the outdoors, thus turning to television and the boundless savannas in which impalas ran free, for escape. In any event, we do not want to follow Bungalow Bob into the jungle.
A letter writer responds to a letter from a teacher who said she would quit because of low pay, poor working conditions and loss of self-respect, saying that she also was going to quit teaching. She taught in the upper grades and found ridiculous the emphasis in the lower grades on social or chronological age without thought to mental age, to which the schoolbooks were geared. If students were being "socially promoted", she recommends placing them in classes according to their ability and achievement, a kinder thing to do "socially", as every child in the room was aware of the range of ability within the class and each of the "socially promoted" students were aware that they were low on the totem pole. "The helplessness and frustration of these children and the resultant rowdiness in the rooms causes more teachers to leave their profession than poor pay." She urges placing those children at levels where they could progress according to their ability and not at levels where they showed despair and helplessness in situations in which they could never succeed. She says that she was quitting because she was tired of teaching in a "one-schoolhouse room", with her classroom containing all the achievement levels found in an old-fashioned one-room schoolhouse, which is why she referred to it as a "one-schoolhouse room."
But there is a key difference. Unlike those earlier schoolhouses, as the many letter writers attest who scorn integration on the basis of the inevitability thereby of "amalgamation" of the races, not all of the students in modern times have sex with all of the other students, as obviously was implicitly the case in earlier times by the consistent testimony of these anti-integration letter writers.
A letter from J. R. Cherry, Jr., comments on the editorial, "Civil Rights & Dynamite: A Question", finding it "as subtle a piece of propaganda for the so-called 'civil rights bill'" as he had thus far seen in any "'southern apologist'" newspaper. He finds that in Clinton, Tenn., where there had been an eighth dynamite blast since integration of the public high school the prior September, there had been "forced integration" by the fact of the presence of bayonets, tanks and troops of the National Guard to protect the black students, when the Supreme Court in Brown had never decreed "forced integration". He thinks that full discussion of the "insidious civil rights legislation and intelligent action in regard thereto (its defeat) just might tend to prevent additional and more destructive dynamite blasts" in thousands of communities throughout the South and the nation. He also indicates that had the Supreme Court in 1954 "intelligently weighed the constitutional aspects of the segregation-integration issue, it's virtually a certainty that there never would have been a dynamite blast in Clinton, set off as a result of stupid disregard of the great fundamental (not 'delicate,' as you say) constitutional issues involved." He presents orchids to Senator Sam J. Ervin for his role in "trying to defeat this Communist-type and Communist-inspired legislation." He says "nuts" to the editor for "another back-handed stab in the southern back!"
A letter writer from New York indicates that after FDR had suffered from polio, a March of Dimes research program had been established which collected $957 per polio victim annually, leading eventually to the Salk vaccine and conquering of the disease. Now, President Eisenhower had a heart disease, and he suggests that when the collected funds for heart research could be advanced from $1.20 annually per victim to $957, perhaps heart disease also might be licked. He says that research of heart disease and heart surgery had saved his life when he was at the point of death and thus he wants to aid the heart organizations in raising money. Some 100,000 persons in the country had heart surgery and the majority felt similarly obligated, especially the 2,000 persons united in a nationwide organization called "Mended Hearts". He says that some 10 million persons in the country currently had heart disease in some form, one out of every 16, including 500,000 children of school age, and that in 1955, heart disease and circulation disease were responsible for 53 percent of all deaths, and of those who had died of those maladies, 29 percent had been under age 65. He thus urges rallying to support the Heart Fund.
A pome from the Atlanta Journal appears, "In Which Is Contained Further Reference To Victims Of Alopecia:
"If your hair is more than
sparse
They will say you're bald, of
course."
But Frank had better not to Rex such
dirt bellow,
Lest he be slapped a third time for
his shirt yellow.
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