The Charlotte News
Tuesday, April 1, 1958
THREE EDITORIALS
Site Ed. Note: The front page reports from Havana that the Cuban Congress had provided sweeping powers this date to El Presidente Fulgencio Batista to do "whatever necessary" to crush the rising rebellion and smash any general strike, called by rebel leader Fidel Castro. It declared a state of emergency, effective immediately, throughout Cuba because, according to the Congress, "the security of the state is in danger." The declaration provided dictatorial powers to El Presidente and his Council of Ministers such that he could now rule by decree for the ensuing 45 days without asking for the approval of Congress. Under the powers, El Presidente could declare martial law and impose curfews. He was authorized to reorganize the nation's armed forces and enlist thousands more men to tighten his rule throughout the republic, to impose new taxes, boost existing ones and modify all laws presently in effect, reorganize all judicial and Government administrative functions, decree new and more severe punishments for all attempts to disturb public order or to wreck commerce and industry. Those powers ordinarily were exercised by the Congress, and a permanent committee of 12 Senators and 12 Representatives would keep check on El Presidente's moves and report back to the Congress, with the body able at any time to revoke the extraordinary powers it was granting. At the end of the 45 days, the Congress would review what El Presidente had done and approve or reject as laws the decrees he had issued. Constitutional guarantees had been suspended before the state of emergency had been declared, with all public assembly barred, and rigid censorship of press, radio and television enforced. Cubans could be arrested by the thousands if necessary and imprisoned indefinitely without being charged or brought to trial. Homes could be and were being raided without a warrant. Meanwhile, Sr. Castro had launched shooting attacks on highway and railway transport in Oriente Province. Railway and bus line workers in the eastern section of the province had gone on strike without awaiting the signal of the rebel leader for a general walkout. Telephone communications between Santiago and Havana had been cut. A group of rebels had attacked the Army post at Moa on the northeastern coast of the province, killing three soldiers, with other soldiers said to have fled to a Cuban gunboat off the coast. The Army's general staff had announced that 13 rebels had been killed and a number wounded in clashes with troops in the Manzanilla and Bayamo areas of the province the previous day. This legislative decree is apparently what the Trumpistas and their cohorts in Congress have studied as the basis for implementation of "Project 2025", of which El Presidente has disavowed all knowledge, as with the three abstemious monkeys. Of course, we cannot ascribe to him too much awareness of his surroundings, as he apparently genuinely believes that an obviously retouched photograph of a man's fingers, with numerals superimposed as a weak interpretation of symbols on four of his fingers, means, without question, that he was a member of a notorious El Savadoran gang, grounds for deporting him to a notorious El Salvadoran prison without due process or any adjudication of criminal misconduct and in direct defiance of Federal court orders. Later, after someone explains to the elderly El Presidente the facts about modern technology, he will undoubtedly say that it was a "joke" and his apparent repeated insistence that it was true, only an elaborate parody of the news organizations, in belated honor of the White House Correspondents' Dinner which he chose once again to miss because he cannot take a joke on himself. El Presidente, once again, proves his inescapable genius. How lucky the country is to have such a man at the helm. Viva El Presidente!
In Brownsville, Tex., 20 Cuban rebel sympathizers at the county jail had entered their sixth day of fasting this date, with the strike having sent 15 of their companions to the hospital. The men, who had been arrested in pre-dawn action by the Coast Guard the prior Thursday, were fasting in protest of U.S. shipments of arms to El Presidente Batista's forces in Cuba. Officials said that the men had not eaten since they had been arrested. The men had said that they would continue their hunger strike until the U.S. assured them that the arms shipments to El Presidente would cease. The 35 men, armed and uniformed, had been arrested aboard a converted fishing boat in the Gulf of Mexico—that is El Golf de Amerique. Arnaldo Barron, leader of the group, said that they had been enroute to Cuba to fight with the rebel forces. With them had been a Mexico City resident described as a contact man and four members of the boat's crew. All had been charged with conspiracy to violate the U.S. Neutrality Act. Reports the previous day said that the hospitalized rebels still refused all food. A hospital bulletin described them as being in good condition and good spirits. In New York, two members of a group of hunger strikers demonstrating their sympathy for the jailed rebels, had been taken to the hospital the previous night, having been without food since the previous Friday night. Twenty-four others had continued their diet of water and cigarettes.
In Jackson, Mich., rescuers had fought desperately this date to save a woman employee of a dime store trapped when an adjoining building being wrecked had collapsed onto the store. The woman was still in the rubble 90 minutes after the collapse, with the fire chief estimating that she was buried under two tons of debris held up in some unknown manner. The firemen were able to talk to the woman but were proceeding cautiously for fear that they might dislodge the massive wreckage and crush her.
In Ironton, O., it was reported that 25 frightened children had jumped from a moving school bus during a wild ride through the steep, winding hills of the southern Ohio area the previous day. The bus driver, 55, had been given a six-month jail term and fined $500 plus costs after he pleaded guilty in court to driving while intoxicated. When Ohio Highway Patrolmen had halted the bus, they had found another person, not the regular driver who had been found guilty of drunk driving, at the wheel, that driver telling the patrolmen that he found the bus in a ditch with the regular driver still at the wheel and that he was trying to get the bus back where it belonged when the patrolmen had caught up with him. He said that no children had been aboard the bus when he found it. The terrified children had later told patrolmen that they had jumped from the weaving bus individually and in pairs whenever the vehicle slowed down enough on hills and around curves. They said that they had first noticed the regular driver's condition after they smelled the bus brakes burning and discovered he was driving with the emergency brake on, one of the older boys reporting that he let the brake off, which had caused the driver to become belligerent. Then the bus had started to weave madly and the screaming children begged the driver to stop and let them off. All of the children had managed to escape before the driver arrived at an elementary school to pick up a load of younger children. A school official, astonished because the older children usually on the bus were not aboard, had questioned the driver, but he immediately whirled the bus around and declared that he was going back after the older children. The school official notified the Highway Patrol and then gave chase. Before anyone could catch the bus, the young children had escaped and the bus wound up in the ditch where the person had found it and began driving the bus back. The patrolmen said that there were no injuries.
In Lawton, Okla., a young father had told police from his hospital bed after surgery this date that two bandits had broken into his apartment, shot his wife to death and wounded him. He was in good condition and their five-month old child had slept undisturbed through the entire shooting. The 22-year old man told police that two men the previous night had forced their way into their apartment, which was located over a large surplus store in which he was a clerk. The men had pulled guns and came into the apartment and then one of them had taken the man downstairs and made him open the safe and give him the $300 inside, overlooking another $1,000. They had then returned to the apartment, torn strips from a diaper and bound the couple's feet, gagged them and then forced them into a closet. They departed and a minute later, one of the robbers returned and fired five times into the closet, two of the bullets striking the man's wife and three hitting the man. He said he was able partially to free himself and dragged his mortally wounded wife to the middle of the floor and cut her bindings. Unable to get free from his own bindings, he staggered across the street to find a city policeman. Roadblocks had been set up, but no trace of the men had been found.
In Woodward, Okla., a 22-year old grocery store clerk had died in a hospital at midnight, the second fatality from a holdup and shooting staged by two brothers, ages 12 and 10, on March 25. The clerk had been critically wounded in the shooting, and his boss, 49, had been shot down when the two young boys had gone into the open air grocery store and then began firing guns which they had stolen earlier from a sporting goods store. A customer had been nicked by a bullet. They had been captured soon after the shooting. The 12-year old had been charged with murder in the death of the proprietor and he was awaiting arraignment. His 10-year old brother had been made a ward of the juvenile court by a judge and had been sent to a private boys' ranch for rehabilitation. The boys had told officers that they were going to rob the grocery store, but the county attorney had said that they had never provided a plausible reason for starting to fire, apparently having become frightened.
In Yosemite National Park in California, a man, 22, had been rescued by helicopter after four delirious nights on a snow-piled Sierra ledge, remaining in critical condition this date suffering from pneumonia. A 21-year old woman from Seattle, one of three Stanford University students who had taken care of the man from San Francisco in a small tent, had remarked after the rescue the previous day that the man was delirious most of the time but had improved some after Friday, that they had a first aid kit and she had given him antibiotics every four hours, stretching the doses to every six hours when it appeared they would be there for awhile. On Saturday, a plane had dropped more antibiotics. The other young woman who had stayed with the man was a 21-year old from Orinda, Calif. They and two other 22-year old men, plus the rescued man and one other woman, had started on March 22 on what was to have been an eight-day cross-country ski trip through the high mountains from June Lake reservoir to Yosemite. The six were members of the Stanford Alpine Club and had expected to arrive at Yosemite on Saturday. The man who had been rescued had become ill on Wednesday and by Thursday was so weak that the group had pitched a camp at 11,600 feet, more than two miles high, on lonely snow-covered Lyell Peak and two of the men had hiked out for help.
In Algiers, the French had reported putting 80 rebels "out of action" in two clashes this date near the electric barbed wire barrier separating Algeria from Tunisia, the report indicating that the French used the expression "put out of action" for rebels killed or captured.
In Nicosia, Cyprus, an uneasy peace had been broken this date with explosions and the shooting of a Greek Cypriot merchant, with the extremist underground calling for "total war for freedom or death". An incendiary bomb damaged records at Famagusta, and a 35-year old man had been killed by gunshot.
In Brisbane, Australia, 39 passengers and four crewmen had escaped injury this date when a trans-Australia airliner had overshot the runway and crashed into a cement machine, the collision having prevented the aircraft from falling onto an eight-foot ditch.
In Paris, a nationwide 24-hour transport strike this date left an estimated 4 million French workers out of work. A million transport and allied workers had gone on strike and lack of transportation had kept the others from work.
In Birmingham, Ala., thousands of area commuters had been without rides this date, as bus drivers and mechanics of the Birmingham Transit Co. struck at midnight when company and union officials had been unable to agree on a new contract following months of protracted negotiation.
The Senate Select Committee investigating misconduct in unions and management had called two final witnesses this date to wind up hearings in two conflicting charges of violence in a 1955 strike at Perfect Circle Corp. plants. A striker shot in both legs during a gun battle and a company supervisor in New Castle, Ind., whose house and auto had been damaged, testified before the Committee.
Julian Scheer of The News reports that an Air Force claims officer had been scheduled to arrive in Charlotte this date to try to set things straight for two families full of miseries. The Shaw Air Force Base claims officer would review claims by the two families, nine people who had seen their personal belongings go up in flames when an Air Force jet had leveled their home the prior Saturday morning. They had already faced hardship and they were only hoping this date that the end of their troubles was near. For the previous three days, the families had lived in cramped and uncomfortable quarters in Charlotte and Gastonia. They had been unsuccessful in their efforts to find a furnished home, had no money to furnish a rentable place and could only hope that the bureaucratic red tape could be quickly cut.
In Mobile, Ala., it was reported that the traditional showers of confetti at Mardi Gras parades would become a thing of the past apparently, as the City Commission had directed the City attorney to draw up an ordinance making it illegal to sell or throw confetti on Mobile streets because it created a health hazard.
In London, a British couple had won a world record prize of 209,079 pounds, the equivalent of $585,421, for having invested two pence in a soccer pool. A 58-year old coal miner who earned 8 pounds per week, the equivalent of $22.40, and his 57-year old wife, had immediately planned a trip to Canton, O., to visit their polio-crippled 13-year old grandson. The couple had come to London from the coal mining village of Horden in County Durham to collect the prize. The woman said that they had been trying to go to see their grandchild for a few years but had been unable to raise the money, that now they had the money and it would be the first thing they would do. Their eldest son had met a woman from Canton while training in the U.S. for the Royal Air Force early during World War II, and they had been married 13 years earlier.
In Dallas, Tex., a 50-year old woman was baffled by three thefts in eight weeks, consisting of the taking of three lace doilies from an overstuffed chair in her living room, with police unable to find a trace of the thief. Finally the woman had caught the culprit in the act, spotting a squirrel snatching a fourth doily and scurrying up the chimney.
On the editorial page, "The Leaky Roof Everybody Forgot" indicates that North Carolina's unemployment compensation system was obviously out of date, that the weekly benefits, with a maximum of $32, were too low to offer any real insurance against privation and that the maximum number of weeks for which they could be paid, 26, was too short.
The State Employment Security Commission would "undertake a study of the adequacy of the benefit payments provided by the present formula and subsequently present its findings and recommendations to the Governor." But that would take time and the General Assembly did not meet again in regular session until 1959, prompting the question of what would happen in the meantime.
There were numerous schemes before Congress to extend unemployment compensation for those whose benefits under the present provisions had ended. But the Employment Security Commission would decline such stopgap remedies on the basis that it believed that the state should administer its own unemployment insurance program.
The Social Security Act of 1935 had taken great pains to set up the unemployment compensation system with a maximum of state administration and a minimum of Federal interference. But the state could not afford, it opines, to shut the door to Federal aid which would respect the tradition, leaving distribution and tests of eligibility to the states, while providing supplemental Federal funding in the current emergency. It indicates that the state had to have some escape hatch if conditions were to worsen.
It suggests that thoughtful revision of the entire state unemployment compensation system in accordance with modern conditions and reasonable standards of decency would have been more prudent and wise, but that instead, they were now faced with the sudden necessity to tinker with it.
It allows for the possibility that the bottom of the recession had been reached and that the state would not have to suffer mass joblessness. But the determined optimism of Governor Luther Hodges could not disguise the fact that nine North Carolina cities or areas had already reported serious unemployment problems in industries such as textiles, plywood, railroads and construction. According to a recent U.S. Department of Labor report, areas in which 6 percent or more of the labor force was out of work included Asheville, Durham, Fayetteville, Kinston, Mount Airy, Rocky Mount, Rutherfordton-Forest City, Shelby-Kings Mountain and Waynesville.
It concludes that whatever the future held, the unemployment compensation system had to be modernized and that North Carolina, like most of its sister states across the nation, had neglected that modernization for too long.
"There Is No Market for 'Clean' Bombs" suggests that it was doubtful that the U.S. would ever be able to create popular demand for the "clean bomb", that a nuclear weapon, even one the radioactive fallout of which was significantly reduced, was by popular definition a "dirty" weapon, because it killed hundreds of thousands of people by its blast alone, and the popular revulsion to nuclear weapons was not based solely on the contamination of the atmosphere from the testing.
Yet, the promotion of such clean bombs was the only thing which the U.S. could use in response to the Soviet "renunciation" of nuclear testing. The Soviets would not agree to a permanent test ban with assured mutual inspection, and having just completed a series of tests, had no desire to make additional tests at the current time, that when it did renew the desire, it would simply announce that the tests were being resumed because the U.S. had not followed suit.
It finds that the sum of the rigmarole was that the U.S. had suffered a tremendous propaganda defeat, despite having been substantially warned in advance of it. It suggests that perhaps nothing else could have been done immediately, but while the Administration worried over the propaganda coup, it urges that it might also wonder if the Atomic Energy Commission was not intentionally cooperating in the Soviet campaign to portray the U.S. as a bomb-happy haven of warmongers, by the fact of the recent AEC statements which seemed to minimize the dangers while glorifying the opportunities of atomic weaponry. The tone of those statements appeared to be that nuclear testing was not so bad after all and that as good or better than an absolute ban on testing would be an agreement among the nuclear powers to limit the amount of radioactive material each would be allowed to place into the atmosphere.
Such an agreement was not likely, but it assumed in any event that scientists already were competent to determine what constituted a safe limit of contamination, when there was little agreement on the point among U.S. scientists and apparently even less abroad. Even if the scientists would agree, it was doubtful that the world's masses would be willing to run the risk of their being wrong.
It finds that a ban on nuclear testing awaiting Soviet acceptance of a foolproof inspection system had been a sound and defensible U.S. position, but the AEC's cheerful talk about the relative safety of the tests robbed that position of much of its substance and almost all of its propaganda value.
It was fine for the AEC's Dr. Willard Libby to say that the number of deaths from nuclear bomb testing was slight compared with the 40,000 resulting annually from automobile accidents, but some did not choose to ride in automobiles.
The U.S. could not safely end nuclear testing without being certain that the Soviets would do likewise, but neither could afford to give the appearance of not caring whether the tests were ended.
"Turn About" indicates that a Washington writer, William Stringer, who wrote for the Christian Science Monitor, had just made an astounding discovery, that it only required a few days of travel and discussion in the Deep South "to persuade one that the racial issue isn't going to be settled overnight."
It asserts "with equal perspicacity" that it required only a few days of travel and discussion in New York City to come to the same conclusion about the North.
A piece from the Baltimore Sun, titled "Terpsichore in Jeans", reminds Congress that the "suggestive" dances of which witnesses had complained were not exactly new, notwithstanding rock 'n' roll and jitterbug perhaps being repulsive to the elder generations.
It cites as example the waltz, the peasant originals of which had been targets of reformers for centuries, particularly the Landler, in which the boy threw the girl over his shoulder, that when the waltz reached polite ballrooms, it had been roundly condemned and was even thought shocking by Lord Byron, hardly a moralist. The Volta was even nearer to jitterbug, as its chief figure required the man to seize his partner around the torso and toss her in the air.
The stately sarabande, now chiefly associated with J. S. Bach, had prior to that time been so blatantly indecent that it was attacked by Miguel de Cervantes and even suppressed by the Government of Philip II.
The original tango had been described by travelers in terms which left no doubt of its character.
It indicates that it did not mean that the gyrations of the present "dance fiends" were proper or even pretty, but that there was considerable precedent for wild dancing and equally wild condemnation of it.
Drew Pearson indicates that Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield had an interesting way of treating certain pet Senators regarding the delivery of mail, that a secret order had just been revealed regarding the delivery of the Baltimore Sun to Senator Glenn Beall of Maryland. As with others recently when Mr. Summerfield had slowed down their mail delivery, Senator Beall had complained, but unlike others, he obtained results such that the newspaper was delivered pursuant to a special order officially titled, "Delay of Baltimore Sun to Senator Glenn Beall of Maryland", specifying that the specially labeled newspaper was to be placed in an official pouch at a certain early hour and delivered two hours later tied to a package of first-class mail, and if it missed that delivery, was to be delivered by special delivery messenger for which the taxpayers would foot the bill, 30 cents. A "daily watch" was to be posted to ensure that the Senator received his morning newspaper. He quotes the special order to that effect. He notes that Senator Beall had been receiving that privilege for almost 3 years, having begun August 7, 1955, and recently renewed on January 7, 1958.
FCC commissioners had tried to brush off the "loans" of color television sets from RCA, but a close scrutiny of secret Congressional reports indicated that the sets were worth quite a bit of money, with records showing that on January 3, 1957, RCA had sent through a purchase order for seven 21-inch color television receivers at a total price of $9,844.90, delivered to seven FCC commissioners. Approximately two months afterward, on February 27, 1957, RCA Service Co. had sent through an invoice to RCA covering monthly preventive maintenance service for 1957, worth $8,683.90. Thus the cost and service of the television sets for the commissioners had run to around $18,000. Later, on April 11, 1957, RCA had sent through an order for ten sets at about $5,662 to replace sets for six of the commissioners, and on the same date another order was put through replacing RCA color television sets for the commissioners.
Joseph & Stewart Alsop indicate that as they were writing the editorial, American policymakers were nervously awaiting the announcement of a Kremlin decision to suspend testing of nuclear weapons for a trial period while the question was being negotiated by the leading powers. (The editors parenthetically note that the decision had been issued by the Kremlin the previous day.) The Kremlin had already underlined U.S. sinfulness and its own attachment to the "cause of peace" by denouncing at the U.N. the upcoming American program of nuclear weapons tests in the mid-Pacific. Meanwhile, the Soviets had just completed all of the nuclear testing which they had any present need to conduct. The Soviet test series had begun eight months earlier and since the previous August, had been made both singly and in groups and at a new proving ground north of the Arctic Circle, as well as at the Siberian proving ground which had always previously been used.
Early in the series, a powerful fusion device had been detonated at very high altitude and other weapons tested had been described as "substantial" in size, having "a large yield", "in the megaton range". Considerable numbers of small weapons had also been tested, and on two occasions, there had been two tests of different weapons on the same day. In all, 15 weapons tests had been made in eight months, striking because the Soviets had made only 39 tests and all since their first successful atomic test in 1949. The tests had given no indication of any serious Soviet competition with the U.S. effort to get a clean nuclear bomb, but the high altitude explosion of a fusion device had to be interpreted as an important step in Soviet development of anti-aircraft rockets with a nuclear warhead. Various signs understood by the scientists indicated that many of the other weapons tested had been physically very compact, and thus suitable for delivery by medium and long-range ballistic missiles.
Judging by the increasing passion of the debate about nuclear weapons in both Britain and West Germany, the U.S. policy makers' predicament would be very unpleasant if the Kremlin made the phony announcement of a voluntary suspension of further nuclear testing as a "contribution to peace". The phoniness would hardly be noted in either Germany or Britain or anywhere else, as the Kremlin initiative would be taken at face value. The British Government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would be under particularly heavy public pressure to match the Kremlin's gesture with a similar gesture of its own. In his present weak political situation at home, Mr. Macmillan might even be driven to take independent action if the U.S. did not.
Meanwhile, if the U.S. Government insisted on continuing its nuclear testing, the U.S. would be denounced for bloody-mindedness and intransigence, and things would not be made much better if it were to say it was ready to end nuclear testing after adequate means for inspection, as the President had vaguely hinted at his most recent press conference might be the eventual U.S. stance. For if it were to do so, it would be considered only a "me-too" position in the wake of the Soviet initiative, with the credit for ending testing going to the Soviets
The U.S. Government had ample warning of the Kremlin's intentions, as weeks had passed since the intelligence analysts had first warned the State Department and the Atomic Energy Commission that they must be ready for a Kremlin announcement of voluntary test suspension. Even before that warning, the idea of closing the atomic club by agreeing to end testing had already gained ground within the Administration. It was less predictable that the idea would eventually become firm policy and had even been described in certain high circles as the one positive thing which might be agreed on at a summit meeting.
But Admiral Lewis Strauss, chairman of the AEC, had been fighting the trend with bitterness and astuteness, along with his staff and allied scientists. The Congressional committee meetings which were held on all levels after the intelligence warning exhibited much argument and discord. Secretary of State Dallas, who alone might have made a decision, was away until recently on the conference circuit. Thus the final decision had been the one which had become increasingly usual, that being "to do nothing, to remain impassive, to wait dumbly for the other side's blow, because agreeing to do nothing was easier than agreeing to do something."
Robert C. Ruark, in Palamos, Spain, indicates that at around this time of year he became nostalgic for writing sports again. When he had been a cub reporter Grantland Rice was more or less the dean of the sportswriters and Joe Williams, to whom he was afraid to speak, Sid Mercer, Red Smith, Jack Miley, Bob Considine, Harry Ferguson, Shirley Povich, Francis Stann, Johnny Carmichael, Gordon Cobbledick, Dan Daniel and many others had been among the top writers. He had been a beardless boy covering the worst club, except for Philadelphia, in the American League. Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio and Phil Rizzuto, plus others, had just been coming into full play, but he never had eyes for the athletes as he was lost in awe with the writers. With the exception of Messrs. Povich, Considine and Stann, from Washington, no one knew he was there except himself and he did not advertise it, as he was just a step away from being a copyboy on the Washington Daily News. One baseball writer had covered the entire spring training season wearing a beret and had covered it from Jack's bar in Orlando. But there had been a gentle camaraderie among the sporting types at that time, which had become more so the following year, when a few people had recognized him despite his mustache.
No one had been out to make a reputation that year, just a few months before Pearl Harbor. They had all worn split cocoa-straw hats, neckerchiefs, and sports shirts, drank drinks compounded of five kinds of rum, and if someone became drunk, someone else would write that person's column and did not whine about it. It happened to such a point that some of the writers could write as many as four different kinds of prose, depending on which newspaper they were working for anonymously. He recalled one week when he worked for two papers in Washington and was scrupulous about not giving his own newspaper the best of the copy.
He says that he was glad that he could remember when the Kansas City marvels, Jerry Priddy and Mr. Rizzuto, had been on display as comers, with the former supposed to have been the class of the combination. He concludes that it might be the maunderings of an oldster, "but it would be very nice to be a sportswriter again, and under the same conditions."
A letter writer compliments the newspaper for its editorial "Teach American Diplomats To Talk", indicating that to have statesmen in Congress who could not realize the importance of supporting adequate language training for foreign service officers was intolerable. He finds that it was not surprising that the President was becoming exasperated at the Congress persisting in cutting the budget of the Foreign Service Institute, as he had experience with the linguistic deficiencies of the officers when he had been in command of NATO, one of his first orders having been to have them begin to study French. He concludes that the country could no longer afford to have diplomats whose ignorance of languages made them deaf, dumb and often blind to what went on around them.
A letter writer from Salisbury says that there had been all kinds of fog images moving around during the morning which had changed shape quite often "like a pretty lady changes her mind." "A fog man started to rise, then broke in two masses and became a cat being chased by a dog. Another fog form looked like a Christmas tree full of presents, but all at once it changed into a horse and a lady rider. Some other large fog masses looked like frosty glass houses that were being fused into something else. How wonderful of God to make so many wonders out of water, the greatest gift of God to man."
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