The Charlotte News
Monday, May 12, 1958
TWO EDITORIALS
Site Ed. Note: The front page reports from Beirut, Lebanon, that rioters had sacked and burned the U.S. Information Agency library this date, the second such library to suffer from the anti-government demonstrations during the previous three days. The rioters, stirred by foes of Lebanon's pro-Western Government, had burned the USIA library, many of its books and furniture on the prior Saturday in the north coast city of Tripoli. In Beirut, a mob had smashed through police guarding the USIA library and hurled more than 1,000 books and furniture into the street, then set the pile ablaze. The rioters had then set fire to the inside of the library. Earlier, one person had been reported killed in brief, sporadic shooting which police had quickly quelled. The capital's transportation system was at a standstill and only a few shops had defied warnings that they had better close. More shooting had broken out in Tripoli, and in the south, Sidon and the biblical port of Tyre had been closed. Disturbances were also reported in mountain villages. Americans in Beirut were told to stay off the streets and to keep their children home from school. Reinforced security forces had been stationed at strategic spots throughout the city and strong patrols were moving continuously through the streets. The general strike had spread quickly in Beirut and in Tripoli, after months of mounting political tension had erupted during the weekend with the burning of the USIA library in Tripoli. The rioters had destroyed every book and piece of furniture. Rival political gangs had gone into action there on Saturday, with reports indicating that they had stolen guns from a shop and then turned them on each other. The library was reportedly swept up in the rioting which killed at least four persons and injured 30. The groups reportedly involved were the Communists, the small Baath Party and the outlawed Syrian Social Nationalist Party. The shooting had erupted again the previous day, but security police had quickly re-established control. Anti-Government forces had also tossed bombs in Beirut, but they had caused little damage. Isolated bombings had plagued the city for months. The Tripoli rioting had been ignited by a call for a general strike in protest of the assassination the previous Thursday of Nasib Matni, a Beirut publisher who had opposed President Camille Chamoun and had backed the policies of Egyptian Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic. The latter's radio stations in Cairo and Damascus meanwhile had broadcast appeals for an open rebellion in Lebanon. President Chamoun was known to be seeking another six-year term the following September, and he had the votes in Parliament to amend the Constitution and remain in power. He was pro-Western and Christian, and his party had swamped a generally Moslem, pro-Nasser opposition in the 1957 parliamentary elections.
In Colombo, Ceylon, it was reported that new floods had hit the country, still recovering from the flooding of the previous December, with several persons reported drowned and hundreds homeless.
In London, Britain this date had given a cautious and conditional welcome to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's offer to consider some controls for a ban on nuclear weapons testing.
Also in London, it was reported that Moscow radio had reported this date that the Soviet Union had agreed to help Hungary build an experimental atomic power reactor.
In Southampton, England, Dr. Vivian Fuchs, the British explorer who had led the first 2,100-mile overland crossing of the Antarctic, had returned home this date to a hero's welcome.
In Paris, a new wave of opposition to any compromise in Algeria this date imperiled the chances of moderate Pierre Pflimlin to form France's 25th postwar government.
In Jakarta, Indonesia, Government troops had continued this date to pound rebel invaders of east Indonesia's Halmahera Island after a weekend of sharp fighting.
In Mexico City, it was reported that Louis Deboie, Haitian opposition leader who had been blamed by his Government for a resurgence of terrorism, had arrived the previous night to take up exile, after Mexico had granted the former Senator asylum.
In Karachi, Pakistan, it was reported that Russia had joined the U.S. in sending doctors and medical supplies to help Pakistan fight twin epidemics of cholera and smallpox.
Attorney General William Rogers this date announced the indictment of five large drug companies on charges of antitrust violations in the sale of polio vaccines to Federal, state and local governments. He said that the indictment was returned by a Federal grand jury in Trenton, N.J., against Eli Lily & Co. of Indianapolis, Allied Laboratories, Inc., of Kansas City, American Home Products Corp. of New York City, Merck & Co. of Rahway, N.J., and Parke, Davis & Co. of Detroit.
In San Francisco, evangelist Billy Graham said that the nation was no stronger than its homes and that there was something wrong with the American home, addressing a Mother's Day audience of 16,300 the previous night at the Cow Palace. He noted that there was one divorce for every 3.5 marriages in the nation and one for every two in San Francisco. He said, "It shows there is more unhappiness here than in any other city in the world." He said that the Bible taught that marriage was a miracle, a "serious, lifelong step and in God's sight is a sacred vow." He said that all successful marriages had to be based on love and a knowledge of the message of Christ. "Successful love is a combination of physical attraction, mental affinity, and spiritual oneness—the handiwork of God Himself." He told wives to subordinate themselves to their husbands. "The wives are the keepers of the house—not the women's club—but the home. Greet your husband at the door with a kiss. He may faint the first time. It doesn't cost much to be attractive." He said that the wife had the hardest job, that he had to take care of their five children one day while his wife had gone shopping, and that he would rather plow new ground all day than go through that again. To husbands he had said: "Love your wife as Christ loves the church and that means in spite of all her faults. How long has it been since you brought flowers or candy? Don't be a tightwad. Give your wife money of her own to spend without question. Give your wife primary consideration at all times. Take time with your children, set them a good example, for children imitate more than they listen to your lectures." He warned that "there can be no real love between a husband and wife without Christ." He saw 575 persons make "decisions for Christ" at the end of his sermon, bringing the total to 8,180 for the crusade, with total attendance now reaching 220,800. He would resume the crusade the following day.
In East Haven, Conn., police said that a 13-year old boy had admitted this date the sex slaying of a six-year old girl the previous night near a spot known to children as "Murder Hill". Authorities said that the boy lived in the neighborhood and had joined in the search for the little girl when she was initially reported lost in dense woods near her home. Her nearly nude body, so savagely beaten that veteran police officers had wept when they had seen it, had been found in a swampy, foggy wood near her home. It had been lying face down near a knoll which children in the neighborhood had dubbed "Murder Hill" because of its forbidding look. The little girl's head had been crushed by a heavy rock, and it was evident from the bits of skin and hair lodged under her fingernails that she had fought her attacker with all the energy she was capable of mustering. Police had said that they had grown suspicious of the boy soon after the body was discovered. An officer had been called to the home by the girl's mother, and he urged neighborhood children to let him know if they had seen the little girl in a red coat. A few minutes later, the boy had run to the officer, saying that he had seen the little girl, and led the officers to the scene. Police decided that he could not have had time to locate the body unless he had known about the slaying. They had questioned him until 2:30 a.m. and got an admission and an apology from the seventh-grader. Part of the girl's bloody clothing had been found in his home. No criminal charges had yet been filed against him, and he was taken to a detention home in New Haven. He was quoted by the officers as saying: "I hope they have a good bed up there. I'm tired." The little girl's mother had last seen her as she played with neighborhood children near her home. She had been under parental instructions never to play in the woods. Soon after her body had been discovered, her mother said that she had just wanted them to catch the man who had done it to prevent him from ever harming anyone again.
In Windsor, N.C., a 17-year old high school athlete and student leader at Ahoskie High School had been indicted by the Bertie County grand jury this date on a murder charge for the shotgun killing of a pretty school mate, also 17, with selection of the trial jury set to begin the following day. Psychiatrists had expressed the opinion that the boy was suffering from a mental disorder, split personality, when he fatally shot the girl on a country road near Windsor the previous February 12. The solicitor said that he would try the defendant for first-degree murder, which would carry the death penalty automatically unless the jury recommended life imprisonment. A short time before the victim's death, she had joined the boy in his car near the Ahoskie High School they both attended together, with friends indicating that she had telephoned the youth to meet her. The motive for the slaying had remained a mystery, with officers indicating that the boy had told them he had fired the fatal shot, but would only say that the girl had been bothering him with telephone calls. Psychiatrists who had examined the boy during a 60-day observation period in the State Hospital in Raleigh said that he was seriously deranged at the time of his admission, but capable of standing trial at the end of the observation period, expressing the opinion that he was suffering from a split personality at the time of the shooting. He was the son of a State Highway Patrol sergeant and had been a top football and basketball player at the school, as well as president of his junior class.
In Tarboro, N.C., it was reported that swirling floodwaters of the Tar River had crested this date after driving some 1,000 persons from their homes, officials estimating that it would be about three days before the river would recede sufficiently for the refugees to return. The mayor who had made a tour of a predominantly black community, Princeville, across the river from Tarboro, said that damage in the stricken area would be extensive and that it would be confronted with a serious health problem when the river receded. The Weather Bureau in Raleigh-Durham reported at mid-morning that the Tar, swollen by heavy rains the previous week, was cresting at a depth of about 29.25 feet, more than ten feet above its flood stage. The Tarboro mayor reported that additional families who had refused to leave their homes the previous day had changed their minds and were being taken from the flooded area this date. He estimated that 140 to 150 families in the Princeville area had been evacuated, as well as about 15 families from a low-lying section of Tarboro, estimating that between 800 and 900 persons were involved at Princeville and between 50 and 60 in Tarboro. A majority of those evacuated had gone to stay with families and friends in the county, and the mayor indicated that the Red Cross was caring for 150 persons. The flooding was the most serious which the area had experienced since 1940, according to the mayor, and was much worse than a flood in 1945.
Ann Sawyer of The News reports that the County Commission had given its approval to a 12.5 million dollar budget carrying a 95-cent County rate and a 40-cent special County school supplement. The record-high budget for County operation was 11.5 million dollars, and added to it was the special school supplement of $968,168, to be used primarily for teacher salaries. The entire budget would be 1.38 million dollars higher than the current one. The countywide tax rate paid by both city and county residents would be four cents higher than the 1957 rate of 91 cents per $100 of valuation. Two cents of the increase was for the Community College system, recently approved by the voters. Of the 18 funds included in the County budget, all except three had increases over the present fiscal year.
Dick Young of The News reports that the Charlotte Community College system trustees had been inducted into office in formal ceremonies at City Hall during the morning and had gotten down to business right away. They had adopted a resolution requesting the County Commission to include in the county's subsequent fiscal year budget the two-cent college tax approved by voters on April 26, and had instructed the director of Charlotte College to file with the North Carolina Board of Higher Education, meeting in Raleigh during the week, Charlotte's request for the maximum allocation of $600,000 of State funding for capital purposes. It had also given preliminary consideration to the mechanics of the call for an election to issue bonds, previously stated as $915,000, to provide local funding to match State appropriations for buildings.
John Kilgo of The News reports that County police were investigating a mysterious "humming" object which had apparently struck both sides of a couple's home the previous night. The woman of the house had told the newspaper this date that both sides of the house had burned spots on them a little larger than a quarter, with one of the spots having some kind of material embedded in it. No one knew for sure what actually had hit the house, but the woman said that she thought it might have been part of a meteor. She said that she was not after any "crazy publicity", but was sure something had hit their house, indicating that she and her husband had been in bed when a noise started shortly before midnight, lasting about four minutes and continually getting closer, scaring her and her husband to death. They had then heard something hit the house. After they stopped shaking, they had gone outside to see what they could determine, and had been unable immediately to find anything, but during the morning had found the two spots. She said she knew it was not a Sputnik but believed that it could have been a small meteor. A County patrolman had gone to the house this date to investigate, and the woman said that he had been nice to her but she did not agree with what he said, as he thought it was an unbaked spot on the bricks. When asked what it sounded like, she said it was hard to describe, and when asked whether it sounded like a bumblebee, she agreed, saying, however, that it was "the biggest bumblebee you've ever seen."
The bee, or the son of the bee, probably was this here
In Ogden, Ut., a mail carrier walked quietly and delivered the mail by hand to a woman, the only way he could keep from disturbing a mother finch which had built a nest in the woman's mailbox and had promptly begun warming three eggs.
On the editorial page, "Bell Is Best Qualified for the Senate" finds that the choice before Mecklenburg Democrats in the State Senate race was one of positive merits and qualifications, and that among the three candidates, J. Spencer Bell ought be nominated in the primary on May 31.
It proceeds to explain its choice.
"Ghostly Mementos Haunt Democrats" indicates that despite the angry oaths and eye-rolling oratory at its convention the previous Saturday, the Democratic Party organization in Mecklenburg County had looked suspiciously like the same old haunted house.
The claim that W. M. Nicholson had "fired the party up" when he had won and lost the chairmanship, had an exhilarating ring to it and served conveniently as a face-saving device for Mr. Nicholson, who had played along with the gag. But it was not clear exactly to what the party had awakened, whether to a new order with new ideas around which the faithful could rally, and whether it could produce a single issue of any conceivable popular appeal to the thousands who had bolted to the Republicans. "The party merely opened its eyes to ghostly mementos of the past."
There was only a clash of personalities, no ideas involved and no one standing for anything, no issue to be found anywhere, and when the dust had settled, the Old Guard was back in command, with the vicious circle complete.
The only invigorating note was the presence of so many eager amateurs who might one day wake up to what could be called a New Guard. If they had learned anything on Saturday, it was that the real struggle for power in the Democratic Party in Mecklenburg had to be waged between the past and the future and fought with real ideas and issues, not with tiresome personalities and ghostly mementos. Loyalty was not enough, nor was tradition. "The electorate must have something it can see and feel and believe in." There was no health in a party organization which insisted on continuing to fight battles of the 1920's and 1930's in a time of fresh challenges and new opportunities.
It posits that the Democratic Party would never mean anything again in Mecklenburg until it was emptied of its old symbolism, its divisive influences and mental attitudes fashionable 25 years earlier. "Every act of courage or timidity, greed or sacrifice, indignation or complacency, will be meaningless until these lessons are learned."
A piece from the Mattoon (Ill.) Journal-Gazette, titled "Chewing Tar", indicates that a recent fire in a tar pot had reminded it that the pots were not extinct, but that neither were they as common as they had seemed in its carefree childhood.
"The boiling, bubbling and steaming cauldrons were then the delight of children and the despair of parents. There seemed always to be one in action within a block or two, repairing roofs or streets."
The workers who used them spent perhaps half their time working and the other half telling "tow-heads" to stand back. When they had gone for the day, the urchins waited for the tar to cool, testing it gingerly at five-second intervals, and when it was sufficiently cold, enough large lumps would be hacked and broken off to be used as chewing gum.
It realizes that tar was made from asphalt and petroleum products and that more easily digestible materials had been easier to come by, but they had not held the fascination of tar. "The rumor was general that chewing tar would give one pearly teeth. That was important to roughnecks just beginning to notice that there was a second sex, particularly for the boy who had failed in all attempts to plaster his hair tight to his scalp."
Drew Pearson, in Rome, tells of his first memory of the city, not long after World War I, in 1920, before Mussolini had come to power, when he had arrived with a knapsack on his back as an economizing young tourist taking a couple of weeks off from postwar reconstruction work in Montenegro, gazing at the wonders of ancient Rome. At the time, it was "sleepy, lethargic and delightful. It was also awash with patriotic boasts that it alone had won the war and of nationalistic demands for Fiume, parts of Austria and the Adriatic coast." He had stopped in Fiume en route back to Yugoslavia, where he was arrested by swaggering Italian carabinieri because he spoke Serb. His passport and proof that he had been born in Evanston, Ill., had finally won his release.
He indicates that his next memory
was in 1923, right after Mussolini had come to power with his proud
boast that the trains were now running on time, and they had. "But
traveling from Milan to Rome, my trunk was neatly rifled, a pair of
gold cuff links removed. Maybe, I thought, the new Fascist regime
could do with less efficiency and more honesty." He had finally
secured an interview with Mussolini as a young newspaperman,
something which Mussolini had sensed. He met with him in a dark, long
room in the Palazzo Chibi, seeing a man crouched over a desk at the
far end of the room, as he walked across the bare inlaid floor, by
portraits on the wall, finally reaching the "stern, bald-headed
figure in uniform, his frown, his intensity." Mussolini said to
him: "Your name is Pearson. You have come to ask me about
communism. It is finished, gone forever. We have banished it from
Italy—completely." (We cannot help but comment here in
June, 2025 that the words sound remarkably like those of the modern
Il Duce of America, pronouncing, despite all reliable intelligence thus
far to the contrary, that Iran's nuclear program has been vanquished,
banished forever, and will no longer trouble Israel or the rest of
the world, though, of course, it was an incipient program in the
first place, which had not come to fruition, and probably would not
have for years to come, now being driven underground where it could
unexpectedly resurface as, in fact, a nuclear weapon, one of these
days, perhaps a year from now, five years from now, ten years from
now. And those MAGA people who are now breathlessly referring to the new CIA assessment need to find out who the new director is at that agency and consider how lacking in credibility therefore such an outlying politicized assessment is, especially when all sources agree that it will take months or even a year to determine the "success" or not of the strike on Iran's nuclear enrichment program, when the preliminary Pentagon assessment states that it has been set back by about six to nine months, a conservative estimate being much better than a broad, politicized one, provided the true aim of the strike was to destroy that nuclear enrichment program beyond that necessary for nuclear power capability and not merely to glorify and attempt to consolidate further the usurped power from Congress of the Supreme Ruler of the demi-theocratic state which is MAGA. Oh ma ga... Ma ha?
Mr. Pearson indicates that he had thought of that interview with the dictator many times during recent visits to Italy and especially now, as Italy was preparing to go to the polls in a national test of Communist strength. Banishment of communism or any political party by force, he suggests, never paid, and Italy now had the biggest Communist Party of any country outside Russia.
On the same day he had interviewed Mussolini, he had interviewed Francisco Nitti, the former Premier and leader of the democratic opposition which had fought Fascism. He had been genial, friendly, talking about the need for free press and free speech. The following day, Sig. Nitti's home had been ransacked by a gang of Fascists, his furniture broken, his papers strewn about the street, and he had gone into exile. Mr. Pearson doubts that his interview had anything to do with the raid, as Sig. Nitti's pro-democratic statements to him had not yet been published. The raid had been just a part of the Fascist technique of stamping out not only communism but all political opposition.
He made a third visit to Italy in 1936 when an arrogant Fascist regime had just ridden roughshod over helpless Ethiopia.
The country was quite different in the last days of 1947. The crops that year had been a failure, partly because of weather and partly because of a strike by agricultural workers. Wartime rations, supplied by the Allies, meager though they had been, had ended. The Marshall Plan was not yet in operation and the brand new Republic, rallying all the democratic elements who had been browbeaten by Mussolini, was struggling to hold together a defeated, discouraged people, many of whom were tempted by the promises of communism.
At that time, Premier Alcide de Gasperi, who had battled for a free Italy, received the Friendship Train, which Mr. Pearson had been instrumental in conceiving and realizing, two days after Christmas in the historic Campodoglio, designed by Michelangelo. Statues and monuments of ancient Rome were in the background while the pinched faces of the people were in the foreground. The Premier shivered in a threadbare coat and Count Carlo Sforza, the new Foreign Minister who had been long in exile, had worn no gloves. They had opened and presented to an Italian war widow, as a symbol, a sack of flour, part of 14 carloads contributed by the late Amon Carter of Fort Worth, Tex. The next day, the Friendship Train started its tour of Italy's main cities, stopping en route to drop off boxcars and explain how and why the American people were interested in Italy's new start as a nation. By the time they got to Gorizia, he had learned a little Italian and managed to read a speech, written for him by John Secondari, which he delivered from atop a table in the public square standing beside Prince Cardinal, who weighed 200 pounds.
He concludes that great changes had now taken place since he had visited right after World War I, even greater changes since its first major election ten years earlier, and he would endeavor to report on those changes in future columns.
And to those who say, "Well, that may not be so good, but he sure is making the trains run right on time, now, unlike that Joe Bi-den," rationalizing their vote for Trump because of his supposed economic whiz-kid miracles, turning water to wine and taking five pieces of bread and two fish to feed the multitudes, the country is presently on track, according to two impartial forecasts, to have only about 50 to 60 percent of the growth of gross domestic product, 1.4 percent, as it had in 2024, 2.5 percent, under that Joe Bi-den, the worst Pres-i-dent in his-tory ever since time, it-self, began, even more worser than Il Duce in his first term. And the same predictors find the country on track to have a higher unemployment rate, 4.5 percent, than in 2024, 4.2 percent, as well as to have higher personal consumption expenditure inflation, 3 percent, compared to 2.5 percent in 2024, and 3.1 versus 2.8 for consumer inflation less food and utilities costs. For the economically challenged, that there is not good. Just you wait, though, buckeroo, when them tariff deals begin to kick in...
Hey, how much is that little Pinta
A letter from Mercer Blankenship indicates that the state had remained among the free states of the union because it had remained organized on the township principle, that when he had served in the Legislature, he had noticed the many inroads which had been constantly made on the townships to consolidate the state into districts covering many townships, but that the township idea had withstood the test of time because it was so representative and close to the people. He indicates that the idea of consolidation was not new, that centralization of power, authority and control in incorporated cities such as Atlanta and others had swallowed up not only one whole township but several, and thereby usurped and exercised power out of proportion in the realm of religion, economics, power politics, education, health and welfare. He says it was not merely the geographic extension of boundaries, but a consuming appetite of the new behemoth corporation which had to be fed by the vitals of its weaker neighbors, which alarmed freedom-thinking people. He cites New York City reaching into the last free lands of the Iroquois Indians of New York State. He begs all people to consider and reconsider the question before consolidating their schools of the townships outside of corporate Charlotte with those within the corporate limits. He says that he was prouder of Mecklenburg County than he would ever be of Charlotte, but that Charlotte was seeking to swallow up Mecklenburg County. He urges home rule, home government, home responsibility within the county, and that consolidation would all but wipe out the bedrock of freedom which had been nurtured on the township principle through the state's history. "Would you be happy with only one large religion or church, or one newspaper, or one superstore to serve you in this county? All of these things are the result of consolidation and is indicative of Russian statism."
A letter writer indicates that the last judge selected by the voters of Mecklenburg County had been Judge Hugh Campbell, and he asserts that if the voters were given the choice again, they would again elect him. For the previous six years, they had not been pleased, however, but were going to try to correct the matter in 1958. "Those who have had the privilege of spreading the poison about the shallow-minded voters may regret it, for it might have been far better to have held in check such for another time." He says that they would not surrender their voting privileges to one person's challenge, and he urges not to do so with respect to the selection of judges, and to be careful in the choice for the State Senate on May 31. He says they did not want the system of appointing judges for North Carolina or the nation.
He continually refers to the right to vote as a "privilege", seeming to misunderstand the Constitution or, as is a common error, the conceptual difference between the two terms, using them interchangeably, which they most certainly are not susceptible to being used. A "right" is unalienable, given by natural law, whereas a "privilege", such as holding a driver's license or other license, is subject to grant or not by the state. While a right, such as the right to vote, can be regulated by laws as to the time, place and manner of its exercise and as to the requirements for registration and the like, the basic right is not a privilege subject to licensure.
And please don't start yapping like some illiterate moron about the Second Amendment "right" to bear arms as being some absolute. Study the wording and history of the adoption of the amendment carefully and concentrate on its first conditional clause: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State..." You will note that such delimiting language is not present as a condition for exercise of the rights affirmed by the First Amendment, which Thomas Jefferson viewed as one, indivisible right.
A letter writer wonders why there was more light than darkness, more calm than storm, more kindliness than cruelty, more joy than sorrow, more plenty than famine, suggesting that it was because there were more good people in the world than bad people. But he also wonders whether it was also because the whole universe leaned that way because the "Hand that creates and sways all" had so arranged it. He says that mean as man was, he could hardly destroy the universe. "Why think that love and righteousness can ever win out? He who marked the sparrow's fall saw redemption for the meek. Did He expect us to catch glimpses of that glorious day as we read that He chose the dove instead of the eagle, the hen instead of the cock, the sheep instead of the goat, the plowshare instead of the steely sword, the little child instead of a pompous king as having places in His kingdom?" He suggests that womanhood showed that gentleness and meekness might return to the hard hearts of men. "We used to feed Negro slaves on cornbread, black-eyed peas, liver and the less costly reaches up on the hog. Something was hidden from us: Today liver in cases of disease is almost priceless."
A letter writer from Cheraw, S.C., indicates that there were those at home who opposed aid for the needy and some high in Government who called such aid a dole, a handout for nothing in return. He wonders what the people at home who paid the bills had received in return from those maintained for so long by the foreign aid program, that the people at home needed help, whether by a dole or otherwise, although the present Administration for a good while had spent tax dollars on things and people who were nothing to the American people and of no help to them at any time. "It's always a golf trip for Ike and a trip for Dick Nixon to some other part of the world." He recommends that they realize that they were elected to serve the American people's needs first at home. "Let the President call it what he may, a dole is better than promises and talk that helps no one, not even the President."
A letter writer from Salisbury provides some suggestions for history teachers, that they have their pupils or students read a good historical novel or a biography which would help them relive the epoch being studied, enabling historical events to become a part of their living experiences as they read and studied, that an interview with the older people of a community would help children realize that many interesting events had happened before they were born, that the past reflected what might happen again and that students of history ought know that Winston Churchill was a better ruler because he was a good historian. He urges therefore that students do all within their power to understand events as they happened from day to day and were reported in the daily newspapers.
A letter from three persons indicates on behalf of the First Presbyterian Church thanks for the newspaper's coverage of the 98th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, U.S. They indicate that the newspaper's work had made it the best publicized in the history of the General Assembly.
A letter writer indicates that having worked with or for the aviation development of the community for some time, he commends the various organizations and individuals who had placed into action the emergency plans at Douglas Municipal Airport the previous Thursday when the Eastern Air Lines plane had been forced to circle the airport for some three hours before having to make an emergency landing because of a stuck nose gear. He finds that the emergency plans had doubtless decreased substantially the possibility of resulting bodily injury or property damage. He congratulates all involved for enabling the safe landing without injury to anyone.
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