The Charlotte News
Saturday, March 28, 1959
TWO EDITORIALS
Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that the nuclear submarine Skate was heading home this date after proving that atomic submarines could maneuver under Arctic ice within missile range of the Soviet Union anytime of the year. The Navy said that the submarine had completed a 12-day voyage under the Polar ice cap, and in the process had smashed through the ice several times to surface. The Navy mentioned only the scientific aspects of the voyage, but the military significance had been obvious. The 267-foot submarine had surfaced ten times during its 3,090-mile polar journey, either in open rifts in the ice or through thin spots in the ice pack. Once, on March 17, the Skate had surfaced exactly at the North Pole. It had made a similar trip the previous summer and was presently headed for New London, Conn., the same base from which it had departed several weeks earlier. Until it arrived there on April 6, full details of the voyage would not be known. The Navy insisted that the trip was a "scientific exploratory voyage" to obtain data on under-ice conditions in winter temperatures and to chart the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. All of it, however, would be information also vital for wartime use of missile submarines, which were expected to join the fleet late the following year. Commander R. B. McWethy, operations officer for the Atlantic Submarine Command, said that the Navy had deliberately chosen the worst time of the year for the trip, when the Arctic ice was heaviest and surface temperatures were coldest. Despite those conditions, the Skate had found frequent spots in the ice open or only slightly frozen, apparently only inches instead of feet the thick.
Easter would be celebrated the following day, with most people marking the holiday in churches, and many also taking part in traditional public observances. Paraders in new bonnets and frocks would join the largest gathering of Easter celebration, on New York's Fifth Avenue. Fair weather was anticipated over most of the nation. One of the great outdoor observances would be the sunrise service in the Hollywood Bowl, where some 20,000 persons were expected to hear a sermon by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, one of the 12 apostles of the Latter-Day Saints Church. In Oklahoma's Wichita Mountains near Lawton, thousands of people would gather for a similar observance. Other dawn or predawn services were scheduled for Boston Protestants aboard the U.S.S. Constitution at a Naval dock, at Moundsville, Ala., the site of Indian mounds where early American tribes had once gathered, in Indianapolis, where 300 choristers would greet the sunrise in Monument Circle, and at Sierra Madre, Calif., where the Youth for Christ movement would conduct services beneath a 45,000-square-foot canopy of wisteria blossoms. President and Mrs. Eisenhower were spending Easter weekend at their Gettysburg farm. The traditional Easter egg roll on the White House lawn would be deferred until Monday. In New York, Radio City Music Hall would be transformed by lighting and other stage effects into a giant cathedral for the Protestant Council's "The Glory of Easter" service. In southern Illinois, there would be a nondenominational groundbreaking ceremony for a 111-foot lighted steel cross to be installed atop a 1,030-foot Bald Knob hill at Alto Pass, with a crowd of 6,000 expected. Mountain amphitheaters would be the setting for services for some 30,000 people near Colorado Springs and in Denver.
Locally, the temperature on Easter morning was expected to be 28 degrees, but would rise to 60 by the afternoon, with clear and sunny skies. The Weather Bureau was forecasting "breezy but not disastrous winds". The previous day, the temperature had climbed to 74, but would slip to a high of 50 this date. During the morning, the temperature had been 37. The previous day, winds had reached 34 mph by late afternoon. The weather Monday would be warmer, with a few clouds.
In Chadbourn, N.C., a black candidate for the City Council said this date that he had received three calls threatening him and his family if he did not withdraw from the race. The Reverend I. B. Horton, pastor of the St. Stephen's Baptist Church, said that he would not withdraw. He had filed for the election the prior Saturday and said that he had received two calls on Thursday and a third late the previous night, with a male voice warning him on Thursday "to withdraw or leave town by 10:00 a.m. Friday". The third call had come late the previous night and warned him to withdraw or he and his family would be harmed. He said that apparently the same person had made the calls and that the conversation was essentially the same. He said that during the first conversation, the caller had identified himself as a member of the Klan. The pastor had moved to Chadbourn from his hometown of Raleigh in July, 1957. The police chief said that the minister had advised him of the calls and that he had promised him routine protection.
In Raleigh, union and management negotiators retired this date to study proposals aimed at reaching a settlement of Henderson's bitter four-month cotton mill strike. Both sides had spent three days during the week bargaining under mediation by Governor Luther Hodges in the executive mansion. By week's end, the Governor, who had stepped into the stalemated dispute the prior Saturday, was "cautiously optimistic". Talks with the Governor were slated to resume the following Monday or Tuesday. Elsewhere, there were new flareups of violence during the week, and a sensational controversy had developed between the Textile Workers Union of America Carolinas representative, Boyd Payton, and State Attorney General Malcolm Seawell and the State Bureau of Investigation. After several nighttime dynamite explosions in Henderson early the prior week, Mr. Payton reported that he had been injured when a passing motorist had thrown rocks, subsequently found to have been tiles, through a window of his car on the highway early on Thursday. On Thursday afternoon, Mr. Seawell and SBI director Walter Anderson had labeled the report "an absolute hoax". Mr. Payton and other union leaders issued a vigorous denial of any hoax at a special press conference on Friday, Mr. Payton offering to submit to a lie detector test to substantiate his claim, and suggesting that SBI agents who investigated the incident do the same. The union offered a $10,000 reward to any law enforcement officer who could successfully prosecute Mr. Payton for perpetrating a hoax. On hearing of that reward, Mr. Seawell said, "There is no law under which Payton could be prosecuted."
In Spartanburg, S.C., a 21-year old fugitive, wanted in both Carolinas and in Georgia and by Federal authorities, had led police on a chase across Spartanburg County the previous night and then had disappeared with the daylight. To the list of offenses for which he was wanted, police had added two break-ins and two automobile thefts. The chase had begun just prior to midnight when two county patrolmen had received an alert that a man, thought to be the fugitive, had broken into a Spartanburg soft drink bottling firm and a drive-in restaurant. The patrolmen had spotted him in nearby Cowpens driving an automobile stolen earlier in the evening. They chased him, but lost his trail near Mayo, east of Spartanburg. As other patrolmen started back toward Spartanburg, a man tried to flag them down and they flashed their spotlight on him, recognized him as the wanted man in question and ordered him to halt. He said he was in trouble and that they were the law, then turned and ran into the darkness as the officers shot through the air at him. About 30 officers, including city and county police, State Highway Patrol officers and FBI agents had joined the manhunt. The State Law Enforcement Division also brought bloodhounds from Columbia. The dogs had picked up the trail near the wrecked stolen car and followed it down a railroad track to the textile community of Beaumont Mill, where a resident of that community said that he had seen a prowler trying to get into his car. The resident fired a shot into the ground and the prowler had fled, leaving his hat behind. Shortly thereafter, a car had been stolen from a nearby home, that car having been found abandoned later in the morning in the Fairview Heights residential area and the suspect, described by police as being "slippery as an eel", had disappeared. He had been a fugitive for about three years, reportedly having been living outdoors most of that time. He had eluded police countless times and on several occasions had escaped from custody. Greenville, S.C., police had picked him up some months earlier in connection with a store-breaking and he had sat in a jail cell for several days, refusing to talk. Police had sent him to the State Hospital in Columbia for observation because of his uncommunicative nature, and from there he had escaped about two months earlier. He was wanted by police in Hendersonville, N.C., on charges of store-breaking and larceny. He had overpowered a guard and escaped from the Hendersonville jail in 1956 while awaiting trial on those charges. He was wanted by police in the Spartanburg area for questioning in connection with several break-ins. The FBI wanted him on a Federal warrant charging interstate transportation of a stolen car. He was a judo expert and had used that ability to escape from officers at various times. The previous week, he had crashed a roadblock near Lawrenceville, Ga., and then escaped. Georgia police had picked up two of his companions, a 17-year old Spartanburg girl and a 47-year old former Charlotte man, both having been released later without charges. The wanted fugitive had become known as elusive during 1956 while wanted by the Army for being AWOL.
In Greensboro, two men said that they were beaten up by a gang of men at a service station in Wilkes County on March 15 while their families watched. One of the men, a Greensboro police officer, reported the matter to his superiors, but his wife said that she was unwilling for him to return to Wilkes County. The other man, an automobile salesman, said that none of his family ever would go back there again. He was hospitalized for four days in Winston-Salem with a broken nose, a broken rib and cuts and bruises. The police officer suffered arm injuries and skinned knees. The two men said that they had gone with their wives and two children of the automobile salesman to Blowing Rock for an outing, that on the way back, they had stopped beside the highway to eat and were frightened twice by an automobile which skidded toward them. They had encountered the automobile again at a service station and when they spoke to the young man driving, a gang of eight or ten men came out of the station and had beaten them up. The unconscious automobile salesman was hurled onto the highway and an oncoming car had to swerve to avoid hitting him. The police officer's wife had been struck by one of the men when she protested the beating. Finally, the wives got both of their husbands back in the car and they left the scene. The employer of the automobile salesman said that nurses at the hospital told him that a gang in Wilkes County apparently made it a practice to beat up strangers. The sheriff of Wilkes County said that he knew nothing of the incident, but would investigate it when he received more information. They probably reckoned thems to be revenooers.
In Charlotte, 15 persons had been arrested the previous night as Mecklenburg County ABC officers staged a crackdown on illegal liquor sales. The series of swift raids had started the previous night as ABC officers began moving into many establishments which had the appearance of private homes. Shortly after midnight, the raid was over, with the 15 arrested persons booked by the County Police on charges of violation of liquor laws. Bonds for the arrested persons ranged between $150 and $800, and several of those arrested faced multiple charges. The head of the County Law Enforcement Division of ABC said that most of the places raided had been selling liquor by the pint after liquor stores closed.
In Washington, Kans., it was reported that Nelly Krueger, who had gone about her chores for the previous week in the belief she had been chosen "Kansas Mother of the Year", had reverted to being just a plain mother, having learned on Friday night that a letter informing her of the honor had been a mistake. The Topeka Daily Capital had printed on Friday morning her picture and a story about her receiving the letter and honor. No other newspaper in Kansas had the story and inquiries revealed that a state committee would not meet until Monday to select a Kansas mother of the year, that Mrs. Krueger had not been nominated. The 63-year old farm woman had received the letter notifying her of her selection. The question of how the erroneous letter had issued had been put to Mrs. Daniel Poling of New York, chairman of the American Mother Committee, which sponsored the selection of state and national mothers of the year. She responded that Mrs. Krueger, who had five children and nine grandchildren, was a new member of the group and that routine letters welcoming new members were mailed by New York headquarters. Also ready and waiting was a letter of congratulations to be mailed to the Kansas mother of the year, once she was chosen. A clerk in the New York office had mailed the wrong letter to Mrs. Krueger. The latter had learned of the error from a newsman, who had reached her by telephone at her farm home. The chairman of the state selection committee said that she had tried repeatedly to reach Mrs. Krueger by telephone on Friday night to extend her apologies of the state and national organizations, but had been told that Mrs. Krueger was not available. Mrs. Krueger told the newsman who had broken the story that it was fun being mother of the year for a little while and that words could not explain how happy her husband had been. She said she had wanted to go to New York two years earlier, never having been there, but somehow had not made it. One of the rewards of being Kansas mother of the year would have been an invitation to New York for the annual Mothers' Conference in early May. They should make her an honorary Mother of the Year and bring her to New York anyway, just for the mistake and resulting embarrassment, lest they become known as the Mother-Muckers of the Year.
In Palm Springs, Calif., a head-on collision between Palm Springs and Indio the previous night had slightly injured actress Joan Caulfield, 36.
On Monday, a series of articles would begin in The News by William L. Ryan, titled "Khrushchev: Key to the Kremlin", focusing on Communism's aims of world domination and the methods which its leaders used to advance their cause at all costs. He would examine what had made Mr. Khrushchev what he was at present, how he had risen out of a morass of Communist intrigue to become a leader of a third of the world's people and what the strengths and weaknesses were of the 5'5" former coal miner.
On the editorial page, "The Easter Story" presents verbatim the story from John 20:1-17.
"Christianity's Springtime of Belief" indicates that the following day was Easter, a time of reverence, time of the open heart, the glad sound, the quiet prayer. The earth had sprung into new life, a miracle of the world. Since time had begun, man had sought the answer to that miracle, realizing in the beginning that something had placed him on earth, providing the spark of life. To fulfill the mystery, man had taken upon himself to believe in an infinite power which could create springtime. The rest had been an embellishment in recorded time. Man was happy with his faith, with something he could worship, a place for the safekeeping of the human spirit.
"The idea of one God is relatively new. Today it is the keystone of mankind's practice of religion. In the future it could change. Man has never been united on what or whom is the Creator. It was once heresy to believe God placed a Son to walk among men. The idea was forcibly resisted." Now it was a major faith.
As with other religions, Christianity depended upon the mind. There were symbols and records, events and writings, but in the final analysis, faith depended upon individual judgment for acceptance.
It finds that Easter was more than a symbol of rededication, being the event of the beginning of faith, the great white light of promise, the final test of belief, "the day when anthems and sermons, prayers and the sights and sounds of the season are inculcated into a single thought: He is risen."
A piece from the Florence (S.C.) Morning News, titled "For the Bald Human Animal, a Boon", indicates that a news item from the laboratories of the Department of Agriculture reported that considerable progress had been made in "developing a new quick method of removing hair from animal hides." It was not related, but was hoped that the animals had breathed their last before the treatment, which was described in the following manner: "The hides are soaked in a solution of enzyme after pre-treatment of salt water. The entire method takes only three or four days. The conventional method is for the packer to cure the hides in salt a month and then ship them to a tannery where they are de-haired after the application of lime."
It indicates that at a distance it sounded that the new development, if reversed, would prove a great boon to baldheaded humans of both sexes and that "those poor unfortunates would throng to the hair-growing vat like sheep to the slaughter."
Drew Pearson indicates that the Administration was a strong believer that charity began at home, and as a result, former Republican Congressmen in Washington were swarming contentedly, like bees at a watermelon party. The President was practicing the old Andrew Jackson spoils system in reverse. President Jackson had rewarded those who helped him win and the President was rewarding those who helped the Republicans lose. Never had so many defeated Congressmen received so much as a reward for so little. He presents the lame-duck roll call.
A. I. Miller of Nebraska was now director of saline water in the Interior Department at a salary of $14,190. As a Congressman, Mr. Miller had done his best to kill the saline water project, aimed at developing fresh water out of salt water. Now he was the director of the project he had attempted to kill.
Fred Aandahl of North Dakota was already in the Interior Department as Assistant Secretary at a salary of $20,000 per year, and was in a position to make both former Senator Arthur Watkins and Mr. Miller feel at home, as he had been defeated for the Senate when he had run against William Langer, implying that the latter had been a Communist. Now he had to do business in the Senate with the man he had antagonized.
John J. Allen of California was now Undersecretary of Commerce. He had come under Justice Department scrutiny for establishing a trust fund for the Chinese gambler Chin Bok Him through which some $100,000 had been siphoned from gambling profits in two other businesses without paying taxes. When defeated for Congress, Mr. Allen had been provided one of the top jobs in the Commerce Department.
Senator Watkins of Utah had lost the previous November to Frank Moss, but was now becoming a special assistant to Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton at a salary of $50 per day. He had been an able Senator and unlike some of the others, would probably earn his pay.
Former Congresswoman Cecil Harden of Indiana was at present special assistant to Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield at a salary of $15,375 per year.
E. P. Scrivner of Kansas was the comptroller of the Defense Department, which he had once opposed consistently, now receiving a salary of $50 per day and hoped to work his way up to a $20,000 job as assistant secretary.
Dewey Short of Missouri was already in the Defense Department as Assistant Secretary, after being defeated four years earlier.
Robert Harrison of Nebraska had been given a $50 per day job as "adviser and consultant" in the Commodity Credit Corporation under Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. Mr. Harrison had been defeated in 1958, but the sympathetic Secretary of Agriculture had promptly employed him.
David Dennison of Ohio was now employed as "special consultant" to the Civil Rights Commission in the Justice Department, after having been defeated the prior November, but, unlike others unemployed in Ohio, was not looking for a job.
Henry Talle of Iowa, also defeated the prior November, but had landed a job as "assistant to the administrator for program policy" of the Housing and Home Finance Agency at a salary of $15,375. He had no problem in getting that job because the head of the agency was another lame duck.
Former Congressman Albert Cole of Kansas had fought against public housing all of his long career in Congress, but when defeated, he was made head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency.
Ben Guill of Texas had been defeated in 1950 and had shopped around in several lame duck jobs, ending up as vice-chairman of the Maritime Board at a salary of $20,000.
Sumner Whittier of Massachusetts was proof that even defeated lieutenant governors were being taken care of. After he had been defeated by Foster Furcolo in the gubernatorial race, he was made head of the Veterans Administration.
Mr. Pearson adds that some of those people were doing good jobs, but many of them were only performing mediocre work.
Joseph Alsop indicates that the primary unannounced result of the discussions between the President and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had been a semi-final agreement regarding a Berlin contingency plan for military operations which would be carried out if and when Premier Nikita Khrushchev gave the signal to his East German puppets to renew the Berlin blockade. The U.S. and Britain had been deeply divided on that problem and thus the agreement was a major step forward, albeit not becoming final until it received approval from the French and West German governments. The plan on which they agreed called for the use of force if the need arose to defend the Western right to use any and all access routes to Berlin, on the ground or in the air. In the most extreme cases which could be foreseen if the roads to Berlin were blocked to the West's military transports, armed convoys would be sent to open the roads.
The decision to defend the Western right to use all of the access routes represented a substantial concession by the British, who had preferred the less uncompromising plan of answering a renewed blockade with another airlift. At the same time, the President's repeated insistence that "we won't shoot first" had been spelled out in practical terms, meaning that the Western convoys would go peacefully about their business, using engineer troops if needed to remove physical obstacles placed in their way. No force would be used unless and until the other side used force.
A more important British objection to the contingency plan was also overcome by ending the debate regarding "risking war for a rubber stamp". It was not known whether the agreement which was reached fully covered that point or whether the British had simply made a reservation on it. The British were not asked to commit themselves to "risk war for a rubber stamp", by which they meant forcefully resisting the use of an East German rubber-stamp instead of the Russian rubber-stamp which was already required on the travel documents of Berlin-bound Western convoys.
The contingency plan was both as firm as necessary and as moderate as it could be if it was to work at all. The importance of the plan could not be exaggerated, as the Western leaders had agreed to attend the summit conference under threat of force. No one could negotiate under threat unless it was clear what the party intended to do if the threat was carried out. Mr. Khrushchev's grand design had been displayed to the West on the Berlin issue, his best hope of success having lain in a row about the contingency plan. That hope had now been dimmed.
Nevertheless, it was extremely premature to say that all Western disagreements had been eliminated, though the President was confident that the Soviets would not risk a major war over Berlin. Following his Moscow reconnaissance, Prime Minister Macmillan had decided that a major war would be expected if the Western allies were ever driven to carry out the contingency plan to which he had agreed. Thus, there was a real gulf between the President's and the Prime Minister's assessments of the risks regarding Berlin. That difference in assessment of risks undoubtedly contributed to the other difference which had survived the talks between the President and Prime Minister. The U.S., as with the French and West German governments, tended to stand firm on Western rights "without giving an inch", as the President had said. Mr. Macmillan was not infirm about the specific problem of West Berlin, but he wanted to give a good many inches, in the sense of granting a kind of de facto recognition to the entire Eastern European status quo, including the division of Germany and the new frontiers of Poland. In British quarters, there was even talk of the need to persuade West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to make some kind of gesture of acceptance of the new Polish-German frontier on the Oder-Neisse line.
In sum, he concludes, the President and Prime Minister Macmillan had agreed on the need to go to a summit conference and ought also agree about what had to be done should Mr. Khrushchev make any unilateral grab for West Berlin before, during or after that summit meeting. But they still had to debate what ought be offered to Mr. Khrushchev to dissuade him from making such a grab, and in that debate, the President's negotiating position would be weak if he persisted in saying, "I won't mobilize a man," while he also swore that he "won't give an inch".
Doris Fleeson indicates that the President's gift for protecting his own political position and avoiding the personal frictions of that human trait had been greatly in evidence at the week's press conference. She indicates that it was a gift which had served the country and the free world well when he had been supreme commander of the Western armies during World War II and of NATO in 1951 and 1952. She indicates that it was a major reason why General George C. Marshall had reached rather far down the seniority list to select General Eisenhower for that role during World War II, his being chosen to head NATO having flowed from that previous role.
But when applied to American domestic politics, she suggests, it often seemed more than a little disingenuous, as it nullified his role as the leader of his party and hence was quite irritating to Republicans and Democrats. From the public information point of view, it tended to suggest that the existing pressures of politics either were not there or were greatly exaggerated.
For many reasons, Vice-President Nixon was conspicuous by his absence from the crucial conversations on Soviet policy between the President and Prime Minister Macmillan at Camp David the prior weekend. The President was asked whether Mr. Nixon had been absent because "you want to appear neutral in the prospect of battle between Mr. Nixon and Governor Rockefeller?" The President had laughed off the latter part of the question as "a rather unusual premise", saying sweetly that he had thought about asking Mr. Nixon but "he is busy. He has got here some other things he is talking about while we were at Camp David." As a kind of face-saver for Mr. Nixon, the President said that he had him in and had acquainted him fully with every idea which had been discussed at the conference. With an air of patient tolerance for cynics, the President had concluded that he had no idea of tempering his actions to "a political contest that may come about at some future time." As the transcript had noted, there was more laughter.
She indicates that the fact was that the "busy" Vice-President had been strolling about the streets of Georgetown that Saturday with Mrs. Nixon. He presided over the deliberations of the National Security Council, whose job it was to weigh every aspect of such discussions as had taken place at Camp David. Should tragedy befall the President, there was no larger question with which the Vice-President had instantly tussled than relations with the Soviet Union. The President had stressed repeatedly his policy of educating the Vice-President so that "if the Grim Reaper would find it time to remove me from the scene," a fully informed man could take his place.
She indicates that it was true that the State Department and Secretary Dulles had shown a marked distaste for intrusion by the Vice-President, but the State Department, with Mr. Dulles in the hospital and substituted by Acting Secretary Christian Herter, was presently operating in a near-vacuum and badly needed all of the shoring up it could get. The Vice-President had acted characteristically about it all, on Monday night having entertained at his own home the British delegation, including Mr. Macmillan and Congressional leaders.
The President had not been helpful at his press conference to Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's presidential aspirations, though his comment was outwardly benign. When asked if he thought that Senator Johnson was well-qualified and hard for the Republicans to beat, the President had replied that he was a "warm personal friend and, like myself, he belongs to the Cardiac Club." The fact that the Senator, as had the President, had suffered a major heart attack in July, 1955, was something which the Senator wished the public would forget to remember. Health was not quite the lost issue it might have seemed around Washington, especially with Mr. Dulles in the hospital.
Irked Democrats also rushed to their files to check the President's statement that he did not indict the whole party the previous fall as "reckless spenders", and sure enough, careful qualifications had been in that statement, though lost in the headlines.
A letter writer from Winston-Salem congratulates Charlotte for its campaign to raise $128,000 for its arts, indicating that Winston-Salem and Charlotte had always been rivals and he had always heard Charlotte described as a city of outsiders, with little or no interest in the community. That had been based on the belief that nearly all of the industry and distribution centers in the community were controlled from outside, suggesting a second class citizenship not interested in the locality and thus only superficially interested in the local employee. They were aware that the goal for the arts could never be reached without participation from industry and distributors in the city. He indicates that it was time for the business enterprises to show to the rest of the state that new industry and business moving into a city did not overload it with second-class citizens interested more in their bank accounts than in the beauty of their home and in the comfort and well-being of their employees.
The author of the letter, Philip Hanes, though not mentioning it, was associated with the Winston-Salem Arts Council.
We would like to see a copy of that controversial Spectrum out of Chapel Hill, to see what kind of words they were talking about in there, but we cannot find it anywhere. What's the buzz? Tell us what's happening.
A letter writer from Salisbury wonders if tobacco users knew how much their smoking and chewing offended people who did not use "the weed", indicating that he got so sick in restaurants that he had to get up and leave the food for which he had paid because some cigarette smoker had sat by him and begun to poison the air with cigarette smoke which had soon filled all of the space surrounding them. He says that if he asked him to stop smoking, he would appear as a fool challenging one of the smoker's American rights. "Wonder if he thinks those of us who do not smoke do not have any rights. Stinking old cigarette stubs are everywhere and you cannot walk along the street without seeing them everywhere." He says that he formerly did not think he would ever see America become a smoking heaven similar to the opium dens run by the Chinese, but it seemed that it had arrived at a smoking cigarette heaven, which took 33,000 lives each year from lung cancer and an undetermined number from heart failure.
A letter writer indicates that Sunday was a day to be honored and never forgotten as the thought turned to the Savior on Calvary. "We should ask ourselves if we have lived and tried to show our love to a Savior who lived and died that we might be free and saved if we are willing to let our sins be washed away by the blood of Christ." She indicates that if lives were lived cleanly and honestly with Christ as the leader, "We shall be free, for one day we will stand before the One who hung on dark Calvary's cross for your sins and mine. I thank Him for all His blessings."
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