The Kilgore News Herald from Kilgore, Texas (2024)

December 15, 1965

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The Kilgore News Heraldi

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Kilgore, Texas

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Wednesday, December 15, 1965

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6

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Kr Ak David Lawrence HABITS OF THE BEAR LET HIS SMILES fool you kr Pfe KILGORE NEWS HERALD WednetJar DeeemW IS 196S Editorial Opinion 5 Opporfunify Unlimited Is the United States in the sense that the world needs leadership and strength an undeveloped nation? This is the subject of the following comment from the National Education Program Letter: "It is a pity how far off the path of sound governmental action we have strayed simply because Washington has listened to some plainly bad advice from socialist-tinged economists and power-hungry politicians both groups of whom have lacked the wisdom to guide the US into a firm position as the secure leader among free world nations take a more positive angle this country must launch out on some basic principles that the world needs even requires for progress well-being and freedom What revisions of viewpoint what programs of action will get this job under way? "That perspicacious little journal USA pub- feeling threat lished by Alice Widener has played on some the rest of the flock- They these themes in a series of revealing studies that deserve wide attention particularly from the leadership "It does no good to complain about what is wrong with the US unless one can come up with some positive suggestions This has been done by Mrs Widener in a series of solidly researched articles with George Fowler that delve into the domestic and international consequences of practicing sound economic policies along with common sense While Lippmann bemoans our sad state Mrs Widener i itations suspect it of being diseased THE DIFFERENCE between the chicken flock and the human herd is simply this: Chickens unreasonably require perfection in their leaders and each other people are suspicious of perfection claimed by their leaders or claimed by followers of such loaders And to some extent they are aware of their own lim- don't let his roars INTIMIDATE YOUVC Jr i A 2 place Mr Bundy Maybe wht Is meant by the rumors is that the new "special may not be of the stature of Mr Bundy and would act more as a liaison man than as a policy maker But even this is not a solution to the problem faced by a busy President who mus( constantly be familiar with going on not only in foreign but in domestic affairs A Secretary of State himself on the other hand has a hard time keeping abreast of every phase of international affairs including the economic and military complications which arise in foreign relations It is true that the Secretary of the Treasury handles some of these matters and so does the Secretary of Defense The Secretary of State however heads up a vast department with several important subdivisions and special commissions The staff for instance presided over by the American ambassador to the United Nations is virtually a state department in itself A NUMBER OF YEARS ago this correspondent suggested that the President of the United States might consider establish-ing the executive offices in the building across the street from the White House originally used by three departments The entire cabinet could have offices there too They are appointees confirmed by the Senate and they are given authority by congressional statutes lo perform certain functions under the direction of the President Undersecretaries then be named to act as general managers of each of the executive departments spread throughout the Rational capital A cabinet council however next door to (he President constantly available to discuss all major problems with the chief executive could sa'o-guard the nation against the perils of one-man government Mr Bundy should really be replaced by the Secretary of State himself wake? to glorious yet realistic destiny "It takes your breath away to envision what and achievement could become possible in this strife-torn world (even our own land) should men ever discover how to put to use the principles of basic free-market economics and let freedom of enterprise work WASHINGTON Hints are coming from official sources that next February when Me-George Bundy leaves his post as special assistant to President Johnson on foreign affairs there will be no successor If this means with all due respect to Mr Bundy who Is a conscientious and able public servant that there is to be an end to the system of extra secretary which has prevailed in this and preceding administrations then the development is a salutary one The American people are not generally aware of the risks that are involved when an official sitting at the side of the President advocates a change in foreign policy which sometimes is in opposition to the views expressed by the Secretary of State and his associates in the Department of State Many a crucial decision has been made on the spur of the moment by accepting the advice of a special assistant who is permitted to exercise a direct influence on the shaping of policy During several administrations a more or less prominent person has been interposed at the White House offices between the President and the Secretary of State The late John Foster Dulles fought successfully against the idea but some other secretaries of state have not fared so well Even as far back as thg administration of Wood-row iCilson Colonel Edward Housefalways had direct access to the President and in effect superseded the Secretary of State by exerting an influence on the negotiations before during and after the first world war This has since been the subject of many a criticism by historians MR BUNDY HAS been tactful and has pursued his delicate task without alienating the State Department though now and then there have been mur-murings of dissent The dilemma is not removed however by deciding not to re Hunt FREEDOM AND PREJUDICE The campaign against racial and religious prejudice is in the news every day It has become a cause to which thousands of people often sincere and well-intentioned are literally dedicating their lives Their pas sions fears and hopes feceive a nation-wide hearing Every sensible American deplores prejudice against persons simply because they belong to a particular race or attend a particular church Whatever may have been true In the past it is obvious that now we are in no danger of allowing prejudice to do its damage without the strongest kind of protest and opposition Instead a very different danger now confronts us It is the clanger that good Americans rejecting prejudice sympathizing with the hopes of minority groups for betterment will suspend their judgment and common sense on this issue Still worse they may become afraid to speak out on it except to echo irresponsible agitators Prejudice is evil because it Played Role in Riots what an amazing instrumentality the US should become in showing the way as in fact it already has except to those who are blinded in their own delusion What ironic tragedy must follow neglect if this nation having the keys in its grasp fails to ue its powers and insight to open the doors fori that for all hs granite force of mankind! character he now and then let nation these articles suggest must con-1 his temper got the better of him tinue to strengthen our third of the world and blew his stack even as the tragedy of the other two-thirds that cannot or you and I will not produce Writes Mr Fowler: It is a tragedy' one of the things we like for all the peoples of the world that two-thirds of about Abraham Lincoln is that its area suffers from under-production The most ur-jfor all his political sagacity and gently needed liberation today is that of the peoples 1 eloquence in sustaining the being deprived of a high level of living through the American Union he was homely stubborn adherence of a small group of dictators to and perhaps mildly henpecked a tried-and-failed economic system In short it is So was Socrates socialist underproduction that curses two-thirds of E'eI7 her0 that has embedded the world himself deeply and lasUngly in this century arrives at the point as of 1965 J16 affecllons of mankind has when all the touted goais of socialist production Is At- iji i enables the rest of us to identify schemes were to have peaked out we find nothing ourselves Wlth and smii but failure prevalent In some Communist nations we and Well Ifter aI1 he was find starvation and misery It remains a mystery why human loo any American would want to bring socialism to ourj is'hardiv satisfactory to be country or give up the free market economy based i with merely for the things we about Babe Ruth is that al- Red Influence on freedom of enterprise and join them There is no prefabricated roof on our positive destiny according to USA consider the US an underdeveloped land and set to work to meet the challenges of its right This takes a bit of demonvast potential' One of like warts Every human heart also earns to be remembered for something about it that is BIBLE DIGEST By DEAN my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Philippian 4:19 The unclaimed fortunes of Heaven are waiting to be delivered on earth to people of big faith and great vision God all things are possible" Clipped Quips Other college students will visit their families- but the senior stars of the football squad will be spending the holidays with their lawyers 1 i Travel in outer space has a kind of special attractiveness at jthe moment when you consider how far it puts you above the Christmas shopping crowds xiM THE PAST 4- Epton thought a leaflet containing instructions for making Molotov co*cktails would be good way of keeping things going" Epton told Hart that a school" had been set up in the Midwest to selected members" in revolutionary techniques The school was designed Hart related to lead a Communist uprising against the the National Guard and also the Epton freely admitted he was a Peking-line Communist Hart testified The Chinese Epton said believed in while the Soviet subscribed to subversion A recent ad in the New York Times announced formation of an Ad Hoc Committee of Veterans for Peace in Vietnam The group denounced US policy in South Viet Nam and called for withdrawal of American troops Amon gthe signers were: Aptheker the Communist official 'theoretician and a member of the party's national committee Apthe-ker's daughter Bettina recently announced that she too is a member of the Party Peress the New York dentist who was a central figure in the Armv-McCarthy hearings decade ago Peress was given an honorable discharge a ur refused to answer questions about Communist Party activities ESCAPE THROUGH I RECALLING Ttb Emit nin Five Year A Jimmy Durante and Margie Little were married in New York after a courtship lasting IS years Mrs Laird entertained the Lois Clasj of the First Baptist Church with a Christmas party: Hugh Baker retired from Mobil Oil Co with a perfect record for over 34 year as a pumper Ten Years Ago Kilgore High School choir presented a program of Christmas music at the Rotary Club Luncheon Princess Catherine Cara-dja Romanian princess who befriended 110 US prisoners-of-war was on her way to Hous BLONDIE in that process of smashing this state we're to have to kill a lot of these cops a lot of these judges and we ll have to go up against their A -Negro detective Adolph Hart testified that Epton favored bloody revolution to topple state and local governments throughout the country Hart revealed that he had joined the Progressive Labor Movement (the name was subsequently changed to the Progressive Labor Party) in 1963 on police orders Epton lectured his followers on "various ways of defeating the Hart testified In the spring of 1964 Hart said Epton decided to organize Harlem block by block with small terrorist bands of armed teenagers to counter the police When the rioting broke out on the night of July 18 he said Epton and other PLP functionaries were turning out inflammatory literature The literature included the notorious for poster bearing a picture of Police Lt Thomas Gilligan who had Jwodavs earlier shot and killed a Negro teenager in the line of duty The poster helped spark the Harlem rioting One of the tactics discussed in the Progressive Labor offices Hart continued was police officers into side streets and killing He said that THE LONE RANGER RIP KIRBY a a he ton to visit the first of them LL Richard Britt Fifteen Year Ago Members of Circle 6 of the First Baptist Church were entertained with a Christmas party in the home of Mrs Loomis A three-man United Nations cease-fire committee began work on a plan to end the fighting Korea Twenty Yean Ago Dr Simmons a commander in the Navy was home on leave Army bulletin announced that General Patton was improving steadily and that his general condition was excellent Your every banking need is served best by your friends at the Kilgore National Bank (Adv) I SAID I MAKE WE ARS see YOU MAKE MEf Harlem By FULTON LEWIS JR NEW YORK There is now unfolding in New York Supreme Court the hitherto unknown role played by radical leftists in the Harlem race riots of July 1964 On trial for criminal anarchy is William Epton 33-year-old vice chairman of the pro Peking Progressive Labor Party The prosecution has charged that Epton had a 66 preconceived to overthrow the state government during the 1964 uprising The first prosecution witnesses Detectives John Rivers and Francis Koopman testified that on the afternoon of July 18 1964 they recorded two speeches by Epton at a Harlem street rally The jury of nine men and three women heard Epton ha- langue the police: i have declared war on us and we should declare war on them and everytime they kill one of us damn it kill one of them and we should start thinking that way right now We will not totally free until we smash this state totally and completely Destroy and set up a new state of our own and of our total Epton's chief counsel Mrs Eleanor Jackson Piel conceded the voice on the police tape was that of her client She said that he was urging peaceful against conditions in Harlem She ignored the following statement by Epton- By Chic Young By Fred Lasswell By Mort Walker Comment denies the individual a fair rvl-uation based on his own abLJ and personality rather than color or creed Tyranny is still more evil because it crushes individuality not vonly for some but for all In seeking to stamp out prejudice we dare not risk putting tyranny in its place The history of Nazi Germany and Communist Russia shows that when freedom is lost minority groups suifer most of all Laws which would control the private peaceful non-criminal behavior of men and women are tyrannical even if passed for the ostensible purpose of combatting prejudice Such laws are welcome tools in Ihe hands of would-be architects of unlimited government power Kilgore News Herald Weekly Afternoons (except Saturday) i and Sunday 'Morning Charles Devall Publisher Subscription rate si 50 Per Month and class postage paid at Kilgore Tex 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