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PAGE TEN Decatur, Illinois, Wednesday, February 3, 1960. THE DECATUR REVIEW 1 THE DECATUR REVIEW Rockefeller May Still Run Nixon Defend, Build on Ike's Record "The Community Paper" Mr. Nixon made news by agree Palestine Flare-Up Must Not Spread THE CLASHES between Syrian and Israeli border forces are a challenge to peace which should be answered by the United Nations. The Israelis and Arabs are as natural enemies as cats and mice. The Israelis have their backs to the wall or to the sea.

They are a nation of refugees from persecution throughout Europe to whom national unity and vigilance are literally life or death matters. On the other hand Israel's Arab neighbors consider the partition of Palestine to provide a home for Jews an invasion of their land. Here are few elements of amity. The present boundaries are the product of expedient, rather than well-planned actions. It is difficult to imagine by what route permanent peace in Palestine may be reached.

It is certain, though, that permanent peace will not result from tpc flJif. tm mi hut m' i Mtntni 1,1,1 1 PLANE CRASHES-PERSONNEL ERROR OR OTHER CAUSE? Airline Pilot Critical of Federal Chief By ROSCOE DRUMMOND Washington IN THE opening series of Re publican pre-election speeches Vice President Nixon and Governor Rockefeller made the biggest news, if not the biggest headlines. The Vice President struck some fear in the Democratic ranks. The New York governor struck small fear in the Nixon ranks. The Vice President made news by what he said; Mr.

Rockefeller may have revealed something significant by what he didn't say. What Rockefeller wasn't saying was anything about Vice President Nixon. He was out spoken and direct in his praise of President Eisenhower and the Eisenhower achievements. He was unspoken and not even indirect in any reference to the Vice Presi dent. Now this doesn't mean that Mr.

Rockefeller is personally or politically hostile to him. It doesn't mean that he would not whole heartedly support him in the cam paign. But it is certainly noticeable that he did not say one word touching the man whom most Re publicans concede will be the party's presidential nominee by July. Nixon Agrees With Humphrey What it may mean is that the governor does not concede that Vice President Nixon will, for sure, be the nominee. It can be said, for sure, that many of Rockefeller's ardent sup porters hope that is what he meant.

Their theory, the theory they devoutly wish to be true, is that when Mr. Rockefeller "with drew from the he did exact ly that and no more; that is, he withdrew from primary, delegate-courting competition for the nomination but did not withdraw his interest, or even desire, for the nomination. His won't-give-in simply want the governor to be ready, willing and able, should there be some change in the political or. international situation which might cause the convention to want to take a second look at what it was doing. They believe that Rockefeller has now given that sign.

If War Came to Washington AMERICANS probably will view with complacency the efforts in the Senate to fill a constitutional void caused by the possibility of a nuclear attack which could disable the U.S. government sitting at Washington, D.C. The purpose of a constitutional amendment proposed by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn) is to enable state governors to make temporary appointments to the House of Representatives under emergency conditions such as an atomic attack or other catastrophe in which many congressmen were killed or disabled. There is a law of presidential succession, and provision for appointment of senators in the event of vacancies, but the House of Representatives cannot quickly be reconstituted under present provisions of the U.S.

Constitution. It js possible, therefore, that there would be a constitutional gap in our representative form of government, although a nuclear attack of sufficient fury might make the question academic. The Kefauver amendment has attracted little interest, because it is of a piece with other civilian defense preparations to which GOP Studies Demo Film Campaign Technique Improvement Sought Day by Day Ten Years Ago 1950 Crown Cork Specialty Corp. announced its move to St. Louis from here.

A charter of incorporation was issued by the Secretary of State to the Taub Pool Furniture which was to move into the store space at 124 Water St. 1 Plastics division managers and engineers from the General Electric plastics division home office in Pittsfield, Mass, met here with Decatur plant managers, engineers and salesmen to lay out a creative selling campaign designed to produce profits from the Decatur operation. Assessed" valuations of five railroads in Macon county for 1950 raised $12,800,826, up over the previous year. Twenty Years Ago 1940 The Delta Theta Tau business girls sorority presented an electric refrigerator to the Decatur and Macon County Hospital to be used in the maternity ward for keeping infant formulas. Blood was to be purchased from recent scarlet fever patients at a rate of $5 a half-pint at a clinic at the Decatur and Macon County Dr.

W. M. Talbert, district health superintendent, announced. The Flint Eaton pharmaceutical manufacturers, had moved into the building at the northeast corner of Franklin and East Main streets. The firm's former location, 148 North Franklin street, had burned Jan.

14. Fifty Years Ago 1910 Schools were so overcrowded that two new grade schools were needed. The board of education had already arranged for one new one but had not planned for two. Corn was up to 57 cents a bushel locally, but it was rumored that there would soon be a big drop as big interests were opposing the price. George Kraft was employed as another secretary for Census Supervisor L.

W. Fri-bourg. The Kings Daughters of the First Baptist church held their annual meeting and celebrated the nineteenth anniversary of their organization. Words, Wit, Wisdom Examination On 'G' Words By. WILLIAM MORRIS HERE IS another kind of tricky word puzzle.

In each of the sentences below one word has been omitted. In its place you will find a parenthesis giving you the number of letters in the missing word, plus a clue in the form of a brief definition. And here's a special clue; Each missing word begins with 1. One of a dog's great delights is a meaty bone to (4 letters meaning to chew bit by bit). 2.

Returning tourists tell of traveling Venetian canals by (7 letters meaning waterborne taxi-cab). 3. A favorite character in fairy tales is the (5 letters meaning dwarflike creatures of fantasy). 4. Bobby Jones was surely the world's most famous (6 letters meaning one who plays a ga.ie employing a ball and a variety of clubs).

5. During the war no one had much use for a (9 letters meaning GI who shirked work). 6. Breathes there a man who would not (6 letters meaning to bulge out one's eyes) at the sight of a pretty girl? 7. In years past many professional men affected a (6 letters meaning a small pointed beard).

8. Properly prepared there are few dishes more succulent than Hungarian (7 letters meaning stew). 9. For centuries poets have written of the (8 letters meaning a filmy cobweb) lightness of milady's dress. 10.

Elaborate desserts are distasteful to the true (7 letters meaning an epicure, a judge of fine foods). NOTE: Score 10 for each correct answer 100 is excellent; 80, good. If you score below 70, better look up the words you missed in your dictionary. ANSWERS: 1. gnaw; 2.

gondola; 3. gnome; 4. golfer; 5. goldbrick; 6. goggle; 7.

goatee; 8. goulash; 9. gossamer; 10. ing with Democratic Senator Hu bert Humphrey, though he didn't mention him. Senator Humphrey had laughingly called the Vice President a "moving target." Mr.

Nixon said, in effect, iin his Chicago speech last week: "You're absolutely right. I am. a moving target, and jf you Democrats think I'm going to stand still and run entirely on the Eisenhower record, you're wrong, I'm going to move ahead." This is not the kind of answer which Senator Humphrey or Senator Symington, who called him Sir 'Rirhnri" tfw Nimhl" and the other Democratic candidates wanted from Nixon. They wanted him to call some names back. But, instead, the Vice President executed a skilled political ma neuver which has substance as well as adroitness.

Nixon unstint-ingly embraced the Eisenhower record, but he characterized it, not as something finished, but as something to build on. Nixon Program Outlined The President will have no rea-n to feel that Mr. Nixon is in any way disassociating himself from the Administration. He couldn't, even if he wished. But Mr.

Nixon's significant remarks were that "Republicans -must not be smug and self-satisfied," must "not stand pat on what we have done." He stressed that he will defend the Eisenhower record 'with all the strength at my com mand" but that the Eisenhower record "must be seen as a solid foundation on which to build." The Vice President didn't stop there. He-outlined where he pror posed to build on it: (Da month-to-month restudy of U.S. strength vis-a-vis the Soviets to see that there is no defensive gap; (2) more attention to school facilities and teachers' pay; (3) constant effort to safeguard civil rights and equal economic opportunity for all; (4) "complete overhauling of obsolete farm programs:" (5) "better protection for the aged, the unemployed, and the disabled." It looks to me as though the Vice President, if nominated, is going to run on the Eisenhower past and the Nixon future. ly registration cards. These were closeups.

There were mighty fine glimpses of Wisconsin, but the Republicans were interested in political cheesecake not scenery. They want their people to see how the labor campaigners do it and go forth and improve on it if possible, but certainly compete.1 The Republican directors of the training school want to offset the united front of industrial and farm unions. They figured "The Wis consin story would help that fight. Print Bought for $50 They also want to offset the po litical glamor Sen. John Kennedy is flashing through the country.

So the GOPers went over to the ultramodern headquarters of the International Assn. of Machinists. They had heard that the union's non partisan Political League had five copies of Morse's 28-minut film attack on the man from Massachusetts. For 50 dollars the Re-' publicans came away with a print. The film has been described by I.

tt 1-- re 11 ie nenneay camp as an eiiuri 10 cost their candidate "labor sup port." After exhibiting the two pictures to the training school at the Hotel Raleigh in Washington two weeks ago, the directors ran their registrants through a series of closed classes. These were aimed at developing the 337 into directors and teachers at similar schools in some 12 regions. These regional operations will begin during the first week in May. in turn, ine scnoois are ex pected to develop precinct workers for political action in the heavy labor districts. Republican strategists realize they're invading areas where the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education has been actively allied with the Democrats for years, But the GOP directors point out that they've had some success in winning labor support down below.

They point to one GOP candidate who had COPE support in. Delaware and others in the Louisville area of Kentiickv. It sure looks like more than the postman will be ringing doorbells twice mis presidential year. DO YOU KNOW? Thomas Jefferson was the first president to be inaugurated in present warfare. So far no national boundaries have been crossed.

Attacks, though in some cases fatal, have not been made in force. There appears to be time for a mediator to step in and prevent a full-scale conflict of the type which saw the Israelis over-running the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula in 1956. A U.N. police force is already in Palestine. Its members should be able to furnish facts about the present clashes which could lead to negotiation of a truce.

The use of French Super-Mys-tere fighter planes by the Israelis and Soviet MIGs by the Syrians is symbolic evidence that the Palestine flare-up is not entirely local but has grave East-West implications. The best time to extinguish a fire is before it spreads. The United Nations is the only body with the necessary international character to deal effectively with this one. most Americans, rightly or wrongly, are indifferent. Nevertheless, there is no reason why some orderly way of reconstituting the House of Representatives should not be made a part of the U.S.

Constitution in keeping with the realities of an atomic era. The Senate previously has acted on similar amendments, but the stumbling block has been the House of Representatives itself. Its members apparently do not like to contemplate their own destruction, but perhaps it is time they did. The question has been complicated somewhat by another amendment, proposed as part of the same Senate joint resolution, which would bar the poll tax as a requirement in elections for federal office. The latter amendment is a move by Southern Democrats to head off a bill to outlaw the poll tax.

This issue is entirely separate from that dealing with the filling of House vacancies in time of emergency. Combining the two proposals may result in the defeat of both, which may well be what the Southern bloc wants. Both issues appear to be of sufficient importance to warrant separate consideration. bezzlement of $1,500,000 of state funds in a phony warrants racket. Were Orville Hodge, his assistant Edward Epping and the suburban Chicago banker, Edward Hintz, the only persons involved in the embezzlement of that much money? When Orville Hodge and his two associates went-- to prison promptly after the disclosures in the midst of a state political campaign, many other persons must have sighed in genuine relief.

Since then the million and a half dollars charged directly to Orville Hodge has been recovered. But nobody seems to be much interested in finding out how much money was embezzled indirectly and who got it. was not completed in 1959. A few members of the Board held the $3 paid to them for the one meeting held before the increase was rescinded. The contention was that until a formal court ruling was available, there was no adequate proof that the payment was unconstitutional.

Now the last overpayment has been returned. The slate has been wiped clean. It is unfortunate that the difficulty ever arose. There is a wealth of legal advice available to county officials to prevent just such occurrences. It is to be hoped that hereafter legal operations will be a matter of course rather than a matter of controversy in the Macon County Board of Supervisors.

the transfer to the civilian agency of the responsibility for space activities. But lifting it from the embattled military branches should give it at least a chance. Meantime it would be well for squabbling military men to remember that they and the civilians are all working for Uncle Sam or should be. Feuding can only have an ill effect on space and military phases of rocketry when the Soviet lead demands the utmost in cooperation so that the gap may be closed as soon as pos sible. Chicago Scandal, Hodge Case Somewhat Alike CHICAGO'S police scandals are not restricted to the Sum-merdale District, where first disclosure was made of the working partnership between burglars and uniformed police.

The widening investigation has revealed a variety of questionable activities, and there is no way of knowing how many public officials will be involved if the investigation is pressed by outside agencies that have no fear of the consequences. As the involvements of the Chicago situation are exposed, Illinois newspaper readers will wonder again how it was that only three persons thus far have been called to account in the Hodge scandals that resulted in the em agency because it has been trying to apply with fairness and justice airline safety rules. What is the pilots' position? A. Pilots with thousands of hours of flying experience are being told if they will just stay bound to their seats for eight and 12 hours at a time 'and abide by thousands of regulations (some of which are substitutes for adequate facilities), and keep quiet, that everything will be fine. We don't think so, and we have no intention of being quiet.

wnue we nave no place to go except to the federal government for an improvement in the tools necessary to do our job safely and fulfill our responsibility to the public for safe transportation, each criticism is met by a barrage of publicity at public- expense, designed evidently to convey to the public that- the airlines and pilots are irresponsible, and that only the public officials are protecting them. As a matter of fact, the respon sibility to protect the public inter est is placed by the Congress di rectly on the pilot and the public carrier, and the splendid safety record that has been achieved in this country is their product and has been achieved despite, in many cases, inadequate tools with which to work. False Inference Each minor infraction of the thousands of regulations on the books by an air carrier, a mechan ic or a pilot, and which in many cases is similar to a speeding ticket, is publicized nationally and the inference is that this is typical be havior. In many cases the facts have been incorrectly represented to the public, as for example, thai a pilot had refused to let an in spector in the cockpit, or had re fused to use the check list. In an other case, the inference was made that, had a rule been in ef fect require pilots to stay in their seats at all a dive over the Worth Atlantic would have been averted.

These stories are inaccurate. Q. What do you think should be done to increase air safety? A. We' outlined a program for modernization of the airways be fore the Senate subcommittee. There is another general point that should be made very clear.

The major airlines provide a safe, convenient method of travel, and we have every confidence that it can be made even safer and more convenient with proper planning and proper support for aviation faculties. The excellent safety record that has been achieved can only be maintained, however, by exercise of the highest possible degree of care by all concerned, and by proper planning and implementa-j hon of facilities that will keep the tools necessary to do the job up with the technological develop ments of the aircraft and the in creased density of air traffic. In order to accomplish this, it is im perative that the aviation interests most immediately, concerned such as the pilots, make their views heard very clearly in governmental and public circles. Boy With Problems The woes of an 11-year-old newspaper earner in Indianola, Iowa! The lad, Mark Higbee, visited the Raymond A. Hughes home after making his round, explained that he had one paper left and said he was trying to determine which home he had missed.

Said young Mark: 'Tve messed up my route. I am late for little league practice, and my dog is having pups. You know, I've just got too many things on my mind. ernment to furnish the facilities with which to do its job. The air ways systems, the airports, the certification of aircraft; the rules and regulations under which air craft will operate, the navigation and communications facilities, are all furnished and operated by the federal government.

Wben these facilities are inadequate, and many of them are: the airlines and the pilots must go to the fed eral government and the Congress for relief. Called Alarmists When we told the government many years ago that the airways system was inadequate and hazardous and the government was not furnishing the facilities with which the pilot could do a safe job, we were told that we were alarmists. A series ot disastrous air crashes finally produced a reor ganization and appropriations for which we had been pleading fo; many years. We have recently bedn pointing out to the aviation subcommittee of the Senate and others the inadequacy of the ter minal area facilities, the airports, approach aids, approach lighting, runway lighting, lack of control towers, and so forth, and the continuing inadequacy of the airways system; and in some quarters today we are being met with a barrage of criticism at public ex pense. Q.

What progress do you think has been made toward air safety by the new rules issued by the administrator? A. Despite all the publicity that has been given them, none of the ELWOOD QUESADA Irresponsible Abuses? rules that were adopted by the administrator during 1959, with the possible exception of the airborne radar rule, which this asso ciation has urged for many years, could have prevented any of the accidents which occurred during 1959 or any previous year. The airways system in this country is essentially the same to day as it was two years ago, when the public was aroused by mid-air collisions and near-miss reports, and demanded that something be done. Near-Miss Reports Ended However, no near-miss reports are being received by the government or the public, because the near-miss reporting system has been discontinued by the Federal Aviation Agency, and any such report by a pilot subjects him to enforcement action by the adminis trator. The net result is that there are no near-miss reports, and the pub lic receives the impression that something has been done.

This may make people comfortable, but it does not solve the problem. While some long-term research programs have been started on the problem, the pilot has essentially the same tools to operate with today as we had two years 1 ago Q. General Quesada said the pilots have been critical of the1 By DAVID BARNETT NANA Staff Writer Washington THE PRESIDENT of the Air line Pilots Association says recent statements by the federal aviation administrator represent one of the 'most irresponsible abuses of pub lic office in our memory." Clarence N. Sayen contends the statements demonstrate why the airline pilots of this country and "most other aviation groups are unhappy" with the administrator, Gen. Elwood R.

Quesada. Following is the interview with Sayen, head of some 18,000 pilots employed by 49 airlines: Q. Gen Elwood R. Quesada, head of the Federal Aviation Agency, said recently that between 50 and 52 per cent of the airplane accidents are attributable to human error. Do you agree? A.

To classify the cause of ac cidents as personnel error is a convenient avoidance of responsibility. The association has felt for years that the announcement of an accident cause as personnel error is simply an admission that the accident was inadequately investigated. The important point is what caused the error? Unless we are to assume that the pilot erred deliberately or in the interest of self-destruction, we must go behind the error to determine what caused it. Was it de sign error in the aircraft? Was it inadequate facilities or tools for the pilot to do his job? Were the procedures being employed improper? Was the training inade quate? We must determine why the error was made in order that we may prevent similar errors in the future, or we will not fulfill our public responsibility and will simply take the easy or convenient way of avoiding it. Q.

The general, contended that prescribed procedures had not been followed by the pilots in the Charlottesville, crash Oct. 30 nor in the Williamsport, crash Dec. 1. Premature Speculation A. Some of the staterruts at tributed to General Quesada, if accurate, represent one of the most irresponsible abuses of pub- he office in our memory and dem onstrate why the airline pilots of this country and most other avia tion groups are unhappy with the administrator.

General Quesada holds office under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. The act designates the Civil Aeronautics Board as the public agency responsible for the investi gation of air accidents. The board is still continuing its investigation of the recent accidents; yet, Gen eral Quesada, a public official, at tempts to speculate on the cause of these accidents, smear the pro fessional pilots generally and the dead pilots involved in the acci dents specifically by saying that these pilots and others are not fol lowing procedures. Q. Has the association made an investigation of these acci dents? A.

The association conducts its own investigation of all major air carrier accidents and has for al most 30 years. Our investigation of these accidents is still con tinuing and we expect a report soon. We refuse to speculate at this time on the results of our ex haustive investigations, but we are certainly in possession of at least as many if not more facts than the general. Q. Are you feuding with the general? A.

No, he and I happen to be personal friends, and I don't have time for feuds. But I must make this point. Unlike most other industries, the aviation industry is almost completely dependent on the gov Clean Macon County Slate Should Remain So By VICTOR RIESEL New York SOME OF the new Republican strategists went over to the enemy camp earlier this year but just briefly. They stayed merely long enough to purchase two labor po litical films. Weeks later they showed them as a double feature bill to 337 persons attending the Young Republican national lead ership training school.

It will be these 337 who will be the activists in the Republican presidential and congressional campaign in some 90 key districts. competing with the union leaders for the labor vote and with Farm Union chiefs for the farm workers' ballots. Never did the labor leaders and their friend. Sen. Wayne Morse, believe they'd be starring in a Re publican show.

But they did. The GOP decided to show their younger colleagues just how the unions did it. The feature film was labor's own "The Wisconsin Story" supported by Wayne Morse's attack on Sen. Jack 'Don't Mention Names' The Wisconsin Story, pro duced by the AFL-CIO council of that state, is considered by the pros to be one of the best treatments of political action ever put together for screen, stage or per sonal appearances. It was turned out for $5,000 after labor's suc cessful Wisconsin campaign in '53.

What intrigued the Republican leaders was the swift graphic por trayal of vote soliciting. There are good shots of the telephone bri gades. These phone squads made some 60,000 calls on election day of that year. They were in special halls. Some of these political depots had as many as 15 telephones in con stant use hour after hour.

The camera shows the brigades sitting under big wall signs saying don't mention the names of the candi dates. That's against the federal law. But the sound film reveals scene after scene of telephone squads saying, "This is the AFL-CIO calling, reminding you this is election day." There were special operators who got numbers when the callers were snagged over names. There, were shots of car pools, maps of the districts, directory A NEW ERA of county administration may be signaled by the return of the last overpayment to a member of the Macon County Board of Supervisors. Last summer the Board voted its members an increase of $3 per day.

It defied a long record of legal opinion indicating that the state constitution forbids a public official to increase his pay during his term of office. for law prevailed, however. A Board majority rescinded the increase. This was an auspicious sign. Predecessors for at least a decade had ignored legal opinions and had drawn their pay at the improperly inflated rates throughout terms of office.

But even with the improved attitude of the majority, the task They're All Working for Uncle Sam GENERAL John B. Medaris is understandably disappointed that missile projects pioneered by his Army team are being turned over to civilian 'space agency. But it is unfortunate that he felt called upon to criticize the national policy as he retired. General Medaris has been in the midst of some important developments in rocketry at Hunts-ville, Ala. He has also participated in some bitter inter-service rivalry over the boundaries of individual rocket developments.

Such rivalry may not end with Associated Pressland precinct finders and D.C..