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Show Behind The Day's News Whaf Does necessary Tragedy $-e-Vruel- 'i-gdy- V fihjngtower in "xar of iks' . the Atlantic 70 : south, Long Island. C Both vthe Air Defense Command i&ndhe United States Senate vthould: promptly convene their inquiries and seek to fasten: rponsiMl for this disaster , .'k fcerejit' belongs, 'pi.ixot'rie.e'd an investigation, however, to tell us that this was feh cideht that need not have ? i I ' , .. an-nburic- ecL . ' Jppened.tSfcjfe individual or individuals jna)de the decision to keep this - ;; j?-'.'.- 1 ' while it was in an condition i were quilty of a lerVmanned csife brisking V of other men's lives.' That, the number of tower personnel had been reduced from normal .75 does not lessen the nor. can it be comfort to the tfaihilies of the 28 who died. The elemental facts are plain. 'tower off the New Jersey sqsast h$d been seriously weakened of fethe hurricane Its underpinnings; , founded on the bedrock of the shelf ; were so uncertain as earned the tower the rueful inckname of "Old Shaky." ?: Thi ; presence of 14 repairmen Iriiohg the 28 on the tower is clear fcafceless . of-vfen- s'e, -- -- IS mid-Septem-:.fc- king." ezv ':- - con-ifoen- tal , What a President of the United States thinks about on surrendering office is wholly known only to a President who surrenders office. Some of the things he thinks about become known, however, in " bits and pieces. Some of a retiring President's thoughts may be mirrored in his eyes or be conveyed by a facial -- j the United States. As H.R.H. the former Prince of .Wales put it on the occasion of another notable changeover (in 1938), "Now,' we all have a new neses had not yet been remedied. So are the letters crewmen Jiad written to their wives on shore, complaining of the peril. Obviously there is not the shadow of an excuse for this calamity. Whatever radar vigilance was provided by the continued operation of the tower, it should not have been bought at so high a price. Certainly there were other means of keeping a proper alert to the possible approach of enemy rockets or aircraft. After all, our words ."unnecesasry have to be applied to the collapse of an Air Force -' President ' ci ever elected extensive eastern, southern and western coasts ar6 not ringed by a chain of such towers. We have only two besides that which now lies at the bottom of the Atlantic. Neither regular crewmen nor repairmen should have been asked to live on Tower No. 4 until it was entirely "seaworthy," fit to withstand the "rigors of such a storm as brought it down on Jan 15. Many minstakes have in the past been charged to military inflexibility and thoughtlessness This could rank as one of the worst. ytgonog Pifesideinit expression on the big day. Thus it was when Calvin Coolidge bowed out on March 4, 1929 to make room for. Herbert C. Hoover. Coolidge was no laughing boy under any circumstances, least of all when surrendering the White House to a man of whom he long .' had been jealous. . was a Herbert Hoover, bigger Calvin man than Coolidge before, during and after Goolidge's presidency. Coolidge was aware of it. It was that, and he didn't-lik- By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD Friday was D Day for the youngest man SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 1961 was common .knowledge, anyway, because it appeared to one ,'and all the news reporters who saw Coolidge frequently that he was Jealous of Hoover. No doubt Coolidge would have called Hoover a "wonder boy" if he had thought of it. . There was no need to guess how Hoover felt on turning over to Franklin D. Roosevelt the destiny of the United States. Hoover , e common knowledge in Washington that Coolidge from, time to time referred in bitterness to Hoover as that "Wonder boy." No one in Washington could say he had heard Coolidge call Hoover a "wonder boy," but jt was hurt "and, perhaps, angered by some aspects of FDR's campaign against him whi ch he conuntrue. sidered unfair and-o- r More than that, Hoover was de-pressed by the thought that he was delivering the executive department into the keeping of & man he considered to be inade- . . 5 ; Down To The Sea In Negligence r. - ' . ; .';'" . t e : evidence mat trie structure s weak- - I- - ii tnG obd Company newspaper, together with fell.the others in the nation, reaches 3otal daily circulation of 58 mil-1ipersons. Twenty-fiv- e years lmviibw it is expected to be 81 , I LIKE, IT HERE! Talk of our' annual Progress ' Edition set me to thinking about why I like our town. I think it's because it's a "between" town between big and little ; between mountain and lake; between in-dustrial and educational; between ; sophisticated and country-styl-e and know-it-al- l. between , . tfaih::;, i,?iNew;sfper circulation grows,? ; j iysV Stanford Smith, general .the American Newspaper bKsher's y Assn., "because the .'fifrtf ceV rendered to readers is not Jflcelyto ever become available trctA any other source. . . . The if?Wspaper has demonstrated that ;i fulfills an important role in safe-jrdi.bur free society against no government can that 'ffifznny man-:&5$ry- St 6i . t. - - fpr. ., - ' FRANK C. ROBERTSON -- Ulerty mostly because I have the age where most of the tfnftil jpleasures of the world have Ejt , their k apieal. Drinking ha s never frl?'-- my troubles because I have fcew drunk, even beer except for social riksohi;- - and I have never been ,r inclined, but I will stfil fight for my; tight to take a drink when and where fwant it, and for the rights of those to .wTipm w mean? more than- - It does to raW If !her Is anyone I hate ,terA general way it" is those - blue noses who irtirdet erm i p e d to iSibtheir pet beliefs Prejudices down ittkvforoats of others. Tw)nalwrebels and QOTemesl 6rkni n a 1 s fci;of those who other-se :.wouId not bother Mr. Robertson iifybody. Nobody can keep their and submit tamely "to those who irfe .determined; k tell them how they fh3J live. The only crusade I shalJ ever tirifety-isSagainst ,f those tors of other people's morals. ferula rurare over dancing in taverns The' cotries.'to'- mmd. ' Unfortunately, I never learned t6 dance, and I have never been 4 fretrunter ' of taverns, though I go ' lti;tkem often, and I have never been foptedby wnat I. saw there. But I do O.Vi many; kind and respectable people fiad. jbbem pleasant,:' and. practically 6i?'onIy places they can go for social cfacfs.,1 don't go to church either thoirches bore me, but I wouldn't &tgr rpeopde the right to go to church dlriyrmcce than I would deny people the rilht .t "go into ' a tavern, and dance if tS&ite like it. : irCkbow.tbisr if j;'was a student at hRETch university I would be offended ere told that my morals. were so .that- they would ' collapse unless temptation i was kept away from me by 'ixyrr i. would be insulted if I were told Ctoi I couldn't go into a tavern without lhalMg spectacle of myself and wind by ruining a girl. ' ' )rrbee students, who have plenty, of pportundtiteS to dance where they want Co ixft' beittz brazenly assumptious when to deny other people the riht jwnt,Vwhere . they, choose, -- and by 'GtsCipt iiyjertising their fear they are only- own weakness cf wax dolls "who: would contact with a flame? ifsti fitjthe 'hrst SJ- -j ,!ere a - students I would not want ir:,i: thought such. Neither would I be ifeilcdcksure of my own righteousness tiC'I-woul'''trjK.tb force my own beliefs ii ''irybody .else; .or accuse them, even liyic .being immoral peopld ipctloa.'ci don't happen to believe ihey eJ crim-teally- . . ! ? it , ;; self-fesp-ct ; ; and the wealth of communication with all the world offered by its variety of newspapers, radio" stations and TV programming. V The green; law'ns,' broad trees and flowers these 1 like. But, I also like its going-awa- y highways' and lots of byways within; easy self-appoint- ed - -- be-caits . iii - tytit . tsf char-5rArth- - d lause &&Y;'-I : "'' " : , ' ' ' .ypii, haven't we?" "It's not that," said the laborer. ''All the other cut ; around here have something . Ed , take cognizance of the fact that Utah is one of the few remaining blue nose states, but there are enough of us who do; not believe In blue nose laws that we are entitled to our opinions and habits without being branded as people of low and ill repute because we happen to believe in' the freedom of the individual, and the right to do one's own thinking. The other day a Provo lady and myself were luncheon guests at the. Hotel of Mr. Benjamin L. Rich, a distinguished retired Utah lawyer who crowned the event by giving me a couple of dollar cigars,, a luxury I have never enjoyed before. Mr. Rich is the grandson of Charles C. Rich, one of the great pioneer apostles of the Mormon Church, and the son of - Ben E. Rich, one of "the greatest missionaries "the church has ever had. At 82 he is as spry as a cricket and has a steel trap mind. As illustrating how different things were in the old days j he told me how his grandf ather had sent home two cases of good bourbon from California to be distributed to the brethren. He had never heard of any bad effects from the gift. Mr. Rich and I hit it off very well because our views of philosophy and re-- . ligion are pretty parallel; Politics are a somewhat different matter. He hands out red cards with .this ' appeal in big black! letters: HELP STAMP OUT DEMOCRATS. He bands out other cards as; well. Jn one he says: "I am glad I am a human being, just as God made me and I refuse to be changed to someI could never be( a Demothing else another On card he gives his defi- - ' crat,'': . . a man who nition of a gentleman: will lie for, to and with a woman." He says his favorite text is from the Sermon, on the Mount: 'Blessed are the ' pure in. heart, for they shall see God." I can go along with that. Mr. Rich has many Democratic friends just as I have many Republican ones. We both believe ardently in the Constitution, in the goodness of most of our fellowmen, and in individual liberty and the right to think for ourselves. r 365 pictures In Mr. Rich's office are ' varied and wide his tastes, revealing though most of them are pictures of his family. And speaking of families he thinks he had more living cousins than over two thousand any living man on the Rich side, and more than a and descended from the great Ogden pioneer,' Lorin Farr. So long as I can have friends of the caliber of Ben Rich I can endure the snubs of those who' tell mc how much more righteous they are than I am. ' ' O ';'',...... Tee opinions and statements ex- - , pressed by Herald columnists are their own and do not necessarily : vfeflect the views ef this newspaper. ey New-hou- ; ess To The End full-fledge- , moment, a voice was Row 2, Seat 2. "Mr. from heard President: Sarah McClendon of the El Paso Times. . . " No amount of rehearsal could have captured the atmosphere,- the timing, more effectively. The laughter rolled for 65 seca new press conference onds by his grin slipped through his reddened face. Now he pressed his lips together in strained effort, and then out come a hearty guffaw. The Eisenhower quality that had won him so many friends, over the that quality of likeable world had thus shown humanness through, to the very end. . . Presently, with the traditional "Thank you, Mr. President," Ike wheeled and marched out. The hefty applause was a sentimental goodbye. He stepped through the door and swiftly faded away . . (Copyright, .1961, by United ... Feature Syndicate, Inc. ) . ';r j ;;Ww conference through press conference, Sarah persisted in sharp questions, often striking with the variety. McClendon's Miss questions drew and big headlines heated replies Through it all, Ike doggedly call- -' ed upon her regularly. Perhaps the press corps had been a bit rough on him. Did. he himself, think so? This writer ' Barbs Any time a kiss will change a pout into a pucker we're for it A hospital In the west lets fath- ers hear baby's first cry on a microphone. A wail of an idea. Needs-Bet- ter ' Keeping an open mind is no trick. The hard part is knowing: when to shut it. " Last" March they put their house on the market. Why? -- They had spotted several older but equally suitable ' homes in the a r e a. These were ( . $ priced consider- able below wh a t the relatively 'i Si new house cost. Faye Henle They figured it would be smart to get their money out of the new home. They could live as comfortably of the older houses and have a couple of thousand dollars extra to invest in their children's education. In Manhattan dwells a family in-on- e . in a apartment. Several months ago a tenants' rent-controll- ed committee in the building suggested that a. group be formed to buy. the building from the present owners who were "milking" the' property, extracting a handsome management fee made possible because they neglected maintenance and reduced service. The apartment dweller was not He balked at the idea of ownership. Today, he is begging for the owner-oriente- d. ve j privilege of buying the apartment. Why? He has looked around. If he moves into a newer building he will gain service ' and maintenance, zut he will lose space end comfort, and he will be paying twice as much rent. John Carter, editor of The American Home Magazine, challenged Hubbard Cobb, bis building editor: "Let's design a house readers can build for $10,000. It should have three bedrooms, a 'minimum baths and a deof -cent amount of living area. Anything; under 1,200 square feet would be too small." Cobb knows design and builders and materials as no layman ever could. Could he deliver what his boss wanted? No! The best he could come up with was a house that would cost be- K . . j few-minute- -- .This country boy and his family had a tremendously enjoyable evening' last'. Wednesday- under circumstances'. We rather unusual : attended the all Physical Educaat demonstration tion Department the BYU fieldhouse. Having lived most of our lives in a very small town, 'we are iri a . - That the thief is not Ujlerly and incurably bad' and callous, but possesses the faintest indication of a better nature is evidenced by the. fact that a neat envelope awaited "Annie Thomas Eggertsen" at the post office upon her return home. The contents of the envelope included her driver's license, her railroad pass ihfact, everything except the money that had been in the wallet taken from her purse in Pasadena.--K.D.'- G. - Housing All Can Buy By FAYE IIENLE In exurbia lives a family who recently built a spacious homej 1 'zt '. '' : SAGEBRUSH SAG E SAYS What This Country h, . hi-rryi.i-.i SKILLS AND THRILLS one-tim- do ... ." r And press . seat to watch the colorful spectacle pass by, had her purse neatly picked of its .wallet. Your Pocketbook -- j while of Payson, d, . w five-sta- s THE THOUGHTFUL THIEF Evidently there was a "Jew Fagin" or an "Artful Dodger'1 practicing his skill during the Rose Parade in Pasadena recently, for Mrs. B. S. Eggertsen A At that co blotter. There was no indication of the impending act of unwitting comedy some good, clean fun as it that Would rattle turned out the chandeliers half-wa- y through this final session. In Row 2, Seat 2 sat a young lady who had achieved a large degree of national fame for her press conference twitting of the President. 4 McClen-doSarah Correspondent e WAC of the enlisted' so once unnerved the forranks, r general with a mer, he erupted into a fitquery that "You undoubtedly ful phrase: know more about the military than 1 " " corps. By calling, on his prime needier at that very moment, the President " y: V- J. - the obviously did not fully fors instantaneous reaction of tmrpress laugh record. egg-yello- , - tumble boys were a Provo father rather woefully replied, "Well, they're tougheninr each other up." : i rich . . SI El with." suit of Ed Koterba t)rown herring bone twill. His russet shoes were buffed to a military shine. Now he bent his right knee slightly and slouched a bit. His right hand, fingers spread wide, desk rested on the big - , through a large door at the side of the room, strode the 14 paces to the polished mahogany .desk under the Presidential seal, and turned to face the room. For a moment, Mr. Eisenhower said nothing, bu he scanned the crowd of reporters as if to say. "Well, I've made it. I've survived 192 of them, and this is the last the final press conference as President..." Before him was the' largest assemblage of the White House press in those eight years 311 reporters. President Ei- warmly try brought up the point directly with the President, and he replied: ". . . I have never objectsd to penetrating and searching questions. The only thing I object to is . . . like the 'beating of your wife' question. I den't like that; but I have no on a that I could single out and say that they have been annoying, nor have I anyone to argue He appeared senhower looked good, physically. His tan was . b h , se -- each and UNFAIR ADVANTAGE . Luke and ! have used this column in the past to reminisce about happenings in thet years when he and I were reporters on the city and county "beatrhe for, one paper and I 'for janothcr. During those times, each , was engaged in a concentrated .effort to scoop the other using all the resourcefulness :and; diligence .at his disposal. I must admit;' that "Theron succeeded more often than I. 'And his tactics wero ' fair, with one notable exception. A big story was brewing in the city, and we t were both trying desperately to contact the mayor for details. However, the mayor t rj was tin a. cioseu-uooconiweiitc We covered our beats in snatches, hurrying bazk every litt'.e vihiK to the mayor's office to see if his conference had ended. As our deadlines grew- closer and closer, and the mayor was still in conference,, we grew more and more anxious. We knew our eaiiors wouav oe; crying jot vnc story, and wouldn't be inclined to , acrpot our feeble excuses. 1 Began 10 press . rae mayor secretary once more for information about, the. mayor's plans, while Theron drifted off down tho hall A later, he. returned, grinning gleefully and slapping his thigh with delight. "I've scooped you, Jo," he. ' cried, "And there's' not a thlnf , you 'can do about It!" li., J HAD true. was He said What he scooped me, and there WASN'T ' a thing J , could do about it,, ' continued until Our competition .f a 1 . t 1 TJUlk Hiy JVO, ttllU WT YC iTTHJiXI- ed .friends during the years. Nevertheless, I've always felt it .was quite upsporting of Theron ..to get his interview in ie one place from which a female reCi;-Editor!Therbn- ROUGH AND TUMBLE When asked how his rather larre family of rourh and Koterba WASHINGTON their town Telestory. r " W-N.- . . to lean on." ie3.cii And most of all, I think I like our town because there are people about their here who care X . '. foreman: "I've been on this. t and I still haven't got a; shovel." "Don't eompliln," said the foreman;"We've been paying Job two weeks great outdoors. I like its educational opportunities at all levels homes other. 5 ' !' ten-minu- te -a-d - EMERGENCY! ..V "A laborer working; on a of busy secbusiness industry, compact" .. tion and ride to the Ike Displays so-gaU- - I like its combination j , '.. r Block ' - P-'-.' busi-.nes- ur iotrferese 'gr&atly with my 'W .chd ;- an- Should Minorities Have Rights? :;:. y - mountain to avoid being pushed in a lake. I appreciate it's being cozy enough that I can cash a check most places without, question of identification; but big enough that I can move around within its activities knowing that s. my business isn't everyone's Iii case you didn't know, or were wondering, the world speed record for sheep shearing is less than one a minute. Godfrey Bowen of New Zealand recently clipped 643 animals in a. nine-howorking day. ing up to, them. .4 B-a-a- enjoyed .every minute of the- ' ad; mission-fre- e program and it peared thatthe rest of the' crowd t did too. Prediction: The size of the audience at this annual affair will increase each year .it' is - held," J.V.B. . 7yl5&jarisive words, but most to liv;Atspapermcn are dedicated ' Rk' Chopping ,1 like the way it's developed a look while climbing, a split-lev- el other favorite subject of science-fictio- n writers a machine has "built a machine. Well, the first didn't actually build the second, but it designed it and told humans how to put it together. Not ng M Don't Look Behind You ment' people in communities such as this often take for granted. We satf. more than 700 students exhibit skills ? perfected in phys. ed. classes that included gymnastics, four types of dancin g, c alls- - other exercises.; All six members of our family-rang- ing in age from three to "3D" ' Western Electric Co. scientists in Burlington, N.C., first' told a general purpose computer, by using a series of equations, what they wanted in the way of a missile tracking computer. They then waited for instructions. The result isj the first 'computer completely designed by another. b- ' road ticket." Off he no-nothi- ng Science has caught up with ' Dwight D. ' .Eisenhower is a friendly, practical man who can smile at himself even when he Is President of, the United States, t He was discussing his new private life ? few days ago in friendly company, and a friend asked' him what thoughts came to, a, man about to lay down tfie presidency. That question ' could have been the cue for. an emotional binge, for some of what the late Al Smith used to.caU baloney.' Dee was different. He said he 'hought about many things, espe. cially that he would have to makel his own travel arrangements after leaving the White House. "You know," he' said, 'T wouldn't know how to buy a rail- the Herald Staff . 'lo'-Kiv- O D ; - 'exist. U II 111 quate. Hoover left Washington on March 4, 1933, in. tears. Ike's Feelings Your correspondent knows for a fact that 'all ' Presidents, leave office believing in some degree that they could carry on better than their successors will be able to do. In some retiring Presidents, this belief creates a n burning resentment. N President Eisenhower is like other Presidents in believing he could carry on better than his successor, meaning better than President-elec- t John F. Kennedy or. any other. But if there is any resentment, cool or hot, it is well eoncealedr So well concealed that it is right to believe it does not By ... ! n s " ; . j , porter, is. barred . the men's . room.- - J.S.Z. - . one-and-a-h- alf . , tween $15,000 and $25,000. Exactly as this iouse never was built, so perhaps a great many dream homes were not built this year and won't be built in 1961. Don't believe those economists who rationalize that "America is becoming overbuilt," who offers this as. the reason for the slowV down in construction. use could The truth is that we effibetter, more spacious, more cient husila& b:t for whri .we can pay, nothing approaches what we already have. Ruth Millett " - - ' . s . . - j . . Income Tax Does Color Our Thoughts, Actions ' ' " ... Ever stop to think what a big influence that yearly tax. to Uncle ' Sam has on our way of thinking? .' married a to. couple' hope their: unusual hear isn't it young Well, deduction--insteof waiting a tax to in be born arrives first time ' of the until after first the. year. And there do seem to be an increasing number of marriages around Christmas time. As inconvenient as that tune mignt be. rw-to the bride's mother, it means the happy couple can v- " . ad 1 . file a joint return.. j Lots' of people, ret entertained by business associates who wouldn't bother if the entertain- - , ment weren't tax deductible. . And plenty of husband drive the big car while their wives take the little, economical "second" when the husband can charge off part'of his car as a business expense. Wives have even been known to quit their Jobs because their jay check Roosted the family income MtMrtt ,Ilwtb , into a higher tax bracket. : And a man can always be cheered up when he has lost money 4, in the stock market or made a bad loan by the reminder that he can take his losses off his income tax. "After all it's tax deductible" ha even become a better Justification for spending money than "It was such a bargain 'I just couldn't "resist it." ; ' cr . . ' ' ' ' .' V |