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Show Bruce Biossat Tight Rein Needed: WATLAce Today’s Editorials Before the year 1964 has faded have been concluded. Announcement by the firm some time ago that it will go out of business brought a tinge of sad- ness to thousands of Central Utahns who have been customers at one time or another during the nearly 43 years DTR has oper- ated. It may take the company two or three years to complete all the business phases of its operation, including settlement of credit accounts. But in keeping with the announced liquidation plan, the furniture and appliance operation already has been turned over to McMahan’s, which has leased the three-story brick building constructed by the DTR founders. The Provo store will continue to operate until draperies, floor coverings and giftswares are completely liquidated and until a back- log of work contracted, such as drapery-making, is finished. As for the branch storés, DTR has sold out its interests in American Fork; the Spanish Fork store will close July 1; and the Payson branch will operate only until the liquidation has been completed. It takes a lot of courage, vision, and know-how to launch a business as Arthur N. Taylor and a group of young associates did when they formed the Dixon-TayJor-Russell Company, built their store, and opened the doors for business Nov. 1, 1921. It isn’t easy either, to close an institution of this kind. It isn’t easy to. make the decision that had to be made, nor to liquidate the business which has meant so much to so many. One of the most difficult sides to the liquidation, insofar as the owners are concerned, is the necessity to release trusted employees who have served so long and so faithfully. “However, we are happy that many of our key people already have been able to secure other positions,” one of the top DTR mensaid the other day. Arthur N. Taylor, whose father George Taylor had operated the first furniture store in Provo in pioneer days, was the first president and manager of DTR. The “Dixon” was the late Albert F. Dixon, vice president; and the “Russell” was Sidney W. Russell, the original secretary-treasurer and now vice president. Arthur D. Taylor, now presi- dent and manager, was one of the original organizers. He, as well as Henry D. Taylor, secretarytreasurer and assistant manager; Clarence D. Taylor, assistant sec- Its first branch store was opened at Springville Feb. 1, 1924. Then followed expansion that included stores at Nephi, Payson, Pleasant Grove, Spanish Fork, Heber, American Fork, Price, and Helper. Thus by 1929 there were 10 stores. The depression in the Thirties seven still operating when the store obscrved its 25th anniver- sary. After that a branch store was opened in Orem. Now, with the American Fork interests sold out and the Spanish Fork store to close July 1, only the Payson store and the parent store, now operating in the east section of the Provo building, will be left after mid-year. DTR, over the years, won a reputation for sound, honest dealings. With men of high character and business training at the helm, it earned the trust and confidence of the public. What the company has meant to the economy of Central Utah is another story in itself. Through peacetime and war, prosperity and depression, DTR provided jobs and payrolls. As liquidation proceeds, the Herald salutes Dixon Taylor Russell and the men and women who made it the fine business institu- tion it has always been. And we join with the people of Central Utah in wishing McMahan’s, which succeeds DTR in the Third West and Center location, much success. the horse laugh or the tone-down treatment. What has happened all over the world, we believe, can happen here. But stop andlisten to the sizzling fuse. Released for publication April 27 is a report that has been four years in the making by a joint committee of the Louisiana Legislature. It is signed by five state senators, five representatives, the staff director and the committee counsel. Jack N. Rogers, the chief council, a Baton Rouge attorney, has sat down with meto detail the cracking of the case, its documenration. its survival against Communist suppression attempts in the state and federal courts. This report is not “McCarthyism,” not a witch hunt, not a Red-scare. It puts known Communists, those figured by the FBI and by accredited witnesses, right in the agitation center of the Negro disturbance. It links the Fair Play For Cuba Committee, a Castro front, by common membership to the Southern Dombrowsky, Benjamin Smith and Bruce Waltzer, all three under indictment for multiple violations of the Louisiana anti-Communist statutes. Among numerous other documented exhibits it reproduces a photograph, taken in September, 1962, of Dr. King at a meeting with Anne Braden, Carl Braden and Dombrowsky, all identified Communists. It traces the Communist-led race riots, which began in the South and moved to the North, through a maze of names like Bayard Rustin and .King which reappeared last summer in the march in Washington. The same names and sameorganizations are now breaking back into the news as Red-led Negroes prepare to sabotage the traffic in 50 American cities, waste water, etc. The Louisiana report makes this sum- mary: “The infiltration of the Communist Party into the so-called civil rights movement through the Southern Conference Educational Fund is shocking and highly dangerous to this state and the nation... “|. . evidence before us is quite conclusive, that the civil rights movement has been grossly and solidly infiltrated by the Communist Party. . . “Martin Luther King has closely connected his organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, with the. Southern Conference Educational Fund and the Communist personalities . . . King has cynically betrayed his responsibilities as a Christian minister and 2 political leader. . . “The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, from all the evidence before us, is substantially under the Communist Party... “We urge those who havefallen into the trap . . . to honestly evaluate the solid evidence reproduced in this report and to repudiate the false leadership of the Communists.” Wire pay TV should not be permitted to grow like Topsy. —FCC Chairman E. William Henry bids to extend agency’s control over wire as well as air-broadcast television. Educational Fund. It ties Martin Luther King to Communist leaders like James to Tell Grou ys Story of Assassination a ° Mr.. Allen Mr. Scott By ROBERT S. ALLEN — The investigating commission and PAUL SCOTT WASHINGTON — Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy is giving her account of those horror-filled moments when her husband was assassinated to the special investigating commission. The commission has invited the former First Lady to do that, and she has agreed to testify in person. F The proceedings will be private, at a date still to be set. Close friends of Mrs. Kennedy are saying she has written what they describe as an “‘outline” of the Dallas tragedy. It is not known whether this manuscript will be’ used in her appearance before the commission. Barring a change in commission procedure, Mrs. Kennedy’s testimony will be published in its report. The commission agreed at the start to publish all information and documents it receives. So unles Mrs. Ken-~ nedy expressly requests that her statement be excluded, it will be part of the commission’s findings on her husband’s murder. Also slated to be recalled for further questioning are Mrs. Marina Oswald, widow of the killer, and Mrs. Ruth Paine, her one-time close friend. The commission hopes to get moredetails from Mrs. Oswald about her husband’s still-mysterious connections and activities in this country following his return from the Soviet. In her previous testimony, Mrs. Oswald shedlittle light on this crucial phase. One matter Mrs. Paine will particularly be asked to clear up is why she and Mrs. Oswald drifted apart. \ She has told the commission she has seen the widow only once since the assassination. At that time Mrs. Oswald wasliving with her. But after federal agents took her into custody, Mrs. Oswald did not return to the Paine home and has made only one short visit there. Mrs. Paine told the investigators this meeting was friendly, but nothing was said about resuming their previouscloseties. also wants to interrogate Am- She had no explanation for this marked change in attitude. BACKSTAGE BOTTLENECK BERRY’S WORLD bassador Llewellyn Thompson and members of his Moscow embassy staff during the three years Lee Harvey Oswald lived in Russia as an avowed defector. Thompson is now special adviser to Secretary Rusk on Soviet affairs. The State Department, in addition to dragging its feet on Thompson and his embassy as- sistants, has yet to comply with a number of other commission requests — ranging from certain information on Oswald’s life in Russia to the handling of his passports and visas, especially a secrecy-shrouded trip to Mexico City shortly before President Kennedy’s slaying. Commission membersprivately are expressing impatience over these long delays. They are particularily irked at the failure of Thompsonto testify. The veteran career diplomat has yet to make known what he and his assistants knew and did “about Oswald when he went to the Moscow embassy and announced that as a dedicated Marxist he was defecting to the Soviet. Later, despite this avowal he was provided with funds to return to the U. S. with his Russian wife. Another State Department bottleneck encountered by the investigators is in the office of Abba Schwartz, controversial head of the Bureau of Security & Consular Affairs. He and Mrs. Frances Knight, chief of the Passport Division, are at bitter logyerheads over answering a three-page questionnaire about Oswald’s passports. Mrs. Knight contends that many of these questions are directly within Schwartz’s jurisdiction. He is challenging this. Schwartz particularly argues it is up to Mrs. Knight to explain whether the Central Intelligence Agency has a hand in passport matters. He vigorously holds that is strictly in her province. So far, the commission has been unable to get any information from the State Department on passports involving relatives of Oswald. Such data could prove highly revealing. , The department did instruct BY JAMES O. BERRY Ambassador Foy Kohler to make another effort to get additional Soviet information about Oswald. Kohler returned to Moscow recently after consultations in Washington. Russia has provided some data regarding the assassin, but the commission deems it very inadequate. Within the commission there is sharp difference of view over interrogating Yuri Nosenko, high-ranking Soviet secret police official who defected to the U. S. in Geneva early this year. Nosenko specialized in the “American section” of the KGB, and is credited with knowing about Oswald. Quotes In The News, By United Press International WASHINGTON — New York attorney Charles H. Tuttle on amending the Constitution to permit prayers and bible reading in public schools. “Public institutions belong to all citizens, whatever their religious beliefs or lack of them; it is not right for the majority to impose religious beliefs or practices on the minority in public institutions ... ” WASHINGTON — President Johnson saying there may be another tax cut in a few years: “We can moveto this second round of tax reduction only if we behave ourselves this year.” NEW YORK—Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy contending charges of police brutality are part of a planned campaign to destroy police effectiveness: “Scattered and isolated acts are being used to label all policemen as bullies and brutes.” mental Relations in another ticklish area: Should federal grants go in greater flow proportionately to states with above-average needs and below-average financial resources? About a third of the aid programs enacted in the last decade have made someprovision for assistance on this basis. The Social Security Act of the mid1930s was the first to try it. The Advisory Commission, in a thoroughgoing report beamed to this question, recommends that this so-called equalization of grants be applied in those programs specifically related to national policy goals, such as Editor Herald: About one year ago a fellow employee of mine told me that the United States was about to engage in a unilateral disarmament program. This would allow the U.S. t o disarm with the hope that t he communist nations would follow suit. At the time I found it hard t o believe that our leaders in Washington were so ignorant that they would allow us to become vulnerable to a communist attack. The United States has not officially announced its intention in regard to this disarmament program, but it is obvious from the news reports that this disarmament has already begun. It can be seen in the reduction of SAC bombers, the withdrawal of many troops from Europe, the announcement of the plan to close 22 military installations, the layoffs in the Utah missile industry due to the reductions in the orders for missiles, and t he an- nouncement that the U.S. is Sure He'll Like You If You RememberThis It’s surprisimg how many wives wonder, “Is he still in love with me?”—and how few ask themselves, ‘Does he like me?” ~ In order to keep a husband in love with her, a woman will try almost anything. But it’s amazing how little thought the average woman gives to keeping her husband’s liking and respect. Mentioned below are a few of the things she can do to help insure that her husband will continue to her through the years. And if she has her husband’s liking doesn’t have to worry much about his love or about the possibility that she will never lose him. @ She can win his 'iking and respect by being good enough as © She can keep. his liking if she is-good company, gay and cheerful and happy. © She can be sure he will .ike her if she shows a real sympathy for and understanding of @ And it will certainly make him like her if he knows that she sees the best in him’ and seems unaware of the shortcomings ~~ 4 ye proved health, etc. But this body, a purely ad- visory group drawn from all levels of government, suggests at the same time that the “equalizing aim” of grant programs be held to “minimum service levels consistent with” Rational objectives. This might be one way, perhaps, to take some of the sting out of the richer states’ constant complaint chat their heavier tax contributions “carry” the poorstates. The commission has a few more bones to pick. It doesn’t think aid distributed on an equalization footing ought to be mixed in particular _programs with funds handed out in proportion to population or according to some other formula. And it sees no excuse for allowing rubbery yardsticks in gauging either needs or ability to pay at the state-local level. Thus it recommends regular review by the involved agencies and departments to test the fitness of “need indexes” in the various grant programs. The obvious aim is to guard against overstatement of need. The commission further would charge the President with laying groundwork for putting together data of use to the states in improving their fiscal capacity and hence their ability to carry their own load. In a period dominated by More dramatic issues, there is no particular political sex appeal in these proposals. But they are highly responsible notions from a respected agency which probes the federal-statelocal field thoughtfully. It will be interesting to see how many ‘“economy-minded” lawmakers in Washington grasp these proposals to put grant programs under tighter scrutiny. And how many state governments take up the challenge to improve their own financial resources. Unilateral Disarmament Plan a homemaker so that her husband is proud of her and of their “Whodo youlike for vice president ... Hubert Humphrey or Bobby Kennedy?” general educational uplift, im Reader Denounces Proposed home. @ She can win his liking treating his parents and relatives as considerately as she treats hi own. @ She can keep hisliking by the way she meets. difficulties and hardships—gamely and without complaint. @ She can be sure he’ll like her if she never damages his ego by pointing out his fauits, harping on his mistakes or blaming him when things go K Timely Quotes Christian Leadership Conference, the Southern Conference Mrs. Kennedy The Louisiana report is a read-andheed scenario of things to come. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Com- mittee and the "ory Commission on Intergovern- Allen-Scoit Report closed three stores. There were », Of Communism On OwnSoil Communistplot to defy our laws, terrorize our people and to light the fuse of revolution too often gets the brush-off, iodic review. The object would be, of course, to chop off or reduce federal aid where it was clear programs either had become self-sustaining at the state-local level, or no longer necessary. The review idea, pushed by Maine’s Sen. Edmund~Muskie and someothers, has developed some Hill support. But scaling down grants-in-aid would be about as popular with some lawmakersas closing down military and naval installations. Now-we hear from the Advis- out after two years of operations. S U. S. Will Be Fighting War probable and reportable build-up of a Congress for some kind of per- retary-treasurer, Lynn D. Taylor and Elton L. Taylor, directors, are all sons of the original president and manager. Dixon Taylor Russell, which celebrated its 42nd anniversary last November, began to branch Holmes Alexander WASHINGTON,D.C. — Never invaded by a foreign power since the War of 1812, the United States will be fighting the war of communism on its own soil this summer. It is the better part of objectivity for a newsman to be leery about connecting Communists with every untoward activity, but he has an equal responsibility to shout ‘‘Red’’ when he sees it. This country should be warned, and should be braced, for a Negro insurrection which is nothing less than a Communist invasion of American cities. For the first time in a century, a rebel force will threaten people north of Gettysburg, where the Confederate armies were fought to a standstill in the bloody summerof 1863. But this is a rebel force under command of a foreign power. We have had books and movies about grossly incredible treachery within the joint chiefs of staffs. Reviewers, readers and viewers have swallowed these yarns with relish. But the completely WASHINGTON — (NEA) — Federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments, amounting now to almost $10 billion a year, are becoming at once More popular and more controversial. A new,little-noticed official report jumps into the fray. Just a few months ago the federal aid roster was augmented by programs covering vocational education, college facilities, mental health and retardation. The sums involved in these are expected to grow steadily in succeeding years. At present pace the total may rise to $12 billion or more within a very short span. Small wonder there is concern. One sign of it is the stir in » DTR: Like Losing an Old Friend away, the merchandising operation of one of Central Utah’s bestknown business institutions, Dixon-Taylor-Russell Company, will OnGrants-in-Aid he knows he has. % Marriage is a lifetime thing. And although the “honeymoon” type of love won’t last forever, genuine liking and affection be- tween a husband and wife will keep the marriage intact. cutting back the production of fissionable materials. The announcement that the U.S. was cutting back in the prodiction of fissionable materials was followed by an an» nouncement by Mr. Khrushchev that Russia would do likewise. This is the same Mr. Khrushchev that one week said he was withdrawing from the race to the moon and the next week said that he did not mean that he would not still try to beat us t o the moon. It is interesting to note that t he communists have broken over one thousand solemn treaties and agreements. I was, however, somewhatreassured when I read that an Agricultural Departmentreport had revealed the fact that t he U.S. is far ahead of Russia in fertilizer production. This apparently means that the American farmers will have more bull to throw than the Russian farmers. I believe that t he time has come for every man to pick up his pen and write a letter to his congressman denouncing this unilateral disarmament proRemember, as Brigadieraes B. Moran once , ‘Silence is not golden; it’s yellow.” E. A. Robinson . RULES Letters from readers are invited. They should be as concise as possible, with a limit of 350 words. Letters longer than this must be cut. Typewrite if possible, double spaced. must carry writer’s true name and address. Pseu- donymsare not permitted. The Herald assumes no responsibility for statements in the Mailbag oonen The Herald reserves the right to-reject or edit letters which are ee not in good taste or potentially libelous. Letters which deal with church doctrinal subjects or contain statements deroga“J to any religion or creed be rejected. DEBUT HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — Producer Jay Ward, who created “Bullwinkle sa epee! is THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1964 |