Page 2 TONAWANDA NEWS Friday, January 3, 1958
A Page of Opinion A Staff to Match the Facilities
Hoped-For Atom Smasher
The Town of Tonawanda now has a full-time recreation director, a logical development in view of the size of the program and th* expansion that is due in the next two years.
The program and the additions that are to come have been carefully planned t<» give the town facilities that are second to none. In a hearing last fall on the expansion, residents indicated this is exactly the way they wantor! it.
Facilities, of course, are only part of the story, although an important
part. The manner in which programs are conducted, using these facilities, determines the public's reaction to to them. *
We are confident the Town Board, which has been interested in the best possible recreation facilities, will continue to show equally-keen interest in providing the best possible recreation staff.
This will assure that the program best serves the interests of community members.
Your Town Meeting . . . Peoples' Forum
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PARENTS GRATEFUL E ' tor:
We «ould like to publicly acknowledge and thank the many, many kind friends and neighbors who took time out from their busy holiday schedules to send us congratula-tions, cards, flowers and gifts or the birUi ot our triplets. It would be impossilbe to thank tach person who did 10 much to ease the financial burden for us. Since we do not have a complete list ourselves we cannot mention all their names. Thanks is such a small word, we c a n n o t say it enough to all the Tonawandans and particularly our neighbors in Gratwick who gave cur babies such a wonderful start in life.
First, we are deeply indebted to the nurses, doctors and •tail of DeGraff Hospital. especially Dr. William Kneer and Dr. Alan Reckhow for the wonderful care and attention we received, and are still receiving. Thanks, too. for the beautiful floral arrangements from Hock's Flower Shop. Jones Florist and Miller Florist.
Secondly, we want to thank you and your staff for all the
publicity you gave us and without which we probably would not have received so many gifts. We appreciate very much the pictures your photographers took and presented to us.
A surprise to end all surprises was the drier we received, made possible through the generousity of Bill Foster of Foster-Bodie TV 4 Appliance, Charles Fleischman, who did the wiring, and the friends who went out and collected from neighbors, fellow church members, co-workers at National Grinding Wheel. Remington Rand and the Twin Cities Rifle. Revolver and Pistol Club.
Last, but far from least, we thank the local merchants who were so generous in their expressions of congratulations. To Twin - Ton Department Store which started the parade of gifts with three elaborate layettes and displayed them so beautifully, we can only say a humble "thank you." What else can we say but "thank you" to O'Connor's for the beautiful 'and much needed* bathinette, to Brandon's Department Store for sleeping bags and pajamas, to Witkop & Holmes co. for a playpen, to Dy-Dee Wash, Inc. for diaper service and to all of the following our gratitude:
Bern's Children's Shop. Lane Jewelers. Walker Bros. & Monroe. T. C. Smith Pharmacy, G. F. Helwig Drug Store. Parsons Drug Store, Fischer's Pharmacy, Tonawanda Drug, Inc., Reeves Photos, Style
Shop and Schwartz Men's Shop.
Any omission of names on our part is certainly unintentional. We appreciate the interest everyone has shown and we can only say how thankful we are to live in a community where people do not hesitate to extend a helping hand. Mere words cannot express our.feelings. All we can say is thanks a million.
Sincerely. Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Hromowvk
POST OFFICE GRATEFUL Editor:
We. at the Buffalo P o s t Office, have just succeeded in processing the largest volume of Christmas mail in our history.
A large measure of our success can be attributed directly to your willingness to help brmg our requests to the attention of the public. T h i s year patrons responded to our appeals for early mailing, zoning, bundling and separating of their greeting cards as never before. This vital cooperation on the part of our mailers is of tremendous assistance to us and without it we would have great difficulty in accomplishing our purpose.
Please accept my personal thanks for the valuable service you have rendered yoor United States Postal Service.
My best wishes to you and your staff for a pleasant and prosperous New Year.
Myron F. Blakeney Acting Postmaster
Buffalo
Nikita Makes Hay *
By Charles McCann
Charles McCann
NIKITA S. KHRUSHCHEV is strengthening Communist Party domination of all Russian governmental, military and economic affairs.
A t t h e s a m e t i m e , Khrushchev is
.strengthening his own | personal authority as first secretary of the party in control of its machinery.
The operation has been in progress for several weeks. It has been marked by a number of transfers of government and party officials and by i-ncreased emphasis on the role of the Communist Party as the supreme power over all aspects of administration in the Soviet Union.
The effect is to restore the situation which existed between the death of Jos^ef Stalin in 1953 and Khrushchev's sensational denunciation of Stalin in February, 1956.
IT CANNOT BE SAID that the Stalin-era situation has been restored. Stalin made himself the sole authority in the government the armed forces, economic affairs and the party itself.
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Khrushchev is making the central committee of the party and its ruling presidium the supreme authority.
Of course, Khrushchev is at the head of the committee and the presidium. And it appears that his position is unchallenged.
The increasing authority g i v e n the Communist Party is a confession that Khrushchev's attempt to liberalize Russian life after his denunciation of Stalin was a failure.
EVEN A LITTLE liberalism can be dangerous in a country like Russia. First intellectuals and workers got too enthusiastic over the loosening up of the dictatorship. Then Georgi K. Zhukov, made defense minister and restored to his one-time status of Russia's No. 1 war hero, got obstreperous. He wanted no Communist interference with his direction of the armed forces, even though he had been a Communist since his youth.
N o w , since Zhukov has been ousted, the armed forces are being subjected to strict indoctrination of officers and men is being intensified.
The newspaper Red Star, organ of the Sovet ministry of defense, disclosed recently that officers, from generals and admirals down, had 'been directed to devote at least 50 hours a year to political courses — lectures on Communist party history and doctrine. These lectures are to be supplemented by home study.
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For purpose and direction, with a constructive goal in view, I pray earnestly, great God of Heaven. Give me the good sense to strip myself of blundering fears and foolish cynicism, of unwarranted cau-t i o n s and spiritual hesitancies, of false values that focus on material possessions, I pray for access to the highway of happi ness, that I may so live and work and play, singing along the way, that my journey shall be pleasant and productive, improving my skills, enriching my mind and soul, building sturdiness into my body and experience into my life — giving me the tremendous satisfactions that come with this kind of exercise of God-given freedoms.
Hangover Cures- • • By Frederick c othman
RAY TUCKER-
Allied Distrust
Of U.S. Policies
Blamed on Dulles
WASHINGTON - The conflicting views of Washington officialdom on America's military Strength in relation to Russia's has increased West European caution and skepticism over ballistic rearming. Even a large segment of popular and political opinion in Britain is hostile.
Pentagon experts. including members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have testified before t h e Johnson Preparedness Committee that the West stands in "dire peril." At private sessions, they have asked for far more money than the administration, as of to-day. seems willing to spend. The secret and suppressed Gaither report used even more serious language in its warning of our plight.
Dr. Edward Teller and Wernher von Braun — the scientists most responsible for the atom bomb and Hitler's Y-2 projectile, respectively — have been even more morose. Discussing the two great powers' capabilities and t h e i r present rate of activity, they predict that Moscow may 'shoot the moon" first.
Dr. Teller has said that this country could probably make a strike, but not a lunar landing, in five year.-, if he and his staff were given ,the funds and the green light for such an awesome attempt
AS AGAINST these gloomy forebodings from official and responsible sources, Gen. Lauris Norstad maintains that the West has a "safe" lead in retaliatory power, and can retain it until bal-listically equipped and fortified.
Even though Washington experts disagree on the date when the U. S. can produce even a 1,500-mile. intermediate weapon — 1958 to i960 — the commander of NATO believes that his B-32 bombers and atomic warheads will deter the Communists from starting a war. global or local, during the period of lag.
Many European statesmen and newspapers do not share his optimism. In fact, they are downright critical of Washington
spokesmen's general attitude and approach.
Gen. Norstad also refuses to admit what is generally known in European 'and Russian1 political and military circles — namely, that even NATO's conventional forces are far below the necessary strength to resist a Red offensive. He has less than 30 divisions to match their 400. including satellite contributions, a n d many of the NATO member- are now reducing their defense budgets.
BIT, AS USUAL, it is Secretary Dulles who stirs our allies' distrust most acutely. His report to the nation on the rearming accomplishments at Paris, with President Eisenhower sitting alongside and nodding approval, was a diplomatic back-flip and legal legerdemain.
It must have amazed the foreign ministers and heads of state who sat in with him while tbey wrote and rewrote the Paris agreement and communique.
For the first time on a nationwide sta^e and before an audience of the American people, the American secretary of state demonstrated why our general foreign policy baffles and frustrates both our allies and neutrals like India.
Mr. Dulles' report was utterly optimistic, reading almost like a national convention's platform. He declared that the V. S. had pursued and obtained its objective of persuading NATO countries to accept American 'launching pads and intermediate missiles on a when-and-if basis.
He failed to emphasize that they agreed only "in principle," and pending the outcome of talks with Khrushchev which he had previously denounced as "futile." Nor did he note that only a few days before he left Washington f o r Paris, he had branded agreements "in principle" as innocuous, meaningless and undependablc. It is no wonder that Europeans regard John Foster Dulles as a remarkable man.
cJLe C*nalisli eSSonS in i^na
By W. L. Gordon
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say. "I can't seem to solve this." It is much better to say, "IT SEEMS that I cannot solve this."
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Hussar. Pronounce hoo-zahr, accent second syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Foundling (a child found). Fondling (caressing).
SYNONYMS: Memory, remembrance, reminiscence, recollection, retrospect, retrospection. %g
WORD STUDY: FIXATION: act of fixing; state of being fixed. "He has an unalterable fixation of resolution."
THE FAMILY CAR By Wally Folk
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Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON — This day I have spent in my laboratory, the National Press Club bar, garnering from e x e r t s the latest scientific word on that epidemic of the new year, the hangover.
Here white-clad specialists and their clients mull over causes and cures of t h a t most horrendous of diseases, and it pleases me to offer as a public service a distillation of their wisdom.
Best advice is stay away from the stuff like old Doc Othman, who toasted the new year in tomato juice. But if the all-gone feeling, including red eyes, hurting feet, and wooly bears in the stomach, sneaks up on you, then place no reliance on the hair of the dog, et cetera.
This is like rubbing salt in an open wound and it'll make you feel worse. All the scientists hereabouts agree to this except one, who claims that he has found a bottle of warm beer soothing on the morning after. Others feel that concoctions involving raw eggs, tabasco sauce and aspirin tablets have their place. Milk and lots of it also is said to be palliative.
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SURE CURES are more difficult to come by. One of these, the experts insist, is opium, but this is scarce, except possibly in Communist China. If you're not a Red Chinese, then the next best thing, according to the specialists, is an ounce of paregoric, sipped slowly.
This is what mothers gave their babies back before the Food and Drug
Administration. It has a little opium in it, and that means you'll need a doctor's presciption. I'd hesitate myself, to call any doctor out of bed for hangover medicine.
Cure No. 2 is pure oxygen, breathed deep. Military fliers have been known to use this with salutary effect.
The third and final cure for the horrors of the morning after is Vitamin B-l. Some of our leading citizens go for this, taking massive doses by means of injection in the shoulder blade.
THE VICE PRESIDENT of Kentucky Distillery had a study of what alcohol did to the nerve ends; he concluded that they disintegrated into a kind of jelly and this, he said, was the primary cause of hangovers. His studies indicated further that Vitamin B-l was the only substance that would knit the nerves back together again.
He then had an inspiration; he'd combine the vitamins with the whisky in the bottle and produce the world's only hangover-proof drinking liquor. He had the process patented and was about to go into production when the alcohol tax unit came up with sad news.
It ruled that he could make whisky, as he'd been doing all along, or he could manufacture medicine, but he couldn't put both in the same jug. Came then a number of outfits, which attacked the problem by putting the vitamin in the soda water.
Apparently s o m e of t h e m skimped on the amount of B-l they mixed in the fizz; they didn't ty so well, and I haven't heard much of them lately.
A Fortunate Year • • • B* Ed^ar Ansel Mowrer
Edgar Ansel Mowrer
THIS IS THE TIME when a lot of people give their opinions about the past twelve months and the year a-borning. Here are mine.
1957 was mixed, with the accent on good.
The only real blemish was the economic s 1 o w d o w n , "rolling recession,'' ' ' b u s i n e s s adjustment" or just plain slump (whichever you choose to call i t ) . With consumption so high it is hard to see how this can go very far — or that the administration will let it in an election year. But until consumption increases per capita or wages fall, inflation seems bound to rear its enticing but deadly head.
Against this blemish there are a number of outstanding gains.
The most notable was in the re-assertion of civil rights by the Supreme Court, the President and the Congress. The Supreme Court swept out the last traces of McCarthy ism and stopped the sag toward a police state in America by its reassertion of the primacy of the Bill of Rights in time of peace — formal peace, I mean.
If in 1958 it goes further and rules (a) that the right to travel is inherent in American citizenship and (b) that wire tapping can be legally undertaken by any agency or any authority only with a court order.
THE COURT also moved to end
legal segregation in the U.S. — an
evil which should have ended with the
Emancipation Proclamation in 1863,
but did not for various reasons.
The President made this decision
effective — in part — at Little Rock
by showing Gov. Faubus of Arkansas
that Uncle Sam means business and
will not yield to southern threats, still
less to southern force.
In passing even a weak civil
rights bill the Congress showed itself
mindful of this fact. This is a most
important gain for our side.
BUT THE GREATEST gain in
1957 was the end of material compla
cency through the loss of two illu
sions: The illusion of Soviet incapac
ity to harm the U.S. and the illusion
that the Soviets are either reasonable
or "peace minded."
The Sputniks and the claim to
have launched an ICBM did the first; recent Soviet conduct at the London disarmament talks, the Cairo anti-West meeting did the second. This has promoted the belief that there is no quick, cheap, painless road to either peace or freedom — which is marvelous. For despite the partial growth of hysteria among appeasers, this has been the fact for many years.
As for 1958, it will, in my judgment, either be a lot better or much worse. Either we shall meet the challenge — or slump further toward ghastly trouble.
Do You Remember When
'Now, don't get excited. We'll unload and if we don't find Junior we'll backtrack."
35 Years Ago — 1923 Syracuse University students returning
to classes after spending the holidays in the Tonawandas included Mildred Gardei, Maude Griffin, Clarence Grainge, Wilbert J. Lincoln, Allen Ives, William Wendler, Raymond Stumpf and Earl E. Thompson.
C. P. Hugo Schoellkopf, Buffalo millionaire whose wife was chloroformed and robbed of $500,000 worth of jewelry, after a poker party in New York City, issued a statement in which he declared faith in his wife and thoroughly believed her story.
25 Years Ago — 1933 Mrs. Harold Wulf entertained the C. H.
Club at a Christmas party in the home of Mrs. Romaine Strickland of Loretta St. Prizes in games were awarded to Mrs. Carl Liber and Mrs. Terry Bigelow.
Immediate sale of beer in New York State, should * Congress legalize it, was demanded by Gov. Lehman in his first message to the 1933 Legislature, which disclosed
unemployement funds' were practically exhausted. L
Rocket engineer Rudolf Neriel, advocate of the "stratosphere rocket," was planning to be the first man to make an attempt to ascend with a passenger rocket, probably early in the spring of 1933. according to reports from Madgeburg, Germany.
70 Years Ago— 1948 Mrs. Ida M. H. Rogalsky, deputy city
clerk for several years, was appointed to a two-year term as Tonawanda City Clerk at the annual reorganization meeting of the Common Council.
Communist deputies in the National Assembly were defeated 340 to 183 in attempts to force debate on American stopgap aid to France, forerunner of the Marshall Plan, according to a news report from Paris. '"«
France was plunged into a new government crisis when Premier Robert Schuman demanded a virtual vote of confidence by insisting upon immediate passage of his drastic anti-inflation measure by an unwilling national assembly.
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