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THE MORGANTOWN POSTMrs. H. C. Greer, President and PublisherCottleJohn F. Quigley, Managing EditorWilliam A. Townes, General ManagerMonday through Friday #v#ningi and Sunday Morning «'a» th# Dominion-Pott) by tna \IPODor Publishing Comocny. Court L Elk Str##»§, Morgantown. W#it Virgin*a 250S______fANT ADS 19*4*1 ALL OTHU sriPTS. lfl-THIVlfiy carrlor d#iivtry 55 c#nti a waak Damnion-Po»t. By mail in advoncspay obi# to carri#r for Th# Post doily (#xc#pt Saturday) and th# Sunday In W.Vo.# 6 is*u#« p#r w#*k on# y#ar $17, 6 months W. Vs.| per Cent to* included By mail auts«d# W. Va. daily and Sunaay on# y#ar $30, 4 months #11.50. Sunday only, on# yoar $7.10. * months $3.90. No mall subscriptions acc#or#d wh#r# carrlor d#liv#ry |t maintain#*PAGE SIXThursday, October 6, 1SSSThe Death Of Okey GlennThe Universiiy has lost one of its remained there several years after his most faithful and productive alumni in graduation. He was always so chccrtulthe death of Okey B. Glenn of Williamson last night.Ironically, he suffered the last ofthat it was good to have him here. And even after he had struck out on his own in Williamson and made quite a go of it, our town was always glad to have himseveral heart attacks last Saturday after- back for a visit_and hc seemcd gCnuine-noon while listening to the W.V.U.-V.P.I. jy g|ad t0 get back now and then.football game from a Williamson hospital bed.After he became a member of the I niversity Board of Governors, heAlthough hc was a native of New brought to that responsibility a wealthMartinsville and spent most of his adult of common sense as well as a valuablelife in Williamson, Morgantown has long familiarity with conditions in the State,felt that it had a special claim on Okey particularly as they affected the Univer-as one of its own. He worked his way sity.through the University by clerking in the He will be sorely missed but fondly old Moore Parriott drugstore and he remembered.Historythe UniversityWe are glad to hear that Dr. Festus Dr. James Morton Callahan prepared aP. Summers is hard at work on a his- full-length manuscript dealing intimatelylory of West Virginia Universiiy as an wi,h ,he University's history and submit-added feature to its upcoming centennialcelebration even though the book will not be available until after the celebrationhas been completed.ted it for publication by the University. However, higher authorities felt that it contained so much dynamite that the University itself should not become its publisher. We understand the manuscriptTwo of Dr. Summers’s former col- Was put on file in the University Library, leagues in the history department devot- and doubtless will be available to Dr. ed a great deal of their professional time Summers in researching his own book.to gathering material about the University’s history.Dr. C. H. Ambler put down some of his findings in his general history ofWhile speaking of history and Dr. Callahan, we simply refuse to give up hope that before too long an updatedpttifinn of his historv of Morcantown andeducation in West Virginia, but never Monongalia County can be published, got around to writing a separate history Dr. Callahan brought us up only to 1926of the University.and a whole lot has happened hereIn the later years of his retirement, since thenThe Real Thrills OfWorld SeriesOne of the better things about a 31-ycar-old Moe Drabowsky, was calledWorld Series is that it can nearly always from the Oriole bullpen when the Dodg-be depended upon to bring a new hero ers threatened to blow the game wideout of relative obscurity and give him a open, and gave an exhibition of pitchingchance to prove what he must suppose is his real stuff.Take yesterday’s game, for example.skill and persistence rarely seen even from the more widely advertised stars.As long as the door for talent is keptThe big thrill was not that Baltimore open as it was at Los Angeles yesterday,beat Los Angeles, or even that the Moe Drabowsky and his ilk can beRobinson twins” hit back-to-back home- counted upon to prove that even theruns in the first inning.seclusion of a bullpen does not a prisonThat thrill came after a relief pitcher, make.Rezoning Of Evansdale AreaUniversity authorities are acting none exemptions to the zoning ordinance too soon in calling upon City Council to have been considered separately, andconsider the need for a far-reaching revi- without to° much AouSht of thcysion of zoning regulations in the neighborhood of the Evansdale campus. Nor is it too soon for residents of that areaaffected the zoning pattern for the wholearea.Instead of continuing to act on individual cases, it would be far better for allto be thinking about the same problem, jt lhe who,e task of workingWhen Suncrest was a separate munic- OU[ the best possible zoning regulationsipality, it had one of the most complete to apply to this territory were taken upand successful zoning ordinances in West anew, with an effort to deal fairly, sensi-Virginia. And when it consolidated with bly, and affirmatively with the new needsMorgantown, one of the understandings and opportunities that have multipliedwas that these regulations would be kept so rapidly in the last decade—and alsoin effect as part of the City's zoning with the additional needs and opportuni-ordinance. ties that are certain to develop withinMuch has happened since then in that the very near future, whole are, including not only what wasIt may seem more amiable to work the separate municipality of Suncrest, but out single problems, but something more also the original Evansdale subdivision, than current amiability is at stake andthe Flatts, and much else besides.should be recognized within the very nearUp to now, special cases for granting future.Lake Central At HuntingtonHuntington newspapers report that about the kind of service this part of theLake Central Airlines is seeking to re- State is receiving from Lake Central, itsplace Allegheny Airlines as the certified reaction may be considerably more thancarrier operating between Huntington and Pittsburgh.The report adds that this report has been received with considerable dismaydismay.What all West Virginia cities need more than anything else in the way of air transport service is an integrated operation by one competent carrier such asin Huntington because Allegheny s service Piedmont. Until it gets that kind ofhas been altogether satisfactory.service, its air transport is likely to be^ If Huntington will make some inquiry just as good (or bad) as it now is.AFrom The Po»t FiletPostmortemsTwenty Years AgoMrs. Eleanor Cordray was named executive secretary and field nurse of the Monongalia County Tuberculosis Association, succeeding Mrs. Lillian Molnar.The Morgantown Service League donated $1,000 for the rehabilitation of Easfmont Sanitarium into a convalescent homefor crippled children.Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Bagwell of Elysian Avenue became parents of a daughter.John Kudla of this city wasaccidentally wounded with buckshot while hunting near Parsons.Rudy York’s home run in the 10th inning gave the Boston Red Sox a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in the opening game of the World Series. Earl Johnson, a war veteran, got credit for the victory in relief.Mr. and Mrs. Steve Chepko of Mona announced the birth of a daughter.‘Did He Say We Should Cut Our Spending?’Fifteen Years AgoMorgantown High School's football team ran wild to score a 40 to 0 victory over Weston. In other high school games. Kingwood beat Masontown 39 to 26, Barrackville swamped Clay-Battelle 39 to 0, and Arthur-dale nosed out Tunnelton 8 to 7.Dr. Morris M. Rose of Brooklyn, N. Y., was the new rabbi of the Tree of Life Congregation here, the first fulltime rabbi ever to serve in Morgantown.A strike over alleged hazardous conditions closed the big Weirton mine in Clinton District.Dr. Clark K Sleeth of Morgantown was elected vice presi dent of the W Va Heart Association.The New York Yankees scored an 8-1 victory over the New York Giants in the second game of the 1951 World Series.A son was born Oct. 6, 1951, to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Mc-Cardle of Route 2.Ten Yean AgoA three-year levy for $185,000 to provide for construction of a municipal swimming pool was aooroved bv Morgantown voters 2,862 to 900. Only one precinctvoted against the proposal,Jerome Park 96-63.President Eisenhower became the first chief executive in 20 years to throw out the ball at the opening World Series game. Sol Maglie of the BrooklynDodgers won the first game of baseball’s World Series beatingthe Yankees 6-3Russia accepted an invitation to send Soviet observers to this country to watch the wind-up of the presidential election.Ralph Federer, prominent Morgantown composer and teacher of piano, was marking his 20th vear in music.5enate Race In Idaho Has Become A Hot OneBY HOLMES ALEXANDERBOISE, ladho — Idaho has a tried and true Republican Senator in Len Jordan, a former governor. The conservative tenet of never disturbing a satisfactory situation is going for him.So is much else. The 67-year-old Senator is being propelled toward re-election by the hearty back-slaps of the business community, by the “atta, boys” of theBARBSWith some gals, it’s hard to tell if they’re plain dumb or just playin’ dumb.Some people achieve maturity and some just grow older.Mom wonders why thcy don’t make car fenders out of steel instead of that soft, dentabletin.Men who wheel and deal at a four-martini lunch are apt to forget what was wheeled and what was dealed.A gal can have lots of suitors if she has a suitably rich dad.resident press, and apparently by the pervading affection of the populace as discernible in private polls and letters-to-the-editors.Jordan is a big, solid, respected self-made success whose pre-gubernatorial years are recounted in a regional best-seller “Home Below Hell’s Canyon” by Grace Jordan, his talented and vote-gathering wife. Even in the Rocky Mountain antipathy for the Great Society, Jordan takes nothing for granted.He campaigns as if every tomorrow were election day. With a month to go, he looks every inch a winner.But Jordan won’t win by concession. His 37-year-old Democratic opponent, former Con-gressman Ralph Harding, is the hungry hunter. Defeated in 1964 for his two-term congressional seat, the blond, rangy ex-accountant and Korean War infantryman — a thorough-going liberal Laborite — doggedly sought a cell in the Democratic Party’s deep-freeze. There he could be preserved for use against Jordan, who was elected in the year of Harding’s defeat. Sargent Shriver, double-crowned czar of the Peace Corps and Poverty Corps, made Harding the offer of a job. So did President Johnson’s Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert.Harding settled for a Pentagon post as liaison man withCongress. He stayed for something over a year, long enough to claim an I can get it for you wholesale’’ intimacy with federal agencies. Then last Mare# he cut himself off from visible financial support, lumped h i s meager life’s savings, and bet the roll on his chances to become U.S. Senator.Around West VirginiaEditorial in Wheeling News-RegisterHOW DEPRESSING IT IS to see the United States Supreme Court open another session this week only to be confronted againwith more obscenity cases.Here are nine learned men sitting on the highest court in the land being asked to spend their time wading through the muck of such publications as Shame Agent,” Lust Pool,” and similar stuff. What a pity!Seldom does the Supreme Court sit these days without having to deal with the question of obscenity in print. It must be a sign of the times and the times certainly are filled with filth. Have you taken a look recently at the newsstands and bookstalls? Here are examples of some of the headlines found on those tabloids that clutter up the newstands: Biggest Bosom In Show Biz,” This Man Is Pregnant.” Attacked by A Friend, But I’ll Marry Him Anyway!” and Castro Provides Naked Cuties For Cuban Soldiers.” The paperbacks aren’t any better.This obscenity trend isn’t confined to reading material. It is found just about everywhere today. Just this week an Erotic Art” show opened in New York. John Canaday, art critic for the New York Times, said before the show opened the police were virtually being dared to close it. Not one person in 100, or 500, will go to see this show as an art show, wrote Critic Canaday. Instead they will go to see it as a dirty show or a snicker show, and thpy will get their money’s worth.It is stylish today to screamfor untrammel.*! expression ineverything. From topless bathing suits to free love this is the new order. We are making a mockery of our freedom and liberty in this country and we are payingthe price in rampant crime, mental illness, suicides, broken homes, and juvenile delinquency.Of course the smut magazines and the trashy books would soon fade from the scene if the public did not devour them. The demand apparently is there, because this is the sort of material which continues to find its way in increasing volume on our newsstands.Meanwhile, as the country continues on a garbage” binge there are other forces at workto remove prayer and the Almighty from public view.AFTER EATING dinner with Senator Jordan and breakfast with Candidate Harding, the reporter who inclines to like everybody had found no reason to alter an older and firmer friendship with Len Jordan by reason of a new one with Ralph Harding. But it’s readily foreseeable that Idaho voters are not going to be equally fond of these two men as the campaign mounts to its climax. There are the makings of some ugly electioneering. The prime personal issue and the prime political issue are both hot.Harding is making a personal issue of the age differential between the candidates. Somewhere along the line — possibly from Harding’s spokesmen rather than himself — there has been an unpleasant and unfounded reference to the Senator’s health. Earlier in the campaign, Harding got an indignant playback from his public when he patronizingly mentioned Jordan as a nice old man.” Harding had amended this to read a fine honorable gentleman” by the time of our interview, but his sales pitch is what he euphemistically calls “effectiveness.” He adds in clear language that he, but not Senator Jordan, is up to the 14-hour day that it takes to represent a state in Congressional Washington. The Senator has already proved his staying power, and these snide insinuations are likely to bring some rough rejoinders on points where Harding is vulnerable.AMENDMENTSAn amendment to the Constitution becomes effective upon the date of ratification by the state making up the necessary three-fourth required by theConstitution.SEPTUAGINTThe Septuagint is the oldest Greek translation of the Old Testament, believed to have been begun in the 200s B.C., in Alexandria, Egypt. The translation was completed before the Christian era.EGG-LAYING ANIMALSAll mammals bear their young alive with the exception of Australia’s spiny anteater, or echidna, and the duckbill platypus. These actually layeggs.SOME POINTS, already touched in debate, relate to Harding’s hot pursuit of political capital— his brief build-up as a Pentagon job-holder after losing an election, his earnest but probably ill-advised vendetta with Ezra Taft Benson, a Mormon Church apostle who is also a Birchite, and his past relationships with the peace-through weakness Council for a Livable World.Harding was very frank with me about his latter connection. He did take at least $3,000 from the livable World in his 1964 campaign, and has taken some $4,000 in the present campaign up till July, when payments, he says, ceased. The cessation oc-cured when a Livable World traveling salesman, Dr. William Doeing of Yale University, came to Idaho and demanded that Harding (and presumably other takers) give the promise i n writing to oppose further bombing of North Vietnam.This outrageous proposal to a candidate for the U. S. Senate would be treason, the only crime specifically defined in the Constitution, if we were formally at war.TO HIS CREDIT, and possibly because of outstanding political debts to the Johnson Administration, Harding refusedWords, Wit WisdomaT william morrisQ: I got to thinking about the word “chauffeur” today. N o t that I can afford such a luxury —just that the word itself puzzles me. If I remember myschoolgirl French, the word comes from a French verb meaning to warm or heat something. How on earth can driving a car have anything to do with that? — Mrs. P. Concannon, Waco, Tex.A: Today’s chauffeur, more often than not, rides around in air-conditioned comfort, which makes his name — from the French “chauffer,” to warm up or to heat, seem quite ridiculous. However, the first chauffeurs in France drove the French equivalents of our Stanley Steamer automobiles and their first task was to heat up the engine until a sufficient head of steam had built up to propel the car.And propel it the steam did! Fanciers of steam-driven autos claim that no one ever dared to run one of them at its maximum speed. With roads and tires in the condition they were then, it would have been simply too hazardous. Even so, speeds upwards of 100 miles per hour were commonplace — and this 50 or 60 years ago. So the early chauffeur had to be fireman, engineer and devil-may-care, especially if he had a speed demon for a bass.WORD FOR TODAY: Affluent.” One of the most abused cliches of our time is the phrase affluent society.” Whenever asociologist wants an explanationfor teenage crime, the mounting auto death-rate, the prevalence of beards on college campuses — you name it — he trots out this much overused phrase. And what does affluent” mean? Well, “wealthy” is its most common connotation today but originally it meant simply flowing to.” It comes from the Latin “fluere,” to flow, and “ad,” to.The idea seems to be that if you are “affluent,” you are a person to whom riches flow. If you, in turn, exert influence,” you are making your power“flow in” to people under yourcontrol.ON TIMEOverheard: Mv secretary is very punctual. She comes in exactly one half hour late every day.”to sign such a pacifist pledge-enough to dishonor any would-be Senator. I hope to learn later how other candidates supported by the Lilable World — Metcalf of Montana, Roncalio of Idaho, Case of New Jersey — responded to the disgraceful bribe. At this writing, Harding claims to have received no more funds, but is not inclined to return the money already received.The prime political issue between Jordan and Harding is the Great Society. One of its Western States spokesmen, Interior Secretary Udall of Arizona put the matter this way in a Sept. 13 address at Hershey,Pa.:“We have continued...to nurture ourselves on outmoded mythologies of...free enterprise, private property rights... We have continued to hold to the twin idols of free enterprise and rugged individualism...”Are free enterprise and property rights “mythologies”? Are free enterprise and nagged individualism twin idols?Here, I take it, is the hot political issue between Jordan (R) and Harding (D) in '66.Why Is L.B.J.ShunningThe Stump?by BRUCE BIOSSATSOME of President Johnson’s most trusted friends and advisers do not really know why he has stayed off the campaign trail for a solid month after hitting it hot and heavy up through Labor Day.One September midweek trip was planned and canceled, for reasons not made clear even to some persons in and around the White House. Inside sources say they have no firm indication of any specific presidential politicking between now and his de-ing between now and his departure for the Asian conference in Manila.It is being assumed in thecapital that his venture to the Far East may consume two October weekends. If that guess is correct, then Johnson may have only three weekends in all_two in October and one in Nobember—before the general election Nov. 8.The necessary posture of a President busy at his job is like’.y to prevent him from doing mu:h campaigning during the regclar work week. He could get away with some of it near theend.BETWEEN June and Labor Day, the President made five major political (usually billed nonpolitical) forays into the U.S. hinterland. He touched Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Idaho, Colorado, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Pennsylvania,Michigan, and Ohio.White House sources saythe President’s advisers werepleased with the public reaction to these trips and urged him to make many more. The judgment was that both he and various Democratic office seekers werebenefiting.That there may be huge offsetting benefits from his midcampaign trip to Manila is questioned by no one here. Nor does anyone really imagine that the President is unaware of thispotential.Obviously it is a campaign manager's dream if Lyndon Johnson can be photographed pressing for peace in Southeast Aisa, helping Asian leaders to help themselves, perhaps sneaking close to the Vietnam fighting front.But Republican Senate leader Everett Dirksen is far from alone in dissenting from t h e House G O.P. leader, Rep. Gerald Ford of Michigan, on the latter's comment that the Asian trip is a political stunt” pureand simple.HOWEVER large L.B.J.'s political motivation for this move, and however broadly useful it may be to Democratic tickets across the land, it is also plain that something is being lost to his party’s cause by the President’s mysterious and lengthy freeze-up on domestic political road trips.Even Democratic nominees who oppose some of Johnson’s polices generally understand the incalculable publicity gain to be had from a presidential visit to their states. The valueis especially great for shaky first - term Congressmen, a fair number of whom the President has already tried to help inperson.Those who run from his attentions must count themselves lucky if they ever see their pictures on the front page of newspapers in their districts.The mystery of the President’s campaign shutoff is deepened by the fact that he explicitly pledged this summerthat he would cover the land like a blanket. The present evident reversal makes him appear mercurial and suddenly Inattentive to a presidential tradition that earlier he was honoring more fully than most.It may be idle to speculate, but it is being conjectured that Johnson’s switch stems from fresh annoyance over adverse opinion polls and a rash of stories and columns characterizing his pre-Labor Day campaigning as too strongly self-centered.TRADE SECRETFor years the side - shov strongman had awed crowds bj squeezing a lemon dry, then of fering $1,000 to anybody in thlt; audience who could get anothei drop out of it. Nobody paid mucl attention when a wispy littU man in one audience dared tlt; challenge the strongman.The strongman first squeezetthe lemon until it was little more than a pulp, then hander it to his frail challenger. Tht little man not only squeezed ou another drop—but got almost t saucerful of juice.“Amazing!” the strongmarconceded. “What kind of worido you do?”I’m with the Internal Rev enue Service,” the little marreplied.GOOD AUDIENCE Announcing her dancing class' recital, a little girl told he mother: “We’re going to hav people there—not just mother and fathers.”k
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