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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-04-16, Page 71161111N:1111111111111111111° 11 11111161111111111iiiiiIi1111111 1111111iiiiii111111111111111111111 111111111111iiiiiiii111111111 kk.:A 1$011511111111111i011111111111111 1111111111111t111111111111111 111111111111116111111111111111 1111giii1111111111E111111 wo,t, 1111 y ii111111111iiiiii1111111111iii.0 1111 1111111111E11111111111116i111111 40 FOR THE BIRDIES, STRICTLY — Only creatures other than golfers and spectators allowed on the grounds of the Augusta,country club during tournament play are "birdies," one-under-par scores for any particular hole. Joyce Ziska, explains all this to a nongolfer who is fond of birdies of another feather. 'Twenty .Hours Of Terror Vor the 'Baldwin family of South Charleston, W. Va., the hours of terror began in tranqn11 innocence. They were all in the living room watching TV. John Baldwin was eating a peanut- butter sandwich. His wife Elma, was crocheting. Their three chile dren — Kenneth, 10, Danny, 7, and Susan, 5. — were sitting around a little table they"had been given, for Christmas. The doorbell rang. The man to whom Ealdwin, in all innocence, opened the door ,of his modest bungalow was. Richard Arlen Payne, 23, four days out of Moundsville, the state's maximum-security peni- tentiary and— according to the state police afterward — "a dan- gerous mental case." "He seemed nice enough when opened the door," Baldwin ex- plained. "He asked if he could use the phone, I said' sure and I went back to the sofa. I heard him dialing a long time, but he said the number he was trying to get was busy. Then he said: "This is a stickup.' I thought he was joking," It was no joke. Payne had a pistol—a loaded German Luger. 'The hours of terror had begun, There was a lot that Baldwihs didn't know about Payne, Payne had gone to prison in 1952, when he was 16, for the armed holdup of a motel just outside South Charleston in -which the owner was critically wounded. In prison, one of "Payne's cell-mates was a convict named Burton Junior Post, a man for whdm Payne conceived a deep and blinding hatred. "I hate him with all my exist- ence," Payne said. "When I see him it's like being almost oyer- come by a blinding light. There isn't room in this world for both of us to live." When Payne was released from prison, his twisted mind con- cocted a truly fantastic scheme. 'To murder Post, he would have to get him released from prison. 'The man who could release him was the governor of the state, 'Cecil Underwood. But the' gover- nor — Payne thought — could * 'be forced to act only if he were faced with a deradful alterna- Payne decided to kidnap some innocent victims, and to murder them, one by one, to force gover- nor to release Post to him. It was entirely by 'accident, and on the spur of the moment, that Payne chose the Baldwins. "It was horrible," Baldwin said. "He said he had to have a car, SACK IN THE FOLD — Lin Yutang, an avowed pagan for some 30 years, has re-embraced Christianity. Reason given by ;the 64-year-old world-renown- ed scholar-philosopher-author:" he believes that Christianity is' the only civilizing influence that oan save the world. ISSUE 16 — 1959 CROSSWORD PUZZLE ! ACROSS 1. Reef 4. AgreeMent 8', Back 12, Lyric 13, Scent '14. Impel ' 15, Cut 15. liateMe 18, Mistreat, '20, Baseball teeth 21: Counsel :22. Calif: rockfish 23. American Indian 26, Insertion 28: Thin cake' 20, Degraded 82, well-bred POOPle", Balloted 34, Protect bot already Made eta', veneeettee 26. Lliylilte Plant 38, VornietlY' 41, Commotion 42,, Maitre name 43. Scorned' 4 7, 11*ISt„ 48, APPeRatiOli ,, of Athena ,. 4 9, Persiaii fttitj 50. Brenta . in the edit el. Eattel 52. Proofreader's mark SS. Pcilitilat iiiedeek ..nOtyR, ditieee ee so I gave him the keys and my wallet. Then he said he'd have to tie me up. He made me lie on the niloor and made my wife tie me. Then he tied her up, then the kids . "He had ibis letter he'd writ- ten to the governor and he start- ed to read it. It was all, about how the governor was to release Post, and where he was to re- lease ,him, and bow ,-- it was long, page after page, ,and ,he read, slowly. ll.e ww'swe4Ung, the sweat was running down his forehead. "He had gagged me with a torn pillowcase, He hadn't gagged my wife, and she kept pleading" with him not to do anything to the children. Ile said he 'had to take t them. The two little ones had just.had bronchitis, and my wife said she wanted to go along so she could take care of them,, Finally he took them all Ont of the house leaving me there, and , I heard the car drive away." Baldwin worked himself free, and called the police. He handed over to them the five-page let- ter to Governor Underwood that Payne had left behind. It gave ' the governor a three-day dead- line to deliver Post, or the Bald- wins would be murdered. For the next twenty hours, it is hard to determine who had a worse time — Baldwin at home, hoping against hope, or Mrs.• Baldwin riding the back roads of West Virginia with her three children in a car drivenehy an armed man who was obviously insane. "He threatened to torture the 'children, to kill them," Mrs. Baldwin said. "It was so horrible I didn't know what to do. He kept driving all over the back roads. We almost came `up on one roadblock (by this time, nearly every police officer was looking for the car), but he saw it in time and turned back. "I kept trying ,to talk to him, I wanted to take his mind off the children. He kept saying that he 'didn't want to hurt anyone, only kill that convict', .. He said he had to kill him. I was afraid to 'go to sleep, He didn't sleep either." The end came suddenly. Two state troopers spotted the Baldwin car and gave chase. Payne drew hip Luger and turn- ed to fire back at the police care- Mrs. Baldwin saw her chance and .sucldenlY dreVe•hereeopt, down on the brake — and piilled the steer- mg wheel over. Payne threw the Luger out of thee:Ain-slow and meekly put up iii'S'eVuds. The terror was over. Royal Typist Will the Prince of Wales soon be, learning to use ,a typewriter? It is quite possible, for the, young Prince has always been fascin- ated by the machines. As he grows up he will be writing more and more private and business letters and will find it a help to rattle off some on a typewriter rather than rely en tirely on handwriting. • The 'former Prince of Wales (now the Duke of Windsor) was a typist in his younger days. It was reported in 1922 that he had "a dainty little typewriter," which was specially made for him by a British firm, The first typewriter ever to enter a royal home in Britain belonged to Queen Victoria. In 1890 she read a newspaper inter- .,view with a businessman who "was then introducing typewriters into ,Britain and was specially interested in his statement that "women are ideally suited for typing." ' As a result, the man took a typewriter to Windsor Castle. Queen Victoria examined it with great interest and saw a specimen of typewriting. The Queen desired that the machine should be left at the castle and in due course learned to use it herself. 7. Means of 80. Bird transportation 31, Looped knot 8. Standard 82. English letter of action 34. Wasp 9. Silkworm' 87, Goes lame 39, Oriental Inn 40. English river 4L Headliner 42. Prepare for printing 43. Explosive cle vide - 44. Balm leaf 45. Born 40, Tlefore $eaway Locks Open And. Battle Starts • As April's', opening Of the new cleepwater St. Lawrence Seaway drew closer, it set Off • enough fireworks last menthto tt.I.elt. all. the ice..from. Mentreel While 'U,S. Commerce Secretary Lewis L, Strauss. looked forward. to "the dawn .of a new era in Werideeeeninerce,',!...,the roads that ply between Western inclustrjal centers and the, Atlantic .coast .were tip in arins. at the 'ThoUght of More, lmwrcost water-borne • eornpeti-• tion, ("Another dollar ride" for the U.S, .tax-• payer, snorted the 'Associati'on of AMerican ,Railroade;'). Port ofti, 'vials in New York,'seeing more ships heading the St: Law- rence for dirept. contact • with Great Lakes docks, cried "foul." When Seaway • tolls were . an- nounced last nionth,...charkee flew.. from the EaSt. that they were too low ---,and- from 'the West that they were too. high... Some Americans cleineed ethe,,,§,,elvp would never ,pak its-$470"millioh construction costs, Sortie' Cana- dians said the tolls would raise tile` cost of precliiCing steel in the Dominion. The The big 'Eastern .railroads,` al- ready bedeviled by e commuter problems and passenger deficits, could' see 'nothing but trouble 'coming down the St. Lawrence. A ton of steel pipe, for example, will 'sail from Chicago to' Eur- ope via the Seaway • for $30,50.. A rail-ship trip costs $48,50., A tractor `on the 'eagle ronte can save $22 a ton in, freight charges: A 'Midwestern „importer ; will. bring in German, steel products for less than'$30 .•e tone. Passage through New York costs $44. -Unctated'autoinobilee, New York Central' vice president Arthur •E. Baylis ••pointed out .will' travel all the way .frorn Detreit- to Europe On the water route. for .10e per PUZZLED? — No, she isn't a tired housewife taking a mo- ment's diversion with a jigsaw puzzle:This inspector is check- ing master negatives to be used in printing sealed circuits re- placing maze of wires in TV sets. Circuits are etched on stainless steel cloth, then print- ed on one-piece boards. cent less than it costs to ship a car from Detroit to New York by rail. But the railroads' are preparing to fight back. "We aren't going to wait'until the Seaway has al- ready taken a lot of traffic from us," promised E. V. Hill, head of the Eastern lines' Traffic Exe- cutives Association. The rails last week proposed a rate cut for bulk grain of 20 to 25 per cent. And grain is only the first big test. The association is studying how to lower rates on ore, ceal• and other bulk cargoes. Even railroads that do not ex- pect to lose business to the Sea- way are 'hedging. "We are not afraid of Seaway, Competition," C & 0 vice presidents Gregory l)eVine and James Doyle agreed. "The Seaway will create more business for everyone," Bet the 'C & 0, which now moves much of its big coal cargoes through Newport News, also has a brand- new $7 million coal dock at Toledo on Lake Erie, Right noW, DeVirie says, the line has no plebe to change its coal rates — "bUt all railetade are looking into it," From New York's waterfront Whieh each yeat handles 38 Million tons Of• foteige freight Worth $9.2 billion came more mournful eotincle. Cargoes Veiled to the St. Lawrence by the. "Unfelr competition of stile. eiclizeel Seaway tolls," New York Port Authority chairman Donald V. Lowe said, could cost the city 3,500 itS".Watarfront jobs, NOV Yerk Well ,kneW What a rate diflerential etitild Meath, Lower charges on grain shipped from It isn't only in. Ottawa that -Government "big shots" wish— NOT audibly, of, course — that a lot of farmers would either drop dead br be stricken dumb. ' The following message from Washington will tell you what I mean: * ' * Secretary of Agriculture Ben- son. is 'on the firing line 'again. He is being 'fired at, and he' shooting back. He is being blame ed for the $9 billion accumula- tion of surplus 'farm products the government ' will hold by July 1. Columnist Joseph Alsop at- tacks Mr. Benson lion the ground • that the cost of tfarm programs is going, up instead of down and that it haseilibreased vastly dur- ing Mr. 13enion's tenure. He sug- gests that a 'Brannan-plan, di- rect-`subsidy type of program would lower food costs in the market place, cost less, and still help the farmer. - Secretary Bensbn; in reply, de- clares the present farm program is largely inherited from previ- ous administrations. He points out that it is not his,program. He has to administer the laws Congress makes and he has urged lower price supports. Had his advice been fully heeded, there probably would have been smaller surpluses today. BUt it appears that he, too, underesti- mated the production born of mechanized American agricul- ture. Mr. Benson also declares that a Brannan-plan program would make the present one look like ,peanuts, costwise. '* * * Now, there would be far less basis for criticism of the present program's cost if farmers were in the depths of a farm depres- sion; if they had been hard hit as a grdup, by crop 'failures; if the farm economy were sagging. But farmers toda y, on the whole, are a prosperous lot. Farms have been getting bigger and bigger; they have become highly mechanized; many are classed in the category of big business. One big commercial cotton plantation received more than $1,500,000 in price-support loans in 1957. This represented the value of the crop 'at price- support level — obviously a big business farm operation. * Not that all farmers are well- to-do. But, ironically, it is not the small farmer, nor the poor farmer, Who benefits most from the farm price-support prograni. ' In fact, many receive no price support at all because they do not, produce the kind of crops covered by the program The present lopsided, top- heavy, indefensible farm pro- gram, might indeed be termed a freak of nature — a freak in which man also played a consi- derable part. For by offering what, in effect, amounts to a borma for production, price sup- port -- along with the new won the Midwest to Baltimore and Philadelphia, though only a few cents per 100 pounds below the traffic to NOW York, have cut New York's sherd of overseas grain shipments, from more than r.,) per tent before World Wee II to about 5 per pent today. Only time would tell hoW well the SeaWay, .would pay oft and for Whelp. MeanWhilee .the Cont- petitive jockeying and the pre- paganda broadsides;, prethised to` tit* hotter and lender.. ' Frain NEWSWEEK der-fertilizers — has encouraged that production to a point where the government has to pay $1,000,000,000 a year for stor- age,.'interest charges, and losses en surplus supplies. Going back• a bit, price-sup- ports originated in the dark days of the farm depression. Un- der that program, 'wheat, cotton, and corn rated a price-support level ranging from 52 to 75 per cent of parity. In 1940, before this country entered the war, wheat and cotton were ,being suPported at 57 per cent of , Parity, corn at 75 per cent. Cost of the price-support program was then $738,000,000. * * * At the beginning of World War II, price-support was boost- ed to high, fixed levels to 'en- courage more production for war needs. Fixed supports were abandoned, some time . after the war. Today price-support, In general, has a 'range "Of from 75 to 90 per cent of parity, ex- cept for corn now coinputed under a different formula, The price-support level for wheat today is 75 per cent of parity, cotton 80 per cent (or 65 per cent if the farmer grows more than the ,restricted acre- age needed to qualify for the higher rate). It is estimated that by midsummer the govern- ment 'will have more than $9,000,000,000 tied up, in price- support operations. All this re- sulting in production of huge surpluses for which there is no market. * Who is to blame? Secretary ' Benson, to be sure, has been pleading for a program which would permit him to lower sup- ports — make it less attractive for the ,farmer to overproduce. But even a measure of flexibility has failed to bring about the desired results. Now he is asking for author- ity to reduce the price-support level in another way — by changing the parity formula. Had he gone to bat for this at an earlier date, he would have been 'in a better position to de- fend himself from his critics to- day, ,But Mr. Benson obviously ask- ed for what he thought he could get. Also, any drastic reduction in price-supports would mean a corresponding drop in the in- come of many farmers. Secretary Benson would hesitate to advo- cate a cut in farm income. So would any member of Congress representing a farm state or. die- trice Just the s a m e, someday sox- ehow, something has got to give. Even many fanners, them- selves, are fearful of a taxpayer revolt that might wreck the pro- gram, its good features along with its' faults Over Eighty Yet Walked 300 Miles Not long ago. newspapers car- ried. the story of a sixty-three- year-old New 'Zealand woman Who walked' from John o' Groats to band's End. A rernatkable feat of endurance, but not quite s. °impressive as the achievement op.Mary Kelynack who; a huh- Cited years ago; walked' .frOni Cornwall to ,London 300 ritilet — When she was nearly eighty. fiver Mary was born At ifolearne, Madron„ a remote part of Corn- wall "between Penzance and Land's End. Her senSatietial hey Was the result Of a wager by a neighbour that .ght would never See the Great ENhibitiOn at the. Crystal•Falace, Mary vowed, not to accept any help on hers journey, except in the. form of alms from passersby. She intended to walk every yard of the way, and not Put up for the night unless she had earned, Or been given, the price of eccommOdatiOn, On .a sunny day towards the beginning of autumn, Mary Kely- nack set out on her record Jour- ney, carrying only a staff and A small bundle of clothe; and with only a few shillings. She passed through Camborne and Truro, over bleak Bodmin Moor, then across Dartmoor and right through Devonshire to the hills of Somerset, In those days, parts of the so-called main road were just rough lanes which were very hard on the feet. As she could 'not write, no news reached her relatives in Cornwall. But at last she reach- ed London, after thirty-six days of walking, with only fivepence- halfpenny in her purse. She slept out for the first night, and on the next day, as she had wagered, she arrived at the Great Exhibition, which was attracting visitors from all over the 'world, Almost pennileSs, she wonder: ed how she could possibly re- turn home. Had she the strength to walk all the way back? She forgot the problem for the time being and resolved to greet the Lord Mayor of London person- ally before her return. The next morning carrying her bundle Of. belongings on her head, she walked up to the Man- sion House and asked to see the leading citizen. She was duly presented to the Lord Mayor in the famous Justice Room.. She told him the story of her vow and her journey. The Mayor was greatly impressed and when she confessed that she had only a few coppers left, he gave her a golden sovereign. Mary Kelynack was so' overceme with emotion that she ,breke down and- wept with gratitude. The nett morning she spent some of her sovereign on a visit to .the Crystal Palace, and while she was there She was told that Queen Victoria 'and Prince Al- bert had heard her' story and wished to see her. So; once again, Mary Kelynack was received in audience — this. time by the Queen of England and her Conlort. 'They listened to her story with interest, and she was given a hearty meal. Later, journalists came to visit Mary at her lodgings in Craw; ford Street, Marylebone, and a famous artist asked her to sit for a portrait. A leading London paper car- ,ried her story in these words: "Mary Kelynack was horn In the parish of Paul, by Penzance, on Christmas Day, 1766. To visit the present Exhibition she walk- ed the entire distance from Pen- zance, nearly three hundred miles. She possesses her faculties unimpaired. She is fully aware that she has made herself some- what famous; and among other things she contemplates a re- turn to Cornwall, to end her days in Paul parish," It is pleasant to learn that Mary Kelynack did not have to return ,on foot. She travelled back to Cornwall by rail and coach. What is more, she lived on, in good health, for several more years. When she died she was buried in the churchyard of Saint Mary's, Penzance, as was her wish. By Rey tt. ii, Walle4. u.p. Saul's Tragic Failure 1 Samuel 16: 17.26 Memory Selection; Behold{ te obey b better than Saarnire. Samuel 15;22. Why did Saurs life end in such tragic failure? 1-111 „Wa/ choice young man, and ,goodly.; and there was not among' the children of Israel a goodlier person than he; from his shimi- ders and upward he. was 'higher than any of the people." On the day that Samuel anointed him king, "God, gave him another heart; = and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he pro- phesied. He was humble." Later when chosen by lot before :all Isreal to be king, they finally found him hiding among the stuff. He proved his worth as a leader. He raised up an army to relieve the people of eabesh against the 'shameful oppression of the Ammonites. And he led this army to vic- tory. But years later, the night be- fore he died by his own hand on the battlefield he made this sad lament to Samuel in the hut of the witch of Endor, "God is departed from me, and an- swereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams." Why such a tragic failure? The answer is: — disohedience. First, although already a king and a prophet, he usurped the office of the -priest and offered a burnt offering when Samuel's coming was delayed. Then he failed to carry out God's com- mand to slay King Agag the Amalekites and all their flocks. He and the 'people had spared the best of the flocks for sacri- fice. Samuel. ieproved him, say- ing, "Hath the Lord as greet delight in burnt •offerings ant sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is 'as the sin Of witchcraft, and stubborn- ness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hest rejected the word of the Lord, He hath also rejected thee from being kind." One sin led to another. Saul became jealous of David, the one God appointed to succeed him. On many occasions he sought to slay him. Once, in a burst of what proved to be, only a temporary repentance, he exclaimed, "I have sinned! return,, my-. son David: — be- hold, I have played the fool, and haver erred exceedingly." One act of disobedience so often leads to another. How far sin will lead us, we never know. Let us obey God! Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 11 Mal I H 131© 2.1 2i a ad la3 d 1 V 32 o' 03NW3 maw thIlLIEI NO3 1'5213 30'1V- ENV 9a3ti A211©39 21 3 A 'V M 1 .I.HV VN3b N 31 03190A 03S1019V 3 N W01112i 31Hrl 9V 0 r " V P Et El 1 aevn cioao sal Zia 3 21 17Vd k1k 2. Stinklried brick 8. niecienu 4. Attitude Aniericati humorist 6. instillment 10. By 11. Matter (law) 17. Nibbled 19. Meaning 22. Color 23. Second crop 24, Of this girl 26. Attempt 27. Sober 29, Heavenly I Ong Answer eleeWil,reeon this, .page- xYrc ROAD HOGS — Nine little porkers make happy pigs , selves at a reelsoricilile fdeSiMile ot a Mother,- One fellow is helped Pred Stott, who bedded'them' down in the trunk Of On auto after they Were atpharted.