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GPRS. Eaitor and Publisher PPtD PETTIJOHN, Exeeotiva Editor MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1960 Editorial, Page Eight Classified Department Dial JA 3-5425 A'l Other Departments Dial JA 2-371 1 329 SS First Ft. Ltuderdal I i I it! urLaHf: ft. xx BEACHCOMBER By WESLEY STOUT WHEN THIS became Broward County in 1913, the tax collector and the assessor shared an office in the old schoolhouse. Only the clerk's office contained a vault Tax Collector Berryhill pleaded for a vault of his own, but the commissioners said the county was too poor; so Deacon Berryhill was forced to take home any tax monies paid after bank "Souw.

Saturday was a fall working djry at fee courthouse then. Mary Briekeli, owning more local property than any other, unless it was Tom Bryan, dropped in one Saturday afternoon to pay her taxes. The payment included one $1,000 bill, the first Berryhill ever had seen; and there was nothing MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Presf is entitled exclusively to the use for publication of all trts local news primea 'i this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatenea. All rights of publication of special dispatcnes ara alsoreservad. NEWS Hollywood Bureau, 505 2Ut Hollywood WA M5-8.

NEWS West Hollywoor Bureau, 1439 State Rd. 7, Dial Hollywood YU 3-70M. By ORVTLLE REVELLE THE FORTHCOMING clash between Harry Flood Byrd, veteran senator from Virginia, and Freshman Sen. Joseph S. Clark from Maryland, brings into focus some important facts about the new Congress, First among these i that the proposals for vast new government programs have no endorsement of the American people.

These proposals are put forward by one wing of one party and that wing lost strength in the recent election. Senator Clark and others of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party want to remove Senator Byrd and other fellow Demoqrats of the South from their committee --y assignments. The purpose is Dial Pompano Beach NEWS Pompano Beach Bureau, 1530 Federal WH 1-800. NEWS Deiray Beach Bureau, 52 SE Fourth Dial CR t-Wb. NEWS-SENT.

NEL Palm Beach BureaJ 301 Dixie Hwy. T6 3-9V33. OO jur to do but take it home. That YOURS i evening a delegation from the Board of Trade called upon him to insist that he take the raid- i to railroad the spending programs onto the floor without the embarrassment of having facts come out at impartial hearings. The issue is confused by civil rights, because these con REVELLE 'mm? servative Democrats are mostly, but not all southerners.

On civil rights they do stand virtually alone. BUT THE southern Democrats become effective when they join with conservative Republicans to beat back raids on the Treasury and onslaughts on the liberties of our citizens everywhere. This coalition works to save the solvency of the government and to prevent expansion of schemes to concentrate additional power in the central government to the detriment of states, localities and individuals. Out There Where The West earns Tap World's -Wealthy Nations For More Tourist Trade 'J'OURISM development in South Florida needs a change of pace. While glowing reports are coming through that we will have 15 to 20 per cent more traffic than last winter, some of the more pessimistic are saying that a lot of tourists are going to the Bahamas and to foreign lands as they seek a change of scenery.

Our picture may be a little clearer after our Good Will ambassadors report on their trip north in the first week of the New Year. The airlines are evidently prepared for a heavy influx of tourists, as many extra flights have been scheduled, and predictions from those in touch with auto tourists indicate a substantial increase for the winter. But the whole picture can and must be improved. Too many of the younger generation are finding that "going to a foreign land, is more fascinating," and while the film, "Where the Boys Are," may attract some additional attention, it will not have decisive impact on the desires of this class of tourist. Governor-elect Farris Bryant's Tourism Steering Committee is making strides in its current study of the matter.

Perhaps foremost among the concerns of the committee is the "selling of Florida and its tourist potential to every individual, business and organization in the state." This thinking is commendable as too many of us have gotten into the habit of taking tourism for granted. i The members of the Governor-elect's committee will contact people on all segments of the industry and get them started on educational programs among their own employes, explaining that tourists help pay for Florida's highways, hospitals and Street lights. By PAUL HARVEY TT IS NO secret that Texas, to Paul Harvey, is not so much a state as a state of mind. Especially is this true of West Texas. West Texas is, to a man.

what Manhattan is to a woman. I have been back to West Texas three times in the past seven years, and I will return twice more this year. I've visaed during sandstorms and snowstorms, and I can't tell you yet what in the world anybody could possibly see in this barren desert. What's there? Nothing! No mountains and no seashore. No Times Square and no Las Vegas strip.

Yet out of that desolate' prairie of cactus, mesquite and yellow caliche there have ris- en such magnificent cities. I-think no modern city is more beautiful than Amarillo, and night train for Tallahassee to appear Monday morning before the Internal Improvement Fund to ask for a road along the North New River Canal, the beginnings of Route .84. STOUT Berryhill had to leave the $1,000 bill in the frightened custody of his wife. Women then wore high buttoned shoes; and Mrs. Berryhill had a pair of white kids for Sunday.

When she attended the Presbyterian Church the next morning, the $1,000 bill went along, tucked deep in one shoe. MRS. SOMERSET MAUGHAM had an antique shop in Palm Beach in the 1930s, a branch of her London and New York under her maiden name, Syrie. She already was divorced from the British author. The only acknowledgment be makes of his marriage in Who's Who is this: "one (for daughter), unnamed.

We found A. Earie (Greasy) Neale's nam in the West Palm Beach phone book, but no one at home. He writes us from New York that he occupies his Florida house only in January, February and March. Remember Greasy? A mighty football coach of both college and pro teams, and before that with tbe Cincinnati Reds for 10 years and their top hitter in the "Black Sox" World Series. Payroll checks are on their way out.

Your wages, in most cases, will be credited to your bank account by automated machines. The number of checks written yearly in the U. S. has leaped from four billion in 1944 to 14 billion. LYNDON JOHNSON'S LBJ Ranch is in Gillespie County, Tex.

That county went Republican three to one nationally voted two to one for an almost unknown Republican senatorial candidate. When Johnson last ran for senator his majority was Kennedy and he carried Texas by only 46.000. THE PARAGRAPH about a mechanical orange-picker being just around the corner interested Glenn Culbertson. Though his business is an art studio on NE 13th Mr. Culbertson is a lifelong inventor and one who perfected an orange-picker after three years and now has it in the hands of a manufacturer.

There is, or was before the war, a huge statue of Sir Francis Drake in the Black Forest village of Offenburg. Why should Germans erect a memorial to a British corsair? Because he brought the potato from the New World; and -Germans love their potatoes. When D. H. Lawrence showed his English coal miner father a check from the son's publishers, the father exclaimed: "And you never did an honest day's work in your life!" PRESIDENTIAL press conferences began with Wilson in 1913.

There was no White House press room whatever until Teddy Roosevelt on a winter day came upon Bill Price fcf the Washington Star standing in a sleet storm outside the White House door waiting to interview callers, and took pity on him. The cowboy still cowboys the way he did when there wasn't a fence between Canada and the Gulf. He still wears a ten gallon hat when he works and a string tie when lie goes "formal." Owners of the big spreads, with millions in the bank," still "rassie" calves with their bare hands at branding time. How do you figure the rancher who'll give 15 head free to an American Legion barbecue, then his life trying to rescue a stray calf from a snowstorm? Well. I'll tell you.

John Howard Griffin once wrote, "The solitary serenity of the low horizon and the high sky give mortal man's immortal soul its most proper jsettin0." THIS WIDE COUNTRY allows a man such total freedom that he does not yearn to flee. In an era of hourly jet flights, no place is inaccessible anymore. There are folks in West Texas who go to New York more often than I do. There are oil company executives who go to Europe more often than I do. Yet West Texas is the one place on this planet to which they choose to return.

Here they want to make their homes, rear their children. You see, a man can get misplaced in the formidable concrete canyons of a towering city. In our new preoccupation with space, a man can got downright lost in the immensity of the universe. But here on the Texas plains, in the uncon-tamisated air and the unfiitered sunshine here one mortal man takes on a new dimension. It is as if, in the one spot where he is, God has nothing else to do.

it's still growing. There's a perpetual influx of new faces feeding on the oil and cattle and wheat thereabouts, and plowing back new The coalition has blocked efforts to allow other nations to decide how our foreign aid tax dollars will be used. It has stopped minimum wage increases that would produce inflation and unemployment. And it has prevented the wasting of countless billions. Senator Byrd has challenged Senator Clark to a floor fight.

There is little doubt which side most Americans support. WE ARE WARNED by the National Better Business Bureau about a group of promoters who during the past couple of years have sought to capitalize on gift giving at Christmas time by offering supposedly high priced perfume at allegedly "bargain" prices. A variety of schemes which have been employed during previous Christmas shopping seasons, are making their appearances again and can be expected to reach the height of activity during the next two weeks. Just make sure the brand name perfume you purchase is the brand you want and steer clear of so-called "bargains." NEW YORKERS are really pretty darned softhearted, despite so much propaganda' to the The latest heart warming example, according to The Cailiolic Digest, of how kind New Yorkers will -be whenever the occasion demands took place in the subway the other day. A tattered little boy, holding the battered body of a mongrel puppy in his arms, boarded a train.

Big tears ran down the lad's grimy cheeks. "What's the matter, son?" a burly workman sitting next to him inquired. "My dog's been run over and I'm taking him to the humane society," the boy choked through his tears. "We don't have any money for a vet, and if he's hurt real bad they'll put my dog to sleep." The workman looked around the subway car. "Folks," he announced, "this lad has real trouble.

We're spending billions to help people all over the world. What do you say we all chip in right now and help one of our own?" The man took off his cap and dropped a dollar into it, then he went collecting through the subway car. A few minutes later a beaming youngster left the train with a hatful of money. His little dog was going to have a chance to live. BIRTH DATES Dec.

13-Cliff Jones Sr. Mrs. Robert McLester Jr. Dr. J.

F. Boettner Van Heflin Harlan Bryant Dick Pinney Mike Dempsey Daniel Kasan. industry from which even new- HARVEY er, more modern buildings flower and flourish. After all these visits I have friends in West Texas. Many are prosperous, prominent.

All could easily move anywhere. Yet each elects to stay in West Texas. How do you figure it? THE SAUCY independence of the West Texan is unchanged and unchanging. The coyotes and jackrabbits and antelopes still abound walking distance from town. 7H 1 mi i lie letters: i'ti SUV; Ttt Nmnt wtlesmai contribution from readers an all sublets.

All loners must bar tha writers' slonjrurtt and aotiresset. However, upon request, names wl'l be withheld from publication. They tnouid not exceed J50 words In tha Interest at good taste and protection against libel, Tha News reserves the right to adit ai. tatters. 4 3 vii nines 1 for your winter vacation! A room awaits you and a job a room in our jail, and a job maintaining our public beach, free of charge, with meals not so good!" Wouldn't the residents of Pompano Beach be more proud of their city and its government if there were to be erected a large sign at each entrance to the city stating "Thanks for obey, ing our laws.

Our jails are empty; we would hka to keep them that way. Come visit with us, enjoy yourselves and tell your friends what a wonderful place this is. Y'all come back too and see us sometime soon!" JAMES S. STUBBS Liquor Ails Editor, Tha News: Why must our young people be bombarded with full-page ads of cut-rate liquor in the sports section? Show me an athlete who will honestly encourage a promising youngster to get the liquor habit. Show me a coach or a manager who recommends alcohol as a beverage for his players.

Give our young athletes a break: put your full-page liquor ads into a special secuon by themselves, so that we can drop them at once into the garbage can and let them there in peace. A.H.H. EDITOR'S NOTE: Liquor ads are placed in the sports section primarily because the advertisers feel that section enjivs a high readership among male adults who account for the greatest percentage of liquor purchases. Since the liquor business is a legitimate and licensed business those engaged in the business have the same rights as our other advertisers to specify what section of the newspaper they prefer for their advertising. To deny theni this right would be discriminatory.

A Day Tlv James Keller "yiTHOUT our tourist business our state taxes would be much higher. And this is a most important factor in the building of our state industrially. Our lower taxes certainly prove of vast interest to prospective new industry. Recent national surveys show that industries contemplating moving to new areas look upon available labor forces as the first item for consideration, but the tax matter looms large in their plans, as many of the industrial centers of the nation are now under back-breaking tax burdens. Florida, then, offers, a lower tax structure and we have the potential labor force as statistics show that our newer residents, equipped for industrial work, have increased in great numbers in recent years.

Governor-elect Bryant has said that "if all citizens in Florida realized the tremendous contribution made by tourists to all segments of Florida's economy, there would never have been a crisis in tourism." Bryant has pledged that the state agencies will do everything in their power to strengthen tourism. It is the opinion of the committee members however, that any contribution made by the state could not in any way take the place of the individual efforts by the operators of tourist attractions. One item that affects the tourist scene is the "bad reputation" given the Miami and Miami Beach areas. Q. E.

Wright, in an article in the current issue of Florida Business and Opportunity magazine, writes thai: "The Miami Beach and Greater Miami hotel industry, biggest in the world, has grown too big for its own good." He reports that this is the sober judgment of many of the hotel people and others closely associated with the picture. "The troubles of Miami Beach and Miami have been caused by over-anticipation and under-financing. At no time has there been a problem that enough free-spending tourists wouldn't have cured," Wright sets forth. The Miami Beach and Miami areas still are licking their wounds over unfavorable publicity that has. been spread throughout the country.

Sylvia Porter, nationally syndicated columnist, wrote in her column earlier this year that "not less than 50 Miami Beach hotels would go into bankruptcy before the end of the year." Wright also notes that during July an Associated Press dispatch was printed throughout the nation under such scare heads as "Boom and Bankruptcy Neighbors in Florida." The facts are, Wright shows, that fully 90 per cent of the Miami Beach hotels are still on their feet "and are probably in no immediate danger of financial collapse, even though they could do with more business." To solve matters, and going beyond the current planning, isn't it about time that all concerned look into the possibilities of bringing in thousands of new tourists from the now prosperous foreign lands, West Germany, etc. Here is an untapped field that could aid the whole area. Of course such a project will take promotional funds and wouldn't set too good with some of the penny-pinchers. But all must be made to realize that we have to have more tourists for after all they help to support us taxwise and otherwise, and make it possible for our state to grow industrially. Let's remove any barriers and go after this type of tourist trd it row! tory of the people, their roots, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, our faith in the integrity and strength of the citizen unit, as source material); with a respectful bow to our ancestors, hold firmly and wisely now, that our descendants may not have cause to be bitter or be born in a new bondage.

LITTLETON MAXWELL SR. Berryville, Va. In Reverse Editor, Tha News: The idea of judging President-elect Kennedy's ability to think by his physiognomy as suggested by N. E. Dexter intrigued me, so I decided to use his letter in reverse and get a menial picture of the writer.

Boy, Dexter must be beautiful! WILLIAM SMITH Mild Terms Editor, The News: Surprised and shocked are mild terms to use in expressing my feelings when I read a recent newspaper article captioned Pompano Beach-Judge Faces Quiz on Leniency. "The Matter arose when Mayor Alice Lindner reported that there aren't any city prisoners available to maintain the public beach. 'Will there be more as the season she asked. Commissioners then agreed to 'have a meeting with the After practicing law for 25 years, and having a great respect for the courts, such "a should only result in contempt of court charges, and wiih interfering with the administration of justice, with dire consequences as the final result. New recruits for the maintenance of the beach would be available quickly.

Particularly, also coming from a mayor, a subject of recall by her own constituency, one can only wonder what the next step will be in the hodgepodge of running that city. If the Broward" County Bar Association has not taken a positive stand against such conduct, one must consider them in gross dereliction of duty. Knowing the newspaper reporters try very diligently to report the facts correctly, one can assume that the incident took place during the commission meeting as reported. What a beautiful thought to convey not only to the residents of Pompano Beach, but to the visitors to this area that the law awaits them "to maintain the public beach." Thousands of dollars are spent each year by the Chambers of Commerce of southern Florida, probably including Pompano Doach, to attract the Yankee dollar, and then we have such an asinine action by the supposed representative body of that city. A good suggestion for the mayor and her august body that a large advertisement be placed in many northern newspapers and cecals to the effect to our fair city WHY DO 3IOST typists change their jobs? They don't have enough work to do, is the answer proposed by London's Industrial Welfare Society.

A century ago Thomas Carlyle, the English essayist, expressed the same thought in other words: "Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness." Even from the point of view of sheer survival, it makes sense to find a purposeful job and go at it with zest. Few of us can afford not to work, and fewer still can live happily with a job that is without challenge or accomplishment. God rewards, even in this Efe, the man who finds an occupation that matches his abilities and releases his power for good. The teacher, the social worker, the technician who helps the people in newly-emerging nations all know the joy of honest toil. Challenge young people to pay more heed to the meaning of their job than to the fringe benefits, "You will render to every man, Lord, according to his works." (Psalm 61: 13) Pour into our hearts, God, a spirit of humble dedication to our state in life.

Overdue Editor, Tha News: Your moderate editorial on the sick motion picture industry was a commendable indictment of a group whose greed insists that freedom is license. Regulation of that industry by more and stricter laws is overdue and those laws ought to be made to cover the whole alleged "entertainment" group, including radio and TV. Our young people are fed reels of immoral themes, scenes and so-called music daily and those who control motion pictures, radio and television either ignore or give full sway to those whose specialty is to disparage patriotism, belittle Pilgrims, Puritans and all who settled and built the foundation of our beloved nation and sneer at those who have a constitutional right to the selection of their friends, neighbors and privacy. The stream of violence in "Westerns" is merely a cover for a definite chunk of propaganda that tries to teach all that circumstantial evidence is not sufficient for the conviction of traitors, crooks and murderers. From the Westerns one gathers that 98 per cent of those rugged men and women who tamed the plains and mountains of our west were just moving lynch mobs.

This propaganda has been notably accelerated since the atom bomb traitors were put to death deservedly in the electric chair at Sing Sing, N. Y. prison. TV Channel No. 2, an outlet supported by money from the taxes of our people, is frequently used for propaganda under the guise of education and this snide action ought to be investigated by the proper Federal authorities.

Last week a "One World" zealot in Miami besmirched patriots because quite a few of our people decline to permit the so to speak, Nations, usurp the powers of our nation. Proud Of Byrd Editor, Tha News: I'm delighted to read your forceful editorial "Conservatives Hold Balance of Power in Congress." Though he is inured to both bouquets and brickbats, I'm mailing a copy to Senator Byrd, in whose home town I live. In Virginia, we are proud of and grateful for this Senator, able statesman, forthright, steadfast, undaunted, with an unblemished record of public service. To expand, the Roosevelt Deal, Hi generations later, becomes recognizable now as a revolution, which continues to move, grinding glacier-like, to the left. We hold new elections, with new faces for candidates for hijh office, but Mr.

Roosevelt keeps right on running and winning. In this age of disbelief and make-believe, the party platforms have been perverted to the level of singing commercials. Note this chilling, sobering fact. For every citizen who takes a literate, level-headed, rational view of the government service, at any level, there is his or her counterpart opposing, and who stands, in varying shades of emphasis, with the pack, hand out, palm up, demanding. Check the record.

They've been counted. Of the over seventy million, hah" on the right, half on the left. We have their word (vote) for it! Bach of us on the right, evenly paired with our counterpart, is presented with a challenge and a charge that is crystal clear. We mu- try to persuade, to convert our opposite on the left, (for fre eteavagt is great), through a on urate irionrta4i'-t, sound rcswning our LL Lull 1 It's okay to have spring fever, but don't let changes in the weather give you a cold that will spring fever on you. Who says life begins at forty? Fifteen women and ninety-five men 75 years or older were mar ried in Virginia in the 1938-59 fiscal year.

"I'm not as young as I used to be" always is familiar expression when Dad it asked to cut the lawn. ALERT JDi E0SEM0N0 A.