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W. GORE. Editor and Publisher FRED PETTUOHN, Executive Editor TIWRSDA DECEMBER 1, 1960 Editorial, Page Ten Classified Department Dial JA 3-5425 All Other Departments Did JA 2-3711 220 SE First Ft. Lauderdale By WESLEY STOUT TF YOU would see how the rich lived in the days of conspicuous consumption, you can't do better than visit Palm Beach's Whitehall, now a public museum. This is the $2,500,000 palace Henry Flagler built in 1902 for his third wife, Mary Lily, the later Mrs.

Bingham. The old Flagler private car, which is to stand By OEV1LLE REVELLE IN A SHORT time the Christmas rush will begin to spread through the land. Department stores, postal facilities and transportation sendees will begin bracing themselves for the holiday onslaught. Among those that will be carrying a major share of the load will be the Railway Express Agency, a private taxpaying company that lives in the shad-t a ow of tax exemp. government competition and still manages to provide efficient service to if 1-1, MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Pres is entitled exclusively to the use for publication ot all the local news printed this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches.

All rights of publication of special dispatcnes are also reserved. NEWS Hollywood Bureau, 21st Dial Hollywood WA 2-154S. NEWS West Hollywood Bureau, 1439 State Rd. 7, Dial Hollywood YU 3-TCbO. out front, was in such a sorry state when it was 1 iJ 1 i 1 -IJ NEWS Pompano Beach Bureau, 1530 Federal Hwv- Dial Pompano Beach WH 1-7800.

NEWS Delray Beach Bureau, 52 SE Fourth Dial CR 2o7i. NEWS-SENT i NEL Palm Beach Bureau 301 Dixie Hwy. TE 3-Y933. locaieu mat is Deing reouut r-in the FEC shops at St. Augus- tine and will not be delivered before spring.

In its days Whitehall's paintings and sculptures were highly regarded. Moderns will find them indifferent or worse, even allowing for changing fashions in art. Like most millionaires of his day, Flagler I uWQ pi I on the shipping public. The Railway Express Agency will be doing its part in helping you play Santa Claus to relatives and friends the world over keep that in mind. Also keep in mind that other handy bit of perennial advice "ship early." YOURS KEVELLE STOUT bought what dealers assured him he should buy.

What interests us in the mansions is the Mexico's Headman Makes With Joke President Lopez Mateos himself, flanked by Presidents Eisenhower and Nasser. THE PICTURES of the headmen of Mexico, the United States and the United Arab Republic stood alone, and uncluttered. On smaller pieces of furniture, comparatively, tucked out of sight, were authographed photos of Britain's Macmil-lan, Indonesia's Sukarno, France's De Gaulle, and Canada's Diefenbaker. I longed to ask Lopez Mateos if he considered the Mexican, American and Egyptian presidencies the most important in the world, but it didn't seem propitious. And, besides, El Presi-dente had begun to describe how he nationalized all electricity in Mexico last month.

"Not the way some other countries are nationalizing," he said, in what I guessed was a reference to Cuba, "but by purchasing all the shares at the prevailing market price in England and Switzerland." I told Lopez Mateos I had been taken on a housing inspection tour by his Secretary of Social Security, Benito Coquet. This development, in San Jeronimo, near the President's home, was begun only 18 months ago and now in houses, of cleanliness and simple good taste, live 25.000 people who last year were living in indescribably filthy chozas, or mud huts. Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan recently asked for a set of the project's plans. I INFORMED El President that the best pitch for the housing project had been delivered by Alicia Coquet, 18-year-old daughter of the Social Security Secretary. She told us that classes in homemaking were given for the wives of the colony.

"Do they teach them to please their husbands?" we asked. "Oh, yes," replied Senorita Coquet. "They teach them to cook, and that's enough si?" By GEORGE DIXON CITY. President Adolfo Lopez Ma-teos refuses to live in Los Pinos, the Mexican White House. He insists on staying in the modest home he bought before he amounted to anything politically.

That's where he received me for an interview that started off seriously, but became derailed by a presidential quip. It wasn't my fault the interview fell from top level to low level. It was El Presidente's. He tossed a punchline that kayoed me with laughter. After discussing roads, schools, hospitals and Mexico's tremendous housing project that has been acclaimed as a futuristic model for the whole world, we began to find the going a bit heavy.

To lighten it, I said: "When members of the Washington press corps haven't seen our President for some time, the first question we ask each other on emerging from a White House news conference is: 'How did you think he Well, I haven't seen you since you were madly campaigning for president. May I take the liberty of saying you look better now than you did then?" THE PRESIDENT chuckled and said I might take the liberty. "Well, then," I persisted, "how do you account for it?" "I think," said Lopez Mateos, "it is all due to Vitamin for President." I said I had seen evidence in our own country of the vitality-giving qualities of Vitamin for President. We agreed that if taken in measured doses it had a definitely stimulating effect. It could have been coincidental, but at this point Mexico's Chief Executive turned his gaze toward a Spanish-type" desk-table that dominates his study.

I followed his glance and beheld a most eye-catching photographic three-horse parlay. On the table were three framed photographs CITIZENS IN the United States have pretty much taken freedom for granted. It is something that they have always enjoyed like the air they breathe. They overlook the fact that as the air of our big cities is becoming more and more polluted, so is our freedom. No industry has more at stake than the newspapers in the fight against welfarism and socialization of industry in the United States.

What happens to newspapers when a people is "freed" by having the government take over the means of production? One of the first things that has to go is a free press. This has happened in every country where political domination of the people has been used to "free" them and take over private activity. Witness Cuba as the latest example. Uncontrolled newspapers cannot be tolerated, for there must be no criticism of the oppressors. THERE NEVER was an economy in history that didn't have its ups and downs.

Neither a system nor a race horse can run indefinitely at all-out speed. It is easy to emphasize the periodic downs that occur in our economy, and to minimize the ups. The result of that is to paint a false and deceptive picture. Over the span of time this country has tered an amazing amount of material progress. Some little time ago.

Sen. Barry Goldwafer, who also contributes to this page, presented a group of "demonstrable truths" and they are truths that have nothing to do with partisan politics, or with party labels of people in high office. He reported that in 1952 our gross national product was $347 billion this year it will be $305 billion. In the same period almost 8 million more Americans have been gainfully employed and the average weekly wage has risen from $67.97 to $91.20. In 1952 we had $85 billion on deposit in various kinds of banking institutions last year the figure was $157.8 billion.

SO IT GOES with striking progress in all manner of diverse fields hospital insurance, life insurance, schoolroom construction and the output of goods and services of every conceivable kind. Endless other statistics could be added. To take the most important of all, capital expenditures by industry almost doubled between 1950 and 1900: rising from $20,605,000,000 to It is capital spending that determines the ability of industry to produce, to employ, and to serve us with all the necessities and luxuries we need and want. The ups far outweigh the downs in this country and will continue to do so as long as private citizens retain the initiative and their freedom under representative government. BIRTH DATES Dec.

2 Bill Euchner Richard Milne John Baumey Connie Bollinger Julie Harris Phil Longo Earl R. Durrance Mrs. Robert (Evelyn) Kuebler Neil Hunkeler Raymond Mon-tayne Eugene Nortman. South Honda historical collection, a treasury of early photographs, including all th wet plates taken during the construction of the Key West extension. If you never have seen an Afromo-bile, here is a picture of that bicycle-propelled wheelchair invented by Ft.

Lauderdale's Hiram Gilbert Wheeler. THE COLLECTION includes issues of the Tropical Sun not in the Wisconsin State Library file, the first Juno issue of March 3, 1S91, and an 1895 number; and an 1895 Weekly Gazeteer, Palm Beach's first paper. There is the register for 1S89-SO of E. N. Dinu'ck's Cocoanut Grove House, and the desk and distributing pigeonholes of E.

M. Brels-ford's first Palm Beach postoffice on the Whitehall site. An 1898 railroad map shows the railroad ex-tended to Miami, but all between West Palm and Biscayne a total blank. On the other hand, Charles Desilver's 1830 Philadelphia map of Florida shows Hillsboro Inlet, Ft. Lauderdale and New River Inlet, but no trace of Lake Worth and nothing on the Bay.

H. S. Tanner's 1S39 map lists our Middle River as Opossum Creek. THE 1895 Tropical Sun discloses that the Lantana-Lemon City stage lost the mail contract afier the opening of the canal from Lake Worth to New River to the little steamer, Agnes. "The Agnes brought up eight passengers from New Paver Tuesday," the paper said.

"There probably will be an excursion to New River via the Canal Wednesday." There was not, however, for the Agnes broke down returning from Ft Lauderdale and had to be towed in by the llittie. "Linton, Pompano, Lauderdale, Biscayne, Miami just see what new towns we are to have!" the same issue exclaimed, though Biscayne was a far older town than the Palm Beaches. The graders were reported south of New River and working toward the Bay, the right-of-way gang just back of Biscayne. In its first issue, the Tropical Sun was calling I lobe Sound "Hope Sound," probably a printer's error. THERE ARE photographs in Mrs.

John R. Dubois collection at Jupiter which we have seen nowhere else. One is a charming picture of the one locomotive of the Celestial RR a little girl in 1895 garb posed on the cowcatcher and two teen-age girls in the cab. This was not known to exist until it turned up in the Christian Science Monitor. The Monitor had printed an article about the Celestial and Mrs.

Pleasant of Shreveport, a daughter of Ben Doster, Neptune's pioneer merchant, had sent the photograph. Another of Mrs. Dubois' photographs is of the Jupiter schoolboat, one of two lifeboats of the destroyed USS Maine sold at Jupiter, the oth-er bought by a pineapple grower. There is a photograph of Jupiter Light before 1910 when the lantern still was protected by a bird-screen. Migrating birds dashed themselves against the light until a washlub sometimes could be filled with dead ducks of a morning.

Another picture is of the last two Indian River steamers rotting away at their moorings up the Sadistic Pleasure Gained At Expense Of Others gOMEWHERE in this area today there is a person with a highly distorted sense of humor or with a perverted idea of what constitutes a practical joke. This is the person who, for the past few days, has apparently been enjoying himself by telephoning bomb threats to various institutions and business firms in this community. This individual, if he can be dignified by such a title, hit the peak of his sardonic sense of humor Tuesday night when on three separate occasions he telephoned Broward General Hospital and warned that a bomb had been placed in that institution. These calls were all made during the late evening and early morning hours with the apparent idea of creating the greatest amount of disturbance in the normal routine at the hospital. One of the calls, which warned that a bomb had been placed in the pediatrics wing, forced hospital authorities to rouse 20 sleeping children from their sick beds and evacuate them to the hospital auditorium until the pediatrics wing could be thoroughly searched for the non-existent bomb.

This was not a prank or a practical joke in any sense of the words. It was sadistic cruelty of the worst type, and we wonder what kind of a depraved person it is who thinks it is either funny or smart to make sick little children the victims of his twisted thinking. JTARLIER in the week this same person, or others like him, had phoned in bomb threats to two of this city's biggest department stores forcing the complete evacuation of these stores right at the height of one of their busiest shopping periods. Also on the target list during the week were the South Florida Mental Hospital, the Public Library, the Pier 66 Motel and this newspaper. In each case, with the exception of the mental hospital, the Ft.

Lauderdale Police Department took no chances of having innocent people hurt. Even though they were virtually certain the calls were of the "false alarm" variety, they removed all people from the threatened areas until they were certain no threat existed. In the case of the mental hospital there was no time for an evacuation as the bomb hoaxer didn't give enough of an advance warning to make an evacuation practical. We, of course, have no way of knowing what stimulates certain people to do this sort of thing. We do know, however, that this state has a stringent law on the books covering this particular form of depravity, and that the person or persons responsible for the current outbreak can be punished upon apprehension and conviction with a jail term of up to 20 years.

The person or persons responsible should also realize that neither this city's law enforcement officials nor the institutions involved in these bomb scare hoaxes regard these calls as being of the "harmless" nature that the perpetrator or perpetrators seem to think they are. Like the bomb scares that are phoned in to airlines, they cause an enormous amount of needless worry, inconvenience, suffering and expense, and anybody who regards them as a "joke" or "prank" is apt to have his ideas changed in a hurry once the law catches up to whomever might be responsible. WILL be recalled that New York City has just gone through the nightmarish experience of having a "weekend" bomber loose in the city who wasn't content with just making telephone threats. He actually planted and detonated his bombs in public places, killing and injuring a number of people and throwing the whole city into a state of nervous confusion and dread. New York police have finally apprehended the individual they believe is responsible for this particular series of bombings but, as a result of what happened there, law enforcement officials elsewhere cannot afford to ignore the possibility that the same type of individual might start operating in their localities.

That's what makes this "bomb scare" business such a serious thing. It isn't easy to tell the difference between the "real thing" and a "hoax," and with human lives at stake police officials are fully justified in not taking any chances. They aren't taking any chances here, but with 12 bomb hoaxes reported in the past few days they are getting mighty fed up with the character or characters who think it is "fun" to play this telephone game. It isn't "fun." It is sadistic pleasure gained at somebody else's expense, and that is why this newspaper has offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of the person or persons responsible for this outrage upon our Editor- iie- The News welcomes contributions from readers on all subieefs. All letters must bear the writers' signatures and addresses.

However, upon request, names be withheld from publication. They should not exceed 350 words In th interest of good tast and protection against libel. Tit Newt reserves the right to adit letters. ivimuTes A Day By James Kciler 1 First Reads It Editor, The News: So Monica Wilson uses the "small town" newspaper, the Ft. Lauderdale News, in which to WT-ap her garbage! But, she RE.ADS it FIRST and saves some editorials, letters, etc.

To me, that is "so funny" too, as she expressed her opinion on what she read. I wonder if she thinks her letter should go into a "gallery of fine arts?" Monica would have us believe that, no matter HOW a contest is won, the winner is the best man. A gambler wins by cheating, if he can, so that makes Mm an upright man in Monica's eyes. John Kennedy lives under a system, one of whose axioms is "The end justifies the means" and he never failed to use "any means," a rigged convention (Harry Truman said so): wild promises to everyone; millions of dollars from papa Joe Kennedy who is not afraid but what he will get the millions all back and with interest, too, at the taxpayers expense. Dream on Monica.

Maybe your hero will send vou his first inflated U. S. dollar. I may not always agree with The News editorials or comments, but. all in all, the paper does a much better job than papers in the large northern cities where I have lived.

ESSEX "Paper Bullets" Editor, The News: I was so pleased to see your article "Paper Bullets" in The News. I certainly think all papers should awaken the nation with the truth of how we can fight communism with paper, which is so much cheaper and more effective than the expensive trips made by congressmen and our good will ambassadors. Paper is the best good will ambassador we could send over as so many millions arr now able to read for the first time in their lives and will read anything they can obtain. Why not give them good literature? I might add that Christian groups have been aware of this for years and are sending as many tracts and booklets over as they have funds to do so. We have one locally, the Faith Mission Publications, that has been fighting this battle of communism as well as they have been able with the meager contributions made them.

May our nation get a burden to undertake this and beat the enemy with their own weapon. MRS. V. SCOTT All The Answers Editor, The News: Before being so vehement why doesn't C. H.

permit Mr. Kennedy to prove worthy of the support he received? On the basis of his letter, C. H. has apparently prejudged anything Mr. Kennedy may do.

How typical of a biased and closed mind. When did Mr. Kennedy "ridicule and berate" Mr. Eisenhower and his administration? Must all disagreement be categorized as berating? Is Mr. Eisenhower and "his administration beyond all question? On what "eight" occasions did Mr.

Eisenhower avert war? What actions of Wilson, Roosevelt and Truman brought about the loss to the free world of Indo-China, Laos (or at least a part of it, so far) and Tibet endanger Burma, Malaya and the Indian borders? And, incidentally, has C. H. checked the editorials of many of the papers which DIDN'T support Mr. Kennedy? The "pitch" of most of them NOW is that Mr. Kennedy has all the traits necessary to make a "great president." C.

H. seems to think he knows "all the answers." Let's review HIS opinion a year from now. H. C. Drinking Water Editor, The News: Many citizens are surprised to hear that this question of fluoridation is up again.

Why feed "rat" poison to everyone when a small majority are so anxious to eat or drink it? They can surely get the tablets to put into their drinking water and keep it handy in the refrigerator for use of the whole family, for whom they cannot have much concern. This plan of forcing Fluoridation or contaminating water is a Russian Communist inspired plan to get fluoridation into every major city in the United States. They will have a good start here. Many cities have tried it Grand Rapids, many years ago tried and finally discontinued it after wasting many thousands of dollars. The health hazard could never be determined.

Let's keep our water pure as it is and keep our reputation for having excellent drinking water. ALARMED A PAINTING valued at $140 by its owner was found recently to be worth $56,000. For more than 100 years the old painting had hung, dusty and unrecognized, in the library of Saltram House, home of the fifth Earl of Morley. When the English government took over the house and its art collection in 1951 as part payment for death duties, Lord Morley allowed the painting to be listed at $110. It was catalogued as the work of an unknow artist.

An art expert who checked the picture thought it might be one of Rubens' early works. It was then sent to a panel of experts for cleaning and examination. All agreed it was a Rubens', dated about 1600. No matter how mean a price is set at times on the worth of man, the Creator appreciates him to the full. He is made in God's image.

Take the lead in standing up for the dignity of man and ycu will offset those who would degrade him. "And God created man to His own image; to the image of God He created him." (Genesis 1:27) Help me, Christ, to keep ever aware of the eternal value of every human being. HOLD! EISOUGH! By OLD SOL We saw Macbeth on leevee Sunday night And tried to comprehend tcith all our might. Maurice and Judith headed up the casf, And ichen the final curtain fell at last We all agreed The Bard is not the man To ivean auay the loyal "Western" fan. 'Ly on, Macduff' hut lay off us we beg.

This play, at our house, laid a scrambled egg. To tcordy plays of murder, lust and grief, Commercials bring a icell-deserved relief! For the convenience of our readers who wish to reach our congressmen and senators to discuss pertinent issues in The News, the following addresses are listed: REP. PAUL G. ROGERS, Room No. Ill, Old House Office Washington, D.

C. SEN. SPESSARD L. HOLLAND. Room No.

421, Senate Office F.ldg.. Washington, D. C. SEN. GEORGE A.

SMATIIERS, Room No. 3Ui, Senate Office Washington, D. C. community. A.