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GORE, President J. MILLARD CAIN, Vice-Pres. Circulation Jt W. GORE, Editor and Publisher FRED PETTUOHN, Executive Editor FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1960 Editorial, Page Eight Classified Deportment Dial JA 3-5425 All Other Departments Dial JA 2-371 1 330 SE First Ft. Lauderdale MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Presf is entitled exclusively to the use tor publication of an the iocai news piinteo in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches.

All right ot publication special dispatcnes are also reserved. By ORVTULE REVELLE THINGS MUST be tough all over. The fast-buck boys are down to just one dollar. Downtown merchants have been hit recently. In some places the pitch is that the man is sick and in need of medicine.

He's shy a dollar. Would the store owner please lend him a dollar, and when he got home he would get the money out of his other pair of trousers, return and repay it. In this instance most merchants know the man is hustling them for a buck but they do not want to take the chance of denying a sick person his needed medi- 1 cine. That's why they fall for NEWS Hollywood Bureau, 505 21st Dial Hollywood WA 2-1548 NEWS West Hollywood Bureau, l3 State Rd. 7, Dial Hollywood YU 3-7050.

NEWS Pompano Beach Bureau, 1530 Federal Dial Pompano Beach WH WaoO. NEWS Delray Beach Bureau, 52 SE Fourth Dial CR M676. NEWS-SENTiNEL Palm Beach Bureau 301 Dixie Hwy. TE 3-9933. In fifi ifT i I -jl 1 uur Opinion i EDITORIALLY YOURS the pitch.

Then there's another type. This' chap goes in a store-like he did at Paul Galvin'a Ft. Hearing Center with the claim that his wife is a customer. He's downtown shopping for her and he's REVELLE short If the merchant will loan it to him he'll return it in the next day's mail. 3kf2 tmmmmm Iii Mexico He Finds Kennedys By WESLEY STOUT WE HAVE lost our senior winter colonist.

Dr. Dorsey W. Lewis of 824 SE Eighth St and Middleton, died last summer. Mrs. Lewis sold the home and will be at the Broward Hotel this season.

The Lewises came first in 1918 and missed no season since, building a home in 1324 at 312 SE Third razed last year to make way for the Third Ave. bridge approach. Dr. Lewis' sisters, Mrs. Ad- ele Bone and Mrs.

Floride Gil- mer, now living at the Lau- ,1 derdale Arms, also are old winter colonists. Dr. Lewis' father was a com- mission buyer from Aeeomac, who began buying pota- toes here about 1914. His son STOUT and wife, who had wintered two seasons at St. Pete, drov over in 1918 fa see him and never returned to the west coast Mrs.

Bone's husband came from Madison-ville, and the Bones and Lewis' gathered a Madisonville colony about them, including Whitney Curtis and Sam Langley. Toward the boom's peak, this group, with Fred Barrett, C. L. Chancey and Jay Hinton bought Broward Abstract from N. B.

Cheaney and brought Judge J. F. Gordon down from Madisonville to head iL They figured to recover their investment in one year, but the boom ended in half that time, and they sold the business back to Cheaney at a fraction of what they had paid. BACK FROM Massachusetts in her 1940 Plymouth for the season is Miss Louise Frost now 88. This time a younger brother spelled her with the driving, the first time in 20 years sh has allowed another at the wheel.

Miss Frost practically is evicted each fafl. The family home is on Land's End, Rockport, Mass. The water main being above ground, the town shuts off the water at the first sign of a freeze. In her 60s she contracted polio and for a long period was forced to exercise 10 minutes of every hour. You'd never guess it to look at her now.

Hollywood's Diplomat Hotel is advertising in the New York papers that it "soon will be the world's only hotel with nighttime golf." WHATEVER Became Of: Negrotreece, Ray Jarman's horse which after losing 75 straight races won in the last days of Gulfstream last spring only to be disqualified and placed last? That gallant steed has retired to a Kentucky farm. Jarman lost it on a claim at Churchill Downs. WILVT IS the source of the fluoridation hysteria? Some organized minority leaps furiously into the Letters to the Editor column at any mention. Maybe it is just as well that such fanaticism be channelled at a chemical element rather than directed at an animate target Remarkable Remarks: "The Orange Bowl, a patchwork stadium, has what is known throughout the nation as one of the worst playing fields in college football a gridiron more bare of grass than a bald-headed man of hair. Then there is the excessive rental of 17.5 per cent a barrier to any hope Miami may have of acquiring a National Football League franchise." Jimmy Burns, Herald sports editor.

WHEN WAS the first execution in America? When Captain Newport brought the first of the Jamestown colonists in 1607. he left his smallest ship on returning to England. Capt. George Kendall was accused at plotting to seize the pinnace and strike for home, leaving the colony without a ship; and he was shot, after trial and Although Paul knew by way of a friend who had been taken for a buck he was being hustled, he gave the guy the SI because of his fantastic story. It could be the time of the year that has softened up the merchants.

Or maybe the Yule decorations on the poles are getting home. Any way you look at it the holiday spirit is with us. And it's a good thing that all they're getting away with is a buck at a time. HUDDLED OVER the coffee cups were Bill Russell, Fred Lee and Bob Murphy discussing plans for the re-opening of the Colony Theater on Dec. 23, with "Ben Hur" as the big attraction.

Many restaurant and hotel people mourn the death of George Duke, retired chef of Hollywood. For years he was the chef at the Governors Club Hotel, Pal's, Coral Ridge Yacht Club, etc. I was told that in point of service he was the oldest chef in Our Town. A post card campaign is being conducted by the Vivisection Investigation League of New York City. Many folks here are receiving these cards that inform them that a "Biology Kit" is being sold here in certain stores, and that this kit is complete with dissecting tools, instructions and animal specimens, and is being suggested as a Christmas gift.

VIL claims this has a terrible potential for cruelty. It is asking folks to protest these sales. Tins COLUMN, always interested in former News carriers, spotted Craig Donald at the Florida-Miami game. Craig plays a clarinet in the of band. He's a sophomore at the University of Florida, majoring in Business Administration and headed in the right direction.

While with The News his route was in the southwest section of the city. ALICE FREEMAN PALMER once stated three rules for happiness, which everyone can understand and follow. Learn something useful every day a great hymn, a lovely poem, a Bible verse. Nourishment for life comes from enduring words. See something beautiful every day.

There is more beauty in the world than ugliness if our eyes become trained to see it One day this past summer, Mrs. Palmer stopped to gather some roadside flowers, which many people had passed up as weeds. A young girl in the car with her remarked, "I never saw anything beautiful in them before." Do something helpful every day. Opportunities for kind words and deeds are all about us our lives must be trained to accept them. There is a road to happiness which starts from the place where you are.

In rich spiritual nourishment, in eyes opened to the beauty of ordinary experiences, in helpful service to others, we find happiness. BIRTH DATES Dec. 3-Fran Oliver Joanne Porter Ted Shuford Mrs. H. C.

Beekner Kathy Caulfield Mrs. T. C. (Mary) Foley Mrs. Ella Zissette Mrs.

Robert (Rosemary) Bubier Mrs. James (Audrey) Wheaton Eleanor Rutkowski Norbet Orrin Martin Labon Hurlburt Suzy Ruden. fee Pierre Salinger. He is press chief and close confidant of President Adolfo Lopez Mateos. "You are in great good luck! were his opening words.

I TOLD HIM I always felt in great good luck to be in Mexico, and was about to launch into the kind of speech Senator John F. Kennedy always delivered on arriving in Grand Rapids, when Senor Sierra interrupted: "No, I mean for your business. Both Bobby and Teddy Kennedy are here!" I recoiled as despairingly as if a henchman haJ warned me I was being followed by the Thought Police. With the look of a hunted wild thing I said to my wife: "Look, the holiday is over before it's begun. The Kennedys are here.

This means 'work." "You might as well discard the holiday spirit entirely," she sighed dispiritedly, "and call our Ambassador." I phoned U. S. Ambassador Robert Hill, who had last announced he was quitting his post to help improve public relations in Latin America for United Fruit which, Heavens knows, it can stand! I asked the envoy if he had succeeded in avoiding the Kennedys. "NOT A CILVNCE," he replied glumly. "I ran into Teddy Kennedy." "What did he say about you quitting?" I asked.

"Something cryptic," replied our soon-to-be former Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. "Teddy Kennedy said: 'You and George Allen couldn't seem to wait to disassociate yourselves from the White House. What have you got against my "All right." I said, "what HAVE you got against the President-elect?" "Nothing," replied Ambassador Hill, "except that he's not United Fruit." By GEORGE DIXON MEXICO CITY. From traveling all over America with Vice President Richard M. Nixon I became obsessed with the notion that a chap who wanted to show true husbandly affection should call his wife "Look." There's something so sweet and homey about plain "Look;" nothing sophisticated nor pretentious like, "Look Here," or "Look Here Now." Consequently I said to my own wife endearingly: "Look, I've been on the go since the dawn ot history with the Republican and Democratic candidates for president of the United States, and I'm in danger of developing a fixation.

The only two names I seem able to put down on paper are Nixon and Kennedy. Look, Dear, why don't we run off someplace where people say names besides Nixon and Kennedy?" My wife inquired if I mightn't get homesick for the song. I asked what song. "THE ONE to the tune of 'Merrily We Roll Along. The Nixons played it on entering a community." "They did indeed," I shuddered reminiscently.

"On second thought," said my wife, "If we go to Mexico it can't help be a change. Even if they sing the song down there they will surely change the words to: 'We want Lopez Mateos. Our Hombre Lopez Mateos. We want Lopez Mateos to be our Presidente. I agreed it would not only be a relief to get away from it all, but it would help us demonstrate our non-partisanship.

"While we are getting away from Nixon," I explained, "we can get away from Kennedy too." We landed in Mexico City, and were met at its great international airport by Senor Don Jus-to Sierra, who used to be the Jim Hagerty of Mexico, but has now moved up in class to be Vote Frauds Could Deny Kennedy The Presidency 'JJHE announcement this week by Gov. William G. Stratton of Illinois that his state's electoral votes might be withheld from Sen. John F. Kennedy if the GOP can produce evidence to back up charges that the Chicago Democratic political machine "stole" the election last month poses some interesting speculation today.

At this writing there doesn't seem to be much question but that there were some serious irregularities involved in the Illinois election and the vote tabulation. Definite proof has already been submitted that in one Chicago precinct where only 22 voters were eligible to cast ballots, over 80 ballots were tabulated with some 73 of these ging into the Kennedy column. Chicago newspapers have already verified the fact that many voters cast ballots in this particular precinct who shouldn't have been permitted to vote, and they have also learned that at least five voters were recorded as having balloted twice. When these newspapers sought to check the signatures on ballot requests with the registration records, Democratic election officials refused permission on the grounds the records had already been sealed and could only be opened by court order. Subsequently, a Grand Jury which had been summoned into session to investigate election irregularities called for these same records.

But, when the supposedly sealed ballot boxes were produced for the Grand Jury, it was found that somebody had broken the seals and conveniently stolen the records. yHIS wasn't done at some out-of-the-way warehouse. It happened right at City Hall in Chicago and it can be taken as clear proof that the political machine which piled up a 300,000 vote majority for Sen. Kennedy in populous Cook County isn't about to permit an honest vote recount which might serve to wipe out Sen. Kennedy's slim margin of victory in Illinois.

However, Gov. Stratton's announcement that the State Electoral Board might refuse to certify the Illinois presidential vote if it has "tangible evidence" backing up charges that the election was stolen, could prevent Illinois' 27 electoral votes from being tallied in the Kennedy column when the Electoral College meets on Dec. 19. Unless the State Electoral Board does certify the presidential vote before Dec. 19, the Illinois electors will not be able to cast their votes for Sen.

Kennedy and if this should happen the apparent President-elect will be left with only four votes more than the majority he needs to win the presidency. These four votes could easily be washed away if just a few electors in one of the Southern states which wound up in the Kennedy column should either hold up their votes or give them to somebody else. Louisiana, for instance, has 10 electoral votes which, as of now, will go to Sen. Kennedy. But with the integration fight boiling in this state, and with Sen.

Kennedy having refused to give any comfort to the embattled State Legislature, it is quite possible that enough of this state's electors could withhold their support from Sen. Kennedy to keep him from securing the 269 electoral votes he needs to win the presidency. gHOULD the Electoral College fail to give either Sen. Kennedy or Vice-President Nixon a clear majority of 269 votes, the law is perfectly clear as to what happens next. In that event, the next president will be selected by the House of Representatives, where each state will have but a single vote.

Southern electors wouldn't withhold votes from Sen. Kennedy in order to put Vice-President Nixon into the White House. The votes would be withheld and the election thrown into the lower house for the sole purpose of creating a stalemate which would permit Southern states to wield tremendous bargaining powers in the ultimate selection of the new president, whoever he might be. The votes might also be withheld in order to dramatize the current shortcomings of the Electoral College system with particular reference to the unfair weight it gives the big city vote in presidential elections. That is why the outcome of the Illinois vote hassle Is being awaited with bated breath by both parties.

If the state's 27 electoral votes go to Sen. Kennedy he will have more than enough votes to be the next president. But, if he is denied these 27 votes his margin of victory will shrink to virtually nothing and can easily be wiped out by the decision of just four electors in one of more than a half-dozen states to either withhold their votes for Sen. Kennedy or to cast them for somebody else which the law permits them to do. A situation such as this would, of course, create a truly tremendous controversy and would throw the nation into almost complete confusion until it could be settled in one way or another.

But, in an election as close as this one was, Republicans certainly cannot be blamed for fully exploring the possibility that victory was stolen from them, especially in areas like Chicago where the evidence is already pretty clear that fraudulent practices did contribute to the paper-thin margin by which the election was apparently decided. Hit Fht Nrwi welcomes contributions trorr readers on all subiecfs, All letters must bear tne writers' signatures and addresses. However, upon request, names be withheld from publication. They should not exceed 2M wards. In the Interest of good taste and protection against libel, The News reserves the right to edit letters.

3 Minutes A Day TE James Keller Why They Do It By PAUL HARVEY YOU CANT get any responsible psychologist or psychiatrist to analyze Brigitte Bardot from a distance. If she has sought professional counseling, the counselor is necessarily pledged to silence by the ethics of his profession. So you and I will never know what possesses a Brigitte Bardot to decide, on her 26th birthday, that she does not want to try for 27. All we know is that she slashed her wrists with a razor and overdosed herself with sleep-j. ing pills after telling friends "i she was "fed up." It is not impossible that i this was an attention-seeking device of carefully calculated limitations.

But psychologists agree that James Dean, at a sim- I ilarly early age. never intend- 1 ed to kill himself. Yet he flirt 4 i HARVEY ed with death until he caught up with it Why? Again, no clinical diagnosis FINDING $70,000 in a vacant lot was the big surprise that greeted the operator of a bulldozer. He came upon the hidden treasure 10 inches below the topsoil of the area he was clearing for an industrial development. When the blade of his machine struck something hard and metallic, he got out to investigate.

He discovered he had hit an old ammunition box, containing more than $70,000 in cash. Bills of 100, 50, 20 and 10 dollar denominations were neatly wrapped in 31 small packets. He reported the find to police who thought the money might have been hidden by thieves. If the rightful owner is not found, it may eventually go to the operator of the bulldozer. Put your treasure, whether it be material, mental or spiritual, to work for the benefit of others.

God loans it to you to put to good use. Don't keep it out of circulation by burying it "He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully." (2 Corinthians 9:6) Thanks to You, generous Father, for all Your blessings. Help me to put them to good use. I V. is valid and available which would apply to these individuals.

But Dr. Eerie Orris, student of Sig-mund Freud and Havelock Ellis, suggests that "most young, rich and famous persons who try suicide cannot face some cataclysmic situation, because they are totally lacking in any reason for being." perfect harmony? Any elected body, confronled with the important task of administering to the community, runs into difficulty and a clash of opinions at one time or another. I voted for the two Democrats elected to the school hoard, and I'm registered Republican. It is indeed a sacred privilege to vote for men that you feel are best qualified. A TWO-PARTY system helps make this possible! A non-partisan candidate may or could have had an undesirable past or might even have been an active member of the Communist movement in this country.

Since political affiliations would not be a factor in selecting non-partisan candidates, how would we possibly know the philosophy of these people? It is difficult enough now to get to know the candidates sufficiently well before the elections. Let's not make it MORE DIFFICULT with non-partisan candidates! Let's KEEP our two-party system ALIVE! Eliminate the two-party system and we'll be subjecting ourselves to the making, the early mechanics, of a totalitarian state with loss of freedom as individuals and our voice in the government Don't let this happen! Don't permit NON-Partisan bills to be passed in our Legislature. It is up to you. VOTE NO to any non-partisan scheme and safeguard our God-given freedoms, protect your children's future in America and your own rights as American citizens. MRS.

WILLIAM C. WTTTE EDITOR'S NOTE: Mrs. Allen was not envisioning "perfect harmony" but said only that the problem "may have been licked" (to some extent) by election of a Democratic superintendent. The problem has not been politics as much as personalities, and of course there is no guarantee that a one-party or non-partisan board would be harmonious. However, regarding a nonpartisan board proposal, it's also possible that a person with an "undesirable past" could seek office under a party banner in our open primary system.

It's up to voters to weed out the undesirables in either a partisan or non-partisan election. Those who favor a non-partisan school board believe that voters can do this better than a few people on a political "screening com She Agrees editor, The News: In answer to Monica Wilson, I too agree with her that the Fort Lauderdale News is only good for garbage wrapping and certainly not the most honest paper down here. If it were, believe me, I'd know. They stated that Coral Ridge is one of the most beautiful and most exclusive sections of Fort Lauderdale. Well, if you want to see something really beautiful take a ride some day and look at Middle River Drive and Oakland Park Blvd.

in Times Square, Coral Ridge. If that is beauty, I'd rather live in the slums of any state that you can name and wouldn't have to be paying the high taxes that Fort Lauderdale requires. No wonder for sale signs are all up. Who wants to wallow in filth? At this time of the year, when the town is supposed to be at its best, they decide to dig up streets and put in unnecessary sewers, not only keeping the tourists out, but chasing the taxpayers out as well Who is gaining by all tliis sewer project? Certainly not the residents. All they're getting are headaches, dirt, higher taxes, for sale signs, foreclosures on property because it's impossible to run a business of any kind under the present conditions of these streets.

Beautiful Fort Lauderdale heh, heh phooev! VIRGINIA LAVIN School Administration Editor, The Newt: In the Ft Lauderdale News of Nov. 27th, I can see that Jean Allen, in her column, envisions perfect harmony ahead within our one-party school board system, as it now stands. Since when has party affiliations determined personality traits of individuals elected, or guaranteed that their opinions and inherent attitudes toward others would be one of complete conformity? (HEAVEN FORBID!) Regardless of whether the board is comprised of one party or two, or completely non-partisan, what GUARANTEE is there that all will be 'iAX" CI! YOU SEE, you and I can suffer all manner of "slings and arrows of outrageous consoling ourselves with the idea that "When I get enough money, everything will be all right" The average individual can survive the tedium of daily existence because he "knows" that the fame or the mate or the baby he longs for will come along someday, and then all the dark clouds will roll away. But for a Judy Garland or a Brigitte Bardot all of these "blessings" are realized at a very early age. They try an assortment of mates, have babies, know fame, want for nothing money can buy Then suddenly discover there's nothing more to look forward to.

There is nothing worth anticipating. The prizes sought have been won, but now what does she do for stimuli? There is no onger any reason for beinj. IMHHiaNHRHMBHMMHHnUlitil "SILLY MAXIMS By OLD SOL Impatience, progress foils; Complacency is tops. A Hatched pot never boils. A watched boil never pops! 7 mittee.

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