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TE 3-9931. PASS IN REVIEW By ORVTLLE KEVEXXE EVERYONE'S RECEIVING a unique invitation to climb aboard the celebrity bandwagon with start like Ed Sullivan. Groucho Mane, Robert Q. Lewis, Arthur Godfrey. There's also Bernard Baruch, the Rev.

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Herbert Hoover, Gen. Lucius Clay and many others. The celebrities' invitation to join them In an activity they've all supported, by sending your old eyeglasses to New Eyes for the Needy in Short Hills, N. J.

One out of every two people, including celebrities, wears 1 spectacles. How many of us BILLY BUTLIN, who crashed at Grand Bahama with his "Holiday Village," now the Jack Ttrr Hotel, still is solvent at home. He opened a new resort this year on the English south coast at Bognor Regis far more elaborate than anything he attempted at Grand Bahama. This one houses 3,000 guests and includes everything but a space satellite. His Filey resort has a capacity of 9,000.

John Lambert writes in the Nassau Tribune that a drive for legal gambling on New ft Sr, IspJ Arrp; I It fill "cv II fii-vw kg i i Our Opinion EDITORIALLY YOURS Providence and the Out Islands will be brought into the open and into the House of Assembly in January. In the course of a long de would be "lost" without them. That's where your help enters the picture. You are asked to gather old, unwanted eyeglasses metal or plastic-framed, and contribute them. Even sunglasses art nunciation of gambling, Mr.

Lambert fails to mention that Nassau long has had a casino in season on the Bradley plan: Only the known and well-heeled admitted. With Havana out of bounds, the nearest gambling now is EEVELLE STOUT 'Miwrj mm. acceptable. If you have an old cuff link, discarded silver, real or costume jewelry, add them to your collection. How about neighbors, relatives, the organization you can contact? New Eyes for the Needy doesn't want you to keep the good news to yourself.

You'll need to answer questions about the "cause," and perhaps the best way to get people interested it to tell them how the project came into being. SSI if i i ni mm 11 mm J-x j- is One Way To Get Rid Of Opposition By THURMAN SENSING SOME TIME BACK a friend who went on an African safari last spring was telling me about some of the new nations that have been springing up on the Dark Continent in recent months and years since colonialism has fallen into disrepute and which are being admitted to membership in the United Nations, all of them with vote equal to ours. He told me about Gabon, whose president, Leon M'Ba under the "oppressive colonial yoke" IT WAS 1932 the depth of the depression. At a Red Cross Food Depot in New York, Mrs. Arthur Terry did volunteer duty, taking application for food packages.

The men and women who came to her were jobless, hungry, and without hope. She got used to the look on their faces. She got used to hurrying them through the application form, down to the final signature at the bottom. But Mn. Terry could never accustom herself to an incident that happened over and over again.

Many applicants for relief couldn't see well enough to fill in the information on the lines provided. They say a Christian's responsibility accompanies his gaze, and Mrs. Terry did what any good hearted person would want to do. She took it upon herself to help the needy see better. freedom from colonialism, the only thing that brought them out of savagery in the first place and probably the only thing that might keep them out for years to come? Take the ridiculous Congo situation.

Under pressure sponsored by the United Nations, supported by the Communist bloc for ulterior motives and by our own State Department for we hopt better motives, the Belgians were forced to relinquish their colonial rule, thereby subjecting their women to rape, their men to murder, and their property to confiscation. Since that happened, there has been utter chaos in the Congo, the United Nations notwithstanding. Such was not the case under Belgian rule! Under th Belgians the people were advancing, they were prospering, there was peace. in the penitentiary for killing his mother-in-law. Killing a mother-in-law in that part of the world, said my friend, is really not such a serious offense and.

M'Ba might hav gotten by with that without too i much penalty, but the trouble was he cut her up into chunks Puerto Rico, a far piece; and the Bahama lust for that loose money. ANYONE remember "Billy Adams, Ft. Lauderdale's singing taxi driver?" August Burghard doesn't The Merchants Association was giving dance at the Trianon in 1938 for the Parent-Teacher' Milk Fund, and Billy wa on one program. Burdine have opened a second floor tea room and are completing a downstairs coffee shop and fountain, features which their West rains Eeach store ha had for four years. A YEAR AGO we quoted these lines from 1924 ad for Key Largo City: "Southwest, southwest are fiung The emerald beads that mean So little to thee now, Florida! And yet when they are cut and strung And set with gold, and nations bow Before their matchless beauty, In full-voiced chorus shall be sung Thy thanks to thy Creator Who did thee thus endow." The signature wa S.

Singleton; and commented that though we could not identify him, he wa no mean poet. After many failures, Mrs. W. W. Worthington of Coral Ridge reached us by phone to say that she was sure the was a man she had known many years ago at Crystal Springs; and that he had a son, Bert, in Miami.

From the son we learn that his father, Stephen Cochrane Singleton, long was secretary of the Key West Chamber of Commerce. The quoted lines are to be found in a slender book, "A Song of Years in Florida," published at Miami. WILL SANDERS, 93 next June, a Palm Beach pioneer, was down from Inverness for Thanksgiving with his sister, Mrs. Susan DuBois of Jupiter. Mr.

Sanders has discovered the tape recorder and is talking his memories into permanent form, something we are trying to nag N. B. Cheaney into doing. Another who spent Thanksgiving at Jupiter was Mrs. Mary Hepburn of Miami, soon 91, sister of the late Skipper John Grant and aunt of our three Grant girls.

OUR OWN 23-Years-Ago Department: "Palm Beach, Jan. 3, 1938; Joseph P. Kennedy left for Washington this morning and will be followed by Mrs. Kennedy Tuesday. Some of their nine children accompanied the father and others will return with their mother, following a Christmas family reunion." The eldest of those nine, not yet 21, was your President-elect.

Judge Robert W. Bingham, ambassador to England, had just died, and Jot Kennedy was about to replace him. SENSING and sold her for meat and that was illegal. I thought surely this must have been a figment of my friend's imagination, until some time after that someone sent me a copy of an editorial from the Financial Times of Montreal headed "Eat Mother and Join the UN." I have seen the incident mentioned in other places since. Yet Gabon is a member of the United Nations.

THE CONGO REPUBLIC was also admitted to the United Nations upon formation, but until the last few days there was no agreement as to who should represent them, as to who should head their government and who can say as to how long the present arrangement will last The West finally forced the seating of the Kasavubu delegation in the United Nations, the Communist wanted Lumumba to get it, and the popular voice of the Congo if there is such a voice probably wants Mobutu. Anyw ay, while all this was going on the United Nations had to occupy the place, and last summer our Congress supinely voted $100 million as our share of the initial cost a continuing cost that could last for years to come. The Russians and their satellites have already notified the UN that they will ot pay their share of the cost, just like they did in the Suez trouble, and now Hammarskjold says the organization is about to go broke. Why do we let them get by with this? After all, as someone has suggested, isn't the UN sort of like a big country club; why not operate it like a country club? Why not post Russia for nonpayment of dues on the club bulletin board and if they haven't paid in two or three months, kick them out? There's one thing sure if good old Uncle Sam ever fails to pay his dues, the thing will fold up over night That might not be a bad idea. OTHERS WILL REMEMBER the incident of M.

Broka Bota, the former deputy from the Ivory Coast colony to the French National Assembly. He decided to return home for a little campaigning before independence. He never returned to Paris. It is reported that an investigation finally wormed the fact out of the tribal chieftains that he had been eaten by his constituents. Why, the investigators asked, did they do that; didn't they know M.

Bota was their greatest leader? The answer was, yes, they knew that, and they thought by eating him they might absorb some of his qualities. The Ivory Coast is now a member of the United Nations. These two nations are not much different from most all the others being carved out of the African jungle. Are such nations ready for membership in the United Nations, an organization el supposedly high ideals? Were they even ready for Civilian Defense Could Tackle U. S.

Messed-Up Traffic Regulations QNE CAN be puzzled and rightfully so over the nation's Civilian Defense system. On Dec. 7 we will mark the third annual National Civil Defense Day. Nineteen years ago, on that date, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and as we know, without warning and we had a most inadequate system of alarm. Today, as reported by the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization "the entire North American continent is guarded by thousands of miles of radar nets and continuous air patrols that extend our detection, system around the earth." This system is linked directly to civil defenst warning units tying into a nationwide Conelrad alert arrangement comprising nearly 2,000 radio stations.

The Defense system also provides warning officers with years of experience; alert status-24-hour vigilance against air and sea attack and contact with mass public information media. The warning system can make contact in every state in 90 seconds, or less, the department reports. But, on the eve of the anniversary date comes Senator Stephen M. Young of Ohio asking the new President-elect to "abolish this muddled and wasteful U.S. agency." Young labels civil defense as a "billion dollar, boondoggle," and asks that the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, with its satellites in state and local government be given the boot.

gTRAIGHT off in his attack the Senator denounces the policy of "advocating the muddled, contradictory course of both evacuation and bomb shelters as safeguards against mass slaughter in the event of nuclear warfare." Maybe he has a point there. But then everyone can't own a bomb shelter and in our area we might have to revise the building code in many places, as some communities are even known to object to tree houses for the youngsters. The Senator further says "the program is a grand illusion. In terms of money it is ludicrous." "Through diligent and relentless application of poor planning, confused thinking and colossal ineptitude, the men charged with the defense of civilians in event of war have managed to squander more than one billion dollars of taxpayer's money since 1951, exclusive of one hundred million dollars worth of surplus government property turned over to the civil defense agencies." More than 0 per cent of the appropriated fund, says the Senator is "siphoned off for salaries and expenses, much of it to the hacks and defeated office holders for whom the O.C.D.M. has become a convenient and comfortable haven in the political storm." One would be led to believe at this point that the Senator must have been disappointed over a failure to land an appointment for a friend, or perhaps someone he didn't like got a job.

Reducing the expenditures 'to a state and local level, Young points out that about 40 per cent of the funds are "wrung from the taxpayers of states and municipalities where tax dollars grow increasingly scarce." "Instead of having money to spend on vital programs such as schools, many communities may receive a screeching siren, a few stretchers, some two-way radio equipment and an occasional alert to confuse the citizenry, whether in event of attack they should run, or hide or do both," he observes. OMING to Senator Young's solution for the whole thing, after dumping O.C.D.M. as it stands, he would place the whole thing "under the direction of those who know about defense the armed forces of the United States." However, he adds that "no civil defense program will adequately protect our citizenry should war etrike." A "solid, workable international agreement to disarm," is hi main point for the solution of the whole thing. Agreeing with the Senator, The Wall Street Journal in an editorial refers to the project as a "Billion-Dollar Elusion." The Journal favors the Senator's view to "leave the defense of civilians to the armed forces that were created to defend them." In our area, like others, we may be confused about some of the aspects of the program, but let no one attack our defense leader for the heroic job they performed at Naples and elsewhere during Hurricane Donna. We would have been lost without them.

They are solid citizens who know their business and do not shirk when disaster strikes. This demonstration of top efficiency in the Hurricane emergency brings to mind that perhaps the scope of the program could be enlarged, granted that some of the program is under fire. In our nation we have no coordinated system of traffic control. Across the nation one will find dozens of different ideas in the various states, cities and towns as each community goes its own way in setting up traffic regulations. Washington, always anxious to meddle into almost every phase of our lives, hasn't been able to solve this more or less simple problem of setting up a uniform traffic system.

Why not assign this job to the civilian defense organization? Its personnel is qualified. O.C.D.M- is organized to save lives let it get to work c-i tutting deaths in traffic. JIM ROSEAIOND NEIGHBORS IN her home town of Short Hills, New Jersey, gladly turned over to her their cast-off spectacles. Soon Mrs. Terry had a whole pile of them at her desk in New York.

Any applicant for relief was invited to try on each pair 'til one suited him. The chosen spectacles were a gift, from Mrs. Terry and her friends! Not what a doctor would order but this was an affair of the heart! Mrs. Terry often had to turn people away vision still impaired their chances of earning a living still limited by poor eyesight. Where was she going to get money to send these people to specialists, who would prescribe the proper lenses? Who'd pay for the glasses? The good lady sorted out all the old eyeglasses with silver and gold in the frame.

She travelled to a Newark refinery, and won the understanding of the owner with her touching story. He had the precious jnetals melted and paid her for them. MRS. TERRY made a deal with an optician in New York, who agreed to make prescription glasses at minimum cost for patients she referred to him. With permission from the U.

S. Assay Office, she launched a nationwide appeal for discarded eyeglasses. Newspapers and magazines carried her story Mrs. Terry spoke on national radio hook-ups, pleading for "new eyes for the needy." And the glasses came pouring in to Short Hills from all over the country. Generous people often included scraps of outmoded jewelry in their gifts.

Approximately 225,000 people have been helped by the organization via some two million pairs of glasses received. Sorting, testing, packaging and acknowledging of donations (each is acknowledged by post card or letter) is accomplished by some 100 volunteers in space donated by Christ Church of Short Hills. There is one paid secretary who works on a part-time basis. 4i i 3 Minutes A Day Bv James KclJrr Th Newt wticome contribution trem rwar in uBiet. All letter mutt fcr th writtrt' ttsmtur and todrtsM.

Howtvtr, opon request, name wit withheld from publication. Thty should not oxcood 15 word. In tlx tnterejt ot good tatto and protection against ItOaU Th Now rotorves rha right to Hit mi letter. She's Unfair tditor, Th News: I want to put in my say along with V.A. in defense of our leading newspaper, the Ft.

Lauderdale News. When Mrs. Wilson condemns a whole newspaper because of it editorial failings she is unfair. And when she states it is only fit for wrapping garbage in, the statement is untrue. I can testify that it is good for other things too.

H.G.C. THOSE WHO steal often cause damage that they don't anticipate. A 17-year-old boy, for instance, who took a parked automobile, while the owner went into a store, lost control of it, mounted the sidewalk, struck a light pole and hit two 12-year-old girls. Little do we realize how often one mistake leads to another. We seldom see the far-reaching harm that results from an evil thought, a spiteful word or a sinful act.

Keeping aware of this can be an added incentive for you to "do good" rather than be content to do nothing more than "avoid evil." Then, too, you will find that constructivt thoughts, words and deeds can have fascinating chain reactions that will stimulate you to expand your horizons. Fill your daily life with every possible effort to help others for the love of Christ and you will benefit many and harm none, "The good man from the good treasure of his heart brings. forth that which is good." (Luke 6:45) Inspire me, Holy Spirit, with such a desire to do good that I may not be tempted to Editorials Editor, Th Nwi Your editorials cannot be surpassed by any newspaper in the country. I make sure most of them are sent to friends throughout the country. It is sickening to read the rabble in those letters from Brennan, Offen and Wilson.

May your editorials continue to be inspiring, educational and enlightening. A READER Garbage Bimneii tditer, Th Now: Referring to the articles in the Nov. 30 New regarding the garbage business in the unincorporated areas of Broward County: Mr. Reasbeck, attorney for the garbage concern, says, "It will be impossible for us to continue under this contract unless we get the rat increase." Of course, the contract was all in favor of the garbage concern in the beginning but just what did the contract say as to either side cancelling the contract and under what terms? The 30,000 homes included under this contract ought to insist on the cancellation of the present contract, as soon as other arrangement are made to collect the garbage and not before. Any bright attorney in looking over this contract in the beginning should have made provision for this in the contract.

Why not have the County Commission advertise for independent contractors to take over this garbage collection the same as we had before1 and have some competition in the business and then we would not have to be worried all the time about a MONOPOLY which can raise prices when they see fit. Then the County Commission should explore the idea of a bond issue to build their own incinerator and charge the independent for dumping there and eventually the mdneraton i would pay for themselves. H. HAMILTON PUSTICFEAMED eyeglasses were tested, classified, and distributed to hospitals, welfare agencies, missions now on a worldwide scale. Sunglasses are handled the same way.

Distribution of new prescription glasses is handled through hospitals and welfare agencies, who are given funds for this purpose by New Eyes. Nearly 450,000 gifts a year have been received. New Eyes for the Needy, since its inception, has processed two million pairs of eyeglasses and given help to 250,000 people. It isn't only the skies over America that look brighter to these people. The charity of this nonprofit organization has radiated to Puerto Rico, Africa, Asia, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Okinawa, and the Caribbean Islands.

Your name might never be famous, like the names of the celebrities who've given their old eyeglasses to New Eyes for the Needy. But thanks to your kindness in sending your discarded eyeglasses and precious metal scrap to Short Hills 19, N. eyes that may never see will light up in gratitude. Words Of Praise tditor, Th New: I feel compelled to direct a few words of praise for a member of your newspaper family, namely, Joe Kolb, sports editor, for his untiring efforts to further the cause of sports, from the youngster to the adult. Whereas, many sports editors continually write of their accomplishments on the golf course or their excursions with touchdown groups to out of town games, Joe strives beyond the line of duty to make Broward County a sports metropolis second to none.

Writing as one who has had the privilege of working with him on many sports functions, I know from personal experience that he is never too busy to lend assistance wherever needed in the cause of furthering good wholesome sports. Sunday night at Lockhart Stadium in a game between the Fort Lauderdale Tigers and Ft Benning service team, I witnessed what I considered to be one of the most inspiring half time shows ever presented in South Florida. This spectacle was conceived and directed by Joe Kolb. Homage was paid to the citizens of all age groups from our area. Those who were in attendance should feel Broward County is a better place to live because of the dedicated efforts of men such as the sports editor of the Fort Lauderdale News.

In conclusion, much credit should be given to his associates, who comprise your fine sport staff. Theirs is the same type of dedication. JOE DOUILK I ww.v i WIsj leant. 14 01 laiiiaaiiiBaaidiuuil TRANSIENTS By VERNE TUCKER The uaiter muttered glumly ichen They lwdii't left a cent: (The seddest tvords of tongue or per) "Them folks just et and icent!" BIRTH DATES Dec. 6 Bill Roberts Ray Murray Howard Miller Wally Cox Mrs.

Ray (Nora) Qualmann Paul J. Spears Clara Etts Dale Harrison W. D. Gtllis Mrs. Emily Schmitt Anne Cayton Harold Franks Mrs.

N. Julian (Renee) McDowell Margaret Variant Roy E. Adrianson Jerriann Whitehead..