The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 25, 1952, Page 3

Traman’s Vote Is Cast For Gov. Stevenson By WARREN ROGERS JR. CHICAGO # — The ball is over today for the Democratic Naticnal Convention’s political Cinderella. He can take off his mask and fe just plain Thomas J. Gavin, His VIP-type badge hung heavily ubby chest. It was en- graved, “Dean G. Acheson, secre- of state.” That was so he could waltz with ease about the jam-packed Convention Hall. Neither the real Mr. Truman mor Acheson was at the convention. ‘They were in Washington. Thus, Alternate Delegate Gavin —wearing the official colors of the one and the open-sesame badge of the other—floated on a cloud of glory for four days. His biggest Lye Thrower Of Illinois To Be Tried day. He ended a long guessing Ruby Stokes. was bound Suggest State Use game, since the con- vention opened Monday: For whom would President Tru- man vote in the selection of the Tax Money Rather Than County Commissioners party’s 1952 presidential nominee today? At a Missouri caucus Gavin gave the answer. But not right away. He stalled, talking about other things, when the delegation was polled. Then he announced: “I intend to cast Mr. Truman’s vote or the governor of Illinois, Mr. Stevenson.” It was, he said, “the President’s choice.” At the convention today he gets a chance to carry out his inten- tions. He—or rather, President Truman—can vote for Adlai E. ! Stevenson, the draftee who never did say no. Mr. Truman himself comes to the convention tonight, to present to the final session whoever it chooses as 1952 standard bearer. | And pumpkin-shaped Tom Gavin goes back to Kansas City, himself moment came Thurs- again. Korean Truce Negotiations Still Remain Deadlocked 4 HAL BOYLE SAYS Editer’s note: Trellis Mae Pee- ble, America’s most average wife, Is a casualty of the most exciting session of the National Donkey serenade, She telts about it in the | follewing letter to her husband:) By HAL BOYLE CHICAGO ® — Dear Wilbur, There is only one thing to be done with the 3ist National Dem- ocratic Convention. It ought to be stuffed — dele- gates and all — then covered with wax and put on permanent ex- hibit in the American Museum of terity ce never re it really T guess I should have stood in bedlam Thursday. And that is what I did do, dear darling, for some 14 mad nightmare hours while the donkey delegates brayed for 11 leaders — including shy Ad- | lai (“We're madly Adlai”) Stev- enson — then tried to kick each | other to pieces. The program, bearing a secret | ‘White House seal, called for the | nomination of agro oe = Presidency after decent ral sermons Tor the other candidates. The stage had been properly set for the weather effects Gov. Stev- enson had demanded — a strong and irresistible draft. “The galleries are full of Illinois | state employes bowing as hard as | they can,” a cynical Kefauver If Adlai wants a draft —well, Jake Arvey will give him | a hurricane.” For your information, dear, Ja Arvey is a local Chicago states- | man—ranking somewhere between George Washington and Tom Pen- | dergast. | I was escorted to the Convention | Hall by my new beau — Mr. Pet- rol, the Texas ollionaire delegate. | He sent me a corsage, and it was | so big the bellboy had to saw it in half and bring it up in two freight elevators. When Mr. Petrol | takes a girl out he likes to make | her feel she has just won the Ken- tucky Derby. Well, Wilbur, the delegates be- gan nominating every Democrat | for the presidency who had con- | By GEORGE McARTHUR MUNSAN, Korea #® — The 3- week news blackout was lifted from the Korean armistice talks today, showing the deadlock over prisoner exchange blocking a truce—still unbroken. Despite a United Nations offer to return an additional 13,000 cap- tives to the Communists, 18 off-the- record meetings since July 4 proved “completely fruitless,” said Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison Jr. “We are no nearer a solution of the problem today than we were on July 4,” the chief Allied dele- gate said, but added: “As long as we continue nego- tiations there is always hope. When the enemy proposed this morning that we go back into open sessions, I heartly agreed. Starting Saturday proceedings will be made public daily as for- merly. The U. N. Command said it re- fused to back down on its decision not to return forcibly any prisoner to the Communists. Only 83,000 of 170,000 Allied-held POWs want to be repatriated, Harrison said. This is an increase of 13,000 over the figure submitted to the Reds earli- er, before screenings of Pows was completed. The Allies said the Communists insisted on the return of 116,000 prisoners. These include 20,000 Chi- nese captives of whom only 6,400 will return voluntarily. North Korean Gen. Nam II, the senior Red negotiator, conceded the prisoner exchange issue had become not a matter of principle, but of “‘lists and numbers.” He urged the U. N. to present a figure “approaching reality.” But the Allies said Nam never reconciled his statements and proposals with the Allied report that almost three- fourths of the Chinese in Allied prisoner camps would resist re- patriation. esort Is Sold DUNNELLON & — Rainbow Springs, a resort development near here, has been sold for $200,000. Purchasers of the development are headed by Kenneth S. Keyes, | Miami. The seller was a Clear- water group led by Edgar John | Phillips and J. Tweed McMullen. | Included in the sale were 430 acres in which the springs and | Florida’s only waterfall are lo- | | cated. Also on the property are cabins and a lodge. all until some fellow began scream. | ing into a microphone “Don't get panicky! Don't get panicky!" Everybody got excited. The fire- —final issue | SEOUL, Korea — French in- fantrymen today hurled back a 500- man Chinese Communists drive on T-Bone Hill in a bloody opening to the 26th month of the Korean War. French defenders of the western front hill inflicted heavy losses dur- ' ing two hours of pre-dawn hand-to- hand combat. Three Red companies advanced at 2 a. m. against the hill west of Chorwon, an old Iron Triangle anchor city. Artillery bursts punctuated hand- to-hand*fighting as the 500 Com- munists got caught in crossfire of French positions at the bottom end of T-Bone. A front-line Allied officer esti- mated 56 Chinese were killed and 150 wounded, The cut--up Red forc- es withdrew at 4 a. m. The French battalion is attached to the U. S. Second Infantry Di- vision, which has fought the Chi- nese since July 17 for possession of nearby Old Baldy Hill. Earlier today the.U. S. Eighth Army permitted identification of the Second Division as the unit assigned to hold the series of hills overlooking the main battle front. The U. S. 45th Division last month wrested the heights from the Com- munists in some of the heaviest fighting of the war this year. The Chinese regained the crest of Old Baldy Tuesday. Overcast skies reduced Allied air activity to fighter-bomber strikes on the front this morning. Nation’s Weather By The Associated Press toward more comfortable tempera- | tures in some heat.- harassed | areas. air spreading over the Northern Plains states was expected to move eastward and southward ac companied by scattered thunder- storms. Thursday, many cities in the Northern Plains as well as the ; South Central states reported tem- peratures around the 100 - degree mark. Pierre, S. D., was the hot spot with a 112 - degree maximum. It | was 109 at Chadron, The weather trend today was | The Weather Bureau said cooler | TALLAHASSEE #— A New York engineering firm says Flor- ida’s main highway system is suf- fering while millions are being spent on a “sprawling, unconnect- ed, disintegrated system” of coun- ty roads. It recommended in a report to the State Road Department that the seventh cent of the tax on each gallon of gasoline — about 10 million dollars a year which now is spent where county com- missioners say — should be given to the state agency for unrestricted general use. The recommendation was in the ing study report made for the State Road Department by Par- sons, Brinckerhoff, Hall and Mc- Donald. ed: 1. Establishment of a plan for developing a state arterial highway : system of most - traveled primary roads joining important population centers. It outlined 2,754 miles of state primary roads that can be expected to have a daily traffic volume of 3,000 or more vehicles a day in 20 years. Most of them are on the present primary road map. 2. Adoption of a sufficiency rat- ing method of programming road improvements on a priority basis. 3. High priority attention to clim- ination of urban bottlenecks in the main road system. 4. Transfer of about 200 miles of less - traveled highways from the present primary system to the secondary system. 5. Transfer, by plan over 20 years, of about 1,400 miles of prés- ent well traveled county roads to the primary system. 6. A movement to have schools built a few blocks from arterial highways as a means of cutting down the number of slow speed zones. 7. Establishment of “safe speed” eers for various sections of high- the State Highway Patrol. intersections. The engineers said the Road De- State’s 80 per cent share of the seventh cent gas tax where the counties say is resulting in “a sprawling, unconnected, disin- tegrated system of improved coun- ty roads which serve isolated needs.”” “About 12 of the 67 counties have established some kind of short range but fairly specific program for the development of secondary roads within their borders,” the | report said. “As far as can be determined no two or more adjoining counties | have evolved a program which at- | tempts to give some semblance of secondary road inter - relationship. “A major portion of the Road | Department's 80 per cent share of the seventh cent gas tax and a fourth installment of an. engineer- | revicg The engineers also recommend: | ty SSS == Recommendations Made By N. Y. Firm To Improve Florida Highway System False Ideas About Today’s Education By DAVID TAYLOR MARKE AP Newsfeature Writer This is a good time to review Some of the false ideas parents entertain about education. Professor Howard F. Fehr, head of the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University’s Teach- ers College, says that, contrary to the of many most children like going and enjoy Parents some of schools and teaching, will the school flourish. He says: “Most persons are accustomed — of the schools in terms their own experience and instruction, received 20 or 30 years ago. Today the schools are today, sooner Ht vices. they use in teaching, in the Psychology of learning they apply, and in the attitude of youngsters toward school. “It is also. a false idea that memorizing basic skills in read- ing, writing and arithmetic is the main goal of education. White it is an important goal, it is not Primary, The chief goal is the development of physical health, mental and emotional stability fine personality and effective citizenship. Tile idea is also false, says Professor Fehr, that since the basic skills are not primary, we no longer teach them. We teach them differently, and better, be- cause children do better in these subjects today than did children 20, 30 and 100 years ago, as re- vealed in national tests. Another false concept is that children must pass a stiff test to be promoted from grade to grade and, eventually, to graduate. |limits by Road Department engin- | He says: “In the past, the necessity to way with complete enforcement by | Pass an examination in order to meet social and home approval 8. Elimination of highway and | has made more dishonorable young railway crossings at the busiest |™en and women than any other school device.” _.This leads to another false partment’s 1949 agreement with | idea, he continues—that we are county commmisslonert We coead the not maintaining standards and are pampering children: “Discipline has fled to the wind, it is said. On the contrary, modern education seeks to de- velop social responsibility and respect for the rights of others.” One of the most grievous false ideas, says Dr. Fehr, is the one that the only path to a highly coherent or logical development of the secondary system based on ac- tual requirements. “We make the recommendation that the seventh cent gas tax, as a | Separate impost, be abolished, and| Sterilization, Sanitation the first gas tax increased from four to five cents, . . . “Primary and secondary road expenditures would then be made on a state - wide basis from the first gas tax, leaving the 80 per —- | eriday, July 25,1952 — THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 3 BIG COPPIT OPEN pana me gag ° o Economic Unity PARIS ® — The six Schuman Plan foreign ministers today~ put Western Europe’s steel-coal pool into motion but failed to agree on’ stitutions will start operations 20 in temporary quarters in Lex-|1 SUBDIVISION FRONTS ON FIRST ST. 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And/ blaze as they did ushing back then they pulled his name back | some Michigan Democrats who fast — no point in carrying | were huffing and puffing like mad SPECIALS! i too far. elderly delegate from to his feet and said: j ‘I nominate William Jennings Bryan, They shall not press down | mebody shook him fully awake | showed him a calendar, and instead of saddling Steven- | unwanted burden his | has been impa- waiting for, back to their the delegates | favorite sport— | War all over. to throw Vir- | convention, but | found they had } trying to spread the flames and set fire to the South Carolina del- egates, thus hoping to save further Well, Wilbur, it was then that I sat down — kerplunk — on the n ig Harriman button somebody had tossed on my chair. IT need not tell you how painful it was — and is Mr. Petrol gallantly helped me from the ball as the dazed dele- gates finally voted to keep South Carolina and Louisiana in the tribe. What nonsense all around! 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