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Vol. CXIX, No. 192,
(. D. Booth,
At Birthday
Mr. Booth Is
Leader Here
For 60 Years
®y RANDALL COUCH
when Clarence DeWitt Booth
returned to his home on Madison
avenue after church Sunday he
was “more than surprised” to find
several of his oldest and best
¢riends gathered to wish him a
happy birthday. He was 80 years
old Sunday, August 26.
Among those who attended the
turkey dinner given fer Mr. Booth
bv his son and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Edmund Booth, who reside
with him at 945 Madison avenue,
were J. H. Booth, nephew of Mr.
Booth: George Nash, deputy sher
iff here and an immediate neigh
hor: Elmer Crawford, clerk of the
Court and life-long friend of Mr,
Booth: Grady, J. M. and Lon
Crawford and Sam Woods.
Clarke Native
A native of Clarke county, Mr.
Booth was born “just down the
road” from his present home, the
<on of Robert Booth—native of El
pert county —and Susan Gray
Booth of Clarke county. One of
Athens’ oldest and most respect
ed merchants, Mr. Booth has op
erated a grocery store here since
1891 when he and his elder broth
er. J. H. Booth, mustered together
a capital of SIOO, “a lot of money
in those days,” and opened a small
orocery on the west side of the
Oconee on Madison aveyue. Pri
or to that time they had farmed
with their father.
“When we opened our little
store the Oconee was spanned by
a covered wooden bridge and there
was only one paved street in the
city—the Georgia depot street
which had been paved with Bel
gian cobble stones,” Mr, Booth re~
called in an interview yesterday.
“Things were cheap and we had
a good business from the begin
ning. Just to give you an idea of
the prices then as constrasted with
those of today let’s look at the
cost of flour, sugar and coffee.
Flour was $3.50 to $4.00 a barrel
then: today an equivalent amount
would cost $17.72. Sugar was five
cents a pound; today it is double
that price, and coffee was only
15 cents a pound whereas 80 cents
per pound is a good average to-
Local Goods
The Booth brothers bought all
their stock locally, purchasing
such imported staples as sugar and
coffee from Hiram Crawford and
J. N. Webb who at that time op
erated their wholesale grocery
house in the building now occu
pied by the Kress store. Webb-
Crawford delivered by mule and
wagon then and the Booth broth
ers hired eolored boys who, for
the most part, “toted” their deliv
eries but smetimes used a wheel
barrow, Some of these boys are
still living and Mr. Booth says he
sees them frequently. Two of
them, Joe Turner and Joe Harris,
still live here. &
Later the Booths bought mules
and a wagon for delivery pur
poses and in 1929 or 1930 the store
began to use a motorized truck. J.
H. Booth died in 1924.
“We have customers today who
have been trading with us for fifty
vears,” Mr. Booth states. “In 1898
we moved the store across the riv
er to its present location—on the
corner of Water street and Madi
son avenue, I continued to op
ez’fate the business after my broth
er’'s death until about eight years
ago when my son, Edmund, took
over the larger part of work, but
[ still get down and help him
when my health permits.”
Church Worker
Mr. Booth is a member of First
Baptist Church, having joined
East Athens Baptist Church in his
early youth and later transferred
his membership when Dr. Millard
Jenkins was the First Baptist pas
tor. A devout Christian, he is a
faithful church attendant, active
in all phases of church work.
He attended schools in Clarke
ounty, all of which he says have
ow been replaced with others in
fferent locations. He recalls
lat in his youth there were not
any residences east of the river
it that there were numerous
omes located on Madison avenue
1l leading into Athens.
Mr, Booth built the home in
which he now resides in 1904. At
hat time it was a five room house;
(Contynued On rage Two)
Dr. Woodroof
Dies In Newnan
Dr. W. L. Woodroof, prominent
physician and surgeon of Newnan,
Ga, and father of Mrs. Frank
Dudley of this city, died in New
nan Hospital Monday afternoon at
3 c’clock,
Services were conducted at the
gr yeside in Oakhill cemetery,
N wnan, this afternoon at 3
o'clock with Rev. James B. Stertz,
pastor of Central Baptist Church,
officiating,
In addition to his daughter,
Mrs. Dudley, Dr. Woodroof is sur
vived by his wife, the former Miss
Belle Brannen of Savannah; one
son, Charles Brannen Woodroof,
Newnan, and three grandchildren,
Charles Woodroof, jr., and Miner
va Huntey Woodroof, both jof
Newngn, and Frank Dudley, jr.,
of Al&m b o Ne
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Sérvicn
John Saye Honored
Celebrations Sunday
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US, Britain,
France Vote
To Aid Tito
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28—
(AP)~—The United States, Bri
tain and France have agreed to
provide $50,000,000 in economic
aid to Yugoslavia to support
Marshal Tito’s “contribution to
the security of the free world.”
The Economic Cooperation
Administration, in announcing
this today, disclosed it already
has allocated $29,800,000 as an
initial installment to help the
Yugoslavs buy cotton, coke and
steel. ;s
Britain shortly will announce,
ECA said, its decision to make
available $11,500,000 to help
bolster Yugoslavia’s economy.
X X X
Bitter Race For
Governor Ends In
Mississippi Today
JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 28 —
(AP) — One of the most bitter
campaigns in Mississippi history
closes today as voters choose a
governor from two candidates
running under the States Rights
banner.
The contestants are Hugh L.
White, 70-year-old former gov
ernor (193640) and Paul Johnson,
jr., 36-year-old son of the late
Gov. Johnson (1940-44).
Personalities rather than issues
have marked the campaign with
each candidate claiming he is the
stauncher States Righter.
White has charged that Johnson
has the bloc support of negro vot
ers in this rece-conscious state.
Johnson replied that White had
carried the Negro vote for years.
Prohibition
Prohibition also has been some
thing of an issue. Both men are
drys in this legaglly dry state, with
Johnson fstroniflx\ opposing repeal
of the prohibition law and White
saying he would not oppose a ref
erendum.
With clear to partly cloudy
weather predicted, some 365,000 to
370,000 votes are expected. Polls
open at 7 a. m. (CST) .in city pre~
cincts and at 8 a. m. in rural areas.
All polls close at 6 p. m.
White was high man among
eight candidates in the first Dem
ocratic primary on Aug. 7, leading
Johnson by 8,500 votes.
The winner today will serve a
four year term beginning Jan
uary as Democratic nomination in
this one-party state is the equiva
lent of election.
On the State Rights issue, White
charged that Johnson had close
person ties with pro-Truman lead
ers and accepted appointment as
Assistant U. S. District Attorney
while the Trumanites had control
of federal patronage in the state.
He charged that Johnson stayed
out of the States Rights movement
until just before the first primary
election.
Johnson replied he was a States
Righter by birth, choice and heri
tage. He promised to lead a bolt
from the 1952 convention if Presi
dent Truman is renominated.
Johnson Charge o
He charged that White sold
Mississipg{i short at the 1936 Dem~
ocratic National Convention by
failing to oppose abolition of the
mrlo-thirds majority nomination
e.
White replied that the late Sen
ators Theo G. (the man) Bilbo and
Pat Harrison, both Mississippi
Democrats, also voted for abolition
of the two-thirds rule after all had
opposed it in the econvention’s
rules committee.
Copper Workers Strike
Officials Await
Answer To HST
DENVER, Aug. 28 —(AP)— A
nationwide strike of copper work
ers continued today while Presi
dent Tru~an and federal officials
awaited union replies to their ap
peal for an end to the walkout.
Defense officials said the strike
was hitting the mobilization drive
at its weakest point since copper
is the scarcest of the major metals.
The strike also affects zinc, lead
and silver production.
Union Conditions
The leader of 58,000 striking In
ternational Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers (Ind.) void newsmen in
Denver last night that the strike,
which began yesterday, would not
pbe -called off “unless and until”
the government presses industry
to accept a federal proposal for
ending the wage dispute.
The U. S. conciliation service
has proposed that the companies
raise wages 16 cents an hour and
increase pension benefits an ad
ditional four and one-half cents
to settle the strike. The IUMMSW
said that is acceptable to the
union. Present pay ranges from
sl.Bl for service laborers to $1.62
for miners,.
. The JUMMSW, was expelled
from the CIO on charges its lead~
150 Observe
Anniversary
Of Mr. Saye
By LEON DRISKELL _
Over 150 friends and relatives
of John T. Saye, 76 year-old re
tired Athens Contractor, joined
with his children Sunday after
noon in honoring him with a bar
becue to commemorate his seven
ty-sixth birthday. The occasion
was planned and carried ouf by
D. D. Saye, whom the retired
builder asserts is “following right
in his father’s footsteps” in the
contracting business.
The guests who assembled to
pay their respects to the aging
builder enjoyed a repast of bar
becued meat and hash and an
hour’s conversation with their
friends. The party was held in
the rear of Mr. Saye’s home on
Popar St., which he propdly states
he has occupied for the pas “half
hundred years”. % ae
Mr. Saye, in a special Banner-
Herald interview, told that he had
moved into his present home in
1901 when there were only three
houses on that street which is
now thickly populated.
Mr. Saye has been retired from
his business for the past nine
years and his family confided that
it was quite a job for several
years to confine his activities in
order to give him the rest that
doctors assured him was necessary
for his continued health. His re
tirement came as a result of a
high blood pressure condition..
“I‘ve seen Athens grow from
a little village to what it is to
day,” he said proudly. He contin
ued to state that he hopes to live
to see the city grow even larger
than it is today.
When asked how big he ex
‘pected Athens to grow in the
future he replied confidently that
“within a few years I'm looking
for 100,000 people to live here”.
Part of Athens’ rapid growth in
the past few years he attributed
to the war years, part to the in
creased number of businesses and
manufacturing companies which
Athens bcasts of, and part to the
University which he says Athens
is “lucky to have.” } 2
© Witnessed “Spats” ;
Mr. Saye admitted that as a
much younger man he had been a
part of and had witnessed several
“spats” between students of the
University and Athens towns=
people. He expressed his gratifica
tion that such out-bursts were no
longer common.
“I reckon that I had one of the
earlest cars anywhere in Georgia,”
Mr. Saye confided. “ Old folks were
complaining of wild, reckless driv
ing then and saying that automo
biles were too fast”, he said with
a wink.
‘When asked if he had ever been
caught for exceeding the speed
rate Mr. Saye laughed and didn’t
answer.
“There’'s no other place in the
United States where I'd rather
live than right here on Poplar
Street in Athens, Georgia”, was
Mr. Saye’s reply when asked if
he knew any place he would ra
ther live than Athens.
The elderly retired e¢ontractor
was active in Athens for over
forty years and named with great
pride several of the beautiful
homes that he has constructed
over the years. Many of the most
beautiful home on Prince Avenue,
Milledge, and Springdale streets
bear the trade-mark of this loyal
Athenian.
In addition te the many other
homes that he had built Mr, Saye
stated that he had built seventy
houses for the Athens. (Now Chi
copee) Manufacturing Company,
which is located near his home.
“Athens will continue to pros
per and to grow as long as there
are new and better businesses and
companies which choose Athens
for their sites”, he opined.
Appeal
ers in this race-conscious state.
In addition to the IUMMSW
workers, there are 3,400 members
of the AFL. Metal Trades Union
in Utah who joined in the walk
out. The TUMMSW headquarters
said members of the railroad
brotherhods were respecting their
picket lines. :
Maintenance workers at the 50
strikebound plants in 15 states re
mained on duty in preparation for
a quick reopening of operations
when the strike ends.
Truman Action
Less than 10 hours after the
strike started, President Truman
sent the dispute to the Wage Sta
bilization Board. Mr. Truman
said the strike has “an immedi
ate and very serious impact on the
defense program.”
The President added that “it is
my earnest hope that the men in
volved” will “return to work
while the matter, is before the
board.”
The four major companies af
fected by the strike are the Ana
conda ' Copper Mining Company,
Phelps Dodge Corp., Kennecott
Copper Company, American smelt
ing and Refining Company and
their subsidiaries.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1951,
Committee Votes
To Cut Company
Tax By Quarfer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—(AP)
—The Senate Finance Committee
has tentatively voted to knock out
about one-fourth of the corpora
tion tax increase voted by the
House,
Most of the excess profits tax
boost was eliminated yesterday
from the House-passed $7,200,~
000,00 tax hike bill. The senators
kept the five percent increase in
corporation income taxes but jug
gled rates to nrake the hike lighter
on small companies with incomes
of $25,000 or less a year.
Even with this softer treatment,
the higher corporation levy rates
would yield an estimated $2,280,-
000,000 a year in additional reve=
nue—5760,600,000 less than under
the House bill.
Thé senators now have tenta=
tively approved cuts of about sl,=
640,000,000 in the tax increase
voted by the House.
If they cut excise taxes, the last
remaining big section of the bill,
as sharply as they have other
levies they may well get their
version of the tax hike down to
about $5,000,000,000, or only half
the amount sought by President
Truman.
However, the committee today
hopes to pick up Ferhaps as much
as $100,000,000 of additional rev
enue in a field the House did not
touch,
. Tax Study
It will study possible taxes for
co-operatives, mutual banks, sav
ings and loan and insurance
groups, and others, some of which
now have certain exemption priv
ileges.
The senators yesterday voted to
make their corporation boosts ex
pire December 31, 1953, the same
date they picked for termination
of personal income tax increases.
They did not agree on the ef
fective date for the new corpora
tion levies although some are said
to favor a date later than January
1, 1981,
The Finance Committee rejected
the House provision reducing to 75
percent from the present 85 the
percentage of average base period
net income to be used in comput
ing the excess profits tax credit.
The base period is the best three
years in the four from 1946
through 1949,
The House bill would require
companies so pay an excess m‘o%
its tax on everything above
percent of earnings in the base
period.
On corporation income taxes,
the senators agreed to accept the
House boost in the combined nor
mal and surtax rate to 52 percent
from the present 47.
Rate Boost
However, the Finance Commit
tee did this by boosting the nor
mal rate from 25 to 27 percent
and the surtax rate from 22 to 25
percent.
The House had increased the
normal rate to 30 percent and had
not changed the surtax.
Chairman George (D.-Ga.) of
the Finance Committee said the
senators’ method would help small
corporations with incomes of $25,-
000 or less because of the snyailer
increase in the normal rate.
The Finance Committee went
along with the House in increas
ing the combined excess profits
and normal-surtax rates to a
maximum of 82 percent, The ex
cess profits tax is 30 percent on
top of the normal-surtax levy.
The senators also voted so ac
cept the ceiling of 70 percent fix«
ed by the House as the maximum
any corporation must pay under
the income and excess profits lev
ies. The ceiling, now 62 percent,
applies to the over-all taxes.
George nrade it clear that all
committee votes are tentative.
BEES CAUSE DEATH
KNOXVILLE, TENN., Aug. 28
—(AP)—A swarm of bumblebees
yesterday caused the death of a 75=
year- old Knox county farmer.
The victim, Jake Justice of the
Boyd’s Creek community, was rid
ing in a wagon drawn by two
mules, The bumblebees attacked
the mules, causing a runaway,
Justice was thrown from the
careening wagon and Killed out
right, County oficers said he suf
fered a broken neck.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and rather hot today, to
night and Wednesday, Thurs
day partly cloudy and hot with
chance of thundershowers. Low
tonight 67; high tomorrow 93.
Sun sets today 7:05 and rises
tomorrow 6:04,
GEORGIA — Mostly fair and
rather hot this afternoon, to
night and Wednesday except
for scattered afternoon thun
dershowers in coastal area.
EXTENDED FORECAST
Extended forecast for period
ending 7:30 p. m., Sunday, Sep
tember 2:
G E O R G I A—Precipitation
light, occurring about Friday,
and temperatures two to four
degrees above normal.
TEMPERATURE
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BOWest /.. ¢ .. .0 oo aeilS
THORN (i wrns sois ausa eV
Bormal «. 0 L otk
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours ~ ... .00
Total since August 1 ~ ... .26
Deficit since August 1 .. ~ 4.04
Average August rainfall .. 4.62
Total since January 1 .. ..30.07
Deficit since January 1 ... 6.22
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THE FIGHTING GOES ON—A GI wounded in the fight
ing along the east central front in Korea is carried
across pontoon bridge over the Soyang River. MP’s were
on hand to bar vehicles from the bridge which was
weakened by high waters. Fighting has broken out
again in this area as hopes for renewal of peace talks
fade amid barrage of propaganda charges by the Reds.
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RED BUILDUP REPORTED —W ith reports coming out
of Korea that the Communists are building up for one of
the biggest attacks of the war, United Nations forces
have felt the sting of a probing assault (white arrows)
north of Yanggu (number 1). To the east Allied com
manders have reported that enemy units have infil
trated UN lines in the Inje area (2). The heaviest patrol
actions were southeast of Kumsong (3) where the Reds
put up a heavy fight to keep UN troops away from a
Communist buildup area. Intelligence reports now re
veal that the Communists are bringing in “Caucasian”
troops (either Russian or satellite) to help in the Korean
war.—(NEA Telephoto.)
Anti-Gambling Newsmen
Indicted In Louisiana
LAKE CHARLES, La., Aug. 28.— (AP) —Five news
paper men who crusaded against wide open law violations
are under indictment on charges of defaming three admit
ted gamblers and a number of public officials.
And the Peoples Action Group which instigated a spe
cial session of the grand jury to investigate law violations is
under order to give the grand jury a list of its members.
The list had been kept secret to aid in PAG private inves
tigations. _ dime il e
County Farm
Session Safurday
A county-wide agricultural mo
bilization committee meeting will
be held at the Clarke county
courthouse at 9 o’clock next Sat
urday morning, it is announced by
C. A. Ward, chairman of the com
mittee. y
All citizens interested in agri
culture are invited to attend.
On making the announcement
Chairman Ward stated:
“Tne purpose of this meeting
will be to discuss with all U, S.
Agencies in the County interested
in agriculture, about how our farm
programs and policies can be im
proved with regard to the effect
iveness and efficiency of service to
the Family Farms in Clarke Coun
ty. The fact is that the Department
sincerely wants to base its pro
grams on the recommendations of
local people on how the Depart
ment can best serve Family Farmg
and Farm Families.
“Perhaps you won't agree in all
or even in most essentials with the
thinking of the Department’s Com
mittee. That’'s Democracy: The
important thing is for you to think
about this matter and express your
(Conimuea On Page Two)
The Calcasieu Parish (county)
Grand Jury refused to indict Sher
iff Henry Reid whom the PAG had
accused of malfeasance in office.
Named in the indictments
handed down yesterday afternoon
were Thomas B. Sherman, pub
lisher of the Lake Charles Amer
ican Press; his son, William Hugh
Shearman, co-publisher; Kenneth
1.. Dixon, managing editor; James
W. Norton, city editor; and Carter
George, police and court reporter
of the American Press.
Accusations
They were accused of defaming
Claude Williams, Sam Smith and
E. J. Miller, three admitted gamb
lers and night club operators; Dis
trict Attorney Griffin P. Hawkins;
Assistant District Attorney Melvin
H. Wetherill; the 13 members of
the Calcasieu Parish police jury,
the Parish governing body; and
Sheriff Reid.
Williams, Smith and Miller re
cently pleaded guilty in district
court to gambling charges. They
were fined and given suspended
jail sentences.
Each of the indicted men posted
$250 bond on eahc count on which
he was indicted. There were five
indictments in all totalling 14
counts.
Each count is punishable with a
maximum of one year in jail and
a $3,000 fine,
- No date was set for arraign
ment. .
The two Shearmans, Norton and
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Reds Agree To Resume Talks If
Allies Admit Wednesday Bombing
TOKYO, Aug. 28.— (AP) —The United Nations coms
mand charged today that the Communists sent one of theis
own planes through the motions of bombing Kaesong” last
Wednesday and then blamed the Allies for the attack. -
The charge was contained in a bulletin released by the
Public Information Office at General Matthew B. Ridg:
way’s headquatrers as the U. N. commander studied a
Communist note that could shatter hopes of truce in Korea.
“There is as yet no indication as
to the nature of the reply General
Ridgway will make to the latest
Communist letter, ’the public in
formation officer said.
Red Offer
The Reds offered to resume
truce talks—which they broke off
last Thursday—on certain condi
tions. Primarily, they want Ridg
way to say a U. N. plane bombed
‘tihe Kaesong neutral area Wednes~
ay.
He has aready said no U. N,
plane wag even in the area. He
told the Communists they manu
factured the incident.
Less than 24 hours after the
Reds rejected this, Ridgway’s
public information office restated
the same position in dentail.
It said no U. N. planes were in
the area at the time of the attack
but that an unidentified plane was.
It added:
“It is beyond doubt that this
was a Communist aircraft.
“All evidence establishgd the
clear consulsion that on the night
of Aug. 22 the Communists pre
petrated a delibrate fraud.”
The release said there were no
bomb craters, no bomb fragments,
“no evidence on the ground of a
United Nations command air at
tack.”
“There is very indication,” the
release said, that Red truce “per
sonnel at Kaesong were accessories
to a deliberate fraud. Using their
military control of the conference
site as a cloak of deceit, Commun~
is® personnel perpetrated a sham
o. unprecedented proportions.
“Creating an elaborately staged
and quite obviously premeditated
scene, they sought to fix upon the
United Nations command a false
charge of air attacks on the con
ference site.”
Ridgway Firm
There was no hint Ridgway
would retreat. He has taken a
consistently firm stand with the
Reds since cease-fire talks started
July 10.
A keadquarters spokesman said
an answer can be expected, but
“what the answer will be I do not
know.” y
Ridgway previously said it was
up to the Reds to say when the
tallks would be resumed.
“The Communists can either
continue or break off the talks,”
a spokesman at his headquarters
said today. “We are ready for
anything they choose to do.”
The Reds asked Ridgway to
make a new investigation of their
evidence of the asserted bombing.
To this, the public information of
fice commented the Reds have had
time to prepare “more convineing
evidence of a bombing.”
“The original evidence wag so
transparent as to immecfately in
dicate the fraudulent mnature of
the bombing charge,” the release
said. “But this defect in the evid
ence could be cured.
“Should the investigation be re
opened it is probable that much
more convincing evidence of a
bombing attack would be present
ed.”
Officials at General headquart
ers said it wag virtually unthink
able that Ridgway would retract
his charge that the entire incident
was a ‘rame-up.
Red Radio .
Red China’s Peiping radio said
one of the two American liaison
officers who investigated the ori
ginal evidence “either lied or was
incompetent” in reporting there
had been no bombing.
The release from Ridgway’s
headquarters reviewed the whole
array of c arges and counter
charges of neutrality violations. It
said:
“From the beginning of the con~
ference (July 10) the Commun
ists repeatedly violated the let
ter and the spirit of our agree
ments concerning the neutrality
of the conference area.”
After Ridgway called them on
these violations, the release con
tinued, the Reds started making
charge of their own. It added:
“Their ensuing charges can only
be " interpreted as an effort by
them to regain the face which they
lost in the eyes of their followers.”
There was no hint Ridgway
would retreat. He has taken a
consistently firm stand with the
Reds since cease-fire talks started
July 10. ,
A headquarters spokesman said
an answer can be expected, but
“what the answer will be I do not
know.”
Ridgway previously said it was
up to the Reds to say when the
talks would be resumed.
‘“The Communists can either
continue or break off the talk,” a
spokesman at his headquarters
said today. “We are ready for anyr
thing they choose tg do.” it
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EDITION’
BY DON HUTH
European Union
Advocated By
(Gen. Eisenh
en. cisennower
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—(AP’
——General Dwight D. Eisenhowe
has told senators he is “very
hopeful that many of our prob.
lems would disappear if , . . West:
ern Europe were one federal un:
ion.”
“I believe it so strongly,” he
said, “that I do not believe rea
security is going to be feit in th
United States, in the British Em:
pire, and other nations of ths
globe until that comes about.”
Ike's Views
He said he believed once th
whole idea of Western Europe it
united in a federation “the Sov.
iets will never be able to hold ths
East Germans out of it—l beliew
that with all my heart.”
Eisenhower, Supreme Comman
der of North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization (NATQ) powers in Eu
rope, made those statements to &
Senate Foreign Relations subcom
mittee which toured Europe las
July. It was studying U. 8. eco
nomic and arms aid programs
Testimony was released yesterda:
after dei,etion of portions th
group felt might involve sevurity
The Geneéral voiced his gndorse
ment of the federal union idea a
the senators started thelr towr
Then, two weeks later, &s the
neared the end of their trip,
told the senators:
“I realize that a lot of my pro
fessional associates are going
think that I am commpletely erazy
but I tell you that joining Europ
together is the key to the wholk
thing. And if you can do it with :
European army, I am ready to pu
a lot of work in it.”
Confidence Restored
American leadership, help am
armed forces, Eisenhower saic
are restoring the confidenca o
Western Europeans, and he add
ed:
“The faster they regain thei
confidence, the faster they will d
the job of defending themselves
In my opinion, the one thing tha
can brealk the United States am
give us nothing in returm 38 %
drag this thing out. We must g
the limit of our productive capac
ity and of the power of Europe &
absorb our military assistancy
and get it done now.” ,‘
“If we cannot do this job with
in a reasonable length of time, &
cannot be done,” the Genersl add
ed, “But never let us lose sight ¢
the fact that the self-interest ¢
the United States dictates thst w
inspire in Europe he determins
tion to defend itself.” §
e —— 8
Communify Fund
Officials Meet
Officers of Athens Commmunii 1
Chest and the various committe
chairman and members gathere
at a luncheon in Georgiam hot *
yesterday at one o‘clock for b |
purpose of making preliminai |
plans for the fall fund drive ar
to spur interest in the meetix *
scheduled September 13 at 745 &
m. in Civil hall. b
It was vpointed out that % &
September 13 meeting is planne
for the purpose of adopting ti
proposed new Community Che
consititution— it will be submitte
to the boards of the participatir
organizations for ratification prit &
to that date—and to elect the &
members at large: of the che =
board. Anyone who contributed ©
the Community Chest fund la
year is eligible to vote and is urge &
to attend this meeting. iy
C. M. Ridlehuber, director es th
vear’s fund campaign, presided : |
the' luncheon yesterday. He i 1 §
trduced the wvarious committs
heads and committee membe &
and two of the officers of loec |
Community Chest—Walter Dai =
ner, president; and H. C. Pearso
secretary.
Three additional agencies w |
be includeain the Chest drive th
f@il, Mr. Ridlehuber stated. Ti |
recipignts of funds collected o &
Boy Scouts, Cirl Scouts, ¥. M.
A, Y. W.C. A Salvation &rm
Cancer Society, Heart Associati(
and T. B. Association,
It is hoped that cim
Athens and Clarke co §
support the Community Chest n
only with their contributions b |
by assisting officers and commi |
teemen in the actual solicitati
of funds. Ve