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THE COVINGTON NEWS
BELMONT DENNIS
Editor And Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assiitent to Publisher
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
NEWTON COUNIT
AND THE
CITY OF COVINGTON
Berlin Crisis Confusing
Sabres Begin To Rattle
And Peace Is Threatened
We don’t know about you, dear reader,
but the more we read about the Berlin
crisis the more confused we get.
But this is nothing new. It’s been that
way from the start. American troops on
their way to Berlin at the close of the Eu
ropean phase of WWII were held up to let
the Russians go in first, And it would ap
oear that this peculiar insistance of Wash
ington that the Russians should have credit
where none was due, has kept us off bal
ance ever since. Historically, since the Allies
beat down their Axis foes, there would
seem to have been no sane reason for de
ciding that Germany should be half slave
and half free — and the city of Berlin like
wise.
But today, sixteen years and several
crises later, we are again told by the Krem
lin to get out of Berlin — or else. Khrush
chev is again threatening the West with
turning over control of all Berlin to the
East Germans by means of a treaty with
this satellite country — and even though
he has previously announced a number of
times that the Ulbricht stooges were in con
trol!
And now, after Khrush’s latest saber
rattling we and our allies have sent him
what the papers call “stern notes” —of
which ours is said to be the sternest of all.
After stating our basic and irrevocable
rights in Berlin, repeating our insistence
that the two Germanies must be reunited
by vote of the people, and that insistence
of the Soviet Union on its threatened course
of action could bring war, the note then
suggests that everybody sit down and talk
over the whole thing.
It would seem sufficient to have slated
flatly that we will stand up for our estab
lished rights and that we will stick in Ber
lin until the German people can decide
their future for themselves. Having learned
the futility of discussion with the Russian
and the worthlessness of Soviet pledges,
an invitation to further conversation (which
was contained in all the allied notes) can
only be considered a delaying tactic.
Perhaps the West needs to gain time.
If so, it had better be used well.
An Adequate Supply
Os Salk Vaccine Is
Now Available To All
When controversy leads to public en
lightenment, we’re all for it. But there are
times when controversy results in public
confusion, with disastrous results. This is
particularly true when experts clash on
technical points that cannot be grasped
quickly by those of us without scientific
background.
We fervently hope the recent controver
jy over the relative merits of polio vac
cines will not discourage parents from see
ing that their families are given a full ser
ies of Salk shots immediately. This is the
critical time of year when the unprotected
are most exposed to the polio attack. The
Salk vaccine is available now. It is more
than 90 per cent effective in preventing
paralytic polio. Those who have not been
vaccinated are gambling against the possi
bility of being crippled for life through
ther own negligence.
Whether or not the Sabin live-virus vac
cine is a better vaccine than Dr. Salk's is
a matter for scientists and physicians to de
cide — later. The National Foundation,
which financed all the research leading to
both vaccines with funds contributed to
the March of Dimes, given the only sound
advice which parents can follow. It points
out *hai, since no live-virus vaccine has
yet been licensed for distribution, since you
cannot get live-virus vaccine from your phy
sician, and since the present polio “season”
will be over before mass production, licens
ing and distribution of the live-virus vac
cine are completed, there is only one course
of action for conscientious parents to pur
sue. Get your family started on a full series
of Salk shots TODAY.
Millions of pre-school children and
young adults are still without protection.
These are the age groups most open to at
tack.
Don’t let technical controversy confuse
you. Vaccinate NOW.
COATESVILLE. PA., RECORD: “Wash
ington ever is willing to to take on another
job, no matter how full its hands may be
with the problems it already has failed to
solve. An appropriation of $lO million is
asked for fighting juvenile delinquency
. . . Meanwhile, in Washington, D. C. which
depends entirely upon the Federal Govern
ment’s know-how to keep crime down, the
local papers are full of news of a crime
wave and juvenile delinquency."
(Our Advertisers Are Assured Os Results)
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Closing The Dollar Gap
May Hinder Trade Relations
With Many Countries
Wisdom in Washington remains in short
supply. It’s a rare day in June that the left
hand seems to know what the right is do
ing.
The latest example of how to go off in
two directions at once comes to light in a
bill now before Congress. It’s supposed to
help close the Dollar Gap, and we are all
for that idea. Lopping off 80 percent from
the duty-free allowance our countrymen
are now allowed to bring in from abroad,
say the soothsayers, might be one way to
do it. Trimming the allowance from SSOO
to SIOO, it is said, may do our Dollar Gap
a lot of good.
And so it mav. But it’s going to help
widen our Friendship Gap as well. Some
of our best friends abroad, one quickly dis
covers, rely heavily on tourist dollars to
plow back into buying millions of dollars
worth of goods from Uncle Sam.
Even in small countries, this can add
up to real money. If we are concerned about
the outflow of dollars, we should also worry
a bit about getting them in.
Take the Caribbean, for example: With
out tourism, many of these already pre
carious economies would wither on the
vine. Take a look at just one of these isl
ands, and see what closing the Dollar Gap
means in local home town terms, a la Carib
bean! Last year, our fellow tourists spent
close to $6 million on the hospitable island
of Curacao in the Dutch West Indies, sight
seeing and picking up gifts for Aunt Mar
tha back home.
Eighty-seven percent of Curacao's tour
ist income comes byway of purchase of
gifts, only 13 percent from hotel and ser
vice charges. An 80 percent reduction in
the duty-free allowance would shred the
island’s tourist economy to ribbons. More
over, industry-poor Curacaons last year
spent over six times that much in dollars
for Detroit automobiles, Louisville refrig
erators and toothpaste from Cincinnati . . .
$250 for every man, woman and child.
Today, as this impending bill threatens
one of our few really “good neighbors”
with ruin and joblessness, the cynics are
pointing out that industrious, self-respect
ing Curacaons may now go after that new
SSOO million Latin-American give-away pro
gram. As one leading merchant puts it: “It
makes little sense to us for the US to adopt
tourist policies that will bankrupt us, and
then proceed to put us on relief.”
It can make little sense either to Amer
ican taxpayers who are getting up that half
billion. And it is high time for Congress,
in considering this half-baked measure,
to reflect on whether it is now national
policy to drive away from us what few
friends we have left. If so, this bit of bu
reaucratic idiocy could be a big help!
Maybe It Would Help
For Men To Blondine
Hair And Wear F-s?
We’ve been watching those TV com
mercials that ask, “Is it true . , . blondes
nave more fun?” The answer, according
to the Clairol people, at least, is that indeed
they do, and it could be that the motiva
tion researchers, or whomever, have (as
they often do) unwittingly stumbled upon
something of value.
We all know that women live longer,
have fewer coronaries, stomach ulcers and
attacks of the galloping heebie jeebies than
mere males. And the reason may well be
that the mousy, inconspicuous, timid mem
ber of the gentler sex can take a little
hair-color, a slinky new dress, a dab or
two of face cream and change herself into
a glamorous, exciting, desirable crbature
who is the cynosure of all eyes. We’ve
seen it happen.
But us poor men. if we're drab, flabby,
grewing, balding and rumpled, are des
tined to stay that way forevermore. Even
if we had products which would transform
us into raving beauties, chances are w r e
wouldn’t dare use ’em. The catcalls and
jeers that would erupt if we slipped on a
girdle, hid our wrinkles with face cream
and stuffed ourselves into a skinny new’
continental suit are just too horrible to
contemplate. So we stay looking the way
we are.
Let's hope that the passage of time
will give us more courage. Goodness knows
men need more fun. If being blonde will
do it, whv don’t we take tae plunge? Any
volunteers?
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOUR WEEKLY LESSON FOR
unday School
Dorcas, a Woman of
Good Works
Bible Material: Acts 9:36-43.
Devotional Reading: Romans
12:3-8: Memory Selection: Do
not neglect to do good and to
share what you have, for such
sacrifices are pleasing to God.
Hebrews 13:16.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
A Christian Neighbor.
Young People - Adult Topic:
Dorcas: Faith Translated into
Service.
In our series of personality i
studies in the New Testament,
we now come to that of Dorcas,
a woman of the early church, or
Tabitha, as her name was in
Aramaic. In either case the
meaning was “gazelle,” an an
imal common in the Bible lands
from the earliest times and
noted for its swiftness and
grace.
Dorcas, or Tabitha, was cer
tainly swift to do good works
and accomplished them with
such grace that she was loved
by all her friends and neigh
bors in the seaport town of Jop
pa.
Joppa, or Jaffa as it is now
known, was a seaport town in
the territory of the tribe of
Dan. It was here that Jonah
went to take ship for Tarshish
when he was fleeing from the
call of God to serve as a foreign
missionary.
There are no good harbors
on this shore of the Mediter
ranean, and ocean-going ships
still unload their cargo at Jop
pa or Jaffa onto barges which
run it in to shore. The small
seaport is at present oversha
dowed by the large city of Tel
Aviv, of which it has become a
suburb.
There is now a Greek church
over the traditional house of
Dorcas, and nearby is the re
puted house of Simon the Tan
ner. High on the shoreline is a
Mosque and a minaret. Moslem,
Jeswish, and Christian places
of worship accordingly stand
nearby in this seaport town of |
Israel.
It would not be uncommon at
the time the events of our les
son occurred for a person to
bear both a Greek and an Ara
maic name in a seaport town
such as this. The Bible text
would indicate that the person
ality of our lesson was usually
called Tabitha, but had the
name Dorcas among the
friends who spoke Greek.
Joppa was an ancient city when
Dorcas lived there. It is men
tioned in inscriptions in Egypt
which date back to 1600 B. C.
It was also to this port that
Hiram, the king of Tyre, floated
his great cedars from Leban
on to be used by Solomon in
the building of the temple. To
get these great trees up t h e
winding road from Joppa to
Jerusalem must have been a
great problem.
Jaffa is today noted for the
production of citrus fruit, and
“Jaffa oranges” are known
throughout the Near East as
well as in Israel. Banana trees
have also become common on
the plains near the eastern Med
iterranean in recent years.
To get our proper setting for
the lesson we should note that
the ninth chapter of Acts tells
of the conversion of Saul, end
ing with the statement in verse
31, “Then had the churches rest
throughout all Judea and Gali
lee and Samaria, and were edi
fied and walking in the fear of
the Lord, and in the comfort
of the Holy Ghost, were multi
plied.”
Then the narrative turns to
follow the Apostle Peter who
came down to the town of Lyd
da. a place some fifteen miles
from Joppa, where the apostle
had healed Aeneas in the name
of Christ. The news of this
notable miracle had no doubt
spread to the church in Joppa
by the time of the events in our
lesson today.
It is interesting to note that
at this very early point in
Apostolic history there was a
Christian Church in the sea
port town of Joppa. We do not
know who started it. Perhaps
it was Philip, one of the dea
cons who returned that way
after his conversion of the
Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:40).
Or during the persecution fol
lowing the martyrdom of Step
hen certain Christians may have
come to Joppa. They were scat-1
tered like seeds before the au
tumn wind, but wherever they,
came to rest a church sprang
up.
It is doubtful that this group
of believers had a special build
ing for divine worship. They;
propably met in the homes of i
the believers. But “where Christ
is there is the church.” There
were probably not many Chris
tians in this group, but “where
two or three are gathered to
gether in my name, there am j
I in the midst of them” thej
Master says (Matthew 18:20),
Note that women were pro
minent in the earliest churches.
This was because Christ had
given a new place to women
and they had been prominent
in his support during his min- ■
istry.
So far as we know. Dorcas i
did not have any office in the!
Church though by her works
she might well have been on
the Board of Deacons. She is,
however, merely called a dis
ciple” or follower of Christ.
Dorcas, we are told, was
“full of good works and alms
deeds.” She bore fruit like a
good tree, and the Lord him
self had said that, “by their
fruit ye shall know them.”
Dorcas was full of the love of
God and this made itself known
in aoving service to her neigh
bors.
Dorcas showed her faith by
her works. She exemplified her
love of God in love for her
neighbors.
Dorcas had not been a disci
ple of Christ for long, but she
had received his spirit of love,
sympathy, kindness, and com
passion. Thus the woman was
the forerunner of a great line
of women in the church who
have been leaders in social ser
vice and all the benevolence
causes, including missions at
home and abroad. The elect la
dies of our churches have been
students of the missionary en
terprise much more than the
men. They have carried on their
stalwart shoulders much more
than their share of the benevo
lence and outreach of the j
churches. This is fitting and |
proper in view of what Christi
did for women.
Years ago a Moslem woman:
in Iran said to an American
missionary lady: “Oh, if Jesus
were only our prophet, how we
should love him, because He
has done so much more for you
than our prophet has done for
us.”
| The Master said that where
ever the gospfci was preached
the story of the woman who
poured out the ointment from
1 the alabaster box upon h i s
feet would be told as a memor
' i ial of her. So it is that “Dorcas
-! Societies” have been formed
■ । among the women of the church
’■ in all ages who dedicate the
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Letters Io
The Editor
Auxiliary
Newton County
Hospital
Mr. A. B. Dennis, Editor
Dear Mr. Dennis:
The members of the Newton
County Hospital Auxiliary are
so very grateful to you for all ।
you did toward making our :
“Holiday for the Hospital” a
success.
And we do feel that it was a
great success. We made $866.97 !
irom the day and will have
enough to buy a fracture table
for our operating room. This
is equipment that our hospital
staff feel is greatly needed in
the setting of broken bones. So
we will leave something real
and tangible to represent this
our first year as an organiza
tion.
But aside from making mon
ey, we feel that our day of :
“Holiday for the Hospital” was!
a fine success in making friends
of each other and in that we
were all, from amr entire coun
ty, working together for a cause
that is most important to us all.
Any one of us could need our |
hospital mighty badly at any
time, and if it is your broken
leg you can be mighty glad that
you helped buy this fracture
table.
We do already have an excel
lent hospital with a superior
personnel throughout. We of
the Auxiliary who give service
there are ever aware of the
good spirit among them, of the
atmosphere of real love and
even tenderness that is there.
■ And we find it most rewarding
I for having given of our time.
Please share with us this
: satisfaction of having, through
our concerted efforts, done
some real good. And let us
thank you again that you allow
ed us to do this in the name
of the Newton County Hospital
Auxiliary.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Robert R. Fowler,
President Newton
County Hospital Auxil
iary
Mrs. John Fuller,
Chairman Ways and
Means Committee
work of their hands and their
needles to making garments for
those in need.
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New Allotment Os
j
$3,454,600,000 For
Defense Buildup
By LEO S MALLARD
The Berlin crisis has spurred President Kennedy to ask
Congress for $3,454,600,000 to beef up the Army, Navy, and
Air Force striking power. These funds will prepare the U. S
forces to defend our commitments around the world against
Communist agression. * -
ARMY <
Os this amount, the U. S. '
Army will receive $1,440,000,- '
000 to spend for the manpower
and firepower of conventional,
warfare. The Army will build
up from 870,000 to 1,000,000 j
men by relying mainly on the ■
draft. The August draft quota'
has been increased from 8,000 ■
to 13,000, and plans are to
draft 20,000 men every month'
thereafter for the rest of the:
year. Many of these new troops,
will be used to flesh out the
three stateside divisions of the •
Strategic Army Force.
I Some new troops will beef up i
I the Seventh Army’s five divi-i
j sions now in Europe. Spending
■ $l5O million for artillery a n di
combat support units will put
more muscle in the Seventh >
i Army’s punch. Another $lO7
million will be set aside to
move the sixth division to Eu
rope if the Administration de- :
tides to do so.
Low supply dumps around
the world will be replenished I
with ammunition and fleets of.
I new tactical support vehicles,'
| such as armored personnel car
riers and highly-mobie 50-ton
M-60 tanks, which are badly.
needed to match the powerful i
Russian armor now deployed |
in Europe.
NAVY
The U. S. Navy is delighted
with its new allotment of $709
million — the biggest package
given any armed service. Most
of this money will be spent for
strengthening the carrier air
craft squadrons of nuclear-arm
ed attack bombers, plus air-to
surface missies, surface-to-air
missies, and torpedoes.
Coming out of mothballs will
be some 20 transport ships and
amphibious vessels. The Navy’s
sea-lift capacity will be increas-
ed from 1-1/2 divisions to 2
divisions in order to be able to
carry the strengthened Army
to the fighting front. To streng
then its anti-submarine-war
fare forces, the Navy will add
one aircraft carrier and put an
undisclosed number of sub
i killing submarines back in ser-
I vice. To man its expanding
I fleet, the Navy will take aboard
129,000 additional men, increas
ing its complement to 649,000,
Six Polaris subs are now in
! service with 16 nuclear missiles
apiece, and 23 more subs are
J scheduled for completion by
1964. By 1962 the Marine Corps,
primarily organized to fight
‘ conventional or limited wars,
will build up from 177,000 to
' 190,000 men including three
air wings to back up its foot
: sloggers with close tactical
support. In addition, the Corps
will get another $67 million for
I hardware, increasing its pro
curement allowance to $266
! million.
AIR FORCE
Airlift capacity, now one of
the weakest links in U. S. de
fenses, will be bolstered by
calling up an unannounced
. number of reserve squadrons
■ flying C-1245, and Air Nation
al Guard squadrons equipped
with C-975. The Air Force will
boost its airlift capacity by 25
per cent and will be able to
fly two divisions to Europe in
two weeks. New plans also ca l
for keeping in service some
C-H8 prop-driven planes that
were scheduled for deactiva
tion.
More Lockheed C-130 trans
port planes will be bought as
well as a number of Republic
Aviation’s F-105 fightex-bomb-
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