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GOING ALL OUT
The New York Times recently featured an article
under the byline of J. H. Carmical which said this:
“The major oil companies are going all-out to
give the American motorist a better-quality gasoline
. . . Virtually every large refining company has intro
duced a new motor fuel that is supposed to give up to
25 percent more power and 8 to. 10 percent more road
mileage . . . The improved gasoline has been brought
out after the expenditure of millions of dollars in re
search and hundreds of millions in processing equip
ment.
Mr. Carmical explained that the improvement is
obtained by rearranging gasoline’s molecules, which
results in a product with a higher octane reading.
This development is of direct interest to the auto
mobile owner, who naturally wants gas that will give
him more performance and mileage per gallon. It also
holds a significance of a very different kind, in that it
illustrates just how competitive the oil business is. Men
and companies don’t spend huge sums of money for
any purpose just for the fun of it. They sDend it
because competition forces them to try to give the cus
tomer more for his money. The concern which fails
to keep up in this march of progress dies.
What is true of gasoline is true of the thousand
and one products that originate in crude oil. No one
has a monopoly. And the business goes to those who
do the best job.
OPINION ON VANDALISM
Bridgehampton, N.Y., News says: “It’s senseless
to bewail the actions of misguided youths, per se.
“Vandalism, lack of morals, irresponsibility, are
the effects of causes over which the youngsters have
no control, and of which they don’t even have a knowl
edge. In our judgment the basic cause of young delin
quency is a breakdown in home training. The moral
lesson that this involves is serious. Values that were
held in high respect before are now swept aside.”
“What this nation and, iq fact, the entire world,
needs, is courage to replace fear, personal initiative
to replace paternalism, and venture to replace the
frenzied search for security.” —Excerpt from New
England Letter, published by First National Bank of
Boston.
37 Escape Death
Miraculously in
Crash of Airliner
PRESTON, Conn., (tfl—A big
four-engine Constellation with 37
aboard fell with a deafening crash
from rain-soaked skies Tuesday,
\ landing in flames on an isolated
1 farm.
, State police reported that all
aboard, including a baby, miracu
lously escaped death in the crash
itself and the flames that burned
furiously for two hours after the
crackup.
A dozen or so were hurt. Offi
cials reported none apparently
suffer critical injuries.
The 29 passengers and eight
crewmen aboard the Air France
plane, flying from Paris to Mexico
City via New York, were ordered
to a hospital for precautionary
; checkups.
One witness reported that the
i ship, turned back at Idlewild Air
port in New York by rain and low
ceiling, “came down with a bang.”
Once it hit the rain-sodden field,
the plane skidded about a half
mile, bounced into the air and
sheered off the tops of a row of
trees.
Once again, the plane skidded
to the ground, one of its wings
just missing the home of Valen
tine Sebastian where one o'f his
twin sons was playing on the
porch. The ship then plowed
through a small barn.
Passengers, ordered to fasten
their safety belts, screamed as the
plane fell. Witnesses reported,
however, that there was no panic
and the passengers and crewmen
quit the flaming ship quickly and
in an orderly fashion.
MAN WINS 50c BET, LOSES
LIFE IN JUMP FROM BRIDGE
TOLEDO, Ohio, dPi—Delmar R.
Willingham, 38-year-old painter,
won 50 cents yesterday but lost
his life. He leaped from the An
thony Wayne Bridge into the
Maumee River o'n a bet and
drowned.
Willingham lost a game of pool
and then two games of shuffle
board to a drinking companion,
Niles Niemi, whom he had met
several hours earlier at a tavern
here, police said.
“There must be something I can
beat you at,” Willingham told his
companion. • “I'll bet you I can
jump off the bridge.”
The two rode to the bridge
and Willingham dived off, yelling:
“It’s a long way to Tipperary,”
police said.
IT'S STILL A GOOD DRINK!
The first advertisement for cof
fee ever published was in a Lon
don weekly, the Publick Adviser,
in May 1657. The announcement
i read:
“In Bartholomew Lane, the drink
called coffee, which is a very
wholsome and Physical drink,
having many excellent vertues,
closes the Orifice of the Stomack,
fortifies the head within, helpeth
Digestion, quickneth the spirits,
maketh the heart lightsom, is
good against Eye-Sores, Coughs
or Ccflds, Rhumes, Consumptions,
Head-ach, Dropsie, Gout, Scurvy,
Kings Evil and many others, is to
be sold both in the morning, and
at three of the clock in the after
noon.”
(Golly! Let’s have another cup
of coffee.)
Second Son'Drowns
REDONDO BEACH, Calif., GP)—
Pedro- Leon Guerrero, 11, slipped
off an inner tube and drowned in
the surf Monday. A year ago one
of his six brothers, Joseph, 7,
drowned in a swimming pool.
Defense Sec. Wilson Says Military
Reserve Situation Would Be a
Scandal If War Should Come Now
WASHINGTON, UP*—Secretary '
of Defense Wilson said Tuesday j
that the military reserve situation j
“would be a scandal and very dis
turbing to the American people”
if the nation had to go to war now.
Wilson said also that the admin
istration has approved “in a broad
sense” the principle of a reserve
program based on compulsory
service. “Proposed plans are sub
ject to modification and improve
ments,” he said.
S. Koreans Demonstrate
Against Czech, Polish
Truce Inspectors
PANMUNJOM, M—South Kor
eans demonstrated against Czech
and Polish truce inspectors again
Tuesday and the Communists
charged that the outbreak consti
tuted a violation of the Korean
armistice.
The expected protest to the
demonstrations which began dur
ing the weekend was lodged at a
meeting of the Military Armistice
Commission here.
The U.N. told the Reds that “all
steps have been taken to protect
the neutral nations inspection
teams and that they are continu
ing their function and inspec
tions.”
North Korean Lt. Gen. Lee
Sang Cho angrily told U.N. dele
gates that the demonstrations
were staged by “people under the
military command of your side.”
Earlier Tuesday headquarters
of the neutral inspection team at
Pusan, scene of a South Korean
demonstration Saturday, was shif
ted from a hilltop to a former
race track now used as a living
area for U.S. and U.N. officials.
About 300 Koreans marched for
an hour outside the area, shouting
for the withdrawal of “Commu
nist spies from the country.”
The secretary made his state- i
ments at a Pentagon news con
ference at which he was asked for
comment on published stories
about the new military service
plan as outlined by outgoing As
sistant Defense Secretary John A.
Hannah.
“I don’t think any particular
harm was done by the stories,”
Wilson said.
He commented that publication
of the reserve proposals had
“stirred up the country” but that
it is time the American people
take a close, realistic look at what
it wants to do about getting the
maximum potential defense with
in the nation’s means to pay for it.
Wilson said the plan as outlined
by Hannah was prepared at the
Defense Department after consul
tation with the Office of Defense
Mobilization and that it had been
presented to the National Security
Council.
Wilson’s remarks were general
ly in line with word from the
White House that the administra
tion still has a universal military
manpower plan under study but
hasn’t reached agreement on all
details.
Wilson made it clear that he
expects opposition to the compul
sory service plan, remarking that
there are “special interests that
we will hear from.”
Wilson did not name any such
interests but questioners had men
tioned swelling criticism from ex
isting National Guard and reserve
groups. Those organizations would
be absorbed in the new setup.
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