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LEAPFROG WAS SUCH A HARMLESS GAME
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“Newspapers . .
ED SCHERGENS, Editor of the Tell City (Ind.)
News, reports in his column on a six-year-old Cali
fornia girl who did a little essay on the subject of the
newspaper and sent it to the local editor. We quote:
“Newspapers. We need them so we can know
who reks and who drownds and who shoots somebody.
And who wants a house or who dies or gets a baby.
It tells if your dog is lost. They are on shelves and to
make bond fires. They also good under a baby’s plate
and to keep dogs of fa things. You can wrap potato
peelings in them. You can put one when you defrost.
They tell about shows and how much things are.”
“The editor,” remarks Ed, “added a P.S.: ‘Diana,
they also are good to swat things with, like flies and
public officials and things.’ ”
French Hairdresser
Gives Mrs. Kennedy a
“Gothic Madonna” Look
By Frances Lewine
PARIS UPi — A leading French
hairdresser gave Jacqueline Ken
nedy what he called a “Gothic
Madonna look Wednesday night,
clipping more than an inch from
her locks and pinning a tambour
ine-shaped wigpiece and a dazz
ling diamond on the back of her
head.
Mps. Kennedy changed her
wardrobe plans and appeared in
the pink and white straw lace
gown she had originally intended
to wear to Versailles.
French newspapers — except
Communist L’Humanite — had
nothing but praise for the visit
ing First Lady. They said she had
been adopted by Paris, looked like
a Parisian and had a Parisian air.
The average American woman
(if any woman can be called av
erage) has a step of 26 inches.
She takes 2,437 steps per mile
and walks about 5 miles a day.
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Homing Pigeon Heads
From Sitka to Portland
SITKA — A female homing
pigeon headed south from Sitka
yesterday morning to join her
mate who is sitting on their two
eggs during her absence.
Her owner, B. C. Hemphill of
Portland, Ore., estimated it would
take the bird two days to make
the trip with a tail wind. She can
fly 500 miles a day, he explained,
and previously made a trip from
Montana to Portland over the Con
tinental Divide.
The pigeon was sent north and
released at 9:10 a. m. She bears
a legband labeled LKC60643AU
and is expected to hurry home to
replace “pappa pigeon” on their
nest. Hemphill has promised to
send word of her safe arrival.
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Trujillo Was
Merely a Successor
I To the Buccaneers
By J. M. Roberts
Associated Press News Analyst
The international interconnec
tions of Caribbean politics are so
great that only the turn of events
over a considerable time can give
a clue to the ultimate impact of
the assassination of the Domini
can Republic’s dictator.
An example in point is the fact
that, even at the moment of his
death, Rafael L. Trujillo was
being accused in Venezuela of
complicity in another futile plot
to overthrow the government
there because it opposed his type.
Cheers over the event went up
from thousands of exiled Domini
cans scattered throughout the
Caribbean and in the United
States.
International political forces
will immediately begin to make
their play for subversion of such
Democratic elements as might be
able to unite against Trujillo’s
heirs.
In the old days, with a situation
in which a foreign force such as
the Sino-Soviet bloc was already
seeking to expand a beachhead
as now in Cuba, the United States
Marines would have headed im
mediately for their old bases in
San Domingo.
Today the situation is different,
as it was in Cuba two years ago.
The Communists will work
through and attempt to control
what are basically patriotic ele
ments, and no clear-cut excuse
for American intervention is like
ly to be given. The situation, at
least with regard to Communism,
will be a developing rather than
an exploding one — and in its
essence more difficult for the
diplomats of both the Americas.
This is true regardless of the
fact that the collapse of the Tru
jillo regime from the weight of
its own sins has been long fore
seen.
In some Dominican exile quar
ters there is a tendency to attempt
to equate the assassination of Tru
jillo with what their fellow exiles
from Cuba hope will happen to
Fidel Castro, whose hand is being
avidly sought but not yet found
in the Dominican events.
But the differences in the re
actions produced by Castro and
Trujillo are inherent in the posi
tions of the men themselves. Cas
tro is an avowed adherent of an
aggressive foreign social and po
litical system.
Trujillo was merely a worthy
successor of the buccaneers who
first made his island of Hispaniola
famous, and of the other 17th and
18th Century adventurers who
established their personal fields
in the New World.
Trujillo will be mourned only
by those whom he enriched along
with himself, and the chief leg
acy of his estate will be trouble.
Is the country going to the
dogs? The U.S. canine population
is now estimated at 26 million—
or one dog to every seven persons.
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Today's Highlights
In History
Today is Friday, June 2nd, the
153rd day of 1961. There are 212
days left in the year.
* • •
On this day in 1875, the twin
ship Castalia was launched in Eng
land. The steamer was unique in
that the middle of the bottom
was raised above the water
throughout its entire length, the
intended purpose of which was
to prevent sea sickness in cross
ing the English Channel.
* * *
In 1639, the Dutch navigator,
Abel Janszon Tasman, was sent
by the governor-general of the
Dutch East Indies on a voyage of
exploration in the Northwest Pa
cific.
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In 1851, Maine became the first
prohibition state in the union.
* * *
In 1388, President Grover
Cleveland married his ward,
Frances Folsom, in the first Presi
dential wedding solemnized in the
White House.
* • •
In 1945, U. S. troops made a
new landing on Mindanao in the
Philippines during the final phases
of World War II.
• • •
In 1953, Queen Elizabeth II of
England was crowned in West
minster Abbey.
Judge Says Man Can
Feed Pigeons in Square
SEATTLE OPt — A judge says
Louis Dufek can feed the pigeons
in a downtown square and let
the litter fall where it may.
Dufek, 75, was arrested May
23 when a group of merchants
complained he threw popcorn
around, drawing hundreds of
pigeons to the heart of the city.
He appeared in court Wednesday.
“If you have the love of God
in your heart,” Dufek told Muni
cipal Judge Walter McGovern,
, “you don’t want to see a living
thing go hungry. I have fed the
pigeons for 35 years. Is it so
| wrong?”
Said the judge: “I fail to see
where a gentleman like this can
be found guilty.”
Dufek left the court, bought a
bag of popcorn and returned to
the square. The pigeons were j
waiting.
CAPITAL AND UNITED
AIRLINES MERGE
WASHINGTON UP) — The na
tion’s largest airline merger went
into effect yesterday with the
absorption of Capital Airlines by
United Air Lines.
The merger with fifth-ranking
Capital moves United from second
into undisputed first place in the
industry, well ahead of American
Airlines. It reduces the list of
domestic trunk airlines from 12
to 11.
The result is an organization
of 30,000 employes, serving 117
cities on 18,000 miles of routes.
They extend through the east, the
south and the midwest and across
the U. S. midsection to every ma
jor city on the Pacific Coast.
Never a profitable airline—in
33 years it paid only one cash
dividend and two 5 per cent stock
dividends—Capital was forced in
to merger to avoid foreclosure on
the fleet of Viscount airplanes
purchased in England from Viek
ers-Armstrongs, Ltd.
Vickers halted its suit to col
lect a $34 million debt in view
of the merger agreement provi
sions.
The world’s greatest giveaway
program springs from the Ameri
can heart. Our people last year
gave $8 billion to philanthropic
and charitable causes — $44 for
each man, woman and child in
the country.
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