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WHAT A SPOT FOR A SOLO
CHANGES NEEDED
A mere 44 years hence, a man of 90 will be
regarded as “young.” At 135, he will be classified as
“more mature.” His average life span will be 150. As
for the women of 1999, they will “stay young, beautiful
and shapely indefinitely.”
We have this on the authority of Dr. Lowry H.
McDaniel, of Tyronza, Ark., who made these revola
tions to a convention session of the American Medical
Assn, in Atlantic City. Even the common cold, he said,
“will be only a memory.”
But we think the good doctor might better have
told this to the Congress, so our law-makers can get
busy revamping the social security rules. If Americans
in that day are still under wraps to quit work at 65,
they may be healthy, but they’ll be a long time hungry.
And what woman would cherish more or less eternal
youth, beauty and shapeliness if she couldn’t even buy
a new hat?
There are those today who would feel young at 65
—if Uncle Sam would let them.
A CONCRETE ANT HILL
If ants were provided with a concrete ant hill,
what would they do? In all probability they would
start building a regular ant hill next to the concrete
one. Ants would perish without castles to build.
Socialism is much like the hypothetical concrete
ant hill. It shouts Utopia and its sponsors promise a life
of security. But it has in the past torn down the people’s
accumulated savings. What if socialism could give
cradle to grave security? That alone would leave man
as lost as the ant in a concrete hill.
* A republic of free men is based on the premise that
the individual can build his own castle at his own risk
instead of living in a cubicle provided by the state. With
incentive as an urge to produce, man pushes himself
to t'he highest standard of living.
The energy of man must find an outlet in building,
as much as the ant. The creative spirit cannot be static.
Bellingham, Wash., Herald: “A suggestion that
stockholders be guaranteed an annual dividend meets
with silence or chuckles, but a guaranteed annual wage,
which must come from the same source, is presented as
a demand and considered seriously.”
Two Young North Korean Fliers
Surrender Yak Fighter To ROK’s
SEOUL, W—Two young North
Korean fliers buzzed the Seoul
airport Tuesday in a old, Russian
built Yak fighter, then landed and
gave themselves up to cheering
South Korean airmen.
The two were marched to ROK
air force headquarters for ques
tioning. It was presumed they
sought political asylum.
South Korean officials identi
fied the pilot as Capt. Lee Un
Yong, 24, who said he returned
only six months ago from a Rus
sian jet flying school at Kiev.
The other flier was identified as
Lt. Lee Eun Song, 24, a navi
gator trained in Red China. Both
are natives of Pyongyang, the Red
Korean capital.
They were the first Korean
Communist fliers to flee from the
Reds since Lt. Noh Kum Suk
landed a Mig jet fighter at near
by Kimpo air field Sept. 21, 1953.
He received a $100,000 reward for
delivering the Mig and asylum in
the United States.
ROK officers said the two
North Koreans crossed the truce
zone at a hedge-hopping 50 feet
to escape radar detection. Their
plane, a Yak, is a single engine
propellor driven fighter-bomber.
They said the control tower,
manned by Americans and Kor
eans, at first thought the Yak
9
was a British plane. When the
plane failed to answer a radio
call, a Korean noticed the Com
munist insignia.
It was given an immediate
“come in” signal.
Brig. Gen. Kim Shun and other
ROK air officers met the Yak at
the end of the runway. The North
Koreans told General Shin, “We
want to surrender.”
Shin took the controls and
taxied the Yak to the apron where
a big crowd of Koreans and Am
ericans had gathered.
Complications Beset
Seward Dock Contracts
WASHINGTON, MB—'The Inter
ior Department said yesterday it
has under consideration 24 sets
of bids by three construction out
fits for the Seward dock project
in Alaska.
Congress voted $4,400,00 for the
project but officials said more
than one million of that already
has been spent for piling and
other construction materials.
Officials told a reporter they
did not know when an award
would be made. They expressed
doubt it would be today as re
ported in some quarters.
The whole thing has now be
come very complicated, they said.
Hobby Disclaims
Responsibility For
Vaccine Situation
WASHINGTON, Uft —Secretary
of Welfare Hobby said Monday
she bears no responsibility for
the government’s actions in the
Salk polio vaccine situation. She
said the law places tliat burden
on Surgeon General Leonard A.
Scheele.
In a radio interview, Mrs.
Hobby emphasized she was not
dissatisfied with Scheele’s actions.
But she made repeated distinc
tions between the responsibilities
of her department and those of
the Public Health Service, a
Welfare Department agency head
ed by Scheele.
Asked if she had any apologies
for the way the vaccine program
has been handled, or would, with
hindsight have acted differently,
Mrs. Hobby said:
“There is nothing I could have
done differently. The law (on
control of biologicals such as the
Salk vaccine) charged the Public
Health Service and not the Sec
retary.”
At another point, she said she
would be legally powerless to
overrule Scheele if she thought
he had made a mistake.
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