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Retailers Wear Many Hats
The Daily Times Leader, of West Point, Miss.,
pays tribute to retailing in a long lead editorial. The
retailer, the paper observes, is a lot of things to the
community. In its words, “First, of course, he is
purchasing agent. He brings the products of this
country’s fields and factories to where his neighbors
can pick and choose according to their tastes, needs
and pocketbook. Then he is an employer. One out
of every eight people in the civilian labor force
works in retailing. Third, he is the major tax payer.
And, as if paying them isn’t enough, he also has to
collect taxes from his customers as well. The state
has thrust him into the unpaid role of sales tax
collector.
“This businessman has to be more than expert
in the complicated field of modern merchandising.
He has to be an accountant, an advertising expert,
a tax specialist and very nearly a corporation law
year to make a success of his business.”
We all take modern retailing, with its extreme
ly high standards of efficiency and service, for
granted. But we wouldn’t if we ever had to try to do
without it for a week or two. The Times Leader has
simply given credit where it is abundantly due. This
is something to consider before sending “outside”
for your supplies.
James Marlow
Wins Award For
Distinguished Reporting
WASHINGTON UP) — James
Marlow, veteran Associated Press
columnist, is the winner of the
17th Annual Raymond Clapper
Award for distinguished Washing
ton reporting.
Marlow, one of 24 entries in the
1960 competition, was selected
for consistent excellence on far
flung topics, ranging through a
spectrum of politics, national and
international affairs.
The award, accompanied toy a
$1,000 check, is presented annual
ly at the banquet session of the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors. The association held its
yearly session in Washington last
week. The award was presented
Saturday night.
Marlow, 58, has been a news
paperman for 35 years.
Pershing Missile Hits
Target 250 Miles Away
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UP) —
The Army’s Pershing missile hit
| a target 250 miles away in its
longest, most significant test flight
to date.
The distance exceeded by about
25 miles the maximum range of
the Redstone Rocket, which the
Pershing will replace in Western
Europe starting next year. Per
j shing is being developed as a mo
bile field weapon with selective
! range of 50 to 700 miles.
The missile was propelled for
the first time by higher perfor
mance solid fuel.
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Nature notes: A deer can sprint
at a speed of 49 miles an hour.
The silk in a spider’s web is so
I stout that a rope of it an inch
| thick could hold a weight of 74
tons.
JFK and Advisers
Concurred in Cuba
invasion Flan
WASHINGTON UP — Adminis
tration sources said Saturday
President Kennedy and all his top
security advisers concurred in the
Cuban invasion plan that fell
short.
The plan was said to have been
shaped up starting a year ago by
the Central Intelligence Agency
iCIA) during the Eisenhower Ad
ministration. The sources said the
Kennedy Administration review
ed and decided to go ahead with
the idea.
Kennedy has ordered a broad
review of the intelligence work
on the Cuban affair to find out
what caused the setback. The
President was said, however, to
be looking for factual review
rather than any action against
Intelligence Chief Allen W. Dul
les or any other top official in
volved.
Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt.),
said, meanwhile, “there is grow
ing support in official circles for
more drastic action in Cuba.”
Aiken, one of the Republican
members of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee who has
been briefed on moves by the
Kennedy Administration, said that
the Cuban situation “has been
badly handled and sadly mis
judged.”
He added in an interview:
“We just can’t tolerate the So
viet buildup of an apparent ar
senal in Cuba which would be
used against the Western Hemis
phere Nations.”
Contrary to published reports
Secretary of State Dean Rusk,
Undersecretary Chester Bowdes
and the Joint Chief of Staff con
curred generally in the under
taking. There have been reports
Kennedy went ahead over their
strong objections.
The general idea was to have
a landing by Cuban exiles to sup
port and supply anti-Castro
rebels already in the Cuban moun
tains and, hopefully, to set off
such mass defections that Prime
Minister Fidel Castro himself
would topple.
Cuban Newspaper Says
Castro Fired the Shell
That Sank A Transport
HAVANA — The newspaper
Revolueion says Prime Minister
Fidel Castro mounted a tank tur
ret and fired a shot that led to
sinking of a transport ship used
by the invaders.
Castro’s shot touched off muni
tions aboard the vessel, the news
paper reported. It printed pic
! tures of Castro on the tank tur
! ret and of a small transport with
j bow ablaze and stern sinking.
Revolueion is a morning paper.
: Ore of its principal stories re
lated that Jose Miro Torres, son
of the head of the Revolutionary
Council that sponsored the inva
sion, acknowledged its complete
failure.
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Kodiak Man Held In
Woman Slaying
KODIAK L4* — A 67-year-old
man is being held by State Police
in connection with the murder of
Paulita Dolly Leonard, about 51,
of Mission Pioad, outside of
Kodiak Friday night.
Charged with the murder is
Manual Ma”tin Davis, unemploy
ed. police said.
The victim was shot once thru
: the head wi.h a 30-30 rifle in the
home where she and Davis were
residing.
Davis admitted he shot the Leo
nard woman following an argu
! ment. Police were summoned to
the scene by a neighbor after
Davis asked her to call, investi
gators said.
It’s been said, “Americans are
the friendliest people in the world.
And Alaskans are the friendliest
people in America.” The Alaska
i Division of Tourism says, let’s
1 prove that statement this year,
when thousands of visitors come
to our state. One satisfied visitor
will send a dozen more next year.
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iIJ. N. General
Assembly Winds
Up I Is 15th Session
.UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. —
The General Assembly wound up
I its marathon 15th session early
Saturday after staving off fi
! nancial disaster by approving a
$100 million Congo peace opera
| tion fund.
The assembly finally agreed on
I the measure after hours of wrang
ling and corridor haggling that
followed an earlier attempt to
get the required two-thirds ma
jority for a similar proposal. The
final vote was 54 to 15 with 23
abstentions.
Latin American nations who had
opposed to move finally yieled
after they faced an alternative
of the assembly staying in ses
sion until the financial problem
was solved.
The wrangle over Congo fi
| nances reflected the stormy tone
! of the session which was high
j lighted by the Soviet Union’s all
I out attacks on Secretary-General
j Dag Hammarskjold and the entire
1 U. N. Congo operation.
The session opened on a dra
1 matic note with an all-star cast
| headed up by Soviet Premier
1 Khrushchev. It came to a turbu
lent end with the United States
and the Communist bloc swapping
bitter charges over Fidel Castro’s
| Cuba.
In one of its final acts, the as
! sembly adopted a resolution call
ing on all countries to take what
j ever peaceful steps they can to
! remove existing tensions between
the United States and Cuba.
The proposal was adopted 59
to 13.
i It was E. H. Howe who ob
! served, “What people say behind
; your back is your standing in the
community in which you live.”
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