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Another New Industry Something new has come to Amsterdam. Plastic

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

My wife and I dined with a delightful young man and his wife. It was a quiet family evening. Upon returning home, I read that "my host and hostess intended no longer to be man and wife, and that"the wife had other plans.

My friends did not seek favor-bathtubs "so light you can lift them with one hand able or unfavorable publicity nor • • • and can be installed by one man without a bit were they, as a matter of fact. Of extra help." * entitled to any. They were not of

** Our newest industry, the recently organized Sani ^Glas Corporation, is a subsidiary of the rapidly

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the theater or in the movies; they were neither racketeers nor gang­sters. They were simple human

growing Fiber Glass Industries Inc which has been £ « b m , n i £ *EftSS% operating in Buildings 57 and 70 of the former Big- daIms t0 5 ^ ceieSritles, al-eloW-Sanford plant though, it must be admitted that

The entire equipment of the Reinforced Plastics g j %2FM$SF*82l Division of Sterling Precision Corp., of Toledo, Ohio, presume determines social status has been acquired by Sani-Glas. Much of it already in New York City. has been transferred to Amsterdam. , ^^fZ^T T

Ara T. DUdilian, president of Fiber Glass, says all ^ ' 1 ^ * * 1 ^ v X the equipment should be installed shortly and expects 0f picking on people who are mar-production Of the tubs to begin next month. The ried and have children, even if initial efforts of the new concern should employ about g^,™?^Tas youTnd'i migh"

have as to how to raise children or where to go for a holiday or whether the bills are. too high or is it only. inflaUon? Do we add to the social confusion by this al­most inhuman Invasion of privacy of the family? Do we paint a pic­ture of a sober society that takes itself seriously or are we a nation

#h« past yUr 1, good news..It tf insurance against & X K J V & ? S r t f r M ever again having to rely on one major industry upon burning out as we meet* reality?

This incident of sitting with people in the repose of their home, e a t i n g their food, drinking their wine, discuss­ing this and that, and then discovering, in a newspaper, that It was all an illusion, that really they were not there at all; that each was

s in some law office, fire in the eye, anger in the heart, be­traying and denouncing — it wa» nothing to experience the week before Christmas. And yet, this sort of thing is

constant and one wonders how much harm it does. In the first place, do we really need to know the details of other people's pri-

Who really cares

20 persons. >-, While this may not seem too important in itself,

the real significance of our latest entry in the indus­trial field is that it symbolizes toe program of diver­sifying industry in Amsterdam, and that is important to all of us.

The acquisition pt several varied mdustrfes~dnring

whose rise or fall the welfare of so many people is dependent

gone half way up the hill before Jack fell down and chased a dame and Jill went to see a lawyer? It Is a pity, of course, that Jack was so .clumsy and it might have been sensible for Jill to give Jack

Private Live* But do you really care to know

about the private lives of Jack and Jill and why they no longer hold hands but s u f f e r from wandering eyeballs? Maybe I have grown old and a younger public

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Inspection Deadline Time is rapidly running, out for inspection of 1952

and older motor vehicles Jn compliance with New York State's new compulsory inspection law.

Delinquent owners are now faced with not one, but two deadlines. They are: •

1. Owners of .1952 and older vehicles will find it impossible to obtain 1958T'registration plates un­less their jcars are equipped with valid inspection stickers.

2. On-the-rQad enforcement of the inspection law ^t^iives? . is* scheduled to begin in earnest on Jan. 1. The crim- whether' Jack and Jill have only inal provisions of the law will become effective on that date. r* V *' .-..<'•

There is no* good reason why every car owner covered by the law should fail to have his vehicle inspected. r"tTjere>re many stations,' located all over a^hv^a^oi:VM^Titjt^v^ the area. The .cost is not exorbitant and motorists lawyer, are requested tovreport any unfair practices so that the oulprits can be rooted out and prosecuted

'Having one's car inspected and pronounced safe is a protection, not only for the owner himself, ..but for others on the highway. No one wants .to drive a car

i tha t Is a potential-death irapZ_The safety of your prefers drunkards to treaties arid philanderers to tariffs. Perhaps there is more "interest in failure than In success, for every divorce marks some kind of a failure.

The reports on Juvenile delinquency are conclusive that broken homes are the greatest factor in this very serious social problem. What­ever adds to -breaking up homes therefore is damaging to our society and gossip and. hearsay and the repetition of untruths can aggravate sltus-tions which could. If left to themselves and to time, work out a solution based on some consideration for the moral welfare of children brought into this world In a happier and more romantic mood. With Sputnik in the heavens

and rockets in the air, one might have a sober look at our society which was conceived In liberty, but not In license, as some seem to think, particularly the self-advertising celebrities whose repu­tations are built not on genius but on the publicizing of their wicked­ness as though they were minor Benvenuto Cellinls or more boast­ful Francois VUlons. The pity of it is that we help these meager human beings along the path of their own destruction, for what kills them is that they come to believe their own publicity which Is a fate worse than anything the young lady did that In the 19th century preachers said led to hell.

And so I have had my little say and I am sure it wHI do no good, for there are always .those who are thrilled by a man ilipplng on a banana peel and if there is no other way. they will put the peel down for the man to slip upon. It always gets a laugh, If nothing else.

family should be worth whatever it costs. While compulsory automobile inspection will not

provide a solution to our traffic fatality problem, it is an important step In that direction. Every motor­ist has an obligation to cooperate in what is one of the most sensible safety precautions to come along in many years.

Adding to Bus Problems In the welter of New York State legislation there

exists one, of the 'most inexcusable laws to be found anywhere. This law, which imposes a two per cent gross receipts tax.on public transportation, dates back to the days when'trolley cars were well-patronized symbols of the affluence of public transit.

In those days, operators. probably could absorb the two per cent levy and still be able to declare dividends. But during the past two decades the picture has changed. The history of public transportation has been one of decreasing patronage and declining revenues.

Many transportation companies already have been forced out of business. Others have not been operating in tne black for many years. They a,re facing a most dubious future, Since communities depend on the service these companies provide, their plight becomes everyone's business.

Under the circumstances, the two per cent tax serves only to add to the woes of already hard-pressed bus companies. It should be abolished before It does further harm.

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Who Owes Whom ? * The Internal Rfevenue Bureau reports rather

glumly that only $2,279.95 has been turned over to its "conscience fund" thfs year.

This money represents contributions from per­sons who think they shortchanged Uncle Sam on In­come tax. The voluntary donations are sent anon­ymously in the apparent belief that revenue agents win not catch up with thexulprlti.

In some years, the "conscience fund" has received as much as $30,000 in one lump turn. This year* the top donation wss $300. Total contributions are Jess than one-third of those received last year.

'There may be a moral in this, even if the Revenue I)cpt fails to see ft After paying back-breaking taxes for many years, maybe the average taxpayer is beginning to wonder whether it li not all right te cheat a little on the government that Insists on taking so much of his hard-earned money.

Tf so. the taxpayer seems to have decided in his own favor.

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Bad Year Seen for Daddy Due to Kid's Playthings

By B. I. PHILLIPS

Christmas topped all previous ones-at our house for drama.. Al­geria, the Middle East and Cape Canaveral were comparatively quiet. Dad had- a rocket in his thigh shortly after dawn. He wanted to quit, but Uttle Willie said the initial test was a failure and sent up a new one which went up as high as popper's shoulder. Mother had been struck by a spaceship at 7:10 and Harolde, aged 6, was upset because he had timed it for 7:03. Jennifer, aged 5, was in a tantrum because, while her Christmas doll could talk arid sing, it had no fire-power.

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We had bought a rubber toy for "Toots" the puppy, but he refused to play with It when he fonnd It didn't beep. By 10 o'clock the neighbor­hood kids had been over, to­gether with the fire depart­ment and a police car. Most of the moppets had brought homemade rockets, w h i c h seemed to give better results than those made by the Army and Navy* One went up through the housetop taking the Christmas. tree and fa­ther's left ear with It The Jenks boy, who brought it over, said this was strange, because the count down had shown everything working.

LitUe Oscar Horwitz came over wearing his space suit and asked

try out a new pair of skates which never touch the ground and take the owner around the world two laps every 24 hours. (Noel! Noel! With smelling salts, if you don't mind.) x ,

Washington. Report

Recent Action of Indonesians Called Crime Against Nations

uiancing Backward

Over The Recorder Flies

to be locked in the deep freeze unit. It was O.K. with us. The Hoskins boy had a sled that need­ed no snow. Just dynamite. Around noontime the house next door disappeared. Something had gone wrong with a toy. At 1 p.m. dad fled, leaving a note saying he was going to the-United Nations to see if he could get Dag Ham-marskjold to come over and re­store order. Mother? Nobody has seen her since Junior got her to

* A Madison Square Garden dlrec-tor has proposed dog racing there, but other directors ran faster than electric rabbits. .'Dog racing In New York is frowned on, and it has its bad points, but ye ed ha* liked it ev?r since he won $1,100 on a $2 double at Miami Beach. • If the sport ever came to the me­tropolis it would be done In super-dooper style probably with neon-lit rabbits, doghouses In color and greyhounds with TV personalities.

, The danger Is that, with the Gar­den so closely connected with box­ing, over the years, there would be at least three managers per greyhound.

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Old Kalntuck, pinched for hunting ducks after hours, was excused and burled In ' apologies on the ground that, since he was bunting with game officials, he assumed everything was legal. Most folks -thought a governor was supposed to know the laws and that a sportsman alwsys 'checked on rules and regula­tions, no matter who was in the .party. What about the state game law officials? Oh. well, maybe they assumed "Happy" would keep them posted. Did anybody apologize to the DUCKS?

• • • • Fans of the "Winchell File" are

amazed at the really top dramatic acting of Walter, who performs with a punch, and yet does It in a restrained manner. Winchell. of course, got his start in the thea­ter as a boy. but not In the field of tense drama, where he is now perfectly at home.

By DAVID LAWRENCE

WASHINGTON — Organized brigandage in Indonesia — the theft of private property and an attempt to use the loot as black­mail against a foreign' government —has hardly a parallel in interna­tional crime.

For several days now the news dispatches have told of the confiscation of the proper­ty of Dutch citizens who live , in Indonesia — formerly the Dutch East Indies—but there has not been a single protest from the major powers of the world against what is prob­ably the handiwork of the Communists. Indonesia is the creature of the

United States and her-ailies who helped the island empire to achieve independence from Dutch rule in 1949. The cry of "colonial­ism" had been raised, and the De­partment of State, under the Tru­man administration, did every­thing it could to bring about the separation of the Dutch from the island possessions where, during many hundred years. Holland's In­vestors had aided in the develop­ment of such resources as rubber and petroleum.

No Compensation • Confiscation of the property of

foreigners is nothing new in the world, but in international law the precedents require that adequate compensation be made to the law­ful owners. In this case not only has no such provision for payment been made, but the Indonesian government Is threatening not to pay at all unless the Dutch in­vestors bring pressure to bear on their own government to relin­quish possession of another colony —Dutch New Guinea—thousands of miles away.

This Is such a shocking ex­ample of gangsterism'that It will cause many a "liberal" who has Inveighed against "colonialism" In the last dec­ade to wonder whether the se­quel thereto Is truly an Inde­pendent democracy that ful­fills Its obligations or a gov­ernment that merely does the bidding of a worse type of matter—namely, the Commu-nlat imperialist*. Inside Indonesia, where the

Communists have Insidiously In­filtrated and now openly mani­fest their control through so-called elections, there is a ;beginning of a virile resistance to the Reds. President Sukarno, who at this critical time is taking a leave of absence from the country presum­ably for health reasons, undoubt­edly became so deeply Involved himself with the local Commu­nists that he decided it would be better to leave the situation to right Itself during his absence. There Is talk that he may never.

' return.

Australian Oppotttlon The demand that Dutch New

Guinea be given up arouses op­position'in Australia,x which has control over the other half of that island In the Padflc. From a stra­tegic standpoint, the. Western na­tions oannot very well stand by

' and see a communist-dominated gov*rnroant acquiring such an 4m« portant rm'«) position in south east Asia. If Holland had not been occupied by the Nazis during Work! War II and her fleet had

not been scuttled, she might to­day have been able to make a naval demonstration against Indo­nesia. But the government.at The siderable damage Hague can do little to urge the

Twenty Years Ago Dec. 26. 1937—Fire in the build­

ing 'at 231-233 East Main St, owned by Ulderico Canala, did con-

e democracies of the world to take a good look at the fruits of their anti-colonial policies. Certainly the 80,000,000 people of Indonesia are today much Worse off than they were under, Dutch rule.

The economic situation in Indonesia is very bad as a di­rect result of the friction In­side, the government and be­cause of the seizure of Dutch property amounting to more than a billion dollars in value. All the important trade and

business activities and ail the com­munications between. the various islands in the Indonesian/- group have been carried on heretofore by Dutch citizens.- To uproot .all this suddenly is to bring a crisis to the' little nation that must cause the governments of 4\the world, especially the U n i t e d States, to wonder if a continuation of enlightened "colonialism," such as the Dutch furnished, would not have really been much better for

Announcement was made of the marriage of Frederick Auspelmey-er and Miss Genevieve Francisco, both of the Town of Florida; George Besaw, Mayfield, and Mrs. Elizabeth Hopes, Fort Hunter.

Died: Frank G. Cook; Mrs. Peter J. Spaun.

Marriage of John E. Deming, Amsterdam,, and Miss Beulah R. Woods, Lake Pleasant.

Poor Man's Philosopher '

Everglades' Barefoot Scholar Finds Happiness in Swampland

Ten Years Ago -Dec. 26. 1947—Died: David Rid-

dell; Mrs. George V. Green; John Petterson;—Mis<; Marion Evims; Mrs. Helen F. Whitehead, Canajo-harie.

About one foot of snow fell in the Amsterdam area during a storm which paralyzed many sec­tions of the state. '

One Year Ago Dec. 26. 1956—County Attorney

Milburn D. Smith announced the the average inhabitant of this co- appointment of Attornev William

By HAL BOYLE

EVERGLADES, Ha. UPi — Some men find life by trying to run away frbm.it. ,

That Is true of Bud Kirk, the barefoot scholar of the Ever­glades.

Brawny Fisherman Bud is a big brawny 46-year-old

commercial, fisherman who goes around without shoes and has feet so tough he can strike a match on them or walk across broken

"glass without injury. "I like the feel of the

ground," said Bud. "I bought a new pair of shoes when I got married, and when I gave them-away 10 years later they were still as good ss new." He doesn't, mind that strangers

lonial area than Red rule is to­day under a puppet government which obeys Moscow's agents.

| Time for Principles In recent weeks the anti-com­

munist sentiment inside Indonesia has been rising, and it is import­ant for the non-communist coun­tries not to become entangled in the internal situation there. But certainly the time has come to champion the principle of simple h o n e s t y in i n t e r n a t i o n a l affairs as against the stealing of private property, coupled with brazen demands to extort politi­cal concessions from a foreign government as the price of recov­ering the stolen property.

It makes many observers won­der whether the same thing isn't likely to happen in Algeria, where French interests have built up a big colony only to find themselves now being forced out by a nation­alist movement also fanned to a frenzy by communist Intrigue.

(Reproduction Rights Reserved)

A. Carepo as assistant county at­torney.

Guest Editorial The Forgotten Stanzas

The National Music Council wants Congress to adopt an agreed, official version of "The Star Spangled Banner." In the process, some experts hope to make a few-minor changes In the wording and -of Waldcn Pond, punctuation, as well as some slight variations in the melody and har­mony.

It may surprise younger Ameri­cans to learn that the song wss legally, adopted as the national

consider it a bit odd for a man his age to go around shoeless. All his life Kirk has worried little about the opinions of others.

Bud went only to the eighth grade in school. In 1930, when he was 19, he wearied of trying to find factory work. He left his native Rochester, N.Y., and came here to one of America's last wil­dernesses.

'1 was a little sour on things," said Bud. "I was tired of conformity, and wanted • breath of fresh air in my life." Like Thoreau, he wanted to get

away from civilization. But he did a far better Job of it than the sage

Bud plunged alone into the heart 'of the Everglades, and lived there alone for more than f6ur years.

"I learned ,to live off the land— a thing any man can do if he Is put to it." he said.

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D e a t h s By Th» ASSOCIATED PRESS

• OKLAHOMA CITY ^ - W a l t e r S. Campbell, 70, well known au-«thor and teacher of professional writing courses at the University of Oklahoma, died yesterday. CarnpNMl wrote under tMnnmr of Stanley Vestal and waslne au-' thor of more than a dozen books.

anthem onlyai recently as 1931. Of course, the armed forces hrt recognized it as our anthem long before that. Among Americans, Francis Scott Key's 1814 composi­tion has been popujar since'the time of Its writing. And the mel­ody to which Key's words were put was actually an old English drink­ing tune. i :

The pity is that In spite of this venerable heritage, too many Americans • ha%*e only slight ac­quaintance with anything beyond the first of the anthem's four stanzas. It would be satisfying If the attention now being given to "The Star Spangled Banner" re­sulted in popularizing thosa rela­tively "forgotten" stanzas, especi­ally the final one. which begins

DARIEN, Conn. UP, - Howard '^h! thus r* It evw when freeman Stout Neilsonr 83. a hank presi­dent, a founder of the Daricn Po­lice Department and the city's first police commissioner, died yes­terday.

MANSFIELD, Ohk> 1*1 - Clar­ence I. Van Derau. 65, retired general works manager for West-Inghouse electric appliance, plants In Mansfield, Columbus ara_ New-

SM near Marysvtlle, Ohio.

shall stsnd" and Includes the stir­ring lines:

Then, conqner we mmt, fthea our caute It It Juit.

And this be our motto, "In God Is our trust"

—Buffalo Newt.

Roy W. Goranson, 57, a noled theo­retical physicist at the University of California Radiation Laboratory

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UVERMORE, Calif. Ufc — Dr.

Alamos, N.M., office of the Atomic Energy Commission. He WA* born In Canada.

Bud emerged from time to time

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"About Making Plans** Upon ti\i dreams' of yes­

terday . . . I build what Is to be . . . with utmost care I lay my plans . . . faith Is my special key . . . on pit­falls of my past mistakes . . , foundations take their form . . i experience has taught ma how . . . to weather etery storm . . . prayer constitutes

- the mortars. . needed"forcp— tra strength . . . with this ma­terial I can . . . proceed to any length . . . It's' fun to forrrmuta gr^at plans . . . then strive to makt the goal

it makes life so worth living and . . . \Vt tonic for the sou) . . . but plans alorn will not stiffiee . . . It takes a lot of work . . . for dream castles ara idle things . . . when dreamers tend to shirk sT^atHl with all this rm well aware . . . plan* often fo astray . . . and whether I succeed or fai l .« . God's will I must obey.

only to sell the skins of coon and alligators he trapped. As the months and years passed, Bud's angei against civilization ebbed, but his.fascination with the world ot nature around him grew strong­er.

"I am curious about everything I see — people, plants, animals, marine life," said Bud.

In time Kirk became a self-taught authority on all the varied life .of the Everglades. He knew where-to find the-hidden bird, the rare flower, the places where the elder Indians had buried their dead long ago, University scien­tists often came to him for help.

In 1940 Bud met aijd married Kappy Stephens, a local school­teacher. Six years ago at the age of 40 he decided he could do with a bit more schooling, so he spent a year as a special student at the University o'f Miami. He support­ed his wife and two children, meanwhile, by the sale of wild orchids he gathered from the swarrps.

"1 lived pretty close to the belly—but It doesn't hurt a man to tough It out," said Bud. "I was afraid of what the teen-age students would think of me, but they took me right In. It was the most won­derful year of my life." . Bud now is at a second cross­

roads in his life. He Is recognized as one of the best fishermen in the area, but it is today a poor-paying business. He averages under $75 a w*ek.

Much as he loves the mysterious Everglades. Bud feels he may hava to leave them in order to make a better future for his chll-

~dren, who now number three. 'There comes a time when re­

sponsibility catches up with you," said Bud, who is gentle and curi­ously soft-spoken for one so large. "I guess I'd even consider work­ing In an office, but I hate tha thought of being Indoo^a."

,m In his years spent plumbing the secrets of the Everglades Bud had a lot of time to brood about life.

"I decided that the philosophy that the meek shall Inherit the earth, while it seems thin and weak at times, is true. In the long run." he said. I

When Iasked him what was tht greatest thing he had learned from his solitary sojourn in this watery wilderness, he said with* out hesitating, "a degree of toler»

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