Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1964 — Page 8

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Democrats In Texas Seek Ticket Balance

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International The greatest baancing act since High Wire Blondin pranced above Niagra Falls is taking place among the top Democratic politicians in Texas with President Johnson in charge. Th* President is trying to balance the 1964 ticket in Texas. The ticket may be balanced with a conservative shoo-in for the Democratic candidate for governor and a Democratic liberal shoo -in to run for the U.S. Senate. This delicate balance between conservative and liberal Democrats could leave everybody happy or anyway less angry than they might otherwise have been. Further, it is designed to avoid Democratic primary contests for either nomination which might so damage the party as to permit the Republicans to elect another candidate to high office in Texas. Texas has been tending a bit toward two-party politics. Republic a n presidential candidates carried Texas in 1928, 1952 and 1956. Lyndon Johnson was put on the 1960 Democratic ticket by John F. Kennedy to hold the Texas electors. What else Johnson might accomplish in the South 'would be so much frosting on the cake. Vw UL w LBJ AIDE— Dr. Eric F. Goldman, professor of history at Princeton University, has been named by President Johnson to serve as co-ordi-nator for the reception of the work of the nation’s scholars and specialists. Jr I t * z i-aMSSilfkl I I Bi )BI If am' Here's one WATER REPELLENT that Really Works! SANITONE Leaves fabrics naturally soft too! Try it today. See for yourself. national 1 ' . sarrico KELLY DRY CLEANING 427 N. 9th St . * Phone 3-3202 I

Hedge Against Trouble Johnson is not ikey to need Johnson is not likely to need electoral votes in this year’s presidential election. But the balancing act he is imposing on Texas Democrats is a good hedge against unexpected trouble. Roy McGhee reported last week from Washington, D.C., that: “The awesome power of the White House was brought directly to bear on Democratic party chieftains in Texas to safeguard President Johnson’s liberal image in other parts of the United States.” McGhee is a member of the Washington bureau of United Press International with some special responsibility for Texas news. He explained that Johnson’s awesome power had been used to chivvy Rep. Joe Kilgore, D-Tex„ out of this year’s contest for the Democratic senatorial nomination. Kilgore would have opposed in the primary Sen. Ralph Yarborough, a liberal Democrat. Kilgore had the support of Gov. John B. Connally, a one - time aide and long time political associate of President Johnson. A Texas Democratic slate headed by conservatives Connally and Kilgore might have persuaded big city northern voters to suspect that Johnson also was tainted by southern conservatism. Protect Connally Texas dispatches now relate that the President has moved to protect Connally from a primary contest with another Texas Yarborough, this one also a liberal but no relation to the senator. This Yarborough is Don who missed by a whisker defeating Connally for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination two years ago. The President’s thumbs down evidently either will get Don Yarborough out of the primary contest altogether or cut him down to bite size for Connally. Connally is regarded as 'a. conservative by Texas liberals. Texas Republicans do not regard Connally as a bona fide conservative. The story of the Democratic party in Texas is of angry struggle between liberals and conservatives. Each wing controls about 15 per cent of the party. They battle for the middle 70 per cenft which is not absoutely committed in politics. John F. Kennedy’s visit to Texas last November was to heal the party breach. President Johnson is continuing the effort to make a deal. Man Is On Trial As Murder Middleman DULUTH, Minn. (UPD—Exboxer Norman Mastrian goes on trial today on charges he was the middleman in the ‘‘murder for hire” of Mrs. Carol Thompson. The short, husky Mastrian, 40, is accused of acting on the orders of T. Eugene Thompson, 36. former prominent Twin Cities attorney, to hire a killer to do away with Mrs. Thompson nearly a year ago. Mastrian is charged with murder. In Minnesota a person may be charged with murder for committing not only the crime itself but also being an accomplice to it. Thompson was found guilty last fall of arranging his wife’s death for more than $1 million in insurance money and for the love of a brunette mistress. The former southern Minnesota farm boy is serving a life sentence .ia the Stillwater State Prison. Minnesota does not have- the death penalty. The third person on the state’s list of defendants is Dick W-C. Anderson, 35, a hard-drinking ex-roofing salesman. Police said he has confessed in grim detail how he killed Mrs. Thompson for $3,000. . The trial was moved here from St. Paul on defense motion. If you havfe something to sell oi trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results | ADAMS THEATER - Last Time Tonight - “NOTE—One Performance at 7:30 Tremendous in COI4)R! “THE PRIZE” Paul Newman, Elke Sommer ALSO — Shorts 25c -65 c _ O—O Coming Sun. — DEAN MARTIN | “Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed” Carol Burnett — Color Comedy!

Soviet Russia Plans Changes In Family Law MOSCOW (UPD-Soviet legislators today worked on a liberal new family law that will remove Stalin-era restrictions on divorce and guarantee equal rights for illegitimate children. Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev has no intention of returning to the early Communist laws that permitted divorce by 'postcard or to the view expressed by a woman Communist leader shortly after the revolution that sexual appetites should be satisfied

DeGaulle Back In Asian Prominence

UPI Foreign News Analyst The air of jubilation and confidence emanating from President Charles de Gaulle’s Elysee Palace was taking on an almost physical force. The breaks were going his way, and his cup was running over. ' ?—-- —- — — Within the six - nation European Common Market he successfully had beaten down West German objections and forced agreement on a farm policy which promised to benefit French farmers and relieve the pressure of agricultural surpluses. As for the world and France’s place in it, ‘ especially as it concerned the United States, he had moved back into a place of prominence in Asia without the firing of a shot or the use of a soldier by the simple expedient of granting diplomatic recognition to Red China. The Nationalist Chinese government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek then removed a satiation which might have .caused some embarrassment by breaking relations with France. Ahead lay the rosy vista of De Gaulle visits to Mexico next month and later visits to Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and Colombia in the fall. Might Welcome Attention A possible portent of things to come was a suggestion from Panama, deeply embroiled in a quarrel with the United States, that that nation might also welcome attention from De Gaulle in the form of French economic assistance. De Gaulle’s operating base was France’s great prosperity and the suggestion that French aid, previously channeled almost exclusively to former French possessions, might now also be extended elsewhere. i In Asia, for example, he pursued twin goals. One was

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as simply as the need for a glass of water. What his government « does plan is to cut away the red tape encumbering divorce suits here and to provide more protection for children born out of wedlock. Repeal 1944 Law • Tbe plans were disclosed Sunday by O. P. Kolchina, one of the vice chairmen of the legislative committee of the Supreme Soviet or parliament. He said the 1944 family law would be repealed at “the insistence of many workers” and more liberal provisions drawn up to replace it. Under the present law, petitioners for divorce must publish a notice in the press, which often takes more than a month to start with because of limited space. Grounds for divorce have never been specified by law and judges’ discretion is wide. Court

De Gaulle’s avowed intent to restore the glory of France. The other, somewhat lower on the idealistic scale, was to open up Asian markets to French industrial goods faced with increasing competition and problems of over - production. Red China had little that France could use and less money. But she could sell to the under-developed nations of the French African community and thereby earn the francs which could be spent in France on industrial products. In Southeast Asia, toe twin goals became one. Part Os Long Plan Despite the shock with which toe United States greeted De Gaulle’s decision to recognize Red China, it Iras part of a plan long in toe making and one which began to take form last August when De Gaulle called for a neutral and unified Viet Nam. The idea quickly gained adherents. North Viet Nam, under severe economic strain and desperately in need of rice from toe south, reacted enthusiastically. Cambodia, when it decided to reject U.S. aid, turned to France and received a .warm reception. “We are convinced that only France can build a bridge between East and West,” declared Cambodia’s Prince Sihanouk, who has proposed a union between Cambodia and a uaified Viet Nam. Iri Laos, French representatives have been equally active, promoting a state visit of toe king to Paris and a long-term program of economic aid. De Gaulle, premising his ideas on a belief toe United States eventually must withdraw militarily from Southeast Asia, describes Red China as a force in being. So, undoubtedly, is De Gaulle.

fees are virtually punitive — often $220 for each party. The new law will eliminate the publication, the fee, and much of the courtroom delays. Protect Children It also will protect illegitimate chldren by providing for measures to establish paternity. The old law makes no provision for forcing the father of children born out of wedlock to support them.

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There will be no change In the wording “fatherless" on the birth certificates of children born out of wedlock, but there is no particular stigma attached to this in ■ the Soviet Union. “The new legislation will protect mother and child, expand the rights of the mother, strengthen her dignity and her position,” Kolchina said ip the labor newspaper Trud. •

11. S. Supreme Court Returns To Bench WASHINGTON (UPI) - ™ e Supreme Court returns to the bench today to hand down decisions and orders after four weeks off for opinion writing. Rulings were not expected on the two most important issues under advisement — state legi s 1 a t i v e reapportionment and the trespass convictions of lunch counter demonstrators.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1964

Frank Bohnke To Retire March 1 Frank E. Bohnke, a resident of 121 S. Eleventh St., retires from the General Electric company March 1, after completing more than 36 years of continuous service. Currently on a four-week vacation, he will retire under the normal provisions of the G. fc. pension plan. i A member of the Adams county council and a past Democratic precinct committeeman, Bohnke joined the General Electric company at the Decatur plant June 14, 1926. He was first employed as an oven tender and after approximately two * months, was transferred to the tool room, where he has worked until his retirement. Prior to becoming a G. E. employe, he worked for several years at the Decatur Casting Co. and the Indiana Board and Filler Co., in Decatur. Mr. and Mrs. Bohnke are members of the Decatur E. U. B. church and are very active in church affairs. They have two sons, Donald, with the Central Soya Co., in Marion, O.; and Dr. Harold Bohnke, a Decatur dentist. They also have three grandchildren. The well-known Decatur man said he has no definite plans, but is expected to keep busy with his county council duties and some golf. .. ~ Dents in Carpets When there are dents in your = carpets, caused by heavy pieces =i of furniture, trytaking a chamois 8 wrung out of warm water, and a placing this over the spots for ■ several hours.