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PAGIE IOUR

jT HE MICHIGAN DAILY

TUkbDAY. UQ(TOJL 23, M f

_______________________________.

Franco Aid
ANOTHER ONE of Senator Pat MCar-
ran's Franco First moves was approved
in a House-Senate Appropriations meeting
last week.
The committee, sparked by Franco sym-
patrizer, McCaran, voted an additional
100 million dollars for military aid to
Spain. What prompted the committee to
make this move remains a mystery since
a committee to study Spain's military
needs is still in Spain and has not yet is-
sued a report.
This extra pocket money for the Falangist
regime was added at the expense of a 154
million dollar cut in the over all aid ap-
propriations in the Foreign Aid bill. From
the military standpoint this uncalled for
slash in favor of Franco can only mean an
undermining of Eisenhower's program for
military effectiveness in Europe.
But more significant, this action is one of
many which has revealed Congress' willing-
ness to support Franco's dictatorship and
thus to prolong the suffering of the Spanish
people.
The irony of U.S. aid to Spain is tht it
came just as Franco's regime was on the
brink of collapse.
Last spring strikes shook the entire nation.
These displays of disatisfaction were the on-
ly foreshadowing one needed to recognize
the strength of the growing movement
against Franco. In addition to the long exist-
ing Franco opponents, the Republicans and
Monarchists, the strikes received support
from the lower middle class, part of the Ar-
my, a section of big business and many
Catholic priests. But the U.S. did not have
the patience to wait for Franco's fall.
At least if the U.S. somehow saw it stra-
tegically profitable to bail out Franco,
some promises could have been extracted
for a liberization of the regime.
But his reign continues, and the hunger
and disease is as bad as ever. While the
Spanish people remain oppressed, the U.S.
continues to send aid to one dictatorship in
order to fight another dictatorship.
-Alice Bogdonoff
Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.
NIGHT EDITOR: HARLAND BRITZ
Praise be to Orpheus. The Choral Union
Series, in the fourth and fifth concerts of
the season, has at last come across with a
group of musicians worthy of undivided
attention, unqualified praise, and the $2.40
or more we pay to hear them.
In its twenty-seventh Ann Arbor appear-
ance, the Boston Symphony, under Charles
Munch, Sunday night presented a program
displaying three different conceptions of
essentially dramatic music, and as usual did
well by them all.
Judging from one hearing, the Honegger
Symphony No. 5 was deservedly the chief
point of interest in the program, both
from the standpoint of its newness and
its worth. The chordal first movement
provides a sturdy, well-unified beginning
and lays the groundwork for the rhythmic
development and intricate color effects
which follow.
The finale is an extended effort to build
up tension, and Honegger is evidently no
amateur along this line. Repetition of a
definite rhythmic pattern, running passages

in the strings which almost but never quite
reach their goal, the standard tremolo, and
dissonant blasts from the brass section-
all these work their magic before the move-
ment is climaxed, and then closes on the
significant drum tap.
From Honegger's Fifth Symphony, the
program proceeded to Tchaikovsky's Sixth,
which Munch did his best to keep from be-
ing overly "Pathetique." Restraint was the
dominating characteristic of his interpreta-
tion of the first movement. The lyric theme,
particularly, was held back in its first ap-
pearances in the muted strings, and not
until the final section of the movement did
it sing out in all its outworn glory. In the
succeeding two movements, Munch showed
Tchaikovsky to be as effective in creating
impressions like the warm gracefulness of
the second movement and the martial vigor
of the third as he is in creating a passion-
ately tragic mood.
Munch's interpretation of this sym-
phony is not a unique one; Tchaikovsky's
lack of subtlety gives no opportunity for
such an accomplishment . His interpreta-
tion is rather faithful to the inherent
characteristics of the music and ignorant
of any surrounding traditions which can
only obscure what quality the music has.
Last night's concert gave Munch a chance
to display his vitality and his generally
liberal conception of orchestral technique.
The Rameau was serenely handled, but in
his reading of Sclumann's Fourth Sym-

INTERPRETING THE NEWS:
Vatican A ppointment

Oil, Sweat And Dolars

/ette'4 TO THE EDITOR
The Daily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of
general interest, and will publish all letters which are signed by the writer
and in good taste. Letters exceeding 300 words in length, defamatory or
libelous letters, and letters which for any reason are not in good taste will
be condensed, edited or withheld from publication at the discretion of the
editors.

By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
PRESIDENT TRUMAN may have actually
timed his decision on diplor*atic rela-
tions with the Vatican in order to give the
country ample time to debate it.
By sending General Clark's Ambassa-
dorial appointment to the Senate in the,
closing hours of the congressional session,
and then giving out word that, because
of the old law against appointing military
men to civilian jobs, there would be no
recess appointment, the White House vir-
tually assured several months of argument.
Senate reaction to bitter criticism from the
Protestant churches was that full hearings
surely would be held, meaning no decision
could be reached for weeks after congress re-
convenes in January.
The President's action is amazing in any
case. Just about the time you are about to
decide that narrow partisan politics plays
an important part in everything that Tru-
man does, he comes up with some highly
controversial proposal that by no means can
be considered good partisan politics. There
was the Truman Doctrine of military aid to
Greece and Turkey, the decision to inter-
vene in Korea, the manner of General Mac-
Arthur's removal, and now this calculated
entry into a bitter religious argument against
the traditions of all good politics in- an elec-
tion or any other year.
The Vatican move has been considered
for a long time-almost since the time
when the personal mission established by
President Roosevelt through Myron Tay-
lor came to an end. After that the State
Department even recalled Frank Gowan,

career diplomat whose personal entree at
the Vatican probably has never been ap-
proached by any other lay American. But
as the cold wa progressed-with the Va-
tican forced mo the position of an ally
by the persecution of its program behind
the Iron Curtain-the need for including
it in Allied councils became more appar-
ent.
A prime factor is the Vatican's own inter-
national position, making it one of the
world's greatest information centers, if not
the greatest one.
As the need has grown for a great wave of
enlightenment to offset Kremlin propagan-
da, the need for official on-the-spot corre-
lation of the various anti-Communist pro-
grams has likewise grown. Vatican intelli-
gence can make a vast contribution in this
field.
On the other side of the coin, the Catho-
lic Church has vast influence among peo-
ples in many of the countries where large
parts of the populations are still luke-
warm or opposed to the rearmament pro-
gram. If greater coordination can bring
thisinfluence to bear more directly, an
important purpose will have been served.
The argument over the appointment was
bitterly under way within a few hours of
the President's decision, and promises to
continue in the same vein. The ultimate de-
cision should be based not on religious pre-
judices or political expediency, but on wheth-
er the practical advantages of diplomatic
relations with 'the Vatican outweigh the
dangers of the disunity it creates in the
United States.

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By JOSEPH ALSOP

ONDON-The circus atmosphere which
Americans associate with elections is
entiriely absent here. The familiar huge.
billboard with the faked picture of the smil-
ing candidate is replaced by an occasional
prim sticker on a car: "Vote for iddlesby-
Green, Conservative."
Political publicity is so muted that this
reporter, for example, in Manchester to
attend a rally for Clement Attlee, found
that no one in his hotel had any idea that
the Prime Minister was to speak.
Yet beneath this surface calm, feeling
runs high. You will find, of course, leftwing
Laborites muttering about "fascism" under
a Conservative government, as well as Tory
gentlemen snorting in their clubs about
emigrating "if the demmed Belshies get
back." You will also find intelligent people
saying quite sincerely, "This could be the
end of the road for us, you know."
Oddly enough, no one can define in pre-
cise and tangible terms just what differ-
ence a Conservative victory would make.
One distinguished Conservative, asked this
question, replied after a moment of reflec-
tion, "Well, for example, I think we'd get
sweets off the ration more quickly." Ac-
tually, in pre-election statements, the
Tories have not been much more specific
than this. The gulf of difference between
the words "Socialist" and "Conservative"
is not reflected in the election propaganda.
The Conservatives have been offering, in
effect, "the same old pill with a bit more
sugar on it."
Yet the fact remains that the forthcoming
election here is an event of towering import-
ance. Whatever government rules Britain in
the months ahead will have to deal somehow
CURRENT MOVIES

with the rapid erosion of British world pow-
er, on the one hand, and the menacing, sud-
denly renewed draining away of the British
economic lifeblood on the other. In these
circumstances, a government with the power
to goyern is the first essential.
* * *
THE LABOR government has some very
solid achievements to its credit. Its
greatest achievement is simply that there
has been under Labor far more sugar on the
British pill than most Americans realize.
Dollar gap, inflation, and all, the standard of
living of the majority of the British people
has risen steadily since the war. In a coun-
try impoverished by war, this is no mean
achievement.
Yet since the death of brave old Ernest
Bevin, the illness of brilliant Sir Stafford
Cripps, and the near-defeat last year, the
Labor government has become a weak, an
oddly faceless government. Unless all the
experts are wrong, Labor simply cannot
win a decisive majority. Moreover, the un-
scrupulous "peace" campaign with its ov-
ertones of the late thirties, which labor
has waged in this moment of desperation,
could return to haunt a future Labor gov-
ernment. A weak government, half-com-
mitted to a policy of peace at any price,
could indeed lead Britain perilously close
to "the end of the road."
Yet even a strong conservative govern-
ment, with a decisive majority (which is by
no means certain) could also be haunted by
the past. For it is almost impossible to set
how the Conservatives can in fact deliver on
their campaign promise of "a bit more sug-
ar" on the British pill. There are thoughtful
men here who believe that the Conservatives,
if they win, will be forced to remove most of
the sugar from the pill, and that the Con-
servatives should have faced this fact blunt-
ly during the campaign.
IF THEY WIN, the Conservatives will cdme
to power committed to the whole re-
armament program, which is just begin-
ning to bite hard into the British economy.
They will have at the same time to deal with
a drain on British gold and dollar reserves
which is reaching more menacing propor-
tions than ever before. Without further Am-
erican aid, it is difficult to see how a Con-
servative government could avoid a policy
of ruthless deflation. This would mean sharp
slashes in food subsidies and the social serv-
ices, and a severe fall in living standards.
It is on precisely this course of events
that Aneurin Bevan and his fellow labor
rebels are betting their political futures. A
fall in living standards would usher in
widespread strikes. Although a Labor gov-
ernment can, and has, used troops to break
strikes, for a Conservative government to
do so would almost certainly hand the
Labor party over to the extremists. This
too, by destroying the national unity which
is the hard core of British power, could
bring Britain near to "the end of the road."
The end of the road for Britain has often
been predicted in the past, and always in-
accurately. Yet it is worth bearing in mind
the remark of one wise Englishman here-
"If the Tories win with a workable majority,
it may be about the last chance for a really
stable. middle-of-the-road government of a

Senator Estes Kefauver. 8:30 p.m.,
Thurs., Oct. 25, in Hill Auditorium as
the second number on the 1951-52 Lec-
ture Course. "The Citizen's Responsi-
bility for Crime" is the subject of his
address. Tickets are on sale daily at
the Auditorium box office which is
open 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 2-5 p.n.
Academic Notices
Geometry Seminar; Thurs., Oct. 25,
4:10 p.m., 3001 Angell Hall. Mr. Kazar-
inoff will speak on "Positional Proper-
ties of Circles in 3-space."
The University Extension Service an-
nounces a new class in its evening
program for adults:
Michigan's Great Book Course. An
evening section of this course, similar
to that offered in the freshman year
on the campus, will be conducted in
the Extension Service program by John
E. Bingley. Selected classics will be
discussed, Noncredit course, eight ses-
sions on alternate Wednesdays. $8.00.
Registration, which is limited to 20,
may be made in advance in 4524 Ad-
ministration Building, or at the class
room just prior to the opening session
if there are places left. 69 Business
Administration Building, Wed., Oct. 24,
7:30 p.m.
University Extension Service an-
nounces that Faster Reading will meet
on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in 131 Bus-
iness Administration Building, instead
of in 4009 University High School. Those
who have not registered may do so be-
tween 7 and 7:30 p.m. at the class
room.
Engineering Mechanics Seminar: Wed.,
Oct. 24, 3:45 p.m., 101 W. Engineering
Building. Prof. R V. Churchill will
speak on J. B. J. Fourier and Fourier
Series."
Algebraic Topology Seminar; Wed.,
Oct. 24. 9 a.m., 3010 Angell all. Dr.
Raoul Bott will speak on "A New Ap-
proach to the Steenrod Squares."
Seminar in Complex Variables: Wed.,
Oct. 24, 2:30 p.m., 247 West Engineering.
Miss Curran will speak on "Landau's
Upper Bounds for Partial Sums of Tay-
lor Series of Bounded Functions."
Orientation Seminar. Tues., Oct. 23,
1 p.m. 3001 Angell Hall. Topic: 3, 5, 11,
17, 41.
Mathematics Colloquium: Tues., Oct.
23, 4:10 p.m., 3001 Angell Hall. Prof.
Leonard Tornheim will speak on the
subject "On Normed Fields."
Concerts
Stanley Quartet, Gilbert Ross and
Emil Raab, violinists, Robert Courte, vi-
ola, and Oliver Edel, cello, will play the
first in a series of three concerts at
8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, in the Rack-
ham Lecture Hall. Assisted by William
Stubbins, clarinet, the group will pre-
sent works by Beethoven, RossLee in-
ney, and Mozart. The general public
will be admitted without charge.
Organ Recital: Kenneth Osborne,
Head of the Division of Fine Arts at
the University of Arkansas, will appear
as guest organist at 4:15 Wednesday
afternoon, October 24, in Hill auditor-
ium. An alumnus of the University
of Michigan, Mr. Osborne will play com-
positions by Buxtehude, Vivaldi, Bach.
Milhaud, and Franck. The public Is
invited.
Events Today
Chess Club: Meeting, Room 3B, Un-
ion.
Cerce Francais Meeting. 8 p.m.,
League. New members welcome. Skit
and refreshments.
Deutsher Verein: Meeting, 7:30 p.m.
Union. Songs, speaker and refresh-
ments.
The West Quad Radio Club invites
anyone interested in amateur radio or
experimental electronics to an open
meeting, 7 p.m., in "The Shack" on
the fifth floor of Williams House, West
Quad.
Christian Science Organization: Tes-

timonial meeting, 7:30 p.m., Upper
Room, Lane Hal.
Hillel Drama Group: Organizational
meeting and tryouts, 3:30 p.m., League.-
Accompanist needed. Everyone wel-
come.
Pershing Rifle's general meeting of
all Pershing Riflesmen at 7:30 p.m. in
front of the T.C.B. Any cadet in MS.
'I and II, either Army or Airforce, in-'
terested in becoming a Pershing Rifles-
man is invited to attend. If it is cold,
wear coats and gloves. If it rains, meet
inside.
Square Dance Group, open to all,
Lane Hall, 7:15 p.m. Opportunity for
Instruction.
SRA Freshman Group meets at Lane
Hall, 7:30 p.m.
SRA Radio Program, Religion-in-
Life, Station WUOM, 5:15 p.m.
S.R.A. Council meeting, Lane Hall,
5:15 p.m.
Hiawatha Club. Meeting, 7:30 p.m.,
League. Plans for year's activities will
be discussed.
Air Force R.O.T.C. Band: Rehearsal,
7:30 p.m. 229 North Hall. Bring music
racks. Those who have been issued
uniforms wear them.
Episcopal Student Group: Meeting
of Chaplain's study group, 7:15 p.m.,
Canterbury House.
Congregational-Disciples Guild: Tea,
4:30 to 5:45 p.m., at the Guild House.
Wolverine Club: Meet in the League
at 7:15 p.m. Everyone is welcome to
attend
Coming Events
Graduate History Club. Meeting,
Wed., Oct. 24, 8 p.m., East Conference
Room, Rackham building. Prof. Clark
Hopkins, Department of Classics, will
speak on his recent research in Greece.
Refreshments.
Wesleyan Gui. Do-Drop-In fo food
and fun, 4 to 5:15 p.m., Wed.. Oct. 24
at the Guild lounge. Come and bring
a friend.
Cabinet meeting, 8:30 p.m., Wed.. Oct.
24 in the Green room. All Guilders
are welcome.
Hillel: Meeting of all persons in-
terested in singing in the Hillel Choral
Group, Wed., Oct. 24, 4:15 p.m., Lane
Hall.
University of Michigan Rifle Club.
Meet at the ROTC Rifle Range, Wed.,
Oct. 24, 7 p.m. Marksmanship experi-
ence is not necessary to become a mem-
ber of the Club.
Folk and Square Dancing. Meet Wed.,
Ot. 24, 8 p.m., Barbour Gym. Every-
one welcome.
Union's Weekly Bridge Tournament.
Wed., Oct. 31, Union Ballroom, start-
ing at 7:15. Beginners are encouraged
to attend. Winners will be given two
weeks' free admission and runners up
one week free admission. Coeds must
sign out with their House Mothers for
11:30 p.m.
Botany Club. Meeting, Wed., Oct. 24,
7:30 p.m., 1139 Natural Science Bldg.
Speaker: Miss Mina Winslow. Topic:
North Africa-Algeria and Morocco. Bus-
iness meeting important. All are wel-
come.
Episcopal Student Group: Holy Com-
munion and Breakfast at 7 a.m., Wed.,
"Oct. 24.
Michigan Arts Chorale. Meet Wed.,
Oct. 24, 7 p.m., University High School
auditorium.
Congregational - Disciples Guild:
Sign up by Tuesday night for Supper
Discussion Groups, 5:30-7 on Wednes-
day at the Guild House. Topics: "Can
Concerned StudentsFollow Where U.S.
Foreign Policy is Leading?" and "A
Philosophy and a Faith for These Trou-
bled Times."
THE BEST WAY of answering a
bad argument is to let it go on.
-Sydney Smith

THURSDAY night we serenaded
a girls dormitory and several'
sororities here at Michigan. Since
the adventof the fraternity it has
been a custom of fraternities to
serenade a girl to whom a brother
has become pinned regardless of
whether she was affiliated or in-
dependent.
Ironically as we were singing
"College Days" . . . send my boy
to Michigan ... we were rudely
told to break it up by an Ann Ar-
bor police cruiser while his sadis-
tic companion shined his spot on
bath robed girls on the sun porch.
It seems that we were disturb-
ing the peace and solitude of Ann
Arbor where parking tickets are
distributed wholesale and nurses
are raped by high school youths.
I understand that there is an or-
dinance prohibiting disturbing
noises during the evening: also
spitting in public and burning
leaves without a permit. In that
there are sufficient laws to keep
me from walking on the sidewalk
I place my very being in jeopardy
whenever I venture out.
Since laws are for the benefit
of the people I see fit to mention
here that members of an adjoin-
ing quadrangle voiced their "inde-
pendent" public opinion by.swing-
ing out in defiance of the local
gendarmes.
As the high school local rents
and the general wealth of Ann
Arbor is largely dependent upon
the University and its functions I
suggest that the authorities inter-
pret more broadly the law with
respect to student functions. Or
perhaps a notorized permit for
serenades could be instated as well
as one for allowing unruly stu-
dents to congregate in groups
larger than twos.
Perhaps the local enforcement
officers should be implemented
since the Christmas season is ap-'
proaching and there shall be many
carolers on the streets disturbing
the peace.
In memory of the good old col-
lege days ... send my boy to Illi-
nois.
-Roy W. Bloch
Jessup Appointment. .
To the Editor:
IN HER COLUMN published in
the Thursday Daily, Doris Flee-
son summed up the unfortunate
case of diplomat Philip Jessup. In
view of being turned down by a
Senate foreign relations sbcom-
mittee Thursday and the pending
adjournment of Congress, it seems
unlikely that Jessup's nomination
as delegate to the UN General
Assembly will be approved. Presi-
dent Truman might give him a
recess appointment, but even this
expedient would be impossible if
the Senate were to reject his nom-
ination before adjournment. The
United States would thus be de-
prived of the services of a man
generally regarded among his as-
sociates as one of our ablest advo-
cates in dealing with the Russians.
The objections to Jessup's ap-
pointment have been that he has
had "an affinity for Communist
causes" and that in 1949 he sup-
ported U.S. recognition of Com-
munist China. These arguments
were respectively advanced by
Senator McCarthy and President
Harold Stassen of the University
of Pennsylvania. Like most of his
accusations, McCarthy's charge
has been largely disproved by Jes-
sup's past record. The Stassen
charge, which has not been fac-
tually disproved, even if correct
does not invalidate Jessup's fitness
as a diplomat. Many informed
persons advocated U.S. recogni-
tion of Red China at the time of
the Nationalist collapse if merely
as acknowledgement of a de facto
political situation. Indeed, history
has yet to prove that our course
in not recognizing the Communist

government was the best one.
Two things are to be particular-
ly regretted in the Jessup affair:
first, that a person should be
fainted for alleged past actions
which have either not been sub-
stantiated or cannot logically be
accepted as blameworthy in them-
selves; second, that a once highly
respected liberal, Harold Stassen,
should stoop to the level of "guilt
by assertion," as Doris Fleeson
puts it.
--Don Cregier
Ethio pa, My.
To the Editor:
1 READ WITH sympathy some
time ago the letter of the
gentleman from Colombia who
was distressed by the continual

misspelling of his country's name.
As one of the first Ethiopian stu-
dents to come here I have a much
more serious plea. Not only is my
country's name often misspelt,
mispronounced, and confused, but
I have frequent disputes about its
geographic location. It has been
rightly said that Ethiopia has
been "a land of mystery to the
whole world" and that mystery
seems to apply not only to its
character but also to its location.
Ethiopians speak of their coun-
try as ETHIOPIA-a name digni-
fied by Biblical references. The
origin of the. name is somewhat
shrouded in antiquity; but it is
generally believed to have been
given by the Grecians to the peo-
ple that inhabited the "end of the
earth" (the country beyond Eg,
ypt). Thus Homer thought Mit]-
opia "utmost of mankind;" ar A
Herodotus believed that the coun--
try lay "where the South declines
towards the setting sun." I refer
only to the past to show that the
ahcient vagueness and geographic
ignorance persists to the presenk
day.
It is true that even such "great
travellers" as Marco Polo placed
Ethiopia in the middle of India or
China. But my American friends
are even more imaginative than
those ancient travellers as they
place Ethiopia somewhere in th
West Indies or West Africa.
As to "Abyssinia"-which is so
often incorrectly used as synony-
mous to Ethiopia-is the Euro-
peanized form of "Haasha" (or
some such Arabic word) applied
to the tribe from the Semetio
Sabeaen civilization which mi-
grated to "Ethiopia" from south-
western Arabia in about 1,000 B.C.
Thus historically "Abyssinia" re
ferred to the mountain kingdom
in the central plateau where those
ancient invaders originally set.
tied. The term is of course incor-
rect when applied to include the
whole of the country.
Whatever may have been the
past disagreements as to its loca-
tion and however persistently it
is misplaced, ETHIOPIA-as far
as I have been able to ascertain-
now securely reposes in East Afri-
ca: surrounded by the Sudan,
Kenya, French-, British-, and Ex-
Italian Somaliland. In geographic
vernacular Ethiopia includes the
territory lying between the 5th
and 15th parallel of North latitude
and 30 degrees 5 minutes-45 de-
grees East.
-Taffara De Guefe
I N ANY controversy the instant
we feel anger we have already,
ceased striving for truth, and be-
gun striving for ourselves.
-Carlyle
WHERE ALL think alike, no one
thinks very much.
-Walter Lippmann

At The State...
FLYING LEATHERNECKS
Wayne and Robert Ryan.
THIS PICTURE almost makes1
first-rate entertainment.

with John
the grade as

There are two reasons for it being as ef-
fective as it is: First, the action scenes,
larded with actual combat film, are put to-
gether with a skill that retains the fierce
realism and brutality of the wartime shots
and at the same time generates honest sus-
pense within the story fabric, and secondly,
the sound of martial brass knuckles is loud
enough from Korea to Egypt to give this
kind of a movie overtones that make it pala-
table even after a plethora of predecessors
in the telling of World War I.
Unfortunately, the picture fails in its
attempt to knit together the excellent
combat incidents with the story of a mar-
ine flyer's (John Wayne) struggle to for-
ward the cause of close air support for in-
fantry tactics. Perhaps sensing this, a sub-
conflict between the protagonist and his
chief subordinate over discipline has been
superimposed on the ground-air struggle
to give the picture greater cohesiveness.

Sixty-Second Year
Edited and managed by students of
the University of Michigan under the.
authority of the Board of Control of
Student Publications.
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Bob Keith................City Editor,
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Vern Emerson.........Feature Editor
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Ron Watts ............Associate Editor
Bob Vaughn ..........Associate Editor
Ted Papes ............Sports Editor
George Flint ...Associate Sports Editor
Jim Parker ... Associate Sports Editor
Jan James...........Women's Editor
Jo Ketelhut, Associate Women's Editor
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Gene Kuthy. Assoc. Business Manager
Charles Cuson ... Advertising Manager
Sally Fish...........Finance Manager
Stu Ward ........Circulation Manager
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