The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.)., Vol. 56, No. 83, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 7, 1959 Page: 4 of 10
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fprrOtlAL PAGE THI OKANGI LEADER
TUESDAY, AHIL 7, 195*
tAomentoi Meditation
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness (or
the upright in heart. Psalms 97:11.
WILL, IT'S AT LEAST IN THE PLANNING STAGE
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Another Problem of the Aged
Concern over inadequate housing for the aged is being
translated into action programs in Orange County and
in many other communities across the nation. -
In his weekly radio report to his fellow TfcJcdiis this
Week,^ Sen. Lyndon johnson voiced concern about an-
other kind of problem involving the age$. This is the
fact that many of bur senior citizens who would like to
work at jobs are being denied an opportunity to do so.
This is,, the way that problem, appears to Sen. John-
son' , *.'•
1 want to talk briefly today about a subject some
folks call "the problem of the aged." * -' J >.
HiH T don't intend tb talk about charity. I'm going to
talk about waste. This, is a problem not of the aged, but
of the nation. . . ' .. - .
We're not talking about a small ^minority. Not anv
• more. There are now in this country'more than 14.mil-
> lion men and \yomen 65 years of age or older. And this
number is increasing at the rate of 400,000 a year. .
For one thing, people are living longer than tHey
' used to live. The life span of the average American has
been increased from 49 years in 1900 to 70 years today.
And the potential length of their working life is in-
creasing. But for many people .the days ahead offer lit-
tle but time on their hands. This is a waste of one of
the nation's most valuable resources. It's.a waste of tal-
ent', of training, of vast experience and needed skills.
I suspect that it's only a fortunate few who find
real satisfaction in ending a lifetime of work. For
most of us there is no substitute for work as a source
of personal satisfaction and a feeling of achievement
This is as it should be. For most of us, an honest
day's work is the foundation of a lifetime of habit4 It
Is the heartbeat of a person's skills and accomplishment;?.
But, despite this, we are witnessing today a tragedy
of waste, and one this nation cannot well afford.
We have left the machine age behind. This is the
age of the atom. We are speeding into an era of auto-
mation and nuclear power. But with it comes the
thought of more and more people with more and more
time on their-hands—people willing, able and wanting
to work, but who have been thrown into discard at a
predetermined age.
This nation needs these people. It does now, and it
will in the future. As a nation, we recognize the neces-
sity of conserving our natural resources. But, at the
same tirhe, we indulge in this costly luxury of aband-
oning priceless human resources.
The problem is large. But this nation has demon-
strated time and again its ability to achieve the unattain-
able ... to harness—for instance—the very forces of
... nature within the tremendous .power of the atom.
/ Surely this problem can be solved. The answer must
be fcrund. Our Job is clear. The goal is there.
Double Talk by a Labor Leader
\ George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, talked
out of both sides of his mouth in replying to a series
of questions posed by the editors of Dun's Review and
Modern Industry for an article in its April issue^X ;
In reply to one question, Meany said: "We are a
' capitalist-trade union movement. We are not trying to
destroy the rapitalistic system; we are trying to pre-
serve it. We like it, we think we have done well under
it." • - . ".■■■■_ ' - \ ■■
But when asked if he believed labor had a right to
wage increases regardless of gains in productivity,
Meany's answer was: "Do I believe that? You bet your
life I do, if the wages are not adeauate. In other words,
I don't believe the failure of a business to make aij
adequate profit is sufficient reason to deny a wage in-
crease, if that business is not paying a decent wage
according to American standards. If a business can't
pay a decent wage and make a profit, according to
American standards, then I'd just as soon see that busi-
ness fold up."
Now all we need from Meany is a formula for pre-
serving the capitalistic system without the profit mo-
tive. None of us want to see any worker paid less than
v- a decent Wage. But there are differences of opinion as
to what is a decent wage "according to American
standards."
And if the union idea of a decent wage begins put-
ting businesses out of business the capitalistic system
won't be with us for long>, no matter how much Meany
or any of the rest of us want to preserve it.
Across tb* Editor's Desk J .
A Piece of a Ship
Heads for Jumboizing
By J. CULLEft BROWNING
THE ORANGE LEADER
James, R. Quisle* __
J Culler Browning .
Joe Parsley
Philip Lilly '
Bob Ax-lson ■■
Herbie Dees
L R. (Bob) McHufch
Jean Saxon ■ -
E. F. Krietsch
S. R. Davij
Publisher
_ Editor
«L- Managing Editor i
Area News Editor
_—■ Ciry Editor
.Women's News Editor
Sports Editor
-Magazine Editor
ik Director
.Circulation Manager
Mapazi
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well as AP news dispatches.
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nl. 1903• *1 P<Mt Office. Orange, Texas, as second
ler under act of Congress March f, 1«7>.
Boater? and fishermen on the
deep water channel south of Or-
ange Sunday afternoon wer* "■
treated to the unusual Sight of a
pair of tugs chuffing along with a
piece of a ship.
Thj outward appearance was
that the midsection of an ocean-
going tanker had been disassoci-
ated from the prow and stern sec-
tions and was being towed off to
a scrap heap.
Truth is, the unpainted, rusting
tanker midsection is brand new,
and is on its way to being associ-
ated with prow and stern sections
in. a shipyard at Baltimore, Md,
Tb: process involved is called
"iumboizing." It's a method by
which worn-out tanker midsec-
tions are replaced, and the vessel
made bigger than it was to start
with. \
The piece of a ship that went
down tbe channel from Orange
Sunday was built at the local plant
of American Bridge Division un-
der a contract with Maryland Ship-
building and Drydock Co.
In the Baltimore shipyard work-
ers will perform' a neat bit of sur-
gery by cutting away an old,
worn-out midsection ad inserting
the bigger and newer one byilt at
Orange.
Result: A bigger, better oil
tanker With the same power and
speed at a fraction of the cost of a
new vessel, and done in a fraction
of the tim required to build a ntw
ship,. * '' /
This is the second of two tanker
midsection's built at American
Bridee here for ships belonging to
the Texas City Refining Co., which
is sinking about six million dol-
lars into mmboizing a pair of T-2
.tankers. w
The T-2 tankers now are about
12 years old. Each 4 y?ars they
must undergo a rigid inspection
by the Bureau of Shipping. At
their'current age! as much as a
WHY" t6TH££*ASS
&k&en, wllcv f
Jiillion dollars must be spent in
ringing them up to standard.
Moat of the tanker's working
parts, exoept for the engine in the
stern, are in the midsection.
Thus in one bit of surgery, the'
owners obtain a virtually new
ship with a 25 per cent greater
carrying capacity. Fedaral agen-
cies dealing with aafety at sea ap-
prove the project.
Coat of a new tanker to replace
a T-2 is estimated as high as nine
million dollars.
The midsection towed downriver
Sunday is for the tanker Cabins,
First of the two was for, tbs tanker
Four Lakes.
The new midsection of the SS
Four Lakes was laid Jone 17 laat
year and after launching four
months later, waa towed to the
Baltimore yards of the company.
The Four Lakes arrived in De-
cember for the major surgery.
Under the, project, the bow sec- occti F RAlt FY
.tion is cut away and the pailct
and aft sections Abated out. The
new midsection ia attached to the
bow and both removed from the
drydock. *
The old midsection, still at-
tached to the stern, is placed in
drydock, is cut away and re-
moved, and the bow, new midsec-
tion and stern fitted.
The Four Lakes will be a 20,000-
ton tanker, compared with her
present deadweight of 16,615 tons.
Her life expectancy will be in-
creased another 15 years.'r.
The operation will create a 572-
foot vessel from a $23rfoot craft.
Draft will bj relatively unchanged.
She will carry 172,000 barrets
APATHY
"Revolutionary" is the word
used by W. H. Fetter, Texas Re-
fining's vice president and general
manager, in describing the re-
building project.
BECAUSE ORT IS BROWN
AND IF GRASS WERE RED
IT WOULO MAKE A PUNK.
color. COMBINATION.
i scppose. IT wajLo
be SJUY TO AS^CWMV
:THE PtRT IS BROWN
THANKS A tOT.
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OFFBEAT NEWSBEAT ... "
Veteran Character Actor
Has Huge Art Collection
By HAL BOYLE
. NEW YORK (AP) - Oscar Ho-
molka1; who once slept on cafe
tabL tops, now has an art collec-
tion he values at J500.000
One of the greatest living char-
acter actors, a veteran of more
th^n 200 plays and 80 fihns, his
lone; Career lacks one final crown
—the Academy Award.
In tbe past Homolka has been
nominated for the award. But Os-
car is still Oscarless. It doesn't
worry him.
"Sometimes perhaps the right
year and the right picture, will
come along," he said cheerfully. ,
"An Oscar is a fine thing to
p,et Let's fare it—it's very good
for business." •" - - .•
A crowded lifetime on two con-
tinents has left Homolka philo-
sophic about fortune, good or bad.
Now starring in the Broadway
drama, "Rashomon," he started
acting at 18 in his native Vienna
for about $9 a month.
"After I was paid for mv first
engagement,he recalled, "I had
to decide whether I would eat or
rent a room for the night.
"1 decided on eating, and I
slept in the- coffee" house on a
table. I lived like that for three
months."
Today he thinks a measure of
hardship ia good for beginners in
show business.
. "Those who are sensible give
tip," he said. "It is too tough for
them. But if therp were nothing
but glamour, too many would stay
in the business who ought to get
put. *
"There's nothing worse than an
unsuccessful actor. He has a-
miserable life."
The beetle-browed actor, noted
for his skill at Russian roles, has
portrayed Soviet leaders ranging
from Leon Trotsky to Premier
Nikita Khrushchev. But although
he is fluent in English, German
and French, he has never learned
to speak Russian.
In his youth he spent 2^ years
with Austrian ski troops in Italy
during World War I.
Oscar loves good living, and one
of the sorrows of his life Is that
he has to d et to keep his chunky
frame mobile.
"But you have to make the best
of what is possible," he remarked,
growling pleasantly as he put on
his monocle and inspected nis en-
tire lunch—a chunk of ground
meat and nothing elar.
Homolka ia in. no trouble at all.
One Renoir for which he paid $15,-
000 now is valued at $200,000.
And it haa been a long, long
time since he had to sleep on a
cafe table.
Johnson Has
AUSTIN, T^x. (AP)"— Senate
Majority Leader Lyndon B. John-
son (D-Tex) said' Monday he
would help the President " o long
as it helps the strength of Amer-
ica." " '. .
Sens. Wayne Morse (D-Ore
William Proxmire, (D-Wis) an
Pat McNamara (D-Mich) have
criticized Johnson for what they
called his one-man rule in the
Senate and his too-friendly rela-
tione with the Republican admin
istration. ' y
"I shall always respect the of-
fice (of president) and I shall
respect the man in it, whoever he
may be. Democrat or Republi-
can," Johnson told a joint session
of the Texas Legislature.
He denied again,, however, that
he has any interest in the office
himself.
Cliburn Allowed
Brief Practice
NEW YORK (AP)—Pianist Van
Cliburn was told by his doctors
yesterday he could resume prac-
ticing 5 to 10 minutes at a time.
The Kilgore, Tex., youth waa op-
erated on Feb. 27 for an infeCtet
middle finger.
Cliburn returned from an Ari-
tona vacation Friday. He said he
will complete his recuperation in
New York before resuming a con
cert tour.
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.)., Vol. 56, No. 83, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 7, 1959, newspaper, April 7, 1959; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth330510/m1/4/: accessed June 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.