9 Dark December7 TV SKow
Said Honest in Intent
But Too
By WILLIAM EWALD
UPI International
Ntw York-FD-As anyone
who has been in combat
knows, all war stories are un-
true. I sup
pose if anyone
ever put it
down truly,
no audi e n c e
could face it.
Norman Mail
er caught some
of its animal
ity and hope1
lessness in his
William waU clumsy novel,
"The Naked and the Dead."
A writer named Anton Myrer
got some of its fatigue and
. despair into the closing sec-
.', tions of a minor novel, "The
. . Big War." But Stendhal and
.-.Hemingway and Stephen
Crane, beloved by the aca-
demicians, all botched it.
Nobody has ever really
. J written it all down: the ter-
rifying feeling of abandon-
. ment, the feeling of being a
..' machine that can take no
more, the unending stupidi
ties, the wet, the filth, the
unendurable tiredness, the
cowardice in everyone, the
constant prayer for a wound
which will mean you don't
' , have to face it any more, the
V savage search for loot, the
panic, the dullness, the hatred
every infantryman feels for
those who sit fat-bellied back
" ' at division, army, corps and
r in the fantasy land of civilian
life.
Thursday night Merle Mill
er, who toiled for Yank maga
zine during World War n,
tried to get some of it down
in "Dark December" on CBS
?' TVs Playhouse 90. He con
centrated his fire on a section
' " of the 101st Airborne trapped
in a seminary during the Bat
' tie of Bastogne.
"Dark December" was a
"lestrwe-forget" piece, honest
" in intent and reasonably faith
"' fdl in its sights and sounds.
But it missed.
" ' It missed because it was so
terribly earnest. It was too
; preachy, too predictable in its
Cherries
Shot
Qui d a
It's a happy day in our ice-creamery
when we're making Cherry
Fudge because thafs the day we
shoot the cherries out of the cannon. '
It didn't take very long for us
to figure out that you can get more
cherries per cubic spoonful in Cherry
Fudge Ice Cream by shooting them
right smack out of a t cannon. -
' We don't like to sound like
we're nagging but we must caution
you again that our super goopy
Cherry-Fudge Ice Cream is delicious
ly habit forming;
A Snider Cow
course and too pat in its gal
lery of characters. Miller
trotted out the Jewish doctor
who wanted to find belief, the
Protestant chaplain who fear
ed he had lost his faith, the
medic who wanted to fight,
the psychologist who believed
himself a coward, the charm
ing captured German officer.
I suppose this sort of thing
is inevitable, but the fact is,
most GIs were not types-most
were basic and dull and in
terested only in surviving. It
would be just impossible to
write a truthful work about
war-distilling a glob of brut
ishness may just be an insu
perable task. But I should add
that Miller and Playhouse 90
gave it a good try.
As for the cast, a young
actor named Richard Beymer,
who played the medic, pilfer
ed the show. He got some stiff
competition from James Whit
more, Barry Sullivan, Paul
Burke and Michael Landon.
Crow Lumber Price
Index Up $1.12
Portland - Crow's Lumber
Price Index was up $1.12 over
two weeks ago, and $13.20 in
the past 12 months, with
green Douglas Fir creating
most of the upward pressure.
Standard and better grade ran
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have climbed $4 in the last
two, weeks. Utility grade has
not changed much price-wise,
but studs are stronger. Boards
are very firm. Plank and tim
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strong, with prices tilted up.
Kiln-dried standard and better
dimension has risen about
dollar, while i some upper
grade items have also gone up
a notch or so.
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at $85. Five eights inch CD
grade (sheathing), which has
been in the $110 range, is
having some trouble 'clinging
to that perch.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
"VTEW YORK CITY experienced a heavy snowstorm on May
1 1 1 a few years back, and the Salvation. Army thought it
saw the chance to shoot some
the following December in
its annual Christmas drive.
A pretty Salvation Army
lass was detailed to stand in
the snow on Fifth Avenue
with a tambourine and a
kettle on a tripod. They got
just the pictures they want
en not to mention $13.77
from absentminded passers "
by thinking of Christmas on
May first!
A cocky sailor from a car
rier is boasting that he's gone
clear round the globe "with
Marilyn Monroe en his arm.''
He adds, "Beat darn Job of tattooing re seen in a long time."
Variation No, 68712 of the spaceman joke: the Martian who landed
mack-dab in the middle of a nudist camp and admiringly asked the
head lady, "Who's your tailor?"
0 159. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Feature Syndicate,
In the Day's N
By FRANK JENKINS
From Pasadena:
Police reportel that Bruce
Thomas, age 23, demonstrated
to two friends how to play
Russian roulette.
He put one cartridge in the
chamber of his revolver,
placed the weapon against
his head and pulled the trig
ger. He died instantly.
r"S tragic and I'm aware
that tragedy should never
be treated flippantly or cyn
ically. But
When people insist on do
ing ' things like playing ' Rus
sian roulette, and LOSE
isn't it perhaps as well, every
thing considered? ,
AGRICULTURAL note:
The European corn borer
destroyed more than 100 mil
lion bushels of the 1958 corn
crop, according to an estimate
of the U.S. department of ag
riculture. '
The corn borer loss in 1957
was 180 million bushels.
HMMMMMM. ,
Let's be , openly cynical
this time:
Is the corn borer a pest?
Or in these days of sub
sidized over-production de
signed to win corn belt votes
is it a BLESSING?
LETS close this regrettably
sarcastic screed with a
thoughtful look at the finan
cial plight of the state of
Michigan.
Michigan has no money on
hand with "which to pay its
bills. So, Governor Williams
held up about 325 checks to
talling more than $100,000 for
payment of the salaries of the
members of the legislature,
the justices of the supreme
court and the judges of the
circuit courts.
He said the $5,000,000 pay
roll scheduled for May 7 for
28,000 other state employees,
including himself, will not be
met unless emergency funds
are provided.
Communist China
Signals Start of
Attack on Nehru
Tokyo - (DPD - -Communist
China signalled a concentrated
propaganda attack today on
Indian Prime Minister Jawa
harlal Nehru.
The, Reds' newspapers and
news agencies made it clear
that the next few days will see
widespread criticism of Nehru
and the remarks he made be
fore the Indian House of Rep
resentatives. The Peiping Peoples Daily,
official newspaper of the Chi
nese Communist party, set the
line today when it advised all
Chinese in- an editorial "Let
us all study Nehru's state
ment." The newspaper even carried
the full text of Nehru's re
marks before the house.
Careful Study Urged
"We propose," said the
newspaper, "that all factories,
mines, enterprises, peoples
communes, schools, . govern
ment .institutions, the armed
forces, democratic parties,
peoples organizations and oth
ers study Nehru's statement
carefully and discuss it."
To make sure that all con
cerned would get the point,
the newspaper said that its
editorial board is also study
ing the statement "and will
publish a detailed commen
tary within a few days.
"Is the truth of the rebel
lion in Tibet really as Nehru
put it?" asked the daily.
"Are the facts really as
Nehru has stated?"
At least one Chinese Com
munist newspaper jumped the
gun and replied with a flat
"no."
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WHERE could the emergen-
cy funds come from?
Well, there was a plan to
convert the veterans trust
fund out of which veterans'
pensions and other benefits
must be paid, IF PAID, into
cash to meet the state's fiscal
crisis.
The legislature declined to
do that. So the payroll can't
be met unless some other
source of "emergency" funds
can be found. .
WfHAT'S wrong?
It's quite simple.
Michigan has been spend
ing too much and taxing too
little so the inevitable time
has arrived when the state
has NO MONEY with which
to pay its bills.
Michigan's, plight at least
drives home the lesson if
you're going to SPEND you've
got to TAX. Government-provided
services don't come for
free.
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Revivalist
Of Billy Graham
Said Distressing
Brisbane, Australia - (DPD -
Anglican Bishop T. B. McCall
of Rockhampton said today
the revivalist methods of Billy
Graham are in some ways
objectionable, dishonest, dis
tressing and disgusting.".
The bishop, writing the offi
cial magazine of his diocese,
specifically challenged the
Graham method of counting
conversions."
He cited an instance when a
priest from the Rockhampton
diocese was present at a
Graham meeting.
Counted as Conversion
"A man stood up and made
an emotional speech, ,at the
end of which he asked all
those "who accepted the Lord
Jesus as their personal savior
to stand up," he wrote. "Nat
urally, the priest felt he must
stand
"Those who stood were
counted as conversions, al
though they all were already
devout followers of their Lord
and Master. This sort of thing
is both objectionable and dis
honest. We should be fearless
enough to say so."
In Sydney, where the Amer
ican evangelist is now preach
ing, a spokesman for his or
ganization said the bishop
"used language a little strong
er than probably was neces
sary." Called Inquirers'
Jerry Beavan, director of
the Graham organization, said
people who stand at its meet
ings are called "inquirers who
came forward for counseling"
or persons making "decisions
Washington High
Princess Selected
. Portland-(DPD-A brown-eyed
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Methods
for Christ" rather than con
verts. Another Anglican prelate,
Bishop E. H. Burgmahh of
Canberra and Goulburn,
agreed that his colleague had
been unduly harsh.
"I criticize some of Graham's
methods, but I have no. evi
dence to suggest that any of
their aspects are 'objection
able, dishonest, distressing or
disgusting," he said. .
In Melbourne, 350 Graham
admirers boarded a special
train, before dawn today,
bound for Sydney to attend
three Graham meetings. Many
jot them had heard him when
he preached in Melbourne. ,
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Salem - (DPD - An 'effort by
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the Senate State and Federal
Affairs Committee and slash
a million dollars from it
failed Thursday.
The total budget in the
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787, which is $330,772 below
the amount contained in the
printed budget. Overhulse, in
his effort to trim a million
dollars, said he knew it was
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But the Senate defeated the
motion and passed the bill
which will go back to the
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