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Arab World Said Quietest Since Before Eventful Summer of "ti. rV- 'L. WRECKAGE BURNS -Bystanders watch the burning wreckage of a Super Constellation which crashed in a rice field northeast of Colusa, Calif. . A six-man test crew Lenten Message r By ' The MOST REV. JOHN J. SWINT. D.D. Bishop of the Ronr.in Catholic Diocese of Wheeling. W.Va. ; (Written for UPI) Lent is a special season of prayer and penance. Through prayer and self-denial in food, drink and other ways we try to make up in our small way for our sins and the sins of the rest of mankind. Today we have great need for prayer and penance. The forces of evil rage over the face of the earth destroying life and liberty, making mil lions homeless, Ignoring the rights and dignity of individ uals, sowing discord, hatred, greed and envy. One look at the slate of af fairs in South Africa, the Con go, Russia, China, Viet Nam, Formosa, Egypt, Cuba and here at home will give evi dence of the extent of the power of evil threatening all la these 40 days of Lent, then, we must pray and do penance for ourselves and our own offenses, but, we . must also pray for all poor, affllct edi and oppressed people in out own hemisphere and in - the rest of the world. Wall Street Journal Names Editorial Head New York-niWI-WiHlnm K. Kiiby has been named as executive vice president and editorial director of the Wall Street Journal. Bernard Kilgore, president of. Dow-Jones & Company, Ine.. nlso announced that Bu ret H. McCormack was ap pointed vice president ana connrnl manager and Ver mont C. Royster was named a member of the company's executive committee. .Washington - The depart ment of State In Washington was first known as the depart ment of foreign affairs. MUSTANG TILLERS Id Bnlcnt Mustang do the dirty work In your gurdcn. 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Its statement entitled "Magna Carta for Transportation," was approved recently by the AAR board of directors. Dangerous Gap "Unequal government transport policies have open ed up a transport gap that can prove as dangerous to America as the alleged missile gap," AAR President Daniel P. Loomls said in a separate statement. The AAR called for an end to what it termed "over-regulation, subsidization of com petition and Inequitable tax policies which discriminate against railroads." ' It also asked that laws be changed to permit railroads to offer.: diversified transporta tion service. "Railroaders seek no favors or special privileges," the as sociation said. "They seek only cqualitv of treatment for all forms of transportation -the trnditionnl American con Cent of fair play." Advanced In Past All the proposals contained In the statement have been advanced by the industry In In the past. But the AAR said it was making a renewed bid for- policy changes now be cause of Its rontinulng eco nomic difficulties. . "While all general carriers arc In trouble," Loomls said, "railroads are among the worst off." FROM easy payments ' 44 A was killed when the four-engine plane crashed on a test flight from McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento. (UPITelephoto). Aid to Parochial Schools Is Knotty Issue for Kennedy By Congressional Quarterly Washington-President Ken nedy s education J program, presented to Congress in Feb ruary, is running full, blast into the emotion-ridden con troversy over federal aid to parochial schools. Participants on all sides of the issue base their arguments on what they believe the Con stitution allows or forbids. While all .agree' that the 1st Amendment of the Cdnstitu tion requires that somewhere a line must be drawn between Church and State, the precise application of this line to spe cific legislative- proposals is still a matter of heated argu ment. The President's program calls for grants to public ele mentary and secondary schools, but omits either grants or loans for parochial schools. The President has said "aid" to parochial schools is clearly unconstitutional. However. Mr. Kennedy is re questing low-interest loans, for construction of classrooms, to both public and private. sectarian colleges. His pro posed college scholarship pro gram would make grants to both tiie student and his col lege public or private. Leading American Catholics say they will oppose the pro gram it it does not include loans to parochial schools. While not asking for grants. the Catholic hierarchy saj-s long-term, low-interest loans would bo "strictly within the framework of the Constitu tion" and It would be dis criminatory not to provide them. ' Existing Legislation Loans to parochial schools and sectarjian colleges arc available under several exist ing programs. - Opponents of further aid to parochial ele mentary and secondary schools contend that the exist ing programs do not aid re ligion but serve some other purpose, such as rewarding war veterans, or promoting health and welfare. Against this, some supporters of the Catholic position contend there is ample precedent for loans to parochial schools, and the issue Is more political than constitutional. The major existing pro grams are as follows: College Housing Program. Since last), the government has granted long-term, low- interest loans to public and private colleges for dormitory construction. Sec tnrian col leges - and most non public colleges do have a sectarian basis - may receive the loans, but colleges whose main pur nose is the teaching of re ligion, such as theological sem inaries, may not. The admin istration's college classroom loan program would work the same way. Hill-Burton Hospital Con struction Act. Under this pro gram the government grants money to the states for hos pital construction; the states then allocate the monev to approved hospital projects Hospitals built under the spoil NOW... Medford's Newest and Finest Automatic Transmission Rebuilding WATCH FOR OUR GRAND OPENING) MEDFORD TRANSMISSION 1910 Table Rock Road . SP 2-836,8 Across Front Big Y Market . MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. sorship of church groups are eligible; the only requirements is that any hospital benefited is non-profit. For 12 years, the Baptist church took no part in the program on the grounds that the Hill-Burton grants violated the church state dividing line. The Bap tists then in 1958 asked Con gress to amend the act to give them loans (as opposed to grants) for hospital construc tion. Congress concurred. ' The GI Bill. Money for the education of a veteran under the GI Bill was given to the school, and veterans were free to choose any school, includ ing a religious seminary. (The only absolute prohibitions in the law were that they could not use the money to take courses (n dancing or bartend ing.) Under, two programs, the government aids parochial el ementary and secondary schools. They are: National Defense Education Act. Title III of this act, pass ed by Congress in 1958, au thorized loans to private ele mentary and secondary schools for the purchase of equipment to improve the leaching of science and math ematics. Public schools were given grants for this purpose. National School Lunch Act, Under this program, the fed eral government grants money to the states for the purchase of food for non-profit school lunches in public and private schools. The program is ad ministered by the Department of Agriculture through the states' departments of educa tion. Because the constitutions of 28 states prohibit their state department of education from dealing with private schools, the Agriculture De partment has set up regional offices to which the private schools in these states apply directly. None of these programs has been challenged in the courts on the church-state issue and. with the exception of the Hill Burton flurry, there has been almost no controversy about them on the religious issue. What Supreme Court deci sions there are on the issue of public funds for aid to re ligious schools were based on state laws. Although the Jus tices often went beyond the immediate case to offer gen eral opinions about the intent of the 1st Amendment, their decisions offer no clear guide lines on how the court would rule on both existing rind pro posed federal programs. An amendment for loans to private schools was rejected by a 37-49 roll-call vote. In the House, where the issue Is considered explosive enough to kill a -general education bill, a similar amendment was ruled out of order on t h c grounds that It was not ger mane to the bill, and a show down vote was thus avoided. In the interest of getting any rlcmentnry and secondary school aid through Congress and of avoiding great embar rassment to President Kenne dy, a Catholic, administration Middle East Diplomats Hard Put To Explain By DAVID DUGAS UPI Correspondent Beirut, Lebanon,-(UPD- Like the approach of spring, an atmosphere of seeming good will seems gradually to have moved in on the Middle East. In the winter, fires of re crimination burned brightly from Cairo, Amman and Baghdad. Now the fires are burning low. The Arab world is at its quietist since before that eventful summer in 1958 when a pro -Nasser revolt rocked Lebanon, an army rev- Plywood Prices In Major Increase Portland - (UPD - Plywood prices jumped $6 a thousand in sheathing items and $4 a thousand In sanded, accord ing to major producers Wed nesday. The price rise was a reflection of spring buying. The new price is close to the 1960 high, but still short of the $85 for sanded in 1959. The new plywood price lists called for $68 for sanded, on the quarter-inch, AD price index grade, and $52, $62, $84, $94, and $124 for sheath ing. The new lists, put out by a major manufacturer, also in cluded a $5 increase in ply form quoted at $150 on the 5-8ths and $170 a thousand on the 3-4s. officials and school bill spon sors are hoping that a show down may again be avoided in 1961. (Copyright 1961, Congression al Quarterly Inc.) Model for model . . . Chevrolets lower priced any other full-sized ear! 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Nasser Seen Anxious Observers here have sug gested Nasser is anxious to patch up quarrels among his own neighbors to bolster his claim of leadership before the new countries of Africa and the neutrals of Asia. Egyptian exploits In the Congo, in support of the late Patrice Lumumba, did Nasser more harm than good, some observers believe, and ' the UAR president is making a fresh start. But Cairo avidly backs the Soviet - supported regime of Lumumba's succes sor, Antoine Gizenga. Some believe Nasser sees himself as a successor to In dia's Nehru as leader of the Afro- Asian neutrals. That seemed to be his role when he told the United Nations General Assembly in Septem ber that Eisenhower and Khrushchev should meet on disarmament "without delay." Failing that, he is now or ganizing an Afro-Asian "sum mit conference" for this spring that is supposed to include the Soviet Union and a personal visit by Khrushchev. Nothing Accomplished Other reasons for inter Arab peace have been advanc ed: - If the French- Algerian war does end soon, the Arabs would like to greet the event united. - Nasser's concentrated ra dio campaign against Hussein appears to have accomplished nothing. - The recent rapprochmcnt between Iraq and Jordan could undermine Nasser's hold on Syria. During his recent 17-day visit to the UAR's Syrian re BEL wa;o.s Sport Coupe I3S Door Sedan 4-Door Sedan Park Door Sadan Vhrrrvlrt rmr: i"r Vorrnlr Ihr nrtr Inrcnlr ml COURTESY gion Nasser did not utter a single criticism of any other Arab leader. Not even Hus sein, although the Syrians un veiled three alleged Jordan ian plots including one said to be aimed at blowing up Nasser's Damascus guest pal ace. Nasser did attack a couple of anti-Nasser political par ties in Lebanon for opposing his Egyptian-Syrian merger, but that was small pickings. Willing To Go Along At the same time, if Nasser seems anxious to promote a new image of himself, other Arab leaders appear willing to go along with him, at least for now. Iraq's Prime Minister Abdul Karim Kassem, who accused Nasser of trying to kill him in October 1959, wel corned the UAR foreign minis ter at an Arab league foreign minister's meeting in Bagh dad in January. Amicable re lations continue. King Hussein complained personally to the U.N. Gener. al Assembly last October that Nasser was behind the August time bomb assassination of Jordan's prime minister. Yet during Nasser's Syrian visit Hussein sent him a personal message offering to forget by gones and work for closer re lations. Palace sources in Amman let It be known that Nasser replied favorably. At any rate, a pledge made at the Baghdad conference to halt radio warfare between Jordan and the UAR has been ob served by both sides. Observers Skeptical Even Tunisia, on the outs with Cairo since President Habib Bourguiba accused Nas ser of abetting attempts on his life, agreed to return to the Arab league fold despite its earlier charge that Nasser dominates the organization. How long will the political spring thaw last? Observers here arc skeptical. "Nothing much has really changed"' one diplomat said. "Cairo and Baghdad can get along only when neither is a threat to the other. Jordan still considers the Egyptian-, one of them has a road-gentling Jet-smooth ride. Body by Fisher refinements and dozens of engi- neering details you'd pensive makes. 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