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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 111(13
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Columbia Treaty Left-Handed Society Combats
Right-Handed World's Demand
Called Critical
OTTAWA (UPI) Canadian-
By A. E. HEFFERNAN
United Press International
MOBILE, Ala. (UPI) - Left
handed Robert T. (Bob) Cowlcs
American negotiations on the . comnlains its the wrong hand
Columbia River treaty appear-(and that this world was made
ed today to have reached a ' for the right-handed.
critical stage that could threat
en the proposed project s very
existence.
While spokesmen- (or both
governments refused to go be
yond the normal "constructive
and useful" latitudes, authorita
tive sources indicated closed
door discussions which opened
Monday were building to a de
cision "one way or the other."
One way obviously would be
an inter-government agreement
on the final outstanding issue of
downstream benefit prices
which, in turn, would clear the
way for the Canadian govern
ment to submit the three-year-old
treaty for final parliamen
tary ratification.
The other was the threat that
the long negotiations could
break down altogether, with the
So, he's organizing "The Left
handed Association of America."
At present, Cowlcs is presi
dent and only member but in
spare time from his printing
business he prepares letters,
mailing pieces and other propa
ganda for a campaign to get 21
million other left-handers in the
country benefits they deserve.
Cowlcs listed a few: re-design
ed watches, tools, outboard mo
tor pull cords, guns, egg spat
ulas and can openers.
"The way I figure it," said
Cowlcs, "money spends just as
well in either hand and I believe
the manufacturers could stimu
late a great new boom in the
economy by catering a little to
the southpaws."
Cowlcs said as he grew Horn
United Stales possibly seeking ' childhood he began to realize
Its own means lo meet some of
the objectives now proposed
through joint development.
The key issue remained
agreement on the price Canada
would receve for selling its 50
per cent share of any power
generated in the United States
as a result of joint development.
Freighter Salvage
Contract Awarded
: ASTORIA (UPI) - Pacific
Inland Navigation Co., Vancou
ver, Wash., has been awarded
the job of salvaging the strand
ed freighter C Trader and its
cargo of 2.4 million board feet
of lumber.
The firm's lug, Peyaka, with
two barges and a crane arrived
at the vessel this morning lo
begin preparation. The lug Sal
vage Chief has been retained lo
continue to hold the half-submerged
C Trader while salvage
operations begin.
The vessel was stranded near
the mouth of the Columbia Riv
er after running into trouble off
the coast last weekend.
Some of the deck load of lum
ber washed away and beach
combers in the Fort Stevens
area have salvaged much of it.
the world was made for right-
handed persons and he would
just have to adapt.
Cowlcs Adjusted
"I adjusted to being left hand
ed and maintained a fairly good
disposition until World War II,"
said Cowlcs, 3!), married and
father of three, who was draft
ed into the infantry. ,
"First 1 had to go against
my better judgment and salute
with my right arm," Cowles
COTTON'S BY-PRODUCTS
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI)
The by-products of cotton in
clude ingredients that go into
cosmetics, paints, soap, linol
eum, explosives and phonograph
records, according lo the Cali
fornia Council of Growers.
Kennedy Judgeship
Choice Approved
By United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Senate Judiciary Committee to
day approved one of two still
pending controversial federal
judgeship nominations made by
the late President Kennedy.
The committee sent to the
Senate the name of Detroit Po
lice Commissioner George C.
Edwards Jr., whom Kennedy
picked to be a judge in the 6lh
Circuit Court of Appeals. The
circuit covers Ohio, Michigan,
Kentucky and Tennessee.
The Tennessee bar opposed
the nomination because Ed
wards was arrested as a sit-in
striker in the early lfjlSO's and
served a short jail term. The
American Bar Association held
that Edwards was qualified.
Still lo he acted on by the
committee is the nomination of
David Rnbinovitz, a Sheboygan
Wis., attorney, to be a fed
eral judge in the Western dis
trict of Wisconsin.
said. "Someday I'm going to
have that little trick changed
so the lefty if he so desires can
salute with his left arm.
"The crowning glory of army
life came when a big burly
sergeant told me I would have
to (ire my M-l rifle from the
right shoulder. At this point I
put my foot down and made it
all the way to the regimental
commander before I was allow
ed to shoot from my left shoul
der. I explained lo him lhat it
would be my life lhat might
be lost. I survived the war much
to my delight."
When To Switch
Cowlcs said he had done ex
tensive research about left
handedness and found that 11
per cent of people are left
handed. He said an aim of the left-
handed association would be to
gather information on left-hand-edness
"to determine why we're
left-handed and if we shouldn't
be that is make left-handers
switch to the other hand in
babyhood.
"Another very important aim
is to make the general public
aware of the difficulty of a left
handed person living in this
right-handed world.
"But," Cowlcs vowed, "the
most important aim of this asso
ciation will be lo contact manu
facturers in this country and get
them to manufacture and mer
chandise articles that don't fit
and appeal strictly to right
handed people."
hands and let me know their
ideas and suggestions."
"are asked to raise their left
"All in favor," Cowles said,
Test Seen For
White Minority
By WILBUR G. LANDREY
United Press International
NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI) -When
Kenya becomes indepen
dent, il will be African national
ism's big test.
It also will be the big test for
72-ycar-old Jomo Kcnyatla, the
first prime minister of indepen
dent Kenya, who was released
only last year after nearly eight
years in jail and restriction un
der the British on a conviction
of being implicated in Mau Mau
terrorism.
Kenya will be the 3t4h indc
nendent African slate (not
counting white-ruled South Afri
ca), preceded a few days by
the island of Zanzibar which be
came 3,'lrd on Dec. 9. In African
eyes only a few more states re
main lo be "liberated.
The test here will be Ihe fate
of the white minority and the
larger Asian minority under
black government. Never be
fore in Black Africa has an Af
rican government taken over a
country where the minorities are
so large.
The next targets oi Airican
nationalism Southern R h o
desia, Portuguese Angola and
Mozambique and eventually
South Africa have larger
white populations than Kenya's
They, and the world, will be
watching what happens here.
At midnight, Dec. 11, Kenyatta
pulled down the Union Jack
for the last time in the presence
of the duke of Edinburgh as
representative of the queen
The lust bit of British red is
gone from Ihe map of Easl
Africa.
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The leaders of African nation
alism, the leaders from Ihe new
nations, are expected fromall
over the continent. Five - thou
sand prisoners will be freed, in
cluding the last of the Mau
Mau detainees.
The new Kenya flag of black,
green and red with white stripes
will fly in the breeze.
Thousands of whites have
gone and many more will be
going in the next few months
as Africans lake over civil ;
service jobs. Whether the exo- j
dus becomes a flood will dc-1
pend on Kenyatta, the men
around him, and luck.
Kenya's population consists of i
about 60,000 whites (the figure i
once was 66,000) more than 8.5 I
million blacks, 18,200 Asians, j
mostly Indians, and some 40,000 ;
Arabs. Among the Africans, '
there are nearly 1100 different
tribes, some hostile to each
Other.
Kenya's African politicians
know and arc sensitive to the
fact that the elements are here
for "another Congo."
They are determined to pre-!
vent it. And diplomats expect
them to succeed.
Kenyatta, the "Burning
Spear" of Kenya African poli
tics, has not, in the words of
one British official here, "put
a foot wrong since he became
prime minister" last May fol
lowing the victory of his Kenya
African National Union (KANU)
in nationwide elections. ;
He has sought to assure the
doubters among Europeans and
Asians that tliey will have a i
place in independent Kenya. J
"Forget the past," of white
colonialism and Mau Mau, he
says. "Harambcc!" The thou
sands which come to hear him
thunder "Harambcc" in return.
He is trying to make lhat the
slogan of Kenya's independence.
In Swahili, it means "all pull
together."
Tm going to stay, said one
prominent farmer in the "while
highlands."
Farmers Slay
"They need us and I'm going
lo lake them at their word. I've
worked for what I've gol here
and people depend upon me."
Kenya, in large part, does dc-;
pond on the between 3,000 and :
4,000 while farmers who will
remain in the former "w h 1 1 c 1
highlands."
11 is llicv who have contrib
uted over 80 per cent of Ken
ya's exports coffee, sisal, tea,
wattle bark, meal and dairy
produce, wool and cotton. Ken
ya's main resources arc agri
cultural and will continue to be.
The whites have two years
in which to make up their minds
whether to become Kenya citi
zens or not. Alter that, if they
stay, they will have to accept
Ihe disabilities that come from
being foreigners.
The choice for Kenya's and
all Kast Africa's Asians is
even more poignant. They came
originally as laborers on the
railway. And they multiplied.
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Today they control much of
Ihe commerce. They make the
wheels go around in Ihe civil
service. They arc the artisans
and skilled workers. They arc
landlords. And they are afraid,
because there is resentment
against the trader and landlord.
Africanization means that Alri
cans will move up Ihe ladder
of jobs.
Kenyatta. with the economic
future' of his country in muni,
has been so "moderate" la dirty
word in Airican nationalist pol
itics) that there have been some
grumblings among his own peo
ple. Only his tremendous pres
tige has restrained many, and
he lowers over all other Afri
can leaders here.
Even so, there have been se
cret oathings by a now terror
society, Ihe Kamau Maithori,
sometimes translated the
"Weeping Smiths." another oft
shoot, like Mau Mau and the
j land Irrcdom army, o( Kcnyat
' la's Kikuyu tribe.
South Airican farmers, among
others, have been trekking
south out of Kenya complaining
about the security situation and
Kikuyu squatters moung with
out hindrance on to their lands.
Other South African farmers,
of course, hove slaved. i
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VILLAGE BLANKETED The Christmas Village in down
town Ogden, Utah, is blanketed with snow in the wake of a
storm that moved through Utah. Dominating the scene is
a giant missile tree, featuring a Minuteman garlanded
with more than 8,000 lights. (UPI)
Oregon Spectator Said
First Western Paper
OREGON CITY, Ore. (UPI)
The first newspaper published
west of . the Rocky Mounla'iis
was tiie Oregon Spectator which
hit the streets for the first tima
Feb. 5, 1846.
Some students of western his
tory say, however, the first
newspaper was the longhand ed
ition of the "Flumgudgeon Ga
zette and Bumble Bee Budgct'
which appeared a few months
earlier.
Narcotics Charge Is
Dismissed by Judge
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI).
Superior Court Judge Ray
mond J. Coughlin dismissed a
narcotics charge because a fed
eral agent watched the suspect
take a dose of the drug.
"I don't look with favor upon
this type of activity by law en
forcement officers," the judga
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