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Alfred Dreyfus had been framed "because he was a Jew; Lavon had been framed by a fellow Jew in the land of Moses Slender and handsome, an orator with a tongue of gold, Pinhas Lavon was Israeli De- fense Minister in 1954.. He found himself quarreling constantly with his. aggressive young sub- ordinates, his Under Secretary, Shimon Peres, and the chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Moshe Dayan. Then something happened -- something still muffled by cen- sorship. The best guess is that someone in Army intelligence ordered Israeli espionage agents to set fire to the USIA offices in Cairo and Alexandria. The ap- parent motive: To inflame rela- tions between -the U.S. and Egypt. After the plan failed, Lavon accused his generals of having committed "a stupid and immoral act." They, in turn, said they had acted under orders and produced a corroborating docu- ment, ostensibly from Lavon. Denouncing the document .as a forgery, Lavon resigned. Ever since, he has been pressing for an investigation. The first real break came last September, when « man on trial happened to blurt out that the Lavon document was a fake. Investigators soon got on the trail of an Israeli girl who once had worked for a eneral implicated in the case. ced to Paris, the girl broke down, She wept that she had been told to alter the disputed: - document by inserting: "This is ---on-orders-from- Mr; Lavon" ~~ Last month, the investigators reported to the Cabinet that Lavon was right. He had been framed. by the unidentified general (whose name was .cen- sored in. all news stories but ends in the letter "i"). A majori- ty of the Cabinet approved the .committee's report -- and that was when Ben-Gurion blew up. The fight was a personal one for B-G since, if the document had indeed been forged, his army proteges, Peres and Dayan, might be implicated. Moreover, Pinhas Lavon, who still is Secretary-General of the power- ful Israeli labor federation, has his eye on B-G's job. Sympathy for Lavon might well sweep him back to power. 3 Defeated by. his own Cabinet, B-G announced that he would take off for a long leave of ab- sence. In his fury, he also lashed out at another, of his pet hates --all of the Jews Jiving outside of Israel. "Whoever lives outside the land of Israel is considered to have no God," he said. "Fan- tastic nonsense," replied the American Council for Judaism. Exactly when--or if--the old man would return to his post depended on whether a group of - peacemakers within his Mapai Party could patch up a com- promise over. the Lavon' Affair. They were trying desperately. For to have a thing like this happen in the Land of the Law made every Israeli feel ashamed. --From NEWSWEEK. "AS | END THE REFRAIN . , ! ' -- His namesake had a long nose, so why not a long face for a two-year-old basset hound named Cyrano de Bérgarac? Owned by Mrs. Jacqueline Reed, of New York, Cyrano was arriving home from Paris aboard the liner America. And Now The Ducks Have Their Doubts! Should anybody be worrying about my ducks, be it known that my ducks are now worrying about me. They have found that I don't float worth a cent, This has a nugatory effect on my in- fluence amongst them, for the way I quack they thought I was a duck, too. They now know bet- ter. } I" quack rather well, really, being a longtime student of the articulate Mallard. I can step out on my doorstep in the bracing air of a country morning, make a couple of quacks with such facility as seldom accrues to humans and set the whole duck- pond in a tizzy of excitement. ~The -tlock -quack back- with cre- dulity, and confide in me with their most secret thoughts. Fur- thermore, I can make not only the quieter quack of the green- head drake, which is cozier and limited in range, but the high, raucous quack of the female as well -- which will slap against a distant barn and set the wild echoes crying all up and down the Ridge. I am not only just a duck, IT am two ducks. So they rally to.my remarks - and feel I am one of them. The other day when I rounded them up and inserted them in the weather-tight coop where they . customarily pass the discontent- ful winter, they spoke sharply to me about freedom and liberty and due process and impugned my intelligence. I told them_the weatherman was even now in- " sisting that an old bruiser of a blizzard was due, and in spite of their strong arguments 1 would have to be adamant. I told them all this in patient quacks, but they knew more than - I did. I closed the door and ad- justed the button and as I walk- ed away I could hear them dis- cussing me liberally, and mak- ing coarse comments I would not now care to repeat. They seemed to think that for a duck, I was a nut.' But the weatherman proved to be correct, and shortly the storm settled in and it was indeed a rouser. By morning we had a foot of lovely snow, and I sup- posed the ducks would be grate- ful for my foresight. With the morning wind still whipping the ""township TI filled a bucket with warm water and waded through the drifts to bring them a drink. I quacked pleasantly as I ap-- proached the coop, expecting an answering greeting, and perhaps some of the chummy sass I elleit ; : = 17. Vault by some of the things I say. They did not answer, however, and I opened the door to find the encompassed ducks unen- compassed. The wind had snaked a pane of glass from one of the windows, and during the night my flock 'had flown forth, This must have been something to "see. Ducks can't jump like a hen and they had to effect this exit on pinions. How they took off inside the smallish coop and so fretted their wings that they had them drawn close at the precise instant of negotiating a seven-by-nine opening, one at a time, must have been a whole new concept of flight. Some artists in mobiles should try to express this. A flock of ducks erupting in order from a broken window suggests an unerring accuracy beyond belief, and I'm sure if I'd seen it I'd have doubted. Next I had the task of perus- ing the acreage to find them. While New York and Boston were lamenting traffic delays and the drop-off in holiday busi- ness; T-was trudging the farm, quacking away like a good one, and wondering if my flock had really kept on going to Alabama. - They had not. In the. wind, soon, - I heard an answering quack from from the pond, and I walked out on the ice looking behind every snowflake to find my flock sitting peacefully in a springhole of open water about the size of a bushel basket. They were bunched. Each had a soft blan- ket of new snow on his or her back, and each lifted a wild to-do as I approached. I got the idea they were glad to see me and were apologetic for theiT perfenestration. 1 quacked teasingly like a drake, causing the hens to become vio- lently enthusiastic, and then 1 quacked a little like a hen which stirred the drakes up a good deal. Then I edged out to see if I could persuade them to leave the springhole and move to- wards the coop. I told them I would repair the window and re- store former comfort. At this point I heard a great snap, and a splash, and I pre- sumed somebody had fallen in the water, so 1 looked around and found it was myself. I dis- covered the pond, at that point was chest-high to any citizen of my build, and that it consisted largely of nice cold water of a close and intimate disposition. I continued to quack, but my ef- forts to swim were not convinc- "Ing. The ducks stared at me from their blankets of snow, disbelief in their eyes, and seemed to won- der how anybody who could quack so good could swim so bad. + deficiency > ------ t AH, ME --- This Bassett hound isn't really as sad as he looks. He is one of 280 puppies entered in the Hoosier Kennel Club's annual puppy match, Although it is too early to be sure of the ultimate result, the deficiency payment system of price support for eggs seems to have brought production into a more realistic relationship with demand, A, D. Davey of the Canada Department of Agricul- ture, told. United States poultry- men recently. The director of the depart- ment's Poultry Division, spoke tec the Midwestern Regional Convention of the American Poultry and Hatchery tion at Chicago in December. - . * He described stabilization policy in detail including the old offer-to-purchase program for eggs and the deficiency pay- ment program which superseded it in October, 1959. Although each program as- sures a minimum level per dozen -- the offer-to-purchase program establishing a base and the de- ficiency 'payment program an '|' average for the year -- the form- er program could result In high- er returns to producers due to the seasonal pattern of prices above. the base or average set. The important feature of the payment program is that it permits the product to be sold at prices that more truly reflect supply and demand and gives less Incentive to production expansion. Produc- tion expansion became a very serious problem as related to the Canadian Stabilization pro- gram for shell eggs. LJ * * It was decided to support the price of eggs at 33 cents per dozen at the producer level, this being comparable to the former 44 cents at wholesale level un- der the old support-by-purchase program. The deficiency pay- ment would be. equal to the amount by which the national average price received by pro- ducers fell below the support price over a 12-month period, starting Oct. 1, 1959. Payments, were limited to a mazimum of 4,000 dozen Grade A Large | and Extra Large, eggs marketed by each registered producer in that period. . *. LJ Mr. Davey. said charges were made that the large producer was being discriminated against. The fact was the department had to find a way of reducing the average price of those producers Federa-- quota fixed would encourage the small producer to expand up to the limits for which he could receive support and thus defeat : the very object in mind. In fact the small producer had just as "much support under the offer- -to-purchase program as he does under the deficiency program and if he had wanted to expand he could just as well have done so under the old program. One year's operation seem$ to bear out this thesis," said Mr. Davey. * . . It was also claimed that the decision to make a uniform de- ficiency payment to producers regardless of regional differences ~ was inequitable and that those producers in lower market price regions should get larger de- ficiency payments. Such price regions, said Mr. Davey, are the result of differences in geo- graphic location in relation to retail outlets, differences in time of marketing and differ- ences of- bargaining skills, ete. It was not intended that a price support program should iron out these normal differences which have always existed. _ Registration of producers was essential to the success of the price support program. Only one registration was allowed for each flock although many in- quiries were - received from families wishing to divide up their flocks to securegmore than one registration. Russian Chickens Not To Blame Spurred by their ambition to "surpass the captialist U.S." So- viet farms and factories are belt- ing out everything from pigs to pig iron. But somewhere, some- one goofed: They forgot about pillows. A few weeks ago, Trade Min- ister Dmnitri Pavolv announced that there were only enough feathers to meet 15 per cent of the Soviet public's rannual de- mand for pillows. "He wasn't telling Muscovites anything they didn't know," cabled Newsweek's Moscow bureau chief Whitman Bassow. "Most Russian families have to wait for at least a year for new pillows. Some newly- weds have been known ta cut pillows in two so that each can have one. There is even a black market, with peasants getting as much as 5 rubles (about $8.50) to make up pillows on the sly. Yet even the black marketeers have to wait six months--until the chickens come through." Are the chickens to blame? - longed ~seroll" N\ Not at all, clucked the party organ, Pravda. "It's the system." In all of Moscow, sald Pravda, there's only one dilapidated pil- low factory. It dries its feathers in an open-air courtyard, and when the wind blows--whoosh go the feathers. ) "We asked the Moscow Eco- nomic Council for new drying machinery," said factory director Elena Novikova, "but they only thumbed their noses at us" What Russia needs to solve its pillow shortage are some hard heads Famous' Manuscript To Be Decoded Surrounded by surplus mum- mies shrouded in plastic bags, Iorwerth Edwards, birdlike keeper of Egyptian antiquities at the British Museum, began work ° last week on a task which might have shaken a more impression- able soul. Ignoring the ominous lore that surrounds things rifled from tombs, he began decoding a 22-foot-long papyrus known as a Book o! the Dead, a kind of passport to eternity buried with Pharaohs, who extolled their vir- tues to the God Osiris. Because the superstitius donor, Sir Archibald C. Campbell, thought it unlucky to open it, the scroll had languished uh- touched since 1874, when he bought it from Egyptian grave robbers. Not until the estate of his daughter was settled last fall did the museum recelve the ba- quest. . After unraveling 1 foot of the wheat-colored papyrus, Egyptol- oglst Edwards knew he had a unique tind. The papyrus ba- to Pinudjem, a high priest of the Pharaoh Slamun (1000 to 984 B.C), whose daughter was marrled to King Solomon. It is an exceptionally long Book of the Dead, written In elegant hieratic character script, rather than the more complicated hieroglyphics usu- ally found in such scrolls. With scholarly restraint, Ed- wards reported that the text is "of great interest to scholars . . . But we don't expect any inside information about palace skul- duggery, harem intrigues, or priestly treachery from- this Upsidedown to Prevent Pecking n -------- DAY SCHOO} "LESSON By Rev. RB. Warren, BA, B.D, Jesus' Authority Challenged John 5:9¢ - 24," h Memory Selection: Verily, yily I say 'unto you. He that heare my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everl life, and shall not come into coms demnation; but is passed frosh death unto life. John 5:24, When Jesus performed a mig. acle, discussion usually followed, On this occasion the Jews corl- ticized 'because the healing had been performed on the Sabbath. But first, let us look at the mie. acle. Jesus secing this invalid of 38 years, asked him if he willed to be made whole. Of course he did, That was why he was sitting by this pool, But hope had well nigh given way to despair. Jesus chal- lenged him further, saying, "Rise take up they bed, and walk. This called for resolution and faith. He responded. He believed. He undertook to do as the Lord bade him and found he was abla to do so. Later, Jesus meeting him in the temple gave him warning, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee." The Jews first found fault ba- oause this man was carrying his bed on the sabbath. If one is sgainst a cause, it takes a very little thing to evoke criticism. We need to carefully evaluate o motives before wa criticize, If -{ is In order to rescue a sheep thak has fallen into a pit on the sab. bath, surely It was in order to heal this man and for him to oie his blanket with him, Jesus aal on another occasion, "Tha sah- bath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: therefora the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath." . What Jesus had dope was in keeping with the words of Isaiah, (58:13,14) "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my. holy day; and call the sabbath a d-»- light, the holy of the LORD, han, wooo --oyrablé; and "shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor speaking thine own words; thou speakify thine own words: thou shalt delight thyself in the Lord." Many people want to disregard the Lord's Day and seek thelr own pleasures. Promoters of commercialized sport and theatres owners want to make mory | money. Communists are glad ta see a further weakening of tha worship attitude. We greatly need a moving of God's Holy Spirit that will move us to seal the Lord and obey Him, ISSUE 4 -- 1961 oN YT 3 fF ke 2 Ls Sih Fa\ DOUBLE TROUBLE -- Identical twins Randy and Ricky Jonas, of Dallas, Tex., fell into double trouble after Christmas. Each was trying out a new set of roller skates. Within an hour each had broken his arm. - 8, Laborer Let me not dwell too closely ) ! CROSSWORD 1. Ovor- 3. B. Indian on. the ensuite. I successfully who, because of their large ) i Abundanas 4180p gain the marge, and proceed in- scale and highly efficient opera- foi con Saf = X 8. Fly 30. Draft tently toward the house. Behind tions, were mainly responsible iii Ae | PUZZLE 9. Bvergreent 38. Commenced 10. Drug plant lamounted for the big increase in egg out- me, in the whistling of the wind 16 put. By limiting the payments in © Eenwelens PAREDON. } i wl BE oN p -- 11. Tear with . i follow the jeering remarks of ig th River (80) _B1.Bummer (Fr) _violence Ju sominiaoration my Mu ofl iri Ahi recall this way it was assured that COM TRS : 3 Ph 2A Lam S ln 2 i A LCRA EOE FT Horan EET LAE nin 1. Take tha several snide quacks. I am said the total paid to the large pro- TERRGURIE MG Los (3 Ac BLU Bb. RC, 8. ¥roma rT adhe orrodes 4. ROoLa ballot to have bounded into the kitchen ducers would not be enough to Us; Phe Ia IAL i a C ORAL DES 3 + oT gies Ving Krrow Dolion | Tol oie with a clinking noise, and to yaise significantly the . average AMIENS NAN 3 i Bo hie | 14. Rumler ta S04 Anolon Ee Caos AF Etingurshea have recumbented myself on the price..per_dozen they received. Bora I SM EES 1S RA LS ET 15 Deoplaadle linings 'arioty of 48. Compass floor to lift my heels into the : : ¥ ; g Torhts ~~ b Parch - Aypsum Poin air and allow about eight gal- As the large-scale commercial Ha 11. front common : lons of tingling moisture to flow producers were the ones who 4 Ri a. i -- forth on the floor, And so on, had expanded most it followed 19. Harasse : I muttered some, and chattered, that they were least in need of Hoven (AX ve And sat all afternoon. The next | price support. On the other ronoyn day I tried again and got the hand, those who had the greatest F ducks inside, 'setting the glass, need -- the small producers -- fons But they stared at me: with un- were given the largest measure believing eyes, and seemed to of support. elsewhrée on this page doubt. I think they have conclud- ed I am not a duck at all. By John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor, Residents in the blizzard areas will readily agree .that aside from a lack of gas nothing im- mobilizes an automobile more speedily than a few unplowed show. inches of Obey the traffic signs -- they are placed there for YOUR SAFETY. The quota eligible for defi- ciency payment was related to a 'flock of say 500 birds from which would be marketed eight dozen grade A Large size eggs per bird per year, -Some felt that this basis was low, but after one year of operation the pre- liminary records show that the national average production' per bird is a fraction of one per. cent below the figure of eight dozen egas of this grade. L LJ Another criticism was that the FIRING SQUAD CHA-CHA -- A gathering of followers i of Fidel Castro chant "te the wall" Ia Havana, demanding death for terrorists whe set off bombs In the eity. A a -------- -- ---- A 7 Ho Fo