European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 25, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes credulity Gap meets wednesday october 25, 1967 by Dick West Washington up if a body meets a body coming through the credibility Gap it is Only natural they should Stop and compare notes. Something of that sort May have happened recently Between gov. Ronald Reagan of califor Nia and House Republican Leader Gerald r. Ford of Michigan. At any rate the two go stalwarts came out with the same impression. Both suspect that president Johnson has been suppressing Good news. Reagan gave vent to the theory that the War in Vietnam has taken a turn for the better and that Johnson is keeping it quiet. Ford meanwhile voiced doubts that the administration is As eager for a tax increase As some of its  i have often heard  accused of painting the Clouds with Sunshine but indy memory Johnson is the first to be accused of reversing the process. Can it be that lbs in turncoat Mary Poppins who i giving us a spoonful of Medicine to make the sugar go Down i have to information beyond the suspicions entertained by Ford and Reagan. But just thievery notion is enough to shake one of my articles of  and boy i have always operated on the principle that i there is anything a person can put his Trust in it is bad  recall when i was but a lad my father took me on his knee and dropped a Pearl of Wisdom into my Shell like ear. Gap head on son Jie said when some a tells you things Are bad you had better it Ausve  pinot hmm that a happened inthe ensuing Jef gig provides grounds for having my lathe arrested As a false Prophet. But suppose it turned out theford Reagan suspicions were Well founded that Johnson has been protecting us from the Happy truth regarding the War and taxes. Would this not cast a Shadow of doubt Over the other bad news flowing out of washing ton Many report seeing ufos in Georgia Newnan a. Up police reported a rash of unidentified flying object reports Earl sunday including a dark Blue Ball that a police officer said chased him and then hovered Over this Small Central Georgi town until Daybreak. The sightings were the late sin a series of ufos reports tha began Early Friday in a Georgia and spread into Centra portions of the state  patrolman Jerry Goldin at the Mountaintop Manchester state patrol station said he was the first to spot sunday s ufos one ice Blue and about a mile High and theother one a yellow rectangle shaped object with a red Sid about 100 Yards above the Trees. Before the night was Over Highway patrolmen and police men from 11 different town Shad seen similar objects. Reports came from such scattered Middle Georgia locations As mixed Neville Green Ville Newnan Talbotton Fayetteville and Taylor  patrolman Dale Spradlin said he chased a Ballof Light about eight inches in diameter for about eight mile Down a Road just outside Newnan. It was a Good distance i front of us pulling away so we turned around to come Back motown said Spradlin who was on patrol with officer Geral Mascon. The object was travel ing above tree top  object turned on us and followed he said. It was gaining on us and was going about 75 Miles per  the object caught up with him it pulled into the sky emitting a beam of bluish Light that illuminated the Roadway the officer said. A spokesman for Warne Robins air Force base said he had heard the reports of the objects but that nothing was seen on the base  weather Bureau at Athens said it had released four weather balloons saturday night and sunday morning but spokesman said it was unlikely they were the cause of the reports. Are our Rivers really polluted tile air actually poisonous to breathe is smoking a health Hazard is the population truly exploding Are autos unsafe at any Speed does China have nuclear weapons is baldness in curable i m not saying Reagan an Ford Are wrong Inland you. Nevertheless i find it difficult to imagine a politician As astute As Johnson would risk playing the role of an inverted Polly Anna. A thing like that could Cost him the Pessimist vote. Think Sphinx film fans will have Man thoughts about Anita Ekberg when they see her in her latest movie the Glass  the slimmed Down actress who stars with Robert Taylor appears Here during her most recent wardrobe fitting. Suicide or Murd wife no. 11 gets Manville Milons White Plains . A much married Tommy Man Ville Asbestos heir who died at73 earlier this month left his millions to his last wife it was disclosed monday. Manville s will filed in sur Rogate s court leaves his widow 26-year-old Christina erd Len $250,000 outright and the rest of the estate in two  codicil to the 1962 will re moved a bequest of $50,000 tothe first of Manville s 11 wives Florence Huber Reid leaving wife no. 11 sole heir. The estate was described Masover $1 million but there have been unofficial estimates of unto $30 million. Christina also was bequeathed the $60,000 Home at Chappaqua ., where she and Manvill had lived since their 1960 mar  will provided that one of the Trust funds could be Dis posed of As she wished but the other would go at her death Toher 10-year-old daughter Diana. The child s father Eugene och or of Yorktown Heights runs a Barber shop Here. Pilgrim descendant Dies Beverly mass. Up funeral services will be held wednesday for mrs. Priscilla Al Den Wilson direct descendant of Pilgrim leaders John Alden an capt. Miles Standish. She died saturday at Beverly Hospital. Retired teacher she was 81. Stak Bartow Fla. A decision on whether wealthy Cit rus Man e. Malcolm Pope was murdered or committed suicide is an open question worth$130,000. Pope s widow Mary believe was the victim of a murder plot engineered by communist elements he had exposed As an Fri undercover , mrs. Pope obtained a ruling from Polk county judge Richard Bronson granting her funds from her husband s Quarter million Dollar estate to hire investigators to catch the killer. About half of the estate,$130,000, is insurance policies void in Case of  county Coroner Elroy Delgado and the Polk count sheriff s department Long since have marked the death a Sui cide. However at the hearing Deputy buddy Crews testified there were no fingerprints on the gun and paraffin tests showed no powder remnants on Pope s  s body was found beside his Grove office Early on the morning of May 10 a single bul let in his Skull. The 58-year-Oldpope was the brother of Dick Pope owner of Cypress Gar Dens a tourist attraction. Francis p. Whitehair of de land attorney for mrs. Pope claimed during last week shearing that Pope was Mur dered because he was a undercover agent investigating communist infiltration of the to g o 0au01-e. His not Only Scenic but contain the Ain t fun Ulni no his Hwan the Ftp a Citrus and phosphate industries in the Tampa Bay  Pope s former Secretary Sha Ron Rehling of Winter Haven produced a letter she said assent to Fri director j. Edgar Hoover two Days before Pope death informing Hoover that Pope was severing what he termed a 12-year connection with the Agency. In Washington an feb spokesman said there would be no comment on the Case. Two friends testified Pope Hadnot been despondent and an autopsy by or. Joseph Davis Dade county Miami medical examiner indicated he had Benin excellent health. Judge Bronson s ruling re opening the suicide murder question said it is established that death occurred by external Means and that at this time the person who fired the fatal shot is  Whitehair told the judge when the Money was released for the investigation i Promise you Well bring to Polk county the outstanding criminologists of the world to solve this