European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes is Mondoy april 22, our new Man in Bonn Lodge not a bit retiring at 63 Washington a Henry Cabot Lodge the new . Ambassador designate to West get Many is a Man who has re tired several times from the diplomatic service but keeps coming Back for More. At 65the Standard retirement age for Many men this product of a distinguished new England heritage is taking on a major diplomatic Post for the fifth Tim since 1953, when he was named by president Dwight d. Eisen Hower to be . Ambassador to the United nations. If that was a gruelling and frequently frustrating assignment it was mild compared to what was ahead for Lodge who was to serve two arduous terms . Ambassador to South Viet Nam. The first time was fro August 1963 to june 1964, during which presidents John f. Ken Nedy and Ngo Dinh diem both were assassinated and the Viet Nam crisis became full blown. The second period was august1965 to april 1967, As the Essen tial character of the vietnamese War was changed As a result of the massive . Military buildup. When Lodge quit his Saigon Post the first time it was in response to a Call from Liberal elements of the Republican party for help in heading off the 1964campaign drive of sen. Barry Goldwater for the , who had a Long political background and had been the Republican nominee for vice president in 1960, was sharply encouraged by the fact that in the 1964 new Hampshire presidential preference primary he won on a write in vote eve though he was in Vietnam and was not a declared  never became a candidate himself but campaigned for  Scranton of Pennsyl Vania Standard bearer of the anti Goldwater republicans. Goldwater of course eventually won the nomination then lost in a landslide to president  mid-1965, Lodge was Back in Saigon As the successor to ambassador Maxwell Taylor who had replaced him in 1964.during his second tour Lodge emphasized the civilian pacification program and control of Clandestine communist activity. But he sometimes expressed the View that the vietnamese War rather than someday coming Toa formal close might just fade  he left Saigon the second time. Lodge denied an further political ambitions. He became an ambassador at Large exchanging that Post with Ellsworth Bunker Veteran Diplo mat who then went to , in another of these Job swapping arrangements which have been characteristic of the diplomatic service under presi Dent Johnson Lodge will Trade posts with George Mcghee . Ambassador to Bonn since 1963.cabot and Lodge Are names reaching far Back in american history. Disastrous drought threatening Florida Miami Fla. A plagued by five years of freakish Spring droughts Florida sits on a pow Der Keg. Natural forces gone haywire Are pushing the state steadily toward another disaster like that of 1967, when 10,000 fires scorched the land cattle died i seared pastures and wildlife suffered a terrible toll. I see nothing that would prevent a repetition of last year s drought said or. Rob Ert h. Simpson chief of the Miami weather Bureau. In some ways Florida move through arid april in worse shape than last year. Already,4,320 fires have leaped up in Woodlands protected by Testate Forest service. Last year at this time there had been3,758. We Are in critical condition said Harold Mikell Forest serv ice fire control director. In thelast five years we Are missing one full year of rainfall. Therein t much water in lakes Ponds and  Farmers who once welcomed firefighters to the water in their Ponds now turn their backs on them telling them to look elsewhere. Often there Isno other water and the Only Way to contain the blazes is by plow ing fire lanes. Smoke from the fires mixing with Early morning fog oils across High Speed highways a times cutting visibility to Zero and greatly increasing the Prospect of traffic deaths. Birds arc flying northward out of Everglades National Park at the Bottom of Florida searching for water. Deer and alligators Are gathering groundwater holes where in 1962 and 1967 they fought Jack to the Wai Buttles against extinction. Rest in months for weary fire fighters. The curse of drought has Bee brought to Florida by a disruption of wind circulation in the hemisphere Simpson says. Normally january and february Are the driest months. Showers carried by the Trade winds begin in May and continue copiously through the sum Mer. But for the past five years april has been the most arid of the first four months and this is when the hours of Sunshine in crease and evaporation be comes much More rapid. Riding in cars causes cancer Pasadena Calif. Up exposure to Sunshine an wind while driving or Riding in automobiles May be a contributing Factor to development of skin cancer according to or. E. W. Demaree a Pasadena surgeon and radiologist. He studied 10,000 cases of skin cancer and found american men have More skin cancers on the left Side of the face and neck while american women have More on the right  said the reason May be because generally men drive cars while women ride. Thus a Man s face is exposed to the elements on the left Side while a woman s right Side is exposed to Sun and wind with people born before 1900 before the automobile there is Little or no difference Between the right and left sides Demaree said. Supreme court told South still segregates schools Washington up the supreme court May be getting ready to Send some More shockwave through Southern Public schools. For the first time since the ruling 14 years ago that pupils May not be assigned to school son the basis of race a thorough airing of the desegregation situation took place recently in arguments before the nine justices. The hearings produced acer comments from both bar and Bench on what has been going on in the intervening years. School boards said negro pupils Are getting their rights according to the 1954 decision and have no proper complaint. They contend that the 1954 ruling did not compel integration but Only took Down the Fence of discriminatory state Laws. But the Legal defense fund Dlf of the a act backed by the Justice department asserts that Southern localities Are letting a few negroes int White schools while pursuing a three appeals from new Kent county va., Gould ark., and Jackson Tenn. Focus on Freedom of Choice plans which Are used in 90 per cent of South Ern educational systems. Under such plans both negro and White pupils or their parents May choose the school. Desegregation by this method Tion in the South and the court s 195-4 Effort to eliminate discrimination from the Public school system lawyers for the school boards insist that while the pre-1954 separate but equal doctrine May have denied negro Chil Dren the equal Protection of m the ambassador was Bora Massachusetts on july 5 the son of a wealthy poet an grandson of sen. Henry cars loge. Who served 30 years inthe . Senate and is noted by historians As a leading Kantat Onnist of his time who was to it mental in blocking us Pership in the league of nations. Journalists often found irony in the fact that the grandson later served As the top us spokesman in the United nations successor to the ill Fate league. But Lodge has said his Grandfather s position was right because the league was tied to a peace treaty covenant and therefore was unworkable. So would the . Have been he said if so tied. Lodge began his career As journalist then was elected to the Senate in 1936 and re elected in 1942. He resigned to go into the army and serve with a . Tank detachment of the British army in Libya an later in operations in Italy Southern France and Southern Germany. He was again elected to the Senate in 1946, but Defeated in 1952 by another rising Youngpo Lotical figure from Massachusetts rep. John of Kennedy. Lodge however was an Early Backer of Eisenhower and Man aged his Campaign for the 1952 Republican nomination. Just after being elected Eisen Hower named Lodge to the . Post where he served until i960,building a reputation As a skilled Diplomat and negotiator an appreciated for his dry devas Tating wit. Lodge also became some thing of a television celebrity during the heated debate Over the planting of listening devices in the . Embassy in Moscow he brought to the Security coun cil chamber the hand carved wooden Seal of the United states a soviet gift to the embassy and explained How the Bidden microphones had been placed while the . Delegates and a National television audience watched in fascination. Once in discussing his service at the ., Lodge died As his top achievement his role in Deal ing with the soviets and the other communists in a Lon series of diplomatic cold War  he also pointed to his part in working out an agreement touring the soviets into a com Mittee on the peaceful uses 01ren e eur the Laws guaranteed in the outer space on which a Treav Reading the a Constitution an unencumbered Choice of schools cer now exist break incest deadlock Over the has been a one Way Street with Sercu conic 01 a Nooi cer West eau inc a. A.  much traffic. White Chil mainly does not. They said the Sion of new members Ana be v i a Germany military address the Start and stripes Apo 0178. Inu a he c Toa , Are Runy. 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