These Days Or - Behind The New* f From Washingrton ■» BY JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Are things simmering down in Africa? Since the African missions to the UN keep up a drumfire against Rhodesia, South Africa, and the Portuguese “colonial ists” in Angola and Mozambique, it may seem foolish to ask such a question. Then, too, the civil war in Nigeria drags on, and the white mercenaries in the Congo don’t know whether they will be permitted a choice be tween execution and repatria tion to their own countries. But the verbal guerilla sniping in the UN corridors seems to have lost some of its zing. When Black Power advocates such as Stokely Carmichael and Rap Brown are busy urging separa tion of the races in the United States, it’s hard to quarrel ov er white South Africa’s policy of providing for seven so-call ed Bantustans (such as the Transkei and Zululand) where the Bantu tribesmen will be self-governing in everything save foreign policy matters af fecting the South Africans and the outside world. The illusion of a developing calm inside the old Dark Con tinent is sustained by a lot of things. h There la the recent eco nomic union between Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The currencies of the three East African countries have al ways been more or less in terchangeable, but new they are going to have a common market, with uniform tariffs. Politically, Kenya and Tanz ania have been on divergent courses. President Nyerere of Tanzania has welcomed the Red Chinese into his coun try where President Kenyat ta of Kenya has been giving them the old yo-heave-ho for' trying to corrupt the text books in his schools. Tan zania is openly socialistic where Kenya follows the Mexican policy of allowing a good deal of free enterprise in the name of the “revolu tion.” But the two nations are not permitting ideology to stand in the way of follow ing common trade policies, which could mean that ide ology is ceasing to be a life and-death matter on the Af rican East Coast. 2. Some of the West Coast KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1240 WPNF Brevard, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather at 27 minutes past the hour. WPNF Fine entertainment in between. Local News At 7:30 AAA. 12 Noon 6:00 PM Dr. Roland To Attend Conference Dr. E. 0. Roland, of Brevard, is among those registered for the 45th Annual Southeastern Educational Congress of Op tometry to be held, February 10 -13, 1968, at the Marriott Mo tor Hotel in Atlanta. The event, one of the largest of its type in the Nation, is expected to attract some 2,000 persons from 25 states. It will include 73 hours of lectures as well as meetings of 12 affiliat ed groups. Nationally - prominent lec turers will speak on such top ics as ocular pathology, child vision, contact lenses, practice pianagement, and current health care trends. The meeting is sponsored by the Southern Council of Op tometrists which consists of some 2,400 members in 12 states. The Council carries on a program of upgrading op tometric professional compe tence through educational sem inars and congresses as well as educating the public on proper care of vision. African nations are quietly giving up on old feuds. Guinea and the Ivory Coast have stop ped seizing and detaining each other’s nationals, and have actually exchanged some po litical prisoners whom they had vowed “never” to release until “national honor” had been sat isfied. The propaganda which the more “revolutionary” Afri can countries used to direct against President Hbupouet Boigny of the Ivory Coast for giving French free enterprisers a free rein in his markets has subsided. And most of the Af rican nations that have accept ed the help of agricultural mis sions from the Free Chinese in Taiwan refused to go along with the “Afro-Asian bloc” in the UN when the question of seating Red China came up in November. 3. The campaign to pro mote bloody civil war be tween blacks and whites low the Zambezi and Limpdptf rivers has been dwindling. The effort to infiltrate Rho desia and Southwest Africa with “freedom fighters” train ed in Tanzania has been re pulsed by prompt action on the part of the Ian Smith gov ernment in Salisbury and the South African police in their mandated Southwest African territory. Guerillas still in fest the northern forest re gions of Portuguese Mozambi que, but they aren’t doing much to subvert the govern ment in Portuguese Angola. And Rhodesia seems to he surviving the Uhl economic blockade. 4. There is a slow but pre ceptiible thawing in the rela tions between . black govern nents and the White South Af ricans. Malawi’s President, Dr. Hastings Banda, broke the >lack African front when he tedded to allow a full diplo matic exchange with the South \frican government in Pretoria. For A New Experience In TV Reception.... (Call Sears! install a rotating antenna you control... g in crystal-clear pictures from every di rengthen fringe areas, too! Call today! 5 installed JANUARY 1.968 s m r v^~t—* s 1 ? 3* 4 5 6 7 8 9 \p 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 90 21 27 23 74 25 76 27 28 29 30 31 January 1, 1902 _ The first Rose Bowl football game re sulted in University of Mich igan defeating Stanford, 49-0. However, this classic did not become a regular New Year’s Day event until 1918. January 5, 1914 — The Ford Motor Company announced that it was doubling its current wage scale, inaugurating a bas ic $5 minimum wage, and re ducing the workday from nine to eight hours. January 10, 1945 — General MacArthur’s promise “I shall return” was fulfilled as 88,000 American soldiers successfully invaded Luzon in the Philip pine Islands. January 15, 1831 — The first railroad honeymoon trip was made by Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Pierson of Ramapo, N. Y., who rode on the South Caro lina Railroad from Charleston, S. C., to Hamburg, S. C., six miles away. January 17, 1955—The USS Nautilus was the first ship underway on nuclear power. January 27, 1880 — Thomas Alva Edison patented the elec tric incandescent lamp. January 30, 1862 — The “Monitor,” first iron-clad tur reted vessel of the U. S. Navy, was launched at Greenpoint, Garren Attends Special Seminar Jack S. Garren, of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corpora tion, Pisgah Horest, has re cently returned from Cleveland, Ohio, where he participated in a week long seminar with 40 other designers, engineers and architects from all sections of the United States to study new structural design techniques. . «