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Valley frontiersman., 1952-01-24
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 up admirably under the four-day onslaught considering the force of the gales. (. A. Brewer. man. ager Of MEA. said the power lines stood up almost 100 percent Only two power-outs were re ported People in the Harold Ni- chols-King's Lake area were out of electricity from shortly before noon last Thursday until s30 D. m. Friday MEA officials were not notified of the outage until short 7, " before noon Friday after Mich ols went into Wasilla on skis, Verne Donaldson took MEA lines men Verne Fridley and Jim Mor- gan out to the area in his weas- el. After locating the cause of the trouble-a small. 30-inch branch no thicker than a little finger the refusing job took only a few minutes. hut the men spent all most two hours patro4ing the area to make sure that there vas no further trouble. Archie Moi fit reported an outage at his place Sunday evening, and 1t was fixed Monday morning.
 Residents all over the Valley were frightened momentarily when the lights went out Sunday evening. Brewer explained that the Eagle River tap blew fuse and knocked the whole Valley off for a minute. 'The boys at the Eklutna plant refused for us on the minute, Brewer said.
 The Matanuska Valley Tele- phone Company reported that only 20 percent of it's lines were downed as result of the storm. However, on investigation May nard Sands found that the lines that did go down were cut in so many places that the repair job is going to be a long and tedious one.
 Many Stranded In Town
 The sudden onslaught of the wind Thursday caught many ru- ral residents in town and unable to make their way back to their homes. When school bus one was unable to make it up Linn's hill. Ida and Lila Hoskins had to go back to Palmer where they stay ed with the Seth Cooks until Tuesday. Daryl Morrison also had to stay with friends in town. Rex Kibbee, who returned Thurs day after a trip over the highway with new Coop truck. was stranded in town until Sunday. Bv then he was so worried that he walked home. Harold Harris walked 14 miles out to his home stead near Wasilla to take care ot his animals. His house had burn ed down completely only a week before. Larry Shepherd walked to Wasilla Friday night.
 The Coop produce department reported full house for four days with stranded workers bunking on potato sacks and bor- rowed bed rolls. Palmer Foun- tain had nine over-storm guests Shorty" Moellendorf dropped in to the Frontier Bar Saturday night to see if he could bunk there because his barber shop was a cold, cold place, But every booth was taken by others with the same thought in mind. so he blew" back down to the barber shop where he spent the rest ol a sleepless night.
 Practically all shows were can celled at the Valley Theater be cause of the storm. We had a few patrons, Al Hagen reported but most of them were folk Wfit
Valley frontiersman., 1952-01-24
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Thursday. January 24

ThursdaY. January 24 NORTHLAND Pioneer Grange. Grange Hall. 8 D. m.
 Saturday. January 7s P-TA FOOD Sale. KosloSky's X Trading Post 1000 8. m. on PALMER Anchorage Basketball Game. School Gym.
 Sunday, January 27 COL CLASBY and Singing Ser geants. School Gym, 8 D. r
 Monday. January 2s VETERANS Training Glass. Co- Op Club Room, 8 D. m. KIWANIS Club, Coop club room l2:05 p. m.
 Tuesday, January g BOY SCOUT meeting. U P. Church. ZOO D. m. REPUBLICAN CLUB. Valley Theater, 8 D. m. MAT. Valley Fed Credit Union Coop club room. 8 p. m.
 Friday, February LAST DAY payment School Dist rict Taxes. SQUARE Dance club. Carp. Hall 8 p. m.
 c0EFEY INSIJRES
The Arizona post., 1952-09-05
Molly Picon Always Willing To Make People Laugh

said, you're not Molly Plcon,
are you?"
"Why, yes," answered Molly.
"The original?" asked the man
in amazement.
Milly Picon played her first role
at age 5 in Philadelphia's Arch
Theater, where her mother was
wardrobe mistress. 1t was not
much later that she played Topsy
in "Uncle Toms Cabin"
Plays TOpsy
"To this day." says Molly, I'm
the only person who has played
Topsy in French, German and
Yiddish."
In the course of the tour she
met producer-director Jacob Kali
ish, he recognized her talent and
in order to insure his interest,
married her. Kalish took Molly
to Europe for three years to pol
ish up her Yiddish, and then
brought a Yiddish musical COM
edy, "Yonkele," to New Yrok.
''It was December of 1923, and
we were booked for one week, "
says Molly. "We stayed 10 years"
At the end of that time they
owned the theater.
FavOrite Roles
Her favorite roles: 'Yonkele, u
the Yiddish Peter Pan; "Schme-
drik," and "Yiddel with His Fid-
dle." Audiences all over the
world have been good and kind
to me-" Molly commented, but
there's still a warm spot in her
heart for New York's Second Ave
nue. Theater.
''You know, l have a complete
English repetoire, too," she stat
ed. Molly has played all the vau-
deville capitals of the U.S., in
Guiding New York's Palace anc
Chicago's Capitol Theatre.
The Arizona post., 1952-09-05

Molly Picon. Her name has been
a by-word in the Yiddish and
American theater for more than a
third of a century. And those OF
us who witnessed her performance
in the Pioneer Hotel Ballroom
Aug. %, certainly know why.
"My business is to make people
laugh" she asserts. And Molly
is always ready and willing to
perform where laughter does the
most good. Her latest Bonds for
Israel campaign, of which Tucson
was stop, has already covered
$4,000 flying miles and an innum-
erable series of what she calls
zone night stands"
"Why, 1 haven't played one
night stands since I was kid in
vaudeville" she says. But after
playing an engagement in Tucson,
Molly caught the l am. plane for
New York and another Bond per-
formance.
Toured DIP Camps
Following the war, she toured
DIP camps in eastern Europe,
making people laugh who hadn't
laughed in seven years." Last
year she spent Christmas and New
Years entertaining A m e r a n
troops in the height of the Ko-
rean winter. ga more responsive
or appreciative audience, you will
not find," Molly said of the troops
in Korea.
How old is she? That's a trade
secret" the diminutive star re-
piled. "Just say in your story that
'I've performed on Yiddish and
American stages for many years. .
She then went on to tell a story
about herself.
Molly was browsing around an
antique shop recently when the
proprietor came up to her and
The Arizona post., 1952-09-05
AL. To Hold
Forums

At the conclusion of late Friday
evening services at Cong. Anshei
Israel, and the usual fellowship
period, once a month a speaker
will present and address on some
pertinent topic followed by a
question and answer period. On
some occasions group of persons
will speak.
Careful selection of interesting
subjects and speakers, from Tue
son and other cities, so as to in
sure a worthwhile forum, is in
progress and the program for the
season will be announced shortly.
The Arizona post., 1952-09-05
Human Relations
Series Planned

A 13-Week radio series on hu-
man relations will be broadcast
by KOPO every Thursday from
$50 to 6:45 pm. Entitled ''Lest
We Forget" the broadcast began
Aug. 81, M. ]. Brown, chairman
of the Bnai Birth Anti-Defama-
ton League announced.
The series is being contributed
as public service by KOPO. Ar
rangements were completed by
Ed Kleinerman, chairman of the
radio subcommittee of the Anti
Defamation League.
The Arizona post., 1952-09-05
Kosher Cake
Mix Marketed

If you're one of the many mod
ern Jewish women who are in
creasingly concerned with main
tanning a kosher kitchen, you'll
welcome any of the new nine
Dromedary Kosher Cake Mixes
the very first time you use them.
The recent acquisition by the
Dromedary people of the kosher
"U" endorsement adds the final
seal of approval. Many thousands
throughout the country rely reg
ularly on the entire Dromedary
line of over thirty kosher prod
ucts.
Gone completely is the bother
of old-fashioned measuring, sift-
ing and blending; gone, too, are
the uncertain results that so often
are affected by seemingly minor
variations in even the finest store
bought ingredients.
With these nine packages on
hand, literally hundreds of test
ed, traditional recipes for fine
kosher cakes and cookies can be
made with the turn of a mixing
spoon or the whirl of an electric
mixer. All you need do is add
milk or water, as the recipe spe-
cifies.
Dromedary Kosher Cake Mixes
are Devils Food, Cup Cake, Fudge
Frosting, White Cake, Fruit Cake,
Corn Muffin, Date Muffin, Corn
Bread, Gingerbread.
The Arizona post., 1952-09-05

Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. KaliSh re-
turned this week from a months
iaunt to the California coast from
San Francisco to San Diego.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Freeman and
son, Barry, returned a few weeks
ago from three-months in New
Jersey, visiting with the family.
The Arizona post., 1952-09-05

The newlyweds
Mr.. and Mrs.
Stanley Nevins,
are shown fol-
lowing their
marriage in the
patio of the
Nevins h o m e
last week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-02-17

Miss Patricia Genevieve Day
daughter Of Mr.. Theobald Adail
Day and the late Mrs. Genevieve
Ward Day of Chevy Chase. was
married yesterday to 1t. Carl
Frederick Aichele III. son Of Mr.
and Mrs. c. F. Aichele. jr.. Of
Mount lebanon. Pa. Chaplain
Andre Payette performed the
ceremony and read the nuptial
mass In the Post Chapel Of Fort
Lee. Va.
After a wedding breakfast at
the Fort Lee Officers Club at
tended by the couples immediate
families, 1t. and Mrs. Aichele left
on a wedding trip through Vir-
ginia, West Virginia, Pennsylva-
MIA and Kentucky. They will
make their home in Fort Knox,
KY, where 1t. Aichele viii re-
port for duty In early March.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-02-17

Hanna. granddaughter Of the ia
NOUS Mark Hanna Of Ohio. be-
came Mrs. Richard Porter David
son. and until her death a few
years ago they lived In Alexan-
ldria. Mr.. Tenant was trans
ferred to another post and pro-
NOTED to secretary, but died a few
years later. MIR. Law returned to
his native State of Texas, where
he now lives, and Col. Johnston
still makes his home in George
town.
These groups Of amateurs are
not to be confused with the enter
|prising Rams Head Players who
were organized in November, 1922,
through the inspiration Of MIR.
Robert w. Bell. MIR. Bell per-
suaded his father, Charles j. Bell,
to turn over his library for the
Rams Head Theater. This library
was at the rear of the Bells home
across Connecticut avenue from
the Bradleys. and had a rear exit
on Eighteenth street. With the
aid Of Mrs. Helen Ray Hagner for
prominent social sponsors and
Miss Bess Davis Schreiner for
publicity, Mr.. Bell and his Rams
Head Players got under way.
Theirs was not an amateur group
but little-known professionals.
Miss Josephine Hutchinson, who
afterwards rose to some fame and
also became the first Mrs. Robert
w. Bell, and Mr.. James Reynolds,
now one Of the famous designers
OF stage settings and costuming
In the profession, started with the
Rams Head Players. The group
lasted two seasons In their own
theater-the Bells former library
then moved to Wardman
Park Hotel Little Theater. Mr.
Bell now is a member Of the
faculty of the American Academy
Of Drama and Art in New York.
There have been many other
such groups Of amateurs here who
have produced or developed great
stars Of later years, and the Junior
League has given many outstand-
ing performances through its sol
years in Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-02-17
Orchestra
CONTINUED From page DID

honor guest THURSDAY afternoon,
and among the charter sub
scribers to- THESE concerts who
viii attend the tea are Mime.
Erkin. wife Of the Turkish AM
who Is q cultivated
singer; Mrs. Tom Connailys Mrs
Clinton p. Anderson and Mrs
John simmons. Other charter sub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-02-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar e. Isler
announce the engagement Of their
daughter, Jeanette, to Mr.. Fred
|erick H. Schmick, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Schmick, Of Preston.
Md.
Miss Isler attended the George
Washington University. Mr..
Schmick was graduated from the
University OF Maryland.
Evening star., 1952-03-04
The Gambling Tax

The Supreme Courts refusal to review an
attack on the new Federal gambling tax does not
mean, of course, that the judges have approved
the constitutionality of the levy.
A local gambler had asked three-judge
Federal court here to grant an injunction shield
ing him from the tax statute. This request was
denied on the ground that the gambler had no
standing to seek the aid of the court The local
tribunal expressed the belief that the tax law
was constitutional, but said it was not required
to pass on that issue in the case before 1t.
Three of the Supreme Court judges wanted
to review this ruling and the constitutional issue
If properly raised, is important enough to warrant
consideration by. the court. For the statute. in
addition to requiring payment of tax and e.
license fee, requires gambler to divulge certain
information which might serve as the basis OF
criminal prosecution against him.
Presumably, the constitutional question will
be tested if and when the Government under
takes to prosecute some for failing to give the
information or for refusing to pay the tax and
fee In that event the defendant would be able
to raise the constitutional issues, and the courts
would have to pass on them. This should be done,
for the tax measure, while it may be an effective
restraint on gambling, and while it may raise
some revenue, certainly pushes hard against the
constitutional ban on self-incrimination.
Evening star., 1952-03-04
BY Charles E. Troeewen

on this in her amazingly popular "The
Sea Around U.s."
Did the mocker drive the horde Of
starlings away?
He did, and then settled down to the
usual dog in the manger" attitude some
of these birds display.
This action Is forerunner OF the
springtime, when the male mockingbird
seeks to drive other birds out Of its
selected territory.
It nests early, and thereafter assails
all other birds, even cats and dogs, and
sometimes human beings.
The assaults are accompanied by a
grating noise unlike any other bird
sound. Once heard. it can never be
mistaken. Perhaps the nearest natural
sound is the ''crek, crek, crek" Of the
squirrel.
Soon the cry of the spring peeper will
be heard, and when 1t is, we viii know
it is real spring.
The sounds in nature take good ear
for their catching; millions Of persons
live and die without ever getting any
more than slight intimation Of them.
when actually such sounds are amaz-
ingly interesting, being musical motives
as surely as any Of those in Wagner
musical drama.
The "crek' of the squirrel. the grating
of Old Man Mockingbird, the shrill cry
of the spring peeper, or hyla, the roar
of the 17-year-old locusts, soon to be
heard again
These are true musical signatures. out
Of natures heart. telling the old and
always wonderful story Of life over and
over again.
Evening star., 1952-03-04
This and That

birds do. but always some Of them stay
here ell winter.
The other day we heard Of family
whose home grounds were overrun by
StarlingS.
b These large birds came not in dozens.
but by the hundreds, and the usual bird
feeding activities were disturbed.
What could be done?
If the larger birds we're driven of, the
smaller ones would be, too.
Just about the time the houSeholders
were in mild despair. along came a
mockingbird, which proceeded TO drive
the starlings away, in natural sort OF
way.
He did this by darting at them at the
feeding station.
At the first alarm, the big black fel-
lows would fly up into the trees, the
usual procedure with them.
Then the mocker himself would ny
into tree, but still keeping watch.
The moment the starlings came down
again the mocker would drive at them.
It seems to be q procedure Of most
birds to show alarm every time, not
seeming to learn anything. This may
strike human watcher as rather dumb.
but no doubt it has been responsible Tor
saving millions of bird lives over mii-
lions Of years.
Sometimes we forget how old birds
are.
Their relationship goes back to the
ancient serpent-forms that grew SO
large and SO specialized they were un-
able to survive the changes that came
to the early earth.
Miss Carson has an excellent chapter
Evening star., 1952-03-04
ICC Study-But Not Control

There is no merit to the proposal that the
Interstate Commerce Commission take over reg
ulation> of the Capital Transit Company The
only excuse for such a drastic change of control
would be failure by the District Public Utilities
Commission to do the regulatory job which Con-
gress created it to do. There Is no evidence to
date of such default.
The proposal, on the other hand, for an ICC
study of transit problems in Washington and the
suburbs is worth serious consideration by Con-
gress But the ICC is ill-equipped even for that
study. It Is hard-presSed to keep abreast OF
interstate carrier operations on national scale
its primary regulatory task To require the
commission in addition to assume supervision of
the increasingly complicated Capital Transit
problem would be unfair and unwise. To take on
this work in way that would meet requirements
of the public interest would call for additional
funds and personnel for establishment OF Dis
trict of Columbia transit division. The new
division would lack the long experience and
familiarity with the local transit situation which
the District PUG possesses and therefore it would
be badly handicapped in undertaking the new
assignment.
Besides, the record OF ICC interest in Capital
Transit bus operations indicates that it might be
biased in favor of Federal employees as against
the riding public in general Its insistence or
joint-fare arrangement between Capital Transit
and nearby Virginia buslines has resulted in
special rates for one class of CTC patrons-those
employed at the Pentagon or other Government
Offices across the Potomac River. The PUG op-
posed this joint fare as discriminatory, but the
courts upheld the power Of the ICC to fix the
special rates.
There is good case for overall regulation
of public utilities in the District and vicnitybut
the ICC is not the proper agency to do the reg
ulating. The only practicable approach to this
interjurisdictional problem would be through an
interstate compact, requiring action by Congress
and by the Maryland and Virginia Legislatures.
This joint plan would eliminate the specter OF
Federal Intervention in regulatory field now
reserved to local authorities. The ICC would be
a poor substitute for Metropolitan Area PUG,
just as it would be poor substitute for the
District PUG.
Evening star., 1952-03-04

the common defense. As wars became
more complicated, the citizen soldier
was gradually replaced by the hired
professional. Again during the medic
val period it was revived and the baron
and his knights and men at arms an
Swered the kings call for a military
force. Once again the system gave way
to the professional soldier, whose gaudy
uniform dominated the scene in Europe
during the 18th century.
This was the age when the professional
really held the center of the stage. Gen.
erals and privates alike served for pay
and advancement much like profess
Sional baseball players do today. 1t
was not at all unusual to meet men
who had served in half dozen Euro
pean armies. The military was strict
caste and civilians were sharply dis
couraged from taking any part in wars.
But young French lieutenant named
Bonaparte changed all Of this with two
innovations that changed the entire mil
itary picture in Europe. The first was
massed field artillery fire and the sec
ond an overwhelming assault by maSsed
columns of hastily trained infantry
raised by a draft on the population.
Bonaparte saw no need for carefully
trained infantry. His hard core OF pro-
feSSionalS could train great mass or
newly drafted men in the few simple
marching drills needed, and teach them
to load and fire Single-shot musket.
Workmanship was never considered.
the recruits being only taught to point
their weapons in horizontal direction
and blast away at another group hum
dred yards or SO from them.
For the next 100 years all European
countries adopted this system under
some form of UNIT. The machine gun
had already made it obsolete in 1914,
but the general stats Of Europe took
three years to find it out. In spite OF
the lessons of 1914, the French per-
sisted in keeping UNIT until it was
again demonstrated useless in 1910, but
unfortunately it was then too late. Hit
Ter had overran their country and its
UNIT army.
It is Just as useless today, but the
Pentagon has already made consider
able progress in selling it to U.S. After
their six months in the manual OF arms.
how to peel spuds and mop barracks
floors, we are supposed to believe traineeS
will return to civilian life as trained
soldiers and remain 50 for the next
seven years.
This thing called UNIT appears to be
nothing more than another billion-dol-
lar boondoggle. It will build another
gigantic bureaucracy with thousands Of
new clerks and probably a new Penta-
gon to house them. Keeping track Of
the trainees. recording their changes of
address alone, over the seven-year pc
riod of reserve, could grow into major
industry. On the whole, it looks like
a pretty sour joke on the taxpayers.
I.J.C.
Evening star., 1952-03-04
The Air Score in Korea

Recent reports on the air war in Korea cite
figures that Americans should bear in mind
when they run across occasional stories about
how the enemy is outclassing us in the skies.
The simple truth is that such stories are grossly
distorted because they make no allowance for
factors that explain just why our plane losses,
in some categories, have been greater than those
of the Communists
To begin with, the stories have created the
erroneous impression that our F-86 Sabre jets,
if not outfought entirely, have been extremely
hard put to hold their own against the Soviet
made MICS. But what is that fact OF the matter?
The fact is that the MICS, although they are
good planes that seem in some respects to be
better than the Sabres have been badly mauled
by the latter.
Thus according to the latest count, no fewer
than 1876 of these enemy craft have been defi-
nitely destroyed in combat by the F-86s. And
how many F-86s have been lost in the same
combat? The answer: %. In other words. re-
gardess of all the loose talk about the formidable
MICS, and regardless Of whether or not our pilot
training is chiefly responsible for 1t, our Sahres
have been outfghting them and outkilling them
at ratio of more than to l.
But what about the planes we have lost in
operations other than direct aerial combat? The
figures show the following: d) loss OF 65 of
our aircraft in sorties offering close support to
the United Nations ground forces, and (2) loss
of 296 in interdiction attacks on Communist
bases, railroads. troop transport, etc. In addi-
ton, several hundred Of our naval fighters and
bombers have been downed in operational acci-
dents and on assault missions BY way Of con-
trast, the Reds have suffered no losses whatever
in either Of these categories, and that looks-at
first glance-as If we have been outclasSed
However, second glance Is all that is needed
to explain the disparity. Our planes have flown
hundreds of thousands OF sorties In cloSe-support
and interdiction operations But the Communists
have not made single close-support sortie and
have tried interdiction attacks only IS times.
In short, despite stories to the contrary. the
air score in Korea-when all factors are weighed
; has been more than little in favor of our side.
Although the enemy's growing force of jets and
I other planes is not to be underestimated accu-
,sracy and proper sense OF perspective demand
recognition OF the fact that up to now our hiers
cover there have done much better than merely
hold their own.