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The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-29
Happy Hollow

HAPPY HOLLOW - Quite a
change in the weather this past
week with the temperature going
down, rain, wind and snow.
Okey Hague and family accom-
panied Francis Warner and fam
lily down to Tom Hague's Tues
day night.
Mr.. and Mrs. ARA Warner
were in Caldwell on business on
Tuesday and enjoyed dinner at
the home of Ben King.
Several of the stronger sex
from the hollow gave blood to the
Red Cross Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Miller
and children and Ollie Miller
visited at the ARA Warner home
on Thursday night.
Business callers in Caldwell
Friday were Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Stottsberry and daughter, Mrs.
Okey Hague and son, Dave, Mrs.
Ronald Albritton and son, Mrs.
Sarah Compton, Mr. and Mrs.
Francis Warner and son and Mr..
and Mrs. ARA Warner.
Mrs. Martha King of Caldwell,
spent the weekend with her
daughter, Mrs. ARA Warner and
family.
Harold Miller and family and
Mrs. Ollie Miller were McCon-
nelsville visitors, Saturday.
Miss Marian Beebe spent the
weekend with her mother, Mrs.
Compton of High View Area.
We had a report of Okey Hague
one of our up and at 'em farmers
that he saw his first black snake
of '53 one day last week but on
close questioning it was one he
had found up in bale of hay
last summer.
We are sorry to hear our old
friend, Rodney Williams isn't
improving as we would like for
him to. Bobbie Hague is on the
sick list. The rest Of the sick, we
are happy to report are improv-
ed
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-29
Coal Ridue

COAL RIDGE - Mr.. Tom
Senko Of Ava, route /, has been
dismissed to his home from ST.
Francis hospital, Cambridge,
where he has been q patient for
10 days. His condition is improv-
ed.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Senko and
daughter OF Cleveland, has been
visiting at the home of his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Senko OF
Ava route /.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andy Senko and
son of Cleveland and Mrs. Mary
Yancosek visited lately at the
home of their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Tom Senko.
Mrs. Susan Bursa and Mrs.
Sophia Miller of Cleveland also
visited at the home of their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Senko of
Ava, route /.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-29
Kerlnollsburq

KENNONSBURG = Mrs. Louis
Lamb and Mrs. Jimmie Carpenter
will entertain the Good Cheer
Circle at the home of Mrs. Lamb.
The hostess will be in charge
of contests and group No. 3 the
program.
The next regular meeting of
grange will b. Feb. End, begin
ming at 7:30 p. m. with w. D.
Lashley, w. m. presiding. w. T.
James is the new secretary.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Wilson and
Misses Daisy and Carolyn Will
liams were visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Don McMillen at Newcomers
town, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Lashley and
sons, Gary, and Dennis, were
visiting her parents at Olivet on
Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. J. Magis and
daughter, Linda, spent Tuesday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Lamb
and watched the Inauguration on
T. V.
Mrs. Victor Williams and chill
dren, Roger and Carolyn, spent
Tuesday afternoon with Mrs.
Gladys Thompson and watched
the Inauguration on T.V.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Wilson
were visiting Mrs. Kittie Rice
in Swan hospital, Cambridge the
past Sunday.
Mrs. Robert Wyscarver was
a hostess to the home extension
group in Wayne twp. last Wed
nesday afternoon.
The meeting was on Better
Home Lighting with Miss Mabel
Sarbaugh, home extension agent
conducting the meeting
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Lashley
and daughter, Rose Mary spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
man Miley of near Senecaville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Williams
and children were visiting Mrs.
Hazel Powell in Mt. Ephraim on
Sunday.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-29
DUNG annorl

DUNGANNON - Those who
attended the sale at the home of
Orwell Coff of Coal Run were Mr..
and Mrs. G. G. Townsend, Mr..
w. c. Fleeman, Vina and Aline
Jordan and Mrs. Walter Stewart.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Fleeman
visited the formers sister and
brother-in-laW, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charley Poff of Warner, Sunday.
Friends in this community
were shocked of the sudden pass
ing away Of Robert Martin of
Coal Run. He was formerly a re-
sident of this place. Those who
attended his funeral services
which was held at the McCurdy
funeral home at Beverly, Tues
day were Mr.. and Mrs. G.. G..
Townsend, Mr.. and Mrs. w. c.
Fleeman and Mr.. and Mrs. Walt
er Stewart.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Stewart and
children, Jimmy, Carol and Mary
10 called on Mr.. and Mrs. Fran
els Stewart and family, Sunday
evening
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-29
WhiuvilIe

WHIGVILLE - Mr.. and Mrs.
Kenneth VanFossen and children
of East Union, spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. George Berry.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Gulick
and family spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. j, G. Glasgow Of
Antrim.
Richard Leasure of West La
fayette, was calling on friends
here, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Mahanney of
GAINESVILLE, spent Saturday after
noon with Mrs. John Gulick.
Mrs. Jake Carpenter was shop
ping at Barnesville the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. l.. Franklin
spent Thursday evening with Mr..
and Mrs. Kenneth Cutler.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G. Cutler and
family of Summerfield, spent
Monday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. Forest Danford.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Shackle,
Della Thomas and Mat Gulick
spent Tuesday afternoon with
Mrs. Rose Gulick.
Several from here attended the
funeral of Charles Arnold at
Fredericksdale, Sunday after
noon.
Florence Carter was calling on
Freda Cutler, Thursday after
noon.
Myron Cutler was confined to
his home the past week with ill
ness.
The Community club will hold
their meeting in the town hall
Friday evening, Feb. 9th instead
of Jan. 30th. Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Davis, Mr.. and Mrs. .'John Beattey
in charge of programme. Pot luck
supper and bring your own table
service.
f. H. Danford was shopping al
Summerfield, Saturday night.
Mr.. and MRS. Gould Ward
were at Caldwell, Saturday.
Mrs. Helen Watson, Emma
West and Helen Spence were al
Caldwell, Thursday.
Mrs. Kenneth Cutler, who has
been i'll, is improved at this writ
ing. Her daughter, Mrs. Wayne
Hayes has been caring for her.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. West and
son, Clarence, were at Caldwell
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gould Ward spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. John
Denise Of Quaker City.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-29

on Saturday.
The Sarahsville M.YF. met at
the home of Mrs. c. S. Elliott,
Sunday evening. Games were
played and refreshments were
served to the following: Dwight
and Wayne Watson, Melvin and
Merlin Wentworth, Gerald Davis,
Donald Bettinger, Karen Davis,
Martha Gibson, Carole and Ruth
Elliott, Calhe Kirk, Russell Meig-
hen, Donna Young, Ronald La
Toilette, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Went
worth, Mrs. Sarah Highman, Mrs.
c. S. Elliott and Rev and Mrs.
Eugene Emerson and sons, Bob
and Billy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Smith of
Caldwell, visited with Mrs.
Mamie Smith recently.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-29
Middleburq

MlDDLEBURG - Mrs. Mary
Hayes and daughter, Becky and
Mrs. Dorothy Adds visited We'd
nesday afternoon with Mr.. and
Mrs. Edison Clark.
Roma Crum was a caller at
Stafford, Thursday afternoon.
Winifred Dearth and son,
Wayne and James McCune were
callers at Caldwell. Friday.
Miss Evelyn Arnold - spent
Wednesday evening with Miss
Ethyl Mae Clark.
Miss Bertha Morrison, Miss
Ethyl Mae Clark and Miss Eve
lyn Arnold attended show at
Caldwell, Wednesday evening.
Fred Schneeberger was a call
er at Mr.. and Mrs. George Ad-
dlesberger's, Thursday.
Miss Bennetta Arnold, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Bede Arnold
is employed at present at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Nc
Donald of near Sharon.
Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison and
Mrs. Kathryn Poland and chill
dren visited Friday afternoon
with Mrs. Laurie Hartman of
Rado.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Adde'S
berger attended the butchering
Saturday at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Schneeberger and
family and Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Schneeberger::
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Thomp-
son and son, Nelosn, visited Mr..
and Mrs. Bert Miracle, Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Thompson
and family visited Mrs. Lucy
Dimmerling and family on Sun
day afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hark Pryor and
Henry Brahler of GAINESVILLE,
spent the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. Bert Miracle of Rado.
Joe MORRISON is spending a 1eW
weeks with Mr., and Mrs. George
Krospopught and working in
factory at McConnelsville.
Middleburg had siege OF
winter over the weekend.
Miss Shirley CozZens visited
Sunday afternoon with Mr.. and
Mrs. James Morrison and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Fogle and
children and Mrs. Rose Fogle of
Maple Heights, were Sunday
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Mitchell and family.
Miss Crystal Dearth attended
the picture show at Middleburg
school Friday afternoon.
Photo observation-disclosures
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-29
Pleasant City

PLEASANT CITY - Betty
Weaver was a dinner guest of her
cousin, Mrs. Clyde Archer and
husband, Caldwell, Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted German of
Buffalo, spent Sunday with his
mother, Mrs Susan German and
family
Mr.. Robert Secrest OF Colum-
bus, spent few hours with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Dalton
Secrest, Friday evening.
Mrs. Minnie and Mrs. Ruby
Secrest and Mrs. Helen Miley
spent Tuesday afternoon with
Mrs. Hazel Bayly and son, Mer-
lin and watched the presidential
inauguration on television.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Richcreek
and son, Larry, Of Columbus,
were weekend guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Floyd Easterday and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shriver
and daughter, Sarah Jane, route
/, spent Saturday evening with
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Secrest and
son, John.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Miley and
daughter, Betty, spent Sunday
afternoon with his mother, Mrs.
Clara Miley and son, Carl on
route /.
Miss Amelia Ogle of Cam
bridge, was a Wednesday night
guest of Miss Carole Hively and
attended the Cumberland and
Pleasant City basketball game.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-29

SARAHSVILLE - Mrs. Max
Franklin, Caldwell, is spending
a few days with Mr.. and Mrs.
James Stottsberry.
Mary E. Smith spent the week
end with Patricia Rochus of near
Pleasant City.
Sarahsville defeated Belle Val
ley l0l-54 in Friday evenings
game at Belle Valley.
Mrs. Carl Elliott and daugh-
ters visited recently with Mrs
Ida Shane in Cambridge.
Recent visitors at the home Of
Nellie Snode and Lettie Young
were Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Snode
of Clarion, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Jacobs
of Sewesville, visited with Mr..
and Mrs. w. E. Jacobs and family
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-29

Mrs. Elva Bishop and son, Don
and daughter, Mary and Mrs.
Jennie Mallett were New Mata-
moras callers, Friday.
Mrs. Joe Thompson, who un-
derWent an operation al st.
Francis hospital, Cambridge, is
now at her home. We wish her
a speedy recovery.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Stewart
and sons, Carl and Charles, spent
Sunday with the formers par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Stewart Of
Reinersville.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1953-01-29

Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Atkinson
and Taylor Hague were in Cald-
well on business one day the past
week.
Smyrna times., 1953-12-10
Clayton School
Perfect Attendance

Perfect attendance pupils at the
Clayton School for the month of
November are as follows:
8th Grade - David Dickerson,
Gilbert Scheers, Eddie Turner,
James Walton, Carl Simpson, JAM
es Balm, Clara Burton, Daisy Con-
ner, Rose Marie Hestera, Betsy
Dale Loder, Esther Loder, Rather
inc Mormon, Jeanette Pinder.
9th Grade-Bruce Ballard, David
Brown, Wayne Cole, George Dun
mack, Roland Jackson, James Rog-
ers, Harry Spencer, Mary Ann
Scheers, Deborah Rittenhouse,
Mary G. Justis, Gail Jones, Betty
Ann Hurd.
5th and 9th Grades-Joey Walk
er, James Spencer, Thomas Spenc-
er, William Wiley, Kathleen
Straughn, Arlene Turner, Carol
Simmons, Rachel Simpson, Mary
Jane Starkey, Vivian Virdin, San
dra Thornton, Margaret Straughn,
Margaret Steele.
5th Grade-Louise Cole, Betty
Jane Hestera, Jane Hodgson, Mar
garet Ann Hurd, Anne Hynson,
June johnson, Carolyn Knussman,
Bernard Davis, Larry Dickerson,
Oliver Ford, Donald Lawrence,
Jerry Neal, Edwin Scheers, Gerald
Spear.
4th Grade-Milliam Carey, Clar-
ence Council, Clarence Conner,
Donald Davis, Edward Davis,
James Greene, Thomas Kennedy,
Marvel Lowman, Donald Massey,
Andrew Roth, James Sylvester,
Gertrude Smith, Hannah Mae
Ross, Barbara Lawrence, Donna
Smyrna times., 1953-12-10

Jones, Karen Hollett, Joyce Cole
Barbara Ann Bracken.
3rd Grade-Donald Birmingham
Allen Davis, William Lowman
Clinton Robertson,Jr., John Swain
Lynn Wheatley, Bessie Alexander
Doris Beverley, Patsy Chalmers
Ruth Conner, Sandra Darrell, Lor-
eta Dixon, Hope Hutchison, Mary
Lou O'Day, Mary Anne Passwat-
ers, Nancy Wheatley, Rebecca Will
ley.
End and 3rd Grades = Donald
Reed, Edward Spencer, George
Straughn, Lynn Thornton, Glenn
Wright, Eunice ziegler, Nancy
Wilkins, Mary Voshell, Sandra
Turner, Charlotte Sylvester, Car
olyn Ross, Diana Redman.
Ernest Blendt, Richard Chase,
Robert Crossley, Robert Justice,
Enid Faulkner. Judy Kane, Shirley
Davis, Sandra Gonce.
1T Grade-Arthur Davis, James
Davis, Jerald Funk, Robert Hes
terra, John Richards, Arthur
Straughn, Suzanne Wootten, Diane
Davis.
Raymond Alexander, Robert
Bowen, Roy Carey, Roger Cole,
William Connor, Ronald Ivory,
Walter Justice, Charles Swain,
Janet Sylvester, Sandra Shora,
Short, Mary Sue Salter, Patricia
Kane, Linda Gonce, Janice Filings
worth, Margery Edge, Jaon Dixon,
Grace Davis, Joyce Carey, Norma
Blendt.
Wladimid Choma, William
Hutchison, Ruth Ann Westrod, Sue
Ellen Burke.
Smyrna times., 1953-12-10
Takes the work out of driving!

You park, take turns with less effort
and less movement of the wheel.
You keep the ''feel of the wheel" at
all times. Control is more complete
for this is the latest and greatest
development in Power Steering.
Smyrna times., 1953-12-10

st. Joseph's r. @. Church, Clayton
Very Reverend
L. B. Pastorelli, SSH, Pastor
Sunday Masses at z, 9, 1890 AM
1000 A.M.-Sunday School
$3.50 P.M.-Benediction of the
Most Blessed Sacrament
Confessions are heard every
Saturday at 5 and z PM.
Friendship Methodist Church
Rev. Donald Dewey, Pastor
Sunday Services
8:45 a. m, Preaching Service
9:45 a. M, Sunday School
KentOn Methodist Church
Kenton
Rev. Donald Dewey, Pastor
1918 A.M.-Sunday School
Ills A.M.-Preaching Service
SMYRNA COLORED CHURCHES
Bethel A. nj. e. Church
Rev I. E. Schowell, Pastor
Sunday Services
1000 Sunday School
HOO A.M.-Morning Service
500 P.M.-Evening Service
st. Paul's Church
Rev. Clarence e. Simpkins, Pastor
HOO A.M.-Morning Service
1.30 P.M.-Sunday School
800 P.M.-Evening Service
Centennial Church
Rev. j. J. Webster
HOO A.M.-Morning Service
1:30 P.M.-Sunday School
8:00~P.M.-Evening Service
Holiness Church
Rev. Elder Mann, Pastor
1000 A.M.-Sunday School
11:00 A.M.-Morning Service
500 P.M.-Evening Service
Smyrna times., 1953-12-10

eria Rose, soprano; Shirley Handy.
alto; Ralph SPOTS, tenor; and
Donald Emory, bass. During the
evening the Brass Sextet will be
heard playing the traditional
Christmas Carols. The public is
invited without charge.
Smyrna times., 1953-12-10

First Presbyterian Church
Rev. o. G. Jones, Pastor
Sunday Services
e:45 A.M.-Sunday School
11s00 A.M.-Morning Service
Smyrna times., 1953-12-10

Newark High School Chorus in the
presentation. Mrs. Mary Jane
Streepy, director of choral music
at the Newark High School, will
be the accompanist and university
students, trained by Mr.. Gable.
will be the soloists. They are Val
Smyrna times., 1953-12-10

First Presbyterian Church
Rev. o. G. Jones, Pastor
Sunday Services
e:45 A.M.-Sunday School
HOO A.M.-Morning Service
Asbury Methodist Church
Rev. Walter l.. Beckwith, Pastor
Sunday Services
1000 A.M.-Sunday School
11:00 A.M.-Morning Worship
%. Peters p. Il. Church, Smyrna
Rev. F. s. Bancroft, Rector
Sunday Services
8 am. Holy Communion.
$50 am. Church School.
III am. Morning Prayer and SER
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Rev. John Coppock, Pastor
Sunday Services
1000 A.M.-Sunday School
HOO A.M.-Morning Service
7:30 P.M.-Evening Service
The Church of the Nazarene
Rev. ]. c. Reedy, Pastor
Sunday Services
1000 A.M.-Sunday School
11:00 A.M.-Morning Worship
700 P.M.-Young Peoples
Meeting
z:30 P.M.-Evening Service
EweIls-St. Paul Methodist Church
Clayton
Rev. William Kitchens, Pastor
Sunday Services
1000 A.M.-Sunday School
11:00 A.M.-Morning Worship
Service at Delaney's Church
ZOO P.M.-Sunday School
800 P.M.-Worship Service
Smyrna times., 1953-12-10
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
Annual Christmas Program at the
University Wednesday, Dec. 10

University Wednesday, Dec. 10
The Department of Music at the
University of Delaware will pre-
sents its annual Christmas pro-
gram on Wednesday evening, De-
cember 10, at s:15 pm. in Mitchell
Hall on the Newark campus. Por-
tions of Handel's Messiah will be
presented by the A Cappella Choir
under the direction of Bertram
Gable, instructor in vocal music at
the university. This group, a
chorus of selected voices, chosen
from the various schools of the
university, will be joined by the
Smyrna times., 1953-12-10

Every house where love abides
and friendship is a guest is surely
home, and home, sweet home; for
there the heart can rest.-Henry
Van Dyke.
Smyrna times., 1953-12-10
Now stepped up TO $50 horsepower!

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on the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Smyrna times., 1953-12-10
FuIly-Aufomufie --und fulIy-proved!

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AAA tests, PowerFlite set IS per-
formance and endurance records.
Evening star., 1953-12-01
By Charles E. TroceweN

a shudder over his long thick black
body.
The tale that some of the black
snakes roll themselves into hoops and
go careening across the landscape has
been scotched in recent years.
Yet tales of such peculiar action ap-
pear every year, and there are scores Of
reformed farm boys who will fight to
the death to uphold the hoop snake"
Well-screened windows and doors are
not only helpful in keeping out flies and
other insects, but also in repelling
snakes.
To wake up, as one person did, and
see big black snake crawling placidly
out of the closet is an experience not
every one wishes to go through.
Well-screened windows and doors,
and equally important, keeping them
hooked, will screen out such unwanted
visitors.
If one Of the small snakes is found,
one should not kill it instinctively, since
it values it's own life, and actually may
be good garden helper.
Piles of stones and wood are at
tractors of both rats and snakes. The
rat is by far the more dangerous of the
two creatures, and rates the heavier
hand. The instinct to kill snake, how
ever, seems to lie just below the surface
in most civilized persons. 1t should be
resisted, for we have much worse enc
mics to face, as the photographs of the
little children huddled on the floor in
the recent air raid practice demon
strated.
Evening star., 1953-12-01
Father of the Menninqers

When Shakespeare had Macbeth ask of his
wife'S physician, "Canst thou not minister to
a mind diseased?", he set forth the appeal of
countless generations for a medicine to cure
the sick of spirit. Thousands of well-intentioned
doctors have tried to answer. Many of them
have failed; few have succeeded. Charles
Frederick Menninger, now dead at 91 belonged
to the minority whose efforts have not been
vain He founded a dynasty of pySchiatrstS
now universally famous in their field The
healing center over which he presided at To-
peka from 1920 onward has graduated" an
army of patients who have returned to normal
life greatly benefited if not totally cured Much
of the credit traces back to the pattern of
treatment worked out by the dean of the family
when he was just an ordinary country practi-
toner. Common sense was his principal capital.
He likewise brought to his task warm
affection for people. The best of the results
he obtained were the fruits of the trust and
the confidence which he developed in his "un-
happy folk" Gardening, stamp and SeaShell
collecting, painting, group singing, reading
aloud these were his devices for helping psy-
choneurotics to help themselves. His sons went
beyond him in science, but they did not excel
him in philosophy.
Incidentally, he made pSychiatry an art
without fear. He freed it from its previous
condition of doubt of its own theories and of
popular agnoSticism concerning it's achieve
mentS The name Menninger became a Syno-
nym of hope subject to fulfllment. This yearn-
ing for reasonable restoration of the mind
diseased" to normal well-being was shared by
Evening star., 1953-12-01
Indorses PIuneturium Idea

We wish to heartily indorse the
planetarium proposal in The Sunday
Star. Washington does need plane
tarium of it's own.
AS so well pointed out, most Of the
cities larger than Washington, and
many, many smaller ones have plane
tariums. Yet, in spite Of all the facili-
ties this city has to offer, it is lacking
in this scientific aspect, and lacking
therefore IN well-rounded program.
The Naval Observatory holds public
open house several times a month and
the great demand for tickets demon
strates that there is no lack of interest
in astronomy.
AS an amateur group organized more
than dozen years ago, we have thrived
because of the assistance given us by
many public spirited organizations,
notably the Naval Observatory and the
District public schools. We look for
ward to the day when we may seek
headquarters in a Washington plane
tarium. Local astronomy clubs in other
cities have benefited from such as
sociation and they have also been able
to contribute to the overall program.
I wish that your article had been
less formidably entitled. ID. C. Could
Have Stars in Its Eyes for Million
Dollars" makes the whole project seem
so much more beyond, reach than it
reaily is. Grace C. SchOIz,
President, National Capital AS
tronomers.
Evening star., 1953-12-01

An excited suburban resident called
the other day to report on snake she
had killed.
"It was moving sideways" she said,
as If this were something very repre-
henSible among the serpents.
But it turned out she had read a
magazine article about poisonous
California sidebender as this type of
snake is called.
The side movement of the sidebender,
as BELTS the name, is entirely different
from the sideways motion of all snakes.
All of them can move sideways,
especially on smooth surface. and do
so often; it seems to please them no
end.
The 16-inch specimen killed by the
lady was harmless ribbon snake, re-
lated to the common garter snake.
It had three yellow stripes running
1engthwise of the muddy-black topside.
Other common harmless snakes Of
this section are the water snake. and
the everyday black snake.
The black snake is big one, how
ever, and frightens most persons who
see it.
It is held to be very valuable mouser
on farm and suburban property, so that
in the end its value far outshines it's
frightening properties.
1t is impossible, at this late date in
the history of mankind, to determine
exactly what makes people afraid of
snakes.
There's something about q snake
Evening star., 1953-12-01
This and That !.

Some of them are to be feared. and
perhaps this is the basis Of it.
If one fears the bad ones, and cannot
discriminate, the safest thing is to fear
them all, and that is just what most
persons do.
Fortunately, snakes play small part in
suburban developments.
The very act of digging foundations
and building houses drives them away
to less populated areas and from these
they travel into forests as the modern
suburbs fan out across the landscape.
In the exodus go most, if not all, of
the smaller animals, with the excep-
ton of squirrels and rabbits and now
and then an opoSSum.
Only in the leSs-built-up suburbs will
there be an occasional gray fox, or pos
Sibly a racoon.
These all go along with the snakes,
since they all prefer the untravelled dis
trictS where their natural foods are
more abundant.
Mice offer good food possibilities to
some of the smaller animals and to
most of the snakes.
Small serpents. therefore, may be re-
garded as mixed blessing, since they
are good mouserS. none better. Especial
ly around farm houses. where many a
black snake takes up it's dwelling
Farm people come to look upon the
black snake as friend, although the
less intrepid will not be able to repress