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Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-01-20
PLAIN TALK
By "Al" Harrison

meal / could ever prepare for
twenty-five cents. To top it all
I've never been known to eat fish
of any kind or description; how
ever, l threw away all likes and
diSlikeS in an effort to judge the
meal. The fish was excellent.
Parents are cordially invited to
lunch at the cafeteria and judge
for themselves whether or not the
food is prepared satisfactorily.
Naturally, it will cost you a quart
er but if the rest of the meals are
as well prepared as the one had
the quarter will be well spent.
If you have any complaints and
have a genuine interest in the
school, you should carry you,
grievances to members of the
School Board. They are 1907 in
favor of making the school one of
the best in Columbus County and
will welcome any suggestions you
have to offer.
Gotta a kick out Of the story
told on c. w. Todd, president Of
Williams Ruritan Club. He sug-
gested to the club at their first
regular meeting that the members
dispense with addressing each
other as Mister. The motion was
made and carried with a penalty
OF 10c for each miscue.
Net result: President Todd was
high score at the conclusion Of the
meeting as he Shelled out Coo for
six "MisterS."
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-01-20

There are still several persons
in town who would like to give
a helping hand in organizing an
Alcoholics Anonymous club; how
ever, not even their keenest de-
sireS can make this possible. II
seems that the ones interested in
organizing the club are non-alco-
holics and there isn't an alcoholic
in town who gives a boot for the
worthy organization. 1t probably
isn't so much that they don't care
just happens there isn't one in
town who wants to admit he is
an alcoholic.
I suppose the Monday afternoon
parade through Mayors Court
breaks the monotony for some OF
the elbow benders" who indulge
constantly.
Thank goodness! The bloody
monster, more commonly known
as the beast of Bladenboro," met
his fate last week. AS usual it took
a fan from this vicinity to get the
Job done. Course, we may be ac-
cepting too many things for grant
ed-the bobcat 1 saw didn't look
very ferocious and l got an inside
tip that the Bladenboro beast was
nothing short Of a "hoe axe"
One fleeing remark (this time)
on the police department situation
the present Town Board made
short work Of what is normally a
man-sized job. 1t takes a sharp
operator to select the best man
from a dozen applicants without
ever discussing any Of them at the
board meeting. The question of
the week-where did the discus
sion take place? ??
l invited myself out to lunch the
other day and chose the local
school cafeteria. The meal was \
tasty one and exceeded by far anv
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-01-20
CAROLINA
news
BY Special Correspondent

Mr.. and Mrs. d. c. Annette and
daughter, Bobbie, were the dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Bernie
Strickland Sunday.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1954-01-20

l invited myself out to lunch the
other day and chose the local
school cafeteria. The meal was a
tasty one and exceeded bv far any
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-17
7 Men Asphyxiated
In Well, Three Hurt
Attempting Rescue
By q Star stoff Correspondent.

INDIAN HEAD, Md. Sept. II.
Two men died last night from
fumes at the bottom OF a 40
foot well here and three other
persons were hurt, one seriously,
in a series of rescue attempts.
Dead were William j. Donley
and Kenneth o. Buck, both 81,
felled by carbon monoxide fumes
in the well at the home of Oliver
T. Buck near here.
William j. Donley. jr., Is, was
in Physicians Memorial Hospital,
La Plata, with a fractured skull
and both legs broken. suffered
when he tumbled down the shaft
as he tried to rescue his father.
Erdle v. Oswald, 81, and Paul
Stillson, a 17-year-old Potomac
Heights volunteer fireman, were
overcome by the fumes They
were treated and released at the
La Plata hospital. All of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-17

bucket to the bottom of the we'll.
Mr.. Oswald was lowered, with
a rope around his body, and fas-
tered a line to the youth, who
was quickly brought up.
Then Mr.. Oswald, still In the
well, was overcome.
Young Stillson was lowered
and was knocked out by the
fumes in the well when his gas
mask slipped.
Robert Grinder. member OF
the Potomac Heights Fire De-
partment, with gas mask clipped
on tightly, descended to the four
men, two dead and two alive, at
the bottom of the well. He tied
ropes to each and stayed until
the last was pulled to the top.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-17
Health Insurance Held
By Is Pet. in Cunudu

OTTAWA. - A government
survey shows that "a million
Canadians. or Is per cent of the
population, are covered by some
form Of prepaid medical-care in
surance plan. compared with
fewer than 100000 in 1916.
The country's nonprofit medi-
cal-insurance plans paid out sgt
million in benefits in 1858.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-17
victims lived in or near Indian

victims lived in or near Indian
Head.
DR.. Frank A. Susan. Charles
County medical examiner, who
pronounced Mr.. Buck and Mr..
Donley dead at the scene. said
they died of asphyxiation. Both
worked at the Naval Powder
Factory here.
DR.. Susan said the carbon
monoxide fumes apparently re-.
suited from explosions set of
in digging the well.
State police at Waldorf said
witnesses gave this version:
William j. Donley, ST.. went
down first and was overcome by
the fumes. Kenneth Buck de-
scended to rescue him and al
most Immediately became UNI
conscious.
Mr.. Donley's son was let down
in a bucket. When half way
in the shaft, he shouted that
he could not breathe and asked
to be pulled up.
Topples Out Of Bucket.
But while a group of men at
tracted to the scene as mem
bers of fire companies from In
dian Head. Potomac Heights and
the Naval Powder Factory were
hauling him to the surface,
young DonleY toppled out of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
PenneII Prints

The 18th national exhibit
ton Of prints at the Library
of Congress will remain on
view through September.
Shortly after it was reviewed
here in a general survey May
Is, the Library announced the
purchase of 80 prints by as
many artists, chosen by the
committee for purchase under
the Pennell Fund, composed of
Alice Lee Parker. acting chief
of the Library's Prints and
Photographs Division, Arthur
w. Heintzelman, etcher, and
Stow Wengenroth, lithogra-
pher.
The prints added to the
Pennell collection are the work
OF % artists in the United
States. five Mexicans, two
Cubans. two Puerto Ricans and
one Canadian. The selections
are representative of the vari-
Gus printmakirig techniques,
woodcuts, wood engravings and
linoleum cuts being most
numerous among the prints
purchased. AS a group they
are less interesting. in my opin-
ion, than purchases of previous
years. The committee has
other detectives in mind (pre-
sumably technical innovations)
than pictorial charm and tech
nical facility. Hence the new
purchases are likely to be more
interesting to artists and art
students than to the layman.
Pencils will provided for
the purchase of original prints
by modern artists Of any ma
tionality, ''the prints to be Of
the greatest excellence only"
In view of the eminence and
experience of the committee
members. we should be able to
assume that the new pur-
chases fulfill the last require
n1ent. but 1t is regrettable that
the merits of many Of them are
so difficult to discern.
Washington Printmokers
Two Washington print
makers are among the 90
United States artists whose
prints were acquired: Ferol
Warthen and Sheila Boyd
lboth mentioned here May 16).
Other purchases / liked in
clude the ellyptical abstraction
Night and the Ship" by
Dorothy Bowman, . group Of
whose serigraplls are on view
at the Whyte Gallery through
this month: Antonio Freq
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

Oh the war
crimes trials, as well as written
and verbal accounts from in
merable eye witnesses,
abound in more cruel and
CHASTITY dramas. Most of these
stories are about Germans who
are part of the system. Several
describe ironically how. their
own zeal led to their downfall.
AS Shert stories they suffer
from the necessity of creating
in each a character to prove
a point, but as documentary
fiction they affirm their theses
with macabre suavity. The
opening story relates how, I'M
der orders from Hitler'S head
quarters, a group of young
prisoners in a concentration
camp were logged out in Pol
ish uniforms, forced to at
tack" a German radio station
and shot down so that the
Feuhrer would have proof that
the Poles had attacked first at
the outset of the war. There is
record of some such strategy.
The author is sympathetic to
some Of the Germans en-
meshed in the web, as in 1.-THE
Hostage" in which a broken,
aging general is expected to
sacrifice all his men, who are
caught in a hopeless position.
Mr.. Forester's public does
not need to be reminded that
he is a skillful, appealing writ
er. &C. B. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
The corioE Affair
BY Mary Deasy.
little, Brovn & Co.; $685.
Reviewed by John IA. Rosson

Reviewed by John M. koSSon
This fast-moving story of an
orphaned Irish lass--out of
her element in the back woods
Mississippi River area of the
1800s--is handled admirably
by the author in the currently
popular loose diary form.
THE Corioli Affair" "a Lit
erary Guild selection), is the
story of Lacey, a comedy col
leen who fees Galway after
her Irish patriot father dies
in Jail. Corioli is the tough
American river town in
which she settles, and her
troubles begin. Most of these
stem from her uncanny in
sistence on making the wrong
moves usually against her
better judgment.
The stage is set for trag-
edy from the instant she
meets Jed Dayton, a married
steamboat captain. Though
she knows she shouldn't do it,
she moves in with Orrin and
Allie Mclean. She also fool
isllly accepts an invitation to
visit the Heathcliffe type cap
tain's delicate childlike wife.
Both moves are fateful ones.
The authors characters are
much alive and L.acey's story
is absorbing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Recalling
I he Indian
Liberation
Prison and Chocolate
Cake
BY Nayantara sahgal.
fAlfred A. Knopf; $500
Reviewed BY Mary McGrory

The first time her parents
went to prison for their part
in the Indian independence
movement. Nayantara Sahgal
was eating chocolate cake for
tea. Thereafter the two were
Joined in her mind.
Daughter of Nine. Pandit,
and niece of Nehru. Mrs.
Sahgal became used to these
removals during her youth. It
was taken as q matter of
course that the cause required
sacrifices.
Her rambling story is told
within the framework Of her
departure for America, where
she was sent to be educated at
Wellesley and her return to
a liberated India four years
later.
When Mrs. Sahgal writes Of
Indian independence, the as.
pirations of her country and
the all-pervasiye influence of
Gandhi. whom she knew init
mately from childhood, she is
eloquent and forceful. Her
anecdotes of life in America
about which she is very cir
cumspect-are less gripping.
On the whole. she is a cheer
full and informative chronicler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
American Woys Of Life
BY George R. Stewart. Doubleday; $685.
Reviewed by Richard Fyklund

Mr.. Stewards fascination
with the things that make
America tick led him to write
this book on origins Of our
country's customs. He finds
we are what we are mostly be-
cause Of our British Inherit
ance. The Colonists chung
stubbornly to the British way
of doing things even when the
British way was the wrong way
in the new world.
For instance. nothing could
have been less suitable for
clothing than the heavy Eng
lish toys, designed for cool
dampneSS. But the founding
fathers In all their wisdom
wore those clothes through
the miserably hot summers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
News Of Artists and Exhibitions
Photo by Taylor q Dun,

coni's color woodcut Lettuce
Workers: two charming color
Autographs, Riva Helfond's
Grey Sea-, and Alice Mason's
I'm the Deep Forest; two en-
cravings which have a medi-
eval quality: Eugene Mecikal-
skis 'Crucifixion and Death"
and Koloman Sokol'S violent
"PicadoreS and the Bull. two
black and-white Autographs,
Joseph Mugnani's Carnival"
with its queer Marian figures,
and Charles Wilson's Edge of
Town" "St. Francis, the
Fields" a color Autograph by
Benton Spruance, one of two
prints in the show previously
purchased, was reproduced
here May 30.
OF prints purchased from
artists outside the United
States I liked best two engrav-
ings: Laurence Hyde's incisive
little Balloon" (Canada) and
Lorenzo Homar's life-size head
of a woman puerto Rico).
The 18th Pennell show in
cludes a number of the most
beautiful traditional prints I
have seen in these ANIMALS in
some years. Among them are
Thomas NaSon'S exquisite
wood engraving, Maine Is
lands" with superb cloud eff
fects; Ernest Roth's etching
Still Waters, Venice; Grace
Albee's wood engraving, "Niy-
att; George Joe Mess color
aquatint, Covered Bridge;
Paul Swenson'S etching, a nos
talgic, Victorian House by the
Sea-; Nicholas Hornyansky's
beautiful color aquatint, Pre-
Dawn" and Feliciano Pena'S
linoleum cut, "Tlaltelolco." The
last two mentioned are Cana
dian and Mexican, respec-
fiuo1xy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Books in Review
A Modern Novel in the Tradition
Of Great Russion Literature
The Foil Of q Titan
Morton; $500
Reviewed BY Garter Brooke lone,

Here at last Is q modern Rus
sian novel in the great tradi-
ton Of Russian literature, per-
haps the first Of It's scope and
power to deal realistically with
the current slave state. It is
the work Of q disenchanted,
self-exiled Soviet citizen.
1.-THE Fall Of a Titan" will be
called by the masters OF Rus
STA. II they deign to notice it,
anti : Communist propaganda
and no doubt deplored by those
soft to the poisoned blandish-
ments Of the Red autocracy.
It's effect, Of course, Is that, but
it is far from propaganda
clothed In fiction. It is pri-
marily a novel, q sweeping de-
lineation Of character and a
way Of life-a novel Of great
strength, whatever It's incl
dental faults.
Igor Gouzenko will be re-
membered as the code clerk in
the Soviet Embassy In Canada
who fed to the Canadian au-
thorities in 1945 with 109 Sc
cret documents and broke the
famous spy ring case. Actually.
Mr.. Gouzenko was a lieutenant
in the Soviet military intelli-
gence. For nine years he and
his wife and their two children
have been living under an as
sumed name, protected by the
Royal Canadian Mounted Po-
lice.
A ToIented Writer
It would be a great mistake
to assume that his book is be-
ing pushed by the publisher as
a high point in the seasons fic-
ton and distributed to men,,
bers Of the Book of the Month
Club because the author was
key man in a sensational SPY
case. Mr.. Gouzenko, as it
turns out, is a highly educated
young man. with a wide knowl-
edge of history and literature.
He has written short stories;
this is his first novel.
A personal document would
have been a best seller, per-
haps, but there is nothing of
his life in this book except
probably indirectly, a trans
mutation of situations and
people he has known. Instead
he has chosen to sublimate his
material into a novel of huge
dimensions and yet remark
able unity. There would or
should be no less interest in
the book if it were written by
some one unheard of. The
fact that Mr.. Gouzenko wrote
1t is Of incidental concern.
During the Purge TrioIs
1.-THE Fall of a Titan" is
mostly about educated peo-
, pie, some Of them fairly high
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

Washington collectors Of fine
and decorative arts, not only
owners Of large important
groups. but also those who
have q few superlative items,
welcome auction reports which
afford a basis for estimating
approximate values of their
treasures. No completely ac-
curate analysis comparing one
year with former years is pos
sible, of course. because OF
such imponderables as Quali-
ties of collections offered for
sale, imitation or its reverse in
a given period, and taxes, not
to mention all.
Parke- Bernet Galleries, Inc.
of $50 Madison avenue, New
York City. whose annual re-
ports have been summarized
in these columns for more than
two decades, issued the latest
early this month. It covers the
1854 season, which ran APP
proximately from September
through June.
This foremost American in
stitution for the conduct of
art and rare book auctions an
nounced a gross total of $4.-
248, 97O for 81 sales. This total
is $13O,303 higher than last
years, for Is fewer sales. But
only Z years ago (1946-D
Parke-Bernet auction sales
topped Sc million for the
fourth consecutive season.
Highest Sole
The highest total for an
individual sale during 1854
was $685. 25 for the superb
Luke Vincent Lockwood collec-
ton of American furniture
and paintings. Portraits by
Charles Wilson Peale brought
second highest prices for
paintings for the season; q
double portrait of Benjamin
Laming and his wife. Eleanor
Ridgely Laming, and one Of
Mrs. Charles Carroll of Car
rollton fetched $4,000 each.
A portrait of Washington by
the same Peale was purchased
for $3.50; another by his
brother James Peale went for
$4,000. Indeed, a highlight OF
this auction season was the
number of contemporary por-
traits of Washington offered
for sale. A third, by Gilbert
Stuart, sold for $4,000, and a
fourth, a pastel by James
Sharples, reached $4,000. (The
full-length Stuart portrait OF
Washington purchased a few
seasons ago by George Wash
ington University, was the first
which had been offered at
auction for a number of years)
The $4,000 Peales were
topped by one French impress
sionist: Pissarro's lie Jardin
de l'Hotel, Berneval. Soleil,"
which fetched $4,000. AS in
many previous years. the 18th
century (and earlier) French
continued popular with collec-
tors. A Cezanne "Bathers"
reached $4,000; paintings by
Corot, Natter. Renoir. Van
Gogh and Manet obtained
prices ranging from $4,000
down TO $1,000. (The previous
season, two Renoir figure
paintings greatly outdistanced
all this past seasons prices, as
they fetched $4,000 and
$37 900, respectively
American Art
When excellent paintings by
American artists, works of
American historical interest
and fine examples of American
furniture are offered, collectors
respond with enthusiasm, as
witness the Lockwood sale, and
items from several other sales.
The renowned series of so wa
ter colors of New York street
scenes and figures, by Niece
limo Calyo, sold for $10.l25; five
rare water color portraits of
Indians by st. Memin, $6,700.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

and freezing winters-and we
still wear them.
Oddly enough the later inn
migrants from other coun-
tries changed America very
little. They gave up their
ways of life and adopted
Americas. whether good or
bad.
Mr.. Stewart, author of U. S.
40 and Names on the Land,
also searches out the origins
of American religion, food.
drink Eve drink so much wa
ter because that's all the early,
unfortunate settlers had.
names, arts-and even the
American ways Of making
love.
It is q fascinating compen-
dunn of thin G s-I-n ever
guessed 'til-now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
By Florence S. Berrymon

A few outstanding items Of
American cabinetwork realized
such high prices as SIS, 900 for
two unique Lockwood block
front companion chests; a New
England Chippendale carved
mahogany block-front book
case and a Philadelphia Chip
pendale pie-crust table, $4,000
each; a New York Chippendale
Serpentine card table, $6,750,
and a mahogany grandmoth-
er's clock by Thomas Claggett
of Newport, r. l., $4,000. OF
lesser decorative arts, a silver
f1at-top tankard by Myer
Myers brought $4,000, and q
single Oriental Lowestoft blue
and white plate decorated with
the Order of the Cincinnati.
from the service used by
George Washington at Mount
Vernon, fetched $3.50.
Leslie A. Hyam, elected pres
ident of Parke- Bernet Gal
leries last October, said, "The
prevailing demand for collec-
tors for Americana was
brought into focus in a strik-
ing fashion by the Lockwood
sale, and the Holiday sale Of
literary Western Americana.
These two collections sur
passed all others Of the season
in public interest, as reflected
in large attendance and the
high totals attained as a re-
suit Of the spirited competitive
bidding" He added:
Prices Were Average
mo new trends in collect
ing were diScernible during
the past season, and the gen.
eral level of prices remained
the same as they have for sew
eral years"
The sophisticated elegance
Of French and English 18th
century furniture has long
given it a preferred status with
many collectors, and large Sc
lections of such property were
offered during the season.
Among individual sales realiz-
ing high totals were one of
Georgian furniture and silver,
which reached $107,2O0, and
one of American and English
furniture, and DR.. Wall Wor-
cester porcelain, $104, 227.
There were 10 sales of paint
ingS and drawings, a few in
Guiding sculpture, and paint
ingS played a prominent role
in other sales. A collection Of
modern paintings. drawings
and prints reached a total of
$1O6,865.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
De Burgos Students

Ralph de Burgos encourages
his pupils to develop along the
lines most congenial to them.
to judge from the exhibition
at the Town Gallery, 1861
Wisconsin avenue, George
town, through July q. About
80 paintings are on view, var
led in subject and treatment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

GAASGA ~ OuPts ~ w. ASNOAAAA
Stationery Office, London; So
Students OF naval history
will welcome publication of
this volume of the official
United Kingdom History of the
Second World War. First in
the series on maritime war, the
book covers in admirable de-
tail the early phase through
l941.
Capt. Roskill had access to
the intact archives of the Ger
man Navy as well as British
and allied records. The book
IL illustrated. indexed and
copiously supplied with fold
oYt maps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Roman Wall

by Bryher. pantheon; $2.75.)
The Englishwoman who
writes under the name of
Bryher presents another dis
tinguished historical novel, this
story depicting frontier prov
ince of the slowly disintegrat-
Ing Roman Empire, A. D. 265.
Valerius, a middle-aged GEN.
turion, has been assigned to
the lonely outpost of Orba, in
what is now Switzerland, as
punishment for his love affair
with the wife of his commander.
Valerius and his sister Julia
live on a small farm, with
few servants, and his men are
engaged largely in planting
and harvesting the crops. The
officer hopes for an early pen
sion and retirement to a kind
lier climate. But he knows
the Alemanni, a confederation
OF German tribes, hover on the
frontier and cannot be stopped
once they invade these outly-
ing Roman regions. The story
shifts to the provincial cap
ital. Aventicum, where the
governor is described. Another
important character is Deme-
trius. an itinerant Greek mer-
chant. The atmospheric story
moves to a sure climax.
Bryher combines a Arm grasp
Of the period with the ability.
to tell q story In clear, con-
else prose. She is happily free
from the facile literary
tricks and cheaply emotional
conflicts which are found in
too many historical novels.
Her previous books have dealt
with the Norman-Saxon con-
f1ict of 1866 and London in
the reign of James I.
&C. B. j.