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Evening star., 1955-10-26
MARY MARGARET
MCBRIDE
RELIGION Is on the Upswing

gymen-priests. ra abbts and
pastors-are the authors Of
best-selling books which help
men and women in difiiculties.
All the churches are using
newspapers. radio and televi-
sion TO help make faith and
devotion popular seven days .
week.
One suburban church IN the
East early this spring recorded
one-minute inspirational pray
ers and persuaded the tele-
phone company to make them
as available to subscribers as
the correct time and the wealth.
er. The service-which had
almost TOO calls the Monday
It was inaugurated proved 30
popular that Q second outlet
had to be added to handle the
situation. People got In the
habit Of calling at the begin
ming and end Of the day.
It Is not the clergy alone who
get ideas for propagating faith.
either. A woman Of my &C.
quaintance, who through .
grave illness acquired q pro-
found religious belief. Is dedi-
eating her life TO helping others
ind the same solace. Her
method Is as modern and
catchy as tomorrow's soft
drink singing commercial. She
buys huge red and white geia-
tin capsules the kind and size
that are used to hold castor
oil to poke down the threats
Of children - and instead OF
stufiing the capsules with med
icine. she inserts small slips
Of paper, each carrying q brief
and inspirational message.
The red capsules are to take
In the morning. the white ones
Evening star., 1955-10-26

A Finnish woman. on her
first trip TO the United States
this year. was more impressed
by American churches and
their congregations than she
was by our tall buildings and
automobiles. or even the
breathless quality Of our hustle
which usually awes foreigners.
'tOn Sundays" she said.
eyes wide. EVERYBODY
seems to 60 to church-whole
families together. They get
dressed up In their brightest,
best clothes. too. and they all
seem to be having q good time.
It's one thing you never hear
In Europe about America"
AS Q matter Of fact. Ameri-
cans themselves seem surprised
at their new surge Of interest
In religion. Some hold that Q
basic insecurity Is gripping our
people and that as q result
we are. in increasing numbers.
turning to the church. Ny own
theory-and I'm probably BIZ
ased by my uphringing IS that
most Of US never got far away
from our early training which
In most cases included Sunday
school and young peoples
meeting.
One thing sure, modern
churches are trying hard 10
meet the needs Of today. They
organize recreation programs,
women's clubs. groups for mar
ried couples. teams for COM
munity action. Churches are
no longer content to serve ais
Sunday meeting places. They
are trying to be vital parts 81
everyday life.
Also. the church and It's mes
sage have burst from the four
chapel walls which had con-
tanned them for SO long. Cler-
Evening star., 1955-10-26

at night.
Ny morning pin" said:
..Call unto me and ] win am
swer thee and win show thee
great things and difhcult.
which thou knowest not.-The
Bible" Last nights advised:
"Haye courage for the great
SORROWS Of life and patience
for the small ones; and when
you have laboriously accom-
plished your daily task. 60 TO
sleep In peace. God Is awake.
Victor Hugo"
Rrom AP Newsfeatures)
Evening star., 1955-10-26
ISodolity Group Pldns
Benefit Foshion Show

Members and friends Of the
Immaculate Mary Group.
Sanctuary sodality. win view
fashions at q benefit event to
take place at 8 o'clock this eve
ming In Blessed Sacrament
School. Chevy Chase.
Proceeds from the program.
which win include serving Of
refreshments. win go to various
charitable organizations sup
ported by the Sodality.
Evening star., 1955-10-26
|Sledges Feied Before
|Depdrfure for Post

0SfyNtIU1D IUk FU8E
comdr. and Mrs Edward c.
Sledge. who win leave their
Bethesda home shortly for his
new post In Sandia Base, Al
buqueruue. N. Mex. were hon.
ored ct q farewell dinner yes
tertisy at Normandy Farm.
Cohosts for the occasion
were Copdr. and Mrs. Clifford
Bundy. comdr. and Mrs. Neil
Fisher. MIR. and Mrs. r. j.
Gutheim and Mr.. and Mrs.
j. 2. Shaw.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-08-10
Veteran Survivors
May Have Benefits
From Insurance

II. Hugh Nance, county vctcr-
ans service officer for Columbus,
stated today that quite often o
veterans survivors may not rea-
lie that lapsed permanent types
of government or commercial
insurance still have some mono
tary value.
When a permanent type of in
surance is allowed to lapse, the
cash reserve in the policy is aut-
omatically used to purchase e:;-
tended insurance on ne: single
premium term basis.
The period Of time that insur-
ancc would be extended depends
on the cash accumulated il the
policy, and the net single prem
ium rate of term insurance ap-
piled at the attained age of the
insured at the date that the re-
serve is used to purchase cX-
tended insurance
In all death cases where u
veteran at some time did carry
a permanent type of insurance,
application for insurance bene-
fits should be made.
When this application is re-
ceived by the VA, the benefici-
airy will be advised if insurance
is in force as extended inSur-
ance.
For further information see
your cuonty service officer who
is located in Court House, White
Vile, T. FormyDuval, District
IOfficcr, North Carolina Veterans
Commission, 400 MurchISon
Building, Post Office Box 1912,
Wilmington.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-08-10
PirewaY Events
BY EDWARD GORE

Bill FaSion son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Willie Fasion of Raleigh, n
C. is spending several days with
his grandmother and aunt Mrs.
Mandy Rhodes, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Wallace Crib.
Miss Mary Viola Long of
Charlotte, is spending several
days with her parents MIR. and
Mrs. Lacy Long and family.
Paul c. Gore made business
trip to Lumberton, Thursday
morning of last week.
Miss Maggie Lawrimore, and
Miss Mabel Canady of White
vile, are spending a few days
with their parents Mr.. and Mrs.
Curtis Lawrimore and Mr.. and
Mrs. Lee Canady and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Long and
children of Jacksonville, spent
the weekend with Mrs. Longs
parents and Mr.. Longs rela-
tives Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Regist-
er and Mr.. and Mrs. Troy Long.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Cox Jr.,
and children Of Dothan, visited
Wilmington Thursday morning.
Paul c. Gore made a business
trip to Whiteville and Bladen-
boro Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Lou Chestnut is spending
few days with her son MIR. and
Mrs. Lincoln Chestnut of Ma
kina.
Miss Martha Gore of Tabor
City spent the weekend with heI
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Gore.
Harry Long of Morehead City,
and Miss Ruth Long of White
vile, spent the weekend with
their pa Its Mr. and Mrs. Lacy
Long and family.
Mrs. John Floyd Murray, Of
Wilmington, spent the weekend
with MIR. and Mrs. Garlic Elder
dice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gene Trip Of
Longwood, Mr.. and Mrs. Ethel
Smith and children, Mr.. and
Mrs. Chandler Smith of Tabor
City, and Mr.. and Mrs. Claude
Gilmore OF LoriS, spent the
weekend with their parents Mi.
and Mrs. Herman S. Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jimmy Sarv!s OF
i Whitevillc, spent the weekend
with her parents MIR. and Mrs
III. Lester Gore and family, and
! Mr.. and Mrs. Haymon SarvIs
and family of Longs
! Mr.. and Mrs. Jimmy Stanley
of High Point, spent the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. A. f.
Stanley.
), Mr. and Mrs. Neal Gore OF
] Whitcville, spent the weekend
with his parents Mr.. and Mrs
III. Lester Gore and family, ano
Mrs. Elizabeth Melton of Flor
encc.
>. Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Long y!
> Nakina, spent the weekend with
. her parents Mr.. and Mrs. Macy
Long.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Single
tary and children of Whiteville
!, spent the weekend with his pay
ents Mr.. and Mrs. Johnnie Sing
, letary and Mr.. and Mrs. Chest.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-08-10

For the past several years she
has been teaching home econom-
les at Stoneville High School.
Columbus County will hire
two assistant farm agents and q
secretary under the new pro-
gram adopted recently.
This plan finds the state and
federal governments paying all
except $50 monthly Of the new
employees.
Miss Fields is the first new
employee under this plan.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-08-10
er Jenrette and family.

er Jenrette and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moan z. Jacobs
and son Eddie and Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Lee Gore and children
of Georgetown, spent the week.
end with their parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Willie Jacobs and Mr.. and
Mrs. John Robert Gore and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul c. Gore
were Sunday guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Williamson of Ma
kina.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-08-10
Changes Made In Motor Vehicle
Motor Laws In North Carolina

signs and barrier lines were just
good advice. Now their provi-
sions are enforceable by arrest.
The General Assembly made
it easier for persons afflicted
with color blindness 20 interpret
traffic lights correctly. II a.
mended a statute whereby sign
al lights of the conventional red,
amber, green type are to be
erected SO that the red light is
at the top and the green at the
bottom.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-08-10
Mr.. And Mrs. Rogers
Fete Rotary Club

Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Rogers
were hosts to the Tabor City
Rotary Club at their Crescent
Beach home Monday night.
The RotarianS enjoyed IN ex-
ceilent meal and the fellowship
that followed. No business meet
ing was held and there were no
speakers.
DR.. Bob Swcelcy was wclcon-
cd as new member of the club.
Two visitors were present,
Bill Glass, visiting HotarIah
and brother-in-law of President
Jimmy Hufham, and Randall
BurlCsOn, new high school tC@c.-
er here, were guests of the club
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-08-10

U. S. swine producers pick up
the tab for hog cholera vaccina-
ton costs and losses to the tune
of around 40 million dollars each
year.
In 1854, u. S. flue-cured to-
bacco exports amounted to 374
million pounds export weight
representing SO per cent of the
total flue-cured leaf entering ex-
port channels.
North Carolina hurley tobacco
growers led all other states in
the percentage of favorable
votes in the hurley tobacco ref
lerendum recently.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-08-10

It's legal now for state
highway patrol car to be equip
ped with a siren. Not until re-
Gently though when the Gcner-
al Assembly spelled out author
ity for the police GROWERS. Al
over looked miscue in the man.
ual of motor vehicle laws failed
to include patrol cars in the list
OF emergency vehicles okay'ed
for siren.
A manual recently published
by the Institute of Government
lists that corrected oversight and
calls attention to several other
changes in the motor vehicle
laws important to Tar Heel
Drivers.
Under the uniform drivers
license act chauffeur's licenses
must now be secured by persons
driving a vehicle licensed fol-
more than $4,000 pounds Except
the owner of a private carrier)
and those driving passenger We
hicles of more than nine persons
capacity.
The amendment, however, ex-
cluded school and church bus
drivers who have a valid oper-
ator's permit.
Current registration plates
will be good through February
Is instead of January 81 as be-
fore. Under the old statute the
Motor Vehicle Department re-
tailed license plates from De-
cember l through January 81
The amendment will allow a
six-weeks period for the renew
al of registrations, running frcn,
January l to February Is.
Radio hams can secure special
license plates under the provi-
sions of another amendment. Ar
FEC licensed amateur radio OPP
orator next year can get his cal
letters on a special plate similar
in size and design to the regular
tag. 1t costs a dollar extra In
addition to his regular registra-
ton fee.
Same thing, more or less, for
owners of old timey autos
"Horseless carriages" more thar
IS years old may be adorned
with distinctive plates which
will cost the owner only $500.
Any old brake fluid is out
under another section. Approved
types only may be sold by deal
ers and others. Brands must be
akay'ed by the Commissioner OF
Motor Vehicles.
And farmers, hear this. Tract
orS now must have one whit,
light showing forward and one
red light to the rear. Both lamp:
clearly visible for at least 3O(
feet. This amendment replace.
one requiring tractors to have
one white light TO the front anC
rear.
Reckless driving provision
have been extended to include
private parking areas whcr,
space is provided for customers
or the public. Specifically, tn,
amendment forbids -eCkles
driving on the grounds of an,
service station, drivc-in. super
market, store, restaurant, offic,
building or any other municipal
establishment.
Slow pokcs on the highway
are handled with an amendmen
that reads mo person snail op
crate motor vehicle on tn
highway at such a slow speed a
TO impede the normal and rca
Sonable movement OF traffic eX
cept when reduced speed is ne
cessary for safe operation be
cause of mechanical failure, O
in compliance with law"
And those highway signs tina
say mo passing when yelloI
line is in your lane" have a ncI
legal status. Before, no passin
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-08-10
Local Man
Gets VT Degree

WAKE FOREST - Thomas
M. Mishoe. son of Mr.. and Mrs
w. L. Mishoe of Ri. /, Taboo
City, graduated from Wake For
est College during commence
ment exercises Aug. S.
Mishoe, who is a Navy veter-
an, majored in education and
received the bachelor of arts
degree. At Wake Forest he was
"a member Of the Ministerial
Conference.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-08-10

lumbus County.
4 Miss Dorothy Mae Fields,
Carthage native and graduate of
Flora Macdonald College at Red
Springs, is expected to assume
her new duties around August
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-08-10
Letters
TO The
Editor

Dear Mr.. Garter:
l don't think much of paying
for whammieS and think the
Town OF Tabor City should have
spent the money used for buying
one to pick up garbage more
than once a week. What do you
think?
Name Withheld by request.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-19
Gertrude n. BowIinq

At the time of her retirement as ex-
ecutive director of the Instructive Visit
ing Nurse Society in 1851, Miss Gertrude
H. Bowling philosophical: "You know, it
means a lot If you can feel you have
helped make life little more bearable
for some suffering human being" Miss
Bowling's life, which has come to an end
now, was dedicated to that principle. In
World War I, she spent two years over
seas as an Army nurse. In World War II,
she modified Washington nurses as the
head Of Procurement and Assignment Of
Nurses here for the War Manpower Com
mission. In peacetime, she built the corps
of dedicated women of the IVNS. The
nurses who carry their blue kits up tene-
ment house stairs to go to the bedside OF
the helpless aged or teach young mothers
how to care for their new babies are a
living and lasting memorial to woman
who devoted her life to making life "a
little more bearable" for others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-19
.Noisier AirIiners

An article in The Star OF
December Z points out that
Eastern Air Lines is to order
rs jet planes for passenger
use for delivery in May. 1859.
They will be equipped with
the most powerful jet engines
to be incorporated in a COM
mercial airliner. Are we also
to assume that these engines
will be the noisiest? II so.
then those Of us living In
Fairfax County anywhere near
the projected site of a new
major airport for the Wash
ington area face rather grim
prospect.
Numerous recent references
to a "silencer" for which no
more than a 10 per cent re-
duction in noise is even claimed
by the aviation industry offer
scant comfort to those Of us
who have only recently dis
covered that we may wake up
one day to find that our homes
are no longer desirable places
In which to live. Folks who
have lived anywhere near Jet
air bases know this only too
well.
Harold Lang.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-19
Newsworthy Praise

The letter of commentator which
Chief Judge Leonard Walsh OF the Mu-
nicipal Court has received from Deputy
Attorney General William P. Rogers has
special significance Mr.. Rogers has been
a critic of slow-moving justice, wherever
he has found it In the Federal courts.
When he takes the trouble to praise
particular court for its achievements in
reducing trial backlogs, it is news OF an
unusual variety
Mr.. Rogers letter was prompted by
the annual report of Chief Judge Walsh
for fiscal 1855. Noting that this was the
second year in row that the local
tribunal had had IAN outstanding record
of accomplishment" the Federal official
congratulated not only the judges OF the
court but court personnel, jurors, the
police and lawyers who, he said, had CO.
operated in the speed-up operation. BY
contrast, Mr. Rogers referred to the tire
mendous backlog of civil cases in many
of the courts of the country, with some
Federal districts SO burdened that cases
must wait up to four years for trial
Judge Walsh has demonstrated what
can be accomplished by careful admin
iStrative planning" Mr.. Rogers declared
The public-especially that part of 1t
which is involved in litigation before the
Municipal Court-has cause to share the
Deputy Attorney Generals qualification
over the acceleration of the judicial
machinery in the busy city tribunal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-19
Khrushchev on Tobacco

Were he alive, the late Josef Stain
probably would take dim view of what
Nikita KhruShchev said just before leav-
ing India. For the loquacious boss of Rus
sias Communist Party stopped vilifying
the West long enough to proclaim that
tobacco is no good. In fact, according to
him, it is so bad that today's Soviet rulers
Except perhaps for one or two back
sliders) literally hate the noxious weed,
and he has implied that anybody who
smokes cigars, cigarettes or pipes must
be either decadent or downright stupid.
There are arguments in support OF
this view, of course, and they conce1v-
ably may be right. But when "KhruShy'
gives voice to such an idea, when he casts
aspersions on tobacco, does he not also
cast aspersions on the Great Stain?
After all, the Great Stalin--who used to
be ceaselessly eulogized as the shining
light of the world, wondrously wise and
virtuous beyond compare-was an in
veterate pipe-smoker, and there were
times when he even pulled away at
cigarettes, or what once were known as
coffin nails" In short, he had habit
which his successors now apparently
regard as being more or less a sin and
a shame.
In a sense therefore, it may be said
that Nikita KhruShchev, in openly at
lacking tobacco, has somewhat belittled
the reputation Of Josef Stain. This
probably is very insignificant fact, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-19
Crowded Schools

Figures In the December z
article by William Talbot.
painting a rosy picture of the
Prince Georges County school
system, are misleading.
Here are some facts on the
Forest Heights Elementary
School, and other schools in
that area are equally as bad.
Forest Heights has four
third-grade classes with 46
students per room, four first
grade classes with 40 students
per room average. -Four rooms
have halliday classes. There
are no facilities for taking
care of or giving needed extra
help for slow or retarded stu
dents. Half of the teachers
are not really qualified to
teach. Sure, many Of them
have college degrees. but not
in education. Many are house,
wives trying their hand at
teaching.
The turnover in the teaching
staff last year was better than
so per cent, and only recently
have they found qualified
teachers to replace temporary
substitutes hired to start the
year. As for having substitute
teachers available when regu-
lar teachers are sick. they have
a hard time getting even o
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-19
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

think about the rules of gram
mar as he goes along.
That is why it is important
to know them. in the first
place: know them so well they
fade into the general back
ground of the working con-
Struction of speech and writ
ing.
No one who writes well has
to think about grammar.
He just writes.
Often enough he does so
well that some acquaintance
rushes up and says, with a
cheerful smile:
How wonderful Of you, yes
terday, to get the affirmative
absolute correctly! Very few
do it,"
You nod and smile and
thank him, as if you knew
exactly what it is and where
the affirmative absolute func-
tons.
Actually. you haven't known
even its name since the 9Th
grade at the old Adams School
on r street, in the long ago.
Thank you," you say,
heartily, as if you and the at.
flrmative absolute were old pals.
Well, you are, in fashion.
1t filters and fibres your blood,
as Walt Whitman said.
Grammar is important, but
if you are an honest Ameri-
can, you forget about 1t as
soon as possible.
Maybe that is the reason
why you can't learn a foreign
language easily, as Europeans
have to do. After all, they have
to; we, at least until recently,
never had to. People talk our
way. or we regard them as
queer.
But no one, we believe, is
to be censured for not being
able to learn French.
This wonderful tongue is
all its own. like nothing else
in the world. past, present or
future.
And those sounds!
No one but a born French
man can say their words the
way they do, except a born
Frenchwoman.
Nobody else should try, and
usually they don't, If they are
American.
In the happy conceit born of
a great new country, and a new
way of living in it, the Ameri-
can finds his native" language
good enough for him, and all
other languages are nuisances
which at times must be en-
dured, but are to be ignored
as soon as possible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-19
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
A New Estimate of Suns Crown
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

This is United States Pub
Lie Health Service estimate
based on three sample surveys.
each based on . new formula
which supposedly gives q
truer picture than has been
obtained in the past.
The findings are based on
the excess over the average
weight for each inch Of height
for men aged 80 and women
aged Is.
The first survey is that OF
the Life Extension Institute OF
10000 life insurance policy
holders, distributed geograph-
ically over the entire country.
All presumably were free from
illness. This showed that 25.8
per cent of males and 300 per
cent of females were 10 per
cent or more overweight.
The second was carried out
by the city health department.
of Richmond, Va, in co-opera-
ton with the Public Health
Service. Measurements were
taken on 33,799 persons. all
ostensibly free from disease.
II was found that Ola per cent
were 10 per cent or more over
weight and 10 per cent more
than 20 per cent overweight.
Women Worse Than Men
The third. also in co-opera-
ton with the Public Health
Service, was carried out by the
Georgia Health Department in
Atlanta. This showed that 24.8
per cent were 10 per cent or
more overweight and 1873 were
carrying 20 per cent or more
too much flesh.
All the studies showed that
a higher percentage Of women
than men weighed too much
and that this was particularly
true of Negro women.
Life insurance statistics for
some years have shown a con-
sistently higher death rate for
overweight people everywhere,
a report of the survey points
out. In the past, however.
there has been no consistent
criteria on which such judg-
ment could be based and too
much may have depended on
estimates Of individual ply
sicians.
While the Southern States
admittedly play too large a
part in the present statistics
there is no reason to doubt
that conditions are essentially
the same all over the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-19

housewife to come in and baby
sit to try and keep the children
reasonably quiet.
/ know that q similar stu
alton exists in several other
schools in the area. I feel 1t Is
very unfair to the general pub
lie and parents Of all those
youngsters who are being so
inadequately educated for your
paper to print such a glowing
picture of the Prince Georges
school system.
C. T. Jeffrey.