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The Sidney herald., 1955-05-05
Mary Kappel
End Place Winner
In VFW Contest
WHAT CIVIL DEFENSE
MEANS TO ME
By Mary KapDei

Whether my future means sur
VlvaI or humiliation may depend
on our civil defense. 1t must af-
lord protection, figuratively, caves
IN which to hide. Civil defense
must be made as strong and re-
haole as the Rock of Gibraltar. It
Will be strong, however, only if we
maintain a united front to support
it.
Civil defense has been active
since the Revolution. Perhaps the
mlnutemen could be called the
1lrst civil defense of the United
States. They were organized civ
lLlans ready to defend their home
and their rights at a minutes To-
tlce. The women did their share
during the Revolutionary War
when they made clothes for the
Colonial troops. That they gave so
much effort to realize their dreams
sets an example for Americans to-
day.
Down through the years civil
defense has proved of service in
peacetime and war. Through
floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes,
1t always has stood by. It provides
shelter, food and clothing for those
driven from their homes during
these catastrophies. These services
are just a few of the caves, a part
The Sidney herald., 1955-05-05
THE SIDNEY HERALD a
Thursday, May S. 1855 y

others if it becomes necessary. The
morale in the program is far from
satisfactory because it has not
aroused national interest and sup
port. I can help by telling nv
friends and neighbors the facts
to make them see the importance
of civil defense. My neighbors and
I can help defend ourselves by
learning what to do in case of at
tack. We can be prepared by hav-
ing plenty of canned foods and
dried products stored in our base
ments. At home I can make sure
that cracks in the basement are
sealed tightly so a minimum of
radioactivity can seep in. I can
teach my sister and the neighbor
children what to do should a
warning come and older persons
are gone. There are defensive
measures that I can learn at school
to help save lives. Some church
and youth organizations are Civ
ing aid in planning a protection
system if the necessity arises. A
group of Seventh Day Adventists
began a project to see if they
could survive for three days in
the woods on meager gear. They
made tents from table cloths and
spread blankets for warmth. The
entire group survived. This gives
me hope for survival. These peo-
pie have no illusions that the real
thing would be easy. The youth
clubs that I can join will teach
me and others to protect our ma
TONS most precious resource, its
people. This experience is what I
need to equip myself for atomic
citizenship; the kind that can Gre
ate a world of peace and justice,
or complete destruction.
Montana is a strategic target.
There are deposits of vital min
erals in the western part, and farm
land in the east, and the Fort
Peck Dam. We supply much of
the nations copper, wheat, beets,
sheep and cattle. If the whole
state were contaminated, our ma
ton would suffer a loss in miner
ais, food and citizens.
I have tried to show how civil
defense comedies with my picture
Of the Rock of Gibraltar. The
strength and security of the rock
must be woven in our Civil De-
efnSe.
The Sidney herald., 1955-05-05

Of the work civilian defense does,
in my Rock of Gibraltar.
By far the largest and most i'm
portant cave in this civil defense
rock is protection during an atom
ic OF hydrogen bomb attack. Even
my state or my town could be-
come the front line in an atomic
war, for America is no longer in
vulnerable to attack. Because ra-
dioactivity is so far-reaching,
deaths will occur far from the
sight of an A-bomb or H-bomb
blast. Fall-out, caused by radio
active molecules settling on dust,
debris, and bits of the bomb that
float in the atmosphere contami-
mates a cigar-shaped area of ap-
proXimately seven thousand square
miles. An H-bomb dropped on
Washington, D. c., might kill one
hundred per cent of the popula-
ton as distant as Philadelphia.
One hundred forty to one hundred
sixty miles away, fifty per cent
might die. Five to ten per cent
could be killed by fall-out from
one hundred sixty to one hundred
ninety miles away to New York
City.
These statistics would be true
if southerly winds prevailed. The
danger from fall-out has long
been suspected; the latest Atomic
Energy report acknowledged this
problem. Twenty-eight hydrogen
bombs would completely blanket
the Northeastern part of the U. S.
What can I as a citizen do?
must explore the caves, the work
of our Civil Defense. I must re-
member Anthony Eden's advice, I
must keep cool. I must understand
The Sidney herald., 1955-05-05

that the best answer TO the de-
Structive possibilities Of atomic en-
ergy is free people working to-
gether toward peace. It is impera-
tive that I am educated to the ev-
er changing methods Of protection.
This new phenomenon built by
man required a new approach to
civil defense, and a new concept
of our cities and towns. The need
for peripheral shelters in all our
cities becomes necessary. Shelters,
consisting of frame houses, brick
buildings, and above all earth, e
duce the danger from local fall
out. I know that a man could sur
vive a fall-out in a tornado shelter
if he remained there two or three
days. Unfortunately civilian de-
tense preparations are far behind
offensive developments. Nc prac-
teal evacuation Of any American
city has ever been executed. More
caves need to be excavated in our
civil defense rock. Intensified
planning of evacuation is needed
here. There must be programs of
selected shelter construction and
vigorous leadership for all phases
of civilian defense. Radar detec-
ton should be extended to the
Arctic and islands in both oceans
to give at least a four-hour fore
warning for evacuation. The ne
cessity of expanding our defense
in guided missiles and interceptors
is pressing.
Four million volunteers enlisted
in the civil defense program.
These people are sacrificing their
time to spot enemy planes and
help with emergency work. I can
join these millions to help protect
The Sidney herald., 1955-05-05
Vets Mail Bag
VA Gives Some Handy Tips
To Veterans Buying Homes

VA Gives some danuy lips
To Veterans Buying Homes
Since the end of World War II
more than four million veterans of
that war and the Korean conflict
have bought homes with the aid
of CT loans under the home loan
program of the Veterans Admins
tration. Under the laws providing
this service to veterans of these
two wars, the VA can guarantee or
insure a loan by private lenders
for purchase of a home.
A great majority Of the veterans
who have bought homes got
soundly constructed housing and
now are making regular payments
on their mortgages a. satisfied
homeowners.
However, as in all ventures
dealing with human nature, a rel
atively small percentage of these
veterans have had just cause to
be dissatisfied with their houses.
While under the law VA does
everything possible to make sure
that the builder, seller and veteran
reach an amicable agreement on
complaints, VA repeatedly states
to home-buying veterans eva can
guarantee the loan, but NOT the
house"
Only in the case of housing built
after October 1, 1854, does VA re-
quire that the builder-seller pro-
vide a warranty for one year that
the homes substantially meet VA
approved plans and specifications.
VA has several tips to veterans
planning to buy a home with a
CT loan, all designed to eliminate
for the veteran and the VA the
necessity of dealing with COM
plants. The tips are contained in
two pamphlets available at any
VA office: one titled "GI Loans
for Veterans" VA Pamphlet Al;
and "To the Home Buying Veter-
an" VA Pamphlet 4-1O. Virtually
every question that a veteran may
raise is answered in the booklets.
They may be obtained from your
nearest VA office.
One caution found prominently
in the booklets is to veterans urg-
ing that they do not be too hasty.
World War II veterans have until
July Is, 1857, to exercise their
right. Korean veterans have 10
years after the end of the emer-
gency, with final cutoff January
81, 1865.
The Sidney herald., 1955-05-05
TOO LONG

Employment Agent What
was the matter with your last
place?
Domestic - The couple had on
ly been married a month, and I
couldn't stand the lovemaking.
Agent - Well, here's a chance
in a house where the couple have
been married ten years.
Domestic ~ That's too long. I
like peace and quiet.
The Sidney herald., 1955-05-05
TIME TO LEAVE TOWN

peggy confessed at the party
last night that she had reached
the advanced age of eighteen"
"Then I feel sorry for the edi-
tor of the Morning Sneeze."
Flows that?"
'The paper said that Peggy's
30-year-old twin brother was Wis
iting her."
The Sidney herald., 1955-05-05
QUESTION OF THE WEEK.

@. I am considered totally dis
abled for insurance purposes, and
yet I have been given only a 80
percent disability rating for com
pensation. Why the difference?
A. For insurance purposes, you
may have other non-service-con-
nected disabilities which, when
combined with your 80 percent
rated service-connected disability.
produce total disability. Moreov-
er, the criteria for determining
total disability r not identical
for insurance and compensation
purposes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07

WE ALL make our share of the worlds mis-
w takes, but how hard it is to admit it! That
is why it is good to remember old Judge Samuel
Sewa, man Who many years ago. was not
afraid to say, Il was wrong"
Here in Boston in the 1905 Sewal had been
member of the Governors Special Commission
which tried the famous Salem Witchcraft cases.
He was one of the judges who passed the verdict
of guilty" on the so-called witches. But later
Sewall became convinced that his judgment had
been wrong.
And so, on cold January day in 1897, as the
Reverend Samuel Willard walked down to the
pulpit, Judge Sewall handed him document,
requesting that it be read before all the people.
On that paper Judge Sewall had written that he
was wrong in his verdict of five years before. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07
By Frederick M. Meek
Minister, Old South Church in Boston

asked forgiveness from men - and from God.
In no other hour has this New England jurist
seemed as brave or good man as when he
stood before the congregation in the Old South
Meeting House while the minister read his con-
fession: Il was wrong
L OFTEN think that those three words mean more
than many sermon Most of us struggle so
desperately against admitting our mistakes. We
imagine that it tears us down. But actually it is
the reverse, for to admit that we have been wrong
is sign Of bgness. 1t renews peoples faith in
us. 1t opens the way to new beginnings.
In country like ours, where we share ideas
and trust each other, part of our free strength
comes in the fact that our finest tradition respects
a man who is not afraid to say, Il was wrong"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-07

phone Company. In most systems, the
engineers assured us, the called party can
hang up, then dial another number even
if the caller hangs on - but only after a
'time-out" period which varies from one
telephone system to another.
In Helen McCloy's fictitious community.
we assume the time out" period is only
few seconds, thus saving the near -omnis-
Gent reputation Of her hero-sleuth, DR..
Basil Willing.
ONCE AGAIN. For the fifth consecutive
year THIS Weeks fiction is represented in
a popular anthology of top-ranking short
mysteries Editor David c. Cooke has
chosen Killer In The Club Car" by David
Savage for Best Detective Stories Of The
Year - 1856" &c. P. Dutton & Co., lnc)
incidentally, in the ten yearly editions
so far published, THIS WEEK fiction has
appeared in eight - with total of twelve
stories. The EDITORS
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SideLineS

THE COVER. Most THIS WEEK readers
must be familiar, by now, with the colorful
paintings of Artist Jane Miller. And we
hope they agree with US that she has a
delightful knack for capturing the atmos-
phere in which small fry play and work
and dream This time, Miss Miller found
her subjects on dock, enjoying one of
their favorite summer pastimes. With per-
haps a trace Of prejudice in favor of her
own sex, she saw to it that young lady
landed the first fish.
TO THE RESCUE. A few weeks ago we
published a murder mystery by Helen
McCloy called Thy Brother Death" In
it part of the solution hinged on a dial
telephone. and one point worried lot of
our readers: Is it possible for the called
party to use his telephone when he hangs
up and the caller doesn'f7
We checked with the New York Tele-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-12
10 JAIL BREAKERS
HIDE IDENTITIES
BY TAKING RECORDS

JAEGER, w. Va, up. -
Police are looking for 10
men who smashed out of the
town jail yesterday. but they
face one big obstacle.
Authorities don't know
who the escapes are. be-
cause they took the jail
records with them.
State Trooper C. N. Otto
quoted officials of this little
Mcdowell County commun-
ity tpop. 1,470) that the jail
had about 20 occupants Sat-
urday night, practically all
of whom were booked for be-
ing drunk.
Sometime before dawn
yesterday. while there was
no guard, the group of 10
managed to smash the lock
and hustle to freedom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-12

be made where 1t Will do the
most good for lower and middle
income groups. He said it will
be accomplished by adjusting
personal exemptions from $500 to
$500.
Sees Balanced Budget
II think we will have a bal
anced budget by June. 1856" he
continued. II don't think any
cut should be made in the $37.5
billion needed in the defense and
foreign aid programs. 1t should
come rather from a cut in gen.
eral expenditures.
There's no lack of business
expansion, but if some relief
from the tax burden isn't pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-12

vided for the lower and middle
income groups, then the coun-
try'S purchasing power would be
checked and that's the danger
! Senator George stopped here
briefly last night en- route from
his Vienna home to Washington
for a White House conference on
foreign and defense programs to-
morrow.
Sees Balky Congress
| Senator George said the ad-
ministration is going to have
difficulty getting Congress to
approve strictly economic assist
ance in its $2,670. 100000 for
Ieign-aid program.
/ Il think Congress as a whole
is disposed to maintain military
assistance on a reasonable level"
Senator George said. But
don't think it is going too strong
on economic AID.
Strictly economic aid is likely
to encounter great difficulties,
in my judgment"
Russell Opposed
Chairman Russell, Democrat,
of Georgia, CT the Senate Armed
Services Committee, already has
said he will vote against eco
nomic aid while supporting a
reasonable" amount for mill
tary assistance.
Despite this and other signs
of strong opposition. Senator
George said he thinks there may
be some special instances"
where members of Congress will
become convinced that economic
aid would be good investment
in security.
Senator George said he re-
CARDS the Middle East situation
as mot healthy or good" He
said he had made some sugges-
tions to Secretary of State
Dulles about American policies
there but had not been in close
touch with the situation in re-
cent days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-12
Jewel Robbery
Nets S55,OOO

AURORA. III, Dec. IL P.-
Two masked robbers, wearing
rubber gloves, held jeweler and
his wife captive in their home
throughout Saturday night and
then yesterday morning looted
the jewelers. store of an esti-
mated $55,000 in merchandise
Police believe the men may
have had accomplices in the rob-
berry of the store on Main street.
Aurora is some 40 miles west of
Chicago.
Police said Joseph K. Fodor,
So, told them he closed his shop
at $50 pm. Saturday and he
and his wife, Nellie, 40. had din
ner before parting, she to go
home and he to visit his ailing
mother in st. Joseph Mercy Hos
pital.
Arriving home. Mrs. Fodor re-
lated, she was accosted by two
men, one with a revolver and the
other with a metal bar. Threat
ening her with death. they tapped
her wrists and demanded the
keys to the store and the COM
bination to the shops safe.
Mrs. Fodor said she gave them
the combination. which she kept
in her purse, and told the pair
her husband had the keys. Then,
she said, they showed her into a
closet.
When Mr.. Fodor returned
home at about 9:15, he said. he
was knocked down as he came
through the door. The robbers
tapped his arms behind him and
took his keys, forcing him to
identify each one, including the
key to the burglar alarm.
They told me they had been
checking on me for six months,
and knew just what I had in the
store" Mr.. Fodor said, One of
them told me-'Mr. Fodor, you
should carry more insurance,
then you wouldn't lose any
thing"
Mr.. Fodor was put in a sepa-
rate closet from his wife.
After the men left the Fodors
freed themselves and called po-
lice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-12
Driver Is Placed
On Probation in
Traffic Death

A motorist who figured in a
four-car collision in which six
persons were injured, one fatally,
Saturday was given a one-year
suspended sentence for negligent
homicide and placed on proba-
ton.
He is Sidney H. Rufus, So, of
the 5000 block of Forty-fourth
street NV. a bartender, who
was one of the persons injured.
The suspended sentence and pro-
baton were imposed by Judge
Richmond b. Keech of the United
States District Court for the
District of Columbia.
Rufus was tried recently on the
more serious charge of man
slaughter but a jury found him
guilty of the lesser charge of
negligent homicide. The traffic
victim was Mrs. Virginia F. DON
ovan, IS, of the 2700 block of
Devonshire place NV.
According to trial testimony.
Rufus last April was driving
north along Rock Creek parkway
when his automobile sideswiped
a taxicab going in the same di-
rection. The taxi then collided
with an Armed Services car go
ing south.
The car driven by Rufus then
struck a second taxicab. which
was going south and IN which
Mrs. Donovan was a passenger.
Mrs. Donovan died a short time
later. Rufus suffered hip frac-
lure and other injuries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-12
Publisher Retiring

SARASOTA. Fla, Dec. IL (P),
David B. Lindsay. 50. an
Inounced his retirement as pub
fisher of the Sarasota Herald
Tribune and the Sarasota Jour-
nal last night. His son. D. 3.
Lindsay, jr., who has been editor
of the papers for eight years, will
succeed him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-12
GeorgeSees$l00 Increose
In Tax Exemption

ATLANTA, Dec. IL H1-Senator George Democrat of
Georgia predicts $35 billion income for 1885,
that's much the Federal budget take present
He added that the will after the the
Federal fiscal year.
interview Senator also predicted will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
AIunnue toMurk
Founders Day

Area alumnae of Randolph
Macon Woman's College will
celebrate Founders Day at the
annual banquet on Friday at
the Woman's National Demo-
cratic Club at 7 pm.
DR.. John Pendy Kirby, head
of the English Department,
will make the principal speech
on present aspects of the col
lege.
The development program
which seeks financial resources
for the future of Randolph
Macon will be explained by
Mrs. Calvin N. Warf1eld OF
Silver Spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
AIunnoe Party Is Tomorrow

Mrs. Robert w. Preston, ma
tional president of Delta
Gamma. will address the
Washington area alumnae at
a reception and banquet mark
ing the fraternity's 82nd an
niversary tomorrow. The cele-
bration will be held at the
Officers Club at Fort McNair
at Sis pm.
Other highlights of the party
will be talk by Mrs. John H.
Aiken, Local Province secre-
tary, and the installation of
officers of the three alumnae
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
Her Majesty Miss 7wining Reigns
AT Norfo|ks Azoleo Court

tips on gardening for later on"
she leases.
The brown-eyed generals
daughter includes tennis and
swimming among her hobbies.
Summer plans?
II will most likely get a job,
she says. maybe as a secretary"
Secretary. Perhaps
A typical service daughter,
"Addie" has attended school
all over the country.
She was born in Montgom-
cry, Ala, and has lived in Fort
Leavenworth, Kans Honolulu,
Hawaii; Anchorage, Alaska;
Dayton, Ohio; San Antonio,
Tex, and Charlotte, N. c.
AS Queen of the Court. April
1924, Miss Twining will repre-
sent the United States. Girls
from the embassies of 10
NATO nations will be crowned
as princesses at the Virginia
event.
lnternotion Theme
The international theme was
chosen for the Azalea Court
because Norfolk is the head
quarters for the Supreme Al
lied Command.
The Washington Committee
for the court includes Mrs. Ar
thur w. Radford, Mrs. Robert
B Carney, Mrs. Lemuel c.
Shepherd, jr.; the Treasurer of
the United States Mrs. Ivy
Baker Priest, Mrs. Matthew
Ridgway. Mrs. Ernest Eden
tague Price and, of course. the
queens mother, Mrs. Twining.
Norris, Miss Mary-Stuart Mon
A tea for the princesses and
her majesty, Olivia, will be
staged from S to 7 o'clock.
March Is, at the Sheraton
Park Hotel.
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groups. There will be a tradi-
tional candlelighting cere-
mony, and awards will be given
to outstanding members of the
active chapters.
Mrs. Louis H. Renfrow,
chairman of the Potomac Area
Council of Delta Gamma. will
preside at the banquet. Mrs.
Charles H. Shriver of Pixies
vile, Md, Province Alumnae
Chairman. will also attend.
Today. Mrs. Preston will be
honored by the three local
chapters at a tea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06
By Ann Moffett

81 could never get tired Of
being a queen"
That's what pretty Olivia
TWining, daughter Of the chief
of the United States Air Force
and Mrs. Nathan F. Twining
has to say about being chosen
Queen Of Norfolk Virginia'S
Azalea Court.
With two sessions of royalty
behind her CHERRY Blossom
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-06

Princess and Miss Air Power
the attractive 19-year-old says:
Interesting People
you meet so many interest
ing people-it's really lots of
fun"
eddie" Ito her Junior col
lege friends at Holton-Arms)
has no garden but, explains
II just love flowers even if l
can't name a favorite."
Maybe I can pick I'D some
Evening star., 1955-06-17

Isel when stung by one question.
Drinking. liquor, divorce-we
didn't start them" he said.
when you wind it all UP you1l
find it comes right back to the
rearing Of the child in the
home"
Jack L. Warner of Warner
Bros. said much Of the blame for
juvenile delinquency must be laid
to the prohibition era and the
world wars.
George Murphy defended his
studios production Of Black
board Jungle"
Il had misgivings when ! read
the book" Mr.. Murphy testified,
"but when we made it into a
movie I was proud. The story
was not overdrawn and it focused
national attention on a serious
educational problem"
Evening star., 1955-06-17
Morilyn Monroe CoIendur Due
AS Kefuuver Probe Exhibit

LOS ANGELES. June II R.-
Marilyn Monroe's nude calendar
pose becomes a prime exhibit
today as the Kefauver subcom-
mittee investigating juvenile de-
linquency winds up its stay here
The Senate probers get into
the art and literature phase OF
the three-day hearings. Sub
poenaes have been issued to q
dozen operators of what COM
mlttee members term smut
mills" All are expected to be
unfriendly witnesses.
Among the exhibits viii be q
mail order advertisement for
Evening star., 1955-06-17

I"Marilyn Monroe playing cards
featuring Miss Monroe's ur1-
ldraped torso.
The subcommittee yesterday
heard a parade Of movie figures
defend Hollywood,s contribution
to culture. despite charges that
recent movies have been laden
with sex and violence.
Dore Schary, Jack L. Warner,
~. Frank Freeman, Harry Joe
Brown, George Murphy and Ron
aid Reagan all appeared.
Mr.. Freeman. head of Para
mount studios, lashed back
at the subcommittee coun-