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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-09-27

Pack 122 wishes to express its
thanks to Mr.. Joe Sites, Archway
Cookie distributor, for his dona-
tion of cookies for refreshments
at this meeting.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-09-27

Mr.. Walter Stanley and daugh-
ters of Johnson City, Tenn, spent
last Saturday visiting with Mrs.
Charles Watson on Frey Avenue
and many other relatives in and
near West Jefferson.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-09-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Gary Hay and
family of West Jefferson were
G'1nday evening dinner guests with
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Phillips and
son.
The Misses Eileen Shade and
Janice Smith RMS from White
Cross Hospital spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson mclaughlin
and family in Lilly Chapel.
Mrs. Mary McElroy who is
president of the American Legion
Auxiliary in West jefferson has
attended the Legion Convention in
Atlantic City for week.
The Gillivan Methodist Church
ladies will sponsor a chicken sup
per which is an annual affair at
the church on Tuesday, October
Is.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-09-27

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cramer and
family have been vacationing in
Pennsylvania with many relatives.
Many places were enjoyed and the
Cramers also spent some time
with Mrs. Cramers mother.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-09-27
Mainly About
People

Mr.. and Mrs. David Schalip of
Madison Drive spent last Sunday
visiting with relatives of Canal
Winchester.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1957-09-27
Judy Hurt EnrolIs At
Miami University

Miss Judy Hurt has entered Mi
ami University in Oxford, Ohio,
where she is starting her senior
year and is to start her practice
as teacher.
Miss Charlene Steinmetz has
entered college at Ohio Wesleyn
in Delaware where she will begin
her Sophomore year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-05

service exams and those who
failed to pass would be drafted
The syndicate figured that
Beetle ought to be drafted and
he was-wearing his Army head
gear just as he did his pork-pie
hat.
That launched Beetle on what
may be the longest enlistment
on record of an Army private,
and the funniest.
Wants to Be Understood
Morris formula. in his own
words. is: II belong to the Big
Nose Long-feet school of art.
like sophistication myself but
want to create a product which
can be understood and enjoyed
not only by kids but by busy
adults.
80 I follow the old formula
Get Beetle hit over the head at
ieaSC once a week. Even brain
surgeons like my strip"
Hi and Lois" is the story Of
those Grade-A suburbanites. Hi
ram and Lois Flagston and their
quartet of lively kids. Mort is the
writer of the gag situations. Dix,
the artist, is a former illustrator
for Newsweek and for eight years
was a top ad illustrator in New
York.
Among other things. Dix re-
designed the Campbell Kids for
Campbell Soup and designed
Chiquita Banana for a big ad
agency. He also illustrated Bish-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-05
FAMOUS FABLES
BY Z. f, EDGAR

BUSINESSLIKE: Henry Wat
terson, editor for half a century
of the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal. drove the papers cashier
frantic with his unbusinesslike
habits. Whenever he needed
cash. Watterson would go to the
till and help himself. He did
not feel 1t necessary to tell any,
one that he had taken it.
Every night the cashier would
end up with a shortage. He
knew where the money had gone.
but when he confronted Wat
terSon. the confusion would only
be compounded. as the latter
never knew how much he had
taken.
One morning the cashier de-
cided to have heart-to-heart
talk with the editor.
Mr.. Watterson." he pleaded,
you're making it impossible for
me to keep my records straight.
From now on. when you take
money. will you please leave ma
initiated note in the drawer, stat
ing how much you withdraw"
Watterson agreed. That after
noon, when he was ready to
leave the Office. he made his
raid on the till. as usual. Be-
fore he left. however. he scrib-
bled note, initiated it and drop
ped it into the drawer.
The cashier hurried to the till.
He picked up the note from the
now empty drawer and read:
II took it all. H. W."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-05
SERVICE CALL INSPIRES BEETLE BAILEY
/ Ace Cortoonist Mort Walker
Draws From Own Experience

Zone of the most popular comic
Cartoonists in the Nation, as
Newspaper Comics Week rolls
ground. is Mort Walker, who
draws Beetle Bailey" for The
star as we'll as collaborating on
4Hi and Lois"
AMore than 600 American
newspapers print the side-split-
ting antics of Beetle and his
Army friends as the Nation cele-
brates the Goth anniversary of
the development of comic strips.
Two hundred others print Hi
and Lois, the joint effort Of
Mort and Dix Browne about the
funny side of life in Mammoth
Acres.
Comic fans up to 10 years Of
age also can take part in News
paper Comics Week by entering
The Stars $500 cartoon contest,
details and rules of which APP
pear today on one of the comic
pages. The first batch of entries
received yesterday in the mail
showed Beetle Bailey" fans
leading the pack with 10. They
also are invited to a giant
rally next Tuesday night at
8 o'clock when AL Andriola.
the author of Kerry Drake"
will give chalk talk about his
detective at Mcfarland Junior
High School. Iowa avenue and
Varnum street N.W.)
Mort draws heavily on his own
experience in World War II as
an Army captain for his funny
situations for Beetle. For Beetle
Bailey is a true comic strip; no
serious thought ever crosses
Beetles mind and the adven-
lures of Beetle, Sarge, Killer and
General Half-track are always
comic.
Sired College Comic
Mort started in 1850 when he
went to King Features with some
samples of a new strip. 1t was a
college comic and the central
was Spider. a shiftless.
class-cutting dope. wearing
hat so that his eyes
were never visible.
The syndicate signed Mort but
had him change the name Spider
TO Beetle and the Bailey was
tackled on the end just to give
khe college comic a last name.
4eetle went along for nine
months when Washington issued
"a edict that college students
Fould have to take selectiYe,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-05
How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
Some DOS for Heart Patients
BY DR.. PETER J.. STEINcRoHN

Dear DR.. Steincrohn: I was
greatly interested in your recent
column regarding coronary in
suff1ciency. for that's my trouble.
Il have had one coronary
thrombosis and maybe one or
two slight ones after that. With
care, however, / get along very
well until the cold winter comes
on. Then I have to go back on
Ronical and Priscoline.
But / have allergies chow the
doctors hate them and have to
take these drugs with great care,
using antihistamines.
Il have bee nsent to a we'll
known vascular surgeon in
Washington. My own doctor is a
good internist and has battled
with me for more than seven
years-poor man! But I really
do try to cooperate. and be-
cause they both want me stuffed
with vitamins, calcium and other
"builder-uppers" l have really
done very well in regaining my
strength latter six months of
shinglesD. So I feel more able
to take on the winter battle.
While surgery has not yet
been suggested. we'll know it's
in their minds; but / am rather
opposed TO any operation. /
have seen several people for
whom it meant just more of the
same; and know one man we'll
who had a highly qualified
surgeon do the operation. How
ever, he still suffers like I do
from air-conditioners and winter
weather.
In the meantime take ex-
cellent care Of myself through
rest. / know when / have had
enough. I stop for a while and
then go back on nitroglycerine
and the other drugs.
1T is good to know that sur
gerry can be satisfactory. II worse
comes to worse maybe I'll try it.
I have no fear of death; at SIS
the fear of being a care to some
one else is lots more of a prob
lem.
Thanks again for your most
helpful article. Sincerely yours,
Mrs. L. v. S."
Answer: Mrs. l.. v. s., you
seem to have a fine philosophy.
You know how to take care OF
yourself: You know when you
have had enough where exertion
is concerned! Two, you are for
tunate in having found a doctor
in whom you have confidence;
otherwise, you would not have
stuck it out with him for seven
years. Three. you are not rush.
Ing into heart surgery, but are
thankful that 1t is there in the
bsckground-ready to help yoIL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-05

very best. Why should Mildred
begrudge her having the best?
Even when they were children.
Mildred was mean to Emily. She
would never let her wear any,
thing of hers that Emily liked.
She would only give her old.
worn out things she was tired of.
! tried to bring up my girls to
love and help one another, but
II guess I'm just failure. One
thing I'm sure of-Emily will be
an old maid if she comes home
now.
The Councils View
Mrs. P. F.'s distorted and neu-
rotic attitude toward both her
daughters is harming Emily, the
daughter she apparently favors.
more than anyone else con-
lcerned. Mrs. p. F. has evidently
convinced Emily that it is her
sisters job to present her with
an ideal husband and that if
Mildred does not do this she
I"begrudges her having the best. ;"
Mildred can have a clear con-
science that she has done the
best she could for her sister when
she invited her to her home and
introduced the eligible men she
could get hold of to her. 1t was
an all-out effort. and If it failed
it was not her fault.
If Mildred wants to help her
sister further. she might tell
Emily that if she wishes to meet
interesting" people, particularly
a husband who is not creep"
she had better get on the job in
earnest for herself.
Mrs. P. F. says she brought up
her girls to love and help one
another. but her statement that
tits not fair that Emily should
be unhappy when Mildred has
SO much" indicates she pitted
them against each another and
taught them to envy and resent,
not to love.
tcopyright 1857. Gen Features Corp
Tomorrow: Husband feels self second
fiddle to wife's fomiIy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-05

And fourth. you are not unusu-
ally anxious and fearful about
your illness. AS you put it: u
have no fear of death"
Hundreds of thousands OF
coronary patients in the United
States can-if they will-learn
much from your philosophy. ]
know that many Of you are going
at l. all wrong. because / have
seen actual cases of bewildered
patients. They knew not where
to turn or what to do.
For example. there was Mr.
Jones, the banker, who lived in
daily fear of extinction. Death
is always in my mind" he said.
When a poor fellow comes in
for a few hundred dollars loan,
how I wish l could swap places
with him. I'm always thinking
l won't last out the day"
And there was Mr.. Smith who
lust couldn't find a doctor he
could have confidence in" BY
the time he got to me he had
already been under the care of a
half dozen excellent medical
men. I said to him: II don't
care if you decide to leave me.
But for PHYS sake, get off the
medical merry-go-round. The
surest way to kill yourself pre-
maturely is to go from one doc
tor to the other like a moth does
to a dozen flaming candles.
recall q man with angina
pectoris who was doing we'll I'M
der conservative medical treat
ment. When he heard about the
new heart surgery for coronary
patients he nagged at his doctor
to have him operated on. His
physician at last gave in, against
his judgment because his pa
tient was doing very well under
ordinary treatment. In his case
the operation was a failure, and
the man was worse off than be-
fore.
IN the other hand. I recall
hundreds of patients who. like
Mrs. l.. v. S., lived normal lives
except for certain self-imposed
restrictions. They got to learn
"how much exertion they could
take" They studiously remained
within the bounds and limits Of
their physical capacity. In doing
so, they lived tmany of them
into the seventies.
To sum up: II you have cor
onary disease. ID Find a good
doctor and stick to him. 90 Fol-
low his advice and live within
your physical limits. go Don't
get UP every morning, and go to
sleep every night. thinking.
This may be my last day."
released BY the Bell Syndicate. fnc.D
Tomorrow: Old ose isn't 50 bod.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-05
EE4zuRz Rcz
THE FAMILY COUNCIL
Drive to marry orr
Sister Splits Family
THE PROBLEM
MILDRED MI did my best for Emily.
MRS P. F.-She was always mean to Emily.
THE DETAILS


Mildred M am a married
woman with three young chill
dren. A year ago my mother,
who lives quite far from here,
asked me to invite my youngest
sister to come to stay with me
for a while. Emily is % and I'M
married, and my mother thought
I might be able to introduce
some nice young men to her.
Well. I did my best. I had
my husband and all my friends
bring over any bachelor friends
they had, but nothing ever came
of it. She never liked the one
who liked her and vice versa.
Now Emily just sits around
and broeds nearly every evening
She is not at all happy with us.
She is annoyed by the children
and says she doesn't like any
of our friends. She complains
that we don't go out enough to
meet really interesting" people.
How can a mother of three chill
|dren go out scouting for inter-
'esting people for her?
I asked my mother to tell
Emily to come home, but mother
lis furious at me for giving up
SO easily.
Mrs. p. F.-Mildred has always
had the best of everything and
never gave anything to her
sister. Now it's time she did
something for Emily. It's not
fair that Emily should be I'M
happy when Mildred has so
much.
Emily wrote to me regularly
and told me that Mildred was
introducing all kinds of "creeps"
to her. She said Mildred would
drag just anything of the street
and try to set up dates for her.
Is that the right way to treat a
younger sister?
Emily is a very pretty girl.
prettier than Mildred ever was.
She is also smart and a good
homemaker. She deserves the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-05
By RAY HENRY

MrS. beuldn FINK KNOWS Con-
greSsmen pay attention to their
mail. And. letters were the only
weapons she had.
So. a couple of years ago she
started bombarding Congress
with mail from her home in
Leavittsburg. Ohio. She wrote
to President Eisenhower. And.
for good measure, she wrote to
anyone else who might push for
a change in the Social Security
law.
Her point?
She wanted widows with dis
Iabled children over Is to receive
Social Security payments for
themselves and the children.
AFTER all. she reasoned, widows
with children under 10 were re-
Icelving payments for themselves
and their youngsters.
A widow with a disabled child
over 10 is as unable to work and
make living as a widow with
children under 10. In either
case, home care is usually nee
essary.
Law Finally Changed
Last August Congress acted.
1t changed the Social Security
law to give payments TO a dis
abled child Of a retired or de-
ceased worker after the child
passes 10. The child must be
unmarried. And, the disability
must be so severe that the child
can't work. 1t must have oc-
CURED before the child reached
In addition. Congress pro-
vided for payments to widows
caring for disabled children over
10. Previously. widows were only
eligible for payments for them
selves until their children-dis-
abled or not-reached 10. They
didn't become eligible for pay
ments again until they reached
retirement age.
No one can really say how
effective Mrs. Fink'S letters
were. Two things are clear: She
took her case TO Congress and
Congress changed the Social Sc
curity law.
Like most people who write
Congressmen. Mrs. Fink had a
personal interest in doing so.
She and her son. Paul, are now
getting payments as a result of
the law change.
Paul has been an invalid since
birth and he never leaves his
bed He has to be cared for con-
stantly and in every conceivable
manner. His father died in 1852.
But. says Mrs. Fink:
ut wasn't just that I was
Fostering Congressmen for bene-
fits for my family. Paul and I
would have gotten along some-
how, but I knew there must be
other cases, where the family
hadn't been able to put away
something for a rainy day."
Thousands Apply
She was right. More than 5000
applications for disabled child's
payments have already been re-
ceived The Social Security peo-
pie believe that at least 10000
will qualify during 1857. Nobody
knows how many will eventually
qualify.
In changing the law. Congress
provided that the payments
could start in January for all
those who qualified on that date.
Anyone who applies before the
end Of January. 1858. but who
was eligible in January. 1857.
will receive payments back to
January. After January. 1858,
payments will not be paid for
more than IL months back.
Applications for the payments
are available in all Social Secdr-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-05
SECURITY FOR YOU
Womon's Efforts Widen
Disabled Child Benefits

ity Offices around the country. If
you don't know the address of
the nearest Office. you can get it
at your local post Office.
associated Press Newsfeatures)
you may Write Ray Henry
in care OF The Star about your
DUN Social Security or retire
ment problem. Please enclose
a stamped. Self-dddreSSed enue-
lope and rs cents in coin.)
The next Security for You column
viii oppeor Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-05

OPP Fulton J. Sheen's book. Life
Is Worth Living"
Dix. more properly Richard
Arthur Allan Browne. lives in
South Orange. N. j., which is as
suburban as the habitat of Hi
and Lois. and commutes to his
New York Office.
Between Mort and Dix. they
cover the modern Army and the
young moderns so humorously
because the barracks life and
suburbia has been home to both
of them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-05

The Fomily Council consists Of o Judge.
q psyehiotrist. three elersymen, q
newspaper editor. women's editor
and two writer's. Eoeh article is o
summary OF on oetuoI cose history.
The council reports on problems thot
hove been deoIt with by responsible
agencies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-28
Two Ex-Convicts Held
In Six HoIdup SIoyinqs

HARTFORD. Conn, Feb. "a
R.-Joseph L. Taborsky, who
was freed in 1855 from a State
prison death cell. and an ex-
convict buddy were held today
as the killers of six persons in
a series of petty cash holdups
since December is.
State Police Commissioner
John C. Kelly said one of the
two admitted the killings yester-
day. Mr.. Kelly declined to say
which one confessed because
our investigation is not yet COM
pleted."
In all but one Of the killings
the victims were shot in the
head. In two holdups, four VIC
TINS were forced to kneel on the
floor and were shot in the head
Found With 8 Guns
When Taborsky and 33-year-
old Arthur Culombe of Hart
ford were picked up Saturday
police recovered eight guns from
them.
Mr.. Kelly said the two men
would be booked on murder
charges today.
The 33-year-old Taborsky,
who moved to Brooklyn. NY,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-28
3 Greek Cypriots
Sentenced to Death

NIcoSIA, Feb. % GA
British court today sentenced
three defiant Greek Cypriots to
death for possessing arms and
ammunition.
They were arrested last month
In q secret mountain hideout
where two Stem guns, six shot
guns. two revolvers and ammuni-
ton were found.
All three told the court they
had no complaint against the
death sentence.
Nicos Iaonnou. %, said he was
In the mountains because the
freedom Of my country demanded
this. Greeks are not afraid of
DEATH"
Andreas Attentions, also %,
said. Il am glad to be punished
for my country. Long live mother
Greece"
Christos Apostolou. 10, said he
had performed his duty to his
country.
The special court Judge said
the death penalty was manda-
tory under emergency regula-
tons in effect in Cyprus to COM
bat the underground violence
campaign to unite the island
with Greece.
The British government last
night announced a relaxation OF
some Of the emergency laws.
Under the new regulations,
Cypriots caught with explosives
other than bombs no longer will
be liable to the death penalty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-28

after his release from prison
was convicted of killing a liquor
store dealer. Louis L. Woolson,
in June. 1851. The States case
was based on evidence given by
ITaborsky's brother. Albert, who
admitted he drove the getaway
car.
But Albert was adjudged in
sane in prison and Taborsky's
appeal that the brothers testi-
Imony at the trial was groundless
was upheld by the State Su-
preme Court.
Retrial Dropped
A new trial was ordered. but
the State dropped prosecute d
because its case rested with
Albert.
Taborsky went free after four
years in a death cell.
These are the crimes which
Mr.. Kelly said the one ex-con-
|vict admitted:
December 15-Slaying CT Ed
ward Kurpewski. 80. and Daniel
y. Janowski, 80. in a New Brit
ain filling station.
December rs - Staying of
Samuel Cohn. IS, in an East
Hartford liquor store.
January 5-Slaying Of Mr..
and Mrs. Bernard J. Speyer OF
Meriden in a North Haven shoe
store.
February 10-Slaying Of g.
Iyear-old John Rosenthal in his
Hartford drug store.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-28
Clues Fail Police in Hunt
For Girl Feared Kidnoped

BELLMAWR. Nj. Feb. %
R.-Police said today they
were WORKING on several leads,
but that there were no hard de-
velopments in their search for
little Mary Jane Barker, be-
neved to have been kidnapped.
The four-year-old child dis
appeared last Monday morning
while she was at play in a yard
near her home in this Southern
New Jersey town of about 5000.
The parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Barker. appealed yester-
day for her safe return.
The distraught mother asked
newsmen to give the widest cir
culation to her request that
Mary Jane be left at any
church"
I'VE promise from the bottom
of our hearts to do all that we
can to keep you from harm"
the mother said, addressing her.
self to the one she feels sure
abducted the youngest Of her
three children.
The father, department store
radio and TV manager, joined
in the prayerful appeal.
The grief of the Bankers was
especially acute yesterday. 1t
was Mary James birthday-her
fourth. And today is the fathers
birthday. It was to have been
a fine week. with a joint cele-
bration.
Mrs. Barker, weeping, empha-
sized there is still time to get the
child home for a celebration.
Won't you please give us the
only birthday present we want?"
she pleaded. won't you please
bring Putzey back?" Putzey is
the family nickname for Mary
Jane.
Police said they could find no
ready motive for kidnapping.
No ransom note has been re-
ceived: no demand of any kind
has been made.
The Philadelphia Inquirer re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-28
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ported that an unidentified priest
told of seeing a tall woman bear
ing the limp body of q small girl
within an hour after Mary Jane
vanished from her home. The
priest was quoted as saying he
saw the woman and her burden
a few blocks from the Barker
home.
Bellmawr police said they knew
nothing of the priests story.