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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-09
WORDS, WIT
AND WISDOM
BY WILLIAM MORRIS

Today's vocabulary test is
based on 10 fairly unusual
words which will prove valuable
additions to your vocabulary
For each numbered word YOU
will find word or phrase of al
most the same meaning among
1.-THE four words following it.
Thus, the word numbered / may
mean practically the same as
the word lettered C. Write this
down as 1-c.
Check against the correct
pairings at the bottom. Here is
how we score the quiz: Ten cor
rect, excellent; eight to nine.
superior; six to seven, good;
five or less. poor.
l. Didactic: ta) poetic; (b) en-
tertaining: (c) instructive; ID
pertaining to diets.
2. Quixotic: (a) swift; (b) in
sane; (c) practical; (d) roman
tically idealistic.
3. Pariah: (a) father; (b) an
outcast; Co an ancient; I'D a
foreigner.
4. Foment: ta) to extinguish;
(b) to smooth out; (c) to insti-
gate; Cd to make bubble-like.
5. Persif1age: (a) light raillery:
OBJ disguise; (c) anger; Cd
thermal measurement.
6. Truculent: (a) portable;
ID amiable; (c) stiffiy formal:
Id flercely resentful.
Z. Potable: (a) drinkable: (b)
easily transportable: Co elemen-
tary; Id poisonous.
8. Banal: "a vivid: (b) imag-
NATIVE; tc) varicolored: Id
hackneyed.
8. Soporif1c: (a) sweat-induc-
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III AND LOIS
DR.. GUY BENNETT
MUTT AND JEFF
Answers to Our Presidents

Richard Milhous Nixon
was born In Yorba Linda. Calf,
on January Q, 1918, in the closing
days of William Howard Taft's
administration.
2-Presi dent Franklin D.
Roosevelt left Washington for
Miami January 8, l94S. en- route
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ing; (b) unusually swift; (c)
sleep-inducing; Id unusually
torpid.
10. Desultory: (a) dreary: (b)
designing; Co skipping out; I'D
lonely.
Answers
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Milford chronicle., 1957-06-28
MILFORD CHRONICLE MILFORD DELAWARE FRIDAY. JUNE D. 1857

were 16 nays, three not voting, and
six absent.
Early Tuesday morning the Sem
ate approved bill that would
grant an across-the-BOard increase
of $50 a month to many beneficial
ries of the State Employees Pension
Plan.
Sponsored by Senator McCul-
Tough, this proposal (SB 23D had
been defeated earlier in the day.
But when its sponsor came through
with an anne ndment assuring that
no benefits would exceed $3.50 a
month the Senate voted unanimous
approval.
The Senate amended a bill pro-
viding for salary and staff increas-
es in the State Department of Pub
lie Welfare and sent it back to the
House. The amendment, handed up
by Senator HOey, appropriates
S79 900 in the coming fiscal year
and $4,000 the following year to
provide $500 across-the-board an
nual increases for members of the
agency's staff.
In its original form, the bill
Milford chronicle., 1957-06-28

sharply reduced at this time and
supplemented, If necessary, when
the Assembly returns in January
The result was Senator Hoey,s
introduction of a $6,765,O00 school
construction BILL This was the
measure the Budget Committee
chairman called up for a vote.
Senator Calvin r. Mccullough Cd
Holloway Terrace) quickly added
an amendment reducing the total
outlay to $5.1S5.OO
There followed a bitter exchange
between Senator Hoey and, Senator
Wilmer F. Williams (R-RoseIle)
who charged that TIE bill left out
programs that had been agreed
upon for the Marshallton and Al
fred /. DUPONT School Districts.
Senator Williams got the privilege
of the floor for Rep. Harry Lam
bert fD-Cranston Heights), a MEM
ber of the MarshalIton board. who
said he understood that it was
agreed at a conference with Gov.
]. Caleb Boggs to include Mar
shallton in the altered bill.
Senator Hoey denied knowledge
OF any such agreement, and refused
to hold back roll call to give time
for preparation Of an amendment.
In the upshot, Senator Williams
and Minority Leader Thomas L.
Johnson (R-Rehoboth Beach, yot-
ed against the bill and Senators Ell
wood F. Nelson, Jr. (R-CiGymont)
and Clifford Pryor (D-Blackbird) }
went on record as not voting.
This left the bill with only 10
approving votes-three less than
it required and Senator Hoey
firmly rejected the idea of chang
ing his vote for purposes of re-
consideration.
From there on out. the Senate
was at virtually a standstill al
though it confirmed some appoint
ments in executive session and
passed few less important mea-
sures.
AS the hours dragged by, more
and more members dragged them
selves away, to bed. Senate Majori-
ty Leader John E. Reilly (D-Wil-
mington), who returned for the
night session after a two-month
absence following surgery in which
so per cent of his stomach was re-
moved, stayed on the job till about
5 a. m.
Meanwhile, the House worked
itfully away, defeating nearly as
many measures as it passed.
1t gave the Boggs Administra-
tion another setback by turning
down the Weights and Measures
Bill, which was approved by the
Senate several months ago.
Another of the. bills defeated by
the House. at about a. M, would
have permitted the Highway Com
mission to fix the salary of the
chief engineer of the Highway De-
partment-a matter now set by law.
The House also turned back a
bill sponsored by Mr.. QUigley
which would permit the Governor
to appoint two deputy judges for
the Family Court of the State of
Delaware for New Castle County.
Also sent down to another de-
feat by the House 1t had been
Milford chronicle., 1957-06-28

whipped last Tuesday-was the
measure which would give the ND
per court judges across the board
increases of $4,000 each.
Whipped for the fourth time was
the measure which would increase
the salary of the custodian of the
Legislative Hall and other state
buildings from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year.
The House put another face on a
bill creating a State Board of Elec-
trical Examiners; this measure,
defeated in the lower chamber
many times in recent years, was
okayed and sent on its way to the
Governor.
During the last spate of business
in the House the representatives
defeated mes IRE (H-366) to raise
the salaries O. state officers, in
cluding the ssate auditor, the in
surance commissioner and the
state treasurer.
This bill was called up by Rep
/ Sherman w. Tribbitt (D-Odessa). !.
Even as amended, with cuts in the
original which would have raised
/ the elective officers from $4,000 to
] SO 900 a year, the ball got nowhere.
Even an amendment to the mea-
sure permitting the state to sup
port the proposed ferry betw cen
Lewes and Cape May (S-240l did
no good.
( This bill. sponsored by Senator
Hoey and other senators, passed
i the upper chamber last Tuesday
by vote of Ia to l.
Monday night, it received only
three votes as the House warmed
up. There were IL nays, IL not
voting, four absent, and four mem
bers answering present.
The amendment, sponsored by
Mr.. Snowden, would have given
the state a much stronger btrgain-
ing position with New Jersey in
refinancing- the Delaware Memorial
Bridge.
The amendment was accepted.
And it appeared for few minutes
that approval of the amendment
would pave the way for affirmative
action by the House. But this was
not the case.
The dog racing bill, sponsored
by Senator Allen J. Cook (D-Hart-
1y), had passed the Senate on the
18th. What it would do would be to
permit the licensing of dog racing
in the state, with the appointment
of a commission to be named by
the Governor to supervise the sport
Earlier. before the dinner recess.
| Quigley had lifted this measure IS
1867 out of the private corpora
tions committee by way of a petit
ton. The petition was signed by "a
members. of the House, indicating
at that time that the bill Itself.
requiring a simple majority of IS
votes, would pass.
When Mr.. Quigley-who will be
remembered as the principal spon-
sor of similar legislation in the last
session-called it UP for action the
indications of, passage were as
wrong as ticket on a horse that
runs fourth on fiat track.
Senate Bill 336 received only 10
of the IS. necessary votes. There
Milford chronicle., 1957-06-28

(HB 36S) all,ecated funds for seal
ed increases AID for the addition
of rev pers0nnel.
Also defeated was a proposal
that would have urged Congress
TO reconsider agreements and
treaties which require some Uni
ted States servicemen to be tried
in foreign courts.
This item went down with only
eight of the nine votes needed af-
ter Senator Nelson wondered aloud
if the General Assembly wasn't
"Straying pretty far afield'' by try
ing to make foreign policy recon-
mendations. Also voting against
the bill were Senators Pryor aEs5
Sseen while Senator Tulls wes::ts oS
record as not voting.
Milford chronicle., 1957-06-28
GUIDANCE CENTER

MILWAUKEE, = (Pp = A 12-
year-old boy was found sitting pa
tiently in the waiting room of the
police department detective bu-
reau.
When asked what he wanted. the
youngster replied: I'm running
away from homo and need a map
TO plan my route"
Milford chronicle., 1957-06-28
BY GUM

DAYTON. Ohio - Up - A raid
on king-size cookie jar by a
gang of 30 hungry boys didn't quite
come eff Police saie the boys
broke into the Sunshine Biscuit
Company and hauled away three
large boxes of what they thought
were cookies.
The boxes, however, contained
gummed labels.
Milford chronicle., 1957-06-28

No ham actor is Meggi 0'Day. 2
leghorn hen who laid an egg every
day for more than 200 days at Rut-
gers University in New Jersey.
College officials turned down an
offer to put her in a television
show.
Milford chronicle., 1957-06-28
Washington
Leffer
TALKS AGAIN AT PANMtJNIOM

TALKS AGAIN AT PANMUNJOM
! this time to ask the Chinese
Reds if we can bring in new wea-
pons. too. as they have done in
violation of the armistice of near
ly four years ago. While we are
talking, we might ask the Reds
about the 400 American CT pris-
opeSs that General Van Fleet has
said are still alive. But the State
Department. which has banned
new weapons of nuclear capability
for Korea, might think it impolite.
Milford chronicle., 1957-06-28

The beauty about youth is its
faith and confidence the two
worthwhile possessions of the hu-
man race.
Milford chronicle., 1957-06-28

Driving courteously and exhibit
ing good manners will do more to
cut highway accidents than the
traffic regulations.
, 1957-08-20
NEW

4NA w
toll of hundreds Of skilled workers
who have been trained in the Is
lands vocational schools. Over
$4,000 feet of tunnels have been
bored through the mountains to
bring irrigation to the desolate
Valley. Already there are $500
acres Of land under cultivation
with sugar cane and other crops.
The first three stages of the pro-
iect that will get water from the
principal irrigation system will
cover 1900 acres. The other two
stages consist of about 1900 acres
of land for irrigation, utilizing the
water pumping systems. Irriga-
ton services, therefore, will be
available for $4,000 acres of land.
The Guanica Lagoon will also
be dried and land is being pre-
, 1957-08-20

F.B.I. -.
away, with intent to steal, a box
of 81 drinking glasses belonging
to the Chief Petty Officers Club,
u. S. Naval Station, San Juan.
Doyle advised that Luke is a
resident Of Barrio Buenos Aires,
Santurce, is single, and has been
employed as a driver in connec-
ton with a construction project
on the US. Naval Station.
Luke was arraigned before the
US. Commissioner, Ramon C.
Julia, on August II, 1857, and was
remanded to the San Juan Dis
trict Jail in lieu of $4,000 bond,
according to Doyle.
, 1957-08-20

material.
At Kent House, Miss Sparks
will be engaged mainly in French
English translations, but will as
sist, when necessary, with the
Commissions Spanish language
demands.
Miss Sparks replaces Julian
Henderson, who recently resigned
to take up a similar post with the
United Nations.
, 1957-08-20
NEW YORK

ing taxes, visiting clubs share
and leagues share. No rent for
World Series, all star or charity
games; the Giants will guarantee
to pay $125,00O rental; if the sta
dunn won't be ready by 1858 the
city will contract to lease the
present Seal stadium.
, 1957-08-20
FORMER

v and later becoming an edi-
torial assistant in the Technical
Publications Section.
In 1854, Miss Sparks left WHO
10 become an Assistant Editor
Translator with the Economic
Commission for Latin America, in
Santiago, Chile. She rejoined
WHO, on invitation, in April 1856,
serving with the. title of Editor
with responsibility for editing
technical articles and monographs
on subjects within WHO'S spheres
of interest, translating French
texts and coordinating English
translations with French and
Spanish originals. She also wrote
reviews a n d other publicity
, 1957-08-20

pared or hat site for cultivation.
It covers over 5000 additional
acres.
, 1957-08-20

CHRSTIANSTED THEATRE
THE HOUSE OF GOOD PICTURES
Tuesday, Aug. 20 Triple Feature:
THE FLOATING DUTcHMAN
Dermot Walsh Mary Germaine Sydney Taller
OF BROADWAY CTechl
Mitzi Gaynor Scott Brady
"a Damon unyon Story
Chapter 6 of DESERT AGENT
Wednesday, Aug. q sUcEDIO EN- ACAPULCO Spanish
Martha Roth Raul MARTINEZ
Thursday, Aug. % DAVY CROCKETT (Technicolor)
Fess Parker : Buddy Ebsen
walt Disneys story of the greatest of Frontiersmen)
Saturday, Aug. "a Triple Feature:
THE BLACK HILLS EXPRESS
Alan Rocky Lane
ADVENTURES OF SADIE Technicolorl
Joan Collins George Cole Kenneth Moore
Robertson Hare
Chapter 7 Of DESERT E
Sunday, Aug. Is
THE SEA CHASE (CinemaScope & WarnerColor)
John Wayne Lana Turner
~aFw
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-08
BY PHIL YEAGER and
JOHN STARK

Alfred Hitchcock. movie
dom's master of suspense. has
created a short TV drama in
volving a 20-year-old hoodlum
arrested on charges Of robbery
and assault. The youth is a
psychological case who enjoys
the limelight of the police
lineup and. while admitting he
robbed a candy store and hit
its aged proprietor over the
head with a gun. he makes
continuous wisecracks to his
interrogators.
At the last minute the hood
lum learns the proprietor has
died from his injuries. Scream
ing protestations OF his inno-
cence, that he never intended
to kill the old man. the
youngster is hauled away by
police and booked for murder.
This doesn't happen only in
TV dramas.
Just a few days ago 2l-year-
old Donald Ware was sentenced
TO 100 years in prison by Judge
Edward B. Casey in Chicago
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-08

Monday: A mans post wronedoins
comes boei 10 haunt him l. his
doush,s.
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FAMOUS FABLES

AGE: During his first years on
the concert stage. Pianist
Vladimir Horowitz found his
youthful appearance an an
noyance. Although he was a
mature artist. in years and
ability. he vas frequently re-
ferred to as a boy wonder.
One morning after a firing
week. Horowitz awoke early to
keep an appointment at the
photographers. AS he was
dressing. a friend called to see
him. He took one look at the
pisnist's drawn face and ex-
claimed.
What's happened to you?
You can't have your picture
taken in this condition. You
have bags under your eyes!"
Il do?" said Horowitz. Good
Maybe now I'll look my age"
AUDIENCE: During his
vaudeville days, Comedian Fred
Allen played to a Cleveland
audience that sat on its hands
throughout the act.
When he returned to his
dressing room, a fellow per-
former asked:
How did 1t go. Fred' Did
you kill them2"
NO said Allen. They
we're dead when I got there"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-08
How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
The Man Who Quit Worryino
By DR.. PETER J. sTElNcRoHN

as I have. You will never know
how much you have helped me.
just had to get this out of
my system after reading your
fine columns. May God give
you life to live and write so
that you can continue to help
people understand the proper
way Of life. Yours truly, Mr..
C. H. v.
DOCTORS COMMENT
Now, isn't that a sweet let
ter? OF course. I am referring
especially to the last two para
graphs. Thank you for your
well wishes and blessings, Mr..
C. H. v. You have learned we'll
this important lesson: It's bet
ter to pass out the bouquets of
praise and appreciation to the
living rather than to the dead.
Better late than never" ap-
plies to any improvement we
can make in our way Of life.
It took you many years to
learn that worry is often an
unnecessary burden. Some of
US carry it on our backs
through life as If we had a
sack of potatoes tied to our
neck.
As you say, It's the simple
pleasures that mean so much.
I hope your letter makes a few
of your neighbors sit up and
take notice. Perhaps they'll at
last get down to the real busi-
ness Of living-and not worry
ing their lives away.
released By Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
Monday: Sitting out" q pain in
Ala la~ar sa.a~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-08
READERS LETTER

Dear DR.. Steincrohn: I am
81 years old. I am retired now.
used to work at the Such
and-Such" auto works here
around Detroit. I was a fore
man and the men were hard to
handle. Many of the other
foremen were having heart at
tacks and strokes: even if we
got our department out Of the
red the higher-ups would come
to raise the tasks on the job;
they would not let you keep
your department in the black.
I got so i was shaking like a
leaf and caught myself making
funny noises. I stopped in the
middle of it one afternoon and
said to myself: II am killing
myself over this darn job. To
heck with it. From this minute
on l will never worry again"
And to this day I have never
worried
I never fretted any more or
ran around like a screwball try
ing to please everybody. In
this life. some people like you
and some don'tl I am writing
this letter to prove to your
readers that worrying can be
stopped. I am proud of the fact
that I haven't worried in years.
And I've had good reason to.
My wife is one of those women
who Is difficult to please, no
matter how hard you try. It's
just nag, nag from morning
to night. Until she gets so all
in she has to 60 to bed! But
in the last few years I've even
been able to overcome this. /
simply will not worry.
My wife is a nice woman, but
she has done everything con-
ceivable to make me worry and
fret. But now that she realizes
that I won't let anything worry
me think that she is coming
around to my way of thinking.
Life is too short to make it
unnecessarily complicated.
There's too much in life to
enjoy: eating. a bottle Of beer,
sports and sitting under a tree
in the summertime.
DR.. Steincrohn, your writing
is so true to life. I hope your
other readers take it to heart
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-08

alikes. Each had q rain she's
over the front door: each had
q weedy back yard and a rain
spout sticking in q barrel. To
the east, the atomic energy
plant looked like q cereal fac
tory in q rolling wheat field.
+
THE BRIGHT WORLD OF
THE DOCTOR was assembling
in slow motion. He did not
know. for example. that. as
he stared at the blackboard
and through the window, that
there was a man across the
hall in another Office, watch
ing him. This was Wing Com
mander Henry Arnold. chief
security officer at Harwell.
The wing commander was a
flftyish British gentleman. He
was standing on a desk in
darkness looking across the
hall and down at Klaus Fuchs.
The Wing Commander liked
Klaus. He had invited the doc
tor to his housewarming. He
had noted many things about
this German scientist: that he
could play on a floor with chill
dren, but he was abrupt with
adults: that he liked the COM
pany Of women but seemed to
be ashamed of it and met them
secretly: that he was a
martinez in his department
and was prone to "tick of" a
scientist who had made an
error, but he worried inordi-
nately when one Of his men
was i'll.
The doctor sat thinking for
a long time. He had known
that his friend, the Wing Com
mander, had been his enemy
all along. The Wing Com
mander had not known that
Fuchs was the enemy at
Harwell. Comdr. Arnold's
worry about Fuchs. up until
now, had been that, now that
the war was over, the doctor
might flee to Germany with
atomic secrets.
FUCHS WAS THINKING
about the many trips he had
made to London to meet a So
Wet courier. When he had been
in the United States. he had
rendezvoused with Harry Gold
for the same purpose. How
many times he had stood on
the platform at Didcot. outside
Of Harwell. waiting for the
train to take him so miles to
London: how many times he
had slipped a small Italian
coffee while waiting. thinking,
thinking, thinking Of what he
was about to do.
The doctor stood in his Office
and yanked the light cord.
The time for thinking was
over. The Russians had the
bomb. The British had him.
Let Skardon come up from
London once more. The doctor
would confess.
Copyright 1857.
Kings Features Syndicate, Inc,)
Monday: Deoth comes 10 oseor, the
pet turtle OF q boy.
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Rita RI am trying to help
my younger sister who is max
ing a big mistake, I feel. in re-
lation to her married life.
When she and her husband
married five years ago, he had
a very low-paying job. She
continued working and saving
and finally was able to borrow
enough money to open a small
business. Since then she has
been working like a dog to build
up the business. Her husband
isn't lazy, but he leaves the
biggest responsibilities to her.
My sister is nearly 30 and
it is time she started having a
family, but she says 1t will take
few more years for the bust
ness to provide a good living
for them. I think she is max
ing her husband much too de-
pendent on her.
Phyllis d. can't see what's
wrong with a woman's helping
out with the financial burden il
she can do it. / know I've had
a lot Of satisfaction out OF
building UP this business. In
the end we will have something
really worthwhile.
My husband is not the kind
of man who just wants to live
off his wife's earnings. He is
intelligent and Woodworking,
but he lacks courage, initiative
agRressiveness. He would get
nowhere II l didn't give him a
bit of a lift. II I can succeed
in really setting him on his
feet. l know he'll be able to
carry on from there.
OF course, / didn't want to
put of raising a family quite
so long, but I feel / am work.
ing for the future happiness of
a family.
THE COUNCILS VIEW
we certainly wouldn't out
kw "a womans helping out
With the financial burden II
she can do It," but when Ia
help and how much and Tor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-08
LAW IN THE NEWS
FeIons May Wind Up
Unwilling Murderers

criminal court. Ware was in
much the same boat. While at
tempting to rob a patron Of q
West Side tavern last May he
shot and killed his victim. Ware
had no initial plan to kill any,
one, but he was convicted Of
murder Just the same.
Rule Sums II Up
What all this adds up to is
something the lawyer call the
"murder-felony" rule. 1t is a
good thing to remember and
what it means is this:
Where a larger crime results
from the intent to commit a
lesser one. guilt shall attach to
both. In other words. II an un-
planned killing takes place dur
ing a robbery. rape. arson. bur-
glary. etc.-the charge in re-
gard to the killing is not man.
slaughter or accidental homi-
eide: 1t is murder.
This is one Of the exceptions
to the general rule that there
can be no murder without an
intent to commit one.
Suppose some underworld
gang makes careful plans to rob
a bank. In order to avoid the
possibility Of killing anyone,
even by accident, they decide to
use toy guns. They pull off the
Job as planned. reach their get
away car. and as they roar
away. their car strikes and kills
a pedestrian.
Murder Charge Likely
While laws vary widely, this
too, is apt to be murder. The
gang killed. quite unintention-
ally. while committing a felony
But it is liable for the more
severe penalty.
Moreover. the law usually
considers everyone taking part
in the planned crime to be
equally guilty with the one who
pulls the trigger or drives the
car. Some may escape with
lighter sentences, depending or
the circumstances, but they are
not likely to escape the conse-
quences of the killing.
sundoy; Don't spors the rod. on'
wind up in court.