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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-10-02
Entertainment

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Glotfelty and Miss Johanna Ma
gaia, foods.
Grantsville firemen under Henry
burst, chief, will assist in park
ing cars. Jonas Mckenzie, presi-
dent of the Grantsville Rotary, said
his club members would assist in
paying premiums Saturday eve
ming Mrs. H. G.. Gortner and Mrs
Robert Dewitt will assist North
ern students with exhibits and
bookkeeping.
A high powered deer rifle, a
boys or girls bicycle and a SYM
phonic hi-fi record player will be
given away Saturday evening
There will be door prizes each
evening.
The Schoolarama is sponsored
by the Cove Chapter, Future
Farmers of America. Admission is
set at 10 cents per person. Admis-
sion to the two entertainments in
the gymnasium will be so and 25
cents.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-10-02

Franklin Clay Jones, 27, laborer,
and Deloris Ann Warner, l6, par
cnt's CONSENT both Parsons, w.
Va.
Herbert Ernest Morgan, q, U. S.
air force, Island, Oregon, and Lii
liam Mae Hughes, 49, Dilliner, Pa.
Donald Lee Matthews, %, meat
cutter, near Independence, w. Va,
and Mary Kathryn Ford, q, Graf
ton, w. Va.
Charles Leonard Hyson, q, U. S.
air force, and Betty Mae Price, 10,
both Morgantown, w. Va.
Eugene Wade Root 25, Mt. Lake
Park, Md, and Frances Louise
Jamison, IS, Deer Park, Md
George Glenn Greenawalt, 81,
bar tender. and Ethel Constance
Engle, 43, both near Mahaffey, Pa.
Charles Frederick Woods 81 la
borer, and Rcba Pearl Clevenger,
Is, both Confluence, Pa.
John Joseph Coyle, 50, superin-
tendent of highways and Blanche
Louise Wilson, SO, both Carnegie,
Pa.
Ariel Allen Felix, 20, parents
-00Scrt - & armv, Gassaway, w.
Va, and Barbara Ann Tingler, Is,
Sutton, w. Va.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-10-02
Assigned As Recruiter

Technical Sergeant Lawrence A.
Junkins, Jr., was recently assigned
to recruiting duty as MOO in charge
of the recruiting sub-station at
NorristoWn, Pa. He is now residing
in that area with his wife, Marie
R. Junkins His parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lawrence A. Junkins, ST.,
live at Sunnyside, near Red House
Sergeant Junkins was assigned to
the Marine corps engineer school
at Camp LeJeune, N. c., prior to
his attending recruiters school at
Paris Island, S. c. He is a veter-
an of fifteen years of service in
the U. S. Marine corps, having
served in the Pacific area during
World War II and more recently
having returned from a fourteen
months tour of duty in Korea.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-10-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Neel, Bayard.
Miss Viola Soldiers visited Miss
Josephine Terrant Sunday after
noon.
Monday evening dinner guests
of the Childs families were Mr..
and Mrs Lee Jacobs, of Cleveland,
and Mrs. Argyle Childs.
Lawrence Cook has returned to
his home in Abba, Iowa, after
spending his vacation with his
friends, Mrs. Freda Knots and
sons, David and Ross.
Sunday afternoon visitors of the
Lee Ritchies were Mr.. and Mrs.
Arvey Richie and daughters. Eve
ming visitors were Mr.. and Mrs.
Dale Evans and SON
Sunday visitors of the Clifford
REALS we're Mr.. and Mrs Kenneth
Roy and Miss Shirley Liller. At
ternoon visitors we're Mr.. and Mrs.
Porter Jordan and Mr. and Mrs
Carroll Deem and children.
Mrs. Anna Hardesty called on
the Howard Cosners, Monday af-
ternOOn.
Saturday evening visitors of Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Moon were Mr.
and Mrs. John Gordon and chill
dren and Marshall Simmons and
daughters, Madaline and Brenda,
of Warren, o.
Mrs. Nora Yutzy, Oakland, visited
Mrs. Isabel Alternately, on Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Childs Wis
tied Mr. and Mrs. William Bittinger
Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Knots, Ak
ron, were guests of Mrs. Freda
Knots and family last Sunday.
Mrs. Mae Cooper called on Mrs.
Lucy Warsaw on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Livesay and
son, Shawn, are spending this
week with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs Frank Blamble.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Bittinger
and son Wayne Allen, visited her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil Han
lin, Saturday evening.
Miss Patricia Ann Cosner, Wash
ingtOn, d. c., spent the weekend
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Howard COsner.
On Monday. Mrs. Ottie Shu-
maker and Mrs. Zela Cosner Wis
tied Mrs. Rose Wilson. Tuesday
visitors were Mr.. and Mrs L. E.
Rightmyer, Mt Lake Park, and
Mrs Nora Yutzy, Oakland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Jacobs, Cleve-
land, spent Monday and Tuesday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Childs
Mrs Anna Hardesty was a Fri
Gay evening dinner guest of the
Edward Moons.
Mrs. John Moreland spent Mon
day with Mrs. Virginia Bittinger
Mrs. Alice Knots was a dinner
guest of Mrs. Freda Knots, on
Tuesday.
Mrs Rose Wilson and daughter,
Mrs. Alice Sellars, are leaving
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-10-02
Red Oak-Fairv;ew

Sunday morning worship service
at Fairview was conducted by Paul
Dewitt, substituting for Pastor
Matthews, who is on vacation. His
theme, THE Light
The Heart Sisters club of Fair
view will meet at the home of Mrs.
Elmer Soldiers, October 10, at
/. m.
Friday overnight guests of Mrs.
Kosclla Harvey and Mr.. and Mrs.
T. ay Harvey we're Mr.. and Mrs.
Mark Thompson and son Albert,
and friend Ronnie MCGEE, all of
Delaware.
Nr. and Mrs. Warren DelSignore
and daughters visited Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Coleman and family, of
Thomas, on Sunday.
Gilbert Blamble is a surgical pa
tiCnt in Potomac Valley hospital,
KCvSCr.
Sunday visitors of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Gordon we're Mr.. and Mrs.
Alvin Lee and sons, Oakland.
Mir. and Mrs. Frank Childs spent
Sunday afternoon with their SON
ina and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Gnegy.
Mrs. Harold Bachtel and twin
sons. Ricky and Randy, spent We'd
nosday with her parents, MIR. and
Mrs. Boyd Warsaw
"Wednesday visitors of Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Gibbs we're Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Gibbs, of Thomas, and Mr..
and Mrs. Douglas WARDROBE, OF
Cokcton.
Sunday visitors of Mrs. Rose Will
son and Mrs. Alice Sellars were
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Valentine,
Parsons: Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Hyer, Morgantown; Mrs. Rosetta
Harvey and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Har-
vey; Mr.. and Mrs. O. S. Russell.
Millcreek; Mr.. and Mrs. June
Russell, Elkins; Mrs. Isabel Aber-
nathy,. and Jack Frost" who ar
rived carly Sunday morning and
vanished suddenly when the sun
appeared.
Larry Gordon, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Gordon, spent the
weekend with his grandparents,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-10-02
% Marriage Permits
Granted Past Week

TWenty-eight marriage licenses
were issued during the past week
ending Monday evening from the
office of Richard L. Davis. clerk of
the circuit court This brought the
total for September thus far to
1876.
Two licenses issued we're marked
don't publish
Richard Ward Parsons, %. U. S.
ali force, and Norma Lee Parsons,
81, both Hambleton w Va
Robert Ronald Richard Yohman,
%, labrorer. Filbert, Pa. and Max
inc Joann Kurta, 81, UniontoWn. Pa.
Howard Ray Stakeholder, 20. cleo
trician, UniOntOWn. Pa, and Sue
Ann Sechler, "a, Fairchance, Pa.
Richard Earl GaSchler, 10. par
ent's CONSENT and Mary Kathryn
Fuzzy, II, parents CONSENT Steu-
benville, O.
Chester Dale B0lyard. 20. tpar-
ents CONSENT laborer, and Norma
Lee Knots, IS, parents CONSENT
near Tunnelton. w. Va.
Jackie Gale Bland IS, parents
CONSENT laborer, Riverton, w. Va,
and Orma Glee Hedrick, IS, Mouth
of Seneca, w. Va.
Franklin Theodore Smith, 25. me-
chanic, Reedsville, w Va, and Lula
Belle Griffith, "a, near Grafton, w.
Va.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-10-02

a better understanding of news
papers and the vital role they
play in preserving the great Ameri-
can way Of life, which we cherish.
Newspaper Week was instituted
nationally in 1910, and is sponsored
annually by Newspaper Association
Managers, Inc, a nationwide organi-
cation of state, regional, and national
press association managers.
Your Newspaper-Guards Your
Freedoms!" is the theme for this
years 18th annual National News
paper Week observance.
Newspaper Week is one of the
more significant of the many spe-
cial weeks observed in this country.
1t is one which seemingly at first
glance is important to only one kind
of business, but actually it is Of
major importance to EVERY citizen.
Newspapers will call attention to
themselves in many ways during
this week to better familiariZe their
readers with their operation their
function, their purpose, their prob
lens, and their accomplishments.
But. Newspaper Week is not OBJ
served by the nations press neccs-
sarily as an occasion for indulgence
in self-praise, however.
Its primary purpose, of great sig
nifcance to the public. reflected in
the 1855 theme, Your Newspaper
Guards Your Freedoms
Thus, to keep National Newspaper
Week in proper perspective, the
newspapers of the nation in addi-
ton to telling their own story to
their millions of readers, will take
this opportunity to remind every
American how important and Won
derful il is to live in a land with a
FREE press. that freedom thrives
only in an informed nation. that
Free press is its voice,
Your Newspaper-Guards Your
Freedoms" is not just a high sound
ing slogan, either-it is an alert, and
challenge to each newspaper
reader, and each editor-as citizens
to continue to wage a relentless
battle, comparatively against ALL
enemies, foreign and domestic, to
keep Americas press FREE.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-10-02
District WSCS Meeting
Set For October 10th

The annual fall meeting of the
Moorefield district, Woman's Socie-
ty of Christian Service of the Metho-
dist church will be held Friday,
October 10, at the Methodist
church in Grantsville, beginning
at 10 o'clock standard time,
Miss Catherine Eye, a returned
missionary from Africa, now on
furlough, will speak. A memorial
service hOnoring deceased men,
bers, will be conducted Reserva-
tions are to be made through Mrs.
Z. Ray Jones.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-10-02
GLADES

Mrs. Robert o. Glotfelty enter
tanned the Bittinger Homemakers
club at her home on September "a.
Ten members we're present. Miss
Ethel Grove, home demonstration
agent, presented the demonstra-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Grove, Oak
land Mr.. and Mrs. Merle Garletts,
Friendsville, and MIR. and Mrs.
Emerson Bishoff, HOyes, visited at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Orval
Glotfelty, Monday night
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Brenneman
and family called on the Sherman
HareS, at Manadier Ridge, Sunday
evening.
Those visiting the Herman Opels,
Sunday were the Park Opels and
family, Shorty" Yoder and family
and the James Stephen family.
Mr.. and Mrs Melvin Beiler and
daughters, Mae Caruthers and
Kathryn, Sharon, Donald and Da-
vid took dinner with Mrs. Leah
Bethel Sunday
Allen and Ernest Brenneman as
sisted the Melvin Boilers to shock
corn on Monday.
Mrs. Harold Georg called on
Mrs Leah Bethel, Friday.
Nelson Orendorf was in Oak
land on business, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Orendorf and
Amanda Orendorf called on Mrs
Annie Orendorf and daughter SUI
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-10-02

Inc week OF OCTOBER 1 through 8
is National Newspaper Week. This
is the one time during the year
when the more than 10000 weekly
and daily newspapers of the ma
ton join hands, as group, and
make a concerted effort to promote
doesn't tell the student that there
are times when management is to
blame and other times when labor
leaders are to blame for violence
in strikes. According to this text,
management is always to blame.
1t is no surprise, therefore, to
find that this book also eXpounds
the wonders of government own
ership and management of cleo
trio poWer-With not word about
the money the government loses
when it runs power plants, money
it must collect from all taxpayers.
Then, to be sure the lesson is
pounded home, this book sends
the student for additional recon-
mended reading to a whole brace
of communist and procommunist
authors. Even on subject like
the tariff this book gives the stu
dent a completely one-sided pic
ture, illustrated with cartoons,
which leaves him with one notion
that all tariffs are wicked
Here's another high-school text
book which plugs for socialized
medicine 1t does not call it that,
of course, but it tells the student
how people in other countries get
free" medical service from the
government 1t omits completely
the story of the ever-rising costs
to the taxpayers in those coun-
tries, and the abuses and poor
quality of the service. In its effort
to get over this pet plank in the
modern socialists platform-so-
cialized medicinc-this textbook
even commits a gross inaccuracy,
1t says that public opinion polls
seems to Indicate that the Ameri-
can people want, implicitly, the
government to run their medical
services At the time this book
was written, there had been no
general poll taken on this subject.
But the student is left with the
idea that everybody is for social
lied medicine.
These are only a few examples,
which could be multiplied end
lessly. But these textbooks are
| one of the chief reasons why we
are having such a difficult time
getting our badly battered cOnsti-
tutional, free-enterprise republic
back into its American pattern
several generations of young
Americans have been spoonfed on
this left-wing claptrap and no long
er have any idea what the Ameri-
can Republic means.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-10-02
IN THE TRUNK

the one with Grannys
Observation-Disclosures stuff! That
bundle of old letters It's the
envelopes | would like to buy.
Particularly those used between
1845 and 1855. Should you have
any I'd be pleased to hear from
you. PAUL P. GLENN, Purchas-
er of old U. S. Stamps and
Envelopes, Spring Mount, Pa.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-10-02
Seniors Hold
Class Meeting

On Sept. 10, seniors at North
ern High school, at Cove, had their
first class meeting in the cafeteria
to select officers.
The officers are; Ethel Seibert
president; Roy Schlossnagle, vice
president; Sue Hershbcrger, secre-
tary; Martin Conn, treasurer; Lorei-
ia Edgar, historian.
The second class meeting of the
seniors was on Sept. "a Plans for
senior pictures were made.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-10-02
National Newspaper
Week Is October 1-8

The week of October l through 8
is National Newspaper Week. This
is the one time during the year
when the more than 10000 weekly
and daily newspapers of the ma
ton join hands, as a group, and
make a concerted effort to promote
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-10-02
The American WAY
Making Our Children
Little Socialists
By JOHN T. FLYNN

EDITORS NOTE: John L.
Flynn is a noted author, lecturer
and radio commentator
Have you a little socialist in
your home? That sounds like a
silly question, but it's one that
many parents are asking them
selves today. They are answering
it, too, and to their horror, the an
swer is often in the affirmative
The first sputnik of year ago
supposedly awakened us to our
educational systems deficiencies.
But it needed no sputniks to re-
veal to many troubled parents that
something cockeyed has been 60
ing on in our schools for a long
time.
For instance, countrywide
survey made among 5000 high
school students showed that 60
percent believe the profit motive
can be killed off without hurting
the American system Another
survey asked the kids: Who con-
tributes most toward improved
living Observation-Disclosures, gov
eminent, or union leaders, Gov
eminent and union leaders got
first and second place. Business
ran poor third.
In other words, great numbers
of high-School students, in many
places a ajority-emergc from
our public high schools with a
philosophy of life bearing a closer
resemblance to European social
ism-or even Russian communism
than to traditional American
thinking.
With the schools open again, its
a good time to ask how these kids
get this way. OF course, many in
fluences are brought to bear on
them during their school years.
But one of the most important
perhaps the most important-are
the textbooks from which they are
taught the subjects of history, So
cial science, government and
economics.
Let's get one thing straight
right away These books do not
teach communism-they do not
even teach Socialism-or at least
they don't call it socialism. This
is why it's been so difficult for the
average parent to trace down
what's been dOne-and is being
done-to his youngsters. The tech
nique used in these books is to
slyly and Sticky instill in the
student a dislike, even disrespect
for American history, traditions
and way of doing business. This
may be done deliberately in many
cases; unconsciously in others, by
authors who are themselves prod
ucts of the same kind of teaching.
But the net result is to inStill in
the student a tolerance, even a
love for having his life managed
by some big, fatherly government.
They teach him that businessmen
are mean, rapacious, grasping,
greedy, while politicians and labor
leaders are kindly, humane, al
ways thinking about the rights of
the downtrodden and the poor.
There's space to give only few
examples, but l assure you they
are not exceptions. On the con-
trary, they barely indicate the
kind of information your chill
dren are getting from majority
"a great majority-of the text
books used in our public schools
today
Here's one widely used in high
schools, which blames business
management for labor violence in
strikes Now. mind YOU. this book
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-10-02

Thursday for their home in Lees
burg, Fla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Moon and
son Ricky, we're Sunday dinner
guests of Mrs. Anna HardeSty.
Mrs. Flo Gnegy was a Friday
evening dinner guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. James ChildS.
Marshall Simmons and daugh-
tiers, Madaline and Brenda, of War
rem, o., spent the weekend with
his sister and family, Mr. and Mrs.
John Gordon, and with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Sim
mons.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-10-02

Maryland
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instrumental in getting for Maryland Contract for the
Office mailer S300000000
divided between Western firm and Eastern firm to
transportation Senator Be the Eastern business
BriddeII crisfed Maryland
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crsfd this week. Officials of the Post Office
their of the model
small Maryandmade into full production The
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Decor to Beal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-24
Senate Approves
Measure Spuring
Belmont House

The National Woman's Party
has won a bill, but not a prom
Use, from the Senate to save
historic Belmont House on Cap
itol Hill.
The House at Second street
and Constitution avenue NV
is headquarters for the party.
1t was specifically exempted
by the Senate from legisla-
ton cleared yesterday to allow
Congress to acquire surround
ing land in the block bounded
by First, Second and c streets
and Constitution avenue. I
If the bill passes both
Houses, it still does not pre-
clude future legislation provid-
ing for acquisition of the Bel
mont House site eventually
Senate Public Works Commit
tee Chairman Chavez, Demo-
crat of New Mexico. explained
yesterday.
Deletion of the Belmont
House, believed to be the Oldest
house in the District, from the
Senate-passed bill was the ma
jor Feature Of an amendment
adopted on the floor. Imminent
condemnation Of the house site
was averted by negotiations
between the amendment spon-
sor. Senator Hayden, Demo
crat Of Arizona, and the party
Senator Chavez explained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-24
BeuII Blocks
Museum on
Mall Site

Senator Beall. Republican of
Maryland, has blocked passage
of a bill to build a national air
museum on the Mall.
But his opposition may not
be permanent.
I'm all for the museum,
said Senator Beall. He explained
he merely preferred a Maryland
location at the College Park
airport in Prince Georges
County.
The Mall museum measure
was expected to sail through
the Senate yesterday afternoon
on the unanimous consent cal
endar. AS its number was called,
however, Senator Hruska, Re-
publican Of Nebraska. objected
He was speaking for Senator
Beall. who was out of town.
Reached by telephone, Sena-
tor Beall said he wanted the
proposal debated on the floor
His own bill authorizing con-
struction Of the museum at the
privately-owned airport. along
with a twin bill sponsored by
Representative Landlord, DEM
ocrat of Maryland, IT the
House, has almost been lost in
the shuttle of a Senate COM
mittee compromise on the Mall
museum.
The Mall bill was recon-
mended strongly by the Sen
ate Public Works Committee.
Both Senators Chavez and
Anderson, Democrats of New
Mexico. reminded the Senate
that committeeman had settled
on a Mall location for the
museum after shifting the site
OF a cultural center, also pro-
posed for the Mall, to Foggy
Bottom.
AS it went to committee, the
museum bill was tied to the
cultural center measure. Com
mitteemen separated the two
bills with the two separate
sites. The cultural center pro-
posal already has cleared the
Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-24
Animal Farm Gets Shipment: These
Are More Unusual Than Others
By JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Star stan Writer

One Of the largest shipments
of rare animals to reach the
Washington area in recent
years arrived from Singapore
today at Lowry Riggs animal
farm near Rockville, Md.
The shipment included:
Ten giant-size lizards from
Malaga, all of them more than
six feet long.
Four Binturongs, or East In
dian bearcats, Of which one is
an extremely rare white mu-
tant.
Two adjutant storks-not-
able because they are not only
bald, the whole top of their
heads is simply bare skull.
A baby leopard tame as a
kitten and an equally tame
hyena who runs on a leash
like a dog.
A one-year-old Orang Outan
from the East Indies who eats
life-savers.
Two cocoanut eating crabs
who do with their claws what
| it would take you half an hour
to accomplish with a machete.
The shipment also included
nine pythonS. Mr.. Riggs said
he wasn't sure how long these
monster snakes are because
they arrived in a giant tangle
in one box like a bowl of king
sized macaroni.
Four appealing little Malayan
sunbears, some civetS and q
small convention of monkeys
rounded out the shipment.
Mr.. Riggs, whose whip-Poor-
Will animal farm is located on
Route %, the Jamestown road
6 miles out of Rockville, said
the big shipment was eight
months shaping up at Singa-
pore. The creatures arrived in
New York by ship over the week
end and he picked them up
in PHILADELPHIA Yesterday.
On the truck ride down from
Philadelphia, Mr.. Riggs rode
with the young orang outan on
his lap. The trip cost Mr.. Riggs
nearly a whole package of Life
Savers. 1t takes the little man
Of the forest half an hour to
eat one.
He said he has been in the
animal collecting business for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-24
SEND A KID TO CAMP
Outing Would Widen
Boys Cromped World

Because their mother was
never allowed to play with other
children when she was a child,
John and James we're denied
playmateS. The 8 and 9 year
old youngsters were forced to
play in their own yard, stay in
their own house.
When tight financies forced
the family in with other rela-
tives, the woman of the house
there had different ideas about
raising children. She talked
their mother into letting them
associate with other children in
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. had to
keep her eye on them to break
up the scraps they got into be-
cause they knew nothing about
getting along with others.
The boys finally are begin
ming to get the knack Of getting
along and are starting to come
out Of the shells their mother
tailored for them. Little James
has improved in school since
his circle of friends was wild
ened.
They have never been to
camp. There is no pool nearby
Camp offers all the freedom
and fun they have missed to
date. Your contribution to The
Evening Star Summer Camp
Fund will send them there.
The following contributions
are acknowledged today: