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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-10
JIM BISHOP:
REPORTER
Coal Mine Town Fiqhts for Life

It's not really a ghost town.
There are few empty houses.
No deserted streets. But it
does have an eerie atmos-
phere. Men stand in front of
service stations and bars and
sit on the railing in front of
the high school. They still
have money for food and
nightly beer. AS each day
passes their hopes dwindle.
NINETEEN MONTHS with
out work is a long time. What
is a man to do when the
product he has been produc-
ing is passing from the Amer
lean scene and the place
where he has worked has
closed it's books and its doors?
Men in the small eastern
Pennsylvania coal mining
town of Nesquehoning have
been asking themselves that
question since December 81,
1857. A year or so earlier their
anthracite coal mine closed
when its owners we're no Ion
ger able to make a profit.
But a community minded
local family reopened the
mine.
All went well for awhile.
Then coal sales dropped and
the announcement was made
that the new owners couldn't
make a go of it either. The
work force of nearly 1000
men hoped and prayed for
another angel" But none
flew by.
The men rushed to the I'M
employment insurance Office
as they have done so many
times in pre-war and post
war years. Their checks
were due to expire several
times. Each time the State
and Federal Governments
stepped in and extended the
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period. Now the dreaded
time has arrived. No more
checks.
Several new road construc-
ton projects are under way
within driving distance. Long
lines form in front of each
place where help wanted"
signs are hung. The lines
form many hours before the
hiring Office is opened. Road
construction projects need
only so many men. Younger
miners and their families
have moved to New Jersey,
New York, Delaware and
Maryland where employment
is more plentiful.
The older men won't move.
Their roots are deep. When
a man reaches SIS. SO or 81
he's too young to retire and
not old enough to collect a
pension or social security.
Most in this age group are in
excellent health and can do
a full, productive days work.
They have spent most of
their lives with a pick and
shovel or some piece of
heavy machinery in their
hands.
The tools are rusty now.
Huge trucks which once car
ried tons of rock and coal
lean to one side with fiat
tires. Small wooden rail
cars, built to carry coal over
narrow-gauge tracks, are
lined up for miles. Open
strip mining pits are fading
from over-exposure to the
sun, the rain and the snow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-10
FEATURE Rcs
How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
Use of ~. Cards Foreseen
By DR.. PETER }. sTEINcRoHN

I'd like to make a pre-
diction: The day is not far
off when every man, woman
and child in the United
States will be required to
carry an II. card (illness
observation-disclosures any other
name you want to give it.
Your child may not like
the idea of vaccination-but
he can't get into school I'M
less he has been vaccinated.
You may think it's Senseless
always to have your drivers
license with you-whether
you're driving or not-but
you carry it for emergency
use. So it will be with the
II. card.
HEALTH ISN'T ONLY
your own personal problem;
it is also your Governments.
You have only to look around
you to be sure of that: Pub
lie health officers, free clinics,
mobile X-ray examinations
and health regulations that
affect every one of us. Other
wise, typhoid, tuberculosis,
the doctor was away fishing
tious and contagious dis
eases would have decimated
most of us long ago.
That being so, an illness
Identification card is, I think,
a necessity. You should
carry it in your wallet next
to your drivers license.
Sometimes your life may
depend upon it.
Suppose you have diabetes
and are out of town. For some
reason you have become care
less with your diet and your
insulin dosage. You go into
diabetic coma.
Without a history, the doc
tors have to go through a
rigamarole of tests to find
your trouble. They have to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-10

make sure-even when they
learn you are diabetic-
whether your unconscious
ness is due to too much inSu-
lin rather than too little. A
peek at your I. I. card would
set them on the right track
without loss of valuable time.
l RECALL a patient Of
mine who, while visiting out
of town, took too large a dose
of insulin. He had commissions
and went into coma. His case
resembled a cerebral hemor-
rhage.
Fortunately. the doctors
picked up the phone to make
a long distance call and get
his past history. 1t wasn't
until then that they suspect
ed he was diabetic. They i'm
mediately gave him sugar So
luton intravenously and he
was brought back from GER
tain death.
I have seen allergic pa
tients almost die after get
ting a shot" of medicine.
The doctor would not have
administered it if he had
known there was a history of
allergy. Some patients can't
take penicillin, morphine, CO.
define, tetanuS Shots-or even
an aspirin tablet.
That information should
all be down on an Illness
Identification card. Even
though patients are con-
sciouS, they often forget to
warn the doctor of their
idiosyncracies.
I'd like to believe that
forces will soon go into
action to make an 1. I. card
a reality.
Released by the Bell Syndicate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-10
HAVE QUESTION:?

N. A. H.: Most Of the Der
rydale Press books command
high prices among lovers of
sporting books. Your Gordon
Grand's first Derrydale edi-
ton of THE Silver Horn"
New York, 1882 is very
scarce and worth around
$3.50 in fine condition.
Miss S. H. K: None of your
Rudyard Kipling items is
particularly valuable. except
for "Abaft the Funnel"
New York, 1909. currently
worth around $40 at retail in
fine condition. 1t once sold at
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because of poor health five or
six years ago. They have
nothing but their social Sc
curity and what I give them.
My kid brother is up to his
neck in debt and my sister
has a husband who is a real
tightwad.
My wife keeps nagging me
and telling me to make the
others pay their share, but I
know they Just haven't got it.
I can do it, so I've got to
foot the responsibility.
Marian J.-Sure he can do
1t and his brother can't!
Why? Because I watch every
penny. because I haven't had
a new dress in two years, be-
cause I worked for two years
after our marriage and put
every penny into our home.
My sister-in-law quit her JOB
two months after marriage.
They buy everything they
feel like having. No wonder
they're in debt!
AS for my sister in-law's
husband being a tightwad, he
is. I want to be one too. My
husband says the folks ex-
pect it of him because he's
the Oldest. Since when is the
oldest supposed to pay a spe-
cial tax?
THE COUNCILS VIEW
We think the responsibility
for aged parents should be
divided among the children.
If one has a very much high
err income than the others he
may want to assume a little
more of the burden, but the
others shouldn't be exempt.
The one who takes on the
full burden does not always
act out of pure goodness.
In many cases this son or
daughter has always wanted
more power in relation to the
parents and has tried to
shove brothers and sisters out
of the way. Another COM
mon motive is a sense of
guilt toward the parents.
Many individuals try to rid
themselves Of this uncom-
Portable feeling by doing
more than their share.
In any case, Keith owes
it to himself, his family and
his brother and sister to set
tie this business more equi-
tably. It's not up to him to
solve their problems for them
merely to let them know
that he has taken on the
full responsibility in this
matter long enough.
(Copyrieht 1859, General
Features Corp
Tomorrow: Mons Pride.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-10
Gold in Your Attic by Va" Allie" Bradley

edition. To qualify, 1t should
have an illustration Of Mrs.
McGregor's rabbit pie on
page IA. A good copy is worth
around $25 at retail.
Selected reader questions
tpiH be dnstDered in this
column. Address them to
Van Allen Bradley. in care
OF The EueninO Star.
(copyright 1859, General Features
Corp.l
Next Monday: Hastings Guidebook.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-10
Dore Schury OK

NANTUCKET. Mass. Aug. 10
(AP).-Dore Schary. stage and
film producer, was back on his
yacht today after weekend
treatment at a hospital for a
virus infection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-10
FAMILY COUNCIL
Oldest Son
Foots Bills
OfPurents

Keith 1--WE got to foot
the responsibility for my
parents alone.
Marian J.-Why should we
be stuck with it?
THE DETAILS
Keith J.-My wife and I
have been married eight
years and have three chill
dren. I am making a pretty
good salary and things could
be nice and smooth for us
if I didn't have my parents
to worry about. They are in
their los and Dad retired
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-10

Jim Bishop is on voeotion. Todoy's
column wos written by Edword F.
Lopos, city editor Of The Leoder-
Herald, GIoversvilIe, N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-10

The Family Coun"iI consists Of
Judge, psyehiotrist, three clergy
men. newspaper editor, q wom-
ems editor and two writers. Eoch
article is q summary Of on octuoI
cose history. The council reports
on problems thot have been deoIt
with by responsible agencies and
counseIors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-10

Tomorrow: Mons Pride.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-10
TRUE LIFE ADVENTURES BY
WASTELAND WANDERER.
BY Walt Disney

. lSxcEpT M TlEE MATING SEASOA, THE
MALE POLAR BEAR WANTS NO COMPANY
BIT THE LONELY HUNTER VAS AlS OWN
AAkGERS-ON
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
BY LANSING LAMONT
star stan Writer

Spring came q few hours
early today for a daintily Golf
fured damsel who is celebrating
her Tooth birthday.
Mrs. Ellen M. Schermerhorr
entered the springtime Of hel
second century a little after
midnight last night. This morn
she was feeling a bit sorry fol
herself. Her eyesight is failing
and she Is almost totally deaf
But after posing for picture:
outside with q garden hoe-anc
taking several poppy digs al
the turf--she perked up. Wher
a photographer commented or
her birthday hair-do. she fairly
sparkled.
Its a new one on me-" she
said. II don't know what they
call 1t. but ! think it look:
pretty good"
It happened to be a sham
tpoo-and-set. and it looked very
good indeed.
Although Mrs. Schermerhorn
seldom leaves the Carroll Hall
Convalescent Home in Ken.
sington, Nd, these days, she
made a special trip to a French
hairdreSser for this occasion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
Spring Arrives Early
ForWoshingtonion, 100

In the days when she first
arrived in Washington So years
ago, Mrs. Schermerhorn got
outside more often.
"One year 1t was California,
the next Florida" she said,
lingering the orchid in her
APPEL. a birthday present from
one Of her sons. Every sum-
mer we'd set out for somewhere
by car"
When she wasn't State
hopping. Mrs. Schermerhorn,
= Mckinley Republican. was
attending presidential inaugu-
rations here.
i've been to all OF them
since living in Washington. :
she recalled. And the Repub.
licanS always had the best
ones"
Her husband, Edward Scher-
merhorn. who died in 1927. was
in the Bureau of Indian Affairs
in Washington and later on
the Board Of Pension Appeals
in the Interior Department.
The Schermerhorns had two
sons, one of whom. Charles, is
retired and living at 34l6 Ritz
tenhouse street NV. The other
! son Harry lives In Orlando, Fla,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
Montgomery's
Players Win
One-Act First

The Montgomery Players wor
the Districts 3ist annual one.
act-play tournament last might
with their presentation Of
George Bernard Shaw's "The
Dark Lady Of the Sonnets."
John Donovan Of the Library
of Congress Drama Club was
awarded the Maude Howell
Smith trophy for acting. Run
ners-up to Mr.. Donovan were
Roger McEwan Of the Mont
gomery Players and Miss Alma
Jacob Of the Kensingtor
Players.
Miss Jane Plummer Rice d.
rected the Montgomery groups
winning performance.
Second in the group compe-
tition we're the Foundry Play.
ers, who presented The Star
ing Match" by Jerry McNeely
The Arts Club of Washington
and the Library of Congress
Drama Club rounded out thu
select group Of awards winners
Their respective plays wert
:'Overtones" and The Hun
gerers."
Judging the competition werI
Richard L. Coe Of the WASH
ington Post and Times Herald
James M. O'Neill, jr., Of the
Washington Daily News ant
Jay Carmody Of The Star.
The competition was held a
Roosevelt High School audito
rum, Thirteenth and Upshu
streets NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
Reid Bans SoIes
Of Pies by Pupils
At Lunch Hour

Arlington Supt. Ray e. Reid
has issued a ban against stu
dents selling pizza pie and pas
tries in school cafeterias dur
ing lunch period.
Some students of Wakefield
High School protested the ban
by not buying lunches two days
this week, but school officials
said there was very little Diff
ference" in the total number
Of lunches sold.
Students have raised money
through the sale of pastries in
the school. but school officials
said they thought the practice
should be discontinued during
lunch hour because the county
participates in the national
school lunch program which is
subsidized by the Federal Gov
eminent.
School officials said they did
not think the students should
be competing with the cafeteria
which must be self sustaining
Students are still allowed to
make sales before and after
school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
Court Reps Attorney
jailed as Tuxi Evoderf

The Alexandria Corporation
Court today severely repri-
manded q former attorney for
the National Association fof
the Advancement Of Colpre6
People.
However, it refused to dis
bar or suspend the license OF
Edwin c. Brown. who was i'm
prisoned last year for Federal
income tax evasion.
The decision pronounced by
Judges William p. Woolls. Earl
L, Abbott and Lyttleton Wad-
dell declared that Mr.. Browns
conduct did not justify a dis
barment or q long suspension
Suspended In Effect
"a It said that because Mr.
Brown has during confine-
ment in q Federal correctional
I iilstitution. in effect. already
been suspended from practice
for q period Of more than five
months. no further suspension
Is ordered"
But, i, continued. Edwin G
Brown. sr., Is severely repri-
amanded by this court for hi;
unlawful and improper conduct
as an attorney"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20

The proceedings today result.
ed from a complaint filed by the
Virginia State Bar. The COM
plant came under a Virginis.
law which makes an attorney
convicted of q felony subject
to disbarment or loss Of license
Mr.. Brown, a Washington
resident who maintains q prac-
tice in Alexandria. served five
months and II days last year
at the Federal correctional in
stitution in Danbury. Conn.
! No Turpitude Seen
Attorney Frank Ball. who
represented Mr.. Brown today,
emphasized that his offense
did not involve moral turpitude.
MIR. Ball and Mr.. Brown were
court opponents In q heatedly
fought Arlington school inte-
grafton case which began In
1916.
Alexandria Mayor Leroy 8,
Bendheim and attorneys T. r.
Dyson. Howard Smith. jr.. ]. r.
Davis and James Raby all tes-
titled that Mr.. Brown enjoys
an excellent personal and pro-
fessional reputation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
Tests Are Offered
At Wushinqton-Lee

Persons wishing to take the
high school equivalency test to
be given by Washington-Lee
High School April IS should
apply at the Adult Education
Once, room lie Of the school
before April ].
A refresher course for those
taking the test, the satisfactory
completion of which earns the
equivalent Of. high school
diploma. is under way at Wash
ington-Lee. Cost of the re-
fresher course is SO for Airing
ton residents and $40 for others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20

the maSter's-degree schedule.
The two top pay steps on the
master's-degree schedule would
be granted only in recognition
Of exceptional teaching ability.
School officials explained the
new budget would provide for
q department of curriculum de-
velopment. a director Of re-
search to conduct testing pro-
grams. eight helping teachers
to work with beginning teach
ers. vice principals in the Ave
largest elementary schools and
a supervisor of guidance coun-
SelorS.
The council will hold a pub
lie hearing on the total school
board budget request at 1880
pm. March 81 at Broome
Junior High School in Rock
vile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20

AotA aOASC duu tCuCLlCI ShAAEIcS-
is needed to recruit better
teachers and reduce teacher
turnover.
Administrative and teacher
pay next year would increase
$5.6 million If the boards pro-
posal is adopted. OF this
amount. SIS million would be
required for increments under
the present salary scale and
$3.8 million to start q new sal
airy schedule aimed at improv-
ing the quality of instruction.
The proposed schedule would
reduce the number Of years for
attainment for maximum pay
from 20 to IL. 1t would increase
the pay for beginning bachelor
degree teachers from $4,000 to
$500 and their maximum from
$1,000 to $500.
Beginning teachers with
masters degrees would jump
from $4,000. to $4.70O. The max
imum would increase from
5000 TO $500. Masters
degree teachers with 80, hours
towards q doctors degree would
get an additional $40 a month
and doctor's-degree teachers
would get $40 monthly above
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
Tenlpers Fray
Under Debate
On Censorship

ANNAPOLIS. Mar. 20 tAP> /.
Their tempers still frayed by
yesterdays debate, Maryland
Senators tried again today to
decide whether to broaden the
States movie censorship move.
Up for consideration again
were two bills. One would au-
thorize the Board Of Motion
Picture Censors to designate
certain films as too obscene for
showing TO minors under 10.
The other would prohibit movie
operators from showing minors
Aims which are obscene or
might corrupt their morals.
The tempestuous. lla-hour
debate on the bills yesterday
left many censorship oppon-
ents with the impression that
both bills will pass the Senate.
probably by close margins.
The first one. expanding the
censorship boards power, is
virtually identical with a meas
ure already killed by q 65-53
margin in the House.
The second, which would In
EFFECT make the courts deter
mine whether movie operators
were showing Objectionable Aim
to minors. has been approved
Iby the House.
Both measures came to the
Senate floor yesterday with
Judiciary Committee recon-
mendations that they be de-
Heated.
Senator Joseph A. Bertorelli,
Democrat Of Baltimore, spon-
sor Of the censorship board
bill. moved that the measure
be kept alive by substituting it
for the unfavorable committee
report. He succeeded by Q 1918
margin after Senator j. Alvin
Jones. Democrat Of Baltimore,
switched his vote. to break a
l4-l4 tie which would have
killed the bill.
Senator Harry r. Hughes,
Democrat Of Caroline, who had
voted to kill the measure, then
offered an amendment. It
would make the boards adults
only" label applicable only to
foreign films.
While Senator Bertorelli con-
tinued to argue, Senator John
c. North. Democrat OF Talbot,
asked that the bill LAY over
under the rules" This is q
request for a 24-hour postpone
ment. automatically granted on
the theory that the members
should be given time to study
possible effects Of the proposed
amendments.
Il think the chair is unfair, Z"
Senator Bertorelli shouted
Senator Della dem a n d e d
whether Senator Bertorelli
wanted to appeal his ruling by
letting the full Senate vote on
whether it was proper.
! Only after Senator Della &C
tually had turned over the gavel
to another Senator for the APP
peal vote and several OF his
colleagues had urged Senator
Bertorelli, Don't do it. joe"
did the Senator Withdraw his
appeal. He also apologized for
his charge of unfair play.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20

State income and personal
property tax forms.
State income and personal
property income tax returns
are due by May 1 and the in
come tax must be paid by that
time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20

% am. to noon, tomorrow
through April rs.
Commissioner George d.
Fischer said the extra hours are
for citizens who cannot come
to the ONCE during regular
working hours for help In filing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
1896 Million Urged
To Run County Schools

The Montgomery County School Board last night requested
approval of 1886 million operating budget for year
answer to the demands Of schoolminded czenr
The request directed to the County Council during
second conference the boards total $500 million budget
proposal for the l959-60 fiscal year.
Mrs Rose c. Kramer. board president explained the
bulk Of the operating budget proposa$22 million for admin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
Arlington Offers
Aid TO I Taxpayers

The once Of the commits
sioner Of revenue In Arlington
will be open on Saturdays, from
The Sidney herald., 1959-10-14
Personals

Shirley Besel, a student at Mon
tana State College School of
Nursing, Billings Deaconess Divi-
sion, spent the week end at the
home of her parents, MI. and Mrs.
Alex Besel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Rehbein
returned home from points in
eastern Iowa and South Oak,
where they went on business.
Nh. and Mrs. Glenn Hall had
for their guests several days last
week Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Martin
of Glendive. Mr.. Martin, a cou-
sin of Mr.. Halls, is a retired N. p.
conductor.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Mckenzie left
Saturday for Phoenix, Arizona,
where they will spend the winter.
Mrs. A. E. Eiselein of K~alispell
left Monday to return to her home
after a weeks visit here with
her parents, Nh. and Mrs. w. E.
Burnsides. Mr.. Eiselein, former
photo engraver for the Great Falls
Tribune, now owns and operates
the Montana Engraving Co. at
KaliSpell, where he has been To-
Gated the past ten years. Mrs.
Eisen1ein is associated with her
husband in his business.
The Sidney herald., 1959-10-14

Harry Belknap returned Friday
from Valley City, N. Oak, where
he spent several days visiting at
the homes of nieces and nephews.
He also spent some time at the
office of the Northwest Nursery
Co., of which he is a representa-
tive in this area.
Mrs. Inez Norrish, who has
been visiting here with her bro
ther-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Rounce, left Monday to
return to her home in Eau Claire,
Wisconsin.
Miss Mabel j. Adams of Minot,
N. Oak, a former long time resi-
dent of Sidney, made a surprise
visit on friends here last Friday.
She was an overnight guest at the
6. A. Anderson home.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hardy left by
bus Friday for Glendive to take
the train from there on a trip East.
She plans to spend the next few
weeks visiting her sister, Mrs.
Florence Syftestad and daughters
and their families in ST. Paul, and
with her brother, George Barry
and family in Arcadia, Wis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Severson Sr.,
made a weekend trip to Billings
and stopped enroute at Hardin,
where they were overnight guests
Sunday at the Jack Algier home.
The Algiers, former residents OF
Sidney, sent greetings to their
many friends here. Mr.. Algier is
superintendent of the Holly Sugar
factory at Hardin.
MI. and Mrs. Russell Packard OF
Laurel we're guests at the Erwin
home several days last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Kreis and
son Harry Jr., are visiting this
week at the home of their daugh-
ter and sister, Mrs. David Johnson
and family in Hopkins, MINI.