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Johnnie c. CUTHRELL

johnnie C. Cuthrell died at his
home in Belhaven Thursday morn
ing. Funeral services were held
Saturday at 2 pm. at the Pau
was in the Linton family cemetery
Funeral Home with the Rev. Her.
man Shavender officiating. Burial
near Sidney. A retired farmer, he
was a member of the West Bella
ven Church of Christ. His first
wife was the late Mrs. Fannie
Lena Sawyer. Surviving are his
second wife, Mrs. Helen Paul;
three sons, Guy and Albert, botf
of Belhaven and Johnnie Cuthrel
of Pinetown, Ri. 1; three daugh'
tiers, Mrs. Hartford Woolard Of
Pinetown, Rt. /, Mrs. o. L. Aller
of Plymouth, Rt. 1 and Mrs. Clyde
Keech of Pantego, Rt. /; u
grandchildren; one brother, George
Cuthrell of Fairfield, and one Sis
ter. Mrs. Emily Blake of Belhaven
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BUXTON TRAINEE HONORED
FOR OUTSTANDING RECORD

FORT JACKSON, S. C.-In rec
|ognition of his leadership, militia
ry bearing, and training proficien-
cy, Recruit Bill J. Bryant, son of
Mrs. N. E. Steinback (remarried)
of Buxton was selected as "Out-
standing Trainee" of his basic
training unit and presented GER
tificate of achievement by Fort
Jackson's Commander, Major Gen.
eral H. D. Ives during a gradu-
alton review. Recruit Bryant. was
chosen for this honor from APP
proximately two hundred fellow
trainees of Company B, 5th Bat
talon, 9Th Training Regiment for
his exemplary performance from
September l to October %. His
consistent excellence in marksman-
ship, inspections, and physical
training, and his untiring efforts
in learning the many subjects
taught in the intensive basic
training program served as a
constant example to the members
of his company. The young Bry-
ant is a graduate of Norview High
School, Norfolk.
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CATHOLIC CHRISTMAS
SERVICES ANNOUNCED

KILL DEVIL HILLS. - The
great Feast of the birthday of
Christ will be solemnly celebrated
in Holy Redeemer Catholic
Church on Christmas, Sunday, De-
cember Is, by the offering of
holy mass in the morning at eight
and at ten o'clock. There will be
no midnight mass on Christmas
Eve; however, the Christmas high
mass will be sung at ten o'clock
in the morning. Confessions will
be heard on Saturday, Christmas
Eve, from 5 to 6 and from 2 to
8 in the evening.
Mrs. Julian Oneto of Mays
Head will direct the Christmas
Music while the organists will be
Mrs. Harold A. Glynn of Manteo
and Mrs. George r. Frank of Kill
Devil Hills. The ushers will be
George r. Frank, Julian Oneto,
Harold A. Glynn and the mass
servers Michael Frank and George
Frank.
On Christmas afternoon at four
o'clock mass will be offered at
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visiting Mrs. Eulia Harris and
Mr.. and Mrs. Rouse Lupton.
Mrs. B. w. Williams has re-
turned after visiting her daugh-
ter, Miss Virginia Spencer, in
New York, who accompanied her
home.
Mrs. Moi D. Berry visited in
Raleigh, Henderson, Zebulon, and
Durham.
"The Spark of Safety" an cleo
trical demonstration on outdoor
Christmas tree lighting was given
to four home demonstration club
meetings by Rita Simmons and
Sue Gaylord, All club members,
during the month of December.
One hundred and one persons at
tended these meetings. Sue and
Rita gave these important rules
to remember in outdoor lighting:
| /. Make sure you use the right
type and size wires and connec-
tons. 2. Keep them dry. 8.
Ground them,
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MRS. HAROLD WHITE is
HOSTESS TO CARD CLUB

Mrs. Harold White was hostess
to members of her card club at
the home of Mrs. Charlie Smith
on Bay Street in Belhaven on
Thursday night. AS guests arriv-
ed Mrs. White served German
chocolate cake and coffee, and
during progressions she passed
iced bottle drinks, Christmas can
dies and cheese crackers.
Mrs. Smiths living and dining
rooms were decorated attractive
ly with winter greenery and dried
arrangements. Playing cards were
Mesdames Smith, Charles Powell,
Thorne Paul, Victor Ruark, Bill
Moore, ]. P. Harrison and Miss
Patty Lou Martin.
Mrs. Powell received the high
score prize and Mrs. Ruark the
low, Miss Martin won ut bingo.
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STUMPY POINT HONORS
BELOVED WOMAN OF 90
Daughters Hold Open House Sunds,
for Mrs. Frances Mason Hooper:
More Than 100 Guests

Mrs. Evelyn Hooper Meekins
entertained in honor of her moth
er's Goth birthday, Sunday at
noon. The dining room and living
room were decorated with holly
and other Christmas greenery,
red berries and miniature
Christmas tree. Mrs. Frances
Mason Hooper is the widow of
the late C. Irving Hooper.
A turkey and ham dinner were
served to the following children:
John E. Hooper and wife, Annie
Miller Hooper of Buxton, Lonnie
B. Hooper and wife, Lennie Rog-
ers Hooper of Elizabeth City, FL
bert L. Hooper, and wife, Margar-
ct Russell Hooper of Nor
folk; Mrs. Gertrude Hooper
Wise, A. Calvin Hooper and wife,
Willie Meekins Hooper, R. Bea-
man Hooper and wife, Lou Mid
gette Hooper, and Mrs. Florine
Pugh Hooper, widow of Lorenzo
d. Hooper; grandchildren Floyd
Hooper and wife, Grace w. Hoop
er, Troy and wife, Louise Hoop
err, Milton and wife, Nita Mid
gette Hooper, Horace B. Hooper
and wife, Melba Wise Hooper,
Hazel Hooper Bell and husband,
Jesse, Doris Hooper Twiford and
husband Glenn, Jasper S. Hooper,
and wife, Louise Stokes Hooper,
Edgar o. Hooper and wife, Lau-
IA Powers Hooper, Charles Elmer
Meekins and wife, Clara Faye
Hooper, Archie Hooper, Ebert,
Jr. and Peggy. Observation-Disclosures,
Joan Hooper Sutton and husband,
Willard o. Sutton, Anne and
Sharon Hooper, Eddie Leigh Hoop
er, Sandra 10 and Bert Bell,
Brantley Twiford and wife, Kay
Bratten Twiford, Jay Hooper, Ed
gar Powers, John, Robert, and
Catherine Anne Hooper. Three
great great-grandchildren, Angela
Michele Twiford, Jerrie and Bon
MIC Sue Sutton.
From 2 to S Mrs. Gertrude
Wise held open house. The dining
table was covered with lace
cloth; a large three-tiered cake
trimmed in red and silver on
white formed the center piece.
Poinsettas in red, white and
green were used as decorations,
also silver leaves, holly and pot
ted plants. Mrs. Gertrude Wise
greeted guests at the door. Mrs.
Charles Meekins registered the
guests, Mrs. Edgar Hooper cut
the cake, Mrs. Florine Hooper
poured punch, Mrs. Willie Hooper,
Mrs. Evelyn Meekins, served
mints, nuts and cookies.
One hundred and six guests
called during the evening. The
honoree was remembered with a
number of beautiful gifts,
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SWAN QUARTER PERSONALS

Blount Creole of Richmond has
returned to his home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus McGowen
and children of Bath visited Mr..
and Mrs. David Dunbar.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Tooley and
Margaret of Wenona visited Mrs.
Mary Spencer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Patrick of
Baltimore visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul O'Neal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edsel Bridgman
and children of Hampton, Va. Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Creole.
Sidney Creole of Durham visit
ed A. C. Creole.
Mrs. Sarah and Staten Caravan
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Johnnie Bal
lance of Norfolk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis Clapp of
McLeansville visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Alton Sawyer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul O'Neal visit
ed Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Howard at
Hickory, Va.
Airman 2-Class Dewey Sawyer
of Seymour Johnson Air Force of
Goldsboro visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Luke Sawyer.
Mr.. and Mrs. bayfield, Mayo and
10 were visitors at Washington.
Mrs. Evelyn M. Freeman of
Rocky Mount, Mrs. Louise Clifton
and Mrs. Irwin Mayo of Washing
ton visited Mr.. and Mrs. bayfield,
Mayo.
Mrs. C. B. Jennette is visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Gilcher in
Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Sidney Creole and Charles
were visitors at Creswell.
Miss Amelia Worrell of Eliza
beth City visited Miss Becky An
derson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Allen, James,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Tooley and
Margaret of Pantego, Mr.. and
Mrs. Garland Windley and Eliza
beth of Pinetown visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul O'Neal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mode Chauncey
of Belhaven visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Thurman Evens.
Mrs. Althea Daw, Mrs. Holmes
Waters of Pantego visited Mr..
and Mrs. Jodie Williams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Branch Spencer
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Dan
Mayo in Greenville.
Miss Mildred Spencer and Mr..
and Mrs. E. F. Murrow are visit
ing in Apalachicola, Fla.
DR.. and Mrs. w. S. Cam of
Murphy are visiting at their home
here.
Thad Brown is home after Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Wilkin-
son in Greensboro.
Miss Media Howell is visiting
at her home in Swansboro.
Miss Aleph Cason, George Ca
son and Albert Rice visited in
Portsmouth, Va.
Mrs. w. H. Langston is visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus Darden
in Como.
Mrs. w. G. Harris is spending
the holidays with Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Martin in GAINESVILLE.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Caravan,
Butch and Peggy Ann are visit
ing in Donelson, Tenn.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Berry OF
Norfolk are visiting at their home
here.
Walter Baum of East Carolina
College visited Mrs. R. G. Baum.
Rev. and Mrs. Jesse NJ. Parks,
Spencer and Mile of Fountain
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. E. Spencer.
Mrs. Evans Harris and children
of Havelock are at home here for
the holidays.
DON Harris is a patient at
Pungo District Hospital.
DR.. and Mrs. Rhodes Lupton;
Susan and Don of Chapel Hill are
>HNE2LG E3& or HLc HN
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the Naval Facility of Cape Hat
teras with the singing Of Christ
mas carols and a Christmas Par
ty. Chief Eugene T. Siebels and
1t. Robert Curran will be the
ushers while the mass servers
will be Seaman Gregorio Linsan-
gan and William M. Peele Of Hat
teras.
Father Peter Martin Denges,
pastor of the beach church and
chaplain of the Naval Base, cor
daily invites the public to attend
these Christmas services.
Evening star., 1960-04-03

dead and penniless. The ro-
nance was perfectly correct,
Teuila says. Fanny hoped
until the last for a reconcilia-
ton with her erring husband.
Louis pursued her to Cali
fornia where she got her
divorce.
A woman of enormous
spirit, and some asperity -,
Fanny was apparently just
the wife for the frail but
stout-hearted Scot. "Dusky,
trusty. vivid, true" his trib-
ute to her began. She per-
formed the practical miracles
necessary to keep him in
health and to maintain the
atmosphere he needed for
his writing. 1t would give any
woman pause to read of her
achievement in provisioning
the yacht that took them to
the south seas for the re-
mainder Of Stevenson's life.
F. L. S. was q gay, gallant,
good man, a fond husband.
an ideal stepfather. He has
found a worthy biographer
in Mrs Caldwell, who has
read his books with a discern
ing eye and visited the places
he lived with Imagination.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
Two important New
Literary Biographies

Two excellent and strik-
ingly different literary BIZ
ographies come to hand this
week. In LAST WITNESS
FOR ROBERT LOUIS STE
VENSON University of Okla
homa: So, Elsie Nobel Cald-
we'll pictures warmly one of
the great gentlemen of litera-
ture. In D'ANNUNZIO Mc-
Dowell, Obelensky; $4.95),
Anthony Rhodes gives us The
Poet as Superman"-or, if
you will, a cad.
Mrs. Caldwell wrote her
biography of r. L. S. at the
beheSt of her stepdaughter,
Teuila Mrs. Isobel Field,
who suggests a whole world
Of remorse in her statement:
Louis was the finest man I
ever knew, but 1t took me
several years to come to this
conclusion"
Romance Was Correct
BY the way of making
amends. she told Mrs. Cald-
we'll all she remembered of
her mother and stepfather,
their courtship, marriage and
their family life in the
South sea islands. She
wished to refute the gossip
and scandal which once en-
veloped the pair. She tells of
their first meeting in South
ern France when Fanny Os-
bourne was suffering from the
infidelity of her first hus-
band, and Louis was half
Evening star., 1960-04-03
Signs Of Spring
And Bush Leuoue
BoIIpIoyers
YOU KNOW ME AL. BY
Ring Lardner. (Charles
Scrihner'S Song. S27E

YOU KNOW ME AL. BY
Ring Lardner. (Charles
Scribner's Sons; $3.75D
DEAR A L: They has
brought out another print
ing of this book which is
made up of letters which
was written by Ring Lard
ner for the Saturday Evening
Post before World War I
and I swear Al I don't see
what all the shouting is
about. ..
Mr.. Lardner made up
these letters which was sup
posed to be written by Jack
Keefe to his friend in his
home town of Bedford about
how he was making out with
the Chicago White Sox. But AL
l want to say right here that
I never saw such mistakes in
spelling and punctuaShun.
The subtitle of the book is
A Busher's Letters but Jack
Keefe was no bush-leaguer
accept maybe from the neck
up. To hear him tell it he
must a been one of the best
right handed pitchers the
Sox ever had on there roster.
Keefe even might of been
an all time crate if his team
mates had give him better
support and wasn't all the
time making fun of him. But
1 guess Mr.. Lardner did him
justiS in the emo. will give
him that. You know me Al.
Your old pal, dick SLAY.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
Library Week

Children, their health, edu-
cation and welfare. are con-
stantly in the news. Next
week is Library Week. Last
week was the White House
Conference for Children and
Youth. Before that was a
one day, all = day, session
Jointly sponsored by the Dis
trict of Columbia Education
Association and the Action
Committee for District of Co.
lumbia School Libraries.
New methods in reading and
new goals in education were
discussed. School libraries
so conspicuous by their scar
city in the District-were the
subject of the keynote speech
by Mary Peacock Douglas.
In the schools she described,
they would no more do with
out a centralized school
library than they would . go
back to McGuffey's reader.
So Library Week is here,
April 3-9. with it's emphasis
on better books for children.
Books to read quickly and
books to read slowly. Books
to challenge, books to read
alone. and to share
Evening star., 1960-04-03
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

notified the French author
tiles at Papeete. Eventually
Keith was informed.
Keith decided it was his
duty to get to the obscure
island, somehow, place a
marker over the grave of his
sister and brother-in-law and
see whether he could find
Janice's heritage. He had
helped Comdr. Dermott ce-
ment a package of "valu-
ables" on the ship and Keith
suspected that the whole es-
tate was there.
But how could he make
such a long and expensive
trip? He had no way to raise
money. Finally, through the
navigator of a freight air.
liner. who was a model en-
thusiast. Keith wangled a
free plane ride to Honolulu.
But there was no regular
service to Tahiti, by air or
ship. The only way he could
get there within a reason
able time. without awaiting
some casual trading vessel,
was to accompany a water
front character named Dom
ely. who was from Oregon
and had sailed to Hawaii
alone in a homemade sail
ing ship cit didn't have any
kind of engine). Sailors said
the man was illiterate and
couldn't even navigate and
was just lucky to have got
ten across. Keith was advised
strongly against Donelly, but
he found the young man
rough-hewn, powerfully built
but likeable and decided to
take a chance. So they sailed
out of Honolulu-without
even clearance papers.
They did make Tahiti. in a
month, but meanwhile pow
erful forces were set in mo-
tion to guard Keith against
the fate of his relatives. His
editor in London, learning
what happened, shuddered to
contemplate what would be-
fall his magazines if Keith
disappeared. So the editor
got in touch with some fans
in America, one a college
professor, who in turn
reached a West Coast lumber
magnate who found relaxa-
tion in making models and
depended on Keith to solve
construction problems.
The Lost Diamond
The slight. steady Keith,
who had never before left
England, did reach the island
he sought. Did he find the
diamonds? Well, that's the
climax of the story.
Evening star., 1960-04-03

logical fantasies as THE
BORROWERS or MARY.
POPPINS.
The second runner<up,
AMERICA is BORN, is open
to criticism for historical
imbalance. Mr.. Johpson
does well by Virginia and his
native State, North Carolina.
Others are passed over lightly.
Benjamin Franklin is dis
missed in four words.
1t is not easy to select sig
nificant facts. Harold Gov
succeeded in THE AMERI-
CANS. Genevieve Foster has
done it again and again. Her
latest book. THE WORLD OF
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH,
covers many of the same
people and principles which
Mr.. Johnson attempts to
cover.
The difference lies in. the
approach. Mrs. Foster Gre
ates a vivid panorama by
presenting intimate incidents
involving important people.
Her sense of historical per-
spective is astute, in contrast
to Mr.. Johnson's jaunty gen.
civilizations.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
Spring HighIights

An unusual book for Easter
tells how the Indian custom
of lighting bonfres on Easter
eve in Texas grew out of an
exciting clash between old
tribal customs and the teach
ings of the padres. EASTER
FIRES by Wilma Hays
Coward Mccain: $1.75) is
the story of a boys bravery
and a girls sacrifice.
AS fresh as today's head
lines is Majorie Holmes teen
age novel, CHERRY BIOS
SOM PRINCESS CWestmin-
ster; $2.95). Marty is swept
of her feet-who wouldn't
be-by the glamorous rou-
tines of the Cherry Blossom
festival
Evening star., 1960-04-03
Cracks in the Facade
Of a News Magazine
NAME AND ADDRESS. BY
T. S. Matthews. (Simon g.
Schuster; $4.500


T. S. Matthews. (Simon &
Schuster; S4.50)
On a March day a few
weeks ago, Time Magazine
moved into a magnificent
new 48-story Office building.
and with a flourish promoted
three of its editorial execu-
tives. But before the warm
glow of satisfaction had died
away, Time was figuratively
belted behind the ear with
an icy SNOWFALL flung by a
discerning and articulate
critic.
What made the jolt most
disconcerting was that the
author knew exactly where
to aim. T. S. Matthews was
with Time "a years, six of
them as managing editor. In
his autobiography. NAME
AND ADDRESS, he points
out many cracks in the mag
azine's glossy facade.
Looking Backward
BY way of preparation for
an unexpected career on a
news-magazine, Mr.. Mat
thewS was educated at Prince
ton and oxford. His father
was the Episcopal bishop Of
New Jersey, and his mother
a member of the Proctor
soap family. After four
years on the New Republic,
his arrival at Time gave him
the feeling he was taking a
step down.
The news magazine was
then young and bumptious,
and making a bold show with
its contrived style. (Neophyte.
tycoon, tosspot, cinemoppet,
etc. No neophyte, he, Time
staffer Matthews couldn't
master the rigged style.
duped his editors by parody
ing it.
Reflected FOibIes
But as he rose to the exec
utive level, Matthews found
that Time policy was merely
a reflection of the foibles
and aversions of its editor
in-chief, Henry R. Luce.
Since Mr.. Luce was a ded-
icated Republican and a
staunch hater of Franklin D.
Roosevelt, his staff didn't
require much nudging at the
elbow. The last presidential
campaign which Time re-
ported effectively, Mr.. Mat
thews maintains, was the
Roosevelt Willkie contest in
1910.
In 1852 an attack on Adlai
Stevenson was prepared in the
Evening star., 1960-04-03
In Explanation
Of D'Annunzio

Anthony Rhodes is another
biographer who moved among
the scenes familiar to his
subject. When he writes OF
the birthplace of the repre-
hensible bard, D'Annunzio, he
writes from the evidence OF
his own eyes and ears. But
not even the harsh and eX-
travagant Abbruzzi country
side would explain the char
acter of D'Annunzio. who is
the ultimate in Latin tenn
perament. Grandiose, gram
diloquent, foppish. egocentric,
posturing. not a little absurd,
he was, despite literally un-
countable loves, dominated
by his love for Italy and his
determination that she should
take her place in the front
rank of nations.
Mr.. Rhodes handles both
the political and personal
aspects of D'Annunzlo's life
with authority and under
standing. D'Annunzio, unlike
Stevenson. did not live by the
Golden Rule. His treatment
OF Eleanora Duse alone would
make most men blush. He not
only kissed and told. He wrote
purple novel about their
affair - he added years to
her age. Duse continued to
love him, as most women did.
He was more noble in his
affair with Italy. He per-
sonally liberated Fiume He
was brave in World War l.
But he was the one man who
could have stopped Mussolini
and did not. The samples of
his work quoted here are al
most embarrassingly over
written and overweight. But
D'Annunzio as a personality
against an Italian back
ground has been strongly
pictured by Mr.. Rhodes.
MARY McGRORY
Evening star., 1960-04-03
BOOKS FOR SPRING
NeviI Shute Places Last
Novel in South Sea Settinu

The narrative Is built with
Mr.. Shute's usual skill and at
his customary swift pace. II
it has a fault as an adventure
story. it is in the final chap
ters, which seem passed over
too quickly after the careful
introduction of the char
acters and setting of the
scenes in the earlier part.
Trustee From the Tool
room," a Book-of-the-Month
Club selection, is, presumably,
Mr.. Shute's last novel. It
reminds us that his recent
death deprived US of one of
our best storytellers.
Nevil Shute may not have
contributed much to Litera-
ture with an upper-case L,
but certainly he gave pleas
ure to countless readers in
all the English speaking
countries and probably, in
translation, to many who
read in other languages. His
technical training-he was
an aeronautical engineer
gave him rich resources in
dealing with scientific sub
jects, and yet he always
played up the human dilem-
mas involved rather than the
techniques he knew so well.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
To Read Aloud

Library week is a good time
to revive the family custom
of reading aloud. For the
kindergarten set, LET'S
READ MORE STORIES, by
Sidonie Gutenberg Garden
City; $685., has a wide va
riety of stories with humor
and imagination. Some are
easy enough for second grad
ers to read themselves. The
illustrations are by Dagmar
Wilson. Washington illus
traitor.
Also for family reading is
an inspirational anthology of
stories emphasizing courage
and faith. TREASURED
TALES abingdon: $500
has been compiled by two
librarians and storytellers,
Laura E. Cathan and Thus
Media Schmidt. Miss Schmidt
received the Melcher schol-
arship in 1859.