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Evening star., 1960-03-06
This Girl Had Problems
How to Balance q Job, Husband and Children

hearthside. In practice it
often was Bart.
AS one after another maid
bit the dust. Mr.. Mcdowell
found himself spending more
and more time as chief cook
and bottle washer to his pre-
school-age brood of three
Ken, Tish and Josh-while
his wife went of on a vari-
ETY. Of Journalistic and public
relations adventures.
Simple?
1t all sounded so simple
and manageable when the
couple first decided that
Martha Mcdowell had had
enough Of total concentra-
ton with spilled milk, one
syllable conversation. frayed
hand-me-downS and ap-
preaching age.
The matter Of age was
relative. g-Sa--s-@E
Martha was not getting
old-only older" her hus-
band graciously records.
She had recently celebrated
her 30th birthday. don't
quite mean that. No one
ever celebrates a 30th birth
day. You observe it, as you
do a traffic accident. You
mark the day, as you do a
grave.
Evening star., 1960-03-06
BY ISABELLE SHELTON
Star StaR Writer

What happens to a house
hold when mother tires of
the patter Of little feet and
seeks to return to the rela-
tive peace and quiet of an
office?
If you are Bart Mcdowell
OF Mclean, Va, magazine
writer and husband of an
erstwhile newspaper re-
porter who returns to her
former pursuits, what hap
pens is domestic chaos.
Mr.. Mcdowell gives an
amusing account of his fam
ily's ordeal in his just
published "I Was a Career
Girls Consort" (Chilton Co.;
$3.50.
The things that happened
to the McDowells add up to
a lively, unlikely sounding
yet believable tale of i'm
possible maids, unpalatable
meals. always-looming dead
lines and international in
trisue (marrying of one of
the maids.
Theoretically a maid took
over during Martha Nc
Dowell's absences from her
Evening star., 1960-03-06

erished while an estate was
being settled. Martha inter-
viewed her in the Mayflower's
Presidential Roo m, which
seemed BETTING an heiress.
Maria Elena reported for
work in a lengthy Cadillac,
wearing a hat "the size of
an umbrella" and declaring
with a smile: ct am your
Argentine wetback."
Bart, who confesses to hav-
ing worried for fear his wife
was exploiting a hapless for
eigner, says he thereupon de-
cided that this young woman
could take care of herself"
When Maria Elena left
Martha fired off to all avail
able relatives an impassioned
plea for aid, entitled: ITO
Whom 1t Would Concern If
Our Little Children Were
Neglected"
you'd come If it were a
funeral" she wrote. There
would be plenty of you here
if we were putting one Of
the sweet little things into a
grave of Virginia clay-but
that would be too late. This
time I beg you to attend
those still alive"
"The response was prob
ably the most intense ever
associated with a job of di-
rect-mail promotion" Mr..
Mcdowell reports.
Nor were maids the only
problem besetting the Nc
Dowells. There was the day
Bart inadvertently gave a
still jolt OF vodka to the tenn
perance-minded wife of one
of Martha's publicity clients.
And the time Martha left
Bart to entertain IL demand
ing 4-year-olds at a birthday
party.
The prize Mcdowell di-
lemma still is not solved.
Current tentative plans call
for the express highway to
the new Dulles International
Airport to go right through
their house.
They're leaving us a drain
pipe, but that's about ALL"
says Mr.. Mcdowell.
Evening star., 1960-03-06

But Martha had tried to
celebrate and had invited
two couples to the birthday
dinner. The wine was good,
the roast beef rare. But
while I carved, Martha had
given herself away. She had
paused to mince each serv-
ing into Gerber-sized bites"
That did it. Martha began
reading the want ads.
The plan was for her to
get a part-time job, which
would get her out Of the
house about two days a week.
With the proceeds therefrom
Evening star., 1960-03-06

she would be able to hire a
five-day-a-week live-in maid.
Even If you just break
even on money you've still
lodged all the drudgery,"
Martha explained cheerily.
A Maid?
II actually believed it,"
Bart reports. "a flve-day
maid. a relaxed wife with
laundered children. We could
recapture spontaneous youth,
even get a night on the town
without a premeditated baby
sitter"
Alas for lost illusions.
The two-day-a-week job
turned out to be full time on
a newspaper. with many
night assignments.
The maid problems can
only be described as grisly.
They were compounded, it
must be added, by Martha.
Obviously a warm-hearted
girl, she greeted each new
problem as a personal chal-
lenge. There were many
maids and many. many prob
lens.
There was Wilda, an un-
mistakably pregnant miss,
whom Martha couldn't sum-
mon the courage to fire until
she had bought her a layette.
only a little nicer than
Kenny's . yards and bolts
of cloth :. and a crate Of
edibles."
There was Callie Claire,
worried about an allegedly
mentally-disturbed son. Mar
tina wangled an emergency
interview with a psychiatrist
only to learn that the
mother. not the son, was the
problem, and under no cir
cumstanceS was a trust
worthy guardian for three
little McDowells.
There was Sarah, every
woman's dream of the per-
feet maid until Martha and
Bart came home one night
to find her in an alcoholic
haze, the house a shambles.
And finally there was
Maria Elena, an Argentine
heiress temporarily impov-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-28
Prankster's Bomb Threat
Sends Kids Out Into Cold

phone about 1 pm. 81 didn't
even have a chance to say
WHAT" she said, before the
caller hung up.
She called police who advised
her not TO evacuate the school
until they arrived, she said.
When police showed up, "in less
than a minute" Mrs. Bechtol
said, they ordered all students
out of the building.
Police and Kensington Vol
unteer Firemen, plus fire in
spectors, made search of the
building but found nothing.
Silver Spring police depart.
ment Captain Marian B. Day
hoff said he thought the caller
was one of those persons who
get kick out of causing a COM
motion and then stand around
and watch the fire engines"
He recalled a rash of similar
hoax calls to schools in the
Rockville area two years ago.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-28

urban Montgomery County
school appeared to have been
ringleader.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-28
Blair Subjected
To Bomb Scare

An anonymous caller phoned
Montgomery Blair High School,
Silver Spring, at 1890 Monday
and said, There's a bomb in
C. building" Then he hung up.
A swift conference by school
officials and police at Silver
Spring resulted in a decision to
keep students inside classrooms
while a search was made. AS
in other hoax calls, nothing
was found.
School Board regulations
allow school officials to leave
children in the building if
mutual agreement with police
is reached. If there is any dis.
agreement between police and
educators, however, the school
is to be evacuated at once, the
regulations say.
A similar bomb hoax call at
Sligo Junior High School last
December IA brings the total
number of such false alarms in
recent weeks to three. Police
believe all the calls were the
work of teenagers - or pos.
: sibly only one teenager.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-28
Expansion
Is Due for
WSSC Office

The Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission will seek
preliminary authority from the
Maryland General Assembly TO
issue up to 81 million in bonds
to expand its office building in
Hyattsville.
The request for passage of a
resolution supporting the agen.
cy's plans comes only seven
years after completion of a
$685., 100 addition.
Since the actual bond legisla-
ton cannot be introduced until
next year, the resolution would
clear the way for studies,
preparation of plans and other
preliminary activities, accord
1854. He started his teaching
lie information officer.
The need for expansion
stems from population growth
in the area served by the BIZ
county commission, Brigham
said. He added that the WSSC
now serves about 100000 people
and expects to have IL million
customers by the turn of the
century.
A special committee of de.
partment heads told the Com.
mission that the various offices,
which now occupy 31,241 square
feet Of space, will need nearly
twice that much within 10
years.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-28
4 Suspended From Sherwood

the final decision on whether
the youths will be permitted to
return is up to the board. In
the meantime, he said, they
have been suspended ''inde.
finitely."
The principal said the matter
was first called to his attention
by a complaint last week from
the parents of one of the girls.
He investigated Immediately
and found that eight or nine
other girls had the same com
plant. All are white.
In talking with the Negro
boys, Miles said, they admitted
the truth of the complaints but
insisted they meant no harm.
Miles added that one of the
boys who had transferred to
Sherwood last year from a sub
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-28
Future Pitching Great
Comes to RiIey's Home

And it shouldn't be too long
before pop starts betting fungoes
toward his own little pee-wee in
the back yard. Oh, it was a
grand day for the Irish, and
many a cup was emptied in
honor o. tiny Tim.
Who knows? He may some
day be president-or a member
of the Washington Senators.
If not the Senators, then
maybe the Yankees. Paul
Pfeifle. bosom buddy of Riley
and raconteur of local note,
was so overjoyed at his friends
good luck that he got busy with
pencil and paper and in short
order, fired off wires to ID
Morrie Siegel, sports an
nouncer, and (2) the New York
Yankees m ager, George
Weiss.
To Weiss, Pfeifle said he had
a line on "sOme unquestiOnable
Yankee material for future
use. Advise signing now" Weiss
turned the matter over to his
area scout, "Bucky" Busher,
who called PfeifIe the other day
for more details.
No man to look gift horse
in the mouth, Busher listened
solemnly to young Tins good
points and told Pfeifle that he
would suggest that Weiss offer
the Hedging ballplayer a try
out in 1878.
Siegel started off his re-
marks on the air about the
event with the words, "They
said it couldn't be done,
but :"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-28

Girl babies are swell, hut
when it's one after the other
and you happen to be rabid
boys baseball coach and fam
well, who wants to look forward
to a game of hop-scotch? Or
jacks?
Such was the outlook of one
Timothy Benedict Riley, the
personification of a tough little
Irishman, who lives at 1919
Veirs rd., Rockville. Tim had
no sons.
Many was the hot Saturday
during the last five summers
that Tim fielded midget (12.14
years old teams for he Rock
vile Civilians and pee-wee (9-12)
teams for the Rockville Rotar,
ians.
No man loves his daughters
more than Tim loves his Kath-
leen Mary, II, Patricia Lee, IL,
and Rosemary, 4. Still, for a
man who is among the most
active in the Rockville Boys
Baseball Association, the thWack
of bat has more attraction
than the slap of a skip rope.
So it was with more than
practicable pride that Tins
eyes glowed at 8:12 pm. Feb
ruary IS when nurses at George
Washington University hospital
announced that Tim had a son.
Seven.pounds, Is ounces ne
was, with brown hair and a
strong pair of hands. Tim and
his wife will name the newest
Riley, Timothy Demetrious taft
er the lads maternal and pater.
nal grandfathers.)
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-28
Heads FTA'ers

Natalie Nussbaum, of North
wood High School, has been
elected president of the newly
organized Montgomery County
Future Teachers of America.
Other officers named are Vir-
GINA Lee, Walter Johnson High,
and Marjorie Pearson, Mont
gomery Hills Junior High, vice
presidents; Cathy Chapman,
Montgomery Hills Junior High,
secretary; Carol Sondheimer
Bethesda Chevy Chase High,
treasurer, and Kathy Flood,
Northwood High, historian and
chaplain.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-28
Heart Campaign
Post Won by
Dorothy Knutti

Appointment of Mrs. Dorothy
Knutti as Rockville area chair
man of the "Heart Days for
Business" has been announced
by William S. Stanley, business
chairman of the 1860 Montgom-
cry County Heart Fund cam.
paign.
Mrs. Knutti, who operates the
Young Colony Shop in Rock
vile, said her committee will be-
gin soliciting businessmen dur
ing the first week inu February.
She recalled that Rockville
business firms contributed $459
to the 1859 drive and expressed
confidence at topping this fig,
ure this year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-28

School Board officials are
studying the case of four stu
dents suspended from Sherwood
High School after the prin.
cipal said they admitted jos.
Ting girls and making sugges-
tive remarks in the schools
corridors.
Principal William Miles said
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-28
Arts Center
Kick Off Is
Well Attended

Plans for an elaborate ST
million Montgomery County
Arts Center were outlined be.
fore approximately $50 persons
this week by sponsors of the
ambitious project.
Frederick A. Gutheim, of
Dickerson, president of the Arts
Center, proposed 20-acre site
for building the size of a 16'
room school. Facilities will in.
clude a theater, concert hall,
exhibition gallery, studios,
workshops, rehearsal rooms, a
dining room and offices.
"The Arts Center program,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-28

The curt statement, "Your
school will go up in five min
utes," led to a bomb scare"
that evacuated the Forest Grove
Elementary School on Cameron
dr., Silver Spring, last Thurs.
day.
School secretary Mrs. Edith
Bechtol told police that a male
voice she judged to be that of a
boy in his teens gave the false
warning to her over the teie-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-28


Gutheim explained, sis to de.
velop our resources in the arts.
particularly by encouraging
resident companies in theater,
music and dance, and to bring
appropriate programs to the
county by providing a home for
the arts"
He said lack of such facili-
ties now constitutes a particular
h n die ap for the county's
talented youth. Existing pri-
vate institutions cannot provide
all of the needs, he insisted.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-28
Income Tax Help
Is on the Way

Representatives of Mary.
lands Income Tax Division will
be in Rockville in March to help
taxpayers prepare their 1859
returns.
They will be in the Court
House March Z through IL. The
State maintains permanent in
come tax offices in the Wood
moor Shopping Center at Four
Corners.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-01-28
Foley Shows Films

Rep. John r. Foley (D-MdD
win show films taken on his re-
cent European trip to the Silver
Spring Democratic Women's
Club at 8 pm. Monday at the
Silver Spring Library.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1960-09-01
H & H Office Supplies is an Expanding Business

H & H is a team. The name
itself is the initials Of the pre-
sent owners Helen and Har-
old Strong.
One other line that Mr..
Strong carries, which h a s
promoted a new fad in Char
don, are his coin supplies. Mr..
Strong is an enthusiastic coin
collector and a dealer for
other coin collectors.
December II, 1926 Mr.. and
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1960-09-01

Mrs. Strong were married
and now have six children Of
which five are married, the
youngest, Dennis, Is, is in
junior high school and plays
a trumpet in the h o O |
band. Mr.. and Mrs. Strong
boast of thirteen grandchild-
rem.
Originally Mr.. Strong fol-
lowed in his fathers foot =
steps as a sheet metal work
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1960-09-01

er then went to selling wash
ers in 1927 and switched to
selling Frigidaires until they
reverted back to his original
trade as a sheet metal WOr-
ker, from 1943 1913, ecause
of the war. In 1949 Mr.. Strong
again sold FrigidaireS a n d
appliances up until they pur-
chased their office supply bu-
SineSS. Mr.. Strong is a resi-
Continued on page 49,
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1960-09-01

Starting from a S m a | !
store down in a basement H
& H Office Supplies has eX-
panded in the past few years
to one of the largest locations
on Main street and a stock
that includes attractive gift
items, rare coins, office fur
niture and many others be-
sides all regular office sup
ply items, all attractively els
played.
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Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1960-11-19
SquaW Harbor
It's Wedding Bells
For Couple Here
BY Wilburta K. McGlashan

Oct. 8 Carol Larson and Edgar
Smith left on the Julia 7 to fly
to Anchorage where they PLAN to
be married.
Oct. 13. Joe Ludvick was over
from Sand Point. Reeves AiEline
plane came in with Sam Slentz, the
bookkeeper from King Cove.
Oct. II. A dance was held with
a lot of people over from samd
Point.
Oct 49, Lloyd, Jennie, Glen amd
Janelle Guffey left ON the Julia
]. for Sand Point. They are on
their way to Bellingham, Wash. :.
The warehouse roof is getting
new coat of paint THE Sea
Queen was over from Unga for a
visit. -. Jackie Mills left by plane
for the Anchorage hospital.
Oct. 81. The Expansion was in
around midnight. Joan Terry Of
the Alaska Education Department
got off to see the school quarters.
Gary Gene Foster, four months
old baby of John and Ellen Foster
passed away after short sickness.
A short service was held the fol-
lowing day in the Foster home
and at the grave for Gary.
Oct. "a. Jean Ann Munson eele-
brated her seventh birthday with
party for the children otter
school. THE Baltic bowed the
Sunde of Petersburg into Sqalaw
Harbor. She plans to stay here
for few years. Zine White
family arrived earlier.
Oct. 25. Russell Mills went over
to Sand Point to bring home his
wife. She is getting along fine. i.
Grandma Foster of Unga returned
home to Unga today from the hos,
pital. She is getting along peal
we'll.
Oct 49, John La Fargo, tile
Continued on Page g.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1960-11-19
Perryviile
New Teachers
AT PerryviIIe

School began for the boys and
girls of Perryville, Oct. II, with
Mr.. and Mrs. Eddie L. Blain as the
new teachers. 38 children are en-
rolled
The Blains came from Kentucky
10 Alaska this year and had taught
the first month of school at Lake
Hanna when the State Depart
ment of Education requested them
to transfer because of a decrease
in enrolment in the school there.
They then accepted the positions of
teachers at Perryville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blain wish to thank
the people of the village for their
kind welcome and help in getting
school started.
Nick Shangin was hired as the
ianitor for the school.
The monthly visit Of the Ex-
CONTINUED on Page g.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1960-11-19
King Crab Biologist Extends
Tagging Operations To The High Seas

the Wakefield fleet supplied the
crabs.
Powell uses a new type bayonet
tag which will not carry through
the moulting process, but can be
very quickly attached to the crab.
One man can tag 200 crabs an hour
using this tag.
This deep sea tagging, if sue
ceSsful, may indicate the habits
and migration patterns of the king
crab on the off-shore banks.
During the tagging operation,
Powell took measurements of hun
dreds of crabs for age-clasS studies.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1960-11-19
Roger MaIutin
On Destroyer

Roger N. Malutin, sonarman
third class, USN, ward of Mrs.
Lucy Gregorioff of Kodiak, is
serving aboard the escort destroy
er USS Sproston operating with
the Seventh Fleet in the Western
Pacific.
The ship departed Pearl Hair
Dor, Hawaii, Oct. II, and will
operate as part of an anfi-subma-
rine hunter killer group and par
ticipate in amphibious and air de-
Tense exercises.
The ship is scheduled to visit
Hong Kong. Okinawa, Taiwan, the
Philippines and Japan during the
overseas tour.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1960-11-19
Mirror-Monitor To Hit The AIeutians

With this issue of the Mailboat
Monitor, this publication begins a
new phase in its dubious and un-
certain life.
Due to lack of news, we have
combined the Monitor with the
Mirror once month, knowing that
many people here are well ac-
quainted with those living in the
remote villages along the Chain.
Conversely, many people in the
Aleutians are friends and rela-
tives of those living here. We will
be happy to get all the news from
the Chain Gang as we'll as from
those around Kodiak Island, and
will expand our pages as necessary
We recognize the far-flung Aleu-
tians as geographically strategic,
its news potential as great as its
uncertain weather, its rugged in
habitants as true pioneers. The
boatmen who ply its adjacent wa
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1960-11-19
Art Harris Wins
Seat In House

Art Harris, owner of the Harris
Aleutian Livestock mpany,
Nikolski Village, Umnak Island,
won easily over his opponent in
the Nov. election, thus gaining
a seat as State Representative for
the Aleutian District.
Charlie Franz, Alaska peninsula
fisherman and operator of a small
flying service, was a write-0n candi-
date, having lost out in the pri-
maries.
Both candidates were Democrats.
In other election results, Sen.
Al owen, representing the Kodiak
Aleutian District, won over DR.. A.
Holmes Johnson, his Republican
opponent, and in the Kodiak area,
Rep. Pete Deveau and Gil Jarvela
both won seats in the legislature.
Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1960-11-19
Port Bailey
Lorenson Family
Move To Kodiak
By Lorraine Hillborn

Rudy, Betty, ChriSty and Charles
Lorenson have moved to the City
of Kodiak.
About the middle of September,
our closest and only neighbor,
Fritz and Katie Lorenson, left also
Fritz went to Seattle for medical
treatment
Emil Morton ana Benny Gregori-
off arrived on the Goth. Emil left
the next day. Benny remained to
work here awhile.
Rudy Lorenson with Archie and
Billy Hubley as deck hands
brought the ''Freida" over to pick
up Kadiak's scow on the 25th.
Rudy and crew left for Kodiak the
following morning.
The power Scow "BorwelP tied
up here for the night, and left the
next morning.
Parks II and the Foggy Cape
with skipper 9"Ducky" Morrison
and skipper Tubby Olson came in
on the 9th. The mail plane
sneaked in on us, a day late be-
cause of weather.
The Western Pioneer arrived the
evening of the 18th on her way
Westward.
Sunday afternoon, on the 29th,
the Expansion stopped in from the
Westward and anchored in the
bay.
Tubby Olson was kind enough
TO take us out to the mailboat on
the Foggy Cape. Emmett Ander-
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Eric Carlson,
and Edith and Gloria Skonberg
came ashore to visit. They seemed
anxious to get ashore. 1t was
rough trip, they said, and quite
few were still Seasick on board.