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Evening star., 1960-07-19
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

possibly tell about the occu-
pants by looking at them.
The untidiest desk is occu-
pied by the most carefully
dressed man.
The very orderly desk is
held down by one who is
supremely careless in matters
of dress.
Yonder painfully straight
ened affair is due only to the
mlnistrations of the janitor,
who has a passion for order
illness.
Everyone. of course, should
strive for a certain amount
of order.
Ones own order, not some
one else's idea.
Just so long as the user
can f1nd what he wants, per-
haps that is enough neatness
and order for all practical
purposes.
We believe in an untidy
desk, not just because we
keep one. but because it
shows a fine amplitude of
spirit, a willingness to be in
terested in many things.
We are slightly suspicious
OF the desk, however great its
occupant, which shows itself
too straight-laced in the face
of day.
Such a desk, mahogany or
oak. real wood or metal even
more natural. bespeaks the
mind which thinks in geo.
metrical figures.
There is a real need. in this
topsy-turvy world. for such
intelligences. but such must
not expect all of us to be so.
When we look at a very
untidy desk, scattered with
papers. pen and ink. letters
and all, we seem to see a
modern cornucopia. verit-
able horn Of plenty, over
flowing with the things OF
life.
II it is a busineSsman's
desk, we see money, and
plenty OF it. II it is a writer's
desk, we see words, and
plenty OF them. II the desk
belongs to a legislator, we see
laws and still more laws.
These men may make mis-
takes, but they will somehow
get things done and not go
around Dragging about it,
either.
Let us give the untidy desk,
as some call it, full credit.
1t is a desk OF accomplish
ment. The man who keeps his
desk Just so. with everything
in its place, may do as well
in the end, but he will have
much TO overcome. Some way
we see his product hard and
angular, as if he had OBJ
stacles to surmount in the
very production, where every
thing should be laid out for
self-help. Emerson wrote:
Trust thyself, every heart
vibrates to that iron string"
at a cluttered desk.
Evening star., 1960-07-19

newly nominated presidential
candidate. seldom has a can
didate appeared before a
committee and said so flatly
what he wished done. Min
utes afterward. the national
committee, without debate.
ratified the entire list Of
committee officers at one fell
swoop. with no roll call.
The contrast between the
Kennedy operation and that
Of Adlai Stevenson four years
ago on similar occasions is as
sharp as day and night. Mr..
Stevenson left to the Demo-
cratic national convention
what he called an open con-
vention-the selection of the
vice presidential nominee.
When Mr.. Stevenson came
before the meeting Of the
national committee it was to
say that Paul M. Butler
would be continued on as ma
tional chairman. although
Mr.. Stevenson had only an
hour or two before told Mr..
Butler he was out"
Mr.. Stevenson had intend
ed to appoint the late James
Finnegan of Pennsylvania,
who had been his pre-con-
vention manager.
To Take Advice ..
Senator Kennedy naturally
will seek advice Of others in
the coming campaign. Un-
doubtedly. he will lean on his
brother Bobby" as he is
familiarly called and by the
candidate himself. In the
pre-convention campaign the
Kennedy brothers made a
terrifically strong team. Also,
Senator Kennedy will take
the advice of his politically
astute running mate, Lyndon
Johnson-and others. But
the final word will be Jacks.
Command seems to come ma
turally to him.
In a hard fought cam
paign-as the 1860 presiden-
tial contest is likely to be
a decisive leader is a real
asset. This does not mean
the leader will take snap
Judgment. 1t does mean he
will not daily and be pulled
first one way and then an
other. Former President
Harry S. Truman's chief
cause of complaint against
Adlai Stevenson as a presi-
dental nominee this year was
he is indecisive."
There is plenty Of work
ahead Of the Democrats if
they are to win. 1t is already
noticeable that pleas are
going to Senator Kennedy to
come into States where party
factionalism is rife, like New
York. and into other States
where various groups of vo-
tiers are disgruntled, like
organized labor and the
Negro voters. and the Middle
West where the farmers
wanted a man from their
section as a vice presidential
nominee.
That Senator Kennedy will
answer these pleas is a fore
gone conclusion.
Evening star., 1960-07-19
THE POLITICAL MILL
Jack Kennedy Will Call the Shots
BY GOULD LINCOLN

CHICAGO.-Senator Ken
nedy Jack Kennedy as he
will be known to and called
by millions from now on un-
til election day. already has
demonstrated he will make
the major decisions Of the
Democrats battle for the
presidency. His will be a
firm hand.
1t was Jack Kennedy's de-
cision to pick Senator Lyn-
don Johnson Of Texas-even
while he was being pressed
hard to take a Midwesterner
and a man recognized as
more liberal than the Texan.
1t was Jack Kennedy's deci-
sion to have Senator Scoop"
Jackson of Washington as
chairman of the Democratic
National Committee. And it
was Jack Kennedy's decision
to open his campaign with a
personal attack on Vice Pres
ident Nixon. his expected Re-
publican opponent in the
coming campaign.
The Massachusetts, Senator
takes to command as a duck
does to water. Some may call
him arrogant, but arrogant
or no. he states his position
and case in plain language,
without fuss and. feathers.
after he has made up his
mind.
The Senator, once having
won the Democratic nomi-
nation for President, never
thought Of throwing UP his
hands in view Of the numer-
Gus vice-presidential aspir-
ants-as some others might
have done-and leaving the
choice to an open" con-
vention. He considered that
Senator johnson would
strengthen the Democratic
ticket.
Not all the arguments and
rumblings Of revolts from
Northern radicals, the labor
leaders and some of the Ne
gro leaders could shake Sen
ator Kennedy after he made
up his mind. It's true that he
had the advice and argu-
ments Of some Of the party's
foremost old pros, like Gov
ernor David Lawrence of
Pennsylvania. favoring the
johnson nomination. In the
end, the decision was his.
Like a Command
When Senator Kennedy
came before the meeting OF
the newly elected Democratic
National Committee on Sat-
urday, he simply stated his
list Of names for the top Of
flcialS Of that organiza alton
headed by Senator Jackson.
While he admitted that the
task of selecting its chair
man rested with the COM
mittee. he recommended Sen
ator Jackson and the others
and he hoped the committee
would follow his proposals.
To those who heard his
quiet statement, it sounded
for all the world like a COM
mand. While the selection of
national chairman is a rec
ognized prerogative of the
Evening star., 1960-07-19
Oppose Annexation

AS residents of that part OF
Fairfax County which the
Falls Church City Council
seeks to annex, we regard
the annexation issue to be
the most crucial public ques-
ton which has faced City
and County residents in re-
cent years. We consider the
proposition that either Falls
Church or Fairfax citizens
stand to gain from the pro.
posed annexation to te IN
credible.
What has Falls Church to
offer us? The Councils ordi-
nance ingenuously promises
to bring the level VI roads,
sewers, and public services
up to the quality and
level presently existing with
in the City" We live in the
Walnut Hill-Donna Lee e-Pop-
lar Heights-Falls Hill-West-
wood Park area, comprising
the Timber Lane Elementary
School District, which is the
largest residential area pro-
posed for annexation. This
area is fully developed in
streets. sewers, school facili-
ties and public services to a
degree well above that en-
joyed by most of Falls
Church. This will be easily
shown in Court. 1t should be
noted that other County
areas which grew up along
side Falls Church much be-
fore ours were deliberately
omitted from the annexation
proposal because of their
need for public improve
ments and their lesser value
as a tax source.
In every significant con-
sideration, County residents
would suffer from annexa-
tion. We would have the
privilege of hauling our trash
and garbage to the curb. :r-
stead of having it picked up
at our back doors. We would
pay bus fare for our chill
dren to and from high school.
as Fall Church residents must
do. We would have our real
estate assessment raised to
the high Falls Church level
of 40 to as per cent and, on
top Of that, we would Join
Falls Church properly own
ers in a large tax boost to
repay the County for schools
and Improvements in the an
nexed area. We would lose
the benefits of the new
County intermediate schools
opening this fall: Falls
Church does not provide in
termediate schools. We would
pay a utilities tax (ours would
be about $50 per year, which
County residents do not pay.
We would be served by a dis
tant fire department which
also serves part of Arlington
County, where it is located.
We would receive police serv-
ice from a police department
which could match the ex-
tensive facilities of the Fair
fax police only at prohibitive
cost.
We can see no aspect OF
advantage whatever to an
nexed county residents.
Alice and Yaro Shalnik.
Evening star., 1960-07-19
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used If
letters carry tDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to con-
denSdtion.
Evening star., 1960-07-19

80 'N~~s
telephones, and so on, that
not even the owner can find
what he wants. others may
say.
Keepers of neat desks do
no more orderly thinking, it
may be believed. than those
who permit a hodge -podge
to exist on the top of a desk.
1t is impossible to Judge
from such circumstances.
The times have changed.
Once it may have been
easy to deduct certain things
from outward signs.
Consider the householder.
At one time it was fairly
easy to tell what sort of peo-
pie lived in a house by the
way the yard was kept.
1t can't be done any more.
although the idea that it
can dies hard.
Perhaps it never could be
done with desks.
A desk is more than Just
something to hold necessary
working tools, supposedly of
the intellect.
A desk becomes a part OF
the being Of the person who
habitually sits at it.
The diSorderly desk may
not be AS untidy as it looks
to a stranger.
Every paper, every book,
may mean much to the owner.
The stranger sees nothing
but a desk and there is not
much to a desk, just as
a desk.
1t is Just another piece Of
furniture. when the rightful
occupant is gone.
An old roll-top affair, bat
tered and worn. scarce At to
be hauled away, but for many
years it held in its equally
worn chair a man.
No doubt he dreamed. too,
from time to time. Few desks
see nothing but work. They
see dreams, hopes deferred,
love and expectation.
The worn blotter, dog
at the corner, could tell a tale
At for a fine novel, if some
one should come along who
possessed the key to the mys-
terry.
Maybe it could not tell
much of a story, after all.
Not all desks can, any more
than people.
Six desks and you couldn't
Evening star., 1960-07-19

pot of gold at the bottom of the urban
rainbow which glowed so attractively
over Los Angeles
Evening star., 1960-07-19

In the main. there seem
to be two great classes of
desk userS-those who keep
'em neat and they who keep
EN- untidy.
There is no in between.
Either desk is immaculate
or it is so cluttered with pa
pers, books, baskets, pipes,
Evening star., 1960-07-19

Mr. TroceweII is i'll and in his OBJ
'enee The Stor is reprintins some
Of his columns Of other years. He
requests thot no telephone er
other messages be sent to his
home during his illness. From The
Stor OF July q, 1885.
Evening star., 1960-07-19
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Evening star., 1960-09-15
THE CHEF SAYS
PeorsAdd
Interest.
ToMenus

quickly prepared desserts and
salads and meat accompani-
ments. Bartlett pears are
known by the name "Wil-
liams" throughout most Of
the world.
The perfect pear, served
with a wedge Of fragrant
cheese, is particularly good
after a heavy dinner. Flam-
ing pears, made with lightly
poached fresh pears. which
at the moment of serving are
covered with warmed brandy
in which a cube of sugar has
been melted, then set alight,
are a dramatic dessert. An
other famous but easily pre-
pared continental dessert Is
poached fresh pear halves
filled with vanilla ice cream
and bathed in a warm bitter
sweet chocolate sauce.
Fresh pears also help to
make fine salads. Diced
oranges and pears combine
we'll. The sweetness Of pears
is good contraSted with nippy
blue or sharp cheddar cheese.
Wedges Of unpeeled pear,
dipped in fresh lemon juice.
or diced pears with nuts and
celery, both make delicious
salad combinations.
POached Fresh Pears With
Almond Custard Sauce
6 medium firm ripe Bart
lett pears
112 cups sugar
2 cups water
/ tablespoon fresh lemon
juice
Almond cuStard sauce
Toasted sliced almonds
Wash pears and peel, leav-
ing them whole with stems
attached. Bring sugar, water
and lemon Juice to boiling
point in a 2-quart, saucepan.
Add 3 pears at a time, cover
and cook Is minutes or until
tender when pierced with a
toothpick. Remove to fruit
dishes. Serve warm or chilled
with almond custard sauce
and toasted sliced almonds.
Yield; six servings.
Almond Custard Sauce
"a cup light brown sugar
1s teaspoon salt
8 eggs
"a cup cold light cream
13z cups scalded light cream
/ teaspoon pure vanilla ex-
tract
" teaspoon almond extract
Combine sugar and salt in
a saucepan or top part Of .
double boiler. Beat egg
lightly and blend with sugar.
Stir in cold cream. Then,
add hot cream. Stir and cook
over very low heat or hot
water until the mixture coats
a metal spoon. (Do not boil
or cook at too high heath
Remove from heat, stir In
pure vanilla and almond ex-
tracts. Serve warm or chilled
over poached pears. Yield:
212 cups.
Fresh Pear and Orange Sauce
4 large fresh ripe pears
3 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons sugar
1a teaspoon salt
2 large fresh oranges
Wash, pare and quarter
pears. Place in q saucepan
with water. Cover and cook
slowly until soft, Is to 20
minutes. Mash. Add sugar
and salt. Peel and section
oranges. Dice and add to
pear sauce. Chill and serve
as a meat accompaniment, or
as a sauce over ginger bread,
cakes and puddings. Yield:
Approximately 3la cups.
Fresh Pear Salad Dressing
large fresh ripe pear
"a cup lemon Juice
u cup olive oil
2 teaspoons sugar
u teaspoon dry mustard
"a teaspoon salt
"a teaspoon cayenne
2 teaspoons h sera dish
sauce
Peel and shred pear in
lemon Juice. Add remaining
ingredients. Mix thoroughly.
Chill. Serve over lettuce or
fruit salad. Yield: Two cups.
(Released by The Bell syndicste)
Evening star., 1960-09-15

Four cups prepared fruit
(about 3 pounds ripe peach
es). s cups sugar. l box (1A
ounces) powdered fruit pee
tin. " cup dark Puerto Rican
rum.
First. prepare the fruit. Peel
and pit about 8 pounds fully
ripe peaches. Grind or chop
very fine. Measure 4 cups into
a very large saucepan.
Then make the jam. Meas
ure sugar and set aside. Add
powdered fruit pectin and
rum to fruit in saucepan and
mix we'll. Place over high
heat and stir until mixture
comes to a hard boil. At once
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Quick Dessert

Don't throw away pound
cake that's a bit stale. Serve
1t with orange slices for a
quick attractive hot dessert.
Slice cake and top each slice
with two slices of orange.
Arrange in ~sh allow pan.
Cream a little margarine. one
egg yolk, sugar and grated
orange rind and spoon over
orange slices and run under
broiler for five minutes or
until delicately Drowned.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Peach Rum Jam

stir in sugar. Bring to a full
rolling boil and boil hard /
minute, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and skim
off foam with metal spoon.
Then stir and skim by turns
for S minutes to cool slightly,
to prevent floating fruit.
Ladle quickly into glasses.
Cover jam at once with 70
inch hot parafiin. Makes
about 8 medium glasses (4ha
pounds jam).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01
Mountain Medicine
By JIM BIRCHFIELD
Star Staff Writer

from goldenrod and wild roses. The
prices are high, but it takes days to accu-
mulate an ounce of the stuff. The plants
are gathered carefully, and then the
pollen is shaken onto clean white cloth
and sifted into containers. The pollen
is used in medical research into aller-
gies.
There is no doubt that some knowl-
edge of herbs came to this country with
the pioneer settlers. However, the first
white men found new plants in the New
World and learned much of their medi-
cinal properties from the Indians.
Indian lore is still the basis of lot
of the medical treatments in isolated
areas of the Southern highlands. AS one
herb specialist sums it up, "'Tain't moth
ing grows amt good for something"
Old Aunt Lucy Dehart, a backwoOds herb
sage, believes all menfolk need a spot of
cherry-bark bitters to fit 'em for blowing
after lazing away the winter. Most herb
gatherers follow the picking formula
expounded by Rosebud Cochran of Tur-
key Creek, who digs the roots afore the
sap rises, picks the leaves when they're
about the size of squirrel ears, and peels
the bark in the dark of the moon after
the sap rises"
Some of the herb remedies are made
by boiling down the plantstuff in big watts,
until only sticky syrup remains. Some
roots are eaten raw, and many kinds of
tea are made from dried leaves or roots.
Anything from rheumatism to lOvesick-
ness, the mountaineers believe, can be
treated successfully by the right herbs.
Photographer Earl Palmer of Cam
bria, Va, has chronicled some of the
more popular botanical beliefs of the
folks who live nearby. No mere super
stition, the remedies often have scien-
tific chemical basis for doing what
they're supposed to do. But many noun
taineers could undoubtedly save them
selves lot of time and trouble by just
taking a store-bought vitamin pill or
laxative.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-01

WHEN the first warm dayssOf spring
w stir the sap in the SaSsafras and
bring out the trilliums in the shady cOveS
of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
grubbing hoes are brought out from
many a cabin to harvest the herbs that
give hill folk relief from many ills.
In many a cabin, there is the pungent
odor of sassafras as the roots are stepped
into a tea that has been famous as
spring tonic for centuries.
And when the sap begins to rise,
many a mountaineer peels off the inner
bark from the wild cherry tree to make
the basic ingredient for wild cherry
cough syrup. The syrup is made by boil
ing the bark with wild honey gathered
from bee trees. The best honey, they say,
is made from the sourwood bloom.
The delicate blood root, with its
small white blossoms, is one of the early
wildflOwerS of the mountains, and its
roots make bitter tea used as spring
tonic.
And there is the white trillium, a
member of the lily of the valley family,
whose TOOIS are uSGu IOT tHcIE dStIlHSCht
qualities. Many mountaineers boil them
in milk as a cure for stomach aches;
others grind them for use as a treatment
for insect bites.
The roots of Solomons seal are used
as both an internal medicine and an
external application for bruises and to
reduce swelling.
Later in the summer comes the time
to dig ginseng roots, which have reputa-
ton of having medicinal qualities to fit
every ill. The name of the plant comes
from the Chinese, 'jen-shen," but in the
mountains you'll hear it referred to
simply as sang"
Ginseng roots bring good prices on
the botanical drug market, and many of
them find their way to China. In some
areas, laws prohibit the ruthless de-
struction of ginseng.
In late summer, too, mountain folk
derive income from the sale of pollen
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The Sidney herald., 1960-01-13
SERVICES AT
FOR TAYLOR f A

Final rites for Terry Lynn
Taylor, infant son of Mr.. and
Mrs. d. w. (Bill) Taylor of Fair
view, were held at 2 o'clock Tues
day afternoon, Jan. IL at the
Cloyd-G order Mortuary Chapel,
with the Rev. George Sanders,
pastor of Lonsdale Methodist
Church, officiating.
The child died at his home early
Saturday m~ornngiJan. 9. He was
born in Sidney Nov. Is, 1859.
Surviving besides his parents
ere four brothers his paternal
grandmother, Mrs. Olive Taylor
and his maternal grandparents,
MIR. and Mrs. Everett Crum.
Miss Margaret Pintler was or
ganist at the services and ac-
companied Mrs. Earl Flynn and
Mrs. Carlos Collins, who sang
Jesus Loves me-" and "Jesus is
Always There"
Burial was in the Fairview
cemetery.
The Sidney herald., 1960-01-13

&. @. p. Women
Plan Convention

Mrs. Harold Wright, newly elect
ed President of the Montana
Federation of Republican Women
has announced plans for a two day
conclave of Republican women,
and state officials, at Helena'S
Placer Hotel on January II and 10.
We expect an enthusiastic turn
OUT. she said, ''for Republicans
are eager and optimistic in look
ing towards 1860. We feel conf
dent the mass of voters r dis
guSted with the record of the
heavily democratic 1859 LegiSla-
ture and will vote Republican to
prevent a repetition-one which
would be disastrous for Montana"
Registration will begin at 400
pm. in the lobby of the Placer
Hotel on January II. Official bust
ness will open with a no-host
dinner at 600, followed by an
Executive Board meeting, and
committee meetings. AT 700 am,
January 18th, Mrs. Helen Johnson,
Vice Chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee, will pre-
side over a breakfast meeting to
spell out precinct organization
plans. A business session from 900
am. to HAS am. will follow, with
committee reports and general
discussion.
A % luncheon, presided over
by Mrs. Gladys Knowles, Repub-
lican National Committeewoman,
will be honored with an address
by Governor j. Hugo Aronson
Guests of honor will include Miss
Harriet Miller, Superintendent of
Public instruction, State Senator
Bertha Streeter, Republican Leg
~islators, and announced candidates
for the 1860 political foray.
Members will reconvene at 2:3O
pm. for final discussion, and the
meeting will adjourn at $3.50 pm.
The Sidney herald., 1960-01-13

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The Sidney herald., 1960-01-13
Dc. Nutter--
CONTINUED FROM PAGE u

duced by Vice-President Nixon's
outstanding popularity"
81 believe, also," Nutter contin-
ued, "that Nixon's capabilities for
the office of President of the
United States must go unchalleng-
ed, as there isn't a contender, GER
tainly on the Democrat ticket, who
can come close to measuring up to
his experience. For example, his
most successful tour of Russia, his
calling a spade a spade in the
Communists own back yard, and
most recently, his hand in settling
Americas most Gripping steel
strike. These triumphs reveal a
tremendous talent in handling the
affairs of government efficiently
and successfully.
"The American people want the
best trained man for President.
Rockefeller, demonstrating con-
siderable political acumen, realiz-
ed this and was the first potential
Nixon opponent to recognize the
fact publicly" Nutter concluded.