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Evening star., 1961-02-26
More books about America being
published. - ~.-~ -.~......

Modern History University of Mich
igan Press, $l5). The FIRST volume,
by Michael Kraus, carries us from the
landing of the Morse seamen to the
death of Lincoln; the second, by
Foster Rhea Dulles, covers the years
from the Reconstruction Period to
the threshold of the Space Age.
IlBUssFased enjoyment
Another way of gaining perspec-
tive, less systematic but perhaps more
vivid, is to spend some time with
A Treasury of American Heritage
Simon and Schuster, $l5), contain
ing over AIS illustrations (including
l48 in COLOR, AZ articles, the best
that the fine book-magazine, "Ameri.
can Heritage" has published over the
years. And still another way is to
enjoy The Past We Share, by Peter
Quennell and Alan Hodge prone
theus Press, $l2.5O. This is an Illus
trated history of the AngIo-American
people.
The great event of our generation is,
Of course, the Second World War: and
Louis L. Snyder's The War: A Com
else History loS9-l945 Julian Mess
ner, $7.o5) comes along just in time to
provide full and unbiased account.
Essentially we are people in proc.
ess. Our institutions are traditional
but not fixed. Underlying many of
them is our guarantee of freedom, the
Bill of Rights. Young people espe-
cially may want to read Justice Will
liam o. Douglas A Living Bill of
Rights Doubleday, 81 .5O which cites
crucial cases and explains how the Bill
is doing in these controversial days.
Those who wish seriously to reflect
on the paths that may be taken by our
country during the next few decades
may be lped by the reprint of the
Life Magazine series, The National
Purpose QHolt, Rinehart and Win
ston, cloth $2.95; paper $l.5O). This
is a collection of articles, several of
them brilliant. Men who have shaped
our minds, from Washington to FDR,
Evening star., 1961-02-26
Relief can come
twice as fast

Science proves Absorblne JV.
acts on tired, aching muscles
to reduce fatigue Itself
to bring relief twice % fast
Now science proves tired, ach-
ing muscles recover twice as fast
with Absorbine Jr. as when
nature takes its course"
Medical experts, using the
new Electromagnetic, prove
Absorbine Jr. can bring fatigued
muscles back twice as fast as
nature can.
Absorbine Jr. treats the cause
of sore, aching muscles because
it dilates peripheral blood vessel
walls. 1t speeds blood flow at
the point of pain and helps
fatigued muscles get back to
normal faster.
Whenever muscles become
stiff and sore from overexertion,
use refreshing Absorbine Jr. See
how much faster you feel better.
Evening star., 1961-02-26

THIS WEEK ~osor'"s February 40. 1891
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1961-09-07
LET Err s

rim the mood, will be able to
come around some night, and
persuade you of the rightness of
our cause. Of we can get your
hands tied firmly.)
Sincerely,
Isl Norman L. Fitzpatrick
(And, you know, l believe him,
too Is it not in North Carolina
that a town is named "TarbOrO?"
There must be a reason. pde.)
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THE SURE huff TRUTH
ABOUT THE CIVIL WAR

tplenty of hot coffee ready by
daybreak, on the theory that he
and the other officers would
need it when they got back.
Neither of us knew much
about cooking, but we filled a
ten-gallon wash boiler full of
water and ten pounds of coffee
and set it on the galley stove.
BY midnight it was boiling good,
but an awful lot of coffee
grounds seemed to be floating
On the top.
Nov somewhere I had heard
that eggshells would settle cof-
fee grounds. Henry argued that
didn't stand to reason. What the
situation called for was some
thing with more body to it, like
whole eggs. SO we broke a
dozen eggs into the boiler and
stirred for while. That helped
some, but not much. So we
added another dozen, and threw
in the shells after them.
Naturally we were pretty
sore about missing the fun in
Natchez : under : the Hill, and
when Henry found bottle of
vanilla extract in the pantry we
decided to have a party of our
own. Come daylight, we were
smelling like a pair of angel
food cakes. At about that point
it occurred to us that the coffee
better be real good when the
Captain got home. We broke
in all the rest of the eggs in the
galley, including those which
weren't too fresh, and we were
stirring hard when the officers
wobbled up the gangplank.
"In spite of all the pains we
had taken, the Captain wasn't
happy about that coffee. In fact,
he was downright irritable. Said
we tried to poison him. Said we
probably were Rebel spies. Said
that anyhow we were no-good
brats, and we would sure God
spend the rest Of the war in the
brig.
Maybe we would have, too,
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Welsh back to the savage ma
tons from which they once es-
capped. We must keep the Ne
gro, however. as he knows how
to keep his place. and besides,
we have to have someone do
the work.
If you do, not agree, ! am sure
five or six of my ST. friends,
after a few drinks to put them
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If the officers hadn't got tired
of waiting on their own table.
We never were officially par
doned, exactly, but the First
Officer let us out in time to see
the surrender of Vicksburg in
July"
For officers in general my
grandfather had scant respect.
Sherman, for example, he de-
scribed as "a nervous fuss
budget" who nearly lost the
Army of the Tennessee at Shi-
lob out of sheer carelessness.
and who was saved only by the
last-minute arrival of the river
flotilla with firepower and re-
Inducements. But Grant, he
admitted, probably knew what
he was up to-" Sometimes he
added that Grant wasn't as
flighty as most of them gen.
erals"-a rare compliment from
the old man, who regarded
flightiness Tor any other dis
play of emotion) with chill con-
tempt.
This judgment apparently
was based less on Grants record
of victories than on a cabin
boys observation of his be-
havior under fire. Grandpa's
best chance for a closeup APP
praisal came at the siege of Fort
Donelson. For hours there the
gunboats tossed shells into the
Confederate entren c h m e n t S,
while Grant watched from the
river bank a few yards away.
The weather was near freezing
and an ICY rain fell at intervals
all through the day.
"He scootched up in his sad
die like wet chicken" Grand
pa remembered, while the wa
ter dripped down his coat COL
lar and the Reb cannon balls
splashed mud all over his
boots"
For his juvenile listener this
was exciting sultan eyeball
witnesses account of History in
the Making. I nagged for de-
tails What I wanted, l suppose,
though I didn't know how to
ask for it, was an insight into
the character of a hero, some
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I. visiting the sins of the fathers
on the children, ond on the
children's children ;"
Did you know that

Genetcists estimate that tests of Hbonbs already
completed may ultimately mean 10 900 more detOrnaed
O101eS Dorm? And that each test adds untnOaOn
numbers to that tragic total?
The Council of Atomic Scientists in Great Britain
has alarmed that many 600 people may get
cancer as a result OF tests already performed?
9235 scientists from many countries, including
80 N0beL Prize aOin7aerS haze called ending of ucear
tests "imperative"!
Diplomat George F. KEENAN, writes
II haze expressly refrained from speaking in
connection auth these other matters of that aspect of
the atomic problem, that 10orries nnany of ny
country'nen most OF all: namely, the damage that
may be done to our human environment and to the
genetic nakeup OF human beings By the mere testing
OF these fearful 0eapons, not to mention their actual
use in
"Surely it is better that many OF as should die
somewhat before our time, than that should lve
at the cost Of preudicng the conditions of life for
children So long therefore, the scientists disagree
about the effects OF all this testing it our duty to
be guided by our obligation to other generations-not
Just Our O1On."
George F. Kennnn, BIC
December I, 1857.
Write the President today stop the testing nuceor weep
And to find comrades the struggle oaoint wor
ond for peoce, write
The Fellowship Of Reconciliation
Box III Nyock, NJ Y.
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g. principle of hot air. This is all share with
the other famous society.
join? have received this already be-
long. If have courage confess membership to
Others If you DON'T take the fifth. But, whether cou
rageous cowardly you IN of now.
What duties? Whenever write to
Stanley who knows nothing about this He has been
work for two the Indians of North Da-
koa. BY this time, he would be glad to hear from
If wish to visit him, he has plenty of room.
And be with the Indians, that there is al
a reservation for yOu
Write to him tOday Mr. Rupert Stanley
619-NeW Town, North Dakota
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ill-knit bone for the rest of his
life.)
Cabin boy John Fischer got
his only wound, his biggest par
ty, and his worst disgrace in the
Vicksburg campaign.
He had volunteered for serv-
ice On one of the transports
which Admiral David Porter
had chosen for the supposedly
desperate race down the Missis-
sippi under the muzzles of the
Vicksburg batteries, on the night
of April Is, 1868. Some sixty
years later he told me about it.,
during the course of long, hot
afternoon of post-hole digging,
in words about like this:
Everybody except Grant and
Porter thought the scheme was
crazy. While l was cleaning up
the officers mess table ! heard
them say that even Sherman
was against it, and that all of
our unarmored transports were
bound to be sunk before we
could steam a hundred yards
beyond Big Bend. All that aft
ernoon / helped stack cotton
bales and barrels of bareback
along the rail, to give the deck
hands a little cover. They made
a mighty flimsy-looking breast
work, and l figured that I'd
never live to see morning.
What really happened was a
sort of anti-climax. The night
was real dark, and of course
there wasn't a single candle or
seegar alight in our whole string
of ships. Besides, we stuck close
to the west bank, so that the
Reb gunners couldn't see us too
well even after they set afire
some barns and houses to light
up the river
But they sure tried. For
nearly two hours they blazed
away with every cannon they
could bring to bear, and I guess
maybe ten thousand riflemen
kept popping at us as fast as
they could load. I watched the
whole thing through a crack be-
tween two cotton bales, jumping
like a rabbit every time shell
slammed into our boat. One
transport ran aground and sank,
and all the others got splintered
up pretty bad-but we didn't
lose a man.
Seemed like I was always
hungry those days, like a teen
age boy generally is, and as soon
as the shooting was over /
slipped along the deck till I
found a smashed cracker barrel.
I started eating bareback as fast
as l could stuff it in my mouth,
aiming to get my fill before an
officer caught me. In the dark
I couldn't see that MIME ball
had stuck in one of those crack
ers, and ! broke a tooth. It
wasn't what you could call a
combat wound, l guess, but it
was caused by a enemy weap-
on"
Toward the end of the cam
paign m e of the transports
were ordered to Natchez for re-
pair. In those days it was two
towns "a dignified cluster of
porticoed mansions on the bluff,
oyI hn1ovuv
Evening star., 1961-05-28

senger manager for the New
England office of Caribbean
Cruise Lines, Inc. She will make
her headquarters in Boston.
Evening star., 1961-05-28
Gets New Job

Florence Merriam, a Wash
ington resident for many years
has been namd district pas
Evening star., 1961-05-28
Rafting Set
In Germany

Rafting on the rivers will be
offered as a tourist lure for
the first time this summer in
Germany.
The German Tourist Office
reports the RATS will ply the
Salzach, Loisach and Isar
rivers in Bavaria.
Also new for the traveller this
year is the air conditioned
Helvetia, a Rhine river boat
four-to-six day cruises
between Rotterdam and Basle
The Helvetia makes her maiden
voyage from Basic July 9 and
the trips continue through
October 18.
She joins a fleet of Rhine
steamers which carries one
class of passengers at rates
ranging from $68 to 1923 in
two berth cabins. Single rates
are so per cent higher.
Evening star., 1961-05-28
BY DAVID S. HUGO
Contributing Writer

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del
This Atlantic Coast resort,
known as the Nations
Summer Capital" as a result
of an annual influx of vaca-
tionists from the Washington
area, is preparing for what is
expected to be the greatest
summer season in its history.
Throughout the area, hotels,
motels, summer cottages,
apartment buildings, rooming
houses, restaurants, dining
rooms, stores and shops are be-
ing renovated.
A program of public works is
under way with boardwalk
streets and other facilities be-
ing repaired and improved.
The sound of hammers, saws
and drills can currently be
heard throughout the area,
from Henlopen Acres on t h e
north to the shores of Silver
Lake, on the south.
While new construction, COM
pleted or underway, does not
approach the record $500, 900
total that was spent here in
1859, the 1861 total will ex-
ceed $150,000.
Evening star., 1961-05-28

Chairman Bonner Of the Mer-
chant Marine and Fisheries
Committees, and in the Senate
it was Chairman Magnuson of
the Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee.
Last year, despite the busi-
ness slump, saw a record num-
ber of cruises and a record
number of passengers carried
into the West Indies. From
East Coast and Gulf ports, a
total of 10000 set sail on
pleasure cruises.
The subsidized United States
flag carriers have long eyed
the cruise field as a venture
to offset its off-season pas
senger losses.
Not all Of the seven ships
mentioned would be available
at one time for the Caribbean
voyages. The lines still would
be required to maintain sail
ingS on their essential trade
routes"
All of the cruise schedules
would be subject to approval
by the Maritime Board.
Evening star., 1961-05-28
Sheraton Has
Its ts'NeWest'

The Sheraton Corporation
last week opened It's newest"
hotel-the 1,10O-room Shera-
ton Chicago on Chicago's North
Michigan avenue.
The project consisted of
grating a 600-room new wing
onto an existing 42-story, 500
room hotel. The result is being
billed as a convention hotel.
Among its features are a ball
room with a 2,000-person ca
pacity, an exhibit hall of ap-
proximately 5000 square feet,
and 13 other banquet and meet
ing rooms for groups of 40 to
900.
There are four restaurants
and bars, with a fifth under
construction. There is an un-
derground garage and motor
lobby with registration desk.
Name of the original hotel on
the site was the Sheraton Tow
erS.
Evening star., 1961-05-28
Poland Sees
700 Visitors

Poland expects to send be-
tween TOO and 800 visitors to
the United States next year
under the first organized Po-
land-to- United States excurs-
ions.
The prediction was made by
Stanislaw Marianski, general
director of ORBIS, an official
Polish travel agency. Mr.. Mar
ianski was in Washington last
week.
He said that Of about 100, 900
foreign visitors to Poland which
ORBIS expects to handle this
year, $4,000 will be from the
United States.
Evening star., 1961-05-28
GET UP AND 60!
West Indies Cruises Due
For an Increase in Berths
GET UP AND GO!
By JACK JONAS
Star Travel Editor

A whopping increase in berthS
available for cruises to the
West Indies is due under a bill
to permit subsidized American
flag carriers to abandon GER
tain schedules on their normal
trade routes and enter the
lucrative cruise field.
The bill, at last word await
ing President Kennedy's sigma
ture. could conceivably send
such a mammoth liner as the
= United States Lines SIS United
States-the fastest and the
third largest passenger ship
af1oat-to the balmy Carib-
bean.
The $46 million cruise busi-
ness last season was grabbed
off primarily by foreign flag
carriers because subsidy rules
required United States ships
to ply specified trade routes,
even during the money-losing
off season.
The United States Lines has
indicated that when the bill Is
signed into law, plans will be
made to send the IS United
States and the America on Car
tfhhean cY-1liSes
/; Also affected are Moore-Mc-
,Cormack and American Export
Lines.
Cruise Scheduled
Moore-McC Cormack, confident
of the bills approval, already
is advertising an inaugural
cruise October IL, for 13 days,
calling at five ports, at a
minimum of $500.
Mccormack has available its
comparatively new IS Argen-
tina and IS Brasil, which,
under cruise configuration,
could handle a passenger load
beginning at $50 each.
Current plans call for six to
17-day cruises, stopping at
from three to seven tropical r.
ports, and sailing from New
York and Port Everglades. Fla.
The Florida sailings would be
available for an average Of
about $50 a day.
Tentative program for Amer
ican Export Lines calls for al
ternating its Independence,
Constitution, and Atlantic on
a West Indies cruise program.
The 30,000-ton Independence
and Constitution could carry
as many as 800 cruise pas
sengers each, a spokesman for
AEL pointed out. The Atlantic,
which normally carries $50
passengers on transatlantic
runs, could accommodate as
many as $50 cruise passengers.
The Long Haul
The bill to provide for this
new service is similar to one
which was introduced at the
hast session of Congress, but
which got lost in the last
minute rush of business. 1t
originated with the Depart
ment of Commerce.
Sponsor In the House was
Evening star., 1961-05-28
ALL AT SEA
Washington
Firm Sees
AFut Year

Caribbean Cruise Lines, head
quartered here, has had a 10
per cent increase in business
so far this year.
The firm has expanded its
fleet of ships under charter,
adding the SIS Bretagne and
the SIS Ariadne.
Last year, with three ships
under charter, the firm carried
13,800 passengers on 80 cruises
from East Coast cities to Ber-
muda and various Caribbean
ports.
John E. Smith, jr., president
of the shipping company. pre-
diets a 1860 total of 26,5 $50 pas
sengers this year for a gross
business of $8.5 million.
On round trips beyond Ha-
waii, MatSon Lines has set an
air-sea interchange" plan for
its IS Lurline and SIS MatSo-
mia. Reduced rates will be in
effect between California and
Hawaii. Travellers may use any
combination of sea and air, but
the itinerary must include a
Matson sailing either to or
from Honolulu. Matson says
savings in effect run from $40
to 1920.
Bernard Hall, who has spent
10 of his rs years tending
plants aboard the Cunar d
Lines SIS Queen Elizabeth, is
no plain dirt gardener. His task
is to tend some 1900 plants
put aboard the ship before
each round trip voyage from
Southampton. And water, with
Evening star., 1961-05-28
NeWFaciIifies
Greet Tourist
At0cean CITY
By PATRICIA WILSON
Contributing Writer

OCEAN CITY, Md.-This
week end marks the beginning
Of another tourist season. The
resort has gone overheard re-
modelling and expanding facili-
ties anticipating a record break
ing summer.
Ocean City is a peninsula in
habited by about 1000 resi-
dents in winter, but manag-
ing to accommodate more than
1875, 900 visitors in summer.
This is not an easy task and
is accomplished only through
the combined cooperation and
efforts Of the residents and
businessmen plus the enthu-
siasm Of the Chamber of Com
merce.
Anyone who has been to
Ocean City before knows the
ins and outs Of the bays and
ways but to tourists arriving
for the first time it can be
a confusing experience. The
Chamber Of Commerce has
taken steps to overcome this.
New Building
This year, travellers approach
ing Ocean City via Route so,
will be greeted by the new
Chamber of Commerce build
ing.
The building is one of the
most modern in the area and
an added attraction along the
highway. Its simple lines blend
into a striking structure. sill
houetted against the backdrop
of sea and SKI. According to
Mrs. Russell Kline, secretary,
the building will be officially
dedicated at 3 pm. on Memorial
Day. The public is invited to
attend the ceremony.
The Chamber of Commerce
is set up so that when partici-
pating owners of hotels, motels,
cottages, apartments, or rooms
have a vacancy they call in
and register at the office.
When queried as to accom-
modations. the person on duty
can go right down the list and
spot a room available for one
night or a 3 bedroom suite
for a week. However, members
advise making reservations in
advance whenever possible.
Choice Available
Racks filled with literature
and brochures will be available
so that the traveller may make
a leisurely choice as to where
to stay or dine, or places of
interest to visit in the area.
Parking space is provided.
The Chamber puts out an
informative guide in the form
of a 70-page booklet listing
places to stay, restaurants,
things to do and see, area maps
of the resort. and church, club.
travel and fishing information.
Anyone interested in obtain
ing a guide may write to: Ocean
City Chamber Of Commerce,
P. o. Box 173, Ocean City, Md.
Evening star., 1961-05-28
Rehoboth Beach Ready
For q Record Season

Included in this total are
several new motels, apartment
buildings and rooming houses;
a new $4,000 supermarket, a
new drive-in restaurant and a
new $12,500 swimming pool.
The latter has been added to
the facilities available to guests
at the Henlopen Hotel and
Henlopen Motor Lodge and
is the third pool to be con-
structed along the boardwalk
in three years.
New on Boardwalk
Since last fall. the city has
installed approximately 700
feet of new wooden deck
ing on the boardwalk, and has
black-topped Gerar avenue and
FELTON, avenue and portions of
Second street. Additional pub
lie works are being planned.
Another sign that the sum-
mer season is drawing near is
provided by the fact that park
ing meters along Rehoboth
avenue and other principal
streets have ben put back in
operation.
While hotels, motels, restau-
rants and other tourist facil-
tiles are being readied for the
summer season, plans are also
progressing for a full schedule
of events and activities at the
popular resort.
The Rehoboth Art League,
which throughout the summer
season offers a series of cul-
tural events having consider
able appeal to the summer Wis
itor, has already begun op-
Grafton and currently is featur-
ing exhibits at its Henlopen
Acres Studios which are part
of the Statewide observance of
the Delaware Festival of the
Arts.
Evening star., 1961-05-28
Sft-Heurted
or New York

For the first time, a New
York City hotel is going to
offer its patrons free inside
garage space.
The Governor Clinton be-
gins the plan June 80 for those
staying on its family plan or
on double room occupancy.
Evening star., 1961-05-28
Art League Show

Also being planned is the
annual Art League Members
Show which will be conducted
in the Corkran Studio and the
annual photography exhibition
of the Art League Camera Club
which will be staged concur
rently in the adjacent Paynter
Studio.
Art classes will be conducted
by the Art League beginning
June 10 and continuing
through most of the season.
A boat regatta will be held
at Dewey Beach June 3-4 and a
boat parade" at Fenwick Is
land June Is. The annual In
dian River Regatta at Oak Or
chard is also scheduled for
June 25. Dewey Beach. Fenwick
Island and Oak Orchard are
all within a few minutes driv-
ing time of Rehoboth Beach
On Friday evening, June 16
the dualized Rehoboth avenue
will be the scene of a big pa
rade as the Veterans of For
eigh Wars open their annual
two-day convention: Impressive
public memorial services will be
staged the same evening on the
lawn of the island" at the
eastern end of Rehoboth ave-
nue. facing the boardwalk.