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The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1961-11-16

IOI IctEcdt IL OOeS seem In the
light of his second withdrawal,
after the publication of single
book, into the silence in which he
has persisted until now. To have
written such book and no other
is to betray some deep trouble not
only in finding words but in loving
the life one has lived enough to
want to find words for it. A retreat
from all that 1885 meant to Roth:
from the exigencies of adult sex
uality and political commitment
alike-this is what Call 1t Sleep
seems to the retrospective insight
of 1860. The book begins in 1907,
and though it jumps quickly some
five years, never quite reaches the
year of the Russian Revolution
(the roster of splendid betrayal
listed by the street-corner speaker
stops at 1905) and the vagaries of
Leninism Stalinism; just as in
coming to a close in a boys eighth
year it stops safely short of the
point where playing bad" be-
comes an act that can end in de-
Towering or pregnancy. In its
world before the falls of puberty
and the October Revolution, one
can remember 1905 and Mama
play out the dream of the apoca-
lypse and the Oedipal triangle in
all naivety.
Cued by whatever fears, Roth's
turning to childhood enables him
to render his story as dream and
nightmare, fantasy and myth-to
escape the limits of that realism
which makes of other accounts of
ghetto childhood documents rath-
er than poetry. In its own time
Call 1t Sleep was occasionally
compared to Farrell's Young Loni-
gan, but one cannot conceive of
such a foreword to Roth's book
as that written for Farrell's by
Frederic M. Thrasher, Associate
Professor of Education, New York
University, Author of The Gang"
Roth's book aspires not to sociol-
ogy but to theology; it is finally
and astonishingly a religious book,
though this fact even its latest
admiring critics tend to ignore or
underplay. Only in the account of
a child's experience could a pro-
tege of Eda Lou Walton lit would
have been another matter if he
had been sponsored by Mary Pick
ford) have gotten away with a
religious resolution to a serious
novel about ghetto life; and it was
to a child's experience that he was
canny enough to turn. An evasion
of responsibility? "A strategic de-
vice of great subtlety? 1t is not
necessary to decide.
David Schearl, at any rate, is
portrayed not only as a small boy
and a Jew but also as a mystic"
a naive adept visited by visions
he scarcely understands until
phrase from the sixth chapter of
Isaiah Eliminates for him his own
improbable prophetic initiation.
Having just burned the leaven of
the year in preparation for the
Passover ("All burned black. See
God, / was good? Now only white
NATIONS are lefty, David sits
watching the play of light on the
river and is transported ("HiS
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1961-11-16
A BOOK REVIEW

serious writer by the official
spokesman of the community out
of which he comes. Yet there was
in Roth a special kind of often
siveness, capable Of stirring a
more than conventional reaction;
for the real foulness of his book
is n d r e d not directly but
through the consciousness of an
extraordinarily acute and sensitive
boy of seven or eight. It's vulgarity,
that is to say, is presented as felt
vulgarity, grossness assailing a
sensibility with no d IF IN S
against it.
The technique of Call Is Sleep
is contrived to make manifest at
every moment that its real sub
ject is not SO much abomination
in the streets as that abomination
in the mind. Aside from a pre-
lude, in which the arrival of Da-
vid and his mother i'm America is
effectively narrated, and a section
toward the books end which
blends into a Joycean rhapsody
the sounds of a score of city voices
as overheard by some omniscient
Listener-the whole substance of
the novel is presented as what
happens inside the small haunted
head of David. It is only through
him that we know the dark cellar
sWarming with rats whose door he
must pass on his way in or out of
the warm sanctuary of his home;
the rage and guilt of his paranoid
father or that fathers impotence
and fantasies of being cuckolded;
his mothers melancholy, and her
soft, unfulfilled sexuality; the
promise of her body and the way
in which it is ogled by others; the
fact of sex in general as pollution,
the very opposite of love. For
David, the act by which he was
generated is an unmitigated horror
lin a dark closet, reeking of moth
balls, he is initiated by crippled
girl, her braces creaking as she
embraces him, Between the legs.
Who puts id in is de poppa. De
poppa's god de petzel. You de
poppa"); and he longs for a purity
he cannot find in his world, a fire,
a flame to purify him from his
iniquity as he has learned in
cheder Isaiah was once purified.
No book insists more on the dis
lance between the foulness man
lives and the purity he dreams;
but none makes more clear how
deeply rooted that dream is IN the
existence which seems to contra
dict it. It is, perhaps, this double
insight which gives to Roth's book
a Jewish character, quite indie
pendent of the subject m a tt e
with which he happens to deal.
Certainly, it reveals his kinship to
Nathaniel West, also a novelist of
the 3O's, whose relationship to his
own Jewishness is much more
equivocal than Roth's, but who
quotes in his earliest book an OBJ
servation of Doughrty's about the
nature of Semites in general which
illuminates his own work as well
as Roth's: the Semitic stands in
dung up to his eyes, but his brow
touches the heavens. Indeed, in
Jewish American fiction from
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1961-11-16
The Targets Are People

The missiles rising from Cope
Conovero and the bombs explod-
inc at Los Veeos ore only exper-
imentoI now, but their purpose
is deoth ond their torgets ore
people. People like you-children
like your chiIdren-milIions upon
millions Of them. If you're fed up
with helping to get reody for thot
kind of Slaughter, it's time to en-
list for peoce. For information.
write to
the FELLOWSHIP
OF RECONCILIATION
Box I'll Nyack. h. Z.
, 1961-10-03
Four Found Guilty Of
Grund LurcenY Get
Thirty Days in Juil

Four young men against
whom charges of grand lar
ceny were preferred, were
found guilty by Judge Cyril
Michael in the Municipal
Court, and sentenced to serve
thirty days in jail. They are:
Heraldo Santos, Angel Cruz,
Angel Velasquez and Juan
Encarnacion.
According to the Police re-
port, the four young men met
with Captain Thompson of a
steamship which brought sup
plies here. The Captain wanted
to meet a lady friend. He was
taken to an area near the Co
manche and took out his peck
etbook to give some money to
one of the fellows when one
grabbed it and ran off; before
the Captain could move he was
pushed back.
Patrolman Paulus had earl
Ter observed the fellows with
the captain and when the re-
port was made he quickly
rounded them up. They con-
fessed.
, 1961-10-03

squadron's Troop which is re-
gularly located in Bad Hers
field, entered the Army in Feb
ruary 1859. was last stationed
at Fort Benning, Ga, and ar
rived overseas in February
1860.
The 22-year-oid soldier is a
1857 graduate Of Saints Peter
& Paul Catholic High School.
, 1961-10-03
Army Spec. Monsdnto
With l4th Regiment
Squudron in Ger1ndny

Army Specialist Four Law
renee A. Monsanto, son TO Mr..
and Mrs. Leroy w. Monsanto
of St. Thomas, is a member of
the 18th Armored Cavalry Re
giment's 3rd Reconnaissance
Squadron which guards the
northern sector of the East
West German border in Eu-
rope.
The sector, over 100 miles
long parallels the border area
which is marked by a plowed
strip approximately ten yards
wide that contains sections of
barbed wire. The members of
Specialist Monsanto's unit
keep the border under con-
slant surveillance through the
use of ~jeep-mounted patrols
and observation and listening
posts.
Monsanto, a gunner il. the
, 1961-10-03
Miss Virgin Isldnds"
TO be Selected Oct. 2S
AT Good Hope Hotel

Final selection Of Miss Vir-
gin Islands for the Miss Latin
America Contest will be held
at Estate Good Hope Hotel on
Saturday, October 18th, it was
announced today.
The contestants will be mo-
delling dresses from the Ay
Ay Shop and displaying Of
their talents such as singing,
dancing, dramatics, etc.
Music for the occasion will
be furnished by Archie and
Wesley Thomas Combo.
The program will begin at
900 Pm. and continue until
M.
, 1961-10-03
Senate Action Deluys
Purchase Of Power
Units for Virgin Is.

Governor Ralph Paiewon-
sky stated that the failure Of
the Senate Appropriations
Committee to act on the 81
100000 requested this session
for the two power units for
the Virgin Islands Corporation
does not cancel out the authori
cation. It merely delays fur
ther action until January 1862.
The Authorizing Act which
extends the borrowing power
of VICORP from $11,OOO,O 900
to SIS, 900 remains in full
force and effect.
A request for this $4,000, 900
will be made in January 1862
through the House Of Repre-
sentatives Appropriation Com
mittee first, which is the re-
gular and normal procedure.
The request to Congress for
this appropriation could not
be made before the Authorize
ton was obtained. By that time
the last Deficiency Appropria-
ton Bill had already passed
the House. A last-minute at
tempt before the Congress adj
journed was made to catch this
Bill on the Senate side but fail
ed.
, 1961-10-03
Two Auto Accidents
Attributed to Cars
Purked Without Lights

@
There were two accidents
that could be directly attribut-
ed to parked cars without
lights. The first one reported
to the Police took place in the
vicinity Of Kings Hill.
George Anduze operating
car $50 on the Centerline road,
heading east when he stopped
behind a V~olkswagon, which
was parked on the left side of
the road but without lights.
Roy Anduze, his brother, came
along in a Chrysler going in
the same direction and crash
ed the car driven by George
which in turn bumped into the
Volkswagon.
Inside the VolksWagon Eus-
tacio Edwards was lying down
because he ran out of gas.
The grille, left headlight,
fender and hood were damag-
ed. The car driven by Roy
and V~olkswagon were damag-
ed severely. The parked car,
had no lights.
A ticket was issued to Roy
for reckless driving; Edwards
for having no lights.
The second accident occur
red on the Centerline near
Whim. A Police car, parked
without lights was hit by a
Chevrolet sedan, driven by
William Richards travelling
westward. Sergeant Hoyer
was at the time conducting an
in a nearby
property.
The fender, headlamp and
of the Police wagon
were damaged; the damage to
the Chevrolet were left front
and rear doors and rear fend-
er.
, 1961-10-03
JUNIOR
WORLD CONGRESS
OPENS IN P. R.
Virgin Islands Among
Four New National
JaYcees Admitted

JaYcees Admitted
The Junior Chamber Inter
national opened its 10th world
congress at the San Juan In
tercontinental Hotel on Mon.
& as its first business admitted
as its first business admitted
four new national Jaycee orga-
nizations while refusing the
application Of a fifth-the Bri-
fish Guiana Jaycees.
Heads of delegations from
more than so nations, meeting
in the Tropicoro Room, which
for the duration Of the con-
gress has been turned into a
United Nations-like assembly
hall, quickly voted approval Of
membership for the Virgin Is
lands, Surinam, Netherlands
Antilles and the Federation of
Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
But the delegates, who re-
present a world membership Of
100000 jaycees, turned down
British Guiana's bid to join the
body because that young ma
ton, which only recently be-
cam self-ruling, allows politics
to mix with its Jaycee activi-
ties.
Other reasons cited for the
rejection included the fact that
British Guiana Jaycees enforce
trade restrictions and set their
age limit for membership at SO
(ether Jaycees have a 40 year
limit.
Gov. Munoz delivered the
main welcoming address as de-
legates were still pouring in
from all over the world to
what is the biggest convention
ever to be hosted by Puerto
Rico.
Some 1900 were in town
with congress officials expect
ing the figure to swell to well
over 1900.
A delayed arrival was 1t.
Continued on page Al
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-21
New Missile
Job Assigned
VitrO Firm

Vitro Electronics, a division OF
Vitro Corporation of America,
has been awarded a $122, $50
contract to provide five airborne
telemetry receiving systems to
the Air Force Missile Test Gen.
ter at Patrick Air Force Base,
Fla.
The telemetry systems will be
installed aboard AMIR C-130 air
craft to receive telemetry data
for further study by Range en-
gineers.
Featured in the systems are
the Mems Clarke Model 1403
Telemetry Receivers, the SDU
203 Spectrum Display Units, the
|DCA 1000 Airborne Diversity
Combiners, and the NC 202 Air
borne Multicouplers.
This award is another in a
long series of contracts to pro-
vide telemetry systems for
both the Atlantic and Pacific
Missile Ranges. Vitro Electron-
les, producers of Mems Clarke"
equipment, is located in Silver
Spring and Los Angeles, Calf.
In precision electronics since
1909, Vitro Electronics is cur
rently engaged in many projects
requiring technogoical break
through and advancement of
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-21
POOlesville

Each night will be highlighted
with an address from a mission
airy. The guest speakers at the
services, which will begin at
7:30 p.m., have been scheduled
at follows: Sunday, Rev. T. H.
Francis, Kentucky; Monday,
Rev. M. Collins, Tuesday, Rev.
y. E. Saunders; Wednesday,
Rev. j. E. Potter, missionary
to the deaf! Thursday, Mrs. ].
Tumblin, ST., Brazil; Friday,
Rev. w. I. Barley, ST. The pub
lie is invited.
A family birthday dinner was
given at the home of the Ray
mond Carlisles, Hyattstown, re-
Gently, in honor of their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Naomi Stewart, Wash
ington, whose birthday was
March z.
The Sugar Loaf Homemakers
Club met Thursday at the home
of Mrs. Richard E Walden, near
Comus, with Mrs. William D.
Pyles, Sellman, co-hostess. Mrs.
Francis Johnston, Conus, and
Mrs. John w. Moore, near
Boyds, attended the recent tour
conducted through the plant of
the Station Tru-Type Ameri-
cana furniture factory in Hag-
erstown. Mrs. Johnston present
ed the program on better furni-
ture and discussed various types
of fabrics used and what to look
for when selecting furniture.
= y
A sock-doll workshop will be
held under the leadership of the
toy chairman, Mrs. Glenn j.
Goldburn, at her home in
Poolesville April Is at 10 am.
The completed dolls will be dis
tributed to hospitalized chill
dren.
Mrs. James D. King returned
to her home in Jacksonville
Thursday following three weeks
of vacationing in Baltimore with
her cousin, Mrs. Mary Clements.
The March meeting of the
Women of the Poolesville Pres
byterian church met at the
home of Mrs. Emma Morning
star, Poolesville. The ladies are
busily engaged in setting every
thing in order for the arrival of
their new minister, Rev. Tim
Othy Lee, around April /.
The next meeting, known ss
the Birthday Meeting" OF the
women Of the church, will be
held at the home of Mrs. John
R. Spates, Comus, April 10. The
special offering at this time will
go to Taiwan to provide Bible
schools at the Taiwan Mission
and to the Congo. The women
plan to serve an oriental lunch
con dish and a South African
dessert in keeping with the two
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-21
OakdaIe Emory
Conducts Drive

The Oakdale Emory Methodist
Church, at Georgia ave. and
Emory Church I'd. near Olney,
is engaged in an intensive
Stewardship Crusade to provide
funds for a new educational
building.
The crusade is being directed
by the Rev. Frank L. Hicks.
DID,, who represents the De.
partment of Finance and Field
Service of the Division of Ma
tional Missions of the Meth
odist Church. The department
consists of a group of especially
trained ministers appointed by
the bishop to guide churches in
the raising of capital funds and
current budgets.
Minister of the church is the
Rev. Karl Wareheim. The plan
ming committee chairInen in
cludes David L. Brigham, gen.
eral; William r. Whip, publ
city; William Bratt, canvassing;
Edward Mayne, larger gifts;
and Leah Bratt, production.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-21
birthday projects.

birthday projects.
G. Best Linthicum, Beallsville,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. E. X. Ruble
and Miss BERTHE Ruble, formerly
of Dickerson, at their new home
in Frederick, Wednesday after
noon. Mr.. Ruble suffered minor
cuts and bruises when he fell
in the yard of his home earlier
in the day.
Mrs. Louis A. (Jack) McDon-
ough, near Hyattstown, was
hostess to approximately IS
members of the Woman's Socie-
ty of Christian Service of Hy-
attstown Methodist Church at
the March meeting. The presi-
dent, Miss Katherine Linthicum,
presided over the business ses-
sion.
Members are making arrange
ments for their annual spring
fried chicken and ham dinner
which will be held at the fire
hall in Hyattstown on Saturday,
May 10. The next meeting of
the Society will be at the home
of Mrs. Carroll Burdette, near
Hyattstown, April 6.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Cubitt,
Poolesville, Mr.. and Mrs. Chuck
Norris, Beallsville, and Miss
Becky Lambert, Germantown,
recently vacationed in Florida.
The Cubitts are staying on for
an extended visit with their
sons, Francis and Albert, who
live near Hialeah, while the
other members of the party re-
turned to their homes Saturday.
Instead of its usual meeting
March 81, the Sunshine Class of
Poolesville Memorial Methodist
Church made a surprise visit to
Mrs, Edward Maxwell, Comus,
Tuesday night, honoring her
birthday.
Mrs. w. Melvin Carlin, Boyds,
Home Furnishings leader of the
Comus Homemakers Club, re-
ported on the trip she and Mrs.
Mark LETTERS, GAINESVILLE, took
through Hagerstown furniture
factory. Mrs. Herbert Burdette,
Boyds, was co-hostess. On April
IL Mrs. James Burdette, Clarks-
burg, will entertain the club.
The Marching Unit of the
Junior Auxiliary of Upper
Montgomery County Volunteer
Fire Department met at the
Beallsville Fire House, Wednes-
day night. Under the general
craftsmanship of Mrs. Bill Bliss
and Mrs. Jack Cubitt, the unit
served a dinner at the fire
house Thursday night to Off
Gals of PEPCO's Dickerson
! plant.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-21
BY Cattle C. Linthicum
Diamond 9-3332

Charles Edward Kohlhoss,
III, was christened at the
Poolesville Memorial Methodist
Church Sunday by Rev. James
r. Morgan. He is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Kohlhoss, jr., who en-
tertained number of guests at
their home in the day. Among
those present were Mr.. and
Mrs. Ronald Young and four
sons, Colesville; Mr.. and Mrs.
Lingan Soper, Mount Rainier;
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Sharp. Ia
koma Park; Mrs. Mary G..
Young, Silver Spring, and Mr..
and Mrs. Kohlhoss, ST., Pooles-
vile. Sunday was also the natal
day of Mr.. Kohlhoss. jr.
The week of March 1924
marks the Week of Missions at
the GAINESVILLE Baptist Church.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-21
Night Hazard Cited

It's 20 percent more danger.
Gus to drive at night than during
the daylight hours, even though
traffic is usually lighter then,
according to August G. Detlof,
manager of the keystone Auto
mobile Club in Maryland.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-21
Citizens Unit to Hear
Gardening Authority.

Area garden problems will be
discussed by a local authority
on the subject tomorrow at 8:15
pm. at a meeting Of the West
Bradley Citizens Association at
the Bethesda Country Club.
The speaker will be Willard
King, director Of the American
Hemerocallis (herb) Society,
who also is active in the Amer
lean Iris and Daffodil Society
and has edited the familiar edi.
tons Of the Montgomery Coun.
ty Mems Garden Club Hand.
book,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-21
Hutchinson
President of
ROtarianS

Dick Hutchinson has been
elected president of the Olney
Rotary Club for the year be-
ginning July 1 to succeed Dick
Killem.
Other officers are Ed Fur
man, vice president; Andy
O'Reilly, treasurer; Bog Gingell,
secretary, and Steve Weigle,
sergeant at arms. Directors, in
addition to the outgoing presi-
dent, will be Max Meyers, Bill
Marx, Ed Roche and Ed Will
son.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-21

A GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY for the
new educational building and temporary
sanctuary of the First Baptist Church of
Gaithersburg was held last week following
the IL am. worship service. The Rev. B.
Frank Foster, pastor, is shown as he broke
ground for the $150000 structure to combine
with present facilities on the W. Diamond
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-03-21

the state-of-the-art for teleme-
try.
Vitro Electronics is also pro-
minent in the commercial
broadcast field, medical cleo
tronics, nucleonics and the
Photographic art.
Evening star., 1961-11-24
Swiss Won't Block
Russian Oil Flow
lowest Germany

BERN, Switzerland, Nov. "a
(AP).-The Swiss government
said today it had neither the
wish nor the right to interfere
with the movement of Soviet
oil through the pipeline under
construction from Italy to West
Germany.
Various Swiss commercial
and political groups have OBJ
jected to the pipeline on the
grounds that large quantities of
Russian oil would flow through
it into the Swsis market and
through Switzerland into West
Germany.
The Swiss Transport and
Communications Minister, Willy
Spuehler, told a news confer
ence the member states of the
European Common Market-to
which Switzerland does not be-
long-tried to agree on limiting
imports of oil from the Soviet
Union.
1T proved impossible to reach
such an agreement" Mr.. Spueh-
Ter said, "and it cannot be the
function of our country to in
fluence the import policies (of
Italy and West Germany by
restricting the transit of oil
through the Swiss section of
the pipeline"
Evening star., 1961-11-24
PIG Requests
Court to NuIIify
Order of FTC

In a complaint against the
Federal Trade Commission,
Proctor & Gamble Co. today
asked the United States Dis
trict Court here to set aside an
FTC order for further hear
ings on the company's acquisi-
ton of the Clorox business.
The company'S complaint
charged the commission, by its
own statement, had found that
evidence in the record did not
support its hearing examiners
conclusion that the acquisition
Of Clorox would substantially
lessen competition in the house
hold bleach field.
The court was asked to set
aside the commissions June
order to conduct further hear
ingS.
Acquisition of the Clorox
business has been in litigation
since September 80, 1857, when
the FTC issued its first COM
plant.
Evening star., 1961-11-24
j. ). Industries
Reports Profits
Far Above so

U. S. Industries. Inc, which
operates the USI Robodyne Di-
vision in Silver Spring, Nd,
had net income of S2,207, 900
or 81 cents a share in the first
nine months of this year, in
contrast to a net loss of S848,-
900 or 81 cents a share in the
same 1860 period.
This was disclosed today by
John 1. Snyder, jr.. president
and board chairman, in a letter
to stockholders.
Net sales rose to $69, 9,O93 900
in the nine months, compared
with $68.720,000 a year ago.
| Despite the relatively small
sales increase. profits improved
sharply because of stringent
cost controls instituted last
year, Mr.. Snyder said.
Aided by the small i'm
provement in the machine tool
industry, our backlog is hold
ing up WE'LL" he declared.
Clearing, our largest division,
has maintained a substantial
backlog of foreign orders, and
additional new domestic orders
are expected for Clearing'S S
large presses as well as for its
redeSigned small press line.
I'VE also anticipate an in
creaSing flow of orders for both
teaching machines and auto
nation equipment. A new auto
nation center-the first pro-
duction facility designed ex-
clusively for the manufacture
of automation equipment-was
opened at the USI Robodyne
Division on october 20.
SALES of this divisions rev.
olutionary TransfeRobot 200
are already beyond expecta-
tions. and will undoubtedly con-
tinue to accelerate" he added.
ITO further strengthen our ac-
tivities in the teaching ma
chine field, we formed a new
unit called the USI Educa-
tional Science Division, which
is now co-ordinating and man
aging all our activities in the
educational and training fields.
It's offices are located in New
York City"