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Evening star., 1961-08-06
SPIRES OF THE SPIRIT r.
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Who Sends the Worst7
By DIR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
Chaplain Of the United States Senate

Somebody is selling Amer
lea down the river. Some
body is exporting Americas
worst. In pictures and plays
sent abroad the image Of
this sweet land of liberty,
displayed before the eyes Of
multitudes, is not only that
Of the ugly American, but
also Of a depraved America.
A cultured, highly intel
ligent American woman, who
has recently returned from
a six months world tour,
sadly made this comment:
Again and again, in city
after city, my husband and
I saw American films de-
picting the seamy and de-
grading aspects of life in
our Nation. The impressions
made upon foreigners caused
us as Americans to hang our
heads in shame. The crowds
who gaze upon such stuff
have every reason to think of
us as barbarians devoid of
decent moral standards"
Who is responsible for
this base betrayal of our
democracy at the very time
we are waging a global war
OF ideas for the minds of
men? Who is back of show
ing the peoples of Europe,
Asia, Africa, and South
America, as they stand in
the valley Of decision, our
moral slums, rather than
our spiritual spires?
Some depictions on stage
and screen could not better
fit into the total disparaging
picture the SovietS are al
ways painting Of America if
they had been selected by
a Board of Communists"
whose goal is the destruction
Of our free land.
When Khrushchev was
peddling his wares on our
shores he wac rightly dis
gusted when coarse and vul-
gar estimates of stage values
were evidenced in the enter
tainment menu set before
him. 1t must be said that
so far as its stage art is
concerned Russia sends to
other lands its best--and its
best is very high. They
proudly exhibit the superior
side Of their cultural life
which, by the way, is not
the product Of the SovietS
but is as old as the czars.
1t is an infamous thing
to hide our best and export
our worst which, for some
strange reason, the best al
lows to go on without ade-
quate rebuke or refutation.
What is going on is a potent
factor in disfiguring the real
image Of America in the eyes
Of the rest of the world.
No wonder a distinguished
United States Senator of the
stature of Prescott Bush of
Connecticut recently arose
in the Senate to lift his
voice against this abomin-
able Misrepresentation. In
an impassioned address
worthy of the Senate at its
best, he declared: "It is high
time that some board or
commission should be given
responsibility to recommend
legislation to stop exporting
the very worst depletion of
American life, which pre-
sentS our people as being
morally depraved. Because of
plays such as we have dis
cussed, and some of the,
salaciouS and i'm moral !
movies that we export to
distant countries, the time
has arrived for us to take
cognizance Of the problem.
Such exhibitions serve only
to liquidate the good work
that is being done all over
the world at the taxpayers
expense. The export of filthy
and immoral performances
as being representative Of
United States life is shame
full"
Evening star., 1961-08-06
so Years Ago

SAAS0AAN AAAS~N NAANO A@A- SAANe
vey w. Wiley, father Of the
Nations then unborn Pure
Food and Drug Act, was on
the right track, a congress
sional committee was looking
into his activities so years
ago. The Star Of July 20.
1911, said the legislators were
puzzled as to why food-test+
ing should have required the
purchase Of such items as
monkeys, dogs, ice cream.
Belgian peas, electric grid
dies, chiffonierS and q horo-
scope. 1t was suggested that
the horoscope might have
been purchased by the Agri-
culture Department to de-
termine DR.. Wiley's fate. For
testing dubious foods, the
Congressman learned that
so-called "poison-eaters" had
been employed as "collabo-
rating subjects" Some Of
them got as high" as $50 a
month, and some got $50. A
few received Sc cents a day,
and the members of one
poison squad" consuming
"deleterious substances" re-
ceived 81 a month each.
One Of the biggest pests
and threats to health in the
Capital so years ago was the
common house fly. The Star,
in conjunction with the
Health Department, con-
Quoted a six-week ."fly-ex-
terminating" campaign, Of
fering cash prizes to those
who killed the most flies. The
rules said: PLIES caught on
sticky paper can not be
counted, but they may be
caught in traps, swatted, or
poisoned and exterminated
by drowning. :" The
corpses also had to be de-
livered to the Health Depart
ment. A photograph showed
a horse drawn wagon of
Merchants Transfer g. Stor-
age Co. delivering scores Of
boxes Of the critters to the
department. (Winner Of first
prize Of $25 in the contest,
announced with considerable
fanfare on August 6, 1911,
was Layton H. Burdette, 13,
who disposed of $4,000 Of
the pests.)
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assistance payments, and approx
nlately IA per cent of the amount
spent for aid to the permanently
and totally disabled payments. For
aid to dependent children, the fed
eral government pays S14 out of the
States average payment up to SIT
a month, and Go per cent of the
balance up to an average of $50
per month per person. On the
basis of current payments, this
amounts to approximately 80 per
cent of the amount expended for
the aid to dependent children pro-
gram.
How is the public welfare dollar
divided according to federal, State
and county funds? The non-federal
share is divided equally between
State and County funds, except in
those countries eligible for equaliz-
ing money. Some 65 counties re-
ceive equalizing money to help
provide the county's funds. Equal
izing money is paid to counties
by the State Board on the basis
of each county's ability to raise
funds for public assistance pur-
poses. No county is eligible for
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AVON PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Barger of Nor
folk visited Mr.. and Mrs. Free
Gray, Sr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Miller ant
Children of Norfolk are at theil
home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood Gray ant
children, Brenda, Carole anC
Grouse, have returned from Fal.
mouth Mass, and New York. The
family attended Brenda's gradua
ton at Falmouth.
Cecil William, U.S.C.G., visited
his mother, Mrs. Ruby Williams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Williams
Percy, Jr., Mrs. Obey Hooper, Gray.
son Hooper and Mrs. Blanche Gray
were in Elizabeth City last Thurs.
day. Claudine Williams and Faitf
Hooper returned home with them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Columbus Miller OF
Norfolk and Mr.. and Mrs. Vance
Miller have been visitors here.
Mrs. Montel Cartwright and chill
dren of Curritrck are visiting Mr.,
and Mrs. Willie Austin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmo Stowe. and
children of Portsmouth, Va, visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Seymour Gray during
the weekend Boyd Gray returned
with them for a visit.
Kermit Scarborough, Erskin
Scarborough and Reginald Meekins
were in Norfolk Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Madison Scar
borough of Norfolk visited Mr.. and
Mrs. John N. Scarborough.
Mr.. and Mrs. Goodrich Williams
and children Sandra and frankie
of Manteo are visiting here.
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STUMPY POINT PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. David Meekins Of
Henderson were here Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cary Smith Of
Georgia have been visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. H. E. Best.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Midget OF
Norfolk visited Mrs. r. B. Hooper
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Wise and
Tai Best visited Leslie Wise, at Bel
haven hospital, Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Twiford and
daughter, Mrs. Pat Vestal, Spent
the week end with Mr.. Twiford's
mother in Norfolk and attended the
Maury High School graduation
exercise, where Sandra 10 Bell,
niece of Mrs. Twiford, was a men,
Der of the graduation class.
David and Dwight Hooper of
Norfolk are visiting their grand
parents, A. B. Hooper and Mr.. and
Mrs. r. D. Wise.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Anderson and
children spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. H. B. Hooper and Mrs.
George Wise.
Leslie Wise returned to his home
Sunday after being in Belhaven
hospital two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donnie Reed and
children of Norfolk visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Roger Best Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Payne visited
Mrs. Payne's mother at Engelhard
Saturday.
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VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL


The Vacation Bible school at
Bethany Methodist church came to
a close Friday afternoon after a
very successful week. Thirty chill
dren were enrolled and teachers
wre Mrs. A. M. Sparrow, Jr., Mrs.
Rupert Norfleet, Mrs. w. E. Powell,
Mrs. E. L. Sparrow and Mrs. Ellis
Smith. Mrs. Darrell Sadler was
superintendent and Mrs. Robert B.
Pearce, pianist. The members OF
the Women's Society of Christian
Service served refreshments each
afternoon. Sunday morning the
children and their teachers held
commencement exercises at the
church.
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SBA REvISIONS

Robert B. Horning, Branch Man.
ager of the Small Business Admin.
stration for this area, has announc.
ed that copies of a revised leaflet
explaining the broadened coverage
of the Agency's limited loan parti.
cipation plan are available on re-
quest at the local SBA office, locat-
ed at 1116 Independence Building
Charlotte.
The revised leaflet points out
that SBA's share in one of these
loans may now be as much as $685.
900 or rs per cent of the total
amount of the loan, whichever is
the lesser. Previously, the SBA
share was limited to $4,000.
These loans are made entirely
through and serviced by banks, with
the bank taking at least 25 pei
cent as its share in the loan. Maxi
mum maturity of these loans is
years, with a monthly repayment
schedule, including principal and
and interest.
The maximum interest rate on
SBA's share of these loans is So
per cent, except in areas classified
by the U. S. Department of labor
as having a substantial labor sur
plus. In these distress areas, the
SBA interest rate is per cent.
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BELHAVEN BOY IN GERMANY

ASCHAFFENBURG, GERMANY
(AHTNC)- Roy S. Selby, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel o. Selby, Route
2, Belhaven, N. C. recently was
promoted to specialist four in Ger
many, where he is member of the
26th Artillery.
Specialist Selby, a clerk typist
in the artillery's Headquarters Bat
terry in Aschaffenburg, entered the
Army in July 1859 and completed
basic combat training at Fort jack
son, S. C.
The 20-year-old soldier is 1859
graduate of John A. Wilkinson
High School.
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WELFARE ANSWERS
FOR THE PEOPLE
BERNADETrE W. HoVLE
Stufe Welfare Public
information Officer

(This is the 18th of a series ex-
planning public welfare in North
Carolina).
Does the public welfare program
in North Carolina get federal
funds? Yes. The amount of federal
funds varies according to the par
ticular purpose for which it is used.
For old age assistance, the federal
government pays four-fifths of the
States average payment up to $40
a month, and 65 per cent of the
balance above the average of $50,
not to exceed an average of 500
per month.
For to the permanently and
totally disabled, federal participa-
ton is on the same basis. On the
basis of the current average pay
ment, this means the federal gov
eminent is paying rs per cent of
the total amount spent for old age
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1961-06-16
BY SEN. B. EVERETT JORDAN

WASHINGTON l have asked
the Public Works Appropriations
Subcommittee of the Senate Com
nittee on Appropriations to autho-
rize the expenditures of $3,149,S0O
for water projects in North Caro-
lima during the coming fiscal year,
We in North Carolina are at the
crossroads in the development of
our water resources. We are at the
stage where we can, within the next
year, make breakthroughs which
will bring about a new era of Geo.
nomic progress These break
throughs are in large part depend
emit upon completing a survey of the
Cape Fear River Basin which has
been under way since 1856 and
speeding up a survey of the Neuse
River Basin which also has been
under way since 1856.
In my testimony before the Sub
committee I asked for $4,000 to
complete the Cape Fear River Ba-
sin survey and $4,000, which is
$44, 900 above the Presidents bud
get request, to speed up work on
the Neuse River Basin survey.
/ think it is more essential than
ever to bring to an early finish
both these surveys in view of the
importance of the two projects and
in view of the fact that the recent
joint survey of the Cape Fear Ba-
sin by the Corps of Engineers and
the Soil Conservation failed to pro-
duce proposed plan whereby the
Cape Fear Basin could be develop
ed jointly by the Engineers and the
Soil Conservation Service.
Although there is great deal of
urgency in connection with the
Cape Fear and the Neuse as they
relate to the future development
of North Carolina, the other Is pro-
jects for which l have asked funds
are also of vital Importance to our
economy.
These projects are as follows:
Flood control, construction: ST.
100000 to complete construction of
the Wilkesboro Reservoir.
Flood control, surveys. SIS, 500 for
Waccamaw River Basin; $19.90 for
Roanoke River Basin; $4,000 for
Santee River Basin; and $4,000
for Reddies River Reservoir.
Navigation, construction: $685.
600 for Cape Fear River Lock Re-
Mobilization and $4,000 for Pam
leo River into Washington Harbor.
Navigation, survey: $4,000. for
Cape Fear River, Wilmington to
Fayetteville; $4,000 for Northeast
Cape Fear River; $500 for Drum
Inlet; $1,000 for Carolina Beach
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equalizing money unless the tax
rate required to raise the county's
part for old age assistance, aid TO
the permanently and totally dis
abled, aid to dependent children and
county public welfare administra-
ton is in excess of eleven cents on
500 of property value.
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Harbor; $4,000 for Southport Har-
Dor; and $4,000 for Silver Lake
Harbor.
Beach erosion and hurricane stud
les: $44,100 for the Federal-State
cooperative beach erosion study on
the Outer Banks and $4,000 for
the North Carolina portion of a
national hurricane study.
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So long as we are full of self wei
are shocked at the faults Of Others
~ Francis de 8. FeneEon1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-23

expert, Miss Ann Krenick, to
discover a beauty skin care plan
Miss Krenick, who will be in our Wosh-
ineton Store this week, believes that
it is important to know your skin type
and give it special core. Since dry skin
is q major problem, Miss Cochran has
developed Flowing Velvet with the
penetrating, moisture-eiVing tneredi-
ent, HydroIin. instantly absorbed.
Flowing Velvet provides dewy moisture
at night and during the doy under
moke-up. 800 and 500.
Please add 1925 Federal tax
WGL-cosmetics, LIST Floor; also Chevy Chose,
Wheoton PIozo, Corners and Alexandria
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-23

Make date to watch our second 3D.
minute teIevision fashion presentation,
"Foshion Tempo, U.S. A."
Wednesday, May Bird, VITO, Channel
5, 1920 to HOO pm.
Evening star., 1961-08-27

HOO q NEWS AND LOCAL NEWS.
Color Harkness Ward.
q PM EAST.
Variety interviews. l Hour. Subject is
understudies Guests: Stuart Damon,
Virginia Vestoff Inga Swenson, Dawn
Nickerson
"a ABC NEWS FINAL.
News.
n IL Pm. REPORT.
News, Weather, Sports and TV Editorial
ll:l2 q JOE McCAFFREY REPORTING.
News.
Ills q NEWS. WEATHER. SPORTS.
Color Rash. Forester. Simpson
q WEAER. SP'TS. LOCAL NEWS.
Allen GiImartin. Wilson.
11:20 q THE LATE SHOW.
Movie. l Hour, so Min. VI Am d
Camera" 1855. Sophisticated picture
of life in Berlin between the two world
wars. Julie Harris, Shelley Winters
(Foreign Film FestWaO
11:30 q JACK PAAR SHOW.
Variety. ia Hours. Color.
Evening star., 1961-02-08

basis for argument; (c) judi
cial decision.
4. Precept: (a) part Of q
church; (b) agreement set by
contract) &c rule Of conduct
5. Miter: (a) small sum OF
money; (b headdress worn
by bishop; Co Judge In eccle-
siastical court.
6. Nefarious: 90 addicted Il
drugs: (b) impiously wicked;
(c) not approved by public
sentiment.
7. Lethareic: (a) prone ID
snap Judgment; (b) sluggish
or apathetic: (c) suffering
from muscular pains.
8. Ubiquitous: (a) ugly; (b)
Of contrary mind; (c) every.
where at the same time.
8. AbstemiouS: (A) easily
disturbed; (b) refraining from
participation; (c) abstinent In
eating and drinking.
10. Benedict: (a) member OF
religious order: (b) bachelor: :
(c) newly married man.
Answers: 1-C, 2.A, 3-B, 4-C,
5-B, 6-B, 7-B, &C, &C, 10C,
For q list Of common mis-
takes and advice on how to
improve your speech and writ
ing simply send q self
addressed, stamped envelope.
plus 10 cents to cover handling,
to william Morris, Good Gram
mar, in care Of The Star.
Evening star., 1961-02-08

closest in meaning to the num-
bered word. After you have
finished all 10 questions, check
against the answers below
Score 10 points for each cor
rect answer. A score Of 100
per cent is excellent, but II
you score so or below, get out
the dictionary and do some
homework.
/. Pedagogy: (a) study OF
the feet; (b) applied phychol-
ogy: (c) science Of teaching.
Q. Nostrum: (a) remedy;
(b) platform for public speak
er; (c) old joke.
3. Hypothesis: (a) form Of
medical syringe; (b) assumed
Evening star., 1961-02-08

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Evening star., 1961-02-08
WORDS, WIT
AND WISDOM
BEETLE BAILEY
on STAGE
BUCK ROGERS
BY WILLIAM MORRIS

Many Of us wonder about
the exact meanings and pro-
nunciations of words we have
run across again and again
in reading but never used in
conversation. Here are 10 words
you certainly have a nodding
acquaintance with. But are you
sure you can use them accu-
rately in speech and writing?
The way we play is to select
the lettered word or phrase
Evening star., 1961-05-26

the groves come at intervals
and the highway gives a
show Of its own lumber
trucks and lumber yards,
. redwood souvenirs and gar
ish motels, Supermarkets and
filling stations and, every
now and then, the surf from
the Pacific rolling in over
strips of beach.
The trees are so big and
so very numerous the PAN
Drama takes on a certain mo-
notony. You actually find
yourself longing for pine sap
lings, for slim and elusive
birches, for comparatively
undersized willows that
reach over and caress the
soil.
But you don't finish with
q. s. 101 with the feeling
that you've been underpriv-
ileged. If it's redwoods that
you want it's redwoodS that
you get.
I made my way into San
Francisco by following 101 on
past Santa Rosa and San
Rafael and cross the Golden
Gate Bridge (toll from Sau-
Salito Is centS) and stayed
with it as it coiled toward
Van Ness avenue. The Con-
tinental Lodge, an elaborate
motor hotel. stands at the
corner of Van Ness and Fill
bert. There I found comfort
able quarters in Room $50.
The Continental Lodge has
a spacious stall for your car,
a cocktail lounge and a
heated pool and seems to be
very close to everything. I'll
get my dinner at Trader Vic's
or Johhn Kan's restaurant in
Chinatown's Grant street
and later shall try to catch
up on my letter-writing and
on reading the Coast papers.
San Francisco, with its ca
BILE cars still clanking UP and
Evening star., 1961-05-26

down these steep hills, used
to be the home Of such cele-
brated theatrical managers
as David Belasco and VIII
liam A. Brady. The great ball
player, Ty Cobb, still has a
home nearby (his Spanish
type house at Atherton Is UP
for sale), the late Blanche
Bates lived here, and Ina
Claire still does. Her palatial
home is to the south Of the
city.
Manhattan? Never!
"I love it here" she told
me two years ago. my
friends are here and my life
is centered here - and why
should I be interested in re-
turning to New York and to
Broadway? Plays are forever
being sent to me and I read
most of them, or try to, but
it will take something aw-
fully good to make me want
to pull up and go back to
all that hysteria on Man
haitian"
1t was during this talk that
Ina named a few of the
great stage directors with
whom she has been asso-
ciated. the lot inclu ding
George Kelly. Belasco and
the late Winchell Smith.
Joseph Cameron Cross,
New York stock broker and
first-nighter. developed his
love for the theater when he
was seeing the stock company
plays in San Francisco. The
magic city beside the Golden
Gate was one Of the most
celebrated Of the stock-com-
pany towns, along with De-
troit and Washington, D. c.,
Portland, Oreg.. and Atlanta.
But those days are gone.
Evening star., 1961-05-26
DEAR ABBY
Mans Job Indicated Here!
BY ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,

I would like to know If you
think a married woman
should throw away all ker
old pictures. I mean the ones
of herself and the many boys
she used to run around with
before she got married. These
boys mean nothing to me
now. I think it might be fun
to keep these pictures so that
my husband and ! can laugh
at them when we are
80. My husband was quite
jealous Of some of these boys.
NEEDS ADVICE
Ask your husband II he
objects to your keeping the
old pictures STORED away in
a box, Of cOurse). If he does
Object-thrOw them all away.
When you are 80, you will
have other things to laugh
about.
H&R
DEAR ABBY: I got q
charge out of the letter from
the woman who was ashamed
to ask the man at the service
station for the key to the
ladies rest room.
I work at q service sta
ton and think whoever wants
the key should ask for it.
My brother works at a drug
store and he says the same
goes for purchases in q store.
Whoever needs something
should ask for 1t. And the
person who waits on you,
whether man or woman,
couldn't care less.
BOB and BILL
Yes, Abby mill dnSwer your
letter personally If you tOrtte
to Abby in care OF The EUe-
ming Star and incloSe a
stamped. sel-addresSed en-
Uelope.
Getting married? For
Abby'S booklet, Hon to
Haze a LoUeIy Wedding"
send so cents to Abby, Boz
1865, Beverly Hills, Calf.
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