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HERS

to do but talk big and act
fast.
The first fast act is to take
care Of all children-grand-
mothers and camps are good
methods.
The Ridiculous
Next suggest the ridiculous,
so you think-like maybe q
trip to Bermuda-that might
even get you to a lake in
West Virginia In the off sea-
son when the children are
home from grandmother'S
and you have to either take
them with you or hire a
sitter.
Husbands, it should be
noted, are about as predict
able as the daily weather re-
ports Of scattered showers
this afternoon" The shock
and relief are never on
schedule.
Bermuda" shouts the
moneyless man, well that's
where I thought we ought to
CO."
Then 1t having been totally
his idea from the first, he
n1arvels that you have ever
even heard Of the place.
The master Of the house
then becomes the captain Of
the ship.
Being a man Of business he
contacts travel agents and
the most divine pamphlets of
life on ship board come your
way-m fact after one of his
queries, there is hardly any,
thing else in the mail box
each morning and, If there
is, you can't find it.
Crisis
Crisis strikes more than
soon when the captain Of
your ship looks at the price
for this joyous voyage.
After q few strokes of his
pencil on the back Of an in
vitation that says "please
present this at the door," you
find yourself reduced socially
and physically.
For this second honey
moon" you start on the top
deck with dinner at the
Captains table and a state
room with adjoining bath)
and end up on the lower
most deck, under water and
in the company of So cows
being transported for money
but mostly for ballast.
A complaint about your
travelling companions and
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Two Versions Of the Summer Vacation Story

your suffocating lot in ship
life brings you the title of
really a poor sport-what's
the matter with you-don't
you like ship life?"
This ship life for him
probably is great-the last
time he was on the high seas
was as a cook in the Navy
during World War II and the
only time he was above the
water line on the ship was
to take the captain a cup of
coffee, for which the captain
Is still waiting.
The evening wears on and
so do the possibilities:
There is A deck with q
bath and a port hole.
There is B deck with port
hole and q bath shared"
There is C deck with a
down the hall" number.
Then there are the COWS
again.
After going over this just
so many times and with no
decision reached, you go back
to the "we'll stay at home
and I'll paint the house and
I'll kill myself" routine.
"It's time to act fast .. i.
go to bed, then gently COO
across the room, well we
could fly, couldn't we?"
The answer comes back,
FLY? That was my idea
in the first place, but I didn't
think you'd get on a plane"
You are scared to death of
flying, but then there are the
cows.
Next week: The frenzy Of de-
porture turns up some new problems.
Evening star., 1961-08-06
HIS

usually sounds more like the
dialogue from q Tarzan
movie in our house than the
conventional husband and
wife chitchat.
I'VE don't have to worry
about this now. but !" she
said. I forget what priceless
bon mot I hammered her
with but the upshot Of the
exchange was that things
were going to be different
this year. What I didn't
know at the time was how
different.
1t seems my wife had sur
reptitiously arranged to pack
the boys off to q summer
camp in Vermont this sum-
mer making it possible, to
quote her, for us finally to
get away by ourselves"
Bargain"
I should have suspected
something right then and
there, but at the moment I
was more interested in how
much this camp routine was
going to cost. After a brief
inquiry on this point (some
might call it a third degree),
my wife told me what a
bargain" the camp really
was.
After my convulsions sub
sided. there followed what is
known in domestic relations
circles as marital incom-
patibility." This means we
didn't actually come to blows
although I must admit it
was touch-and-go there for
a while.
My wife's stock answer to
my proteSta$ions (screams)
regarding the cost Of this
nonsense was that she had
read somewhere how much it
cost to house and feed a con-
vict per day in q Federal
prison. It seems we beat
Uncle Sam by at least rs
cents a day.
OF course if the kids were
earning pin money on the
side making mail sacks, her
arguments might have some
merit. Anyway I finally
threw in the towel and told
her I'd go along with any
fool plan she had in mind
about camps.
The kids being disposed of,
the next question was:
What do YOU want to do
this summer" Again, instead
of being alert, I brushed. the
whole thing aside and told
her to do anything she
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wanted and I'd go along.
1t took only about a week
for me to doubt the wisdom
Of this cavalier gesture. The
first inkling of things to
come arrived in the morning
mail. It was q large manila
envelope address to my wife.
Now my wife usually gets
mail addressed to her, soap
coupons, PTA notices and the
like, and not being the sup
piciouS type, I never ques-
ton it. This envelope, how
ever. had the return address
Of a local travel agency, so
naturally I made a casual
inquiry Of my wife, who sud-
denly became preoccupied
with the sports page.
She hasn't read a sports
page since her boarding
school won a field hockey
tournament.
Not being one for a kiss
off, especially when all too
late I feared the worst, the
matter was gone into over
her strenuous objections that
I'd be late for work. I was,
but I managed to extract
from her a promise that all
would be explained that
night.
To make a long story
short, it was all spelled out
by way of an ultimatuln pre-
sented me by my wife: I had
to choose whether to fly to
Bermuda or take a Caribbean
cruise.
Bermuda!! Caribbea nil
Even allowing for q certain
amount of insanity on my
wife's side Of the family, I
figured it'd be nothing worse
than an off-season stay at
some Miami Beach hoStelry
at off-season rates, of course.
But such was not the case.
My wife had planned all the
major details leaving me
only the minor ones such as
to how to finance this in
sanity.
Next week: Mokins the choice,
ship, plane or stoy home end
paint the house.
Evening star., 1961-08-06
DEAR ABBY
BY ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,

1t Is not easy to forget a
42-year-Old hitch, so be pa
tient with him. Your hus-
band isn't responsible for
what he calls you in his sleep.
(At least you know who Ida
waS.)
y = y
DEAR ABBY: The boy I
like is 20, but my mother
won't let me go out with him
because I am only IS. My
mother says this boy is too
fast for me. Abby, he does
have a bad reputation, but I
have been out with him twice
on the sly, and every time he
started something I didn't
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to the same woman for AZ
years, tell her not to.
I have been married six
months to a widower who is
wonderful to me when he is
awake, but he calls me Ida
in his sleep. I was married
and widowed twice, and I
never once called my present
husband Wendell or Herbert.
If I can be careful, so can he.
I am certainly not interested
in a divorce at my age, but I
would like to know how to
handle this heartlesS old cuss.
HURT.
Evening star., 1961-08-06
BY DAISY CLELAND
Star staff Writer


There are many things
wrong with summer, mainly
husbands and vacations.
Husbands are the only in
'dividuals In the world who
can give you a stoney stare in
the middle Of January, be-
fore the Christmas tree tinsel
is properly put away, and
say, Where are we going on
vacation next summer, now
that we have no money!"
This is the first and last
word heard until the weather
turns hot for the first time
during the summer season.
The question then comes
believing forth again but
this time with his own an
,swers to his questions and
with money not mentioned
at this point-it's early sum-
,mer.
Where?
There is the suggestion that
you could return to the place
of his birth where he has
dragged you before - Chi
'cago. But instead Of staying
in three bedrooms and one
bath, with his brother and
siSter-in-law and their five
children and, of course, with
your three darlings, this time
you could count on a motel,
maybe with air conditioning
or a lake breeze.
Another opportunity is
benevolently offered:
Let's stay at home and
take nice little side trips to
Williamsburg and Gettys-
burg and interest the chill
dren in history. It's a dandy
Idea, especially when you did
that last year including that
historical day spent in Silver
Spring looking for a hose
attachment-with the chill
dren, Of course.
Then as annually as the
heat comes the final offer
because you didn't jump with
joy at the first ones-"weIl
just stay home and I'll rent
ladders and paint the house.
OF course it is three stories
high and I may kill myself,
but then you can take out
extra insurance and you and
the children can go on a
GOOD vacation next year."
When this suicidal plan
comes forth, there is nothing
Evening star., 1961-08-06
Dream Rival

DEAR ABBY: If anybody
asks you If she should marry
a widower who was married
Evening star., 1961-08-06
BY JACK CLELAND
Contributing Writer


This year I decided that
in the best interests Of the
institution Of marriage in
general, and mine in par
ticular. I would let my wife
have complete charge in
making all the vacation ar
rangements.
I figured (erroneouSly)
that at best Cor worst) this
years planned relaxation
and enjoyment" would end
up again being two weeks
hanging around some beach
cottage waiting for the
weather to break.
It didn't really matter as
I'm used to sand in my
shoes. bed. food and what
have you after several years
of tughD "funsie". vacations
at the beach.
Cruel fate, however, and
my wife had something else
in mind for me this year
which has since made me re-
gret my foolhardy decision
to relinquish the veto power
over any vacation schedule
which I really never had in
the first place.
First Allusion
Unknown to me. when the
always controversial subject
of vacation was first alluded
to, the die had al. lady been
cast, to coin an old but ap-
ropoS cliche.
1t came during the usual
breakfast badinage which
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-10-10

recent week end visiting friends
in Richmond and also enjoyed
several games of miniature golf
while there.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Pulley and
Gladys, of Richmond. visited Mr..
and Mrs. J. w. Pulley and Mr..
and Mrs. F. j. Conner last Sun
day. Mrs. Conner who has been
quite sick is now much better.
her many friends will be glad to
learn.
Miss Carole Layne, Of Char
lottesville, was home recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Monk
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin
spurlocx and Mr.. and Mrs. Her
bert King. Jr.. and Cindy. all Of
Richmond. were recent guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Robertson,
Earl v. and Earnie r. Atkins
Jim HarShman, James and Mike
Glascock sold tobacco in Dan
vile Friday and realized splen'
did prices.
Glad to report Faison Ingram
who was a patient in the Farm
vile hospital several days last
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Winston-Salem, N. c., spent last
week here with her sister, Mrs.
F. l.. Blankenship. and Mr..
Blankenship.
Glad to report Irwin, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. T. Robertson.
is back at school after having
been confined several days re-
Gently by sickness.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Harris and
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin briggs
visited relatives in Richmond
last week end and attended the
State Fair.
MIR. and Mrs. Robert H. Smith,
of Richmond, and Mr.. and Mrs.
S. w. Reams, of Victor. visited
in the j. W. Pulley home last
Saturday and enjoyed an after
noon of fishing.
Miss Betty Lou Lewis, of Mar
tinsville was home recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Faris
and son, of Richmond, were last
week end guests of her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. D. A. Gaulding
Clyde Robertson. Mickey Mag
nusson and Willis Ellis spent a
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spent the week end In Richmond
with their mother, Mrs. Martha
Pasco. Marie, Barton was also a
week end guest in the same
home.
Mrs. Floyd Roach and chill
dren, Mrs. Henry Layne and
Mary Layne spent a Sunday re-
Gently with Mr.. and Mrs. Clar-
ence Bowen in Union Level.
Mrs. Louise Roach AnG Harry
spent the week end in Richmond
with MFR. and Mrs. William Lee
Roach. They went to the State
Fair on Saturday.
Jimmie Taylor, of Richmond,
spent the week end with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mack Barnes and
Mr.. and Mrs. John Taylor visited
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. E. Taylor Sun
day.
Mrs. John T. Barton, Jr.. and
children and Mrs. Bonnie Bar
ton visited Mrs. Floyd Roach
Monday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Clark
and two sons. Of Richmond.
visited her parents, Mr.. and
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Oct. S ~ Mr.. and Mrs. E. j..
Patterson and family, Of Rich
mond, were week end guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Barton.
Jr. Eli Patterson visited in the
same home over the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bonnie Barton
spent Sunday with her family,
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Childress.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton Dumgans
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Hunter
Dungans Sunday. Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis Barton, Edna and Ellen
Barton also visited there.
Mrs. Pearl Thomas and son,
James Armstead, visited rela-
tives here Sunday.
Miss Marie Childress spent
Tuesday night with Loretta Chill
dress.
Margaret Leah Barton was the
Wednesday night guest of Marie
Barton.
Edward and Danny Taylor
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-10-10
Clubs To Sponsor
Civil Defense
Lecture In Amelia

AMELIA. Oct. @Amelia coun-
ty home demonstration clubs are
sponsoring a special interest
meeting on Home Preparedness
for Maximum Disasters in the
Amelia county court room on
October II. at 1870 pm.
Mrs. Mabel Towel, director of
State Nutrition Service, who is
in charge of women's activities
for the State Civil Defense Pro
gram, will conduct the meeting
She will explain fallout and
radioactivity, shelter, food sup
ply and other preventive meas
ures to help families prepare for
emergencies. Leaflets will be
available on fallOut shelters and
home preparedness.
Anyoyone interested is invit.
ed to attend this meeting.
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Miss Magnusson
Is Attending
Peabsdy College

GREEN BAY RID, Oct. s.
Miss judy MAgnuss0n. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. K. Magnus-
son. left last week for Peabody
College where she will work for
her masters degree. Her par
ents accompanied her to Nash
vile. Tenn.
Tn Rev. E. B. White preached
at Meherrin Methodist Church
Sunday afternoon. He and Mrs.
White were Sunday evening din
ner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w.
Pulley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Faris,
Debbie and Chuck. of Richmond
spent a recent week end with Mr..
and Mrs. F.. L. Blankenship.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin White. OF
Victoria, visited Mr.. and Mrs. H.
X. MagnussOn last week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Keaton. OF
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week with a sprained muscle, is
home and convalescing nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. D. Newell. Jr.,
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Otis
Miller and family and Mrs. Ro-
land Pierce and pat" all Of
Richmond. visited their mother.
Mrs. D. c. Newell. here recently.
Miss Merle Hawkins, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Hawkins,
is attending Longwood College.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert H. Smith,
of Richmond, and Mr.. and Mrs.
S. w. Reams, of Victoria, were
luncheon guests of their sister.
Mrs. B. M. Green. at Chat m
Chew Restaurant, Meherrin, last
Sunday.
Quite a number Of the COM
n1unity people attended the fu-
neral Of Mrs. Joe jenkins which
was held Sunday at Liberty
Church. I extend to the family
my deepest sympathy.
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the minds of those in attend.
ance that the performers by
these organizations have been
credit to the State of Mis-
sissippi. Better support of the
Tigers growing athletic pro-
gram was called for by some
of the speakers and pledged
by others.
Those attending the lunch
con were as follows: Messrs.
William Bailey, T. B. Ellis, Jr.,
J. A. Merritt, E. L. Lipscomb,
r. E. Lee, l.. j. Marshall, Rob-
ert Cooper, A. A. Alexander,
B. B. Dansby, l.. P. Chambliss,
H. T. Sampson, William w. Da-
Wis, w. A. Higgins, L. B. Buck
ley, Ernest Franklin, E. w.
Banks, Sr., Lee E. Williams,
Joe Gillian, DeLars Punches,
Walter Washington, Tyree Nc
Beth, John w. Dixon, B. A.
Blackburn, Alvin Coleman,
Jack Witty, c. w. Harris, Louis
Jackson, Emmitt Hayes, l.. T.
Smith, c. G. Mosley, ST., and
Percy Greene.
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Church, which he pastors, an
nounced it planned a $4-mil-
lion housing development of
$40 units. Atty. Austin T.
Walden, veteran legal light
here is a director of the new
cooperation, which contem-
plates buying % acres of land
near Auburn Ave, on which
the $40 units will be erected.
Church Homes, Inc, has
made a bid of $3.50 900 for the
land. The proposed units will
be IS garden-type apartments
of two and three stories each.s
The project will be FILA fl
nanced, DR.. Borders says and
will rent from $65 to $40 per
month.
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Continued from Page y
gram of patient aid at the
same time. Pain cannot wait. I"
Mr.. O'Connor explained that
establishment of chapter-spon-
sored special treatment CEN
tiers and evaluation clinics had
been speeded up during the
past year. These centers pro-
vide improved medical serv-
ices in treating patients not
receiving adequate attention
from other sources. In addi-
tional Foundation chapters
with sufficient funds have
been authorized to aid victims
of all types of birth defects
where such help is needed.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1961-12-23

"HIGH COURT REFUSES
TO HALT RIDER PROSE-
CUTION IN CITY" Jack
son, Miss. The Supreme
Court this week refused to bar
this city from prosecuting
freedom riders" until after
a federal case testing travel
segregation in the state clears
the high court. The suit had
been filed by the NAACP for
three Jackson Negroes and
had been joined by the JUS
tice Department in urging the
high court to block the prose-
cutions temporarily. More
than 300 riders have been ar
rested and convicted or "brea-
CHI of the peace" in the city
and are now being retired in
Kinds County Court at the
rate of two a day. If they wish
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Miss Griffin =

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cussion group held at Tuske.
gee, Alabama, Tennessee, Lou.
isiana, Texas and Mississippi.
Mrs. Mettazee Harris, Kinds
County Chairman states that
Miss Griffin will be with all
teenage chairmen, at any time
they desire her presence dur
ing the drive. She will meet
with Mrs. Hattie G. Dyson,
teenage chairman at West Side
Elementary School, Wednes-
day, January 3, 1852.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1961-12-23

BY Wednesday, December
30, rising flood waters thru
out the state had forced hun
dreds to flee their homes. The
Pearl River at Jackson stood
at 1861 feet, Threatening 20
break the all time high rec
ord of 37.2 recorded April,
1902.
In the Jackson area it was
estimated that at least 700 per-
sons had been evacuated.
many of these being Negro
citizens who lived and opera
ted businesses on the Fannin
Road in East Jackson.
In the city, number of
streets were partially under
water, included were, South
State, the 800 and 900 blocks;
North jefferson, Suth Jeffer-
son, South West, Silas Brown.
$50 or more prisoners from
Parchman and the Kinds
County Penal Farm are being
used to help plug up holes
and sandbag the levees in the
Flowood community in East
Jackson.
Roads closed by the high
water included two sections of
the Natchez Trace north of
Jackson, U. S. 81 West of Col
umbus, State q at the Big
Black between Utica and
Nlcksburg: Highway 373 be-
tween Columbus ALB and u.
S. As: State 500 at the Leaf
River between Ellisville and
Seminary; State 427 between
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1961-12-23
GIVE TO THE CHRISTMAS CHEER CLUB

Again this year the Jackson Christmas Cheer Club
has announced intentions of providing Christmas Cheer
in the form of food stufruts and candies to persons
who would ordinarily have nothing at this time and
call our readers and all persons who are able to
do So to support this most worthy organization.
We would like to call to your attention also the fact
that this the organization begun years ago and
sponsored noby by the late Rev. Jeffrey of the St
Marks Episcopal Church and supported to such great
degree by the late R. H. Green, friend of the Negro
In making our plea for the Jackson Negro Christmas
Cheer Club also urge that only this authorized
ganization will solicit and receive contributions that
the right will receive wholehearted support in
seeing that EVERY FAMILY IN JACKSON HAS A
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1961-12-23
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sissippi.
A member of st. Luther NJ
B. Church, president of the
Shady Oak Social and Civic
Club, this weeks Teachers
special hobbies are, reading
and sewing For the Splen,
did work she is doing with the
students in her class; for her
cooperative spirit we Salute
MRS. ,MYRTIS HERON
BRADLEY as TEACHER OF
THE WEEK.
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of AMERICAN MEN OF
SCIENCE.

of AMERICAN MEN OF
SCIENCE.
To be eligible for nomina-
ton one must show: CD Achi-
evement, by reason of expert
ence and training, of a stature
in scientific work at least
equivalent to that associated
with the electorate degree,
coupled with presently con-
tinued activity in such work;
or CO Research activity of
high quality in science as evil
denced by publication in repu-
table scientific journals; or (3)
Attainment of a position of
substantial responsibility re-
quiring scientific training and
experiences of approximately
the extent described for %
and (2).
Mr.. Wander has proven his
scientific stature in his pub
LEGATION, ETHNOLOGY OF
THE PACIFIC BASIN which
is on sale in Germany and his
participation in the New York
State Mental Health Commits
sion study of the epidemiolog-
ical aspect of mental illness.
This study was published as a
Technical Report of the Men
tai Health Research Unit"
New York State Department Of
Mental Hygiene, by Syracuse
University Press, New York.
Mr.. Wander is currently
working on another book deal
ing with the political and So
cial growth of the American
Negro, $4,000.
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cal Judge Redwine, a former
assistant city attorney, was
following a pattern establish
ed years ago, of never losing
an election. He also followed
a pattern of 'firsts' in that he
was the first of his race to be
admitted to the Los Angeles
Bar Association and the first
Negro to head a statewide
committee of the Conference
of California. AS presiding jul
rist, Judge Griffith will be re-
sponsible for the assignment
of Municipal Court Judges to
the various courts throughout
Los Angeles County.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1961-12-23

1.-THE need for these pro.
grams, in addition to the con-
tinuing aid we furnish victims
of paralytic polio, can be seen
from the huge numbers of peo-
pie with disabilities caused by
birth defects and arthritis," he
continued. "More than IL ,00O,.
600 Americans suffer from ar
Thrills" he continued. more
than IL, 100000 Americans suf-
fer from arthritis or rheuma.
tic patients, disability can be
prevented or reduced through
early diagnosis and early total
treatment.
More than 100000 Ameri-
can children are born each
year with a significant birth
defect that may cause lifelong
disability. Many congenial de-
fects go unrecognized in chill.
dren but cause problems in
later life.
Treating this enormous dis
ease problem takes money. We
volunteers in the New March
OF Dimes are proud of the rec
ord of our communities in the
past in supporting the fight
against polio that led to the
polio vaccines. Now, in the
larger battle, we say that
Your Dimes Will Do 1t A,
gain"