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wealth attorney, whose alco-
holic wife is involved with
Luke. The attorney knows
this, and is torn between
protecting his wife and call
ing her as a key witness in
the murder case.
Luke turns out to be a
nervelesS, pSychopathic kill
er, who is plausible, makes a
good appearance and even
has a smattering of culture.
The town is virtually turned
upside down before it sees
the last of Luke.
The story builds into a
melodramatic climax. The
characters are carefully
drawn, and the writing
is effective, but the situation
is hardly plausible.
Mr.. Wicker, who has writ
ten several other books, is in
the Washington bureau of
the New York Times.
BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1961-04-16
Guess Who's
President in
This Novel?
NOT TO THE SWIFT. BY
Tristram Coffin. (W. w.
Norton & Co.; $4.50.O

Norton & Co.; $4.5O0
This is the season for a
flood of books on the presi-
dency. Some are acutely
timely as detailed studies of
the problems and challenges
of the most powerful office
in the world. Iris Coffin,
a Washington writer for 20
years, has chosen fiction as
the means of presenting his
own views on what he has
observed in covering the
Washington scene.
The central figure in Not
to the Swift" is a President
who might better have been
left to round out his career
in the Marine Corps. NAL
colin Christensen was not
even distinguished as a SOL
dier. He was taken up by a
powerful newspaper pub
Usher while he was engaged
in a dreary campaign during
a revolution in the Philip
pines and presented to the
country as a hero with a
heart"
They All Believed Him
A New York banker with a
fortune Of $50 million, a bril-
liant (and ill-fate6 corpora
ton lawyer and the news
paper publisher decide he is
the man to recapture for
them the power and prestige
of the White House. Chris
tianSen became their candi-
date and in a campaign based
on showmanship and not on
issues easily was elected Pres
ident.
In the White House, sur
rounded by the banker and
others in the palace guard,
christensen, as would be
expected, was a figurehead.
He launched a crusade for
peace and in time came to
believe his own tragic mouth
ings. What was worse, as Mr..
Coffin points out, the people
believed them, too, and be-
lieved in him. Eventually
came the day Of reckoning.
Mr.. Coffin writes with
force and vigor though Not
to the Swift" is not exactly a
plausible book. But there is
merit in what he writes: A
man who becomes President
must assume the responsible
ties of the office and words
alone cannot fulfill that
responsibility.
CECIL HOLLAND.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW
A ALiterory Study
In Tragic Art
By DAY THORPE
Star staff Writer
THE DEATH OF >
A. Knopf;; So

THE DEATH OF TRAGEDY By George Steiner (Alfred
A. Knopf So
of the most rewardng volumes Of literary criticism
have read in several George Steiner THE Death
of Tragedy 1t is its implies sequel Netzsches
first book THE Birth of Tragedy sequel which attempts
to show that with the death of Racine in 1899 tragedy
died because the best later writer's involved with
the spirit of tragedy only archas 1t also one of
those works of criticism that transcends subject
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Locking for q
PUBLISH Err

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ieets. Send for Free Booklet.
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reader, however, that if he
has a taste for the propriety
of the written word he will
find "The Reader Over Your
Shoulder" fare that he will
relish.
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CRIME AND MYSTERY
The Impact Of q Thief
On His Loved Ones
BY BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

What there about Gerry to have kept his friend
since childhood" Ronald Partiger asks " He thief
and public malefactor He had certain good qualities
courage sefhonesy gaey generosity but had whose
lives honorable He certainly not Intellectually
remarkable -"
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The City in History:
Has 1t q Future?

THE CITY IN HISTORY: Its Origins, Transformations
and Its Prospects. BY Lewis Mumford Harcourt Brace
World; $11.50).
In this fierce tornado of book Lewis Mumford brings
to date his perceptions of mans beginnings development
and uncertain fate.
Turbulent and dark forebodng these decepvey titled
whirl dip and touch down mans sancuareS
Sronghods 5000 years. etcnng them starky and
brilliantly in unearthy light of overwhelming tension and
and neluctable peril.
Indeed, this book is concerned only incidentally with
cities The real target himself his very earliest
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Robert Emmett Mcdowell.
Grown, $3.50. The scion
of Medford Hall and his
roguish adventures in post
Revolutionary Virginia.
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GENERAL

NEGRO AND WHITE IN
CONNECTICUT TOWN. BY
Frank F. Lee. (Bookman;
So A study Of the per-
petuation of racial patterns
in a town outside the
South.
GREAT WESTERN MYS-
TICS. BY David Baum
gardt. columbia; $3.) A
survey study of their last
ing significance.
BYRONIC GIFTS:
MaXims, Reflections, Por-
traits From the Prose and
Verse Of Lord Byron.
Edited by Peter Quennell.
(Harcourt, Brace g. Co.;
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FICTION

LEMON PIE. BY Gregory
Mason. (Twayne; $500
Short stories from Canada
to japan.
THE COIN PIN. BY Grace
Carstens. Macmillan:
$3.50 A mother tries to
mold her daughter into her
money-mad image.
END OF A SUMMERS DAY.
BY Adrian Vincent. (Schu-
man, $3.50 Set in the
tawdry early days of the
British motion picture in
dustry.
Evening star., 1961-04-16

ADVERTISEMENT
Evening star., 1961-08-20
BY ISABELLE SHELTON
Star staff Writer

star SLaII WtlLeE
Some new programs are in
store for the Women's Bu-
reau of the Department Of
Labor If even a portion Of
the plans cooking in the
head of energetic Esther
Peterson, director of the bu-
reau, come to fruition.
Mrs. Peterson, who was
sworn in last week as Assist
ant Secretary of Labor after
Congress passed a bill Great
ing the new post, had a lot
of ideas when she first be-
came Women's Bureau head
in January. Her enthusiasm
has been further fired by a
recent trip to Sweden.
The trip was an outgrowth
of President Kennedy's meet
ings with Swedish Prime
Minister Tage Erlander, who
visited Washington in April.
Mr.. Kennedy became enthu-
siastic about the Swedish
leaders account of how his
country handles it's employ
ment and unemployment
problems. particularly the
retraining of workers who
lose their jobs.
The President asked Sec
retary of Labor Arthur
Goldberg to look further into
the matter in Sweden this
summer, after he attended
international labor meetings
in Geneva. When the mari
time strike kept Mr.. Gold
berg in this country, Mrs.
Peterson and other Govern
ment officials went anyhow,
spending a week in Sweden.
Help in Sweden
If a worker loses his job
in Sweden-or a housewife
decides she wants to enter
the labor market-each has
the help Of the National
Labor Market Board, a tri-
partite board composed of
representatives from govern
ment, management and labor,
Mrs. Peterson said.
The board provides free
aptitude tests, on-the-job
training for as long as re-
quired sometimes more than
a year, a subsistence pay
ment during the training pc
riod and transportation to
the place of training.
Employers planning to lay
off workers are asked to
notify the board three
months in advance, to al
low time for aptitude tests
and a decision by the work.
er on his new line of en-
deavor. Compliance by en-
ployers is voluntary, but al
most complete, Mrs. Peterson
said.
President Kennedy and
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Swedish System Inspires
II. s. Labor Officials

other officials are interested
in the retraining program as
one way to attack unem-
ployment caused by auto
nation. The recently passed
Area Redevelopment Act and
other Still-pending bills (the
manpower development and
training bill and the youth
employment opportunities
bill are moves in this direc-
ton.
Mrs. Peterson sees an
adaptation of the Swedish
program as particularly use
full in training women for
the service" fields-care and
counseling of children and
the aged, nurses helpers,
teachers aides, nursery
school and day-care center
workers. hotel workers and
domestic workers.
Training
Women displaced from
jobs also are being trained in
many new technical fields,
such as drafting, she noted.
A personal experience Mrs.
Peterson had shortly after
her return from Sweden re-
inforced her belief in the
need to train women already
in the service" fields, as we'll
as women moving into the
fields because they had lost
jobs in industry or offices.
In need Of a maid-house-
keeper to manage the home
she and her Foreign Service
officer-husband and four
children occupy in Arlington,
Mrs. Peterson herself went to
an employment agency.
Since she works in the La
Dor Department, II thought I
ought to go to the United
States Employment Service
where I live" she related.
There she found a large
group of applicants for
housework, seated together in
a large room. After an hour
spent reviewing applicants,
Mrs. Peterson concluded I'M
happily that not one of the
women who had presented
herself for a job could pos
sibly take proper care of my
house."
Nor, with their lack Of
training, would they be very
satisfactory employees for
anyone, she felt.
yet all you have to do is
look at the want ads to
know that women workers
are needed-in homes, hos
pitals, schools, hotels and a
host of other places" she
continued. IT think if we
could just train these
women, we could find jobs
for them"
The employment agency
staff agreed with, and ex-
pressed enthusiasm for a
training program, she said.
On HOusew0rk
So far as housework is
concerned, Mrs. Peterson
said, II am positive that
housewives would respond,
and would be willing to pay
decent wages to a house.
keeper they were sure would
do the job we'll"
Inevitably, Mrs. Peterson's
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Mrs. Ward WiIkie
To Hold Meetind

Mrs. Ward j. Wilkie, chair
man Of the first luau spon-
sored by the Junior Woman's
Club of Silver Spring, will
hold a committee meeting
Thursday at her home to get
plans and committees under
way.
Co-chairman Of the luau
is Mrs. Donald B. Crumpler,
who will handle the talent.
Evening star., 1961-08-20

must be a demand for the
service.
The association plans to
set up pre-training counsel
ing and aptitude testing,
then set up courses which will
permit students to reach
some skill or certified level
of proficiency without which
the person could not do the
work"
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sive, but will not conflict
with already-e S t a blished
training programs-"partic-
ularly those such as practical
nurse, that must meet state
standards" says the associa-
tion.
Classification
In general, jobs would be
in the aide classification,
zone step above unSkilled
and Just below jobs for which
recognized training programs
and criteria are already
established" says the AHEA.
Types of training under
discussion are that of:
Graded household worker,
with certificate and refer
enceS; companion-aide to
elderly; child-aide, for care of
young children of working
mothers; home-aide (similar
to the present Homemaker
Service, but probably for part
of a day; food service aide
in institutions; dressmaker's
aide (Specialist in mending.
paid by the hour; sitter
aide (thiS includes pet
sitting and house-sitting for
expected workmen, as we'll as
baby sitting) foster mothers;
managerial worker in board
ing houses, apartment build
ings, summer camps; man
ayers or employees in half
way houses for people no
longer needing complete
hospital care, but not yet
able to be on their own.
Mrs. Peterson plans to
throw out some of her ideas
at the first Of a series of
conferences on the Prob
lens of Employed Women, to
be held in Los Angeles
September 8-9 under Wom-
ems Bureau sponsorship.
Other conferences will *ollow
in other cities, with the
second one set for late
September in Lansing, Mich.
Evening star., 1961-08-20

mind turned back to Sweden,
from which she had Just re-
turned.
There, she said, domestic
workers are given training
as home assistants" They
are taught how to cook and
clean, how to take care of
new plastic materials and
the myriad other new house
hold products and expensive
equipment.
Others take special courses
in child care, care of the
aged, and so on.
If a woman does not want
to do general housework,
she can become a specialist.
One speciality, for instance,
is the care of winter woolens.
Another is in the perform
ance of simple unkeep-
mending type seamstresS
chores.
Thus, a Swedish house.
wife who finds she does not
have time to care properly
for her family woolens at the
end of the winter, can call
in a specialist to take over
the job. The specialist
checks the clothing for torn
or worn spot, sees that it is
properly cleaned and packs it
away safely for the summer.
Or a seamstress can be
called in to do all the little
hemming and button-sew-
ing-on chores which some
time get beyond even the
most well organized of
housewives.
Plans Tentative
So far, Mrs. Peterson's
plans are somewhat tenta-
tive. Women'S Bureau ex-
perts are studying the cur
rent legislation to see what
funds, if any, might be avail
able to help her launch such
a project.
What works we'll in Swe-
den, a small, highly homo
genouS nation of only 8
million people, with one
religion and one mentality"
cannot apply exactly in this
highly diverse sprawling ma
ton of many religions and
many cultures, she points
out.
Nevertheless you can get
a glimpse of several things
we might do," the Women's
Bureau head said enthusi-
astically.
In the meantime, she is
working out a small but am
bilious pilot project with the
American Home Economies
Association and the Depart
ment Of Health, Education
and Welfare which she hopes
to launch in nearby Alex
andria, Va.
The aim Of the program,
according to an AHEA
memorandum, is Ito train
women at a vocational level
for money-making positions
related to the home and like
ly to be available in almost
any community mobile Ito
another community"
The jobs must be "home
related or in service or pro-
duction," says the organiza-
ton. And they must be
"Saleable" - that is, there
Evening star., 1961-08-20

For example, the associa-
ton points out, "if a woman
can do housework or care
for children for pay with
out any training, she would
not want to spend time get
ting training to do this kind
of work"
Courses will be short. They
will be free or very ineXpen-
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01
Personals

On Thursday, May 25th, Mrs.
May Hickey celebrated her 18th
birthday. Her fellow workers
on the Cafeteria Staff of the
Smyrna High School honored
her with a dinner party held
at the Village Inn" in Little
Creek. They presented her with
a parrakeet and Mrs. Hickey
promptly named him Happy"
The Smyrna Education Associa-
tion sent her a beautiful dish
garden. She received l25 birth
day cards and many gifts. Mrs.
Hickey's friends wish her many,
many more Happy Birthdays
DR.. and Mrs. John N. Link,
parents of the Rev. ]. Howard
Link of Asbury M e h o d i S t
Church, observed their 50thI
wedding anniversary yesterday
in their cottage at Rehoboth
Beach. DR.. Link is former pas
tor of Peninsula a Methodist
Church, and former superin-
tendent of the Wilmington Dis
trict of the Peninsula Annual
Conference.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Eley
have returned from six-week
trip to Europe. They sailed on
the Queen Elizabeth and return
ed on the United States. Mr..
and Mrs. Eley toured in France,
Belgium, Holland, Germany,
Switzerland, England, Scotland,
and Wales.
Mrs. VIM. P. Ebright of Me-
tuchen, N. j., came down Sun
day with her nephew, Donald
V. Ebright and family, who had
been spending a few days with
his aunt and uncle, and cousin,
Robert David and family, for a
Sojourn with her sister, Mrs. M.
D. Ebright, relatives and friends
Young Johnny Greenwell, who
has been a patient at the A. l.
Dupont Institute, Wilmington,
has been returned to his home
here, but is confined to his bed,
according to announcement by
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Greenwell.
Mrs. William T. Gathright,
Jr., has as her guests Mrs. Rhea
Gathright and her sister, Mrs.
Evelyn Evans, both of Rich
mond, Va.
DR.. B. Stimson Carrow has
returned to his home in Phila-
delphia, after holiday visit
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold G. Carrow.
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01
Nancy Twitchell,
G.. Richard Price
Married Saturday

Miss Nancy Ann Twitchell,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Win
field c. Twitchell and G. Rich
ard Price, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard c. Price of this town,
took the vows of matrimony
on Saturday, May 27, at 10 a.
m.
The service was held in Red
Clay Creek Presbyterian Church
with the Reverend George Teaz
Jameson, m mister of the
church, officiating. MIR. Twitc-
hell gave his daughter in marri-
age.
Miss Sylvia Twitchell was
the only attendant serving as
maid of honor. Mr.. Price serv-
ed as best man for his son
with Arthur Twitchell, brother
of the bride, and H. Thompson
Price, a cousin of the bride
groom serving as ushers.
A reception followed the GER
emony at the home of the
brides parents on Mill Creek
Road.
The couple plan to reside in
Princeton, N. j., following a
wedding trip south.
Miss Twitchell is graduate
of Henry C.Conrad High School
and the University of Delaware.
Richard Price is a graduate of
John Bassett Moore High School
and the University of Delaware.
Presently he is a graduate stud
ent at Princeton University.
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01
Letters TO fhe Editor

Smyrna Rotary Club endorses
re-zoning for Shell Oil Company,
The following letter to the New
Castle County Zoning Commits
sion was unanimously approved
at a recent meeting.
May 25, 1861
Mr.. William Manning, Chairman
New Castle County Zoning
Commission
Wilmington, Delaware
Re: Blackbird Hundred
Dear Sir: Re-Zoning
At a regularly S C h e du e d
meeting of the Smyrna Rotary
Club held May 25, 1861, in
open forum, after full discus
sion and careful consideration,
it was moved, seconded and
unanimously carried that the
said club go on record as en-
dorsing the re-zoning necessary
to allow the Shell Oil Company
to operate in the area now un-
der your advisement.
The membership of this en-
dorsing club is drawn from the
business and professional lead
ers of Smyrna and vicinity.
Their interest stems from mu-
tual concern to better the COM
munity in which they reside
and operate, as we'll as the i'm
mediate surrounding environs.
1t is therefore, urgently request
ed that this favorable endorse
ment receive appropriate con-
sideration when deliberating on
the issues involved in the re-
zoning application of Shell Oil
Company.
Very truly yours,
William E. Matthews, Jr.,
Secretary
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01

ryat, Clayton; Mrs. Grace Metz,
Bay Head Antiques, McDon-
ough; Sibyl and S. Willis Ham
mond, The Ok Bow, Milford;
Art and Dot Stokesbury, Smyr-
ma; and Mrs. Jay Tomlin, Smy-
rna. All were agreed that the
background of the Century Club
added glamour to the show.
Mrs. George Galley, who propos-
ed having the affair, was assist
ed by the following members
of the Historical Society: Mrs.
Robert Sarde, Mrs. Avery Cliff
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01

the ones who will benefit from
this and we have the right to
express our opinions.
| would also like it to be
known that l02 out of $50 stu
dents in the Junior and Senior
classes are for the Shell Rein
cry and are bro a d m n d d
enough to realize it's import
ance.
Sincerely yours.
Skip Rebar
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01

ton, Townsend, Clayton, New
ark, wold, and Hartly.
Thousands of dollars worth of
priceless antique were on dis
play, including furniture, glass
ware. china, silver, lamps, brass
ware, jewelry. handmade quilts,
and artifac'ts. The dealers were
enthusiastic about the shows
potential and all agreed that it
should be repeated next year.
Exhibits were by Mrs. James
Flamm, Dover; A. T. Moffitt,
The Barn, Smyrna; Walter Mar
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01
Mcdowell Bill
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permit the two companies to
be desentangled at once rather
than over the 10 years the Su-
preme Court has allowed. This
would be worth a good deal,
and if undue hardship to stock
holders can be averted here, it
may be easier to obtain dives
titure orders in other cases still
to be fought" Under the Nc
Dowell bill new section iii
would be added to the present
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01

ton, Miss Henrietta Denney,
Mrs. Robert Bamberger, Mrs.
Norman G. Wilder, Mrs. Dor
othy Moffitt, and Mrs. Walter
w. Speakman. Mrs. Henry 7.
Price was assisted by Mrs. An
drew D. Cole and Mrs. G. Har-
vey Wright in the sale of light
refreshments.
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01
May 80, 1861
Mr.. Kenneth Smith
Smyrna Times
Commerce Street
Smyrna, Delaware
Dear Mr.. Smith:

Below is a letter which | had
intended to send to Mr.. Wilder,
but recent incidents have led
me to believe that it should be
an open letter to the town as
well as to MIR. Wilder.
| would be very grateful if
you would print this letter in
your paper.
Dear Mr.. Wilder:
1t has come to my attention
that you are accusing the ad-
ministration and faculty of
Smyrna High School of influ-
'encing me into having the Jun
ior and Senior classes endorse
the Shell Refinery.
| would like to make it clear
right now that neither the fac
ulty nor the administration in
fluenced me into starting a pc
tition or influence anyone into
signing it. 1t was done because
the members of these classes
realizze the need of heavy in
dustry in Smyrna. They know
that an agricultural community
can't survive without industry
in this day and time.
You also said that the stud.
ents who signed the petition
were in "blitz" and didn',
hear both sides of the story
Well, Mr.. Wilder, the Shell Re
finery has been a topic of great
discussion in various classes al
Smyrna and | feel sure that the
students have heard most o.
the arguments for and against.
l would like to know (D Die
the 800 fishermen who signed
your petition asking for a de
lay in the hearing hear botl
sides of the story? and (2) Wa,
this tactic to keep them from
hearing it?
You said my petition was ;
strange commentary on tn,
democratic process. l disagree
This action on the teenager
part shows that they realiz,
their responsibilities and ar,
taking advantage of the right
of an American citizen.
l think you are belittling tn,
intelligence of the students O
Smyrna by incinuating that they
can't think for themselves.
am sure that when you were
IL and 18 you had ideas o.
what you wanted and wouldn'
have appreciated someone say
ing that you didn't really be
lieve them. We are going to be
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01

Internal Revenue Code which
would provide that, in general,
where corporation distributes
stock in another corporation to
its shareholders pursuant to an
order enforcing the antitrust
laws, gain or dividend income,
as otherwise determined under
existing law, will be recognized,
but not in excess. of the tax
basis to the distributing corpor-
alton of the stock received. In
the case of a distribution ci
stock to which this new Sec
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01

ton would apply, the stock
holders tax basis for his total
investment after the distribu-
ton shall be the same as his
former tax basis, increased
only by the amount on which
he is subject to tax under this
section.
Smyrna times., 1961-06-01
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town, Dover, Milford, Whining
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