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Milford chronicle., 1961-12-08
Schine's Twist" Contest
Now In Full Swing;
Second Contest Tonight

Schlne's Milford T h e tire S
1Wlst Contest got off to a me-
teor1c beginning last Friday eve
ming with total of fourteen peo-
PIE demonstrating this newest ma
tlon-wide dance craze. Entering
the first week 5 contest were Eve
lyn Biggs and Terry Webb, Linda
Conaway and Jimmy Walls. Sue
Marvel and Billy Grunden, Bill
Staats and Carole Vernotico. Alan
Jester and Cindy Endress, Regi-
nal Potts and Wanda Ingraham,
and Eleanor Brady and George
Davis. Before an audience of sew
eral hundred these twisters bait
led against each other for many
prizes donated by the local W. T.
Grant Company branch store. Re-
clpients of these prizes were for
first place, Eleanor Brady and
George Davis, winners of an Old
Spice set, perfume set by Max
Factor and for the girl, a hand
bag. Runners-up: Bill Stats and
Carole Vernotico received passes
to the Milford Theatre and from
the Tastee FreeZ two free quarts
of ice cream. Bill was also the
winner of gym bag from Haber's
Army and Navy Store.
The decision of the judges was
read on stage by Les Porter,
member of the Judging team. The
winning couple is now eligible
for the grand finals which take
place on December 90 Many of
the couples who did not place in
the first contest have indicated
they will be back to compete
again. This fact, plus the many
additional contestants signed up
for future shows make each weeks
show eXcitingly entertaining
Prizes in tonight's contest will
be donated by Dixon's Jewelry
Store in Milford and will be on
display in the lobby of the theatre
until presentation to the winners
on stage at the conclusion of the
contest
Dennis Hazard, master of GER
emonies throughout the series of
contests and Raymond Sparklin
manager of the theatre have also
stressed that although the Twist"
Contest is the main feature of the
evening, prospective patrons should
be reminded that the theatre is
featuring as no additional cost,
top name stars in big box office
blockbusters Featured tonight is
The Young Doctors, starring
Frederic March, Dick Clark and
Ben Gazzara Also featured is an
adventure packed flick entitled
The Canadians" Throughout the
coming weeks, along with the
Twist" show. Schine's Milford
will present such top name stars
as Paul Newman, Piper Laurie,
Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope and
Lana Turner in such outstanding
productions as The Hustler,
"Trapp Family" and Bachelor in
Paradise"
For an evening of excitingly diff
ferent entertainment, you're invit-
ed to come on down to the Milford
Theatre to root for your favorite
contestants in Schine's Milford
Theatres Twist" Contest.
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-08
Power Company Saves
Consumers Thousands
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month, low rate of 134c per kill
owatt hour will be especially at
tractive for electric home heating.
The new electric rates for Kent
and Sussex Counties also include
a low cost water heating service
of 1.3c per kilowatt hour for un-
controlled electric water heating.
Because of the savings resulting
from the new residential service
rate, the present Water Heating
Rate and the All Electric Home
Rate will be withdrawn. In addi-
ton, present Rate 43 chiefly for
commercial service and present
Rate IA primarily serving. indus
trial customers, will be withdrawn
and these customers will be served
under a new Rate 42 for general
service.
Since in New Castle Comfy
there are more customers per mile
of electric line and their use great
er than in Kent and Sussex Coun-
ties, the residential rate in New
Castle County will continue to be
somewhat lower. Savings to cleo
trio customers in New Castle
County are estimated to be $129,-
134 annually. While residential
costs to the average customer in
New Castle County will continue
at $S25 monthly for $50 kilowatt
hours, the new residential rate
reduces the cost for use in excess
of 500 kilowatt hours monthly from
&c per kilOwatt hour to Ia C kilo-
watt hour and in addition, offers
a low rate of 12c per kilowatt
hour for uncontrolled electric wa
ter heating service. The present
controlled off peak water heating
service rate for customers in New
Castle County will continue in eff
feet for customers presently using
this service.
1t was also stated that these re-
ductions in electric rates were
dependent upon The Public Ser
vice Commission approving the
company's request for a change
in accounting with respect to lib
eralized depreciation for income
tax purposes.
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-08
Kris Kringle Starts
Harrington Program
Continued from page one)


meanwhile, he will circulate in the
business district every Friday eve
ming and Saturday afternoon.
The 40 ct s locomotive was there
Saturday afternoon at 8, and will
return on Saturday, December 16,
at l p. m. to take the children for
free rides.
The ornamental street lighting
and the lights on the Christmas
tree went on Wednesday evening.
Current is furnished by the city.
The tree was furnished, without
charge, by Timothy Schlabach of
Greenwood Walt Messick aided
in the moving of the tree.
This portion of the Yuletide pro-
gram has been supervised by the
Christmas committee of which
Clarence Rash is chairman.
The Retail Merchants Commit
tee, of which Walter Lang is the
chairman, again promises excit-
ing drawings. On Saturday, De-
cember 8, at the Quillen Shopping
Center, 500 in merchandise will
be awarded On Saturday, Decem-
Der 16, at the Shopping Center, an
other 500 in merchandise will be
awarded On Saturday, December
%, at the Christmas tree at the
post office, a stereo set and 500 i'll
merchandise will be awarded
Drawings will be held at S:45 p.
M, and the winner must be pres
ent. Tickets may be secured from
cOopering merchants
The annual lighting contest will
be conducted as it was last year.
There will be no sectional prizes,
as were awarded previous to 1860.
Beginning last year, the contest
was city-wide and vicinity
Prizes for best-decorated homes
will be $25, with second prize, SO.
The entry of Mrs. Mary Brown
took first prize last year The prize
for the most original home dec
oration will be SO; second prize,
$5 The entry of Thomas Peck
took first place last year
A prize of SO will be awarded
for the best decorated window.
The entry of Mrs. Brown also won
this award last year. There are
no other prizes to be awarded in
this category.
The prize for best-decorated
door will be IS, with no other
awards. The entry of Mary Will
ley took this award last year.
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-08
PRETTY OLD OATS

DES MONIES, Iowa (P)-An old
fire station building was purchas-
ed by a business firm which start
ed some remodeling. Fred j. Rein
exc, head of the firm, removed a
piece of moulding from the ceiling
and from a storage room above
there came tumbling down half a
bushel of oats.
The horse-driven fire fighting
equipment was motorized in 1914.
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-08
Lights On For Safety
Campaign Supported
CONTINUED from page one)

safety officials to invite all driv-
ers to participate in the Christ
mas-New Year program.
Every driver who cooperates
will become an ambassador of
safety on the highway During this
period of good will and brother
hood, the professional drivers of
the trucking industry are partic
ularIy pleased TO join with their
neighbors in this effort to put the
golden rule to work on our high
ways.
If everyone drives the way he
would want others to drive, the
highway safety problem would be
solved"
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-08
w. S. CosheI, Jr. Will
Emcee Sofety Night
CONTINUED from page one)

NNO1l eI1HNHO1 II OI1I PteOO OIiOI
the Committee to Promote Della
ware He is a member of the Will
mington Rotary Club and the Del
aware State and u. S. Chamber
of Commerce.
Guest speaker will be DR.. Carl
c. Byers of Cleveland, who is
safety consultant for General Mo-
tors. Dr. Byers is also we'll
known educator and after-dinner
speaker His topic will be Aim
to Live"
Ashton pointed out that Cover
nor Elbert N. Carvel and Mayor
John E. Babiarz are among the in
vited guests.
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-08
Father Of Four Dies
Man AZ Is Seized
CONTINUED from page one)

after witnesses identified him.
McCrea is survived by. his wild
dow, Cora Bell; four sons, O'Neil,
Lemston, Larry and Kenneth, all
at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Albert McCrea, also of George
town; a brother, Loney of Charles
town, South Carolina, and two
sisters, Miss Oder and Miss Char
ity McCrea, both of Georgetown.
Services will be held tomorrow,
Saturday, at 2 p. m in the Dimeri
and Rogers Funeral Home, Kings
tree, South Carolina
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-08
Gene Farmer Speaks
At u Of D Today
continued from page one)

sponsored by the Delaware Student
National Education Association in
Cooperation with the university's
department of political science,
school of education and division of
extension.
Purpose of the series is to devel-
op in students and the public a
sense of the prime importance of
education to national policy. There
is no admission charge
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-08

Empty steel drums are much in
demand in the Virgin Islands. Cut
to various lengths, they wind up as
musical instruments, in steel bands.
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SCREEN

ANIBASSADOR-"The Sins of Rachel Cade"; very
unoriginal, indeed; LAS, 4:25 7:05 and $3.50 pm.
Butterfield 81; Elizabeth Taylor in the seamier
side society; lis. 800, 525. 730 and 935 pm.
CAPTTOL-"Gone With the Wind" long ago it exhausted
the vocabulary of superlatves; l, 4:50 and s45 pm.
DUPONT-"Never Sunday; sophisticated Of how
life is in Greece these days. l. ESQ, 4:4O $50, 1928
and 1915 pm.
KEITHs-"Portrait of Mobster"; Dutch Schultz
wreStleS Capone, Dnger, the Mafa etc.; 1:20, S25,
$780, TBS and $40 pm.
MacARTHUR-"The League Of Gentlemen" amuSingly
elegant, SuspenSeful movie Of group of British mill
tay officers criminal caper; 1885, ASS, tbs and
$50 pm.
INTERCOLLEGIATE Sins Of Rachel Cade"; very
unoriginal. indeed: 1855, 4:25 and 935 pm.
ONTARIO-"Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" Brit
ish Academy Award Winner about very angry and
bitter young man; los, ESQ, 4:35, $40. sos and
1915 pm.
PALACE-'Elmer Gantry"; 2:3O and ITO pm; 1.-THE
caster won Oscar for best actor in the first; the
latter received the Academy vote as the years best
PIAYHOUSE-"The Seventh Seal; 1870, 1885 and TAO
pm; THE Virgin Spring; 8, 6:l0 AM $40 pm;
pair Of Ingmar Bergman favortes.
PLAZA-"Sun Lovers Holiday; young American
goes to Brazil to collect inheritance and finds still
more good fortune lis. 2:45, 4:1o 5:3S. T. 1925 and
$50 pm.
ToWN-"One-Eyed Jacks; Marion Brando directs and
stars in outdoor adventure tale featuring lot OF
Mexicans: /, $3.50. 6:15 and pm
TRANS-LUX-"Pepe"; marathon comedy and dance pro-
ducton starring Cantinfas; l. 1885, $50 and 9:45 pm
UPTOWN-"Exodus"; the story Of Isaes BIRTH more epic
in size than depth; and 1880 pm.
WARMERS fragile script is more than off
set by brilliant camera work, superb acting 2 and
BIS pm
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these, between whom exists
a great mutual admiration, is
Frank Leahy, Notre Danes
last winning coach.
One Of this corners IA
vorite Father Hartke stories,
about" not necessarily ''by,"
has to do with q chat he and
Leahy were having not too
many years ago during spring
practice.
Standing in the end zone
with Leahy, Father suddenly
found q football lying at his
feet. He picked 1t up casually
and punted 1t back to mid
field. Leahy said nothing but
gave his companion . quiz
zical look. Later. after they
had moved UP field TO the
30-yard line, another foot
ball wobbled over to them.
This one Father picked up
and drop-kicked (of all
things straight between the
goal posts. LeaIy could take
1t no longer:
Father" he said earnestly,
"how are your gradeS?"
The book-lover in him Is
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matter Of making words
rhyme. It's not. It's more
like a mosaic, putting q lot
of little things together
ideas, images, words, meter.
rhythm, rhyme-and max
ing them fit"
It's work, all right, hard
work, and so Is the job of
getting used to a new lyricist,
whether it be Larry Hart,
Oscar Hammerstein. Richard
Rodgers or Alan Jay Lerner.
IT always enjoy working"
Rodgers says. This is not
blood, sweat and tears. It
never has been. When Oscar
handed me a typewriter.
lyric, it presented a problem.
I love solving problems.
That's the fun Of writ
ing music"
What sort of a Rodgers
will emerge from his collab-
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BROADWAY
New Lyrics for Richard Rodgers

grafton with himself and
then with Lerner2 Rodgers
growth as a composer can be
traced through his expert
ences with each of his former
collaborators, both as differ
ent in temperaments and
work habits as their lyrics.
Rodgers was only Is when
he met the mercurial, cigar
smoking Lorenz Hart, seven
years his senior, and wrote
the music for a song called
ANY Old Place With You"
Lew Fields, a mutual friend,
fitted it into his show "a
Lonely Romeo" and thereby
launched the show writing
team of Rodgers and Hart.
Wrote ~ Shows
Together they wrote 81
Broadway musicals and eight
movie scores, including such
musical milestones as pal
joey" Babes in Arms"
THE Boys From Syracuse"
ION Your Toes" and by
Jupiter"
With the erratic, fun
loving Larry Hart, the music
almost always came first-of
necessity. Rodgers spent more
than half his time trying to
trick his brilliant but chron-
ically diSorganized partner
into turning out the brittle,
witty, sophisticated lyrics
that added a new dimension
to the American musical
stage.
But for all his talent and
success, Hart just hated to
work. When his disorgani-
cation ultimately became dis
sipation, Rodgers reluctantly
sought a new partner.
The one he chose-Oscar
Hammerstein II - was the
See RODGERS, Page Fla
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UP that early since I was q
camp counselor in the Cat
skills. BY 9 I had written the
words and music to q new
song. Now I have a whole
song and no place to put it.
That's never happened be-
fore. My music has always
been written for a definite
situation"
AS his own lyricist, Rod
gers has suddenly come to
appreciate the fascination
that his wife, Dorothy, has
for double acrostics. IT used
to laugh at her trying to fit
the right word in the right
place. I'm not laughing any
more. Despite her intense
concentration, she is ac-
tually having fun. So am I.
The problems are similar.
People always think that
writing lyrics is simply a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-30
BY BOB THOMAS
Associated Press Writer

HOLLYWOOD. - Burt
Lancaster wants to talk to
you about a movie" said
Shirley Jones manager. II
don't know what the role is,
but it might be a shady lady.
So dress Sexy and look old"
From just such beginnings
are Oscars won. That's the
way it started for the win
some Miss Jones, whose film
career was dragging until she
played the racy Lulu Baines
in Elmer Gantry."
when I went to talk
about doing the part" she
recalls, "I wore a dress that
was cut down to here and fit
tight around the hips. I also
wore my hair up, so I
wouldn't look so young.
Burt and the producer,
Bernie Smith, we're for me
from the start; they had
seen me do a TV drama with
Red Shelton, in which I
played a couple Of drunk
scenes and committed sui
eide. Richard Brooks, the
director, wasn't so sold on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-30
BROADWAY
BY HUGH A. MULLIGAN


NEW YORK - At least
three Of the songs in the re-
make Of the movie state
Fair" will carry q history
making credit line:
Music by Richard Rod
gers. Lyrics by Richard Rod
gers"
And next season a new but
still unwritten Broadway
musical will carry another
set Of unprecedented credits:
Music by Richard Rod
gers. Lyrics by Alan Jay
Lerner."
After Is years Of writing
music in anticipation OF
lyrics by Lorenz Hart and 10
years Of fitting music to the
lyrics Of Oscar Hammerstein
II, Broadway's most success
full and most prolific COM
poser is setting off in two
different directions on a
brand new career.
StiIl Generates Joy
No matter what the, as
signment, even writing his
own lyrics, Rodgers Cat so
can still generate the same
effervescence and undis-
guised Joy as he did when hA
was q freshman writing the
undergraduate shows at Co
lumbia University.
Since I've been on this
lyric writing kick" he eager
ly confides, II find myself
doing things I never did
before in my life. The other
morning I woke UP at, 8
o'clock. I couldn't sleep.
Something was troubling me.
You know what 1t WASP An
idea for o new song.
II went into the study and
went to work. / haven't been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-30
THE PASSING SHOW
Child Actor @. Y. Hortke
Easily EIuded Its PeriIs

constantly inspiring Father
Hartke to give books to any
friend in whom he recog-
nizeS a fellow book-lover.
This accounts for one Of
the great condolences Of this
correspondents life. The set
ting was the old Hardness
CYale library HarkneSS)
apartment, by then converted
into offices, in New York.
The room was the small Ii
brary, the head of the fam
ily's own small reading room.
A few books remained on the
shelf and, with no one watch
ing, the office visitor took
one down from its place,
wondering If it might be a
remnant Of the Hardness pri-
vate collection. Turning to
the f1y-leaf, the sneak got
the start Of his life. Inscribed
there, he read: ITO Jay, from
Father Hartke, May, 1941."
He Knows Everyone
Fathers book gift ideas run
to the dramatic. Another
was McKeon's famous India
paper complete Aristotle. a
present on the eve Of this
correspondents departure for
the Air Forces as a draftee
in 1912.
cit will make you look like
a very scholarly private" he
said. It did, too, proving
there's no author like Aris-
totle for a status-yearner.
AS a priest who knows
everyone, Father is q WON
derful guest to take to any
public, or private club dining
room. Especially to the Co
lumbia Country Club, where
the effect upon the host is
the disconcerting one that he
is the guest, Father Hartke
the member.
"Of course you know him,
he said one night Of the man
sitting with his family at the
next table. Fathers host said
See .CARMODY, Page F-4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-30
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Editor Of The Star

Child film actors, exposed
to all sorts of personality
perils, can grow into re-
markable adults.
This column will be about
one of these, Father Gilbert
v. (for Vineent) Hartke,
whose ordination silver an
niversary is being observed
today at Catholic University.
Father Hartke, Dominican
o. p, for "a years head of
the university's drama de-
partment, is first Of all a
priest. He is also a teacher
and one Of the most adj
mired and beloved figures in
the theater. He is q multi
tude Of other characters,
athlete, sports and book
lover among them, the sum
total Of which is good COM
panion. A drama columnist
whose career precisely par
allels that OF Father Hartke
speaking only chronology
cally, Of courSe-knows how
GOOD.
Ihe Imperturbable Man
b And how imperturbably a
man Of absolute faith: AS,
for instance, the night they
were driving on a turnpike
when Father Hartke turned
on the cars domelight and
began reading his breviary.
When he finished he
reached over, turned off the
light, and went into q brief
period Of meditation.
II suppose, Father" his
companion finally broke the
silence, that's the first time
you have ever read your
offices at rs miles an hour"
mo" came the unruffled
response, II think the record
Is 10. Quite a number Of my
friends are law-breakers."
Father, an all-star 1874
pound fullback at Loyols
High School in Chicago who
might have gone on to be-
come an all-America Gas
teammate Metzger, 143-pound
guard, did at Notre Dame)
gave UP the chance for the
priesthood. MY preceptor,
he says. discouraged sports
as a too diversionary semi
nary sideline."
Sports. however, remain
one Of his secondary fascina-
tons and he knows more
famed figures In them thar
an ex-sports writer. One Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-30
FUN IN IRELAND

The story of a retired prizefighter and his
romantic encounter back in Ireland with a
fiery Irish lass, told in John FOrd's movie,
THE Quiet Man." comes to us now on stage
as the new musical, 'DOnnybrOOk!" Art
Lund, Joan Pagan, Eddie FOy and Susan
Johnson are the principal players in the
frOlic, which opens a twO-week priOr-tO-
Broadway engagement at the National Thea
ter on Tuesday night
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The Subtle Approach
Will Build Up Yvette

card before beating a tactful
retreat in his chopper.
A few weeks later, Yvette,
showing her delicate man
ners, telephoned to apologize
for getting angry and-voila
"a star was in the making.
Yvette's climb up the first
few rungs Of the Hollywood
ladder actually was a bit
more proSaic.
Cover Girl
She grew up in the shadow
of the Hollywood studios.
Her father, Rene Mimieux,
was a London-born French
man who worked as a movie
extra and electrician. Her
mother was Carmen Monte
mayor Mimieux, q Mexico
born beauty who came to the
United States as a child.
Yvette. whose last name is
pronounced "Me-me-oh," be-
gan her career as a fashion
model for Seventeen and
Glamour magazines. Press
agent Byron wandered on the
scene and promoted Yvette
into several magazine covers
and in 1859 an MGM con-
tract.
She clicked in her first
picture with Rod Taylor in
THE Time Machine" Then
came a couple of films re-
membered mostly for the
amount of popcorn sold at
intermisSionS: platinum
High School" and Where
the Boys Are"
And Now, Italy
Yvette recently played with
the first team in MGMs
THE -Four Horsemen Of the
Apocalypse" with Charles
Bower and Glenn Ford. Now
she's off to Florence, Italy,
and the plum role as the re-
tarded child-wife in THE
Light in the Piazza" with
Olivia de Havilland and Ros-
sano Brazil.
Yvette swings with the
Hollywood younger set. She
turns up at coffee houses
listening to flamenco singers,
sails her 18-foot sloop on
nearby Newport Harbor,
makes the sports car race
scene at Santa Barbara and
Pebble Beach and belongs to
an avant garde theater work.
shop.
She digs music, from long
hair classical to THE Bird"
and Brubeck.
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HOLLYWOOD
ShodyL Gorb
Won Oscar Role

me; I think he had someone
else in mind.
But Burt was tnSiStent
and I got the role without
making a test, though I
would have been willing to
make one. Brooks still wasn't
for me until after the first
day Of shooting"
She convinced him-and
the Academy voters. 1t was
one of the notable switch
castings Of recent times, her
turning from musical comedy
heroine to fallen woman. It
also gave her a whole new
film career to replace one
that had been drifting.
Break-and Drawback
Not that she is going to
specialize in portraying
tainted butterflies. Matter Of
fact, she is now back In the
musical comedy dodge, play
ing Marian the librarian In
Music Man"
The musicals almost did
her in, as far as films. She
won immediate fame by be-
ing chosen by Rodgers and
HammerStein as their film
Laurie in oklahoma"
ut was a wonderful
break" she says. II was lucky
to be chosen because they
didn't need a star for the
part-Rodgers and Hammer
stein were their own stars.
"In one way, it was q
drawback to do Oklahoma
and 'Carousel.' The good
parts in Rodgers and Ham
merstein shows are always
male; the women are much
less noticed"
When she finished "Ca-
rousel," her studio, Goth
Century-Fox, told her it had
no films for her-"because
we aren't planning any mu-
steals" She protested that
she could do non-musicals,
but to no avail.
Offers Were Scarce
After April Love" with
Pat Boone, she left Fox. She
did a musical with James
Cagney, Never Steal Any
thing Small" q disaster.
Film offers became scarce.
She formed a night club act
with husband Jack Cassidy
and toured the country for
a year.
II hated being away from
home" Shirley said, "espe-
cially since our son Sean was
only a few months old: he
went with us.
But it was the greatest
possible training for me.
Playing a night club Is like
appearing naked on the
stage. You have no scenery,
no props, and you are up
against unruly audiences.
You can rely only on yourself
to create entertainment
After playing night clubs, I
felt I could tackle any kind
of Job, inclu ding Lulu
BaineS."