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Milford chronicle., 1961-12-22
FRANKFORT
G.. G. CrOcker
Phone: Rodney 451S
PRESBYTERIAN Notes !:

Presbyterian Notes:
Church School 10 am; Worship
Service II am; Rev. Richard G.
Thompson, Pastor; The subject
for Sunday, Dec. "a, 1861, is God
and the Unexpected.
Methodist Notes:
Church School 10 am; Worship
Service IL am; Rev. illiam H.
Smith, Pastor; Sunday evening at
Z pm. there will be a Christmas
Program followed by carol singing
Local Notes:
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Truitt of
the FrankfordDagsboro Road are
the proud grandparents of grand
son, Jessie Wallace Truitt, III,
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Truitt
on Thursday, the 18th.
At the religious service held in
the Presbyterian Church on Sun
day there was presented a pageant
directed by Mrs. Roy LuZier with
able assistance Each of the young
people who took part gave very
creditable showing.
Students home from college for
the Christmas Holidays are: Miss
Mary Jane Tingle, Miss Barbara
Long, Winnie Jane Bunting, and
Miss Carol A Gum.
Mr.. Rube Lewis underwent sur
gerry at the Wilmington Memorial
Hospital. His many friends and
relatives wish him speedy re-
cOvery.
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-22

yield per acre for dwarf-55 "a tons
of dry matter per acre compared
with $50 tons for regular corn.
However, there was a higher
TDN figure for dwarf coen-777
per cent compared with 70.8S per
cent for the same amount of regu-
lar corn.
This year, plant population was
boosted from 10000 to 21,000 per
acre for both types Of corn, the
thought being that the higher pop
ulation might help dwarf compete
in tons of forage produced.
The results: The regular corn
showed an even bigger production
advantage over dwarf Green for
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-22

age yield rose IL tons per acre
for the regular corn and actually
dropped for dwarf corn.
Increased competition for light
at heavier planting rates may have
been a factor in dropping dwarf
corn forage yields in the test
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-22
AA Is WORLDWIDE

NEW YORK (AP) - Alcoholics
Anonymous now includes more
than $500 chapters in 80 nations,
reports the Catholic Digest. It
says AA has salvaged 100000
alcohol-ridden lives in its % years
of operation.
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-22

Anting is one of natures strang-
est mysteries. A bird, clutching an
anu in it's bill, cohorts itself to
tail feathers. The bird seems to
experience an almost trancelike
ecstasy.
Milford chronicle., 1961-12-22
WHAT'S In A NAME!

SACRAMENTO, Calf up -
George Winter is state office build
ing manager in Sacramento. His
assistant is named George Midwin-
ter.
Evening star., 1961-01-29
Two New Novels
Have French
Court Setting

THE CHANCELLOR. BY Law,
renee Schoonover. Gittle
Brown, $4.50)
A STRANGER PASSED. B,
Catherine Christian. (Put'
nam, $3.95)
The French court is o
colorful and traditional back
drop for the historic romance
and two new novels take
advantage Of every royal
trapping.
Mr.. Schoonover's book Of
France in the early Renais-
sance is disappointing. Instead
Of q finely drawn portrait
Of the scoundrelish and
interesting royal financial
wizard, he submerges his
title character beneath O run
of-the-mill love story.
"A Stranger Passed" Is
somewhat better, although
the title character Is the
legendary ''Comte de st.
Germain," who with his super
human powers repeatedly
rescues the heroine. The
scene Of this novel Is the
f1ickering court Of Louis XVI.
Both books run true to
the boy-meets-girl; affair-of7
state-separates-them. boy
solves = political crisis and
wins girl formula.
CLARE CRAWFORD.
Evening star., 1961-01-29
He Lives to Tell
Of q Purochutinq
Niqhtmure

THE MAN WHO RODE THE
THUNDER. BY 1t. Col.
William H. Rankin. (Pren-
tice Hall; $3.50
Somewhere, though 1t
doesn't come readily to mind,
there must be q title which
could better tell the horror
filled. nightmarish experience
Of parachuting through a
violent thunderstorm filled
with hail. rain, lightning
and thunder.
That Col. Rankin lived to
tell It in this engrossing book
is, the authorities admit, q
miracle.
1.-THE temperature outside
was close to 10 below zero
and I had on only a summer
weight flying suit. gloves.
helmet and Marine field
shoes"
Unwritten, but often-asked
by the reader. is the question
"Will he ever want to fly
again?" Col. Rankin answers
1t in the final paragraph:
"Someday I would like to
stand on the moon, look
down through a quarter
million miles Of space and say
There certainly is a beauti-
ful earth out tonight
CHARLES YARBROUGH
Evening star., 1961-01-29

His father, too. was q mis-
sionary. He writes clearly and
well; his narrative of COM
plications and delay is nicely
managed; but none Of his
lively characters is quite as
arresting as that of India In
transition.
Everywhere Luke goes, an
exile returned to his native
heath, he is met with unin-
hibited inquisitiveness and
prickly reserve, with ineffi-
cheney compounded by indi-
rection. by mysterious rebuffs
that are face-saving Snaneu-
vers Of unimaginable In
tricacy. He also rediscovers
the life and warmth Of his
childhood.
IN the family OF an indian
who had been an American
college classmate. he finds Q
welcome. He is enfolded into
their existence. into huge
meals, bouts Of talk and pas
sionate minding of everyone's
business. All Of them quiz
him closely about America;
his chief interrogator Is the
overeducated daughter Of the
house. who will not submit TO
an arranged marriage and
who is not permitted by Gus
tom to venture out and find
q man Of her own.
Impatiently. Luke begins
Evening star., 1961-01-29
THE MEMOIRS OF RAY

THE MEMOIRS OF RAY
LYMAN WILBUR. '(Stan-
ford University Press;
500
DR.. Wilbur's memoirs may
be Of value to members Of
the new administration. As
President Hoover's Secretary
Of the Interior he found the
mail a Secretary receives
falls into three categories:
Constructive. crackpot and
destructive.
He also wrote Of his own
experiences more than Q
quarter century ago, "Only q
short residence in Washing
ton Is sufficient to make any
administrator fear the bu-
reaucrat and bureaucracy"
DR.. Wilbur was o physi-
clan and all his life he was
interested In and concerned
with medical affairs. He
was also q teacher, president
Of Stanford University. and
an aide to Herbert Hoover
in the World War I Food
Administration. He took part
in politics to the extent Of
Evening star., 1961-01-29
Other Books of the Week in Brief

serious work on wild ponies
of the world, with emphasis
on the Icelandic bread.
UNIFORMS OF THE
UNITED STATES ARMY.
BY Marvin H. Pakula;
paintings by Henry Alex
ander Ogden. (Yoseloff,
$25) A colorfully illus
trated history of the myr-
lad Of Army uniforms
issued between 1888 and
1907.
ANTIQUE MAPS OF THE
WORLD IN COLOR. (Ster-
ling. SIS and $l7.95D A
collection Of geographical
knowledge available in the
10th. 17th and 18th CEN
turies.
ULTRAVIOLET GUIDE TO
MINERALS. BY Sterling
Gleason. Wan Nostrand;
$6.s50
LAOS: ITS PEOPLE, ITS
SOCIETY, ITS CULTURE.
Edited by Frank Lebar and
Adrienne Suddard. (Tap-
linger; $6.50)
THE COMPLETE POEMS
OF MCCLELLAN CELLO:
Translated by Joseph Tu-
siani. (T'he Noon lay
Press, So A new and ex-
cellent translation of all
Michelangelo's poems. BY a
professor in Mount st. Vim
cent College in New York.
1t Is q particularly we'll
done volume.
Evening star., 1961-01-29
Blood, Thunder
In This Philippine
Insurrection Tale
THE WALLS OF JOLO. BY
Alan Caillou. (Appleton-
Century-Crofts: 34.5O.)

IhE WALLS OF JOLO. by
Alan Caillou. (Appleton-
Century -Crofts: $4.5o.)
Gore flows in rivulets from
one end to the other Of THE
Walls Of Jolo." q ferocious
and lightweight novel about
the Philippine InSurrection.
The action moves swiftly
enough in Mr.. Caillou's story
Of the fighting between the
Americans, who occupied the
Philippines after the VIII
liam Randolph Hearst Me-
mortal War with Spain. and
the Moro tribesmen In the
southern part Of the archi-
pelago.
1t Is plain that the Moros
would have fought anybody
in those days and that the
issue had nothing to do with
Aguinaido's patriotic mo-
tives in resisting American
occupation further north.
Shay Sullivan, O taciturn
Virginian who might have
been the mold from which
Gary Cooper was struck. is
the hero. He is captured by
the bolo-wielding Moros.
forced to fight a duel with
one of their amok chieftains
and escapes with the usual
dark-haired beauty.
Eventually. there is the
climactic battle between the
Moros and the Yanks. q sort
Of Armageddon in Sulu. But
by that time, the reader may
have been surfeited with
bloodshed so graphically de-
scribed and pick his way
through the severed limbs to
less sanguine reading matter
under other covers.
JERRY OLEARY, JR.
Evening star., 1961-01-29

He took pictures of the
enemy for an American
photographer. And he
couldn't breath q word Of
his activity to his mother
or Father Gihney, an Epis-
copal missionary.
If this were not enough.
Peter was infatuated with
Enid Larsen, a Swedish girl
whose father was q Nazi
sympathizer. Besides wrest-
ling with a moral dilemma,
the boy was plagued by the
thought that Enid used him
to get secrets for the enemy.
When the Japanese smashed
his underground ring, Peter
saw executions and tortures,
and was imprisoned and
beaten himself. And he
tormented himself with the
thought that he had been
the weak link.
Finally interned, Peter
found many adults regarded
him as a stool pigeon. But
even in prison camp. preco-
ciOlis petqr's exnloftS Hid mt
halt. and it Is through these
adventures that Mr.. Berga-
mini rounds out his story
with an exciting climax.
Through a teen-ager's eyes,
also. the reader sees the re-
actions Of varied types Of
: individuals in times Of great
stress. ,.
JOSEPH O'KEEFE.
Evening star., 1961-01-29
The Pace Is CeoseIess
But UnexhiIorotinq

door, the thinking is acceler-
ated. Charles asks Kate over
to hear some new Vivaldi
records, makes illusions to
THE Spoils Of Poynton"
(knowing that Kate has said
she could never marry q
man not wild about Jane
Austen and James,, and
grieves quietly, solicitously
and honorably for Kate's un-
happy life. Son Tom ex-
changes his Spanish girl for
Araminta, Charles daugh-
ter. who is really q knock
out. and the two experience
the ecstacy Of Venus in the
back seat Of his car. Daugh-
ter Lou loses the curate,
Father Blizzard, with whom
she is infatuated, when he
is suspected of being too
high church" and moves to
France.
Meanwhile Dermot, who
has been committing to Lon
don on an imaginary Job in
a travel agency, finds him
self in the same compartment
with Araminta, who COM
mutes to a modelling studio.
The two are sympathetic and
not wicked. but as Araminta
is obsessed by fast automo-
biles, they both wind UP dead
in an accident. Next year
Kate marries Charles, and
Evening star., 1961-01-29
Dr.. Wilbur Has MESSAGE
For the New Frontier

supporting Mr.. Hoover for
the Republican nomination
for the presidency In 1920
and 1928.
At the Chicago convention
Of 1920, when he was told
that Senator Harding would
be nominated, he found 1t
almost impossible Of belief.
He predicted Harding could
not live through four years
Of the presidency and added,
Just to look at him you can
see he has cardiovascular di-
sease and high blood pres
sure"
DR.. Wilbur was present to
see his prediction fulfilled.
He was one Of the physicians
called In to attend the
stricken President at his
final illness In San Fran
cisco.
He had made 1t q rule Of
life ito keep his mouth
shut" But he did not hold
to that rule too strictly when
1t came to debating and writ
ing his 687-page memoirs.
His manuscript was incom-
pete at the time of his death
In ls49. Two Stanford men.
Edgar Z. Robinson and Paul
c. Edwards. rounded out the
narrative with the help of
others. Mr.. Hoover wrote an
affectionate foreword.
-F. p. ID.
Evening star., 1961-01-29

the search. hoping for q sec
ond chance to love his un-
loved father, to make up for
the barren, bitter years Of
the past. He finds out that
his father had broken with
his missionary superiors, had
renounced his American citi-
zenship and had become the
futile champion Of the un-
touchable caste. Finally, from
the lips Of o Eurasian he il
given an image Of the father
he had never known, o brave
man in crisis. in everyday life
o failure.
"see him as he was." she
counsels. that - his death
left you lost and alone. 20
the death Of the Victorian
era has left many young men
in the world like you. looking
nctrso much for q real father
as for some redefinition Of
life"
Luke finds what he ID
looking for. Mr.. White has
told the story with 0 light
touch. which fails him only
in some explicitly sex scenes:
his description Of India, with
all It's absurdities and all its
pretensions and It's rich hu-
manity IL both loving and
humorous.
Evening star., 1961-01-29
Literary
Criticism
AtIts Best
oBsEssIvE IMAGES: syni-

OBSESSIvE IMAGES: Synl-
bolisrn in the Poetry Of the
193Os and l9z0s. BY Joseph
Warren Beach. Edited by
william Van O'Connon.
University Of Minnesota
Press; $3.95 pp.; $6.75.)
This is a full-length, rich
and searching study Of years
through which Prof. Beach
lived and read intensively in
the poets. 1t is a posthumous
book which the author be-.
gan and put aside and took
up again. not quite having
finished it at the time Of his
death in 1857.
The detailed knowledge, the
fineness of the writing, the
insights into the obsessions,
both verbal and ideational,
are striking. He hit on such
notions as the assassin, ex-
lies, the hero. revolution
aries, mystics. the sense Of
guilt and unfaith and he ad-
umbrates them with notable
examples. Many Of the poets
studied or anatomized are
well known. yet he points up
the work Of some poets who
flourished in his two decades
who are alive but are no
longer writing poetry; he
makes much Of the work Of
Frederick Prokosch.
This book represents orig
inal. retrospective literary
criticism at its best.
RICHARD EBERHART.
Library of Congress
Consultant In Poetry.
Evening star., 1961-01-29
CIV From
ToYorktown
MAN FROM MOUNT YER
NON. BY Burke BOyce.
Harper; $4.50.)

MAN FROM MOUNT YER
NON. BY Burke Boyce.
Harper; $4.50.)
In this sympathetic ac-
count. the career Of George
Washington Is skillfully
sketched from Lexington
Concord to CORVALLIS sur
render at Yorktown. Events
before and later are not
included. AS the book is end
ing, Gen. Washington is
about to 60 to Congress with
his report on the great vic
tory. Stepson Jack Custis is
dead Of camp fever. WASH
ington. sorrowing. and fear
full Of what may happen now
to the love Martha bears
him, suggests he adopt the
two youngest Of Jacks chill
dren. Shortly before. Wash
ington has voiced regret that
the estates buildings we're
not burned rather than left to
provision the British officer
who dropped anchor. came
ashore, and made his de-
mand for supplies.
Only in incidental conver-
sation does one hear refer
enceS to Gen. Washington's
earlier military activities and
subsequent resigning from his
commission. The tone of the
book Is immediate and lively,
as II the events happened
only yesterday.
There Is q continuing ap-
praisal OF public opinion as
the story moves through the
war, the episodes Of which
are crystal clear.
As to this reaction, 1t
went through a seasoning,
one could say q venerating
process that gave him SYM
pathy in hardship, fervor Of
allegiance and finally awe as
his stature grew.
For readers hereabouts,
Mount Vernon, Belvoir,
Dogue Greek, Fredericksburg,
Wtlliam m burg, Pohick
Church, Richmond, and
many another center Of ac-
tivities are most pleasantly
reassociated with pre-Revo-
lutionary times. Truly the
book sheds many new lights
on q patriot who did
not seek the top army COM
mand and who. through bull
dog tenacity. brought off the
assignment In the face of al
most impossible obstacles.
HENRY A. LYON.
Evening star., 1961-01-29
E. M. FORSTER

guished nearly $50 years later
with the death Of Caesarion,
son Of Cleopatra and Julius
Caesar.
The great intellectual
achievement Of Ptolemaic
culture was the Mouseion, q
laboratory Of science and
literature. q university in
which no one was obliged to
teach. It had q library Of
100000 volumes. Forster
speaks briefly and vividly of
Ptolemaic literature, art.
philosophy. and scholarship.
before turning to science, in
which the third century
BIC. was "the greatest Pc
riod that civilization has
ever known greater even
than the 18th century
AD." In mathematics there
were Euclid and Apollonius
(who inaugurated the study
Of comic sections); Eratos-
themes was q geographer who
knew that the earth is round
and ascertained its dimen-
sions with almost exact ac-
curacy by triangulation Of
shadows; Ptolemaic astron-
omy (the name is that Of
an individual not connected
with the dynasty was
adopted by all subsequent
geographers until Galileo.
Aristarchus of Samos, work
ing in Alexandra, suggested
the earth might revolve
about the sun, but his theory,
counter to the orthodoxy Of
the later church, was
squelched. The calendar we
now use was worked out in
Alexandria. In medicine,
Erasistratus "practiced vivi-
section on animals and pos
sifiy criminals. and seems to
have come near discovering
the circulation Of the blood"
Christianity was brought
to Alexandria. according to
tradition, by st. Mark him
self. Forster's descriptions Of
the various Neo-Platonic and
Christian leaders and sects-
the sublime Plotinus, Origen,
Clement. Athanasius, the
Gnostics, Monophysites, and
Monothelites, are short
vignettes whose clarity and
directness are as remarkable
as their penetration. How
craftsmanlike, how polished
is the introduction Of Athan-
asius, the theologian whose
vocation was made plain when
as q child he was discovered
baptising his playmatesi
Physically Athanasius was
hlackish and small, but strong
and extremely graceful
one recognizes q modern
street type. He was GER
tainly not lovable, though he
lived to be q popular hero.
AS a theologian he knew
what Is true, and as a politi-
clan he knew how truth can
be enforced, and his career
blends subtlety with vigour
and self-abnegation with
craft In the most remarkable
way"
Alexandria" takes us on
through the days Of the
Arabs. the Turks, and the
moderns. beginning with
Napoleon. AS Forster tells
the story all eras are inter-
esting. but the best were
those Of the Ptolemies and
the Christians.
Evening star., 1961-01-29
The EorIy Days
Of Sam Houston
THE RAVEN AND THE

THE RAVEN AND THE
SWORD. BY Matthew
Cant. Coward = McCann:
$3.50
A strange gap appears in
most biographies Of Sam
Houston. that intrepid ad-,
venturer who was the agent
Of Jackson in the great
scheme to bring Texas into
the United States. A SEEM
ingly successful political Ca
reer In Tennessee as Governor
was mysteriously resigned
and 1t was not until Houston
was 80 that he did finally
60 to Texas.
MIR. Cant tells Of the many
women in Houston's life and
Of his vain ambition to lead
the Indians Of the Great
Plains into o constitutional
government with a huge
army.
H, A. L.
Evening star., 1961-01-29

print Of the Egyptian branch
of . London house, and the
ignoble suspicion arises that
alexandria" Is only an oc-
casional piece. published be-
cause Of the prestige Of its
author. Do great writer's
spend their light on guide
books?
But we have only to read
. page Of the preface to
know that q great writer can
write Of what he will-of
color : theory, bees. urns.
angling, chivalry. noses. or.
In this case. Alexandra. and
the result be . masterpiece.
the subject suddenly Of i'm
mediate importance. Forster
wins US at once
"The text was written
by me during the First
World War when I was sta
toned in Alexandra as Q
result Of volunteering for
the Red Cross What had
begun as an outpost turned
into something suspiciously
like . funk-hole. and ! stuck
in 1t for over three years,
visiting hospitals. collecting
information, and writing re-
ports. You are such q won-
derful sticker,' Q detestable
Red Gross colonel once said
to me seathingly. I was: and
I dared not retort that 1t
takes both stickers and
climbers to make q world.
II was dressed like o sort
Of officer myself, but allowed
to take things off between
whiles, and it was thus that
I apprehended the magic and
the antiquity and the COM
plexity Of the city, and de-
termined to write about her.
A guidebook suggested itself.
! have always respected
guidebooks- the
earlier Baedekers and Muir
rays-and / tried to work in
some history as well. -"
The colloquial grace Of
such writing Is irresistible,
and Forster wears 1t easily
while visiting every church.
square, and museum in Alex
andria. II bet it would" he
remarks, and I bet you
thought that was an Ameri-
canism. "What happened was
this" he says. starting to ex-
plain something. indifferent
to the ordinariness Of the
phrase, but sensitive to the
attraction Of the style.
We first hear Of Alexan.
dria from Homer: There iS
an island In the surging sea,
which they call Pharos" "a
name probably cognate with
Pharaoh: it was an island
then, but the channel has
"silted up," and the many
geographical transformations
Of Alexandra, natural and
man-made, thread Fofster's
story from beginning to end.
The city was built by Alex
ander the Great 1881 B.C),
Macedonian destroyer and
admirer of Greek civilization,
who, when Egypt fell into his
hands, ordered his architect,
Dinocrates, to create q mag
nificent Greek city.
The city. after Alexander's
death was taken over by
one Of his generals. He was
Ptolemy the Saviour, king
and god, the first Of a line
Of rulers that was extin-
Evening star., 1961-01-29
sANoVA's TRAVEL TALES IN NEW DREs.

THE MEMOIRS OF CASA
NOVA: Spanish Passions.
Translated by Arthur Ma
chen. putnam; $50
With this sixth volume of
Casanova's Memoirs. Put
MANS completes the publica-
ton Of the matchless Arthur
Machen translation. Long
famous In limited editions,
this work now is available to
the general public. The
period covered In this volume
Is perhaps less picturesque
Evening star., 1961-01-29
IN A SUMMER SEASON. A
novel by Elizabeth Taylor.
Viking Press, $3.50

IN a SUMmEh 0EASON. n
novel by Elizabeth Taylor
Viking Press, $3.50
: Dermot didn't really marry
Kate, 10 years his senior.
for her money, though peo-
pie may have thought he
did. for he didn't have the
knack Of making 1t himself.
and relations with his mother
were deteriorating. He loves
Kate and Kate loves him. al
though to the reader he
seems q somewhat lackluster
'playboy, kind but rather
stupid. Kate takes care Of
their little suburban home,
holsters Dermot's self-respect.
keeps on reasonably good
terms with Dermot's mother,
advises her 16-year-old girl
and 22-year-old boy, toler-
ates Aunt Edith, and listens
to the cook, who is suspicious
Of store dressed turkeys and
Is compiling an anthology.
In addition, Kate thinks.
Almost everybody in Eliza
beth Taylor's novel I'm q
Summer Season" spends q
lot Of time thinking, or at
least spinning interior mono
'logues. When Charles. wild
over friend Of Kate's first
husband, Alan, comes back
to live In his house next
Evening star., 1961-01-29
Scientific Progress
In u. S. Is Chorted

four decades ago. Truly, as
Mr.. Kennedy noted at his
Inauguration, the torch has
been passed to a new genera
ton.
In. thoroughly readable
fashion, Francis Bello, Law
renee Lessing and George
Boehm have recounted 40
years Of progress. Their small
book l30 pages plus index
is being distributed to $4,000
high school science teachers
through a grant from the
American Institute Of Bio
logical Sciences. It cannot
fail to inspire many young
sters in those high school
classes to join in exploring
the most exciting new from
tier of all--the frontier Of
science.-WILLIAM HINES.
Evening star., 1961-01-29
GREAT AMERICAN SCI

GREAT AMERICAN SCI
ENTISTS. BY the Editors
Of Fortune. (Prentice-H Hall;
cloth. $3.50; paper, $3.50
Forty years ago the United
States was distinctly a sec
ond-class power" where sci
ence was concerned. Today
it is at the top in many dis
ciplines and near the top in
virtually all others.
Fortunes editors have done
an admirable job Of charting
and analyzing this spectacu-
lar rise in four fields: Physics.
chemistry. astronomy. and
biology. Startlingly enough.
they show that about q third
Of the men who have con-
tributed markedly to the rise
were In infancy or unborn