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administration sboud d. its utmot to have this talent should like to- talk about MI Chairman

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This concerns the power situation in our community
Recently, we have seen in the headlines in the news
papers: Virgin Islands Hit with Power Failure, Outage
Almost Prohibits Cruise Ship from Decking" and things
like that. AS residents Of these Islands, we are all aware
Of the tremendous inconvenience that our people are
enduring as a result of these outrageS. We know for a
TACT that hundreds Of our people lose large quantities OF
foodstufs. VIZ know that our businessmen, particularly
those who have to store large quantities OF meats and
utreI persuade goods, suffer great financial losses. we
also know that because OF the power situation, our peo
pie are continuously deprived OF the use and nJOyment
Of their television sets, radios and other necessary cleo
cal appliances in their homes, and are further deprived
Of the opportunity to enjoy their religious services N
the House Of God.
Our people have had enough, Mr.. President. They
are sick and tired Of paying for poor service. TO make
matters worse, | understand that the Virgin Islands
Corporation desires to increase the rates. Under the cir
cumstanees, Mr.. President, feel that any rate increase
a5 this time would be unjustidable and unreasonable.
i therefore respectfully request that this Body, as repre-
~sentatiyes of the people Of the Virgin Islands petition
the Secretary of the Interior, or even the President OF
the United States if necessary, to come to the immediate
aid of the people in r~ectfying this power situation.
Our government has already been required to pay
over S60O,O 600 to- take care of VICORP losses and expen~
,5es, even though we were never allowed to have any say
in the operation of this corporation. This S6O0,O0O could
lave been wei spent for the Improvement and develop
slnent Of some OF these very same schools | Just talked
aDOuC. instead, we ldQ W PICK UP Tile q " ~ q ~ POldT
ton that has been mismanaged and we do not feel that
our people should continue to keep this type OF agency
alive.
MRS. MILLN: Mr.. Chairman.
THE PRESIDENTS: Senator Millin.
MRS. MILL Mr. Chairman, | rise to>say how
much appreciate what Senator Maduro has said about
the schools. However, there is a particular school that !
don't think Senator Maduro mentioned, because the sa-
nitary conditions there were so deplorableltW was worse
.aan anything that have ever seen in my whole career
as a teacher. However, in this case was very happy to
be able to have some temporary help given to that school.
So am very glad to see that Senator MadWo is also visiting
and paying attention to the schools.
Mr.. GOMEZ: Mr.. President.
THE PRESIDENT: Senator Gomez.
Mr.. GOMEZ: Mr.. Chairman, Senator Maduro has Gov
cred a whole lot on the subject on which | would like to
cnooL RT,t If my memory serves me right. / think we
, 1962-04-27

make its contribution to the civic good.
Respectfully,
Isl Sybi Barrow
Sybil Barrow, Secretary
The ST. Croix Citizens Assn.
P.O. Box $50
Christiansted, ST. Croix, ".
PRIVILEGES OF THE FLOOR
HI PRESIDENT: Do we have any privileges Of
the floor?
MR.. MADURO. Mr.. President.
THE PRESIDENTS: Senator Maduro.
Evening star., 1962-03-18
Stories That Received
The 1862 0. Henry Prize
PRIZE STORIES 1862. TIL

PRIZE STORIES 1862. The
o. Henry Awards. Edited
with an introduction by
Richard Poirier. Double
day; $4.50.)
This collection is orna-
mented by a story by Kather-
inc Anne Porter, the first
prize-winner. Holiday" is
of a richness that we have
almost learned to do without
in the short story form. 1t
is the observation and the
writing rather than the mar
rative which give the reader
the feeling of great luxury.
Miss Porter is telling of a
large, jolly German family
in Texas, where the narrator
goes to recover from some
emotional crisis. She is be-
unused by the ferocious physi-
cal competence Of the Muel-
lers and their mental mac
tivity. She is touched by
Ottilie, the crippled cook, who
it turns out was a member
Of the family until her in
capacity isolated her. There
is a storm and a death, but
the drama of the story is in
the consciousness of the au-
thor, from whom, incidentally,
we will have a first novel
next month.
The second story, Thomas
Pynchon's Under the Rose"
represented to this reviewer
Evening star., 1962-03-18

a falling off. 1t is an rococo,
Irrelevant tale Of turn-of-the-
century spies in Egypt. The
third winner, "F a miliar
Usage in Leningrad" by Tom
Cole Is a witty and at the
time poignant story Of a U. S.
guide who meets in Leningrad
a Soviet girl who tells him
that love is the only thing
not complicated in the peo-
Piles paradise.
The standard of the vol
ume is exceptionally high.
Mary Deasy's 1.-THE People
with Charm" is an old-fash-
ioned story in the best sense,
one that o. Henry himself
would not have been ashamed
Of. 1t concerns that most
Writable Of all subjects, lone
illness, in this case as it af-
flicts a priest and the little
girl next door.
Maureen Howard'S "Brige-
port Bus" is a brilliant, say
age study Of Spinsterhood and
piety. Shirley Schoonover's
THE Star Blanket" the story
OF a Sheepherder's wife with
a thirst for knowledge comes
off, too. There is only one
story from The New
Yorker" which may be a sign
OF the times and a welcome
indication that the wispy in
conclusive short story is
a-glimmering.
Evening star., 1962-03-18

With Mr.. Mumford the ques-
TONERS were on familiar and
graSpable ground.
Hits Highway Builders
Mr.. Mumford declined to
be drawn into local planning
squabbles whether from
Texas or Washington, D. c.
He did deliver some cultivated
curses to city highway build
ers who solve their problems
by building more and more
wide, unadorned concrete
gashes through American
cities to get automobile COM
muters home quicker. These
remarks were clearly well
coined by the bookmen who
seemed to relish the idea of
preserving to some extent
the appearance of their cities
but their pleasure was some
what diluted by Mr.. Num-
ford's subsequent attack on
zoning laws as often doing
more harm than good by
Evening star., 1962-03-18

pectedD into committing the
Nation to develop the infe-
rior of two untested missiles.
Naturally, the President
could it be Rutherford B.
Hayes without a beard?j
wonders at this 180-degree
turn in policy and decides
that Mr.. ThurSton is a con-
niver athirst for power.
The Wrong Horse
Having snuggled himself
SO neatly into this morass
with his wife, his mistress
and his President, it follows
as the night the day that
Mr.. ThurSton is going to
back the wrong horse at the
national convention which is
the climax of the novel.
The wrong horse is only
the Governor of New York
with Is years of political ex-
perience. a liberal platform
and the backing of the party
apparatus. Yet he manages
to lose to a Tennessee Sen
ator with no organization,
a Southern aristocrat back
ground and a conviction that
civil rights should be granted
to Negroes with all deliberate
slowness.
The suicide Of Mrs. Thurs
ton about the time of the
last ballot at the convention
comes as no surprise after
this unlikely upset. Mr..
Thurston is formulating new
plots and mentally comput-
ing the size of his wife's
estate when book ends on its
412th page.
Mr.. Tully is at his best
when he takes his story, from
time to time, out of the sew
eral bedrooms and writes
about White House press re-
lations, the way conventions
are run and swayed and the
inner workings of govern
ment in general. And, If the
reader does not like earthi-
ness. he can always try to
find Sherman Adams or Jim
Hagerty among the dramatts
personae.
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Evening star., 1962-03-18

providing monotonous con-
formity.
Mr.. Mumford's presence
had about it a further in
terest in the generally felt
- and often expressed -
viewpoint that he is likely
Pulitzer Prize winner.
News that the Pulitzer COM
mittee has this year added
an award "for the best book
in any other category" seemed
to many to provide just the
niche for The City in His
tory" which isn't biography,
isn't exactly history but is
clearly Pulitzer caliber.
The book awards are
sponsored by the American
Book Publishers Council, the
American Booksellers As
sociation and the Book Man.
ufacturerS' Institute. Their
announcement each year
brings to New York the coun-
try's largest congregation Of
authors and critics and ed
itors. EDWIN TRIBBLE.
Evening star., 1962-03-18

with episodes which may ap-
peal to some readers, such as
the one in which boy and girl
go to bed together in the
model display house belong
ing to the girls father.
Father brings prospective
buyers into the bedroom, dis
covering culprits.
Later when the hero's wife
and daughter die, the tone
turns serious, and there is
considerable soul searching
about the meaning of it all,
and the value of religion,
after naive childhood, to in
telligent man. But the book
is not a "tragicomedy like
life ITSELF" as the publishers
declare; rather it is an ILL
sorted melange of pawky hu-
NOR and maudlin sentiment.
I am an admirer of the first
Mr.. de Vries, and I wish he
would devote himself to the
task Of becoming the talented
writer he once was.
Evening star., 1962-03-18

his craft" Withal, he was an
inventive and enchanting
companion.
Mr.. Turnbull, who excels
in pictures of the handsome
Fitzgerald, is Illuminating
about the terrible rivalry be-
tween Scott and Zelda, which
despite their love, destroyed
them both. At one point in
her frantic search for an
identity of her own, she wrote
a novel, using him as a char
acter. Wrote Scott: MY
God, my books made her a
legend and her single inten-
ton in this somewhat thin
portrait is to make me a
non-entity." But he also
said, "Our love was one in a
century. I gave her all the
youth and freshness that was
in me-"
Mr.. Turnbull, unlike Mr..
Mizener. has the benefit of
Sheila Graham's years with
Fitzgerald in Hollywood
which he reviews with his
usual tact and perception.
He examines rewardingly the
long friendship between Scott
and Hemingway.
He has indeed recreated
an artist who was both ar
rogant and humble, sopho-
moric and tragic and whose
great, saving grace was an
unfailing self-awareness.
Evening star., 1962-03-18

CREATIVITY AND INTEL
LIGENCE. BY Jacob w.
Getzels and Philip w.
Jackson. (Wiley: $6.50D
Explorations with gifted
students.
THE FRENCH REVOLU-
TION FROM ITS ORR
GINS TO 1893. BY Georges
Lefebvre, translated from
the French by Elizabeth
Moss Evanson. columbia
University; So The late
Georges Lefebvre was au-
thor and editor of many
studies on the French
Revolution and was profess
Sor of history of the French
Revolution at the Sor-
bonne.
Evening star., 1962-03-18
Navy Careers
Under the Seas
For Young Men
SUBMARINER. By Henry B.

SUBMARINE. By Henry B.
Lent. (The Macmillan Co.;
$1,000
The sleek guppy submarine
"USS Dogfish" stood down
the Thames River in Con-
necticut. steering for a deep
area in Long Island Sound.
Aboard, besides her regular
ships company, was a party
of young sailors undergoing
training at the Navy's Sub
marine School at New Lon
don. This was their first day
at sea in a submarine and
they were going to make 16
dives before the day was over.
Before he prepared this
account of their lives at the
Submarine School Henry B.
Lent spent several weeks at
New London to find out what
the young sailors did aboard
that submarine and ashore,
where they spent most of
their time, absorbing facts,
theories, and Skills. His story,
aimed at young men of high
school age, tells what hap
pened to a class of 200 sailors,
who for the most part were
right out of boot camp, dur
ing their eight weeks of
training before being as
signed to submarines in the
fleet or to further schooling.
One thing that happened
was that only 167 were grad
uated, the others being
flunked out.
Henry Lent's language is
plain and easily read. If his
jokes are flat and his char
acters cardboard mannikinS
in dress blues, his story still
comes through clearly. Ten
pages of submarine terms"
at the back of the book and
Al illustrations contribute to
this end.
FRANK UHLIG, Jr.
tMr. Uhlig is editor Of special
projects of the United States Naval
Institute in Annapolis.)
Evening star., 1962-03-18

ollly a WRITER whose prose
shimmered with beauty; he
was a magical personality, to
whom MIR. Turnbull has done
full justice in these compass
sionate pages.
In DaZzlement
The extra dimension here
Is lent by the fact that Mr..
Turnbull at the age of II was
exposed to, and dazzled by
the novelist, then a burnt
out 36-year-old who had
somehow lost all the CLAM
our and almost all the money
that had made him and his
wife Zelda the toast of two
continents.
Those halcyon years were
more than adequately re-
ported in Arthur Mizener's
The Far Side of Paradise"
Where Mr.. Turnbull's book
comes to life is in first-hand
descriptions of Fitzgerald
writing Tender Is the Night"
in a Turnbull estate home.
ironically, in view of every
thing called La Paix." There
was no peace for Fitzgerald
there, Zelda was having the
first of three nervous break
downs. He was deeply in debt.
He was being father and
mother to his daughter
Scottie. He admitted he had
done very little thinking
save within the problems of
Evening star., 1962-03-18
A Dubious New de Vries
Offers Sentimental Storv
THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB

THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB.
BY Peter de Vries. CLittle,
Brown & Co.; $4D
There are two Peter de
Vries. One is wry and witty,
plays jauntily with language,
ridicules an absurdity or two,
and sends his copy airily to
the printer. The other can
be seen in his last two or
three novels-a determinedly
funny man, wowing his read
erS with broad and sexy
jokes and being as coyly
earthly as a guest speaker at
a Rotary luncheon.
"The Blood of the Lamb"
is by the second De VrieS,
mixed with a trace of what
may become the third. The
hero. whose family is humor-
ously a part of the Chicago
Calvinist Dutch Reformed
Church, is influenced by his
brother, a non-believer who
dies. The book throughout its
first half is nominally funny,
Evening star., 1962-03-18

"gush" - Think - if you
kissed a man on the mouth
what it would mean to you. I
have kissed dozens of girls
- on the cheek - never on
the mouth I could not.
Such a touch is the connec-
tion between the vigorous
flow of two lives. :" Law
rence's imagination, it ap-
pears, was not undeveloped
even before he evolved his
theory of "the knowledge of
the blood"
The great event Of his life
happened to him quickly, for
he had known Frieda Week.
ley only a few days when he
ran off to the continent to
live with her the rest Of his
life. Their love was absolute,
If not unintermittent, and
the two years it took Law
renee and Frieda to get a
divorce from her husband
(who had been a professor of
LaWrence's) were filled with
high drama. It is extraor-
dinary that day after day
neither the raptures of his
love nor the detection of his
despair hindered Lawrence
from writing long. detailed,
and, from a literary point of
view, detached letters to his
friends. He made himself
more real than he made his
heroes; if truth is stranger
than fiction, certainly with
Lawrence it was also more
lifellke.
Mr.. Moore's editing of the
letters is good, but it seems
to show the pressure of too
little time. Notes on the
background of incidents and
personalities, of the greatest
Importance to the non-stu-
dent reader, are far too brief
and casual. II have not, ex-
cept in a few cases." says Mr..
Moore, NOTED which stories
or poems Lawrence was re-
ferring to when he didn't
name them; sometimes it's
impossible to tell, but in any
event to designate them all
would start a photographed
hunt which could be end
less" True, perhaps, but
the interested reader would
like a bit of informed opinion,
even speculation. Also, a
calendar of events" spoken
OF on the jacket, seems to
have been squeezed out of
the finished book. 1t would
have been helpful.
These structures, neverthe-
less, should not dissuade any
reader from treating himself
to one of the most entertain
ing collection of letters
brought together in this CEN
tury.
Evening star., 1962-03-18
National Book Award Judges Pull Major Surprise

NEW YORK.-The press
conference which introduced
the winners of the National
Book Awards for 1861 was,
by Washington standards,
as tame as a rector's tea.
The only discord lay
beneath the surface, the Sc
lection of THE Movie
Goers" by Walker Percy as
the most distinguished novel
of the year. Politeness on
the part of the book critics
and editors kept them from
asking in public the question
that they were all asking in
private: Whats the Movie
Goers'?" For this years selec-
ton of the judges was in
deed a surprise to the book
men, almost none of whom
had read it. 1t was pub
lished by Alfred A. Knopf
last May, was reviewed
Sparsely, but favorably. It
had sold fewer than 5000
copies up to last week.
A story about it's selection
for the prize came out at a
later session of the book
critics. A. ]. Liebling, author
of "The Press" said he'd no
ticed a review of the book and
decided to read it because it
was set in New Orleans, a
city of particular interest to
him because of his writings on
the Long political machine.
Somewhat later he was run
ming through a pile of books
which his wife, Jean Stafford,
the novelist, was reading as
one Of the judges of the fic-
ton contest. He mentioned to
her that a book not even
nominated - THE Movie
Evening star., 1962-03-18
Other Books in Brief

CAPITAL FUNDS IN UN.
DERDEVELOPED COUN-
TRIES. BY Edward Nevin,
(St. Martins; $4.25D An
analysis in general terms
of the way in which exist
ing arrangements in the
spheres of currency, CEN
tral and commercial bank
ing, lending institutions
and capital markets may be
modified so as to make
their greatest possible con-
tribution to growth in the
under-developed economies
in which they operate.
HOW TO SURVIVE THE
H-BOMB AND WHY. BY
Pat Frank. CLippincott;
$3.50 How to face such a
dis a S ter, psychologically
and physically, what we
can do to defend ourselves,
and what our Civil De-
fense and other govern
ment agencies are doing to
help US.
H o ELLIS COPYRIGHT
LAW. Revised edition. BY
Alan Latman. bureau of
National Affairs; $9.25D
A comprehensive analysis
of the provisions and in
terpretations of the copy
right law. the most recent
trends the field of copy
rights, and the interna-
tional copyright conven-
tionS.
Evening star., 1962-03-18
Storm Jameson Uho|ds Skill
THE ROAD FIR

THE ROAD FROM THE
MONUMENT. BY Storm
Jameson. (Harper; $4.50D
Handsome, wealthy, re-
spected Gregory Mott is not
only a successful writer but
also the director of a plush
foundation for the support of
the arts. Gregory, in short,
has it made, even if his sickly
wife does jibe at him in
public. Then, alas, some
whimsical middle-aged i'm
pulse causes him to pick up a
stray girl tourist in Nice for
just one afternoon. And what
happens? What always hap
pens to these incredibly
Evening star., 1962-03-18
Morrison's
Experience
Helps Novel.
THE WHOLE CREATION.
BY Theodore Morrison.
Viking; $4.95D

~ A1ASSNOAS "Ol AOOIl,
Viking; $4.95D
Mr.. MorriSon's earlier novel,
"T'he Stones of the House."
was a highly regarded story
of a college campus.
He has a background not
only as a teacher, but as a
businessman and director of
the Bread Loaf Writers Con-
ference. These varied ex-
periences enabled him to
write with first-hand knowl-
edge of three men who are
the main characters of his
new novel-a business execu-
tive. a college professor and
a novelist.
Kent Warner is an indus
trial engineer and a manage
ment expert for a pharma-
ceutical house in the New
England city of Fullington,
which Mr.. Morrison has de-
described before. Kent'S
brother-in-law is a genet
icist on the faculty of
Rowley University, of which
the author wrote in "The
Stones of the House." The
third man, a novelist of con-
siderable reputation, is a
writer4in-residence at the
university.
Each Of these three &C
complished men has his per-
sonal and professional prob
lens, and their lives are
intertwined as the story de-
velops.
Mr.. Morrison writes with
subtlety and perception. and
his characters are vividly
conceived. The trouble with
"The Whole Creation" is that
it is spun out at such in
terminable length. 1t seems
even longer than it actually
is because Mr. Morrison, for
all his literary ability, slows
up his narrative at many
points by filling in details
which have little relevance
and would better have been
eliminated.
CARTER BROOKE JONES,
Evening star., 1962-03-18
John Updike's S Stories
Among Our Very Best
PIGEON FEATHERS, and
Other SfnPieS Nv .Tohn Tin

PIGEON FEATHERS, and
Other Stories. BY John Up
dixie. (Alfred A. Knopf;
$4,000
These nineteen stories, COL
lected from among those John
Updike has written during the
past few years, are, at their
best, nearly perfect examples
of the expression of mood and
character through situation
rather than incident. Little
happens-a boy shoots some
pigeons that have become
pests in the barn, a coarse
Pennsylvania Dutch motorist
unites father and son by
cursing them on a highway,
a family eats store-bought
French fried potatoes before
a Sunday fire, a divinity
student sees himself as God
when, as a summer lifeguard,
he surveys beach, ocean, and
their attendant humanity
but what does happen seems
inevitable and somehow suit
able.
The best story by far is
wife -Wooing," an invoca-
tion of the warm, soft, COM
Portable, permanent and ex-
citing familiar woman. 1t is
d sax page tour de force sug-
gested by a phrase from
Joyce's ulysses" and exc
cuted without a false note.
Dear Alexandros" is another
little masterpiece, in which a
Greek child writes his Amer
ican parents" who have
adopted" him, and the
father answers the letter to
say that he and Mrs. Bentley
have separated.
Evening star., 1962-03-18

TO friend, agent or publisher.
But a letter could be writ
ten and forgotten-it was the
perfect medium for Law
rence's thought. Harry T.
Moore, the editor of the
present collection of 1900
letters, has omitted all that
have only ephemeral interest.
What remains is in style,
variety of expression and in
terest of subject matter the
very best of Lawrence. For
me, much of Lawrence's fic-
ton has lost the appeal it
once had. Four-letter words
are now so commonplace
that even they do not COM
pensate for the woodenneSs Of
Lady Chatterley's Lover"
and one cannot spend a life
time re-reading Lawrence's
best book, "Sons and Lovers"
But the letters are delightful.
In them we find a Law
renee not doctrinaire, not a
Self-conSciouS and slightly
stuffy pedagogue, not really
a social rebel, but a warm
and genuine human being,
aware of his own ability
but not overly impressed
by it, generous and humor-
GUS, as often ebullient and
happy as sick of the ways
of the world, and always i'm
passioned with desire to give
something of himself to 9TH
ers. ut is a curious fact.
which I mention apropos of
nothing, that Lawrence in
his letters apparently never
exhibited the erotic and
sociological improprieties for
which some of his books are
notorious. I have read about
half the letters and have
come across not a single in
decent word or any passage
that could bring a blush to
the chaStest cheekD
Il y
Lawrence's earliest ex-
tended correspondence is
with a young postmistress,
Blanche Jennings, in 1908,
when he was 90, a school,
teacher and the author of
his first novel, 1.-The White
Peacock" The letters are
extraordinarily mature. Law
rence's friendship with
Blanche was apparently not
romantic, though certainly
not impersonal; he saw her
very seldom. There pours
from his heart, and from his
head also, everything he feels
and believes-literature, love,
religion, morality. He defends
the kiss in BalZac's Eugene
Grandet" (his favorite novel;
against Blanche's charge of
Evening star., 1962-03-18
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
His Life and Work
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

SCOTT FITZGERALD. BY Andrew Turnbull Charles
Scribner's Sons $3.50
F. Scott Fitzgerald has spoken for himself to remark
able degree He said My characters all Scott Fitzgerald
Even my feminine characters are feminine Scott Fzgerads
His present bographer Andrew Turnbul remarks of the
golden boy OF the 2os he recorded the help
ing to form and his work and his play became hopeessly
ntertwiued"
But if studies of Fitzgerald in way superfluous-
ne described his own loss of brilliantly "The Crack
Up-they also endessly fascinating FITZGERALD was not