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Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
MILTON
Walter w. Crouch
Phone: Milton 1886

Mr.. and Mrs. George Cannon ant
daughter, Betsy, spent Sunday il
Dover with his mother, Mrs. Matte
| Peterson.
Linwood Rogers returned to hi:
home on Mulberry Street, after be
ing a patient in the Milford
Memorial Hospital
Mr.. Elmer Dickerson is now {
patient in the Atkins Convalescen1
Home, Millsboro.
Mr.. and Mrs Ray Dodd, DaviC
and Donna and Mr.. and Mrs. Roberi
Wiley, Bobby and Debbie spent
Sunday in Williamsburg, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Graham Dill spent
Monday in Wilmington.
Mr. and Mrs Whitley Williams
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Tucker. Lin
coin. Last Saturday Mr.. and Mrs
Mack Harrington of Milford anC
Mrs. Charles Keller of Chester, Pa
were guests of the Williams. AnC
on Wednesday, Mr. and Mrs Will
liams and Mr.. and Mrs. Harrington
visited with Mr. and Mrs. ReeC
Williams in Dover.
Mr. and Mrs Edward Reed, ac-
companied by Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Thomas of Milford, left on Sunday
for a two weeks trip to Florida
Rowland Bunting, asst. cashier
at the Sussex Trust Company, i:
reported showing Improvement. He
was hospitalized during last week
end, and it is expected that he will
remain a patient in the Beebe Hos
pital for a few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Davis Lingo
left this week for their annua
Florida vacation. They expect tC
remain away from Milton for abou1
six weeks.
The Rev. Perry o. Hill left early
Monday morning for Buck Hill
Falls, Pa, where he will attend the
Washington Area Retreat for min
listers.
The local Lions Club held their
bi-monthly meeting on NJ n a J
evening in the Goshen Fellowship
Hall. Circle No 5, led by Mrs Elsie
Graves, prepared and served the
dinner.
Mrs Theodore Stucklik was in
charge of the recognition program
on Tuesday evening when the
WSCS held their General Meeting
The study period was a geographic
cal review of South America. Mrs
u in oh Of
milton of the nem members of the
Society. Mrs. Beulah Reed, presi-
dent, led the business meeting. Re-
|freshments were served following
the close of the business session
Charles P. Reynolds, 81, died al
his home here Saturday. He was
"a retired farmer He is survived
by his wife, Mrs. Mollie Postles
Reynolds; son, John s. Reynolds,
Milton; two lf-brothers, Julius
and Howard Joseph. both of the
Georgetown area; two grandchild-
rem and two grandchildren
Funeral services were held Tues
Funeral Home, Milton. The Rev
w. Earl Watts, pastor of Pilgrim
Holiness Church dictated, assisted
by the Rev. Alfred Carl of Grace
Church. Interment will be in St.
Johns Cemetery, near Georgetown.
The February meeting of the Mil
ton Chamber of Commerce will be
held Thursday evening. Feb. l, at
the h o m of Mr.. and NJ r s.
William D. Pepper, 420 Federal ST.
Two guest speakers will attend
the meeting, Mr.. Ross E. Anderson,
Jr, Executive Vice-President, Del
aware State Chamber of Commerce,
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
Interesting Science
Show At School Here
CONTINUED from page one)


adults who view it each year.
Many more see it on television.
I'VE seek through Previews to
inspire more young people to
make science their career and pro-
vide the trained talent America
must have to keep pace with the
promise of the future" John F..
Gordon, president of General Mo-
tors, declares.
Our demonstration dramatize
the inquiring mind of all scien-
lists which assumes that every
thing and anything can be improv-
ed. Previews hints at the tre-
mendous secrets of power and en-
ergy that wait in the world of to-
morrow to be unlocked by the
young people of today who become
scientists"
One of the highlights of the
show is the amazing GM Sunmo-
bile, the miniature car that actual
ly runs on the power of the sun.
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
TOMCATS BEWARE

OKLAHOMA CITY Up - The
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife
Conservation 1961-1962 regula-
tions for hunting and trapping
furbearing animals lists the house
cat along with the bobcat, coyote,
rabbit and wolf on which there is
no closed season.
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
ENDS IN JAMAICA

KINGSTON. Jamaica, w. |. (AP)
= The 1862 Caribbean gold tour
will end here March $40 with the
$4,000 Jamaica Open at the Cay
manas Golf and Country Clu b.
Earlier stops on the professional
tour for those not competing in the
PGA events in the United States
will be in Panama, Maracaibo, Ca
racas and Puerto Rico.
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
Dickerson Turns
Down Judgeship
Continued from page one)

At his press conference last
Tuesday, Carvel had stubbornly
stuck to his choice of Dickerson
despite mounting criticism to the
appointment of a layman to the
Job
The Sussex Bar Association will
probably call special meeting to
reach agreement on the three
names to be submitted to the Gov
ernOr
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
Council Held Partial
Reorganization On
tuesday Evening
continued from page one)

continued from page One)
Former Mayor Pettyjohn was
elected City Treasurer over the
incumbent, Wilson Sockrider, by
vote Of to e.
Mayor Humes then adjourned
the meeting with the statement
that other city personnel would
regular monthly meeting of City
Council, Tuesday everring, Feb
ruary 18th.
-OOO-
There are about 355,00O blind
people in the United States.
Milford chronicle., 1962-01-26
Century Club Heard
Exchange Students
Monday Afternoon
Continued from page one)

Continued from page One)
Mrs. Robert Rudolph is in charge
Of tickets for the annual lunch
con which will be held in Fellow
ship Hail of Avenue Methodist
Church on Monday, February II.
Reservations should be made at
an early date.
Evening star., 1962-05-20

cover story was an example
of sloppy, dishonest bureauc-
racy at its worst, but how
sloppy could not be known
without the details these two
reporters have dug out and
collected in one relatively
orderly sequence.
What U-2 Saw
There is also new material
on the summit failure, CIA's
dogged attempts to reach
Powers during his imprison-
ment and Mrs. Powers lone
wolf role in Moscow. The
authors also have some re-
ports of what the U-2 saw in
the four years Americans flew
unmolested above the Soviet
Unions most sensitive areas.
Ironically, the denialS and
pooh-poohing of this book,
which must be expected as
inevitable, are completely dis
armed in advance by the two
reporters brutal destruction
Of the Governments own
credibility quotient.
They attach rather more
Evening star., 1962-05-20
Latest French Import
Is Current Best-Seller

pens to him or her that day,
or developing the pre-war
background of his life. As the
book grows, the originally
unconnected characters be-
come entangled by war and
armiStice-
Though written by a
Frenchman, the novel is not
a patriotic pageant; the au-
thor's sympathies are not
with nations but with people.
For me, the main fault of the
book is its lack of cohesion,
and its authors inability to
sustain interest in characters
who appear briefly and are
thereupon lost for a month.
For the lover of the sprawling
and adventurous historical
novel, however. the book may
be good reading.
Evening star., 1962-05-20

crate. Mr.. Adams saving
grace. as Mr.. Gray points out,
was that he knew it.
He was without doubt a
loyal servant to the President,
an efficient administrator
and a peerless paper pushsr,
but at great, and often need
less, expense to others.
Praises Eisenhower
Mr.. Gray has nothing but
praise for his President, not
ing his modesty, sense of
duty, gallantry and chivalry
to his wife. and his quick but
quickly passing temper. He
sets down EiSenhower's ad-
vice to his cabinet: Wear a
smile on your face. Take
your work seriously, but never
yourself. Don't be afraid to
pray"
From these pages emerges
a picture of an administra-
ton that took itself very
seriously. The light touch was
supplied by the Presidents
appointments secretary.
Thomas, E. Stephens. and his
dog, Heidi.
Mr.. Gray'S book is rounded
out with thank-you notes to
Washington hoStesSes. a de-
scription of the White House.
and a list of all staff members
of the eight years of the
Eisenhower regime.
Evening star., 1962-05-20

historical significance to the
failure of the summit con-
ference, however, than real
ism would seem to warrant.
True, the U-2 debacle can be
blamed for the 1860 summit
conference abort. But this
very likely meant only the
writing Of the cipher a few
days or weeks earlier than If
Capt. Powers had not fallen
out of the sky.
What's Up Now?
One last thought: Since
Presidents Eisenhower and
Kennedy have carefully
promised only that Amer
leans will not fly U-2s over
the Soviet Union, could 1t be
that one or more of our allies
are even now guiding a new
generation of glorified gliders
over the Soviet Union? Or
that U-2s are watching Red
China, Cuba and other trou-
BILE spots where rocketry is
not so far advanced?
EARL VOSS.
Evening star., 1962-05-20

framed, with a method stolen
from another, older murder.
A fine story, almost as good
as Miss Egan's first story Of
Varallo, "a Case for Appeal"
-
HOMICIDE CALL. BY Sam
ual A. Krasney. william
Morrow g. Co.; $500
An explosion in a school
in a new housing project,
minutes after the schools
dedication, propels 1t. Abe
Lucky" Larson into an in
vestigation made touchy by
a willful Congressman's de-
termination to reopen the
: school at once, perhaps pro-
voking another attack. Well
drawn cops, crooks and citi-
zens provide a fine addition
to this series.
Evening star., 1962-05-20
Mr.Hurdmun
In Steinbeck
Territoy
NO OTHER HARVEST. By

NO OTHER HARVEST. BY
r. L. Hardman. Double
day; $4.95)
We have another male
voice out of California. Back
in the sos a man with a
muStache John Steinbeck)
preached about the plight of
the dispossessed migrant
farmer. Today a man with
a beard as well as a mus
tache (R. L. Hardman) has
inspired himself with the
same territory the gut"
of California where "the air
is hot with the odor of q.
voraciousness."
Whereas Mr.. Steinbeck fol-
lowed the path of the migrant
farmer as if he were God
looking down upon the trail
Of a homeless turtle, Mr..
Hardman tunes in on the
inner conflicts of the young
heir to a cotton kingdom. At
the heart of mo other
Harvest" stands a man born
to the wealth and power of
the land and born to prob
lens cut of the same cloth
as the problems of the mi
grant farmers who work his
land. Poor Nick, with all his
superficial toughness, is a
man not in charge of his own
destiny. He is a man run by
the fleShleSS machinery Of a
corporate farm town.
Here is the plight Of the
poor little rich boy who dis
covers none too soon that al
though there is something
soothing about the ritual Of
farmlife and the ritual of
power, responsibility can
cause a man pain.
What does Nick really want
to do? He's got some mighty
nice paintings upstairs.
-INNA UHLIG.
Evening star., 1962-05-20

THE SOLDIER AND THE
ROSE. A novel by Marcel
Haedrich. Translated from
the French by Monroe
Stearns. putnam; $4.950
"The Soldier and the Rose"
a novel imported from France
where it Is currently a best
seller, is q war story laid in
France. Germany and Eng
land during the months fol-
lowing the fall Of France
June-December, 1910. Most
of the chapters are headed
by q brief communique OF
the military and political
events of a single day, and
the chapter itself is con-
cerned with a single leading
individual on the field, re-
counting either what hap
Evening star., 1962-05-20
Lots Talk
But Not VeN
Much Said
ALIKELY STORY. By Dan,

A LIKELY STORY. By DAN
iel Gordon. pantheon;
$4.50D,
Leo Gredan lies in his hos
pital bed recovering from
burns. AS the days pass he
tells the reader about his
stay in the hospital, and, at
the same time, tells his life
story. That is the trouble; all
he does is talk and talk and
talk. Nothing ever happens;
there are no events, just
Gredan's reactions and
thoughts on a variety of
subjects.
By making each day in the
week a chapter in the book,
the author tries to link the
present to the past so that
each day in the hospital cor
responds to an episode in
Gredan's early life. The re-
suit is confusion; none of the
actions or ideas has any con-
tinuity, and the reader has
to try to link together the
various pieces himself.
Words and Words
This would not be so bad
If the rest of the book had
something to say. Unfortu-
nately especially since this is
intended to be a comic novel,
the writing is florid, the plot
dull and the characters flat.
What few interesting scenes
there are, are buried in
masses of useless verbiage.
Because the other charac-
ters are simply foils to set
off the personality of Gre
dan, their lack of CREDIBLE
ity and dimension is not dis
turbing in itself. 1t is the
repetition of the same fault
in virtually everyone that is
the trouble. His mother, sis
ter, brother-in-law and all
his friends are selfish, greedy
and out to exploit whatever
and whomever they can.
Never Grows
What is more, Gredan's
failure to learn anything
from these people makes him
a very unconvincing char
acter. He has a kind Of self
conscious naivete that causes
the reader to laugh at his
miSfortuneS rather than
Sympathize. He never grows;
he never natures. Instead he
rationalizes everything with q
dose of pseudo philosophy
that begs the question.
The author fails to show
any real development of his
central character. Therefore,
as an attempt to describe an
unusual and amusing per-
son as he struggles to avoid
life's pitfalls, this book fails
far too short.
-CHRISTOPHER
UNDERHILL.
Evening star., 1962-05-20
The Sleeper That Won
A National Award

a Subconscious escape from
what sickens him he turns
perverSely to its prototype in
another world and becomes a
compulSive movie-goer. In a
search for truth he develops
a genuine but morbid attrac-
ton for a hundred stars and
for every conventional situa-
ton and hoary cliche. The
movies are an anesthetic for
the pain of what he calls
his Search" an unformu-
lated striving which he can
explain to nobody.
Binx is almost super
naturally perceptive to people
and delightfully."- articulate.
His own psychic difficulty
does not make him any the
less a good companion either
for his associates or for the
reader of the book. Two
women are dominant in his
life-his aunt who has
brought him up and who,
always conscious of the re-
sponsibilities of a superior
class of society, wants him
to leave the stagnating busi-
ness office and direct him.
self to the medical life for
which he has shown a talent,
and Kate, a cousin-by-mar-
riage, whose neurotic anxiety
after the violent death of
her husband has brought her,
perhaps, to the edge of
suicide.
The interaction of the i'll
girl and the escapist man
effects a cure for each. For
Binx, his search for God
leads him to the conclusion
that Gods existence or nom
existence are matters Of Su-
preme unimportance. Kate is
made well again by human
love.
Evening star., 1962-05-20

ShakeSpeare's. But he was
fired with the conviction that
the art of the hbrettist is
the most difficult and the
most rewarding in the whole
range of Stagecraft. and he
determined to be the creator
of a new kind of music
drama, to remold a great
composer to his own concep-
ton of the final product. He
was yielding but not SubSer-
Went, flexible but not spine
less; he learned quickly and
taught unobtrusively. He Gre
ated for Strauss many Of the
most brilliant librettos that
opera knew at that time,
comparable in their per-
feet adaptability to the
requirements of musical
composition to the great
est texts of da Ponte and
Boito, and in his chef
d'oeuvre, the second "Ariadne
auf Naxos" he achieved a
libretto which in the shift
ing colors of its psyche
logical overtoneS, in the
mastery of its simultaneous
Superimposition Of the comic
and the serious, and in its
dramatic drive and formal
styliShneSs, is the model for
all similar librettos.
Strauss music was purified
and refined-to its power was
added point, and to its har-
monic lushness was added a
heightened melodic inventive
ness that was inspired by the
superior poetry. On the other
hand, Strauss was able to
simplify and make musically
ineligible some of the in
tricacies that, however suita-
BILE to the spoken stage, would
have been obscured by music.
AH&
The two men became close
friends and each was highly
conscious of the others
genius; the friendship, never
theless, was to a great de-
gree professional and epis-
tolary. Composer and poet
never had a serious falling
out, but neither desired
frequent and extended per-
Sonal contact. Thus the let
ters are extraordinarily full,
though hurriedly written, are
thoughtful opinions and sug-
gestions rather than jottings
supplementary to prior con-
versations.
The present tranSlations,
given individuality by the
fact that Strauss letters were
done by one man and Hof-
mannsthal's by the other, are
good, but the editing, lacking
in all but the briefest ex-
planatory notes, leaves much
to be desired,
Evening star., 1962-05-20
How Mans SONG
Began and Grew
Into uLiteruture
PRIMITIVE SONG. BY C.
M. Bowra. (The World
Publishing Co.; $6.500

Publishing Co.; $500
c. M. Bowra courageously
prefaces Primitive Song" by
stating that he is neither an
anthropologist nor a philolo-
gist, and this is a book tnaJ
apparently would entail the
skills of both.
AS Mr.. Bowra, a former
professor of poetry at oxford
from 1946 to 1851, is a
classical scholar and an au-
thority on the theory Of
poetry.
Drawing his material from
such modern primitives as
the ESkimos, PygmieS and
aboriginal Australians, he
empha asizes composition,
method, technique and imag-
ination. What he hopes to
illustrate is how and why
song began and expanded, in
the end creating a literature.
In his attempt, much of the
quoted matter is vivid and
the asides on primitive pc
culiarities are interesting.
Because there is little or
no scheme of proof or cor
relation of material, the
reader tends to float in a
limbo of generalizations
which are more restated than
developed.
Perhaps the conclusion
that primitive man needs
song because it drills his
emotions" and "composes his
thoughts" providing a de-
fense against his incompre-
hensible world, is true. But
it would be more impressive
as such if preceded by some
kind of an introduction and
explanation Of the reasoning
that produced it from the
original material.
N. A. STEERS.
Evening star., 1962-05-20
History Of Europe
In Revised Edition

EUROPE SINCE NAPO-
LEON: Second edition, re-
vised by David Thomson.
(Knopf; $l0D
This well-digested and in
tegrated history of Europe
from Waterloo to the Euro
pean community is now re-
vised. five years after the
original edition. The final
$50 pages have been entirely
rewritten and the earlier sec
tions corrected to provide an
account which is well bal
anced between specific de-
tails and meaningful gen.
eralitieS.
CARROLL QUIGLEY.
Evening star., 1962-05-20
BUREAUCRACY AT ITS WORST
U-2 Report Discredited
In Revealing New Book

THE U-2 AFFAIR. BY David Wise and Thomas B. Ross.
CRandom House; $4.950
Washington reporters have collaborated in out
standing job piece together the complicated mosaic Of the
U2 affair Whether they have found all the pieces Of the
mosaic cannot be known Of because is the job Of
intelligence officers to keep their operations hidden.
Reading this book reporter who himself followed the
story Francis Gary Powers Inflated flight with than
casual interest reviewer found much that to him
apparent that the Incredible fiasco Of the
Evening star., 1962-05-20
Other Books of the Week in Brief
PAPERBAcKS

COMPLETE GUIDE TO
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
COMPLETE GUIDE TO
NORTHERN CALIFOR-
MA. New revised edition.
By Andrew Hepburn.
doubleday; $1.95 each)
THE COLLEGE EXPERI-
ENCE. Materials for Anal
ysis. Selected and edited by
Samuel I. Bellman. Chan
dler; $2.25.) The books
materials dealing with the
college experience cover the
important aspects of un-
dergraduate life: scholastic,
religious, political, residen-
tial, athletic and ethical.
ATOMIC THEORY AND
THE DESCRIPTION OF
NATURE. BY Niels Bohr.
Cambridge; $1.650 CRe-
print.)
Evening star., 1962-05-20
FICTION

CUSTOM HOUSE. BY Francis
King. Doubleday; $4.950
A novel about present-day
Japan.
MISS BAGSHOT GOES TO
TIBET. BY Anne Tel
scombe. CWashburn; $500
A novel, companion to
Miss Bagshot Goes to
Moscow"
CIBOLA. BY Alice Walworth
Ora h a m. Doubleday;
$3.50 A novel Of love and
hate on a Mississippi River
plantation.
TOMORROW'S MIRACLE.
BY Frank G. Slaughter.
Doubleday; $3.50 A novel
about a young evangelist
who becomes a medical
missionary.
Evening star., 1962-05-20
THE MOVIE-GOER, a novel

THE MOVIE-GOER, a novel
by Walker Percy. (Alfred A.
Knopf; $3.50
When Walker Percy's "The
Movie-goer" was first pub
lished a year ago it enjoyed no
great acclaim. Last month it
was the recipient Of the 1862
National Book Award, for
which Lewis Gannett, Herbert
Gold and Jean Stafford were
the judges, and a new edition
has appeared to COM
memorate the honor. The
award was a discriminating
one which, in calling atten-
ton to an unusual and
penetrating book, is a salts
faction to the author and a
service to the public.
Walker Percy is a 46-year-
old Louisianan who took to
writing after illness forced
him to leave a medical career.
He Is a nephew Of William
Alexander Percy, whose Ian
terms on the Levee" has be-
come, since its publication
in the l930s, a sort of ribbon
of distinction pinned on the
Old South, the pride Of many
Southerners. "The Movie
goer" is dedicated to the
elder Percy.
Binx Boiling is a New
Orleans stockbroker, mildly
successful, educated, of good
family, not unhappy in his
friends, unmarried and flirt-
ing comfortably with a sue
cession of secretaries. He is
cursed with an inability to
accept the universal senti-
ments of all the high-minded
people around him in the
world-he sees Belief as only
degenerating Conformity. AS
Evening star., 1962-05-20
GENERAL
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE

\ AAG kAANA6ASASEAAN SOAANNAA
GIRL. BY K. C. Ciratautas.
(Citadel; $3.50 An ana
lysis of the various types
of college girls; the intel
lectual, the social compan-
ion, the aesthetic, and the
classic.
THE NATIONAL AERONAU
TICS AND SPACE ACT:
A Study of the Develop
ment Of Public Policy.
BY Alison Griffith. Intro
duction by Vice President
Lyndon B. johnson. pub
lie Affairs Press; $3.250
The authors aim is to show
the process by which Con-
greSs sought to equip the
Nation to deal with matters
of outer space, both those
known to us today and
those which cannot yet be
comprehended.
Evening star., 1962-05-20

pOELdIlb DUCKS III bIl6 Whole
literature Of music
In any art, rare and priced
are insights into the mo-
ments Of artistic conception
and creation; in music, of all
the arts the most difficult to
talk about without obscurity
or nonsense. any explanation
Of its source that is anterior
to the page Of score or the
performance is usually either
a fallacious tradition or an
anti-muSical deception.
When Strauss and Hof-
mannsthal joined forces in
the opera "Elektra" in 1906,
an association was started
between an extraordinarily
subtle and intellectual libret-
tiSt and a technically pro-
ficient, self assured composer
the fruit of which Is a series
Of works that comprise, one
Of the few extensive bodies
Of works for the musical
stage in the goth century.
Strauss was not a first
class composer Of the stat
ure Of DebuSsy, Berg or
Stravinsky, but while each of
these men wrote only a single
full-length opera, Strauss,
like Mozart or Wagner, was
a tradeSman in the form.
The partnership lasted
through a number of major
works - "Elektra," Der
Rosenkavalier," both versions
of "Ariadne auf Naxos,,"
"Josephslegende, die Agyp-
tishe Helena" die Frau
ohne Schatten" and cara
bella"-until the poets death
in 1929.
- -
The influence of each artist
can be seen in the work of
the other, but that of Hof-
mannSthal is by far the
greater. The music Of Strauss
written prior to 1906 is for
the most part overblown, pre-
tentious and bombastic, al
though certainly very impress
sive in orcheStration and ap-
pealing in it's honest bluSter.
Strauss sense of the dra-
matte, in either his tone
poems or "Salome, is as crude
as the most flamboyant of the
Italian operatic librettists and
composers. Hofmannsthals
skill in diplomatic persuasion
and unobStruSive pedagogy is
evident throughout the let
ters, and its success is amaz-
ing. He was the younger
man, and the less famous
one; although a great play
wright quite familiar with
the problems Of the stage,
he knew little about music,
and his ideal Of the dramatic
was as far removed from
Strauss as Racine's was from