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Evening star., 1962-08-22

the q. N. is popular in the
country. The World Court has
ruled that member nations
must pay UP their delinquent
dues on extraordinary or
.peace-keeping assessments. The
General Assembly must vote on
the decision. The United
States Is hopeful of carrying
the day.
For the Technicians
Some administration officials
feel this session will be one
of retrenchment and reorgan-
iZation rather than new direc-
tons and that such organiza-
tional matters should be left
to the technicians.
They would prefer to save
the President for q more dra-
matte moment in the life Of
the U. NJ, which, Of course,
might occur If Premier Khru-
Shchev decided to come to New
York. The New York police,
Of course, hope he finds some
thing better to do.
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Symphony


The new general manager
of the National Symphony
Orchestra, Mr.. M. Robert
Rogers, entertained over 300
women in the Shoreham's
Blue Room yesterday with an
athletic lecture" on Beetho-
ven.
The impromptu speaker,
filling in for newspaperman
Paul Hume who could not at
tend, covered a lot Of ground
- not so much unsteady as
physically - racing back and
forth between the platform
and the piano.
1t was not really a pre-
pared speech, as Mr.. Rogers
warned his audience, sub
scribers to the symphony's
Matinee Series. Quoting his
15-year-old sons observation
on a television variety show,
Don't they addition these
people before letting them on
the air?" Mr.. Rogers ex-
planned: "They didn't audi
ton me. This is my addition"
Studied Beethoven
Asked to talk on the pro-
gram for yesterday after
moons concert at Lisner Au-
ditorium (Rossini's Overture
to "Semiramide;" Beethoven's
9th Symphony, and the 5th
Symphony of SATISFACTORILY,
Mr.. Rogers stuck mainly to
the Beethoven, because, he
said, IT studied that in
school,"
The symphony manager,
who's q composer himself.
played themes on the pinao
to illustrate his points, and
produced a metronome in his
dicussion of the second
movement. The metronome,
he informed the women, was
not invented for piano stu
dents"
According to Mr.. Rogers, it
was invented by Maetzel, a
friend of Beethoven (the En-
cyclopedia Britannica disputes
this), at the request of the
composer, who wanted to In
sure that conductors would
follow the exact tempo he in
tended.
Mr.. Rogers said Beethoven
wrote the second movement
of his eighth as q .jocular
thank-you for the metro
nome.
FIFSG FaTby
The luncheon, first of the
Prelude Lecture Luncheon Sc
ries, honored husband-and-
wife teams" with the SYM
phony: DR.. Howard Mitchell,
conductor and musical direc-
tor, and Mrs. Mitchell; Ivan
and Carmen Romanenko,
both violinists; Marilyn Kre-
gal, violinist, her husband
Jesse. timpanist, and Harold
Wright, clarinetist, with his
wife Ruth, flutist.
Mrs. James F. Hyde, chair
man of the luncheon series,
presided and introduced the
among them Mrs.
Rogers, wife Of the speaker;
Mrs. Elliott Roberts, arrange
.ents chairman, and Mrs.
Donald c. O'Hara, chairman
Of the Lisner Matinee Series
Ticket Sales.
Mrs. Hyde reported the
matinee series subscriptions
now total 1855, 40 more than
last year at this time.
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through lifetime working with precious skins
rier executing the process
called mailing" After being wet and stretched skins are nailed TO
pattern required for the finished garment
drying subtle and graceful folds that the
fur designer planned Mailing Just of the many intricate processes
fine undergo by sku hands impossible to duplicate y
assembly of the furres art done on
premises by under the direct supervision OF Mr.
Iidore Gartenhaus. .e 66#I
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Spread before your eyes, all the color, romance
and excitement of Italia. "Magnificio!", you'll say
to the thousands and thousands of dollars worth
of imported fashions and homefashions go.
lossale!" you'll cry when you hear about the
skilled craftpeople flown here in person. Mood
music by Washington's famous Continental Ac-
cOrdinist Mervin Conn, and a Jet Flight To
Italy Contest, presented by The Hecht Co. in
cooperation with Alfalfa Airlines. Take a
tour of Italy next week in our Downtown Store.
The chronicle., 1962-03-20
Robert Ruark

of music as an indication of
the times temper. Show me
a gal today who can remem-
ber that a man named AL
Bowlly once sang a song
called "The Very Thought of
You" with an English or
chestra run by a man named
Ray Noble, and will show
you a woman who has
grown old gracefully, who is
beloved by her husband, and
who has three strapping sons
all playing fullback for a
decent college before grac-
iously accepting the newt
ability of compulsory mill
tary service.
The postwar music. with
very few exceptions-most-
lY provided by the living
m m b rs aforementioned.
and abetted by a seldom few
of the likes of Frank Loesser
- seems to have gone full
circle to the days when
Americas musical apprecia-
ton was recorded by a
jews harp and a three
stringed git-tar.
Now it is filled with re-
ferences to hound dogs and
juvenile delinquency involv-
ing 13-year-old love affairs
and gaudy traffic accidents.
1t is sung through the nose,
or is accompanied by a rhy-
thm I remember painfully
from barn dances. Lugubri-
Gus is not the word for the
music of the past Is years.
Nauseating would be a bet
ter one.
It would not be so bad if
these cowboy lamentS and
bucolic nasalities were con-
fined to America, but un-
fortunately jet aircraft has
made travellers of most of
The chronicle., 1962-03-20

to hold our workouts. This
was four weeks ago and we
still have no building.
We made a picture of our
workouts SO the people could
see the very dangerous con-
ditions Of our workouts. We
can never 60 full speed in
our training for fear some
of the boys may get hurt.
The morale of our youth is
vital to the welfare of our
city. We have used every
means at our disposal to
gain use of proper facilities.
We are starting a petition of
public protest and would ap-
preciate very much your
signature when it is pre-
sented to you.
We feel that since the Rec
The chronicle., 1962-03-20

II has occurred. with some
pain, that the worst gauntlet
has not yet been flung into
the postwar face of America,
and / am now prepared to
fling it.
We are not a race Of war
mongers or money-starved
imperialists. We are not de-
cadent, decently or indecent
ly.
We are merely a nation of
squares, a legion of rubes, a
host of cornballs.
I swear don't know how
we got this way. My genera
tion was sharp. We had dis
carded Scott Fitzgerald and
waller slickers with signs on
them as a BIT much. We had
stopped wearing II arold
Teen floppY pants with rs
inch cuffs. and we made a
smooth transition from boot
lea gin and home-cooked
whisky to legal booze with
out flickering a whisker.
We went from depression
to prosperity without undue
pain, and whimpered only
slightly when the war inter
rupted our various efforts to
eat. We had not needed a
governmental act to pay for
our education. If you want
ed book learning bad enough
you earned it.
I think we had pretty good
taste in a lot of things, in
cluding the kir.d of music
that the likes of Porter, Ar
len, Gershwin, Hart, Rod
gers, Van Heusen, Yellen
and Ager wrote. You can
still hear that music today.
Most of it was written be-
fore 1885, and it is the only
music which one hears on
the record albums that is not
guaranteed to gag a goat.
There is much to be said
The chronicle., 1962-03-20
SALT COMPANY TAKES
OPTION ON SITE

International Salt Company
has signed a three-year option
agreement with Hammett
Farms, Inc, for a mining lease
on the Bruinsburg salt dome
about 10 miles west Of Port
Gibson, according to an an
nouncement made by company
president Edward L. Fuller
and Rollo Hammett, of Ham,
NETT Farms.
The company, one of the .
worlds largest salt producers,
will explore the dome of rock
salt which is located more
than 1000 feet below ground
surface,
The chronicle., 1962-03-20
InoolIs' new labor contract
fottens Pdspoint economy

straight-time raise of $3.50 week
for every Ingallsman.
In our cheerleading for events
yet to come in our countY's indus
trial growth. let us not forget what
we already have - namely Ingalls,.
International Paper Company and
the other industries which have
been Paspoint citizens for years.
$3.50, $3.50, $500 more a week.
Did we say bread and butter?
There's also some steak-and-pie in
this package.
The chronicle., 1962-03-20
GROUND BREAKING FOR
COLLINS PLANT

Ground has been broken or
a 29-acre site at Collins, where
Mississippi Federated Cooper
atives will construct a poultry
processing plant costing ap-
proXimately $1-million.
Some $50 men will be en-
ployed by the plant and an
annual payroll of $500,000 is
expected. MFG general man
ager E. G. Spivey said that 10
million broiler chickens and
over a million hens will be
slaughtered and dressed in the
plant annually.
The chronicle., 1962-03-20

The immediate seven-cent in
crease will give $3.50 week more
to each of nearly 5000 workers at
the shipyard. Next years seven
cent raise will give each an addi-
tional $3.50 a week. And the final
boost agreed to in the new con-
tract - eight cents more in 1864 -
will add $500 more to each mans
pay each week.
The total package of 22 cents,
therefore, will eventually mean a
The chronicle., 1962-03-20

hairdo to the savages, and 4
am certain that the average
underdeveloped native be-
lieves that America is com-
posed entirely of adolescents.
The average American one
sees outside his native heath
looks like an approximation
Of SoapY Williams - crew.
cut. button -down-shirt, bow
tie. no lapels to his suit. no
brim 10 his hat. his pants
legs showing three inches Of
knobbY ankle. his shoes OBJ
truding like gunboats at the
end of his pipe-stem brit
ches.
He-the American outside
America - has a scrubbed
air of superficial innocent
idiocy, and you would hesi-
tate to trust him with a fast
car or a shotgun.
The older they get the
younger and more bewilder-
ed they look, and, above
everything else, they seem
to sport an air of perpetual
yokelism. VIII e ether they
sprout from Harvard or an
agricultural seminary, they
all look like hayseeds, and
even their tweeds own an
aspect of Seersucker.
Juvenility is the hallmark
Of today's young and middle
aged American, and no Won
der touch football has be-
come symbolical of the gov
ernment in Washington. We
look precisely like a nation
which plays touch football
between decisions on the
best way not to win a war
with Cuba.
The music, I think, is the
giveaway on the whole busi-
ness. How can we rule the
world when we put up with
the slop that is fancied by
the young people as indica-
tive Of contemporary art?
Copyright, 1862, by United
Features Syndicate, Inc.)
The chronicle., 1962-03-20

affectionate words we had
here recently for Robert
(Bugs Bunny Kennedy. II
thought you were a staunch
Democrat" they said.
We are indeed a Staunch
Democrat, but what's that
got to do with the case at
hand? We don't like and dis
like people and things be-
cause of how they're tagged
politically. Matter of fact, we
are more than passing fond
of at least one Republican.
Everybody knows that.
X X X
We thought for one fleet
ing second that big game
hunting had come to the
Gulf Coast when we read a
headline in Fridays Mobile
paper that said "Chunchula
Wildcat is Plugged"
The story, however and
alas, was about an oil COM
pany abandoning a dry hole.
The chronicle., 1962-03-20

reafion Center is a public
building. we are entitled to
use it from a to 6 each after
noon at which time there is
no other program.
We feel that we can set
our ring up on the stage,
which is never used, and not
interfere with other pro-
grams of the recreation de-
partment. Is this asking too
much?
We ask only for this pub
lie building. All equipment
is being given to us through
donations of the merchants
and business men of our
city. Again we want to ap-
peal to the public to sign
this petition which will be
carried from home to home.
Vincent Perez, Coach
The chronicle., 1962-03-20

lying up in bed eating a big
sandwich while she does all
the work.
X II X
Gregory Wood demanded
that we match exactly the
color ink he wanted to run
in a color ad. Do you know
how he managed it? He
handed ad manager Joe
Brown a pair Of aquamarine-
type female panties and
said, II want it this color"
well, give me a bag to
put 'em in," says Joe, so |
can get 'em out of here. I'm
not going to carry 'em out
in my hand"
The ink company must
have thought we were nuts
when they opened our order
for "three pounds of ink the
color of the enclosed pan
ties"
X X X
There's a second Ira II.
at the Chronicle these days.
He is Ira Howard, a new
The chronicle., 1962-03-20
IL w LETTERS TO
K N' THE EDITOR

not to train so or so boys
for competition.
At the beginning of this
program we asked the city
for a building in which TO
train but were refused. Then
we put on a demonstration
in The street in front of City
Hall in hope of help or some
results.
We did manage to get a
meeting with the city coun-
Gil, recreation director and
its board members. In this
meeting a committee was
appointed to find us a place
The chronicle., 1962-03-20

printer on the staff. He
comes from Mobile.
X X X
There is a new teevee COM
mercial featuring vocalists
yowling about "a friendly
glass Of Schlitz." Presum-
ably this means glass of
friendly Schlitz and is not
really intended to praise a
glass as being friendly. Be-
cause the ad is about beer,
primarily, not glass.
X X X
Mrs. J. N. Lockard Of Pas
cagoula is off the Chronicle
mailing list for the first
time in 27 years.
Thoughtfully, h ow ever,
she informs us that the rea-
son is not that she simply
can't stand it any longer,
but she wants henceforth to
buy the Chronicle from a
carrier.
X X X
Some readers have ex-
pressed surprise at the un-
The chronicle., 1962-03-20

With the signing Friday of a
new labor contract, ingalls, once
again upped its already fat contri-
button to the economy Of Paspoint,
Jackson County and the state OF
Mississippi.
Although the company blew no
horns over terms of the new three
year labor pact. a little figuring
with paper and pencil turns up
these interesting bread-and-butter
facts:
The chronicle., 1962-03-20

us, and it is a shocking thing
to be identified as an Ameri-
can by some NANCY local
social liability in a man.
grove swamp because Of
hearing 81 Can't Be Too
Young To Love if I'm Dead
with the Steering Wheel
Through My Giblets Blues"
over the single hand-crank-
ed ra dio in the village
dukah.
We have loosed this plague
upon the world. / have re-
Gently been on safari In
Africa again. You switch on
the little transistor and hear
a caterwauling which would
embarrass the arr patrons Of
Enid. Okla. coming TO you
loud and clear from the
radio station in Zanzibar.
In addition to our other
sins, we have exported var
ious versions Of rock N roll
to the dancing denizens of
the world, and | promise you
there is nothing sadder than,
say, the average Englishman
jiving it up in Sans Super
ior Bar and Grill in an out
post Of Kensington, or some
painted savage w no has
barely been burped from his
last meal on a relative COM
mitting a transcription of
what he thinks might be
chic in Hollywood, USA.
Sinners that we are, we
have popularized the blue
jean pants and the short, as
well as the Bermuda-type,
shorts on a world whose
women are ill-equipped to
wear anything more reveal
ing than a Mother Hubbard.
We have sent the crew-cat
The chronicle., 1962-03-20
SPEED TRAPS HURTING
STATE TOURIST TRADE

Legitimate enforcement of
Mississippi's speed laws is fav-
ored by the Mississippi Agri-
cultural and Industrial Board,
but an increase in complaints
alleging obvious trapping Of
motorists for the sake of col
lecting fines has been reported
to the board.
At its March meeting in
Natchez, the board stated that
any harassment of tourists
hurts the states important
tourist trade.
The chronicle., 1962-03-20

Cook deplores such announce
mems coming from the pens of
the capitol press corps worded to
intimate that the governor is solely
responsible for the industrY's loca-
tion in the state. -"
'You can rest assured" declares
Cook, that behind the location of
every industry in communities
The chronicle., 1962-03-20
Pascagoula

Pascagoula
Editor
The Chronicle
What happened to our
city? Is there not a place for
boys to organize a boxing
team to compete against 9TH
er cities of the state except
the city disposal plant?
For nine weeks our boys,
ages nine and up, have
worked in a crowded one
room building that was de-
signed to operate the pumps
and watts of the city disposal,
The chronicle., 1962-03-20
Just give us the industry:
let anybody grab the credit

over the state today are hours of
hard work and midnight oil plus
expensive work and time on the
part of local citizens"
Right, Bob Cook. But down here
we don't care who makes the an
nouncement SO long as we get the
industry.
The chronicle., 1962-03-20

Bob Cook in the Pontotoc Pro-
gress writes that he is happy and
proud that new industry has
located in 'Mississippi's land Of
opportunity" but:
"It's amusing in an irritating
sort of way when the announce
ment of such is made by the COVER
nor in the form Of political fodder. /.
The chronicle., 1962-03-20
BY Ira HarkeY

Red May. upon noticing
our current rotundity, says
that we probably are not
exercising with De b bic
Drake at all, but instead are
The chronicle., 1962-03-20

lying up in bed eating a big
sandwich while she does all
the work.
The chronicle., 1962-03-20

Some readers have ex-
pressed surprise at the un-
Evening star., 1962-12-23

MICRO COMIC DICK GREGORY and some LOO
IN prisoners in the Maryland State Penitentiary
laughed and laughed and laughed at the outside
world one day recently and took few swings at the
race relations problem too.
Gregory in town for a weeks engagement at a
washington nightclub had agreed to 60 over to Bal
dmore to put on the christmas benefit perform
ance for the inmates The cOnvictS, most of them
Negro, hung out huge Welcome Dick Gregory"
sign, and filed into their Playhouse 954" for what
promised to be the smash show of the season.
Prison policy segregated the inmates in the
auditorium white men in the front center and Ne
groes in the back on the sides and in the balcony
When convict mentioned this to Gregory he
stormed backStage to tell Warden Vernon L. Peper.
sack he wouldn't 60 on before segregated audi
ence. Warden Pepersack said that all other activi
ties in the S0yearOld penitentary were integrated
and the men might riot fthey didn't get their show
SO he decided to integrate the place.
Gregory went on stage, told the light man to
keep the house lights up chat got laugh and said
Fellows, this show is very dear to me; one of my
closest friends was in prison. But I've turned down
5000 worth of contracts because won't play before
segregated audience. =. So how about mixing it
up?"
"All could think about was my wife and kids"
Gregory said later, on the way back to Washington
DO you realize two men killed when they tried
to integrate a cOlIe0e?"
But the convictS were apparently tickled by this
turn of events. A white man jumped up first ran
over and dragged hesitant colOred convict out of
his seat, and ushered him into the orchestra"
Somebody shouted God Bless you!" Warden Peper-
sack dismissed the extra guards he had called up
The convicts were catching lines Gregory said
sailed right over most sophisticated club audiences
He told them about his childhood in St Louis where
the Klu Klux Kan would knock on your door IL they
didnthave any matches for their crosses, and up in
the balcony, Fl condemned men, who had never be-
fore been allowed into show in the auditorium.
guffawed when Gregory said you ask why all Ne
groes carry knives? Not all Negroes carry knives
carry knife. -"
After the show he was mobbed, 80 deep Some of
the men gave him a scrap of paper to autograph:
some just wanted to shake his hand "You remember
me now, on the outside" they said
"It was once-in-alifetime experience, said the
$5IOO0aweek comic, who takes things very seriously
"You just never know when you wake up in the
morning whether you'll run into something thatrl
Evening star., 1962-08-29
FAMOUS FABLES
By E. E. EDGAR

PRETENSE: Like most
writer's, humorist columnist
Don Marquis procrastinated
shamefully before putting
pen to paper. But he had his
own method of disciplining
himself.
A friend once asked him:
How do you ever manage
to get today's work done?"
That's simple, replied
Marquis. II pretend it is yes
terday's."
VACATION: Thomas Ed
ison would work from early
morning until late at night in
his laboratory. One night,
when he returned home, his
wife said to him:
You've been working too
hard. You must take a va
cation"
But where shall I go?"
said the inventor.
Anywhere you WISH" she
said. Think of the one place
in the world where you would
most like to be and go there"
"All right" agreed Edison.
"I'll leave in the morning"
The following morning he
returned to his laboratory.
Evening star., 1962-08-29
By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,

Please print this. 1t is getting
to be a national disease.
DISGUISED.
/ don't see anything wrong
with a man diapering babies
or making formulas. Perhaps
the reason so many children
grow up to regard father as
only the mOney-maker is be-
cause father has fulfilled that
function and none other.
Raising children should be a
joint effort. I'm for it. You
ratified the wrong cage.
+
DEAR ABBY: My husband
is in the construction busi-
ness. HE builds houses and
sells them.O But since he's
gone into that business I
hardly see him any more.
He tells me he has to show"
the houses to customers and
he's gone night and day. He
is SIS, very good-looking and
a fast talker.
He was quite a ladies' man
some years back, but I
thought he was over all that.
Evening star., 1962-08-29
DEAR ABBY
Is This Formula
A Sissy Affair?

DEAR ABBY: When my
daughter in = law asked my
son to diaper the baby, I
almost tainted! I never
raised my boy to do
things like that. My daugh-
ter-1n-law has our son max
ing formula and all such
sissy stuff that a wife should
do. I say a man should
earn the living and it's the
woman's Job to raise the
children. When a woman
starts showing womanly du-
ties off on a man, he loses
stature in the sight of others.
Evening star., 1962-08-29

sure he looks okay. He is the
only boy I know who actually
carries a mirror! I would like
YOUR opinion Of a boy who
has to look at himself all the
time.
NAAiELESS.
Either your friend has no
confidence in the way he
looks or he is just plain de-
lighted with his own refIec-
Evening star., 1962-08-29

Should I be Jealous or should
! put him up for sale?
WIFE.
Don't put him up for sale.
Somebody might buy him
and remodel him.
DEAR ABBY: I have a
friend who cannot pass a
mirror without looking at
himself. I say it is a sign of
conceit. He says it isn't. He
claims he just likes to be
Evening star., 1962-08-29

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Evening star., 1962-08-29

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In or Phone 70 Open o
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Account.