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Evening star., 1963-02-03
Everything London Really
Means What 1t Says

aDlllty company, ne received
about $50 times the amount
he originally paid his father
for 1t.
Mr.. Richard Burbridge took
over the direction of the store
from Harrod and two success
sive generations OF Bur-
bridges put the trimmings on
the Victorian gothic steam
boat OF q store that stands
today.
And the diamond in a
crown Of trimmings is Har-
rods service.
In 400 departments cover
ing l3 acres of selling space.
a staff Of $500 does its i'm
peccable best to see that ev-
cry customer is treated as
though he were the customer
come to tea.
To avoid any slips in pro-
tocol. all customers are ad-
dressed as sir or madam.
Sales clerks are reminded that
a single careless remark
could antagoniSe q top ac-
count and all the guests she
invites to dinner that night.
No High Pressure
To discourage any high
pressure salesmanship, the
sales staff is paid a lower
than average commission and
q higher than usual salary.
The staff Is taught to sell
what the customer wants to
buy. not what the clerk wants
to push.
Even though $4,000 Gus
toners q day pass through
Harrod's. the floors are so
heavily carpeted, the ceiling
so high and airy and the air
Of decorum so intrinsic that
one American department
store magnate was prompted
to ask when any business was
transacted.
Bolstering the club-like at
mosphere is a cleaning staff
Of 200, ready and armed at
all times to pounce on any
stray spot Of dust. They are
followed by a rat catcher
with two dogs who will be
sure to trap any mouse with
the gall to enter the store.
And what other store any
where would dare toss away
1000 square feet In the cen
ter Of the store for customers
to catch a breath and rest q
weary foot. Harrod's vast
banking hall contains Moth
ing but cashiers cages and
dozens of comfortable arm
chairs for. rest and rendez-
vous.
For the customer who can't
even summon the energy to
visit the store. there is q de-
livery service. II madam
wants one of Harrod's % va
rieties Of bread, she need
only ring up the store and 1t
will be brought out In the
delivery trucks next run.
And If your hankering for
pumpernickel hits you at 3
am, telephone order clerks
stand by day and night to
dash down your order.
As new supermarkets. dis
count houses and price slash
ing chain stores spring up
in Britain, Harrod's remains
serenely above the fray.
Harrod's did succumb to
the siren song of big busi-
ness in 1859. when 1t, was
bought up. after q bitter
stock fight. by department
store tycoon Sir Hugh Fra
ser.
But changes were small and
unnoticeable. They couldn't
have been otherwise. For
Harrod's to change would not
only be unlikely. 1t would be
unthinkable.
Evening star., 1963-02-03
Club States
Elections

The annual election meet
ing Of the Women's Demo-
cratic Club of Silver Spring
will be held tomorrow at 8
brary on Colesville road.
A slate of officers will be
Evening star., 1963-02-03
BY JAN HODENFIELD
Associated Press Writer

LONDON, Feb. 2. - Har-
rods is big (64 acres), swank
tThe Queen does her Christ
mas shopping there) and
inimitable (who today would
even think Of building an
other oneO
Its cable address is Every
thing London and that just
about sums up what can be
bought at Harrod's, the prod
igal department store in Lon
don's fashionable Knights
bridge section.
Legend has 1t that q
woman tourist from America
strode up to a floorwalker at
Harrod's and declared:
II want to buy an ele-
phant."
Without a flicker, the
floorwalker replied:
African or Indian, ma
damn"
You can, in fact, get any
thing in Harrod's. from REIN
deer meat to a transistor ra-
dio covered in swansdown.
You can buy theater tick
cts, get your hair cut, eat in
three restaurants, buy a rare
book and hire a chauffeur
driven car.
Evening star., 1963-02-03
Arrange Wedding

Harrod's will decorate your
house - as they have for sew
eral eastern potentates-and
they will lay down a tennis
court for you.
Evening star., 1963-02-03

Editors Note-one Of the worlds
most remarkable stores hos o eoble
address Of Everything London.
And everything is just ebout whot
il con sell you-olthoueh under its
senteeI. disnified policy il won't
even try. But il you won't q ship
ment Of fresh Seotlond grouse, Q
boo constructor or O rodio covered
in swonsdown, osk Horod's.
Evening star., 1963-09-30
Kennedy Set the Stage for GoIdwater

moral" and said 1t would
transform the Republica n
Party from a national party of
all the people to a sectional
party of some Of the people"
1t was good rhetoric but. pol
itically, the New Yorker was
shouting into the wind. At
their recent meeting in Denver
the other Republican Cover
counseled him privately
but forcefully-and almost
unanimously-to drop this line
of attack.
When the National Draft
Goldwater Com mittee pub
lished its famous map, conced-
ing such States such as New
York, Pennsylvania and Michi-
gan to Mr.. Kennedy, 1t was
o only acknowledging publicly
what what most Republicans
privately believe to be true
the President cannot be beaten
in the territory he has carved
out for himself.
Is there a civil rights plank
that can be written. they ask,
or a candidate the Republicans
can nominate capable of jar
ring the Presidents grip on Ne
gro voters? Is there a Republi-
can anywhere who can match
his appeal to the ethnic
Evening star., 1963-09-30

He capitalizes on his popular
appeal by entering the prima-
ries, challenging all comerS to
meet him there. Only one of his
potential antagoniSts-and not
the Strongest-joinS the battle
in the early rounds. That oppo-
nent is defe ate d and with
draws. The dark horses and fav-
orite sons who have waited In
the wings find they have wait
ed too long. BY convention n
time, his momentum is unstop-
pable and he wins a first-ballot
nomination.
The third gift-and the
.greatest-from the White
House to senator GoldWater
was the revival of sectional
politics in this country. This
was essential to create the con-
ditionS In which the GoldWater
candidacy could grow.
1t was the Presidents deci-
sion to orient his policies, his
politics and his appointments
around the industrial States Of
the Northeast, plus California.
This has left the rest of the
country wide open to exploita-
tion by the right Republican
candidate.
BY the same token, it was
Mr.. nedy-and no one
else-who has cut the ground
from under Gov. Nelson Rookie
feller of New York.
Radical Right Castigated
The Governor complained in
July that the radical right was
urging the Republican Party to
write off the Negro and other
minority groups, write off the
great industrial States of the
North, write off the big cities :. .
and direct its appeal prima-
rily to the electoral votes of the
South, plus the West and a
scattering of other States"
He called the strategy i'm
Evening star., 1963-09-30

groups? Is there a Republi-
can-including Gov. Rockefel-
ler-who can prevent Mr..
Kennedy from capturing New
York; Most Republicans say no
20 all these questions.
On the other hand. they ask,
Is there a disaffection in the
South h that some Republican
can exploit2 Is there a Repub-
lican who can ride the conser-
vative tide in the tain
States and Midwest? Is there a
Republican whose views on ra-
cial matters suburban whites
might find more appealing a
than those of President Kenne-
dy? Yes say many Republicans
to all these questions, and that
man is Senator Goldwater.
This is the source Of the
wind that fills the sails of the
Goldwater movement. 1t is this
judgment-even more than the
reaction to his arriage
that has stalled Gov. Rookie
feller.
Incumbent Sets Rules
The inescapable fact is that
an incumbent president seeking
reelection has the power to
determine the weapons, the
rules and the site of his fight.
The opposition party has little
choice but to adapt itself as
best it can to the conditions he
dictates.
President Kennedy, by
playing his own brand of Sec.
tional politics, has opened the
way for Senator Goldwater's
sectional campaign. He has
Evening star., 1963-09-30

written the script from which
the Goldwater omination
drive is being directed.
And he has by his own ex-
ample proved that conventions
are sometimes wise to make the
unconventional choice.
Evening star., 1963-09-30
BY DAVID S. BRODER
Star staff Writer

One Of the oddities Of the
Goldwater boom is the way II
has capitalized on John F. Ken.
nedy precedents.
The Presidents gifts to Sen.
ator Goldwater are uninte e n
tional, Of course, and, politics
being what 1t is, the Senator'S
hackers are not likely to give
them public acknowledgment,
But their debt to the President
is becoming quite sizable.
First off, they are indebted
to Mr.. Kennedy for demon
strating in 1860 that a highly
unconventional nominee can be
elected President.
Consider some Of the paral-
lels between the Kennedy OF
1859 and the Goldwater Of to-
day: Junior Senators from
small States in opposite corners
Of the Nation, men Of limited
influence in the Senate, men of
religious backgrounds unknown
in the White House, men whose
voting records are outside the
mainstream of their parties s
past.
What Convention Dictates
Conventional wisdom In the
Democratic Party in 1859 die
tated the nomination Of a mod
crate Midwesterner like Sena-
tor Symington. Conventional
wisdom in the Republican party
in 1868 dictates that the nod
should go to a man Of the mid
die, like Gov. George Romney
Coy. William Scranton or Sen
ator ThruSton Morton.
But, as the Goldwater people
keep reminding their party, the
Democrats did the unconven.
tional in 1960-and won. Sim
liar daring by the Republicans
in 1864, they argue, can bring
similarly surprising results.
AS a second gift, Mr.. Ken
nedy in 1860 established a pat
tern for winning a nomination
that the Goldwater men flint
very apt for their purposes.
Again, the parallels are strik
ing. The Goldwater narrative
Evening star., 1963-09-30
POINT OF VIEW

beginning at the Republican
convention of 1860 and tn e
Kennedy narrative from the
Democratic convention Of 1855
can be capSuled d in identical
terms.
Catapulted into a last-min-
ute nomination fight he did not
anticipate, each man made a
dramatic appearance urgin g
his defeated hackers to set
aside their bitterness and rally
behind the national ticket. The
ticket, however, lost the elec-
ton.
In .this m m e nj Of gloom,
each set out on virtually a non-
stop speaking tour, which es-
tablished him as the party's
champion drawin g-card and
fund-r aiser. Each man was
disc overed by the national
press and magazines. An Off
beat background, personal at
tractiveness and can d or and
freshness Of his views won such
widespread publicity.
BOlStered by Polls
After three years Of national
exposure, the polls showed him
the first choice of his party's
voters for the presidential
nomination.
But he was still held suspect
by many party elders. Ruth
lessly and relentlessly, his
hackers exploited his grass
roots appeal in an early-start-
ing drive for convention dele
gates. which pitted his "ama-
teurs" against the established
organization lea ders in key
States.
Senator Goldwater already
has travelled this far down the
road President Kennedy
marked. Ahead. his strategists
believe, are the rem amin g
steps:
Evening star., 1963-09-30
Course in Scripture

Sister Rose Eileen, professor
of theology at Dunbarton Col
lege. will conduct a course in
sacred scripture for all certified
teachers of the Confraternity
Evening star., 1963-09-30

lof Christian Doctrine begin
ming at 1880 pm. Wednesday at
Dunbarton College, 2935 Upton
street NV.
Evening star., 1963-09-30
OUR AMAZING
REFLEXES

Do you know why babies
sneeze frequently?- why
fear makes you thirsty?-
and why you should not be
embarrassed when you
blush, yawn, sneeze, shiveror
blink?
A medical writer tells you
why in October Readers
Digest-nosC on sale.
Evening star., 1963-09-30

ADVERTISEMENT
Milford chronicle., 1963-12-06
The Past In Review
Ne.cs os it soas reported in the Chronicle
Forty Years Ago :.

Taken from Dec. z, 1923 Issue:
In a well played game at
Milford on Wednesday after
noon, despite the rain and wet
field, the Newark High School
football team, champions Of the
northern half of the state, de-
feated the strong Seaford High
School team, champions Of the
southern half Of the state, and
thereby won the State Cham
pionship. The score was to
0.
Joseph Rothrock, formerly
athletic teacher OF Milford High
School, is visiting friends In
Milford, with attractions In
Georgetown and Seaford.
Mrs. Anna Carlisle, Miss
Elizabeth Carlisle, Mrs. S. M.
d. Marshall and daughter Bar
bara, returned home from
Shepardstown, W. Va, Saturday
evening last, after a very de-
ughtful visit with Miss Rachel
Snyder.
E. H. Bratten, proprietor Of
the Red Star Drug Store In Mil
ford, is much interested In the
raising of fancy stock Rhode
Milford chronicle., 1963-12-06
Speaking OF insects

Long before man had mastered
electricity, some insects were
producing their own light. Most
OF the light-making insects are
beetles in the firefly family.
There are over 1,500 species
of "fireflies" in the world, but
not all produce light. When you
see a firefly "blinking" while
in flight it probably is a male.
Usually the females don't fly,
but many of them do "wink''
back at the males.
The whole business of these
blinking lights centers around
romance for the fireflies. But
the romance is brutally ended
for some luckless males. It
seems there are some species
in which the female can lure
males of other species to them
whereupon they devour the males
for dinner. Much of our know
ledge Of the various species
comes from an amateur en-
tomologist in Wilmington, Mr..
Frank McDermott. Most fire
Milford chronicle., 1963-12-06
SufetY Council

You should know your skic
stuff for winter driving, a safety
official suggested yesterday.
Contrasting cars with skis,
Richard H. McMullen, president
Of the Delaware Safety Council,
noted that skis can swerve sharp
ly into turn on the snow, but
an abrupt turn for a car usually
means skid or spin. Similarly,
the skater can stop quickly on
Ice, but car cannot.
Those contrasts and the safe
stopping and steering of cars on
snow and ice are the subjects
OF a new booklet called "Skid
Stuff" being distributed by the
Safety Council, McMullen said.
It shows, among other things.
the distance required to stop a
car on loosely packed snow at
only 20 miles per hours, with
various tires and chains on the
wheels. The braking distance
does not include the time 1t
takes to get your foot on the
pedal = It's the time 1t takes
to stop the car = from 20 to
zero = after you get your foot
on the pedal, McMullen explain
ed.
With regular tires, 1t takes
so feet. With snow tires this is
cut to So feet. Regular tire
chains reduce 1t further to 46
Milford chronicle., 1963-12-06
Twenty Years Ago :.

Taken from Dec. 10, l943 Issue:
Paul G. Belts received his
commission as an ensign In
the U. S. Naval Reserves this
week after completing the fif-
teen week training course at
the New York U.S.N.R. Mid
Shipman's School. Ensign Belts
Is spending a short leave In
Sesford and Milford before
going on active duty aboard a
naval ship.
Lieut.. Lewis Ditto spent We'd
nesday In Milford with the fam
lily Of his sister, Mrs. ]. H.
Gordon. Lieut.. Ditto spent last
winter In England. and is now
avafssnx overseas assignment
since receiving his commission
at Fort Lee, va.
William H. Warren, Jr., son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. william H.
Warren Of Milford, who IS To-
Gated at Great Lakes Naval
Station, is spending a leave
with his wife and parents. He
has graduated as seaman sec
ona class.
Alton G. Lewis, son Of Mr..
Milford chronicle., 1963-12-06

In Newport, r. r He left on
Tuesday.
Announcement is made of the
engagement Of Miss Ella Jean
Sapp, daughter Of Mrs. Edna
P. Sapp and the late George
Dewey Sapp Of Houston, to Air
man First Class Maurice E.
blessing, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
william Blessing, Sr., also OF
Houston. Miss Sapp is a grad
uate Of Milford High School
and Milford Hospital School OF
Nursing. Mr.. blessing Is also
a graduate of Milford High
School and Is now stationed at
Alexandria Air Force Base,
Alexandria, Louisiana. No date
has been set for the wedding.
Dedication exercises will be
held for the Benjamin B anneker
activity building on North St.,
Milford, on December l3, at
500 pm. The Milford Board OF
Education has invited Mr..
Eldridge j. Waters, for me r
principal Of the Benjamin Ban
neker School, to m axe the
dedicatory address.
Milford chronicle., 1963-12-06
Thirty Years Ago :.

Taken from Dec. s, 1893 Issue:
Gerald Pearson Of Green
wood, Is member OF the
Civilian Conservation Corps
engaged In mosquito extermina-
tion at Lewes.
Burton G. Cannon, Jr., who
Is a student at John Hopkins,
baltimore, recently spent few
days In Frankford with his par
snts.
w. W. Brown, manager Of
the Eastern Shore Service CO., f.,
has offered to light the busi-
ness section Of the town OF
Millsboro from the Millsboro
Trust Co. office to the post
office, for the days preceding
Christmas and his offer was
enthusiastically accepted.
The new concrete highway
from Milford Rehoboth road to
Milton, is now open as far as
Zion Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Rogers
Of Massillisn, Ohio, and Mr..
and Mrs. Guy Johnson OF Mil
ton, are visiting with Mr.. and
Mrs. c. X. Rogers and family
at Zoar.
Milford chronicle., 1963-12-06

Hd., A acres.
Raymond E. Best & Marion F,
to Robert L. Fitzgerald & Bar
bara K, Little Creek Hd., 3.87
acres.
Loleta McNeilly Hrs. to Mil
ton Jackson & Gladys, Seaford
Hd., lot.
James Travis & Ruth to
Thomas H. Draper & Louise c.
Lewes & Rehoboth Hd., lot Ann
Acres.
Edward Beacon to Mark A.
Foley & Eileen H., Lewes &
Rehoboth Hd., North Shores, lot
n.
VIM. H. Bowden G. Doris to c.
Curtis Flood & Helen Fay, Balti-
more Hd., lot.
Florence Wilson Borgeson to
Paul Stoeckel, Raymond StoeckeI
& Ruth Hazard, Georgetown Hd.,
H2 int. lots lis, Il6 & III, Ever
green Lawns.
Robert j. Kohn & Louise
Adams to Raymond W. Masten
& Edith W., Baltimore Hd., York
Beach, lot 81, sec. B.
Charles E. Addy, ct al to
Bulkley S. Griffin g. isabel K
Baltimore Hd., lots 2 & 8, blk.
A., Middlesex Beach.
Bulkley S. Griffin & Isabel
K. to Charles E. Addy, ct al,
Baltimore Hd., lots "a & 25,
blk. A, Middlesex Beach.
John Lewis Smith, Jr. g.
Madeline c. to John P. Clum &
Katherine, Lewes & Rehoboth
Hd., lot.
Edgar L. Smith & Edgar L.
Smith Guardian of Mildred D.
Smith to VIM. Joseph Griffith
& Sarah Catherine, Seaford Hd.,
lot 6, blk. B.
Robt. H. c. Daniels Hrs. to
Alvin Marvel Robinson g. Irene
c., Cedar Greek Hd., lot with
imp.
Charles D. Murphy, Jr. &
Jean NJ. to Herschel Billings G.
Dorothy l., Cedar Creek Hd.,
Lot #2l, Haven Lake Acres.
J. Irwin White to Lillian w.
White, Little Creek Hd., lot.
Milford chronicle., 1963-12-06

and Mrs. W. 9. Lewis OF
Bridgeville, has been commits
stoned a first lieutenant in the
Army Air Forces. He has beer
transferred from Tulare tc
Taft, Calif., and IS In the All
Transport Command. He has
had 5000 hours In the air anc
has trained 200 pilots.
Mrs. Rebecca M. Nevins re-
turned on Saturday from spend
Ing a week with her husband,
Cpl. Clement ]. Nevins, In Will
'mington, North Carolina. Cpl,
NevinS Is stationed at Gang
Davis, N. C.
Private Paul Thomas Stubbs
stationed at Camp Stewart, Ca,
with the anti-aircraft artillery
Is spending a l5-day furlougt
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William H. Stubbs, Harrington.
Pvt. Charles Donaway, who
has been receiving basic train
Ing In the Marine Corps, al
Paris Island, S. c., is at home
on a ten-day furlough with his
parents In Millsboro.
Milford chronicle., 1963-12-06
Property Transfers

November l8 to %:
Laurel Junior Chamber OF
Commerce to Olan Matthews,
Jr. & Ruth, Broad Creek Hid.
lot 10 & part of 9, sec. d.
Agnes H. Mumford & Rolanc
A.; Eleanor Patterson; VIM. B.
Quillen & Rose; Wilbur c. Hur-
ley; Louise B. Quillen to Lulu
M. Cottingham, Broad Creek HID,
lot.
Edward S. Cordrey & va. H,
to Walter Bunting & Margaret
F., Dagsboro Hd., lot 2.
Milford Trust CO. & MYRTLE
M. Mitten, Exec. WV Anna Gra-
ham Preuss to Donald J. Dono-
van & Margaret A., Cedar Greek
Hd., lot.
Wilbur F. Ashley g. Myrtle E.
to Chas. J. Turner, Jr., Cedar
Creek Hd., 10 acres & S acres.
Delaware Feed Service. Inc.
to Chandler & McCabe, mc.,
Dagsboro Hd., tract, Indian
River Hd., 2 tracts.
Sussex Trust Co., Adm. Est.
Mae Elizabeth Billie to Ford M.
Warrington, Little Creek Hd.,
4 lots.
Malverna Long Hrs. to EN-
NETT P. Madigan & Eliz. H.,
Baltimore Hd., lots & A, blk.
Ia, Bethany Beach.
Samuel Timmons & Roland ".
Exec. Of Lima M. Cobb to Town
sends Inc., Baltimore Hd., 2
tracts.
North Shores Dev. Inc. to
Elmer Eugene Jackson & Martha.
Seaford Hd., North Shores, lot
81 and part Of So.
Bertha M. Hartman to Gary
Edward Schells & jamie L., S.
Nanticoke Hd., lot.
Eva M. Barr; Eva Lynn Barr
1saacs & George to Robert K.
Hough G. Mabel c., Georgetown
Hd., lot with imp.
Floyd T. Short & Aleine H. J.
to VIM. ]. Esham, Jr. & Edna
T., Georgetown Hd., lot.
Ethel R. Grieves & Harry NJ.
to J. A. Porter & Son Lumber
Co., Broad Creek Hd., lot with
imp.
Elmer West & Bertha E. to
Wilmer T. Dickerson, Baltimore
Hd., lots 2 & 4, blk. lO2, Bethany
Beach.
Charles G. Allen, Jr. & Ruth
H. to VIM. B. Zales & Vernie
M, S. Nanticoke Hd., lot.
John A. Moore, Jr. & Helen
M. to Earle J. Duncan, Seaford
Hd., 2.79 acres.
Earle j. Duncan, Jr. to John
A. Moore, Jr. & Helen, Seaford
Hd., tract.
Robert B. Fitzgerald & June
l to Edward PasSwaters & Gail
Cedar Creek Hd., 8 acres.
Malch Investment Corp, Inc.
TO Donald S. Lynch & Kyoko,
Lewes & Rehoboth Hd., lot with
imp.
Arthur J. Heather & Eliz. to
Warren H. Macdonald & Martina,
Lewes & Rehoboth HID. 2 lots.
Milford chronicle., 1963-12-06

DR.. Herbert G. Wohnsudler
wife and baby returned from
Barneveld, N. Y, accompanie,
by F. M. Carr and wife, tn,
parents Of Mrs. Wohnsudler
Mr.. Carr Is district superin.
tendent Of schools. DR.. Wohn.
sudler and wife are residing Oh
Fisher Avenue.
The Misses Louise and Helen
arshall Of LeweS, gave a sur
prise party for their sister,
Miss Hannah Marshall, In honor
Of her birthday on Tuesday
evening, at their home "Gray
Cables" Their guests were,
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Block
son, Mrs. Dorothy Sparks, Miss
Gladys Bradley, Miss Louise
Gilpin, and the Messrs. Archie
Lingo, Samuel G. Pierce, Jr.,
Edgar H. Morris and Mr.. Nor
ris.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Smith
Of Washington, D. c., and Miss
Alberta Smith Of Newark, spent
the week end with Mrs. Cora
Prettyman Of HarbeSon.
Milford chronicle., 1963-12-06

Island Red chickens. The grow
ing Of these chickens has be-
come a very profitable fad for
Mr.. Bratten. Last week he en-
tered a pen of five birds at
the Washington, D. c., poultry
show, at which poultry from all
sections Of the country was ex-
hfbited. Mr.. Bratten has re-
ceived word of his pen won a
red ribbon or second place.
A Howe fire engine, built on
a Ford truck, was demonstra-
ted In Milton on Wednesday
morning by representative of
the company. A committee Of
the fire company Witnessed the
lie m on alton and were
pleased with the showing made,
but whether this or another
machine will be the final
choice, will be deter min G d
later.
Braxton Messick has return
ed to his home In Hamden,
Conn.,, after spending several
days with friends and relatives
In the Forest Park Community.