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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-16
FAMOUS FABLES
BY z. z. EDGAR

APPEARANCE: In 1887,
ChOreographer George Bal
anchine went to Hollywood to
work on a picture for Pro
Queer Samuel GOldwyn. Each
was baffled by the other -
Goldwyn by Balanchine's
highbrow conception of the
dance and Balanchine by
GOldwyn's malapropisms.
It was Balanchine's first
movie assignment and he was
determined to pour all his art
into it. He poured so much
that Goldwyn was thoroughly
bewildered, relates Bernard
Taper in "Balanchine."
"At the runthrough of one
dance, Goldwyn's eyes fell on
a large, non-naturalistic rep
reSentation of a horse, which
was a feature of the set. He
grimaced.
Is something wrong, Mr..
GOldwyn?' asked Balanchine.
4 don't like that horse
groaned the producer. 1t
doesn't look human.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-16
USELESS
INFORMATION

The following items, all
exclusive, are all neU, all
uSeleSS-and mostly anus
ing.
BY PAUL STEINER
North American Newspaper Alliance
In the good old days, people
believed that a potato carried
in a trouser pocket was a
sure cure for rheumatism, an
expert on Superstitions re-
calls.
And if you wished to make
your own shoe polish in those
ancient days, a typical
formula called for 200 pounds
of molasSes, 20 pounds of
gum arabic, 100 pounds ivory
black, as pounds sulphuric
acid and 100 pounds beer,
Irving l. Bother, president
of a shoe care firm says.
You can now view the buff
bellied flycatcher (neolalage
bankSiana) on the postage
stamps of the New Hebrides,
a philatelist informs us.
There is only one person
named Zzzyandottie in the
Manhattan telephone direc-
tory, a researcher reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-16
DEAR ABBY

DEAR ABBY: l married a
woman who is "club happy"
She joins everything she can
get into = accepts offices,
volunteers for committees
and goes like a house afire
six days a week. She keeps
a date book in her purse and
schedules herself for every
hour. We have very little
home life because she never
has time to cook a meal or
to spend an evening at home.
Our phone rings constantly
with her club business and
she thinks this is popularity.
When night comes she is so
keyed up she has to take
pills to sleep. Any sugges-
tons? HUSBAND.
Make an appointment with
her for an emergency estate
Of-the-family" meeting. Let
the first order Of business be
your list Of complaints with
regard to her clubbing your
marriage to a pulp. Only
when she realizes that you
won't stand for it will she
ease off. Otherwise, you had
better resign yourself to be-
ing last on her agenda for
ever.
DEAR ABBY: How about
this? My brothers wife
phoned me and said, "We
have some Christmas gifts
for you and your family.
Come and get them" They
have a car, too, and they live
less than 10 minutes from us.
l didn't want any bad feel
ings. so l didn't tell her off,
l just said, THANK you," and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-16
The moon with its passengers sails away.

be out of it and it would be
too late. Jeremy slid down
to the bottom of the cres-
cent. He couldn't see any,
thing but he could feel first
SisSy'S foot and then Miss
JOS. He grabbed one foot in
each hand and threw himself
forward. All three children
tumbled off the moon and
sank into the cloud.
For an instant they thought
they were going to fall right
on through but the cloud
was like a feather pillow.
They lay in it as warm and
comfortable as if they we're
in their own bed at home.
Tomorrow: The Trouble Coke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-16
ON THE SIDE
Mrs. Fitz' Creator
Was Late Starter

finally recovered, Lea In
sisted that he get a steady
job and quit working such
OutlandiSh hours. He took her
advice and became an assist
ant to Dale MeSSick. who
draws the Brenda Starr"
comic strip for the Chicago
Tribune-New York News Syn
dictate.
During the five years he
worked for Miss MeSSick he
developed a comic character
of his own, an Eskimo named
Little NOOdnik. A" When Mood
nik's adventures we're pub
liShed as a book, he quit his
job and moved to Florida.
This proved to be a mis-
take, however. The publisher
went broke, and the RebergeS
promptly followed suit.
Back to StratfOrd
A three-month stint as as
SiStant to Leslie Turner, who
draws Captain Easy" for
NEA Service, gave Frank
enough money to take his
family back to Connecticut.
He returned to advertising
art, this time specializing in
televiSiOn commercials. His
work was spotted by Sylvan
Byck, comics editor of King
Features Syndicate, who hired
him as an assistant to Mort
Walker, creator of Beetle
Bailey" and co-author of Hi
and Lois"
During the two years he
worked for Walker, Roberge
developed Mrs. Fits Flats"
which has since become plain
Mrs. Fitz." Since its intro
ductiOn, Mrs. Fitz" has been
one of The Stars most popu-
lar comics and has developed
a wide leadership in many
other newspapers.
After Lea'S death, Frank
married a widow, Mrs. Dor
othy May IngerSoll. With his
two children and her five,
they now live in Stratford.
IF l hadn't run into Ed
Scott that day, and if he
hadn't looked so prosperous
and made Illustrating sound
so easy" he says, 81 might
still be working in an aircraft
plant - and trying to learn
math."
INCID ENTAILS: New
York'S GaSlight Club recent
ly dedicated a Mutt and
Jeff Room" in recognition of
the comics nearly 60 years
of contribution to the mirth
and laughter of the American
scene" AL Smith, who has
drawn the strip for many
years, was the honored guest
-. A Brooklyn couple named
their newborn son ''Dondi"
after the comic written by
Gus Edison and drawn by
Irwin Hasen Dix Browne,
who draws Hi and Lois
has received the 1868 Silver
Lady award of the BanSheeS
luncheon club as the out
standing newspaper artist of
the year. Last April, he won
the Reuben, highest award of
the National Cartoonists So
ciety, the same night he was
elected president of the Or
ganization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-16
Santa and the T taumted House

Synopsis: The Ice Sprites mode
mosic skis for the children to corrT
them over the mountoins. There
they we're met by q snome Whs
offered them q ride on q crescent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-16

will he be able to hold his
old job?"
Here, too, there are many
ifs and butts. That's looking
too far into the future. Sure,
many coronary patients re-
turn to their old jobs and live
happily and in comfort for
years. But it is also true that
some develop angina pectoris
or cardiac decompensation
weakness in the he art
muScle) which prevents the
full quota of work the patient
was used to in the past.
And so for any disease or
malfunction you can think of.
If your doctor hedges and
refuses to give you a direct
yes or no, be thankful that
you are not getting any false
promises. It's much easier to
make false promises to the
patient or his family, than It
is to be truthful and candid.
4 =
Previous engagements have
prevented me from accepting
an invitation by the Physi-
clans Wine Appreciation So
ciety of New York to attend
a Portuguese wine tasting in
that city. l hope they send me
a raincheck. l have always
wanted to share this expert
ence with experts.
For a long time l have had
another wish: To be invited
to a French pastry tasting
party. My belief is that the
zenith of indeciSion is reached
when a person is confronted
with a tray of French pas
tries. Making a choice is often
an unbearable experience. At
a tasting party, however, l
presume one is relieved of
any indecision and is free to
enjoy the various tidbits
conScience-free.
tBell-McClure Syndicate)
DR.. Steincrohn'S ledtlet,
"Ho1U to Stop Killing Your
self" will be mailed on re-
ceipt of a stamped, Self-dd-
dressed envelope and IS
cents in coin for handling.
Address DR.. Steincrohn in
care of The Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-16
CIub-Huppy Wife
Strands Husband
By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,

never picked them up. Now
she is mad anyway. What
would you have done?
STUBBORN.
If you had been sincere In
not wanting bad feelings"
you should have picked up
the gifts and kept quiet.
DEAR ABBY: Our daugh-
ter, who is IA, was invited to
a slumber party at a girl
friends house. There we're Il
girls in all. Some boys
crashed the party. As we un-
derstand it, the girls let
them in and seemed to enjoy
their company, but later on
they got rowdy and more
boys came and the police
had to be called. We later
learned that the parents Of
the girl who gave the party
did not sleep at home. They
slept at some friends home
so the girls could have an
extra bedroom. Our daugh-
ter is invited to another
Slumber party. Her father
says she can't 60. l say, if
we call the mother Of the
girl who's giving it and she
says they will be home, it's
all right. Our daughter says
if we call the mother it will
be like saying we don't trust
her. What do you say?
CONCERNED.
l would not permit her
to 60 unless l had the as
Surance of the mother that
the parents would be at
home. And even then I'd
think twice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-16
By LUcREcE BEALE

After a while there was an
other and then another and
another and now four of
Jeremys fingers were bent.
He said, 1.-THE next one is
the fifth and here it comes!"
Time to Let Go
A second later they were
hidden in the fifth cloud.
Jeremy counted to seven and
shouted, LET co."
He couldn't see his sisters
but he heard Miss 10 cry,
I'm afraid" Sissy shouted,
Jeremy, she wont let co."
They we're right in the
middle of the cloud now. In
another moment they would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-16
Teeth Are Proof

RICHMOND, Va. (AP).-
Henry F. Fall of the Bank
of Virginia here tells about
an unusual method of identi-
fication by a customer. Pre-
Senting a check he pulled out
his upper false teeth and
passed them over. His name
and address were engraved
on them. His check was
cashed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-16
Not for Travellers

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP).
- The restrictive absentee
voting law has been upheld
by the Court of Appeals, Ken
tucky's supreme court. The
1862 act, designed to correct
abuses in absentee voting,
limits such ballots to Federal
employees, full-time students
and armed forces members.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-16
STOP KILLING YOURSELF
Here's the Why
Of Yes But
: BY DR.. PETER J. STEINcRoHN

Politicians are supposed to
be able to talk out of both
sides of their mouth better
than anyone else. Some
writer's have the questionable
ability to write out of both
sides of their pen. In either
case, the purpose is some
times the need to throw a
smoke screen around them to
disguise their real meaning
or beliefs.
Doctors often fall into the
category of willful dodgers
when asked questions by their
patients. In most cases, such
replies are not deceitful. In
stead they are based on
honest beliefs.
For example, your child has
rheumatic fever. You say to
your doctor, Twill it leave
his heart damaged?" The
doctor can only answer,
Eyes. but" or mo, but"
Although he seems to dodge
the direct question, his ap-
parent attempt to circumvent
the query is based on expert
ence; and his realization that
he is not a seer who can peer
successfully into the future.
For it is true that. an ap-
parently severe attack with
pain and swelling in many
joints may not result in heart
damage; while it is equally
true that an apparently mild
attack may disfigure a heart
valve or weaken the heart
muscle.
The doctor does everything
he can to prevent complica-
tons, but do not expect him
to give you a direct answer
to your question. He hates to
act the oracle or be put on
the spot guessing. The ethical
doctor doesn't like to make
promises which may turn out
to be false. He deteSts talk
ing out of both sides of his
mouth.
If your husband has just
had an attack of coronary
thrombosis your main con-
Germ and his may be, when
can he return to work? And
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-16
ON THE SIDE
By PHILIP II. LOVE
Feature Editor Of The Star

Feature EDITOR OF Inc star
Frank ROberge was doing
we'll enough as a methods
engineer in the aircraft indus
try when he ran into an old
friend. Ed Scott. The two had
worked together until VI
Day. Then Scott quit, and
Roberge hadn't seen him
since.
"You look like a million
bucks" Roberge observed
after the handshakes, etc,
had been exchanged.
"What're you doing for a
living?"
"0h, I'm an artist now
an illustrator" Scott replied.
There's good money in it,
and it's fun besides"
Roberge was 80 years old
and had never had a drawing
lesSon-nor, for that matter,
any interest in becoming an
artist. Nevertheless, he quit
his job and set out to become
an illustrator.
That was in 1916. He'd had
a succession of jobs since
leaving high school in his
native Stratford, Conn. -
clerking in stores, digging
bitches, driving a school bus.
In 1889, he married a Bridge
port Conn girl, Lea Gerge-
ly, and by the time World
War II broke out she'd borne
their first child, Leonard.
But They Ate
Americas aircraft indus
try was muShroOming, and it
needed men desperately-So
desperately that it accepted
Frank ROberge as a press OPP
orator. Within two years, he
was a methods engineer,
designing new dies. Il was
handicapped some because
I'D never had any higher
mathematics" he recalls.
but | got by"
Franks method of becom-
ing an artist was unusual, to
say the least. He bought all
the magazines he could find
and for six months spent II
to IA hours a day copying
every illustration in them.
Fortunately, his father owned
a restaurant. Anyway, we
ate," Frank says.
When he felt he was ready,
he gathered his best drawings
and made the rounds of STRAIT
ford and Bridgeport advertiS-
ing agencies and merchants.
His first commission came
from a dress shop which
wanted a fashion sketch. That
happened to be the one kind
of drawing he hadn't tried.
Illness Strikes
But he didn't tell the store
keeper. Instead, he hurried to
the public library, borrowed
books on fashion drawings,
and mastered the technique
sufficiently to make the
sketch. The check was for S..
Within a year, Frank had
so many commissions that he
often had to work until dawn.
He was a puShover for virus
pneumonia, and for weeks it
was anybody's guess whether
he would survive. When he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-16
CHAPTER IL
MOON RIDE

moon.
CHAPTER II
MOON RIDE
Jeremy and Sissy and
Miss 10 took off their skis
and sat down in the curve
of the crescent moon. It was
a very tight fit and Miss 10
kept slipping off the end.
Finally Jeremy climbed to
the top of the curve and
stretched out flat with his
arms and legs wrapped
around the fat sides of the
moon. Now there was plenty
of room for Sissy and Miss
10. They straddled the lower
curve. Sissy held on to Miss
10 and Miss 10 held on to
the sides and they we're
ready to 60.
All this time Manfred the
Moonlighter held on to the
moon with both hands. He
kept saying, Hurry now.
This thing has to 60 up on
time!!" When they we're all
set, he looked at the big
watch on his wrist and began
to count off the seconds.
"Six, five, four, three, two,
ONE" Then he let 60 of the
moon and it sprang into the
sky.
Jeremy poked his head
over the side and waved at
the MoOnlighter. "How will
we know where to get Off"
The gnome waved back
and shouted something but
what it was the children
couldn't hear. They were
already too far away. The
ground slipped away. They
could see whole towns and
even whole kingdoms as
lights went on in thousands
of homes below them.
Presently the lights diSap-
peared and the moon sailed
on.
Then Miss 10 cried,
Look"
Star GlideS BY
She pointed to a silver star
passing by. Miss 10 and
Sissy leaned far out and
tried to catch the star in
their hands but the star
sparkled gaily and glided
on leaving a trail of silver
star dust behind.
A little cloud floated near
by. The moon sailed right
into it. For a minute the
children couldn't see any,
thing at all-not even each
other. Then a voice came
out of the cloud saying, $50
you are the children who
are going to see Santa?"
Jeremy nearly fell off his
perch, he was so aStonished.
But he said, Eyes, we are
going to warn him about
Nog and the Trouble Cake"
Listen, then," said the
voice. Five more clouds
will pass across the moon.
In the fifth cloud count to
seven and drop off the
moon"
"Y-you mean-juSt drop
off," Stammered Jeremy.
But the voice was still and
the moon had passed out of
the cloud.
Presently they passed
through a second cloud.
That's number one,"
said Jeremy, bending down
a finger.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-16
Senator Souper
Says

By BILL VAUGHAN
North American Newspaper Alliance
Most great inventions are
the accidental result of a
search for something else.
We are not sure what the
inventor of the electric swiz-
zle stick was looking for.
Among the many hazardous
aspects Of football coaching is
that you get fired just before
Christmas.
A gazer into the future
predicts transoceanic travel
by submarine. At least it
would eliminate deck tennis.
Dieting is one way to &C.
quire a desirable weight; an
easier method is dishonest
scales.
Kodiak mirror., 1963-03-01

Latest figures released last week indicate a record catch of King Crab will be established this year.
 Area Management Biologist Dex- ter Lall of the ADF&G released figures showing that the accumu- lated total since last July 1 of king crab caught was 2,797,618 with a total weight of 23,966,1 ,138 pounds. These figures did not include the month of February during which fishing has been fairly good so far"
 During the entire crab year (July thru June 30) of 1961-62 total of 3,093, ,339 crab were caught with a total weight of 20, JAS, ,546 pounds.
 In January the total number of crabs caught was 451, 1885 with a weight of 4,62O,931 pounds.
 While slack period is expected between now and the end of June, Lall pointed out that on the basis of past years ''it is reasonable to believe there will be good catch during June."
 ''The total number of vessels registered to fish king crab during the calendar year 1863 has so far reached 126 boats," Lall stated, adding that about POT registered in 1862 and TIT in 1861.
 LARGER VESSELS
 Lall pointed out that vessels en- gagged in the king crab fishery are tending to increase greatly in size and that the entry of the larger deep-sea or ocean going size ships has made possible fishing of areas further off-shore not before avail able to the smaller boats.
 Our research is relatively linn
Kodiak mirror., 1963-03-01
Record- Breaking King Crab Year In The Making Latest Figures indicate

ited so for and we are still work ing with crab spawned by virgin crab populations said Lall.
 ''In the past years the average weight of crabs landed has been going down year after year but we expected this," he said.
 In recent months with the larger vessels able to operate further off shore the average weight of crab landed here on the north end of the island has increased to an av- craze of about II pounds. The average weight for south end crab has been around 81a pounds. The bulk of the fishing fleet is now concentrated largely on the north end rather than the south end as in past seasons.
 According to Lall there is a pos sibility that the crab caught, pri-
Kodiak mirror., 1963-03-01

marily by the larger vessels in the off-shore areas of the Portlock and Albatross Banks, are not from pop ulations that come closer inshore and within reach of the smaller boat fishery, however, it is also possible. he said, that the off-shore fishery is intercepting crab which migrate inshore at times and thus the more the fleet moves off-shore to fish, the less likely it is that there will be strong inshore fish cry.
 Tt appears at this point that the latter possibility is the more probable" Lall said.
Kodiak mirror., 1963-03-01

Police Chief R. E. Vickery mas issued the following warning to dog owners:
 We do not want to have to Kill any dogs, but when they run m pack and are subject to hurting children or others, we more or less will have to go to this form ct protection, but it seems like the only time we find these dogs in a pack is when some one will let their females run loose when she is in heat, therefore for your own
Kodiak mirror., 1963-03-01
ON HONOR ROLL

Norman Smith, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Norman Smith formerly of Kodiak, is among the 1O7 Lin field College students placed on the fall semester honor roll by the colleges registrar. Norman is a junior majoring in literature at the college.
Kodiak mirror., 1963-03-01
Warning Issued To Dog Owners

protection as we'll as others we .e- quest you keep your dog tied up, and if you don't you will be cited into court and that goes for other dog owners, for it looks like you do not want to try and cooperate with the department, so our only course will be to take you to court"
Kodiak mirror., 1963-03-01

CLIMAX SEA LIONS The sea lion rocks at Chiniak and Sequel Point are within easy reach of an OutbOard.
Kodiak mirror., 1963-03-01

MirrOr Classifieds Bring Results)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-26
By the Associated Press

For a guy who came very
near to being a ecord-breaking
loser for basebalps losingest
team, Bob Miller has come a
long way in a year. He's now
a bullpen star for a club driv-
ing to a pennant.
The 24-year-old Highlander
picked up another victory yes
terday as the Dodgers boosted
their National League lead to
Ga games with a 81 decision
over Milwaukee.
= Miller came on in the ninth
inning after the Braves had
pulled into a tie against Sandy
Koufax, got the third out, and
became a winner when Doug
Camilli's single cashed in a
Dodger run in the last Of the
inning.
Miller went from starter to
full-time reliever two weeks
ago and has been a good one.
He's allowed just one run in
% innings over seven games.
has run his record to 9-8, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-26
WINS AS La BELIEVER
Bob Miller Pulls Switch

has been credited with two
saves.
1t was vastly different last
year, when he lost his first IL
decisions with the Nets and
only stayed out of the record
book by edging the Cubs, 81,
on the next-to-laSt day of the
season. If he had dropped that
one, for an OLD mark, it would
have been a big league record
for most defeats by a winleSS
pitcher.
The Dodgers picked up
ground on San Francisco and
st. Louis, still tied for second.
Frank Robinson's grand-slam
homer in the eighth inning
powered Cincinnati over the
Giants, 81, and Houston beat
the Cardinals, 81, on three
unearned runs and Jim Um-
bricht'S sharp relief.
Philadelphia downed Pitts
burgh, Az, on John Collisions
homer. and Dick
became an 18-game
winner as the Cubs trimmed
the Nets. 81.
KoufaX, shooting for his goth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-26

victory and 18th shutout,
blanked the Braves on three
hits over eight innings. But Ed
Mathews doubled with one out
in the ninth and Gene divers
two-out double tied it. Miller
came on, and after a walk to
Dennis Menke got Roy Nc
MILAN to ground out.
Lee Walls led off the Dodg-
ers' ninth with a single off Bob
Shaw, then Ron Fairly singled
and Willie Davis was inten-
tionally passed before Camilli
singled in the winner.
The Reds, trailing 81 after
five innings, chased Billy Pierce
with three runs in the sixth
and took an 8-5 lead on Rob-
inson's grand-slammer in the
eighth. Willie Mays smacked
his 3lSt homer for the Giants,
doubled in two runs in a futile
uprising in the ninth and also
had a single. raising his aver
age to 1903. joey Jay, Gle, was
the winner in relief.
Umbricht gave the Cards just
one single in 475 innings after
taking over from rookie Chris
Zachary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-26
TyIee Smushes
Cyclists Streak

Drayton Tylee Of Alexandria
broke Jim Whites streak Of
four feature victories yesterday
and remained in front Of the
Newark rider in the season
point standings at Vista Race
way.
White won the third 10-lap
heat TO move within three
points Of Tylee, but the latter
won the second l2-lap semi
final and 16-lap main event TO
go 7 points in front. Other heat
winners were Buck Isbell and
Bill Wooten Of Baltimore,
while Willie Moyee OF Phila-
delphia captured the first semi
final.