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Second Newsfront Second Newsfront Friday, January 10, 1958 Journal rY Evening Page 17 WHMmSTOK PEUWAHX Eye Doctor and Wife Visit Samoa, Examine 564 Natives J. 1 rVWTSfcv tattooing now outlawed for health reasons ran he teen at right mingled with the splotches that result from yaws a disease that is unknown among the younger population because of modern drugs. The Durhams made a similar study among Alaskan Eskimos some years ago. DOCTOR IN PARADISE Dr. ami Mr.

Davin C. Durham (renter picture) of Rockland examine patients during a turvey of eye disease in the South Sea Island group of America Samoa. At left, a Samoan medical practitioner observes Dr. Durham during treatment of a 94-year-old craftsman whose ceremonial leg Although Mrs. Durham called American Samoa 'iruTy a tropic paradise," she said it is no place for the casual tourist.

There is no hotel except an eight-room affair maintained by the government. Mrs. Durham said this former nurses' barracks lacks most of life's niceties except plumbing. There are no organized pleasures such as boating or skin diving. Sea Is Dangerous "Actually," Mrs.

Durham said, "the native has a healthy respect for the' treacherous surf, coral reefs, and sharks. Even i leisurely swim is difficult to obtain." She said an airplane comes to Samoa only twice a month and all other outside travel and trade is by boat. Peter Coleman, the island governor, Samoan himself and the father of 11. is anxious to build a larger landing strip to accommodate bigger planes and make Samoa the center of air travel in the South Pacific. Although this would open up the islands to many more trav-elers, Mrs.

Durham happily pointed out that the Samoans are prohibited by law to sell any land so it is unlikely thtt any great changes will spoil the "unsurpassed beauty of this idyllic spot." Mrs. Durham, but the moral patterns of the people famed In song and story and the writings of curious anthropologists like Margaret Meade seem to be unaffected by regular church attendance. Mrs. Durham said the largest percentage of churchgoers belong to the London Missionary Society, the second group is Mormon, and the third Catholic. There are only 20 white families on the islands and life has returned to its former ways from the hectic war years when the Navy administered the group.

As the Durhams traveled to outlying villases they were graciously received in Samoan fashion. To open discussions that would lead to eye examinations, they would go through the old kava ceremony. Mrs. Durham said this involves drinking a concoction closely resembling dishwater, during which the village chief talked to his "talking chief," who in turn talked to the lesser chiefs who would speak to the Durhams through the translator. This five-step conversation one way and five steps back was called "the slow way to practice medicine" by Dr.

Durham, but he said it was all part of the necessary ritual. By HENRY F. DAVIDSOX Dr. Davis G. Durham of Rockland and his wire, Harriet, brought memories back from American Samoa of a tropic paradise where a youthful happy people live a carefree life, almost untouched by the cares of the tired, frightened world of big-.

power struggle. Dr. Durham, a Wilmington eye specialist, and his wife, an orthoptic technician, visited the islands for to weeks to survey eye diseases among the people. Before they got there, the native Samoan medical practitioners (with stateside training) screened the 19.000 Samoans on the islands. The Durhams examined 564 of them in villages and in the American Hospital at Pago Fago (pronounced Pango Pango) on Tuituila, largest of the six-island group.

Dr. and Mrs. Durham will show slides they took of the Islands' handsome people at work and play, and pictures of their clinical work, on Sunday, Jan. 19, about 10.30 a. m.

during the First-day School service at the Wilmington Friends Meeting House. 'Although Dr. Durham performed 28 operations mostly to remove cataracts the major purpose of the journey was to survey and evaluate the ophthalmologic situation. Their report to the Department of the Interior, which administers the islands, says that eye disease is not a major problem because excellent vision is not as vital there as in a modern society. However, there are many unnecessarily blind eyes and neglected problems which should be treated.

Almost all Samoans are far-sighted, the Durhams discovered. This would be a problem in a society where close work is routine, but it is an advantage in a outdoor environment. They're Busy But Slow Mrs. Durham said the natives were friendly, and busy at their own slow rate. "They make excellent patients," she said, "and it was amusing to see a surgical case walk into the operating room, climb on the table, then walk back to his bed after the operation." She said the 111.6 Inches of rainfall per year and the yearly-average temperature of 79 degrees seems to account for the quiet pace of life.

Western churches are busy in missionary work, recording to You Should Look It Up Yourself 'Blizzard Born in '88, Describe That Year to Club You Can Aid a Foreign Student And Get Tax Deduction Too Secret of 'Scripture Cake9 Decoded by Popular Demand ernoon newspaper field by the Evening Journal in the blizzard year. The Wilmington Institute Free Library had quarters on the second floor at Eighth and Market Streets. Beer sold for five cents a glass. be to establish a tax advantage for participating individuals! Why not, he wondered, set up a foundation through which the scholarships Some would-be cake makers had thought the could be financed? A local store offered merchan "The Blizzard Boys," so named because they were born in the year of the great snowstorm of 1838, paraded an amazingly comprehensive description of local, national, international events of that year before the Wilmington Bo'ary Club at its luncheon in ttie Hotel DuPpnt yesterday. The sprightly soon-to-be-septuagenarian Botarians.

vv'ho delivered their store of knowledge in talks of five minutes each, are former Mayor Joseph S. Wilson; Canby C. Mammele, civic and business leader; Gcrrish Gass-away, executive vice president of the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce; and Frank C. Evans, retired DuPont Company executive. The job of rounding up material for the talks was done by Col.

H. Edmund Bullis. club dise for three cents. Delaware River traffic was prominent in the life of the city. In the medical field, there were few known remedies for many diseases which have since been brought under control.

Most cures were simple and inexpensive. Major Inventions The year 1888 saw the develop By RICHARD P. SANGER Joumal-Er try Evening Staff Wrifrr Want to bring a foreign student to college In this country and be able to deduct the full cost of his tuition from your federal income tax? It can be done now. thanks to a new foundation formed by Thomas E. Brittlngham III of Centerville.

Brittingham, who hasn't been so long out of college himself, more or less inherited a yen to encourage foreign youth to study in the United States. His father, Thomas E. Brittingham, has brought more than SO youngsters to American colleges in the fast five years on his own. The success of these programs, vhose beneficiaries have been hand-picked by the Britting-ham family, started young Tom Brittingham wondering if there aren't other Americans who would be willing and able to pay the way for foreign students if the cost weren't too great. One way to reduce the cost, he figured, would Ihe Britungnam international Scholarships Foundation, is the outgrowth of this idea.

Its tax exemption was recently granted by the federal government. How does it work? Say you're traveling abroad and you meet a personable youngster you'd like to make better acquainted with the American way of life. You decide to help put him through college in this country. You and the prospective student work out the details of what college he's to attend, what spending money he's to have-all the plans you'd have to formul ite with your own son or daughter. Once the prospective student is accepted In college, you make a contribution to the fund equal to the budget you've worked out for his expenses.

The contribution is fully deductible from your federal income tax. and -the fund pays the student's college bills as 'hey come in. By VIRGINIA CULLEN REHOBOTH BEACH, Jan. 10. It looked just like any other homemade fruitcake eaten during Christmastime, but the "Scripture Cake" donated by the Ladies Aid Society of Midway Presbyterian Church at their Christmas festival was different.

The secret of making it is all tied up in verses from the Old Testament. Demands for the recipe have now reached such propo' iims that the society has agreed to disclose the in-gredients. Defeats Purpose, But "We are doing this reluctantly," says Mrs. W. E.

Thompson, of Midway, "as this sort of defeats our purpose. We had published only the biblical references in which the ingredients appear. We hoped that everyone wanting to make a Scripture Cake badly enough would open their Bibles and in' hunting for the right words would not only find them but get the full religious Import of the chapters cited. "Old cooks warned that Scripture Cake could never be made in a hurry that the best cakes were made by bakers who took time to read not only the exact verses the recipe indicates but also the chapters in which thi verses are found." full recipe would be found in one spot in the Scriptures. One woman wrote: "I don't believe there's such a cake in the Bible!" Here's the Secret The first reference indicates the tmount of flour.

The word flour appears in I Kings, fourth chapter, 22nd verse, so the Ladies Aid Society lists "Four and one-half cups of I Kings 4:22." Two teaspoons of Amos 4:5 means baking' powder, referred to as "leaven" in the biblical verse. The rest of the recipe Is: Qne and a half cup of Judges 5:23 (butter). Two cups of Jeremiah 6:20 (cane sugar). Two cups of I Samuel 30:12 (raisins). One cup of Numbers 17:8 (almonds).

Two cups of Nahum 3:12 (figs1. Two tablespoons of I Samuel 14 25 (honey). Season to taste with II Chronicles 9.9 (spices). Six of Jeremiah 17:11 (eggs). A pinch of Leviticus 2:13 isalt.

Half cup of Judges 4:19 (milk). Next, the instructions advise cake-makers to follow Solomon's prescription in Proverbs 23.14: "Thou shalt beat him with the rod EDITORS NOTE: Luke 10:37 "And Jems said unto him, Go and do thou like- u-ise." ment of Eastman photographic film, pneumatic tires 'for bicycles), and adding machines, in that year the Washington Monument was opened to visitors. In the world scene, Norwav member and former director of belonged to Sweden. Finland to the Delaware Society for Mental Russia, and Cuba and Puerto Rico to Spain. The talks also revealed that many of the Rotarians' fathers' names were listed in the city directory.

Mr. Wilson, who was mayor from April, 1946, through June, 1949, will reach his. 70th birth Hygiene. He combed News-Journal Company files for appropriate items and parceled out the speaking assignments. What Was Going On The roundup of social and business conditions In Delaware, the United States, and the rest of the world during the blizzard year reflected that: Benjamin T.

Biggs, grand- Dahlia oilier Hunting Daisy If She'll Come Back, He'll Give Up Flowers day next Thursday. His father, Top -Secret Gminysack Report Is Unveiled: Horace, was mayor from 1905 to Putty-Like Parents Assailed For 'Over-Permissiveness CHICAGO. Jan. 9 flf. A Insistence that it will not be University of Illinois psychiatrist tolerated, lays too many parents are li ke Running away from home kiutty in the hands of their chil-iThe child often is "testing" his drcn.

parents' affection. He feels re- Dr. Harry M. Seigcnrich, anjectpd or unwanted. The parents authority on child development, I should act to remove this feeling.

aid "over-permissiveness" tends "School phobia" or reluctance make children "impulse-rid-, to go to school Often due to a ien. undisciplined and lncon-' child's anxiety which can only liderate." I be aegravatcd by a hostile at- Seigenrich, In a lecture at jtitude on the part of the parents. Korth Shore Hospital, said the The child may fear leaving the pendulum has swung too far! parents, he may fear that some- 1909. The family home was at! tatner of Chief Judge U. S.

Girls Soon to Be as Stylish as Russians jonn tiu East Nintn Street. Biggs, of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit BIRMINGHAM. Jan.

10 Mr. Mammele was also born In Wilmington. Mr. Gassaway and Mr. Evans, both natives of Maine, are long-time local residents.

Colonel Bullis said each of the speakers has made significant contributions to the frrowth of (EDTOR'S NOTE: Women irill u'enr the things that ash-ion dictates but it's the vcn who must look at and mostly pay lor those hold new styles. Philadelphia, was Governor of Delaware. Albert Harrington Wilmington's mayor. The state treasury had a surplus, Wilmington's poou- lation was only 55,000, and none the city and state. He adtled irom the overiy smct pareni oi.inina win nappen mm, or oc iff.

William Goode promised publicly today to quit dallying with dahlias if his runaway wife will return to his bed and board. Goode. a 51-year-old dahlia fancier who has won many prizes at flower shows, told the newspapers Mrs. Goode vanished Dec. 30, leaving a note which said: "Dahlias, dahlias, dahlias I am fed up with them.

Breakfast, supper and bedtime that is had gathered for their annual ing Ohio and a hefty quadrant of spring rites, otherwise known as Indiana too, but 1 kept my fashion openings. counsel. As ritual, these openings owe "Portland is frightfully con-great deal to an unfashionable iServative too," consoled her gent named Jake Minsky. The (Companion, without indicating trappings are virtually the same hether Oregon or Maine. "It's as in the early American art the fault of men, really.

They form he pioneered: A long wood-, all dress like morticians and ex-en runway stretching clear into ppct their wives to do the same." StS'Sng Sir vSiSh; 1 curtain, and a piano tinkling the collar-ducttve airs. Up on the platform, sack after Only when the curtain paraded before our eves. of its residents or any one else that this shows that if persons in the nation had to pay federal keep themselves mentally alert income taxes. and give themselves to the com- Every Evening, which sold for munity's development, "they jealous of a newborn brother or sister. "It Is best to return the child the Victorian era to the overly tiermissive parent of today.

He said many parents rational-Ire their over indulgence with To get the masculine viewpoint an AP writer tip toed into a posh sprinQ fashion shou'inp, saw it all. and retained just strength enough to pen this account.) By HIGH A. MULLIGAN Associated Press fiewsjealures Writer NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (, Men, Immediately to the school build- a penny, was joinea in me an-neea not grow the statement that "I don't wantiing, with a parent if mv child to feel Inhibited. Scuenrich said.

The psychiatrist said too manyj Nightmares These are com-larents try to "make Mary stopjmon for youngsters six to eight nicking her thumb" or "Jack years old. Thry Indicate strug-itop lying" without Inquiring in-! file within and a fear of uncon-n nd rontine out the causes off scious "ocdipal" desires to instead of Rose La Rose or Lilii There was the bloused chem- if the unpublished Gaither Re-: all I have had to hear." "I am sure now," said Goode, "that my wife just got fed up to the back teeth with my dahlias. If she will come back. 1 will give them up. I realize now that my wife is more important than dahlias." nnrt ha vnu worried about the Sl- -r in tneir nave hahili- ise, cuticd droopily at the mid- ments, out stepped a trio of die the way the general store- the behavior.

possess the parent or tne op nosite sex. The child who suf snape oi mings 10 come, ie bored-looking sirens in formless keeper used to tuck in the fold He gave these examples Please Don't Snore In TournamentRoom 14.Ycar.01d Boy Wins U. S. Chess Title By Beating Masters and Grand Masters In 3 Nerve-Wracking Weeks fers a nightmare often will want Disobedience Usually stems from a lack of parental firmness to climb into bed with his br consistency. The parent re-lnarents.

Seiecnrich said. This rails his own' childhood adds "oil to the fire." The neart in me nnaincs oi uus ii-unce-iength pillow cases. of a half-emptv grain sack, secret Gunnysack Report. Writers Applaud More Chemises No matter where America) About this time Minsky would There was the two-piece suit stands in the missile race, she is have been headed toward the fire chemise, roughly an Army field making remarkable strides on)Cxit with an angry mob at hts jacket over a mother hubbard, the fashion front. Thanks to our heels, but the audience of fash-1 and the "harem chemise," truss-intrepid designers and a shape- ion writers all women except up at the bottom so it liter-lass mass called the for the aforementioned sdv became a rul-dp-sae.

child should be comforted and reats the child as he would like fo have been treated, even when returned to his own bed. Face saving Never reprimand his might be "most Improper." Mrs. Goode Is 52 "but looks more like 40," he said. Her name is Daisy. Thief Abandons Switch Engine OGDEN, Utah, Jan.

10 CP. Somebody stole a railroad switch a vouna child in public, Seigen Stealing Usually results from I child's need for attention and rich said. Shaming him into be NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (tft iwas the only touch of humor as Robert James Fischer, Brooklyn's three nerve-wracking weeks of American women will be just as piauded smartly, white glove Finally, the "bare-top evening well-dressed as Russian women, Upon white clove, and buried chemise." which nrovided the rterest. The act calls for having only creates resentment bv the soring of 1958, parental displeasure and a firm land causes further misconduct Fore and aft (and you'll have themselves in their form sheets.

"This is the offbeat look, the sophisticated, understated silhouette." cooed a syruov voice silhouette effect of a semi-naked girl peeping sheepishly out of an unright sewer pipe, which ended precisely 16 inches from to look twice to tell which, they'll have the tubby, tubular engine last night. It was found chess play reached climax. It was the first national championship tournament in three years. The 14 top players including Bobby Fischer in his purple-striped shirt, brown corduroy gift to International eggheadlsm, sat there in shirtsleeves, tieless, biting his fingernails, chew-ing his tongue, his lanky schoolboy legs against the chair rungs as his gray eyes swept up and down the chessboard. look of a Murmansk Momma on; over the microphone.

"Half the floor. Advice for 850 Saves 1,000 aoanaonea naif an hour later-near the mouth of Weber Canyon, east of here. The Union Pacific Railroad said the diesel enzine was Irft her way to market in her great-, witch and half wonderful. The Across the table, a stout, gray-coat. No curves, no kinks; no wig-'crepe chemise: Casual, comfort-'haired woman who might have gles.

no Jiggles. Just a bolt of; able, oh so chic. Retails forUhared a daisv chain with Whist- pants, blue socks, and heavy A chess authority in the crowd cloth billowing in the $110. We call this the 'Midweek mother in her Vassar davs standing in Its Ogden yards or spectators whispered in awe: shoes each played the others drnnninz in the doldrums. Weekend Look' because it's so a question at me.

"Do versatile." lVOu think I could wear that ne wins tne it will' once. Late in the even ns there wnue crews were changing shifts. It suddenly ramo to lifp pending on wind conditions. In closing the fashion gap, the The models minced their way.length or would it tend to make Ex-Sitlcrs Male Suing Ex-Baby BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Jan. 10 A former baby was sued for damages yesterday on a charge of enticing his former sitter away from her husband.

Robert King, 41, asked 250 pounds ($700) heart balm In a legal action against the ex-baby Neil Dunstclth, now 21. King said his now 36, used to baby-sit 18 years ago with Neil whose parents lived next door. As the boy grew n1rtrr. Kins retatprl thp rplatinn- and droned its way out onto the me look old?" bosom, dcrnere ana otner cap- one by one down the runway italistic tourist attractions have with the peculiar tummy-out been relegated to the couturier's and hips-ln strut that the new eastbound mainline tracks. Frantic vard erpwn rnllnr! nn.

Muttering something about an early deadline for my fashion was a winner and new champ, Bobby Fischer. The miracle had happened. Bobby is only 14. Reshevsky finished in second place. It's Fantastic' Out in the lobby, Maurice J.

Siberia. Everything, but every lice, then ordered a westbound freight train halted at Morgan, thing, has been left to the imag ination. Sexy is Rolled Calendar nan, east of weber Canyon. State and local nnlicp w-pre look seemed to require, as if famished readers, I escaped with they had a strong wind at their the Gunnysack Report safe in backs and were about to run, my pocket, up a spinnaker. One major finding: Not one of Several writers actually broke he intrepid fashion writers for the telephones in the bestas intrepid enough to don the traditions of the press.

Others springtime sackcloth for the took notes furiously or babbled opening, in a jargon rife with words like Kaspcr, club president, was say The girl of your dreams will preparing to trv to halt thi pn. ing: "it's fantastic. It's unbelieve-l be as sexv as a barbershop ca gine when It was found. Its erstwhile engineer was Robert T. Zintl, a staff con-aultant in the DuPont Com-'pany's advertising tlepartment, 'told 20 fellow members of the 'Delaware Toastmastcrs Club last night how he plans to save iSl.000 painlessly in 1958, and was rewarded by election as "champion speaker of the eve 'Bin." Mr.

Zintl, of 1901 Rivervlew 'Avenue, said at the meeting In the Hunter Restaurant, that siuns could be saved by cut-'ting out cigarettes, buying Christmas presents over i period of 12 months at seasonal 'sales, exchanging- baby sitters, spending half a vacation on a do-it-yourself project at home, other methods to reach the $1,000 figure. He said he hoped his 20 fallow club members make the effort because he plans to them each 550 for his advice which would raise his $1,000 in 20 easy checks. ship changed, and his wife has now left him to live with Dun- be the greatest miracle in all chess history." Across the narrow room, In another final-round game of the tournament for the coveted. U. S.

chess championship, sat the great Samuel Reshcvsky, an international grand master. Reshevky Poised Reshevsky a study In poise and confidence in neat blue suit, cigarette pr 'pd between two fingers, arms fol', eyes blinking behind brown-rim glasses, his bald and bulging head shining a bit In the fluorescent lighting. He sat beneath a portrait of himself, the only decoration of the gray walls of the tournament room of the 90-year-old Manhattan Chess Club. On the archway entrance was pasted a penciled sign: "Spectators are requested not to snore gone. scitli.

able. Never in the history of the! endar still wrapped in its card-world has a 14-year-old boy been board mailing tube, playing, and winning, from mas- This In a nutshell or rather tors and grand masters." In a silk-sheathed rain barrel-Bobby is a very quiet boy. His is the gist of the Gunnysack Re-reaction at the moment of win-1 port, now revealed for the first ning was typical. He looked at time. -scalloped and ap-jMajor General, 17, The court took the case under advisement.

Coolly IJoitlc Slolrn MIAMI BEACH, Jan. 10 Enlists as Marine Will Ohio Go for The export at my elbow was BIRMINGHAM. Jan. 10 Lff. Thieves made off yesterday plainly troubles.

"Neat, no ice, By posing as a fashion writer his mother and said, "Let's go home." Asked yesterday, on the morn- fall it took was a paisley print she said sharply to the waiter iff). Marine nnu insiruciors wui tie with matching pocket hand- and turned to the expert at her be giving orders to a Major Gen- with one of the world's most valuable whiskey bottles. Paul Rimmer told police that con Ing after his victory, If hp would kerchief of the slncerest hue), This Florida? CHATTAHOOCHEE, Jan. 10 (IP. William Gordon timed his escape wrong from the Florida Mental Hospital last week.

He turned himself In to police yesterday. He said it tents of the bottle, taken from his home, were worth $1,400. care to be Interviewed for theithis reporter managed to smug-papers, he said, "Nah. can't talk'gle the, information out of the to you today." Did he think he; heavily guarded aaMon of a Fifth otner emow. "Basically us aicrai soon, simple dress, but if Ohio doesn't Major General Williams.

17, go for It I don't know what we'll enlisted for four years today, do. I can't carry Ohio all by my-! He said his parents decided to self." Iname him something "every- She appeared capable of carry-i body else wasn't." The 2'i-foot display-size bottle contained a blend of $1 and $5 the tournament room. This would ne able to talk some other Avenue hotel where the high bills, maimer said. civilized way of yelling "Quiet:" day "Nah, don't think so." ipricsiesscs of the garment trade! too cold oulildc. i.