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Page W6o In Our Opinion Central Pennsylvania Drama Season The opening of the Millbrook Playhouse nt Mill Hall next week will bring professional drama into the heart of Pennsylvania, where lovers of the footlights have had to go to Eagles Mere or Standing Stone, in past summers, to enjoy the pleasures of play- going at a summer theatre. The State College players are now housed in a ne.w theatre on the Penn State campus, and, nearer home, the new Millbrook "slrawhat" players have transformed a barn into a theatre. Many vacationers from this area have enjoyed the pleasures of dramatic productions in summer resorts, from Kennebunk- porl, to New Hope, Pa. Others, who may not have encountered the summer theatre on their travels, will have a new experience with play-going, as they become acquainted with the performances of the MiMbrook players. The first thing such playgoers will learn is that the shows are not amateur, but professional performances, acted by people with experience and skill, and professional training in the theatre.

Those who think these plays are home talent plays, like those staged in years past by the Playmakers and the High School Alumni Association, will find that there is a difference. The difference lies in what may be described as distance." These players, after some years of theatrical training and experience, can create the illusion which separates them from the audience, so that they are submerged in the character they are creating. In all amateur and home-talent: performances, one difficulty that cannot be avoided is the inability of many of those in the audience to look at the actors in the roles they assume for the play, and forget their real identity. This is a difficult feat of the imagination for proud parents and for old friends. In the professional theatre, of course, this distance that separates the actor from the audience, so the character can come across the footlights, is the major element in the esthetic pleasure of playgoing.

The Millbrook Playhouse will bring this pleasure to many audiences this summer, we can confidently expect. Many of them will come from some distance away, for the new playhouse will be somewhere to go on a summer those who go can get the same pleasure they would find at an expensive summer rest, right here at home. Summer Layoffs The manufacture of airplanes for private fliers is gaining some of the characteristics ef the automobile industry, including that unfortunate institution, the layoff of em- ployes during model changes. The decision of the Piper Aircraft Corp. to curtail activity at the Lock Haven plant, while completing preparation of new models for the new season, is one reflection of this trend.

It is something of an economic blow to the community to have 970 wage earners in one plant furloughed for an entire month, but the effect will be minimized somewhat, en individual families and on the communities where they live, by the fact that many ef them can take their vacations during the layoff period. Even with this palliative, however, the layoff may mean a certain amount of hardship in individual cases, as people adjust their plans to the realities of an unexpectedly long vacation from the job. It is an adjustment which employes of the automobile industry have learned to make, from year to year, during the annual re-tooling period. The private airplane manufacturers, so far, have not reached the same degree of seasonal slackness. The Old Album Washington Wants Phone Business of Moon Program, AF Major Saves Boy's Siahf By DREW PEARSON Copyright, 1963 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.

WAHJNGTON- Jim Webb, the hard-working head of the National Space Agency, will probably known all through life as the man who doesn't like lady astronauts and thereby let Russia get the jump on us among space feminists. Less known, but economically more important, is the fact that Jim docs love the largest corporate queen in the U.S.A.—American Telephone and Telegraph. This lady seems to be his real sweetheart. Not only did Webb help negotiate the deal whereby American Tel and Tel got chief control over the communications satellite, even though the taxpayers put up the research funds but the other day Webb's agency sent an abrupt telegram holding up the bids on a government owned communications system for the Moon the telephone company objected. Forty-eight contractors had been invited by NASA to bid on a system of communications on Merrill Island, from which the man well be launched to reach bht Moon.

They had gone to Florida at no little expense lo themselves to atlend a briefing, and submitted bids due to be opened June 17. But suddenly Southern Bell Telephone, part of the giant empire, protested to Jimmy Webb. The intimation was that if the government insisted on operating its own telephone lines on Merritt Island launching area, they might not be able to hook up with Bell Telephone system outside. There was a further hint that if Jimmy Webb didn't bow to American Tel and Tel, the telephone company would go over his head to the White House, where Dr. Fred Kappel, head of has been JFK'S dinner guest and where there seems to be a friendly feeling for the big phone monopoly.

didn't have to go to the White House, however. NASA promptly sent a telegram to all bidders, stating: "Before proceeding with evaluation OMM (Communications Materiel and Maintenance NASA will first resolve questions concerning whether certain services to be provided under Q-50-3 will interconnect with the services of the Bell Telephone system operal- ing as a common The communications setup for the Moon launching is considered a very delicate matter. It will actually connect with the launching' pad, will handle the count-down, and split-second timing is necessary for the delicate operation of reaching the Moon. NASA technicians had considered it essential to have their own system, are flatly opposed to having a commercial telephone company do the job. They are very irked at the intervention of the telephone company.

However, (lie bids are still unopened and the matter is still up in the air, while waiting to see how much power can exert with Jimmy Webb, and if necessary the White House. In the Eisenhower administration. induced the government to turn over all its phone lines operating in the National Parks and on military reservations to the giant phone combine, also built the AG-E early warning system in Canada at a profit estimated a'. $240.000,000. Under the Kennedy administration it took over the communications satellite corporation and now wants to plant its telephones on tiie Moon.

Drama Without Headlines The most heart rewarding drama doesn't always make headlines. While the world was gossiping about sex in England and TV was recording the voice of the first lady astronaut', an Air Force major was spending a night at a desk in the Pentagon trying to save the eyesight of an Arab youth in the faraway Sahara. Major M. A. Thompson was preparing to quit for the day when his phone rang urgently.

Out of habit, he glanced at the clock and noted the time: 5:05 p.m., June It was an appeal from Neal Welsh of the international eye bank for an Air Force plane to rush a pair of eyes to Algeria for an emergency operation. Waiting anxiously was 20-year- old Mahamed Abdel-Kader who, suddenly blinded, had made Hhe painful, dark journey from the Ain Salah oasis across the desert to Algiers. By the time he reached the Beni Messaoud hospital, the doctors figured he had less than 4fl hours before it would be too late to save his sight. But across the Atlantic in the Pentagon, Major Thompson was already putting together the miracle that would provide new eyes for the desert youtih. Fighting against time and red tape, Thompson located a jet tanker that was preparing to lake off at 2:40 a.m.

from Shaw Air Force Base, S. for North Africa. He also arranged for a jet trainer to fly the eyes from Washington to South Carolina. The precious eyes were sped by police escort to Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington in a record 13 minutes, arriving at 11 p.m. Five minutes later, Che jet trainer was whistling down runway.

Then suddenly, for military reasons, a "hold" was ordered on all aircraft. The jet trainer could not leave Shaw without the highest approval. Thompson urgently called Hie Headquarters Command Post, which got Maj. Gen. John Hester, the assistant Air Force Vice Chief, out of bed at 1 a.m.

to explain the emergency. He agreed that the "hold" order could be waived until the plane landed in North Africa. The tanker Anally got away at 4 a.m., arrived at Algiers four hours later. Dr. Luther Browner, scrubbed and waiting, began the corneal transplant within an hour.

Today, Mohamed Abdel-Kader can see again thanks largely to an American major whose name he probably doesn't even know. HEAR THE DISTANT THUNDER'S- HUM! The World Today Washington Demonstrations Htrt and Folk Sayings Provide Compact Form of Wisdom By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP)-The robust wisdom of a people is expressed' in folk proverbs and mottoes. "Know thyself," counseled ancient Greeks, and thereby said it all. Since then we have become a great deal more verbose. Through most of human history, folk wisdom has been expresspd in direct sayings and forthright advice.

Thus said Benjamin Franklin, an American wellspring of this form of knowledge: "Penny wise, pound foolish." "If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles." "He that teaches himself hath a fool for a master." "Love your neighbor, but don't pull down your hedge." "If you would know the value of money, try to borrow some." Many a living room then bloomed with samplers that said, "God Bless Our Happy Home." Simpler times were examp'ed by simpler sayings Now we live in a complex and confusing time, and our folk wisdom is expressed in complex sayings with a reverse twist. Our mottoes have become as schizophrenic as our thoughts, and reflect the double talk that has become our normal language, We communicate by speaking backwards. Go into any office or factory in the land and you'll see on wall and desk the clouded counsel of our day. I have at hand a small book of these sad witticisms entitled "Signs of Our Times." Here are a few examples of what the book calls "the choicest, most hilarious contemporary signs tver "If you don't understand it, oppose it! "In case of nuclear attack, run like hell!" "It's better to give than to receive, so what have you brought me?" "If I weren't so busy, I'd take time off to join in the confusion That seems to be the key word to our attitude Such mixed-up counsels of despair we give each other, and thereby a consolation more wry than ribald. If people can be judged by their mottoes, then we dwell in time of hollow laughter that echoes an inner despair.

That's why psychiatry now dwells in a phil- osophy inhabits a hovel. A-divorce coss a lot more than a marriage license, and seems to be worth it. NOTES ON THE NEWS- Shore By Joseph Cox By JAMKS MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON a massive Negro demonstration in Washington this summer persu'-icle Congress if it showed signs of balking to pass President Kennedy's civil rights program? Not in a hurry and not this year, if history Ls an example. Three times in the past 70 demonstrators have come to Washington to press for their ideas. Coxey's Army, suffragettes, and the Bonus Army all tried it.

Each time it took Congress years to do what the demonstrators wanted. NORTH BEND Junior Class, 1912-13, Ira McCloslcay, Top Right, County Supt. 4 Last Saturday Kennedy met with Negro and white civil rights leaders. He warned them against undue pressure on Congress. So did Atty.

Gen. Robert F. Kennedy. But the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

and others said that if there is a filibuster by Southern Democrats against a civil rights bill Negroes will have a "non-violent demonstration in Washington." If so, many thousands may be involved. It took Congress about 40 years to come around to the idea proposed in the 1894 depression 'iy Jacob S. Coxey, a successful businessman of Massillon, Ohio. He wanted Congress lo do something about unemployment and suggested a big road-building program to create jtos. He rallied about 2,000 jobless men from around the country and led this "Coxey's Army" into Washington.

When he marched up to the Capitol on May 1. 1894, he was arrested for holding a meeting without a permit and damaging the grass. Tt wasn't until the next great the 1930s that Congress got around to creating the kind of make-jobs program Coxey had plugged for. Next came the suffragettes. More About Today's Pictures from the Past Tltis group, probably gathered at I lie end of the school term in 1413, was taught by Newton L.

Bartges, principal of the school, later a successor lo Prof. McCloskey, who joined the class for the picture in his capacity as county superintendent of schools. Others in the back row are Leonard Haupt and Laverne Hunt. front row includes Hazel Wheeler, Catherine Fuhrer, Erma Millard, Margaret Pflugfelder, Maiy Hincy and Lola As early as the 17th century a few women in this country had called for equal treatment. But it wasn't until the 20th century that the Constitution gave them a national guarantee of the right to vote.

The real agitation by women for equal eventually under way in the middle of the 19th century. As early as 1866 they petitioned Congress for voting rights. States began to listen. By the time President Wilson moved into the White House in 1913 the suffragettes had gained strength, benefits and sympathy. They wanted a constitutional amendment to consummate a reform which by then had long been under way in the states.

In 1917 they picketed the White House to urge Wilson to get behin'd an amendment in Congress They were arrested and jailed and some went on a hunger strike. Wilson pushed for them. And on June 4, 1919, Congress approved a constitutional then went to the stales for approval and was adopted Aug. 26, 1920. The next the Bonus in disaster.

The army of jobless World War I veterans was run out of Washingtn in the summer of 1932. About 18,000 to 20,000 of them came here from all over the country, some with their families. They lived in empty government buildings or built shacks on the outskirts of the city. These men wanted Congress to vote them a cash bonus. They stayed around for about two months and Congress quit without heeding them.

The government got sick of them, Two of them were shot to death in a brawl with, police who tried to drive them out of a building on government land. Then city commissioners asked President Hoover to use troops to drivt them out. Four troops of cavalry, four JM uf I CRtfS HOD. HACK CMUSKU.S.rOM«iW. machinegun squad and six tanks went to work.

They had 'the help of 300 policemen, and some secret service and treasury men. The troops burned the hovels the veterans slept in. The veterans departed. Later, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Congress voted the veterans a bonus.

Was there ever an elevated railroad in. tKii'pitrt of the West Branch Valley? We mean one that above the streets. Jersey Shore had such a railroad, according to members of the Octogenarians Club, and the ing item from the local paper for 90 years ago week is a reference to tt. "tt would be well enough for parents'to Jiee'p their children off the railroad track of Messrs, Childs' mill, if they do not wish to have them The (rack carried hand-propelled trucks of sawed boards over Locust Lock be stacked in the lumberyard on the other side, meaning that to the north. We used to walk on those aerial rights-of-way In other lumberyards when we "were a boy and do not blame the kids of long ago for liking to do it.

Now the smell of pine and hemlock from the bright boards stacked in the sun is amomr the strongest'of many pleasant memories. "The spring ctop of marriages is about harvested! The next process will be cradling." Who knows now that cradling was a part of the process of reaping grain before the big took over? and grain presents a very fine appearanca and the prospects for a full crop throughout the country are decidedly promising. "Gone to farmers." The aged agriculturist is also a member of the Octogenarians Club and we reprint those paragraphs to appease him. He and other members sometimes seem to feel that the old lumberman and the retired railroader get too much attention here. The point is that the most interesting news Is along their lines of endeavor, as Colonel, Seely would have said, although the number of points in any line it infinite, as the superannuated schoolmaster, another member, might have reminded them.

The old lumberman also taught school for a time, when the snow was too deep for anyone else to wadt through. The thesis for his doctorate at the University of Pewterbaugh was an attempt to prove that logarithms were invented by a logger and ought to be' called loggerisms. "It was too deep for anyone else to wade he said the other evening," but I got my degree." "What was it?" "Forty below!" said retired railroader. Mora appeasing was made necessary by this, so we reprint the following from the paper for 90 ago this week: "The steam mill of John Gaus and William Craw-' ford situated on Miner's" Run in Clinton burned to the ground on Thursday night last 9 and 10 o'clock. "The fire occurred through the watchman snuffing, an oil lamp and throwing the remains on the where oil and grease were freely used.

"It is said by the employes of the mill that was convenient and was thrown'iipon the fire diately, but it spread so rapidly that they could not con-, trol "About 950,000 feet of sawed lumber was burned, on which there is an insurance of $15,000." More important to both counties wag an account. of a big business deal which had been completed a time before. "The saw and grist mill situated oa Pine Creek about two miles from this place, and formerly, owned by Phelps, Dodge was sold by E. R. Campbell Bro.

last week to A. Wentz, of Wayne Township, Clinton County, for $13,000. "It is the intention of Mr. Wentz to repair property and commence operations immediately. property is valuable and was purchased for a very low figure." The topic of the Tiadaghlon introduces this: i "It may be of importance to tuch as are in tht habit of fishing with any kind of nets to know that by a law of last session, which appears to be general, they are liable to a fine of one hundred dollars for fishing with anything but hook and line, between the 15th day of June and the 10th day of August.

They are also subjected to an imprisonment not exceeding six months." Colonel Seely reminds hit readers that the Fourth of July will come in one week and asks this question: "Where is the patriotism of our people oozed to?" Ooze to Jersey Shore on Independence Day and find out. Do It Every Time" By Jimmy Hatlo IN THE EATERY WITH THE THREE-ITEM MENU-YOU CAN'T 6ET A WAITER TO TAKE YOUR ORDER WHAT VOU 6UNG TO HAVE, SIR? MADE UP YOUR MIND WHAT'LL IT BE, SIR? BUT THE PLACES WITH EI6HTY- FIVE DISHES ON WE THREE-PAGE BILL OF NO TIME TO MULL IT 1.