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flu Feminine Viewpoint The Man Called Dad By Dorothy Tie mil railed Dad. Is available In aimcet any size or rfiape short or stooped he may be dapper, farmerish, iophisticated, quiet or gabby. speaks in tones lhat are drawled, hesitant, accented and sometimes even pomp- cus, Comes from, a variety ol places farms, coal camps, small towns, slums, Knob Will sections, river boats, the, mountains or the Hiz upbringing and teachings are as different 'as are his places of birlh. He may be over-protected, or he may even be self-reared. TJie man called Is an enigma and complete myslery to his offspring--especially when he will not understand that his sweet young 'daughter must Jiave a different dress for every special af- lo the son when he will not be reasonable enough io remember how quickly gasoline will disappear from a full lank when just driving around town.

Is the head of the house to his wife plus the'youngsters, especially when the bills a rive before wherewithal; when only the chicken breast and one wing remain on the the youngsle'fs know the head of the house must have first choice- and they also know lhat Dad just also set an example of good manners before them; when mama's face grows suddenly young and pleading as she modefe a cherry-laden bonnet that she' brought home just for the 'approval of the head of the house. The man called Dad. Celled by many other names. He is fuddy- duddy to the "boys" if he prefers family life 1 to doing the town; is old-fashionea to the children if he Ihem unlimited freedom and spending, money; is unreasonable to mama when he balks at ealing at the corner snack bar three consecutive evenings while attends to church and civic duties; the European tveu calls him hen-pecked as they town upon his appearance in a kitchen apron tied in a Boy Scout knot. Tbe called Dad.

Is often misunderstood or never underslood at all; Is too smothered under (he title ol father and to-little remembered that he Is an individual personality; is capable of grow- tng taller and lailer under sincere complf- menls and shrinking under unfair or even justified criticism; Is capable of making mountain-shaking decisions yet is a i a loss whcn (he xomen the family turn on the tears; is quite sensible when it comes to proper investment of his money until the new model cars appear on the market; fearless when it comes to enemy gunfire or snakes or prowlers but just let him has'e to come home when mama's entertaining the Ladks Aid. This man called Dad. Turns Instantly from a whiskery, sleepy- eyed wage earner into a Gable with the poise of John Barrymore. he undergoes his morning ablutions in the quietness of the bathroom; after smoking a couple of cigarettes and turning his profile several limes, he's sure he missed his calling. He should have been diplomat or a-secret service agent, and by the time, he gets to the tonic and lotion stage he really mama because aging so rapidly while he is merely getting more distinguished every day.

This man called Dad. Is sometimes strange or hard to understand; is often tired and cross and many seems so very unreasonable; however there are the times that he is lovable, considerate and sacrificing; these" are the' won- derlul (rails and characteristics lhat make Dad the man he is. And regardless of whether the good over comes the bad or vice versa, all might try a little pampering and a lot of appreciation for don't you remember. We only gel one Dad In a lifetime! David C. Gardner It Seems To Me Poor advice is worse than no advice al all.

And Uiis is particularly true when the advice conies from a so-called man of importance. This was well illustrated this spring when ivewspapers all over -the country carried Iront page pictures of F.ddie Cantor collecting his first social security check. What makes this noteworthy is Mr. Cantor's statement to the press, and the conditions which make his participation told reporters; "My social security is'just like insurance. It pays off at certain times and it is not a handout." --However, the news release pointed out that Cantor's monthly payment of $103.50 and his wile's benefit of JJ3.20 were based on his maximum social security TariBngs of 19W.

Based on the two per cent rate, Mr. Canlor paid a grand total of VQ. dollars into the. fund since YKA. And even if he had been paying the prevailing rale since social security began, his total contribution would be in the neighborlwfod ol a thousand dollars.

So, for such a trifling contribution Cantor and his wife may draw $161.70 a month for as long as they may live. And at his age a man may look forward to a life expectancy of ten years. Inside Washington Riots Have BY CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION WASHINGTON The anti-American riots on Formosa may lead to a sweeping reappraisal of the stationing of United States personnel in foreign countries. The State departmenl already has announced that the United States is actively considering withdrawing some civilian and personnel from the Chinese Nationalist' strong" hold. However, the United States may go even further.

Under pressure from Congress, it is the administration will take a new took al the situation in other Allied countries where Americans are stalioned. The demonslrations on Formosa are viewed tot more seriously in Washington than officials are' willing to admit publicly. They are concerned about increasing, signs of anli- Americanism in Allied nations. The fact is that it such an occurrence had happened in a country with less friendly ties than Formosa's, the United States might even have considered breaking off diplomatic relations. This isn't going to happen in the case Nationalist China.

However, Chiang Kai-shek's, government will have to work harder to justify future American aid and also must promise to put its own house back in order. o-WILSON NEXT Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson'is expected to follow Treas-. ury chief George Humphrey and be the next official to quit President Eisenhower's Cabinet. Wilson is expected to stay on long enough to make a fight in the Senate for restoration of part of the funds cut from the military budget by the Houee.

However, not long after this fight is over, he is expected lo call it quits. Two men are prominently mentioned as possible successors to the colorful and blunt' spoken'former head of General Motors, Deputy Defense Secretary DonaH Quarles at first was thought to have had the Job lined up, but another name has been added the speculation. The added starter is Wilfred J. McNeil, listant defense secretary, who has charge o( budget. was named to his pres- Therefore, they could expect to receive $19,404 in benefits during the next len years as a return on (he contribution of a thousand dollars.

I fact, it is possible a man closely approaching to qualify for similar benefits through the.payment of as li.ltle as 5123.00. In ihe. face'of these facts it is hard to understand how a man could say that wasn't a handout, and lhat a bought it just like any other insurance. However, this: thinking seems to be ralher general. In fact, the promoters of the welfare state stress the importance of this particular approach.

A supporter staled radio talk recently that social security beneficiaries were entitled to believe that they had bought their benefits with their taxes. Perhaps people over 65 are supposed to regress to the day svhen they believed in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, because there is no known way to get something for Apparently the pie-in-ihe-sky boys subscribe to the old Roosevelt theory that the public is. just (oo dumb to understand. And who am I to try to dispute this reasoning. But what about the younger generation, and generations to come, who will have to pick up the check Post Herald and Register.

Beckley, W. Sunday Morning, June Teen-Ager Writes About Teen-Agers By KATHY SPRINGER DOUGLAS B'fLCOX Tten The Week Douglas Wilcox Wins 'Teen Of The Week' Douglas Wilcox has been selected "Teen of the Week." The letter nomination follows: Dear 'Rainy: We think Douglas Wilcox should be chosen "Teen of the Week." He is 15 years old and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox. He attends the Missionary Baptist Bicycling Fun When Done In Large Groups AP Wriler Bicycle camping is lots of Every year more young people go in for hosteling, riding off "on day i a spending the night at hostels.

Once they are accustomed to the tun. it becomes even more adventurous to plan to camp out. Six glra may make a good group for the camping Ira. The idea lo map out "the trip along a route that is familiar (and safe) each girl supplying a relative or friend who has a house on that particular route, so that their properly may be used as a camping site each night. Bicycling is a good dea! skiing-ycu most gel your legs in shape before you start on your trip.

Equipment must be carried to cope with all emergencies that's why it's a good idea to have a good sized group so that each can carry some of the necessities for the group. You'll need a small ax, compass, first aid kit, bicycle tool kit, pump, soap and Matches and a canteen must be carried too. You'll be more comfortable if ycu eat well-balanced meals (milk fruit and vegetables) and these are easily purchased along the way. Wear sunglasses and a hat as protection against sun and rain. Make up the chore list before you take off so there are no squabbles about cooking, washing dishes and taking care of the bikes.

Church and is a member of the Baptist Youth Fellowship. Douglas joins in every kind of work in his church. He is a freshman at Shady Spring High School, belonging to ihe Camera Club. He plays basketball, football and base-ban 1 Also during his spare lime he Kkas to hunt and Douglas greets everyone with a sweet smile that makes them feel good. He is always trying to help eomeone or do scene-thing.

Douglas is working hard at school to become a dentist in his later years. His favorite song'is "Paralyzed" by Elvis Presley. Douglas likes to work on machinery because lie is a boy who wants to learn more every day of his life. Anything he is asked to do he does he does it willingly and does it well. His favorite food is baloney sandwiches with tomaio and lettuce.

Douglas oflen goes to the iMac-Arthur Skating Rink. He is very friendly with people that he doesn't even know. Kathy, we think for a person that wants io do their' best and volunteers do his best should have the honor of getting "Teen of tfie Week." Sincerely yours, i- DORIS KEATON RUTH VASS JUDIE KENDRICK Douglas has three girl admirers in his area. They seem to be well-convinced Ihal he should be "Teen of the Week," arid their letter was convincing. Doug is one of our younger "Teens of the Week" and ilierefore, cannot add as many ac-tivites to his scratch However, his.

person atity and way of living seems to be the main factor in his favor at this point in his life. He seems to be taking part in- much activity as ever a' teen of 15 did and has something to boot. The in friendliness is emphasized is very nice. It is amaiing what friendU- nces can do to add to personality. Doug well deserves the honor of "Teen the Week" and it has been our privilege to present him to you in this capacity.

One of the meet controversial issues in the life a modern teen ager is a thirig called "parking." First of all it is necessary that everyone understand just exactly what is meant by parking. Parking occurs many times after a boy and girl have had a date and go cot on some road or secluded upot. Parking is a different thing (or every couple that takes part in the activity. For seme teens it is bad and for others it is harmless. Some teens may simply park to be by themselves for a short while in a place vhat they arc away from it all and can talk about some things thai Ihey would ralher discuss privately.

Then, again, (he (eon dated the same person for a long tine may simply park to neck. Parking is mostly dangerous for a teen who has dated thp same person a long lime. Meal feen-agers realize the danger of parking and they think it is getting dangerous, slop immediately. Of course there are some teens who don't know the danger signals, but mast do. One of the things fo 'be noted in high school, lhat is at Woodrow Wilson, is that for many years the high school seniors heM a graduation dance, of course.

After the dance the seniors and their dates attended a late movie at one of the theatres in town and ended up by going to breakfast. A certain aim was paid by each couple and the chaperons were many. However, this practice was cut out two years ago, since the school refused to put its mark of approval it, Now every person who has ever attended high school knows that graduation night is the big night and' every'member ol the graduating class stays out practically all night. Here is where mosi people are inconsistent. If the seniors Were allowed lo have such things as they have had in the past, they would be chaperoned all night Jong.

Since this practice no longer ex- iste, Ihe seniors still want to stay out. Therefore, they are left to slay out practically the whole night unchaperoned with very few people knowing viere they are. Most parents like have their teens chaperoned and by cutting out this extra activity after graduation they have cut cut the chapcronM. I don't know what all the other high schools do on graduation night. They may have some similar practice to the one WWHS used lo have.

In my opinion the ail night deal was a good idea and I hated to see it come lo an end. It is something extra that the seniors have to look forward to on graduation night and it cuts out all chances of parking. Mcst leens will not park with another teen unless they have dated quite a few times or he knows the person quite well. Whether most people realize it or not, parking has become a regular practice for leens after Ihe first few dates. I want everyone reading to understand that I am a teen-ager and I am speaking as one.

I knew a lot of teen agers and I also knew what many of them do. I kncr.v how they feel about certain things and I know jn which direction their minds run. For the 1 most part on the subject of parking, their minds are simply to go somewhere that they can be alone ior a short while. Parking usually doesn't last over a long -period of time and more or less results in relaxing the two parties, Teens are talked against so much they generally have to be on the alert acliifg like a perfect. lady and gentleman at all times.

Sometimes this can be quite disgusting and leads to parkirig. Some of you may say that teens don't need to be alone and shouldn't have private matters to discuss. Bui, even though you may say that, you really don't mean it. Everyone, no matter what his age may be, has been a een agcr at come time. He knows the feeling that a teen ager has and he also knows bow they arc watched like hawks as though they fugitives from justice.

I'm not saying that teens talk all -the time they are parking but I am saying that many people would be surprised at how much conversation does' go on. By this column I am by no means' saying that parking is advisable and that every teen should be allowed to park whenever he I am eaying that parking is not what it is cracked up to be by some older people. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule and there may be more exceptions to this one than I am aware However, I cannot see any real harm in parking unless the ones taking part arc ill bred and don't know when to say stop, WVU Coed Working For Summer Miss Patty Hughes, the 18- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James D.

Hughes, 616 Johnstown is spending part her summer at work at the, Theatre, N. Kanawha Si. Pally is a 1956 graduate of H'oodroir Wilson High School and followed the same pattern at WVU. She is majoring in elementary education at WVU and her grades are better than honor roll. She Is working part- time at the theatre making a lillle extra spending money.

Patty is also a member of the Alpha Phi- International social sorority at WVU. Washington Worried ent post by former President Harry Truman. Quarles, considered one of the lop experts on guided missile development, was promoted lo his present post after serving as Air Force secretary. McNeil was kept on by Wilson, despite the change in administralions in W53, because of widespread regard for him as the "brains" behind military spending estimates. McNeil has been described as knowning more about what the armed forces- are doing than any single other official.

A NEW AIR MUSEUM? Pl ans are beinr pushed to buikl a new National Air museum on Ihe scenic Mall which leads from Ihe Lincoln Memorial lo the Capitol in Washington. The Smithsonian Institution long has wanted a suilable building to house the world's most famous historical aircraft collection. Samples--which now hang from the ceiling of the Smithsonian's cluttered aviation display-include the original Wright brothers plane, the first to fly, and Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, which was the first to cross the Atlantic non-stop solo.

In addition to these and other era-marking craft, the pressed new display would take in model exhibits of airplane engines, instruments and other technical adjuncts. Items too large for the new buiMing svill set up at art assembly and technical facility which already has been established in nearby Euitland, Md. Briefly Speaking A carillon is a set.of chimes played mechanically from a keyboard. Brooklyn Teen-Ager Is Hailed As Chess Prodigy The metal used in the Victoria Cross is taken from the guns captured in the Crimean war. Some two-thirds of American couples over 65 years old own their own homes.

The deepest oil wells penetrate the earth four miles. Iron ore sometimes is uscxi as ballast in ocean-going vessels, GRADUATES of Woodrow Wilson High School heM a gel- (wgclher slamfcer party Thursday night wilh Janice Plummcr serving as hostess in her neighbors home at Mabscott. They are (in back ot couch) Janice Plnmmer, St. Mary's Xursing School; Kalh- crinc "Slug" Jones, West Virginia Urnvmllx! Shirley Ana Martin (belter known as Sam), employed wilh Btcklty Newspapers (on roucli) Julia "Png" Flesh man, WVU; Carolyn "Bird" Songer, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S. Carolyn Tatton, Mar; Washington; Kathy Ross, Owens College, Charlotte, N.C.; Fay Rothlisbcrger, Judy "Spike" Lilly, both of Concord College; (on Hoar) Harltne Bur- Ion, WVU and Barbara St.

Mary's. Kay Short, teaches lessons, and myself, were also in Kay left early and someone had take tke pfcton. As slumber party turned oat to be a farce since very few people attending got any amount of sleep. A heap big of bridge prevailed moil of the nigh! wilh "Bird" coming out on top of the lime. There was very litUe change in the group of girls we graduated with except that a few of them were either as well be, or had sparklers on their kft hand.

The slumber psrtj was a lot of fnn and it really was nice to see all the oW school chums and flnd out what they were doing. NHW YORK Jf, A quiet group huddled around a table in Hie corner the Marshall Chess watching an almost unbelievable game. The players were Donald Byrne, a chess master, and Bobby Fischer, a 13-year-old Brooklyn schoolboy playing in his first major tournament. "Impossible." whispered one of the onlookers. "Byrne is losing to a 13-year-old nobody." "Mate," said this "nobody," and Ihe game was over.

Bobby had earned his first victory in Ihe Lessing J. Rosonwald Trophy Tournament. Chess Review magazine called it the "game of the century a stunning masterpiece of combination performed by a boy of 13 against a formidable op- matching the finest on rec- cord in the history of chess -prodigies." Bobby dictn't win the tournament the trophy went to Sammy Rcshevsky, the ranking U.S. player but the crew-cut youngster who would ratfier play chess than eat established himself as a young man to watch. N.v York entimsiasts have recognized Bobby's ability for several years.

Hans Kmoch, secretary manager of the Manhattan Chess. Oib, says: "For his age, I don't think there is any better chess player in the world. He is a genuine prodigy and one of the bast players in our Bobby appears embarrassed by all the attention he has drawn since he defeated Byrne. "I just made Sie moves I thought were host," lie says modratly. "I was just lucky." Where did he learn the game? "My sister taughl me whcn I was 6." he says.

"She was 12 and didn't know too muoh about -the game, but she me where and how to move the pieces. I -liked it and have been playing it ever Does he tvant to continue pSay ing the game and perhaps become one of the great players? ''I cculd play o'aess all my life." he answers shyly. "1 like tournaments ar.d wcuM like to play in a lot of them. As for being great, I don't know about thai." Kmoch. however, ftiwer refervations: "The outlook is brilliant.

IK he continues to proceed the way he has Hie past year or two, he's likely to become one of the greatest players of all tirae." Walch That First Step LOUISVILLE, Ky. Atcr, 50, an elevator repairman, Uiought he was in tfte basement when he jumped into an elevator shaft. He wasn't. He was on tha first floor. Now he's in the hospital with a fractured hip.

Scrap SCRAP, DO ME A FWOR' I STUCK THE KNIFE IN AND IT CAME OUT Cf-EAH JUST LIKE VOU5AID HE'S BEEN IN THERE LOHG aer- A CAKE IN THE OVCN AND DON'T KNOW IF IT'S STICK ft KNIFE IN SEE IF IT COMES OUT TER TAKE. A LOOK By Jim Bob Kessinser SO I STUCK JVf. OTHER DIRTY KNlVESAND THEV CAME OUT CLEAN. TOO I.