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SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, MONDAY. MARCH 24, 1958 PAGE FOUR WSel The Smai 1 1 BvChoUvKnickerT Editorials Features, Columns THOUGHT FOR TODAY Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. Jeremiah 31:21. er (j sV Cholly's Carousel: Phil I ihia Main Fingerprints By Jerry Bennett WASHINGTON (NEA) Fingerprints help solve scores of intriguing mysteries each year that have nothing to do with crime. For agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation use the telltale ink smudges to locate miss acted as a Liner Geist Ely unwitting) of Wall romantic catalyst in the Street heir Jose Noyes nd pretty of United Lynne Sawden, stepdaught Your Health Your Career States Attorney Paul tarns.

The couple had cooled after tw? f.orrid years and then re-kindled after Jpse read hers ing persons and identify victims rj ai of fatal disasters ranging from KOWin JOraan, M.U. airline crashes to attacks by About a year ago the maga- that Geist was dating his 'girl and suc man-eatmg sharks. jfoe called World Health, nub- cumbed to the old comoeRitive snirit This little known public serv lished by the World Health Or Dr. I. P.

Shorell, thf plastic sur geon who'll operate on Ava Gardner's cheek, is the same many who gave .1 1 1 ganization, presented a short article entitled "New Hope for Lepers." Nobody really knows, this ar ice is provided by the FBI's Identification Division which operates the largest and most efficient fingerprint storehouse in the world. The elaborate filing sys juuie. Liupcscu me iace. ma iauncnea ticle pointed out, how many vic- the late King Carol of Romania on his tem contains almost 148,000,000 tem contains almost iw.uou.uou tjms 0f ieprosy there are in the adventure, i I sets of fingerprints belonging to world. In Wit was estimated 'iXSL A about 74,000,000 people.

at between 2,000,000 and 7,000.000, J.Lou.,S' of dian he Cana The majority of these are con but this was revised in 1956 to industrialist, was the reason Billy Wallace hated to witch Nassau dis Modern Man Jekyll and Hyde appear over the horizon. The New York deb set, however, is helping Billy for get. Billy Bapst, popular host at Harry'i American Bar in the Eden Roc Hotel, got the word from his wife, Pat: start looking for baby carriages Every body likes to talk about his operation, but Christine Jorgensen made a whole record album about hishers. The glamor puss with millionaire Jay Haskell at the Embers was sultry Ann tained in the non-criminal section which files prints contributed by more than 13,000 agencies. And agents agree that cases which these prints help solve are often more dramatic than the ones involving notorious gunmen or spies.

A typical example is the case of Gregory LaTraille who walked into the FBI's Los Angeles office and asked agents to find his father whom he had never seen. What little information LaTraille could give was immediately sent to ID specialists in Washington. Their files contained a set of the father's prints which had been made when he applied for a job with the United States Naval Air Station in Seattle. The fingerprint card also listed his street address. With this information.

LaTraille was soon able to meet his father for the first time. One of the Identification Division's most macabre cases began when the FBI received a set of fingerprints from a hand found in the belly of a shark. Miami Beach police wanted to know the name of the victim. An Klezzy, who checked hats there in her 10.000,000 or 11,000,000. These figures do not mean that there has been an alarming increase in the disease.

Rather, it is a reflection of the fact that treatment is now so, successful that many victims who formerly were terrified and hid their affliction now are coming in for medical aid. Leprosy has never been a dangerous problem in North America. There are probably not more than 5,000 residents in the United States who have this disease, and a large number of these have it in such a mild form that it would not be noticed. Recently Z. M.

has written to ask about the contagiousness of leprosy and the chances for recovery. Actually, the disease is only mildly contagious. The blind fear of the Middle Ages was certainly not justified, and it is unfortunate that it has persisted so long in this enlightened age. It is true that isolation from others after diagnosis has been made is often recommended, but I believe the states of New York, and Vermont do not even require that the disease be reported, and less glamorous days Upwards A 24,000 laborers are working around ts clock budding Brazilia, the new Cof- feeland capital which will be ready for occupancy in 1960. Gourmet note: When John Jacob As- tor dines at the Town House his appe By Anne Heywood A great deal of my mail comes from mothers who deplore the fact that they are tied down so much with the children that they cannot accomplish anything.

"When the children are grown or "As soon as my responsibilities to the children taper off is a recurring refrain. That is why it was such a refreshing novelty to get the following letter from Mrs. Shirley Schwartz, of New Jersey: "I have a very interesting home project in the ceramics field and I owe it all to my daughter, Jacqueline. "During the summer season of 1957, my daughter, now 13, joined a day camp and learned, among other things, the hobby of enameling copper. Seeing her keen interest, my husband, Murray, and I gave her a small kiln on her birthday.

"She was thrilled, and her enthusiasm was so contagious that I simply had to yield to her request to watch her working. Of course I wanted to, but my two boys. 2 and 4, left little time for the luxury of a hobby." Mrs. Schwartz goes on to say that, once she had become interested, there was no stopping her. She went to work seriously and began to produce all kinds of colors and designs on all kinds of items such as cuff links, earrings, belts, bracelets, ash trays and such.

She continues: "A good friend of mine said she would like to take a few samples of my work to the church fair committee. I was delighted. I ended up with a booth at the fair where approximately 150 pieces of my work were on sale. By the end of the day I was sold out! "And now the contagion has spread to my husband. We are preparing a studio for the work and soon hope to have a larger kiln so that we can really produce as much as we like." I am convinced that the circumstances of our lives have very little to do with whether we are happy and successful or not.

One woman will find a houseful of children a perfect excuse for being cranky, unattractive and complaining that life has nothing to offer. Another woman, with the same kind of house, and the same number of children, will find those circumstances the stimulus to an attractive and glowing personality and a life filled with accomplishment. It seems to be entirely up to us. Perhaps a good iirst step would be to stop deploring the external and get to work on ourselves. tizer is grapefruit which has been soak ed in gin overnight There's much mumbling and grumbling going on within Tidewater Oil.

with the rumors rampant that J. Roland Getty, son of intensive fingerprint check soon revealed that the hand belonged No. 1 stockholder Paul Getty, is pulling out as assistant to the president. The Washington Scene to a Navy gunner who had gone Massachusetts does not have any down with a tanker off the Flor restrictions concerning isolation One of the big baby food companies is angling for an endorsement from baby Prince Albert of Monaco El About Nuclear Tests A good many people believe there will be no disarmament until the great nations settle at least some of their major outstanding differences. Others believe that the kind of inspection necessary to strict enforcement of disarmament is for one reason or another impossible to achieve.

For a long time the Soviet Union has given no sign that it would allow effective inspection as a check against nuclear tests, military installations, etc. Ironically, now that a possible change of attitude may be in the wind in Moscow, the problem seems to have become immensely more complex than before. Some of our experts, notably Dr. Edward Teller, father of, the H-bomb, have been saying that there can be no foolproof inspection system today, that Russia could if it wished conduct nuclear experiments so secretly that they would escape the most exhaustive checks we could devise. He has not explained how such tests might be conducted.

But some have indicated they might be held underground. Hence our own underground nuclear explosion of last September is of the utmost importance as a gauge of what the Russians might try to do to cheat us on disarmament. Unfortunately, the whole matter of the possibility of secret tests, including the Atomic Energy Commission's initial report on the September blast, has now become mired in controversy. For one thing, Professor Harrison Brown-of California Institute of Technology, who worked on the A-bomb, is among those who disagree with the men who insist nuclear tests can be hidden. As for the AEC's report, it stated that the underground burst was reported as an earth shock wave no more than 250 miles from the test site.

But this now turns out to be inaccurate. Scientists who questioned this report carried their views to a Senate committee. Senatorial inquiry disclosed that United States stations had picked up waves from the Nevada underground test all over this country and 2,300 miles off in Alaska. The AEC now has conceded its first statement was wrong. Without trying to assess the blame for this error, we can all agree the mistake was serious.

It goes right to the heart of the issue of whether secret tests are in fact possible. A 250-mile wave is easy to conceal in the sprawling wastes of Russian Siberia. Obviously, sound policy cannot be made, and Americans cannot make wise judgments about vital policy, unless information the government deems safe to report is thoroughly accurate. Misplaced Pessimism Secretary of State John Foster Dulles seems bent on capturing honors as Mr. Pessimism of 1958.

First he sounded a gloomy note Morocco bossman John Perona took off for Sebring for the big sports car classic Former Mayor William O'Dwyer didn't even do a take when his longtime gal pal, Rosemary Ridge-well, ankled into the Harwyn the other evening with Lou Stocklin. Robin Douglas-Home, that well known By Peter Edson One thing about a recession. It- seems to bring out the big ideas of people who know what's wrong with the country and just what ought to be done to restore prosperity for everyone. The New Deal was like that, for those who can remember back that far. Twenty-five years ago this month, when the depression of the 1930s was really beginning to roll, the only thing there was no shortage of besides unemploymentwas crackpot schemes for economic recovery.

So it would be no surprise, any day now that the road's clear, to see the Ham-an'-Eggers and the Thirty-Dollars-Every-Thurs-day people starting to march on Washington again. Only what with the inflation of the intervening quarter century, the re-born movement will prob ably be alliteratively rechristen-ed Fifty-Dollars-Every-Friday or even Seventy-Dollars-Every-Sun-day. Anyway, somebody is again discovering daily that Every Man Can Be a King if somebody else buys the kingdom. Most of the pie-in-the-sky advocates have been rather silent during the prosperous 40s and early 50s. A reformer doesn't have much room to expand when things are going pretty good and do all right if let alone.

True, the Townsend planners have kept at it. There were a couple of times in the last 15 years when it looked as if they might fold. But somehow they manage to get a lot of congressmen to endorse their proposed legislation. This is done particularly at election time, to catch Stockholm traveler, uses the alias Yorke" on those visits to see SwederW of patients. From the standpoint of treatment the outlook is now greatly improved.

A group of drugs technically known as sulfones have great value. I should like to say something about the excellent hospital for victims of leprosy at Carville, La. Not only has the medical work there been of extraordinary high caliber, but the patients have contributed greatly to the understanding of the disease. They publish a fine magazine called "The Star" and hold dances and baseball games. On previous occasions I have received correspondence requesting me to use the name Hansen's disease instead of leprosy.

The reason for this request is that the word leprosy is so feared. However, it would not be possible for me to discuss Hansen's disease without mentioning leprosy since few readers would know what I was talking about. So please discard the image of leprosy as an awful and incurable disease! Princess Margaretha. Latest reports say the royal family is upset at the postponement of the couple's engagement and that Margaretha's absent from state functions and wearing noth Voice of Broadway Hollywood ing but black Hank and Afdera Fonda gave quite a soiree the other night in honor of Countess Anna Maria Cicogna, one of the leading hostesses of Venice. Fiat King Gianni Agnelli and Count and Countess Brando Brandolini are being feted on all sides during their New York visit Young "Hostess With the Mostess" candidate Peggy Bancroft tossed one of her usual shindigs in honor of the visiting Italians, but the big bait dangled before all the young girls on her-guest list was that Ambassador Ali Khan would be there.

Billy Wallace, Princess Margaret's long-playing escort, arrived here for a three-day look at our town before returning to the London social whirl. Billy, the polo-playing step-son of writer Herbert Agar, is the one suitor who survived the storm attending her romance with Captain Peter Townsend ida coast. The enormous fingerprint file proves especially valuable in helping identify amnesia victims. On a summer day in 1956 an elderly man wandered into the Sheriff's Office in Lawton, and said that he had forgotten his name. The sheriff took the man's prints and sent them to the FBI.

ID specialists finally identified the amnesia victim when they checked their old armed forces file which contains fingerprints dating back to 1905. The prints that revealed his identity had been made almost 50 years before the FBI check took place. The role that a set of fingerprints played in the case of Sen-ora Petra Cardosa de Garcia of Piedras Negras, Mexico, is as dramatic as many TV and movie productions. The Army notified Senora Garcia that her son had been listed as a deserter, and that her desperately needed military allotment would be stopped. Senora Garcia insisted that a letter her son had written the day before being listed AWOL was so cheerful that she could not believe the charge.

An FBI check soon led to a search through its war casualty file. Surprised agents found that her son's fingerprints compared with those of an unknown soldier buried in an overseas military cemetery. The evidence further revealed that instead of being a deserter, Senora Garcia's son had died a hero. The most unpleasant job of the highly trained ID specialists is identifying victims of airplane crashes, ship fires and hurricanes. As soon as FBI headquarters gets a request for this unique service, a special squad of fingerprint experts is immediately dispatched to the disaster scene.

Before leaving Washington, these specialists collect fingerprint cards of persons whose names are the same or similar to those believed to be disaster victims. Then they compare fingerprints taken from the mangled, burned bodies with the FBI cards to establish positive identification. Success in this gruesome operation often requires that an agent have a strong stomach as well as expert technical know-how. Recent headline disasters which received FBI identification service were last year's Romance of the Skies stratocruiser crash and the havoc caused by Hurricane Audrey on the Louisiana coast. Dick Kleiner Leader Assesses Today's TV Here's an assessment of TV by one of its top names who, quite naturally, prefers to remain anonymous: "Nowadays, what pays off is poor performance.

Look at what gets the biggest laughs on Como's show, when Perry forgets his lyrics, that's the big joke. Imagine anything like that on Broadway or in the movies. "And look at Jack Paar. Here's a guy who comes out and says 'I don't have much talent; gee, I wish I could tell stories like him; I can't sing or dance' and the audience loves it. They give him a great big hand.

"This is show business." the old folks who still vote. That's all there is to it. Their bill never gets out of committee. So no harm is done. Mail to Washington is beginning to fill up again, though, with letters from people who have all The Answers.

One old favorite being taken out of the storage bins is to take all the Department of Agriculture surpluses and divide them up among the unemployed who are having trouble with their grocery bills. The fact that most of these surpluses are in the form of raw feed grains and cotton fiber, which can neither be eaten nor worn in existing form, is conveniently overlooked. Fresh support is coming in for Representative Ralph Gwinn's, N. long-standing constitutional amendment proposals to liquidate all government business operations and repeal the income tax as unconstitutional. There are more trick tax cut plans than you can shake a stick at.

One that seems to be gaining popular support is a temporary holiday on withholding tax collections. This would give income taxpayers an apparent increase in take-horue pay which might send them on a spending spree for something they don't need, and so shoot the economy in the arm. All it would do to the United States Treasury is cut its income by about $2,500,000,000 a month. This might force the government to lay off a lot of its own employes or cancel some defense contracts, thereby throwing still more people out of work and making the recession worse. The ideas of business and labor groups in this economic recovery free-for-all are not to be overlooked.

National Association of Manufacturers led the parade in January, when the recession was still new. NAM caled for a five-year tax cut plan to reduce top individual income rates from 91 to 42 per cent and corporate rates from 52 to 42 per cent. Walter Reuther of United Auto Workers followed with new ideas for splitting excess profits among management, labor and car purchasers. Negotiations on this will soon begin with the automobile makers in Detroit. AFL CIO President George Meany, has now topped this one with his program, presented to the unions' economic recovery conference in Washington.

AH he wants is a tax cut, increase of unemployment insurance payments, minimum wage rate raise from $1 to $1.25 an hour, more-defense spending and a big public works program. This would accomplish the double purpose of both cutting government income and raising government spending at the same time. It overlooks no bets on going for broke. and for a time afterward appeared to be the most likely to win Meg's elushQ using a Russian process that obviates the need for those crazy 3-D glasses. It was a dreams-come-true day for Joanne Woodward when she returned to Baton Rouge.

for the world premiere of "The Long, Hot Summer." The whole town turned out in her honor and staged a big parade that marched right past the department store where she'd once worked as a clerk. Rock Hudson has been quoted as saying he yearns to do a Broadway play, and the Shubert Alley set understands producer Robert Fryer is just the chap who'd like to grant Rock's heart desire. He's interested in the movie idol for the major male part in the musical version of "Saratoga Trunk" Additions to the where are they now? file: Heavyweight boxer Coley Wallace, who played the title role in "The Joe Louis Story" is an instructor at the Tyler Barber School in Harlem, and former Cleveland baseball star Luke Easter is operating a sausage company in Syracuse. Claude Phillipe of the Waldorf met with a frightening accident the other day on his upstate farm. He was repairing a gas stove when it exploded, burning his face painfully.

Luckily, his eyesight won't be affected The gendarmes are ogling a West 49th Street bistro rather intensively. They suspect it's an important midtown dope drop. Bela Darvi's most generous admirer is Saul Goodman, heir to an Indiana banking fortune who spends considerable time cruising the New York-Miami scene. He's adding to her jewelry collection. It's easy to figure out which lad Mary Murphy cares for most this season.

The ex-wife of Dale Robertson planed in from Hollywood for just one night in New York and spent four hours of it with Bob Evans at the Chardas Beldon Katleman of El Ran-cho Vegas in Las Vegas is wowing the Miami Beach natives with his lavish spending. He plays host to large parties of merrymakers (seldom fewer than 20) every night, with Joe E. Lewis setting the pace, and that's quite a pace. hand. At the moment, however, things seem to have cooled to some degree, which might explain Billy's yen for a warm Nassau holiday.

Prettiest bonnets we spotted in the parade were worn by ballerinas Nora Kaye, Lupe Serrano, Violette Verdy and Ruth Ann Koesun, who'll be off to the Brussels World's Fair on April 25 Publicity-minded United States manufacturers sent Princess Grace seven carriages for her new baby. A character kept insisting the other night at El Morocco that he was the Shah of Iran, but behaved himself when the captains addressed him as "Your Highness" Aristotle Onassis, one of the wealthiest of the Greek shipping tycoons, bounces around town these chilly evenings without a top coat. land boom in Caracas, Venezuela, has speculators buying up real estate by the acre, re-selling by the meter Be sure and send a get-well-quick card to popular restaurateur By Erskine Johnson Imaginative publicity note: Presview tickets to Allied Artists' hair-raiser, "Macabre," were accompanied by an insurance policy and beneficiary agreement stating, "The producers of 'Macabre' will pay $1,000 in the event of the death by fright of any member of the audience during the performance." A Lloyd's of London policy, I understand, covers the advertising stunt for all audiences when the film is released. A macabre note is that the insurance pany based the policy's cost on the assumption that eight people in the United States will die of fright while seeing the film. The insurance bet was made, though, without Lloyd's seeing the film.

Just cold odds. Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" couldn't be more appropriate for TV beauty Eve Whitney's forthcoming marriage. She's becoming a Mendelssohn named Mrs. Nat. Connie Towers overheard a TV producer's son ask if anything in show business was bigger than Lawrence Welk.

"Not now," replied the producer, "but if Desi Arnaz and Mike Todd ever merged, they'd push him a little." Dan Dailey's night club stand at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas will be followed by a long tour winding up in London. Eydie Gorme will be "The Girl" in "The Girl from Jazz Street," a movie slated for the camera in June at Paramount. The okay on smiling passport photos in color will have Bob Cummings, his wife and two eldest children posing for Hollywood glamor photographer. They're going to Europe early this summer. It had to hapr-pen note: Laraine Day playing the widow of a western marshal, who straps on his guns, for a new shoot 'em up western telefilm series.

Nope, it won't be titled, "Powdersmoke." They are calling it "Hair Trigger," with hopes of selling the show for next season. And this was bound to happen, too. I guess. New rock 'n' roll song title: "Cowboy Rock." By Dorothy Kilgallen The Celebrities: Zsa Zsa Ga- bor's beaus always make news, so get ready for the pictures and headlines when she tosses a champagne-and-caviar "welcome to Hollywood" party for Rafael Trujillo, son of the president of the Dominican Republic. He is good-looking, 30-ish, and a chum and former brother-in-law of Zsa Zsa's most-publicized grand passion, Porfirio Rubirosa The Supreme Court's ruling against Jack Benny in the law suit involving his parody of "Gaslight" came as staggering blow to members of the television writing fraternity, and they're making no secret of it especially those who specialize in satirical scripts.

They feel all humorous writers will suffer from the decision. Juan Fangio, currently Se-bring warming up for the Florida Grand Prix race being staged next Saturday, has been spending his spare time conferring with an independent film producer and two script writers. They're planning a movie based on Fangio's interesting life with his Havana kidnaping as the climax and Vit-torio Gassman is being sought for the starring role. New Yorkers returning from Miami Beach report that Frank Sinatra's attack of laryngitis caused a near-riot among patrons of the Fontainebleau. When it was announced that he wouldn't be able to appear as advertised, the hubbub was fierce and some of the disappointed fans ran out without paying their hefty checks.

Actually, despite the impressive salary he was getting down there, Frank didn't undertake the engagement because he needed the money; it was more in the nature of a "command performance," or favor-for-a-friend operation. Broadwayites predict the benefit for the family of the late comedian Billy Vine will raise at least $50,000 to educate the children and pick up the mortgage on the widow's Long Island house. Show business stars have been snapping up tickets to the March 31 event, which will take place at the Old Roumanian. Tony Bennett just turned down a big motion picture deal because the Hollywood producer in charge of the film wanted him to have his nose remodeled. (Danny Thomas has been saying no to that same proposition for years) It's splitsville time again for the former Betty Jane Rase, once married to Mickey Rooney and the mother of his two sons, Mickey, and Timmy.

She's filed suit for a divorce from composer Buddy Baker. 'S. J. Perelman has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He's the first humorist to be so honored since Mark Twain.

Mike Todd did more than see the sights when he was in Moscow with his Liz. He made a tie-up to mastermind a 3-D film on the prospect of our beating the Russians to the moon. He conceded to a House committee that this would be a 1 1 spectacular achievement, bound to make impact on people everywhere. Then he struck his second dark chord. He said we have to realize that despotic governments generally outdo the democracies in the realm of the spectacular.

Look around at the things which attract attention in the world, he said, and you'll see this is so. Is it really? Has Mr. Dulles never heard of Paris, that dazzling monument to the free spirit? What matters there are not the bridges and statues and tombs. What counts is that it breathes with life gay, imaginative, unpredictable. And what of the United States itself? Whether it is liked or disliked, it is beyond all doubt the greatest magnet of attention on earth.

Its pulse, its prodigious energies, its sweep of achievement, these make the tired stones, the forced accomplishments and the bloodless pace of the tyrannies a sorry attraction by contrast. So They Say Cooking nowadays is all done with timers, thermostats and electronics. And the husband often is as good a cook as the wife, or better, because he is more mechanically inclined. Home economist Ruth Hathe-way. I prefer a dress that shows some of the better things in life.

Vice President Nixon, commenting on new chemise style. Jimmy Ryan, who got some bad icv in his drinks on St. Patrick's DCJ Paul Ford; Phil Silvers' Colonel Hall, is probably the only actor in captivity who credits a stomach ailment, a psychiatrist and a neighbor for turning him to the stage. Ford always liked the theatre and did some amateur stuff, but he never even considered making acting his career. He worked as a salesman advertising mostly, but books and magazines, too.

During the depression, he worked in a gas station. "The other guys thought I was hopeless," he says. "I was clumsy, all thumbs. They fired me of that and put me in a bulk oil plant, but I couldn't do anything there so they made me night watchman. The supervisor caught me sleeping on cushions I'd taken from the trucks and asked me to write my resignation." He had a stomach disorder and de-' cided it stemmed from unhappiness "the depression and not doing work I liked" so he went to a psychiatrist.

After a few visits, the doctor said, "You're an actor." So he let himself be persuaded to join a neighbor who was working on a WPA puppet show project. That was the start of his career at 38. His wife didn't approve of his switching careers at such an untender age. Her opposition was based purely on economic arguments. "She wasn't violent about it," says Ford.

"But she was psychologically strong. She thought I was nuts. I've never held that against her I knew I would make out as an actor, but for all she knew I could have been nuts." Ford, who is getting typed as a comedian since he began badgering Bilko, used to be strictly a straight actor. Now he's finding it tough to get non-comedy parts. He isn't signed yet for the series for next season, presently considering other shows and movies.

Chances are he'll be back with Phil. They're a crack team. Looking Backward Come to think of it, so did we. The Committee of Five, composed of Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joan Collins, Tina Louise, Jane Morgan and Fernanda Mon tel, just selected "The 10 Sexiest Bachelors on Earth" and two of our boyi made it: The Marquis of Milford-Haven and Lance Reventlow. Bon Mot: Never walk fast in the streets, which is a mark of vulgarity though it may be tolerable in tradesman.

Lord Chesterfield. Shamokin News-Dispatch Sbsmokln Dally News Shamokin Dtspatefc (Established 1893) (Founded IBM) Combined September 18 193S Frank Hoover Founder Published Every Evening Except Stands NfcWS PUBLISHING HhlM INU CO. ln. Cor Rock and Commerce Streets. Shamokin, Pa.

Gertrude Hoover Reid, President Robert Mallrk, Publisher William Dver Managing Editor At newsstands 7c a copv: delivered by earner in Shamokin and adjacent territory, 3Se a week; by mall in "Northumberland County, I 00 per month; elsewhere 1.25 per month. In advance Ten Years Ago-1948 Swollen flood waters of the Susquehanna River at Sunbury crested at 14.61 feet, ending a flood threat to property of residents of the county seat. Dr. Russell Gait, dean of Susquehanna University, spoke on peculiarities of the Mohammedan religion during a meeting of Elysburg Rotary Club. Wilfred M.

Kearney was elected to serve as exalted ruler of Shamokin Lodge of Elks. John C. Wary and Robert E. Malick were elected esteemed leading knight and loyal knight, respectively. John H.

Carter, principal of Trevorton High School, was elected treasurer of Susquehanna Basketball League during a meeting in Northumberland. Twenty-five Years Age 1133 Samuel Bowman, investigator for the National Prohibition Agency, confirmed dismissal of "Ted" Harris, "Jake" Newcomer and Charles Yerkes, area agents, after 3.2 beer was legalized. Dr. W.C. Wetzel, past president of Shamokin Rotary Club, commended members of the Y.W.C.

A. for outstanding service. Peter James, 46, of 218 North Rock Street, a miner employed at the Enterprise Colliery, received treatment in Shamokin Hospital for a leg injury. James Farley, Locust Gap, a former member of the Locust Gap basketball team, was admitted to Shamokin Hospital for treatment of injuries sustained at Locust Gap Colliery. Questions-Answers Was Clara Barton a government employe when she became a Civil War nurse? A She was a clerk in the Patent Office from 1854 until she resigned to become a volunteer nurse.

Not in the script: Jan Clayton about her TV future after all of those "Lassie" films: "I really don't care what it is as long as I can get out of the kitchen." After adding up all of Gary Cooper's fights and gun duels in "Man of the West," now before the cameras, I've got a better title: "Unfriendly Persuasion." TT u7 I I I t-2l Member Audit Bureau of Circulations National Representative tne. When some folks retire it's go- ing to be hard to tell the difference i What are baroque pearls? A Irregular-shaped pearls. They the least valuable. Entered as second class mall matter at Shamokin. Pa..