a a a a a a a a a a SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1958 THE REGISTER NEWS MT. VERNON, ILLINOIS The House the' a 1957 suspense novel by E. L. WITHERS Beach by Rinehart Company, Inc. Distributed by NEA.
Service, Inc. THE STORY: Katherine, yenr middle old of wirl, the la awakened in the of night hy the sound someone In her room, She and slips takes out of bed in the darkneam whor* there refuge in the hallway, chair. big ornamental panels to get outside. bed The door was being pulled the and have go to sleep. She first the shower, and a bowl rest of the never waked up in the water, and it had been a rule of way sound as open, It made place.
But if she hadn't waked her mother's that he was to be a brushing it scraped up, what the carpet. would have happened confined before Katherine went over She peered along to her by now? the wall, straining her eyes in She bed, and let out the next mornto the gloom, and examined the chair to seeing. It was a 'happy arrangement. After waited again. that it was securely pushed liked his bed, and if Katha moment heard the against the door; and then she erine felt lonely for him in the footsteps feeling their way cau- made herself go across the room night she could to him the tiously out in the hall.
and lie down on the bed. She go All she could see of the figure would up, bathroom, wake him rub his try to go to sleep as ears, talk to him. was its legs. They were a man's mother would have wanted the her She wondered why Rex hadn't top, where the seat to. But she would not turn out barked in the night.
But then legs. At of the chair cut off her view, she the She could with could see that he had bath- it light. sleep she thought that it had all been on, shining down in her eyes, so quiet, really, that he not knees, but could not face that dark- have heard it, and even and below that the legs were ness again tonight. heard, he knew Paulrobe which came to ins" she miebt: -his smell: bare. She knew those legs.
They She did not think that she could and the sounds he made and he were muscular and had black ever go to hair on them. They were Paul's was so exhausted sleep again, but she wouldn't have barked at him in that her eyes the house. He were closed almost as soon as she He was still whining and legs. stopped in the hall and put her head on the pillow. scratching; he looked around.
He did not see gave one short, sharp bark and she got out of her. She began holding her It was Wednesday night now- bed and went across breath in her bare inside her again, counting dumbly no, Thursday morning. Last Fri- feet to open the door. He jumped head. she got day had been the day the out at her, whining with When pleasure, to 25 she let it out softly the day her mother around her, nuzzled her breathed again.
She could tell buried. Friday was gone. That legs, lunged at her, reared up and from the way stood -leaning whole week was gone. It had put his feet on her stomach. forward little--that begun as such a happy week.
"You want out?" looking up and down the hall, They had had a picnic on Mon- He barked again, and she went listening, trying to And where she day -she and her mother and over to the glass panels. the was. She huddled down, making Paul. Everything had been won- wall beside them were two butsmall a bundle of herself as derful then. tons; she pushed the top one.
she could, hoping that would It happened on Tuesday! The distant around the chair. She She had been playing in the the closer whirring of began, then not walk grind machinery, did not even know why she was house. Paul had gone off in and the panels slid deliberately so frightened of him, but it sud- car. Her mother had gone swim- back on themselves, the fresh denly came into her mind that ming out into the waves. wind blew in from the water, he was going to kill her.
She swimming and swimming and billowing the curtains, and Rex almost whimpered aloud, but she when they found her she was dashed out across the lawn, barkcaught herself in time, lying on her side on the beaching, stopping to sniff, and then But why should he want to with sand in her hair. She was barking again. one was in hurt her? He was her friend. drowned. Amy had sight on the beach.
She liked him, and he liked her. Amy---and the doctor had come Katherine started to get They had always been friends. and examined the body, and even dressed. She was puzzled about But her fear overcame the the police had come. Everybody last night.
None of it made any thought of that friendship. Why had said it was a funny accident: sense; and somewhere at the back. had he been in her room all this "But she was such a marvelous of her mind she was still frighttime it were her friend? swimmer! How could such a thing ened. She could remember with! He took another step forward have happened? I can hardly be- perfect clarity the horrors of the. and stopped again.
Abruptly he lieve it!" dark, which seemed far away turned and started down the hall They had wanted to talk to now in the bright room. She in the opposite direction toward Paul. She had listened. He had would have to go to breakfast' his own room her mother's not told them anything: yes, he with the rest of the room. She could no longer see knew his wife was going swim- and sit at the table with Paul, him, but she heard him in the ming-yes, he had been away all pretending that nothing had hapdistance quietly opening his door, afternoon--no, it was a terrible pened, that she had not ed: and then closing it again.
She shock to him. He could hardly up, or at least that she 1: not thought he had gone inside, but believe it. He could hardly take recognized him in the darkness. she waited to see. She counted it in yet.
Perhaps he would think that to a thousand, but he did not Aunt Millicent -her father's had been walking in her come back. sister-had come from New York She heard voices in the halli She started crawling around to be with them and help them. outside her room: Paul and Aunt the chair toward her room on her Dr. Treslove, their minister, Eng- Millicent were going in to breakhands and knees. She had been lish, jowly, pontifical, had come fast.
It was time for her to go, right about the door. It stood to comfort them and had stayed too. wide open. She looked inside. on, talking and talking.
Amy had She opened the door and went The whole wall at the opposite cried again, and patted out into the hall. The sun poured end gave off its gray gloom; she her on the shoulder and reminded in the window at the end. The could see the outline of the bed her that she must be brave and big chair still stood near her and the chairs and the curtains. that all worldly cares pass. It door, but there was nothing about She knew that there was no one had seemed to Katherine, watch- it to indicate that she had in the room.
Just as she had been ing them, that cheered crouched hiding behind it last unable to keep herself from pan- a little by the talking. She had night. She had left no sign of Icking before, now she was abso- walked out to Dr. Treslove's car herself. lutely certain that the room was with him, saying, "You'll come She went on down the hall empty.
back, won't you?" wiping her toward the living room. Every- I Katherine: ran around the chair, ducked, and sat down on the floor against the wall, out of sight from her doorway, her knces drawn up under her chin, panting hard, her heart bursting inside her. Bending forward a little she could see between the legs of the chair, down hall her doorway. They would have" to come out sooner or later. They would not risk the mechanical noises of sliding back the glass She was shaking She caught sight of mirror--the pigtails, rimmed glasses, and the round child's squeezed with terror.
would have wanted calm; she tried to in hand. She should She knew those legs. They were Paul's legs. under them She might have sl.at till noon. face pale and but Rex waked up at 8:30.1 Her mother He began whining and scratching her to be with his paws on the bathroon: take herself door.
He always slept in the get back he had a rug there eyes. "Of course I will. Often." thing in the house white or light-colored: the walls were white. the floors were pale, the whole house was very modern. Katherine's mother had said: "It's our money, after all.
We can do what we like with it, can't we?" (To Be Continued) NEW SENATE OFFICE BUILDING--The main committee room, above, of the brand new 24-million-dollar Senate Office Building Washington is lighted incandescently. Most of the other rooms of the nine-floor white marble structure have fluorescent fixtures. Other features Include an auditorium seating 500, 160 rest rooms, private sundeck for senators and a way underneath to the Capitol CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) A pickles brought the Cheyenne fire department on the run recently. Mrs.
W. H. Tyler dropped the pickles. The jar broke and juice ran into a floor plug. It caused A short.
The firemen's report: One sticky floor. One inoperative floor plug. Married At Enfield PERSONAL Bill Reeves of McLeansborol made a business trip t. Ver. non yesterday, Mr.
and Mrs. Perry Irwin of Wayne City transacted business and shopped in the King City yesSO terday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Coleman and daughter, Jacqueline, spent ChristMAs with relatives in Evansville, Ind.
Bernard Klefer of Belle Rive made a short business trip to ML. Vernon Friday. Harry Kelgar of Ashley King City business visitor yesterday afternoon. Gerald Rapp of Opdyke WAS business visitor in Mt. Vernon Friday.
Mrs. Elcanor Williams of Belle Rive WAS a Mt. Vernon shopper and business visitor in the King City. Troy Melvin of West Frankfort WAS a business visitor in Mt. Vernon Friday.
Mrs. Doris Martin of Bonnle spent, yesterday afternoon shopping in the King City. A. E. Houseworth of Ina made a short.
business trip to Mt. Ver. non yesterday. James L. Lacey of Woodlawn spent Friday afternoon transacting business in the King City.
Bob Gillespic of Bluford made a brief business trip to the King City Friday. Earl of Detroit, is spending a week with relatives nnd friends in this city. He is a former Mt. resident. Mrs.
Frona Anderson Herrin visited friends and shopped in Mt. spent Mrs. Edgar yesterday shopping of in Farina "the Vernon Friday, McNeese King City. EDWARD A. ROUGH Mrs.
Dale Gregory of Macedonia was a King City shopper Cindy, dressed Ames, in cousin of the and business visitor Friday. Herrin bride. a green satin Mrs. Pearl Dixon of frock with lace trim and match- spent Friday afternoon shopping nylon mitts, was the flower in Mt. Vernon.
girl. She wore a crown of white Mrs. Ward Newman of Salem flowers and green leaves and transacted business and shopped carried a basket of red rose in the King City yesterday. petals. Mrs.
A. J. Morgan of Albion Steve York, nephew of the was a Mt. Vernon business visitor bride, carried rings on a and shopper Friday. white satin pillow, trimmed in Mrs.
Dean Arnold of Centralia Jace to match the bride's dress. visited friends and shopped in Mt. For her daughter's wedding, Mrs. Elsic Lovell of Macedonia Vernon yesterday. Mrs.
Maurer chose A was a King City shopper and winter white sheath dress, which she business visitor white complemented accessories with black and Mrs. Basil Chapman of McFriday. and a corsage Leansboro visited friends and of red carnations. The groom's transacted business in the King mother wore a light blue jersey dress. Her accessories were Mrs.
Beryl Norvell of Fairfield City yesterday. black and white and her corsage was fashioned of white carna- tor was and a Mt. shopper Vernon, business tions. G. A.
Downer of West FrankFriday, The bride's table, at the recenfort made a business trip to Mt. tion, reation room was of the church, had Vernon yesterday. which held in the recMrs. Loren Birkett of Tamara a lace cloth over green and was centered with A large candle spent Friday afternoon shopping decorated with valley lilies. A in Mrs.
the King City. Wilkerson New four-tiered wedding cake, topped Baden yesterday transHarold of with a miniature bride and and decorated with red acting business and shopping groom confectioner's roses and Mt. Vernon. leaves, placed at end green of Mrs. Blaine Rhodes of Centralia was one the table and a large punch bowl visited friends and shopped in MI.
at the other end. Vernon Friday. Mrs. Herbert Hubele, an aunt of the bride, baked and decorated the cake. She was assisted in the cutting and serving of the cake by Mrs.
Frankie Gray. Mrs. James Aller: Peterson. sister of the bride. attended at the punch bowl.
Betty Jo Medlin registered the guests and Miss Gail Hughes was in charge of the gifts, The newlyweds left soon after the reception on a trip of undisclosed destination. The bride, traveling. WAs wearing a blue matched skirt and sweater with black accessories and the corsage from her bouquet. The bride, a graduate of the Enfield Cominunity High School in 1951, is employed Williams Implements in Carmi. Mr.
Rough graduated in 1955 from the Grayville High School and is senior at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, majoring in Industrial Education. Guests attending from Mt. Vernon included Mrs. Clyde Lee and children; Mrs. Robert Puntney and Mrs.
Minnie Rough. THE BRAVE BALLOONISTS Mudie, left, 32-yearEnglish naval architect, is the pilot of the balloon, "Small World," which is being wafted across the Atlantic Ocean by the same trade winds that pushed Christopher Columbus' ships. And the balloonists, including Anthony B. Eiloart, center, and Mudie's wife, Rosemary, 30, hope to land in the Bahamas near the spot where Columbus discovered the New World. Fourth member of the expedition is Elloart's son, Timothy.
LITTLE TO SHOW MR. AND MRS. The First Methodist Church in Enfield was the scene of the wedding of Miss Barbara Jane Maurer and Edward Arlen Rough, which took place at six-thirty o'clock on the evening of Saturday, December 20. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Maurer of Enfield, Route 2, and the groom's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Glen Rough of Grayville, former Mt. Vernon residents. Reverend Jesse Seiber officiated for the double ring ceremony in a setting of Christmas poinsettias, palms and candelabra holding lighted white Red and green candles were placed in each of the sanctuary windows and on the organ.
The guests were ushered to their seats by Bill Aker, Grayville, friend of the groom, and Roger Hubele, Carmi, cousin of the bride, while Mrs. Oscar Funkhouser. organist, played selections. Before the wedding service, Everett Gott sang and "Whither Thou Goest" and "The Prayer" near the end of the ceremony. The bride chose her sister, Mrs.
John H. York, of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, for her only attendant and her brother, Harold Maurer served as best man for the groom. Mr. Maurer escorted his daughter to the altar and gave her in marriage. Her wedding gown, which was designed and made by her mother, was white lace over taffeta.
fitted bodice pointed at the waist, front and back. had a square scalloped neckline and long sleeves, which tapered over the backs of her hands. The floor length skirt was draped on either side of the front at the hemline showing inserts of pleatnylon tulle. Her veil was tached to a crown of white satin studded with seed pearls. Her bridal bouquet was composed of white mums and the tradition of "something old, new, borrowed and blue" was carried out in her wedding outfit.
The matron of honor was dressed in a street length frock of red satin. She wore nylon mitts and a headband to match her dress and carried a bouquet of white carnations. RACINE, Wis. (AP) The thief who smashed 8 display window at the Sanitary Meat Market got a hollow victory. Missing was a container of canned ham, but the proprietor told police the missing can, like the others in the window, was empty.
I EARLY CONGRATULATIONS HONOLULU cowhands lassoed a runaway steer after she had broken out of a dairy truck and gone on a rampage. Just as they were congratulating themselves, the cow dropped dead, apparently from I strangulation. AMVETS DANCE Saturday, December 27 Music by EDDIE MIFFLIN TRIO Dancing Starts At 9:00 P.M. Engagement Announced MISS ELAINE Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene C. announce the engagement Bullock, to John Applegate, Applegate of Syracuse, New Miss Bullock, a graduate pital School of Nursing in St. Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Mr. Applegate is a senior ling at Northwestern University of Alpha Tau Omega social Plans are being made for BULLOCK Savage of 605 south 20th street of her, lovely daughter, Elaine son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. Foster York. of Evangelical Deaconess Louis is a registered nurse Ill. majoring in electrical engineerin Evanston and is 8 member fraternity. a March wedding.
(Delo Photo Craft) Dr. Jordan The Doctor Says CHILD NEEDS STUTTERING, FROM EXPERTS By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M.D. Written for NE.A Sorvice An enormous amount of research has been conducted on the subject of stuttering and other speech defects. Stutterers, is said, constitute one of the largest groups of handicapped people in the world.
One estimate is that there million persons who stutter. Appersons in the United States are proximately seven outs of 1,000 believed to suffer from this speech defect. Exactly what causes stuttering and most other speech defects is not known. Some believe that children inay be born predisposed to speech disorders. That is, the difficulty is not inherited but the nervous constitution of some children makes them more suceptible to speech difficulties.
The sex of the youngster, and perhaps the race, may play some part. There are about four Or five times AS many boys who stutter as girls. It is said that more of the Caucasin than of the Negro race stutter. The effect of forcing a lefthanded child to use the right hand is probably not considered as important as it used to be. For example, Dr.
Barbara, in a book on stuttering (Julian Press $5.00) says; "Stuttering is not to be considered as an isolated disorder of the speech mechanism but AS an outward expression of a more basic character disorganization." The attack on speech defects, including stuttering, should come As soon as possible after such difficulty is first noticed. important to get good advice," since the management to of speech defects depends a siderable degree on the understanding of the parents and they do about it. Furthermore, there may be things home environment about "which the can affect a child's parents may be unaware, which Much has been learned about stuttering and other speech defects and their treatment during recent years. The results of proper treatment are often good. The stutterer or child with some other speech defect should get expert advice from one of the speech clinics spotted around the country.
Information on their location be obtained from the National Society for Crippled ChildAdults, 11 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill. Also, I should like to recommend the booklet on stuttering prepared with the advice and guidance of the American Speech available through the National and Hearing Association and Pledge of Quality When our label goes on your represents our Pledge of Quality. Our name and reputation stand behind that of experience and confidence placed in us by our host of satisfied customers. DOUGLAS DRUG CO. SOCIALLY YOURS By SALLY Out of town Christmas dinner guests in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Jonathan Richardson were Mrs. Maggie Williamson and son, George of Belle Rive and Mrs. Grace Hodges of Washington, D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Tate and daughter, LaDonna of sey spent Christmas visiting with Mra. Tate's mother, Mrs.
Maxine Lacey, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ezell and children of Zearing, are visiting In the home of his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Noble Ezell of the Benton Road.
Mrs. Pearl McCarty of Dahl gren spent yesterday afternoon visiting in the home of Mrs. Margaret Stockett and Mrs. Sally, Cook of this city. Mr.
and Mrs. James H. Adams of Alton, former Mt. Vernon dents, are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence, Jackson and Mr. and Adams. On December 23, they attended the wedding of Miss Elizabeth Pattee and Richard Ward which was performed in Denver, Colo. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Irvin Ward of this city. A. B. Hickey of Wayne City will be 73 years old tomorrow, December 28, we are informed by his Mrs. Berl Hickey also of Wayne City Mrs.
1 Lucy (Mount) Williams of 442 Kirk Drive, Litchfield, will be 84 old on Monday, December at 29, we are informed by her daughters, Mrs. Maxine and Mrs. Mary Harmon, who telephoned from Litchfield yesterday. They also tell us that she has 11 live ing children; 27 great-grandchildren and three great great Mogor of Bonnie will be 83 years old on December 29 according to a telephone call recelved yesterday from Mrs. Sally Knowles And, from Mrs.
Charles L. Jones of Bluford comes note saying that her mother, Mrs. Alice Gordon of Bluford will be 77 years old on January 2. which is our first birthday reported for 1959 As usual, we are mailing a birthday card to each one and we do hope, they will receive many others. Society for Crippled.
Children and Adults above). Another source of information besides the book by Dr. Barbara is a book of Gottlober entitled "Understanding Stuttering." It is important to realize that the youngest who stutters. or has some other speech prohably will not "outgrow" the difficulty by himself. Expert advice should be obtained 88 soon As possible in order to avoid handicapping a youngster unnecessarily.
COOPERATIVE EFFORT BALTIMORE: (AP) The police commissioner got a letter which commended three officers -for good work below the line of duty, you might. say. Attorney James A. Ostendorf explained how he accidentally dropped his watch into the water drain by a downtown curb. The three officers combined to help Ostendorf retrive the timepiece.
One furnished A bent paper clip, another tied it to a picce of string and a third manipulated the string to pull the watch out from under the grate. SOCIETY Ruth Millett KIDS AREN'T MORE LAZY, THEY JUST DO LESS NOW "What makes kids today so lazy?" asks one of my older readers. She complains, "I've iust returned from visiting my His children, 12, 15 son. and 17, don't do time. anything Neither but do have A good their honestly don't see how their friends.
parents all manage their without any Children have always been help at naturally lazy. Even great-great grandpa, looked as 8 around boy, for work to never do. He did his chores because parents used to hold to the working theTory unit that a with each member being family was a responsible for his share of the jobs to be done. But somehow modern parents have given up that idea. Now all they want is for their children 10 be happy and well-adjusted.
So if Junior grumbles about mowing the lawn, and Sis have says to none of other girls do the dinner dishes, Pop gets behind the Jawn mower and Mom heads from the dinner table while to Junior the kitchen goes sinkising around in the family car and Sis gets on the telephone until the dishes are done. The old-fashioned idea that kid could go out and have fun after he did his chores and if he wasn't needed for any extra jobs. and the chores naturally don't Now the fun comes first. get done. So not blame the kids for being, lazy.
They're just doing comes naturally to kids as little as possible. And it will be that until parents go back to the oldloned idea of work first, play later. It is we who are encouraging them to believe that nothing is as important as having fun. Ella Lane Circle Mrs. Randall Bigham was hos.
tess to the Second Baptist church Ella Lane Circle of W. M. U. recently. The meeting opened with group singing of "The Solid Rock" and Ethel Stewart gave the opening prayer.
Mrs. Marie Campbell was in charge of the Lottie Moon Christmas program, with interesting reports given by her, Jean Gregory, Jean Gowler Mattie Lee Filbreth. The business meeting closed with prayer by Jean Gowler. A delightful Mystery Pal gift exchange was enjoyed around a beautifully decorated Christmas tree with little Roger Campbell assisting Santa Claus. Delicious refreshments were served by the hostess, assisted by Miss Kay Bigham.
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(GOOD REASON PHILADELPHIA John T. Kerr, an employment interview. er, says now he's heard all reasons for job switching. A woman recently applied for a position with Kerr's company. She said she formerly worked for a nudist camp.
Kerr glanced at her applicaand noted her reasons for leaving her previous job. She Thad stated, "change of scenery." i.
