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mmm Top Free Press-AP Wirephotos i Dennis, The Menace rht Burlington Frea Preit 4 WEDNESDAY, APRIL It, 1MI New Books i 1 i Capital Man Honored by Firm For Long Service MONTPELIER Carroll H. Bowman, 15 Winter was Tuesday at National Life insurance Company on his 40th anniversary with the company. Of nearly 600 employes Bow man is one of only 12 now actively employed in their third home office building. When he joined the company, National Life then occupied what is now the State Agriculture building. A year later, in 1922, the staff moved to the company's new building at 13 State Afzyoiie Htow is the story of a money-mad family.

Avery Stacy Pitt was born in Bennington, and he brought his favorite daughter Serena up to respect and love money. She was money-mad and painfully neat. How she happened to marry Hugh Stuart was a mystery. Whatever the attraction, she soon forgot it and when their daughter was born, she named her Stacy and determined to bring her up in her image. Stacy had a lonely childhood other children might muss up the house: She learned at an early age to keep out of her mother's way and not argue.

Her only close friend was the crippled scientist who lived on the third floor. David Enright had been taken in by Gram Stuart when he was a little orphan toy. David gave Stacy advice when she needed it and when she fell in love with, a man her mother had not picked out for her, he helped her to defy her mother and marry the man she desired. The author tells her story convincingly and makes her people very real. She even has a mystery to solve which adds spice to.

the tale. "THE BROKEN JIGSAW" by Paul Somer is an excellent mystery story. When we first meet Lisa Hayworth she is the charming, very kind receptionist at an exclusive hotel. This is the surface Lisa underneath she is cold, amoral, even ruthless. When John Albany; a wealthy invalid, comes to the hotel she sees her opportunity and marries him.

Later she takes as a lover Ralph Stratton who has been hired as nurse and chauffeur for her crippled -husband. As time 'goes on she decides she can very well do without Albany and so, with Ralph's help, they commit what they think is the perfect crime. Now they are free to be together and enjoy their new wealth until England, experiences a drought one summer. This novel is tense, with many surprises. THE BEST OF BOTTS" BY WILLIAM Hazlett Upson is a gleaning.

This well-known tractor salesman gives of his best Faced with defeat, victory is won by his Ingenuity and doe-gedness. Of all the characters created by our Mid-dlebury neighbor, Botts is our favorite. Any man that you have watched in his struggles for three decades is with you for life. Just run through some of the contents with me "I'm a Natural-Born Salesman." "Botts Gets a New Job," "Botts Runs for His Life," 'Botts and the Day the Dam Broke," etc. How long is it since you have come across a took you'd like to share, read aloud and laugh about? Better buy the "Best of Botts." ANOTHER VERMONTER, R.

L. DUFFUS, has a new book, "The Tower of Jewels.1' This is about San Francisco and his memories of his first job as a newspaperman on the San Francisco Bulletin. As in his other books about his childhood and youth he succeeds in recapturing all the enthusiasms of youth. He makes you fee! how happy he was to be doing just what he wanted to do, even when he felt homesick for- Leland Stanford or Waterbury, when he was discouraged. "Yet I wouldn't have willingly have been anywhere else.

I wouldn't have accepted a job in a grocery store, a saloon, or a bank, if one had been offered." As his opportunities to report 'and write improve and he is given more responsibilities, the reader will share his excitement with him. As he gets a raise to $35 week from the starting salary of $15 and marriage seems more" possible, you will rejoice too. Mr. Duffus has a rare quality about his writing he can recapture the past and make it live again. You will enjoy this fine.

book. "THE COIN PIN" BY GRACE CARSTENS which it occupied until it moved in July 1960 to the present new home office. Bowman is a supervisor in the claims division of the secretary's department. He began in 1921 in the policy writing division and "Hi, DaA I'm bunldn' down HERE tonightl' has had experience in several phases of the life insurance busi Interpreting the News ness. Mr.

and Mrs. Bowman have four children and seven grandchil dren. Their daughter, Alice, is the -wife of Robert C. Schwartz, Quite A Comedown Torrential rain washed this rubble onto Route 54A along west shore of Keuka Lake north of Hammondsport, N.Y. Similar washes were reported at several other stretches along five miles on highway.

State engineers said it would require two or three days to clear road for traffic. 'Man to Moon' Project Will Soon Be Debated newly appointed state commis-sfcner of motor vehicles. Andrew is married and lives in Mont pelier, Charles is in the Army, stationed in Munich, Germany, The man-to-the-moon rocket and Elizabeth (Mrs. Edward M. would have to be far more power By J.

M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst The Kennedy administration ap Brown) is the wife of an Army ful than the Saturn CI now com captain, now in Frankfurt, Ger many. pears to be willing. to let trie American people decide whether No Fun To Diet ing up, which has eight engines, is 21 feet in diameter and is one-third as tall as the Washington Monument, but not as powerful as current Soviet boosters. The larger C2, uo'V projected, will not do, either, even with new engines and fuels now projected.

As of today, there is doubt 0 fizcd HVWto they want to spend vast sums of money over a period of years on the possibility that this country can send a man to the moon Bowling Group Elects Officers In Montpelier ahead of the Soviet Union. Lines for debate over it are ex MONTPELIER Alfred P. wnetner Nova would nave any military significance. pected to be drawn soon. Shadroui was elected president of the National Life Insurance Com The question to be answered As one official put it, the technical groundwork for such a proj pany Recreation Association this year is, therefore, whether the public wants to go into such a project, primarily for the sake bowling league at its annual banquet held last night at the Little PVtY i ha il i i iv "i 1 1 i I ect is being laid and the question is: "Does the country want it?" Presumably the decision will be based on reaction expressed to Valley Restaurant.

of scientific exploration and in an effort to regain some of the pres The outgoing president, Arthur Congress and the executive tige lost to the Communist claim Lincoln was presented a gut in appreciation for his services, that the Soviet system is the one branch after a period of trial ballooning. which can produce the fastest scientific and economic advance as were Joan Snovich and Carmen Revilla, who were re-elected secretary-treasurer and statistician, respectively. Edgar Pres- Would Like Approval A guess is that the administra ment. tion would like to have approval. cot was elected vice president.

The $125 million already added Committees for the next sea son are: Rules, William Cassara PTA Will Hear Geoffrey Orton In Waterbury Center MEDICAL EVIDENCE IS SO CONCLUSIVE relating overweight to heart disease that you'd think we'd all be eager and willing to diet for health. But read the ads for diet products and you'll see, almost unanimously, they appeal, instead, to our vanity. Almost as if mankind is bent on self-destruction, we ignore health warnings and continue to indulge ourselves. Nations do, too. WHEN A GOVERNMENT IS GOOD, EFFI--cient and bears bountiful fruit, it grows fat.

It gets lazy. Its people demand more and more for producing less and less. The lessons of every great nation state in history teach over and over again how old civilizations are never destroyed. They just rot away. This present Washington administration, and the past one, and the next one, will continue to applaud hard work and self-discipline and dedication and idealism in theory.

But, in practice, our government will continue to spoonfeed us on larger and larger doses of fat-producing, laziness-inducing largesse. Because we talk one way and vote another. We know what good for us, but we demand more and more of what's bad for us because it's not fun to diet! SWEATSHOP CONDITIONS BRED A BATCH of lean, hungry, dedicated union organizers in the United States. They came from behind, however painfully, until soft, self-indulgent industrialists had to holler, "Uncle!" But, by George, have you seen happened now to the union, organizers? They've organized. They want shorter hours and more pay.

The International Ladies Garment Workers Union is led by the old socialist, Dave Dubin-sky, himself. But his own organizers have organized he is refusing to recognize their organization he hollered "Uncle!" and the National Labor Relations Board is having to mediate. It's mutiny in the ranks. Labor's corporals are turning on labor's generals. The generals call them "money-hungry mercenaries." In the International Union of Electrical Workers, the organizers are organizing themselves into a union within the union.

There are several other internal unions demanding recognition. Some outsiders relish this intra-mural squabble, but what has happened here is symptomatic of what happens anywhere that men lose their crusading zeal and eventually turn on and destroy the source of their strength. RUSSIA, IN DESPERATE ECONOMIC straits, appears determined to work her way out. Lowell Nussbaum said it: "The way to get ahead of Russia is to get behind the United States and push." If we've lost, our "push," we've had it. Plato warned, "Democracy is a most dangerous social experiment." I know that each, before ours, died this "natural" death.

But I refuse to believe my country is ready for the glue factory. I simply refuse to believe it! to the space development budget by the administration is to be spent, according to official sources, on rocket developments pertinent both to current pro chairman, Ann Prouty, Polly White, Philip Anthony and Jack WATERBURY CENTER The Pecue: trophy, Gordon Shepard, chairman, Charles Collins and Center Unit PTA will meet Dorothy Denis; banquet, Alfred Thursday evening at 8 p.m. at Shadroui, chairman, Joan snovicn and Anita Gauthier. the schoolhouse. Geoffrey Orton, a member of the school board Following the roast beef ban grams and to the moon attempt if it is.

decided upon. According to these sources, if such a project is to be attempted within the estimated time it will take" the Soviet Union, it must be decided upon in time for provisions in the 1963 budget. The project involves development by1 1967 or 1968 of the al Farewell Word will give a talk on the progress quet, Lincoln presented the bowl of the school building committee. ing trophies to this season's prize winners. Championship team win ners were: Victor Cano, Ferdinand Feola, James Milo, Alice President Sukarno of Indonesia makes point Tuesday as he talks on White House lawn with Vice President Lyndon Johnson and President.

Kennedy just before leaving to board jet for flight to Mexico City. Farewell ended Sukarno's one-day informal visit to Washington. ready-researched Nova- booster Also he will show a film, "The Miraculous Maple Tree." He is employed by Vermont Development Commission. Personals Mr. and Mrs.

James Raymond rocket, at extremely heavy cost, at a time when the expense of and sons have purchased the lot the space program already will be passing $2 billion annually. Nova might double it. on Stowe road, formerly owned Military Needs One of the great arguments by Clyde Whittemore and are moving their trailer from Dux-bury to this new location. The Raymonds are employed at the Clothes and Jobs expected to arise is whether the needs of the military develop Vermont State Hospital Karen Flatow spent the weeks ment program have been met before this experiment in science and showmanship is undertaken. school vacation in Glastonbury.

Sayah, Mary Perkins and Janice Haynes. The runners-up were: Edgar Prescott, Ernest Parker, Charles Collins, Carmen Revilla, Anita Gauthier and Ellen Nims. Individual trophies were awarded to Victor Cano, triple champion with high single, high double and high average for the men and to Polly White, high single, Louise Welch, high double, and Ann Prouty, high average, for the women. Joke consolation prizes were presented to both team and individual cellar-dwellers. The affair ended with a social evening and dancing.

Third Ear NEW YORK (AP)-Americans last year bought nearly three times as many stereo phonograph sets as monaural, instruments, according: to the Electronic Industries Association. Conn, with her great-grandmoth Some people in Washington will er. tell you that military needs will be met by missile programs al Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fahner left Monday for a trip to Florida.

ready in hand or decided upon. They accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Talk of Cuba Former President Harry Truman greets Vice President Lyndon Johnson on his arrival in Kansas City Tuesday to discuss situation. Before leaving Washington, Johnson 'said goodby to President Sukarno of Others are asking whether they are sure that the competition with the Soviet Union for prestige Roy Fahner of Barre.

The two couples plan to be gone one month visiting points of interest. Choir to Rehearse The junior choir of the Fed in scientific space exploration will advance the American military potential rather than hinder it, and whether the United States erated Church will rehearse Sat space program pays as much at urday, April 29, at 11:30 am at the church. tention to the military potential as does uie u. s. s.

K. Try and Stop Me ly BENNETT CER unpressed pants, ill-fitting suits, extreme styles, carelessly knotted neckties, rundown heels. Two-thirds of the executives are convinced that management makes a better appearance today than the bosses of yesteryear. FORTY-SEVEN OF THE 88 STATE FLAT-ly their wives dont influence the selection of their clothes. But one says "she tries desperately" and another says both his wife and daughter are in there pitching.

A third says his wife's "approach is very subtle." One of the stalwarts' says if he followed his wife's suggestions he would look like a rose. Another avows he got good training from his mother and needs none from his wife. ONE AMONG THOSE WHO HAVE THROWN in the sponge asks: "Do you argue with YOUR wife?" The head of a machine tool company says, "she doesn't influence my selection as much as I do hers; her clothes must meet my approval." In fact, 25 assert they influence their wife's choice of her own apparel. Only 23 of the 88 think the other executives in their company would welcome expert advice on how to dress. One dismisses the subject this "Today we have too much expert advice given to others." ONE COMMENT HARKING BACK TO OTH-er days on the national scene: "A vicuna coat will always get attention and comments." And one dissenter to the whole idea of overrating personal appearance says, "Clothes do not the man make, certainly not for top management It probably helps clerks, bar flies, and those who must keep up with the Joneses, generally at others' expense." NEW YORK (AP) IF YOU'RE HOPING for a step up the executive ladder, choose that new spring" suit with care.

A gaggle corporate chiefs say that personal appearance and grooming are the first things they note about a job applicant More than half of 88 executives from many different industries baring their souls on the matter concede appearance had a good deal to do with their own success. And nearly half admit their wives have a role, big or little, in the (election of their clothes. ALMOST ALL DENY THAT THE STATUS symbols of big car, big house or big expense accounts influence them when hiring a man for a responsible position. About half find the tendency, toward standard or uniform clothes of the Ivy or banker type depresses them but only a handful go as far as actually to approve of much individuality. The 88 were filling out a questionnaire "by the American Institute of Men's and Boys' Wear on the part grooming plays in landing and holding a top job.

The institute's survey isn't exactly disinterested, since the institute preaches dressing right to get ahead. BUT THE MINORITY REPORT HAS SUCH features as these: Seven prize most the facial expression, while three look first at the eyes and hands, two watch for alertness, and seven for poise. Others list a healthy look, modesty, size, age, and if the applicant's shoes are shined. Most of the 88 are outspoken about what they don't like when a top job seeker is ushered Into their office clashing colors, sloppy socks, scuffed shoes, bad or overdue haircuts, If ONE BANKING Al Franklin You Can Do ALL YOUR BANKING Under Ona roof -Nl W'T nil uA'-P BEATRICE LILLIfi MANAGED to remember she was a punster, too, even when a waiter, spilled whole cup of coffee on her costly new evening gown "Go," Miss Strength for the. Day Lillie told the crestfallen servi-l tor, and never darken my Dior! again." CONFIOENCI IN THI WTURI ROCKY GRAZIANO, EX-MID- dleweight champ, was asked in a TV interview, "were you ever, afraid of an opponent?" The great man pondered momentarily, then blurted, "Naw, I was too The Franklin Is a full-servica bank offering savings accounts checking accounts low cost cor and home loans personal loans business loans and other services.

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RSV.) PRAYER: Our Father, incline our attention to reading Thy Word regularly and to meditating on ft to that we may know the Scriptures and feet the power of Thy spirit surging through us. Save us from having our lives coma out wrong because we do not study and follow the pattern we have in Christ In Hit name. Amen. Tttl UPPESj ftOOM Are you ever filled with a feeling of apprehension and anxiety? There may be nothing imminent hanging over you. Your bills may all be paid, your loved ones well and prosperous, your conscience free of any great defilement Yet you are fearfuL You go about under a cloud.

The future is viewed with misgiving. A reader of this column wrote a paragraph recently which I pass on to you for your comfort! "Our strength for the day ana every day lies within an unswerving faith la the future. In most of our life, everything done today is for tomorrow. If we place an unalterable trust in tomorrow, regardless of world, economic and spiritual shortcomings, we will have our strength lor the day and for every day." This is sound Christian doctrine. This to the comfort which Jesus Christ came to bring to the hearts of meo and women.

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