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Thursday, October It, 1962 SENTINEL COUNTY. MD.
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Woman In The News |
Simone Sickles traveled half
way around the world to marry
a young GL
Now, 15 years later, the
young soldier Is Maryland’s
democratic candidate for con
gressman-at-large Carlton R.
Sickles—and Simone is his most
vigorous campaigner.
“I get really excited about
politics—l just love it,” she
says.
Petite, blonde Simone
“everybody calls me Simmy”
—weighs a mere 85 pounds
and standing tall, touches the
mark at only “five feet one
inch and a bit.”
Nevertheless, she more than
doubles her weight in energy
and ability. More than that, she
brings to her husband’s cam
paign an urgent political convic
tion born of the experiences of
her own dramatic life.
Simone insists she never
makes speeches, she just talks.
And this she does in a variety
of language including Russian,
Polish, Japanese and Chinese.
She vigorously denies in typical
forthright fashion that she
speaks French or German. How
ever, she understands both and
could possibly make herself un
derstood, too.
Born in Outer Mongolia of
Russian-Pojish parentage, rear
ed in a Japanese section of
Shanghai and educated in Eng
lish schools there, Simone grew
up with a multilingual fluency.
“English is the only lang
uage I really had to learn,”
she says jokingly.
As the wife of a political can
didate, Simone sometimes is
called upon to speak to foreign
language groups.
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Simone Sickles
"I get a thrill out of watch
ing people’s faces light up,” she
says. “I feel I can make them
understand in their own lang
uage how important it is for
them to vote.”
“I never discuss issues,” Si
mone says, "that’s my husband's
job. I just talk about him and
his experience and try to ex
plain why people should regis
ter.”
Simone feels particularly
strong about this point.
“I’m scared when people
say they aren’t Interested in
government,” she says, “be
cause I saw what happened
in China. The people were in
terested only in their families
and their land. They didn’t get
upset every time the govern
ment changed hands. But then
[ Miss Van Pelt
| Plans Spring
Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. George T. Van
of Ashton, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Judy
Frances, to John Frank Satter
field of Olney.
Miss Van Pelt is a 1958 grad
uate of Sherwood High School
and attended Frostburg State
Teachers’ College. She is em
ployed by Vitro Laboratories in
Silver Spring.
Mr. Satterfield, son of Mrs.
Virginia Binnix of Falls Church,
Va., is employed by Communica
tions Electronics Inc., of Beth
esda.
A spring wedding is planned.
the communists came and It
was too late.”
Simone’s mother left Shang
hai on the last plane out of
China—leaving everything she
possessed but 40 pounds of lug
gage. She now lives with the
Sickles at their Lanham home
and Simone credits her mother
with handling most of the
housekeeping so she can be free
to campaign.
Simone speaks with deep ad
miration for her mother, who,
singlehanded, reared and edu
cated her family in spite of
years of tragedy and hardship.
Simone’s father, a fur hunter
on the Russian border in Outer
Mongolia, was killed when a
hand grenade some children had
found in the snow exploded in
his hand. Simone was two
months old at the time and her
mother, just 26, had five other
children.
Relating the story, Simone
said her mother took the chil
dren by horse and wagon to
her family home in Man
churia Station 900 miles away.
It took three months in deep
snow and 30-degree-below zero
temperature to make the jour
ney. Three children died on
the way.
A few years later, Simone’s
mother again packed up her
young family and took them by
cattle boat to Shanghai. Here
she worked as a seamstress and
took in foster children so she
could educate her family in
British schools.
As a young woman Simone
worked as a clerk for a Cana
dian firm—then came World
War 11, the bombings, and final
ly the Americans. Simone took
a job with the U. S. Air Force
and was sent to Nanking.
But here again her mother
may have had a hand in fate.
The woman who was undaunted
by a bitter journey across Outer
Mongolia, was so fearful of her
Volunteers
Sought By
Red Cross
Interviews are now being con
ducted for men and women in
terested in joining Montgomery
County Red Cross volunteer
Gray Service.
Day Gray Sendee volunteers
are needed at clinics for handi
capped children, and day or
night volunteers at Suburban
Hospital and National Institutes
of Health, Bethesda.
For interview appointments,
phone the Office of Volunteers,
Montgomery County Red Cross,
JU. 8-2515, weekdays, 8:30 A.M.
to 4:40 P.M.
Selby Accepts
UGF Drive Post
Thomas Selby, assistant man
ager of the Chevy Chase Branch
of Woodward & Lothrop, has
been appointed Bethesda busi
ness chairman for the coming
United Givers Fund drive.
Robert H. Davidson, manager
of the Bethesda office of the
Chesapeake & Potomac Tele
phone Co., was named Selby’s
vice chairman.
The 1962 UGF campaign for
the support of 143 health, wel
fare and recreation agencies
serving the Maryland-Virginia-
Washington area opened Oct. 1
with an overall goal of over $8
million. Montgomery County’s
quota is $200,000.
daughter’s Impending plane
flight she had Simone promise
to telephone her when She ar
rived.
In Nanking, Simone sought
out a telephone and "since I’d
never talked long distance be
fore,” Simone recalls, “I thought
I had to shout,” And shout she
did—all in Russian.
But she was interrupted by a
young infantryman nearby who
snapped:
“You don’t need to use the
phone—she can hear you with
out it ”
The American Infantryman
was Carlton Sickles.
Six months later they were
engaged and Mr. Sickles was
ordered back home. But he sent
for Simone and she left her job
and home and flew 10,000 miles
to be married here in Maryland.
Simone claims she's responsi
ble for pushing her husband
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BETHESDA KI-WIVES gather to view the Tel
star model—theme of their Eleventh Annual
Benefit Luncheon Fashion Show to be held
Oct. 25. The annual affair is held to further
the organization’s work in maintaining the
hearing clinic in Rockville for underprivi
leged Montgomery county children. The clin
ic arranges for operations, examinations at
the Johns Hopkins Hospital, provides hear
ing aids and sponsors a scholarship for a
student at Galludet School for the Deaf. The
Kl-Wives also make donations to Camp Echo
Lake for underprivileged children. The twins
Girl Communtes to Junior College By Railroad
A 20-year-old Barnesville girl
crosses the length of the coun- j
ty twice each day in a com
muter role which she estimates
costs her more than her tuition
at the college she travels to and I
from.
Helen Offutt, a sophomore at I
into politics. A new civic group
was holding an organizational
meeting in 1950 in Langley Park
where the Sickles lived. Simone
elected to stay home with their
new baby but insisted her hus
band go to the meeting.
"He did,” she recalls, "and
came back president of the;
group.”
Simone later joined the Lang
ley Park chapter Of the League j
of Women Voters and says j
that’s where she “learned every
thing I know about state gov
ernment.”
In her talks, Simone empha
sizes the point that voters must i
cast ballots this fall for two con
gressman—their own and the,
congressman-at-large. Then, she
adds, we must work for proper
redistricting.
Although the campaign
keeps her moving from 7 a.ni.
until midnight or after. Si
mone does her turn in the car
pool to St. Bernard’s Catholic
School where her daughter is
a student. She also coaches
the Catholic Youth Organiza
tion girls’ softball team.
She loves to play bridge, but
finds that out of the question
until after Nov. 6.
After the election. Simone
vows first of all she’ll gain
weight.
“My ambition,” she says, “is
to wear a size nine. I wear a size
five now.”
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When the mouth is open, the 1867, provision was made for
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the discharge of the cannon tions from time to time, New
enter the throat as well as foundland has never availed
the cars lessening the pres- itself of the privilege,
sure on the ear drums.
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shown above, Edwin and Alan Rodgers, wear
hearing aids provided by the club. The ben
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12:30 p.m. at the Shoreham Hotel Blue
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2-8854. Grouped around the twins are stand
ing from left Mrs. Alton E. Rabbitt; Mrs.
Buford M. Hayden; Mrs. Stephen O. Porter,
chairman; Mrs. Frank Jaggers; Mrs. Benja
min B. Treadwell; Mrs. Edward O. Shaner;
Mrs. James F. Hogan, and Mrs. John L. Mc-
Elfresh.
the Montgomery Junior College
|in Takoma Park, says she
' spends nearly 12 hours each
working day either on the cam
pus or travelling between her
studies in dental assisting.
| She boards her train at the
Barnesville station before 7 a.m.
leach morning and doesn’t get
Home on the Range
By Hope Frank
(Home Economist, Washington Gas Light Co.t
Broiler-fryers are high on Oc
tober's plentiful foods list. And
what’s more apt to be a favorite
family entree than chicken
either broiled or fried? Why not
try Coffee Broiled Chicken, with
its tasty difference or Crisp Ov
en-fried Chicken ’n Biscuits for
this Sunday’s dinner?
Coffee Broiled Chicken
Two 2 ! 2-pound broiler chickens,
split in half
Vs teaspoon salt
% teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon Instant coffee pow
der
!i cup water
% cup vinegar
% pound butter, melted
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
One 101'4-oz. can tomato soup
1% tablespoons Instant coffee
powder
Wash and dry chickens thor
oughly. Sprinkle with salt, pep
per and the 1 teaspoon Instant
coffee powder. Combine remain
ing ingredients. Place chickens
on brolier rack, skin side down.
Brush with the sauce. Broil ap
proximately 20 minutes 5 to 7
: i home until almost the same
: | hour in the evening.
1 Described by a college spokes
■ man as a "diligent” student,
Helen estimated she will have
covered about 20,000 miles in
! j train commuting by the time
. she completes her four se
: | mesters at the junior college.
• 1 inches from flame. When chick
'; ens start to brown, turn and
1 1, , . .
brush with more sauce; continue
to broil, turning frequently and
basting with the sauce until
chicken is fork-tender, or about
. 40 minutes. Serves 4.
Oven Crisp Chicken ’n Biscuits
One 3-lb. frying chicken, cut up
Vs cup vegetable oil
1 1 cup flour
2 teaspoons salt
14 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons paprika
Biscuits (recipe below) or use
one package ready-made bis
cuits
Preheat oven to 425° F. Put veg
etable oil in 13x9 1 2x2" pan and
set in oven to heat. Mix flour
and seasonings in paper bag;
shake 3 or 4 pieces of chicken
at a time to coat thoroughly;
place skin-side-down in single
layer in the hot oil. Bake 45 min
utes; turn. Meanwhile, make
Biscuit dough (or use packaged
biscuits). Push chicken to one
end of pan; place biscuits in sin
gle layer at other end. Bake an
; other 15 minutes or until bis
cuits are lightly browned and
■ chicken tender. Serves 4.
| Biscuits:
| Sift 2 cups sifted flour, 3 tea
| spoons baking powder, 1 tea
spoon salt. Pour 1/3 cup vege-
S table °1 and 2/3 cup milk into
j | measuring cup, but don’t stir.
Pour all at once into flour. Stir
I: with fork until mixture cleans
j | sides of bowl. Knead 10 times
j i without additional flour. Roll
% ” thick between waxed papers.
Cut into approximately 8 bis
cuits.
To Make Gravy: Remove chick
en and biscuits to serving plate.
Add 2 tablespoons flour (save
from dredgings i to drippings in
pan. Bring to boil; add about l’, a
cups hot milk; boil 1 minute.
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Fresh grapes purple, red,
white- are also plentiful. Served
with cheese, they provide a de
lightful fresh fruit dessert. Or
they combine beautifully with
most other fruits in fresh sal
ads. Seedless white grapes are
especially pleasant with chicken,
either baked in a sauce—or in a
salad.
Molded Grape-Pineapple Salad
One #2 can pineapple chunks*
U. of Md. Alumni
Plan Oyster Roast
Montgomery County alumni
of the University of Maryland
will hold an oyster roast Satur
day. Nov. 3, at the home of Col.
and Mrs. William M. Kricker
near Brighton Dam road.
Loudspeakers carrying the
broadcast of the Maryland-
Penn State game will be set up
on the grounds so old grads can
follow the play while they par
take of all the oysters, roast
beef and beverage they can hold.
Two members of the commit
tee will go to Kent Island that
morning to bring back fresh
Chesapeake Bay oysters and two
professional shuckers.
Oysters will be served on the
half shell, steamed, roasted and
in stew. University caterers are
providing two "steamship”
roasts of beef, cole slaw, rolls,
coffee and other trimmings.
Tickets for the oyster feast—
which runs from 1:30 to 5 p.m.
—are $2.50. The Maryland Flag
will fly at the entrance of the
Kricker home, Roslyn, on Route
650, 3.2 miles north of Ashton
and just south of the Brighton
Dam road.
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Miss Helen Lutz
Miss Helen Lutz
Engaged to Wed
Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Lutz
of Rockville announce the en
gagement of their daughter,
Helen Frances, to Carroll Con
rad Fink, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Fink, also of Rockville.
The bride-to-be was graduated
in 1961 from Richard Montgo
mery High School, Rockville,
and is currently employed as a
secretary with the Army Map
Service.
Mr. Fink, a 1960 graduate of
Richard Montgomery, is serving
in the Navy at the Great Lakes
Naval Training Center.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
St. John's to Hold
Supper and Bazaar
St. John’s Episcopal Church,
Olney, will hold its annual Oys
ter Supper and Bazaar in the
Parish Hall on Oct. 20 from 3 to
8 p.m.
The bazaar includes a fancy
table, gifts, white elephants, an
tiques, cake and sweet table
and books. Tickets are $1.75 for
adults and $.75 for children.
*2 cup white port wine, or fruit
juice
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Water
6 whole cloves
1 package lemon gelatin
Dash of salt
1 cup seedless grapes
cup chopped almonds (op
tional i
Drain syrup from pineapple into
2-cup measure. To syrup add
lemon juice and enough water
to make I*4 cups liquid. Place
this liquid in a saucepan with
the cloves, bring to a boil, then
simmer 10 minutes and remove
cloves. Add gelatin to hot liquid,
stirring to dissolve. Add the
wine and cool. Chill in refrigera
tor until it begins to thicken.
Fold in pineapple, halved grapes
and nuts. Return to refrigerator
in a mold. Chill until firm.
Serve on crisp lettuce, with
mayonnaise or cream dressing.
Serves 6. Crushed pineapple may
be used.
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