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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-05-22
THE BEST YEARS OF
YOUR LIFE
Spend them in your Own Home
DICKINSON COUNTY

4-room house, 100 acres of
land, Haysi, Va. 33 acres are gent
ly rolling 81 acres hillside. Some
saw timber. Orchard of about 100
trees, Barn, granary and pouh4 !
house. House is weatherboarded
and has stone foundation, all
rooms on one floor, oak floors,
poplar trim and wall are ceiled.
Located on an unimproved road,
10 miles of Haysi, Va. Price
$45OO No. 1912.
Groom house, IS acres, Dick
enson county. Weatherboarded
and painted, cement block foun-
dalton. All rooms on one floor,
pine trim, oak floors, walls sheet
rocked. Finished basement, and
lights. Is new and in good con-
dition. 20 acres gently rolling, s
acres pasture. Located on gravel
and dirt road. Price $a500.
No.6971.
Groom house, 80 acres of land,
Haysi, Va. 80 acres of which 9
acres are gently rolling, 81 acres
hillside, 81 acres cleared, 9 acres
in timber. Pump house, smoke
house, coal house and mill house,
in good condition. All rooms on
one floor. Has garage, and is one
of the most ideal homes in Dick
enson county. 7 miles from Haysi
on macadam road. Concrete
spring house with pump and
holds about 1900 gallons of wat
Contact A. r. Singleton on
Haysi. If this is impossible
the above property, specify
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-05-22
Lodge Notices

Chase Lodge No. FL, I. @. O. r.
Meets every End Thursday and
4th Saturday at lodge hall in
&C. Camp.
Holly Creek Council No. 81
Junior Order
Meets End Saturday and 4th
Friday of each month at lodge
hall in c. c. Camp.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-01-10
JEacto,ies andEa,mss
The Farmer s Angle
BY HOMER AYREs

Wheat is not only the timber from
which the staff of life is constructed,
it is also a political .ferment that
starts operating either when people
have too few of the golden berries or,
when-in the case of farmers-they
ARE told they raise too many, and go
bankrupt.
The price of wheat, as it relates to
farm operating cost in the northwest
has been the yeast that touched off
past farm revolts and today this fer
ment is again liberated and at work.
Grain farmers or course know that
in many places in the world people are
starving for want of the wheat with
which they are beginning to be plag-
ued. Farmers are being told again that
SURPRISES are piling up and the price
will no doubt drop sadly But initiation
has skyrocketed farm living and oper-
ating costs. SO there is an uneasy feel
ing again, and farmers take another
look at their hole card and wonder if
they can't do something about it.
This situation is what brought Flo
relic H. LaGuardia to the Twin Cities
recently in response to an invitation
of the Farmers Union Grain Terminal
Association on the occasion of its an
nual meeting The GTA is a gigantic !
farmer-owned cooperative grain mark |
citing institution that handles around |
40 per cent of the total grain raised in
the area. This year, as a monument to |
their steadfastness they were able to
dedicate a new million dollar office |
building The farmer-members of this
coop are proud of their achievements
because they represent victories over
their enemies, the grain spectators, |
who have waxed fat through the years
on the farmers sweat and toll. And /
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-01-10
By HOMER AYRES

the impact of these farmers on nation
al politics, when they get in motion
should not be underestimated
LaGuardia told the farmers: eve
want no swivel-chair farmers or pro-
fessional politicians or spokesman for
the ticker-tape boys to arbitrarily de-
eide the destiny of the American farm
ers." And the farmers ate it up. He
told the farmers that they needed the
world Food and Agricultural Organi-
cation as a reservoir of food that
would not only stabilize farm prices
but would also solve the hunger prob
lem and promote world peace. The
farmers needed LaGuardia and will
soon put a heat campaign on Congress
to prevent the "ticker-tapers" from
scuttling FAC and reducing it to
mere fact-finding and statistical bur
eau.
The Little Flower" also linked up
the grain spectators with the Cookie
pushers with striped pants" who OPP
crate the state department.
There was much consternmation in
high places over the LaGuardia speech
at this great farm gathering and i'm
one of the cold water artists
of the grain trade was rushed to the
scene to proclaim that LaGuardia
preached false doctrines to make over
our democratic system"
But these Farmers Union farmers
knew that their interests are with naO-
pie who need bread to eat and not
with over-fed millionaires. People who
have been detected because farmers at
times become victims of reactionary
big business propaganda would have
received a new lease on life if they
had attended the LaGuardia-GTA
meeting. Great things will come of it.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-01-10
Co-ops Prove They
PAY Taxes Same AS
Other Businesses

Trenton, N. J.-(CNS)-Using sta
tistics for coop business over twice
as high as the co-ops most ambitious
estimates, the New Jersey Tax Equal
ity Committee ran a Nov. 10 ad call
ing co-ops, mutuals and government
business "tax-dodgers" and immedi-
ately found themselves under attack
from the local coop, labor unions,
Farmers Union, and other liberal
groups.
The Trenton Cooperative Society
displayed in its window cancelled
checks for all taxes paid: income,
Withholding, excise, unemployment in
surance, social security, personal prop
erty, corporation franchise, and milk
license. Then they followed up this
move by letters to editor and to mem.
bers of the committee, literature dis
tribution, radio discussion, and an in
terview with the coop store manager
published in the same paper that car
ried the N.JTE.C. ad-all making the
point that 1--WE pay every tax to which
any other corporation in the city is
liable"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-01-10
And-A Bouquet From a
Demo County Chairman

Billings, Mont, Jan. Z, 1947
The Peoples Voice,
Helena, Montana
Dear Sirs:
Enclosed please find check for sum
of $500 for subscription to The Peo-
pies Voice for 1947. I have enjoyed
your paper very much, and only wish
more people in Yellowstone county
were subscribers. Do feel that if
more voters here would read your pa
per we would have been more success
full in the November election.
Respectfully yours,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-01-10
Please Pass the Vinegar-or-
What One Preacher Thinks

bingham, Mont, Jan. 6, 1947
The Peoples Voice Publ. Co.
1905 Jockey Street
Helena, Montana
Sirs:
Please discontinue sending "The
Peoples Voice" to me. I did not sub
scribe for it in the first place and
CERTAINLY will not renew the sub
scription which has long since ex-
pired.
/ would suggest a change in the
name of your publication. Instead of
''The Peoples Voice" it ought to be
called ''Moscow's Voice" and be sent
to subscribers in Russia. I believe
that Russian propaganda should be
sent to Russians, not to Americans.
I would suggest that American adj
mirers of the Russian way of life
emigrate to Russia and enjoy this life
at first hand.
1t i'll becomes you to rant and rave
as you do against nazis and fascists,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-01-10
Progressive
Continued from Page one)

1. A death tax based on the I'M
divided whole of descendants net es-
tate.
D. The gift tax
1. Sometimes listed with an estate
tax.
The taxes listed above are those
deemed most closely related to net in
come They are the taxes least likely
to be treated as costs and hence shift
ed to the ultimate consumer.
This does not mean, however. that
a corporate income tax may not in
part be shifted. And it does not mean,
/ think that no other tax is absorbed
by the one upon whom it is levied.
The farmer no doubt absorbs the
property tax levied on him. But the
landlords property tax is no less GER
tainly reflected in higher rents. Taxes
on trucks, buses, corporations in gen
eral, and certainly all kinds of sales
taxes are treated as costs and are
shifted to consumers in the form of
higher prices.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-01-10
TWO VIEWS OF THE VOICE

munism which you so greatly admire
and fascism amount 20 the same thing.
But in this too you take your cue from
Moscow.
Yours for Discontinuance of
"The Peoples Voice
MILO E. LEE.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-01-10

The local UAW-CIO union held a
protest meeting, and the Independent
Citizens League is arranging a public
debate on the issue.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-01-10

There was never person who did
anything worth doing that did not re-
ceive more than he gave.-Beecher.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-01-10

our TAX PROBLEM
BY a. ELDER, consuItant
(Third a Series Articles Taxes)
NUISANCE TAXES
cities their
cigarettes amusements and variety nuisance
These nuisance taxes are almost without exception bad because
they are not based consideration ability to The chief
argument for them that they indirect they
less San and people do. do not tn, notice ice them oo
is city with one of the lowest real estate tax rates in the nation its
$1,000 valuation tax levied in 213 cities in 94 Workers
than through adoption payroll
community playing the idea adopting local nuisance
consider these
Is Iocalp property being fairly assessed
to local nuisance that heavily
supporters argue
ocaed foaters the
help
per of the city where they by producing it, and by spending
thousands cities villages
that discourage free social or economic relations
CORPORATION TAXES
Representatives efforts all
corporation income They that taxing corporations
profits ana nen taxing the incomes OF the people VINO receive d
They that removing will lower prices
Let's examine these arguments.
ing when they claim that the corporation which enjoys all kinds of
person.
tnct from the its stock device that protects the
their
suits liability for the actions of the
With such tremendous privileges the corporation must expect to
full share the burden AS matter of fact the stocks
bought
greatly
the values stocks In effect the nation would be making
gift to its most prosperous citizens.
still that removing corporation
would stimulate production and well smu
initiation there believe that elimination
of the corporation tax will lower prices
another bill that will actually
higher real production
investment.
Evening star., 1947-12-19

the general idea could be grasped.
Mime. Vembo's voice is a contralto Of
dark. husky quality which she uses
with utmost simplicity. Its fiexi-
bility in coloring WAS marked, yet
1.-The effect attained was natural and
Iunschooled.
The program, starting half an
hour late, began with the appear
ance of her two accompanies, who
played well an Introductory number
on the two pianos placed at the side
Of the stage. A black screen was
stretched across at the back and
from behind it Nine. Vembo ap-
peared without any ostentatious-
ness. She was dressed in native
costume of white embroidered in
blue and began a recitation to
musical accompaniment. From this
she launched into songs sung with
few but effective gestures.
For her first group, Nine. Vembo
stood quietly at the side. But when,
later, attired in black velvet, she
sang more sophisticated numbers,
she moved from one end Of the stage
to the other with 1.-the, graceful
strides. The interesting part about
Nine. Vembo's performance Is that
she can be absolutely still or ami
mated and in movement, and
achieve q like powerful effect. She
Evening star., 1947-12-19
Recital Brings Out
Skilled Artistry
Of Nine. VembO
By Alice Eversmon

Greece's leading stage personality,
Sophia Vembo, came to Constitution
Hall last night In q benefit appear
ance sponsored by the PAN
Macedonian Societies, Velvendos
and Siatista. in conjunction with
the Greek War Relief Association.
Many prominent members of the
Greek population were in the boxes
and other portions Of the hall were
well filled. The name of Sophia
Vembo is cherished in her homeland
for her untiring work during the
war, when she not only entertained
the servicemen but was active, to
the point Of nearly losing her life,
In the underground movement.
The barrier Of language made 1t
impossible to Judge fully the charac-
ter Of her songs and recitations.
Her gestures, while not exaggerated,
are so vivid, however, and her
facial expressions so expressive that
Evening star., 1947-12-19

marks, evidently intended to spu,
them on to greater effort.
One Of her accompanies was also
a skilled accordion player and
whistler. Notes as beautiful and
varied as a birds were whistled as
obligato to the accordion music. He
also played solos besides accompany
ing Nine. Vembo in one number
which she sang seated on the floor.
The other pianist was the composer
OF a song that found instant favor.
There were no programs available
with English translations, but none
were needed as far as the audience
was concerned, for the songs were
familiar and popular ones in Greece.
Nine. Vembo was introduced as one
OF the greatest benefactors of her
country and compared to a hero Of
the revolution nearly a century ago.
Evening star., 1947-12-19

is an artist skilled In every facet Of
her entertainment style and under
stands its theatrical value. None Of
this is overdone but sketched with a
play Of facial expression and sweep
ing arm gestures.
Each of her groups was given in
q different costume, alternating be-
tween the elaborate native dress and
the chic modern. The singer has a
striking personality that seems to
adjust itself to the character her
costume implied. Without seeming
effort she is able to project it
strongly over the footlights. After
the intermission, she took her place
at the microphone, which she had
previously ignored. and established
Immediately an intimate contact
with her listeners. In a short time
she had them singing with her and
laughing and applauding her re-
Evening star., 1947-12-19
Mussino Heads Lido Club

Michael Massino has been elected
president Of the Lido Club. Other
new officers are Saverio Tana, first
vice-president; Ben Segreti, second
yice-president; Vincent Tomasulo,
treasurer; John Sari, secretary; Sam
Scogna, director Of publicity, and
Michael Carlino, sergeant-at-arms.
Evening star., 1947-02-27
6reenbe|tC tCo-opvotes
For 5 Board Members

More than 300 members of Green
belt Consumer Services balloted last
night for five of nine board d.
rectors in the annual membership
meeting of the cooperative in
Greenbelt Center School. Winners
will be announced tomorrow.
A reduction in admission fees to
the community theater was voted.
The resolution stipulated that the
price scale revert to the sc, 18 and
II cent level of 1946, among the
lowest in the Metropolitan Area.
A 5 per cent dividend on stock
shares held by members Of the CO.
operative was voted as well as a
az per cent rate of distribution
of net savings among the 2,289
members. An increase Of 81 900 600
in the amount of the corporations
capital stock also was authorized.
Sam r. Asheiman, general man.
ager, reported 1916 the most profit
able year in the history Of the CO.
operative. He said it was expected
the proposed new supermarket in
the shopping center would be under
construction before the end Of 1947,
and that another store would be
started in the north section of the
town. A new consumer-owned bus
is expected to be in operation some-
time during March, he reported.
Evening star., 1947-02-27
Conference on Polio Is Told
OF New-7ype Rocking Bed
By Ludy Werner

A new rocking bed has been
developed to aid in the treatment
of infantile paralysis victims, nurses
attending two-day conference on
the disease at American Red Cross
Eastern Area Headquarters in Alex
andria were told yesterday.
DR.. Jessie Wright, director of the
School of Physical Therapy of the
University of Pittsburgh, told of the
bed when discussing Recent Evolu-
ton in the Treatment of Polio. u
She explained that while an earlier
bed known as the Saunders bed
also used the rocking theory, it
only aided a patients circulation.
The new bed not only encourages
circulation, but makes breathing
possible, she said. .
Electrically controlled, the newer
bed can be increased or decreased
in speed and the angle of rocking
can be regulated, according to re-
quirements of the patient. When
the foot of the bed goes down, the
abdomen muscles pull on the dia-
phragm, and when the head Of the
bed goes down, the abdomen muscles
push on the diaphragm, causing
paralyzed patients to breath, Dr..
Wright explained.
Makes Nursing Care Easier.
II don't think it will eliminate
the iron lung" DR.. Wright said,
but it will be useful after the first
critical days that in some cases
require the iron lung"
An advantage of the new bed over
the lung is that it gives the patient
more freedom and makes nursing
Evening star., 1947-02-27
| Road Worker
HELPS Deliver
| Baby in Snow
BY the Associated Press

LEESBURG, Va, Feb. 7.-Wil-
liam T. Mann of Lovettsville, learned
this week that operating snowplow
sometimes involves more compli-
Gated work than merely clearing the
highways.
An employe of the State Highway
Department, he was working on
route 287 in Loudoun County here
at 2 am. Sunday when he drew up
alongside car stuck In snow and
ice in a ditch. Inside were a man
and his wife, who had been hurry
ing to the Leesburg Hospital.
MIR. Mann helped the husband
move the woman into the snowplow
and the two delivered her baby
short time later. Then Mr.. Mann
turned his vehicle towards Leesburg
and brought the mother and baby,
both reported doing fine" to the
hospital here.
The hospital would not disclose
the name Of the couple.
Evening star., 1947-02-27

care easier, she said. A nurse at
tending the conference pointed out
that the bed probably would have
a better psychological effect on the
patient than the lung.
The beds, which first were tested
last summer, are not yet on the
market but are expected to be in
production soon, according to DR.
Wright. She estimated the cost
would be in the neighborhood OF
1900. An iron lung costs about
81 500.
DR.. Seckinger Speaks.
Another speaker at yesterday aft
ernoon's, session was DR.. Daniel L.
Seckinger, deputy health officer OF
the District, who spoke in place OF
District Health Officer George c.
Rutland, who could not attend
DR.. Seckinger outlined Problems in
Epidemic Control and Mobilization
of Community Facilities for Polio .
DR.. Seckinger emphasized the i'm
portance of early recognition of
cases so as to reduce the threat of
epidemics.
The conference is the third in a
series of nationwide conferences on
poliomyelitis. Scheduled for area
staff nurses, the conference is de-
signed to prepare them to judge
nursing needs in outbreaks of in
fantile paralysis, to bring them up
to date on facilities and procedures
and to discuss problems encountered
in nurse recruitment and assign
ment.
The conference will conclude with
a round-table discussion period this
afternoon.
Evening star., 1947-02-27
Alexandra 10 Open
RED Cross Drive al
Luncheon Monday

Alexandria's 1947 Red Cross fund
drive will be launched at noon Mon
day at a luncheon in the Virginia
Public Service Auditorium. -
General Chairman Armistead l..
Boothe and Vice Chairmen Charles
Jones, Glenn U. Richards and T. w.
Robinson have completed arrange
ments for the program.
Master of ceremonies will be
Gardner L. Boothe, Alexandria
lawyer. He will introduce Joseph
c. Grew, former American Am
bassador to Japan, chairman of
the Red Cross drive for the entire
Metropolitan Area.
The main address will be delivered
by 1t. Gen. Lawton Collins, who
was chief of staff in the Hawaiian
Department at the outbreak of the
war. He will discuss What Red
Cross Means to CT Joe in War and
in Peacetime Occupation Service
Overseas.
Among the guests will be Mayor
William T. wilkins of Alexandria,
Harold B. Nearman. manager of the
Eastern area, American Red Cross:
c. Leo Wilhelm, Red Cross regional
director for Virginia; Randolph G.
Bishop, campaign director for the
Metropolitan Area, and Mrs. Albert
L. Miller, chairman and executive
secretary of the Alexandria chapter.
Alexandria division chairmen who
are to take an active part in the
local fund campaign include Gilbert
Cox, advance gifts; Raymond A.
Gallagher, business firms; j. Paul
Tribes organizations; Miss Barbara
Watkins, city, State and Federal
governments; T. C. Williams,
schools: DR.. o. d. Durant, colored
division; Capt. James s. Douglas,
residential, and Mrs. A. J. Conlon,
booths
Evening star., 1947-02-27
Episcopal Teachers 10 Get
Pay Increases Next Term
BY the Assoeiaied Press

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 27.-In-
creased salaries for teachers in
church schools operated by the
Episcopal Diocese of Virginia have
been authorized by the Board OF
Trustees.
The action, taken at a meeting
here, will mean increases next term
for instructors at st. GATHERINGS
and st. Christopher's in Richmond; /;
st. Stephens in Alexandria, st.
Anne's in Charlottesville, st. Mar
garet's in Tappahannock and Christ
Church School near Urbanna.
Amounts Of the increases will be
set by headmasters and head
mistresses at the various schools.
Evening star., 1947-02-27

Mrs. Elsie Demas, a housewife, in
one sequence, walks past a desk
and picks up an instrument box.
II walk along the edge of the rus" "
she explained. 'The box is always
at the right hand at the end of the
desk. I catch the desks edge as I
go by and slide my hand along it
until I reach the box. Then I pick
it up"
Walking through open doors and
shutting them are not insuperable
tasks for the blind.
I'm the play" said James Dobbs,
who has been blind from birth, I'VE
transfer this sense of feeling an
open space into action. We can
feel if a door is open and can tell
when it is closed by sense that the
space is gone. That accounts for
our ability to enter and leave the
stage through doors on it, and to
open and close them"
Miss Katherine Miley, an Eastern
High School gradu5fe who has been
blind since childhood, has to pick up
a magazine, leaf through its pages,
and then put it down as she moves
away. She went through the move
ments step by step and now per-
forms the sequence without hesita-
ton.
Scripts in Braille.
Others in the cast are Mrs. Lola
Bali and Edmund Browning. Both
have partial vision.
'Porcupine Island" was written
by Mrs. John j. Dempsey of Cleve-
land and was first produced there
in 1941, Mrs. Marquis said. It has
been put into Braille so blind play
ers may study their scripts.
Miss Wolkow, a radio engineer
doing research for the Navy, said
the cast was selected on the way
they read their lines in a tryout.
Evening star., 1947-02-27
Five New Buses Arrive
For Marlboro Route

Five new de luxe buses for the
Marlboro North Beach Beverly
Beach route have arrived at the ga
rage of Washington. Marlboro &
Annapolis Motor Lines. Inc, it was
announced today
Heavier and more fully upholstered
than buses on city routes, the five
will go in service March Is.
+ Other new buses will be delivered
at the rate Of five a month until
about IS are received, the company
said.
Evening star., 1947-02-27
Fire Causes $3.50 Loss
In Gosque Apartment

Fire Of undetermined origin this
morning caused damage estimated
at $3.50 to the apartment of Clayton
Gasque, president Of the Rockville
Chamber of Commerce, at 200 East
Montgomery avenue, Rockville.
Firemen extinguished the blaze
before 1t spread to an adjoining
apartment occupied by the weekly
newspaper. the Montgomery Inde-
pendent Standard. Mr.. Gasque said
his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Clayton
Gasque. jr., was alone in the apart
ment when the fire started.