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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-10-28
HALLOWEEN PARTY

Haysi, Oct, GA HalloWeen
party will be given Friday night,
Oct. 20, by Haysi High School at
the high school building. The
party will feature a large variety
OF games, eats and Halloween
goods.
Everything necessary to give
an evening of pleasure to people
of all ages will be present. A
king and queen will be chosen
and crowned as the couple wear
ing the best costumes. Plan now
to be present and reap a harves,
of fun and laughter.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-10-28
CARD. OF THANKS

We wish to thank all our kind
friends who helped comfort us
in the death of our darling son,
brother and husband, Alton Sluss.
We want to thank the undertaken
and the ministers. We never real
lied that "a friend in need is a
friend indeed" until death knock
ed at our door and God called our
darling one home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charley j. Sluss
and Family
Mrs. Alton Sluss.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-10-28

Copyright 1913, United States Brewers Foundation
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-10-28
HAZEL NEWS

Orlena Kiser spent Tuesday
with N. E. Kiser.
Mamie Newberry and children
were Saturday night guests at
the home Of Holly Kiser.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Jessie
We're visiting jamie Sutherland
Sunday.
Alice Farmer spent Saturday
night with Ruth Sutherland.
MIR. and Mrs. ] C. Sutherland
are the proud parents of a new
girl.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-10-28

Ba sill Deel and Arthur Deel,
citizens Of the Murphy section,
were business visitors in Clint
wood. Monday.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-10-28
From where | sit. by Joe Marsh
Want To Join
Our Club?

Newcomers to our town are puz-
zled when they hear talk of The
Barbecue Club" Want to know who
can join, and what the purpose is.
Well, the answer is: any one can
Join who's neighborly inclined. The
purpose is simply to enjoy good
food, good beer and ale, good con-
'versation towards getting to
know one another better.
Every other Saturday, at one
farm OF another, the pit is dug,
and the fire started. And by sun
down, neighbors from miles around
have come together-the women
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-10-28

Clint Fleming and Mrs. Blanche
Steel visited Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Wallenfelz of Roanoke over the
weekend.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-10-28

Mrs. M. w. Remins and Miss
Samantha Remines were shop
ping in Norton Saturday.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-10-28

Mrs. A. A. Skeen, Mrs. Ayers
Friend and Mrs. Roy Thomson
were visitors in Bristol Tuesday.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-10-28
MULLINS RIDGE

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert L. Mullins
of Mcclure spent the week lend
with relatives here.
A large crowd of about 100
people attended the funeral of
Alton Sluss on Saturday. Rev.
Fayette Fields. OF West Virginia,
and Rev. Keither Wilson, Of Ken
lucky, conducted services.
Mrs. General w. Sluss is visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. G. w.
Slagle. of Limestone, Tenn.
Cleophus Sluss and son, Glenn,
of Bristol, visited his brother,
Charlie, Sunday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Mullins
and baby spent Saturday night
with Garland Mullins and family
Miss Hattie Sluss spent a night
recently with her sister, Mrs
James o. Mullins of Skeetrock.
Enoch A. Moore and family Wis
tied Mrs. Moore's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Auty Rose.
Virginia Rose called on Alene
and Hattie Sluss Sunday after
noon.
General w. and Earle Sluss are
doing some carpenter work foi
Garland Mullins Of Mcclure.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-10-28

The town of ClintWood receives
a very honorable mention in a
bulletin issued by the department
of state police. This is one OF the
thirteen towns of more than a
thousand population in Virginia
that has not had fatal automo-
bile accident since 1888.
Have you ever counted the
vacant lots on Main Street?
And have you noticed that the
walk is almost continually block
ed in front of one business place
on Main Street?
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-10-28

contributing cakes, pies, and coffee,
the men contributing the meat for
barbecuing, and the beer or ale,
From where sit, it's this simple
wholesome side of country life in
America-its spirit of good-fellow.
ship-that makes for tolerance
and better understanding between
neighbOrs.
As I say, Neighbor, any one can
join up! So come along a week
from this Saturday.
&e M~,4<
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-10-28
Fiery, Itching
Toes and Feet

When feet burn, sting, itch and shoe,
feel as if they were cutting right into
the Aesh, get small bottle of Moone's
Emerald Oil and rub we'll on feet and
ankles morning and night for few days.
A real discovery for thousands who
have found blessed relief. Moone's
Emerald Oil is easy and pleasant to
notwithstanding back if not sat
isfed-good druggists everywhere.
Evening star., 1948-12-23
Bv Doris FIeeson

President Truman left the Capt.
tai without wrapping, tying and
labelling any Christmas presents In
the way Of Democratic patronage.
Evening star., 1948-12-23

Christmas IL is "e" ''''
expected that as many as 10000
victims of Europes great tragedy
will have come to America. Ane
there is reason to expect also that
by that time we will have lifted
our sights and prepared to receive
a total of 100000, the original
quota we had set for ourselves, but
which the niggardly Eightieth Con-
gress cut in two.
Chief cause for believing that the
next Congress will revise the pres
ent displaced persons law, liberaliz-
ing 1t as to the total and in other
respects, is found in the warm well
come given the first arrivals. The
1913 who came between the end OF
October and the middle of Novem-
ber are now scattered-some singly
some in families and some in small
groups-all the way from New York
to California. Reports reaching the
Displaced Persons Commission here
in Washington reveal that the COM
munities in which they have settled
like their new neighbors.
Adjust Selves Quickly.
For their part, the newcomers
appear to be adjusting themselves
to life In something, better than
bleak barracks and barbed wire en-
closures. 1t Is really tremendous
adjustment for some Of them.
There was the handsome young
Latvian woman, for example, who
was being questioned by repre-
sentative of the government at the
Evening star., 1948-12-23
By the Assoeioted Press

LISBON, Portugal, Dec. 23.-Al-
bufeira, the fishing village whose
superstitious residents say a group
of non-conformist nuns brings evil
upon them, was struck by raging
flood today-the second food to hit
the area since october.
The area of the village in South
Portugal has been pelted by tor
rental rain and heavy ocean tides
Communications with the village
have been cut off. Inhabitants OF
the region are being evacuated, leav-
ing their belongings behind.
Shipping was endangered along
the coast. One fishing trawler with
% aboard was reported sunk.
The last time a flood hit the area
the villagers blamed it on the nuns
OF the barefoot Carmelite convent
at nearby Orada. The villagers
demonstrated outside the convent
denouncing the nuns as devils who
bring punishment from heaven.
The convent is on a hilltop
Floods do not affect it.
The 10 rebellious nuns and their
doughty mother superior have defied
Evening star., 1948-12-23
This Changing World
Pentagon and State Department Seen
In 'Tua.of.War' Over Indonesia Moves

The Hague affect the United Ma
tions. The fact that the Kremlin
leaders-the only villains in the
present international drama-were
able to play their own game. and
were the prompters of the whole
Indonesian trouble carried no
weight with our State Department.
Nor was there any weight in the
argument that 1t would be childish
to do nothing about the Communist
strides in Asia, while we were
spending billions of dollars to fight
communism and Soviet imperialism
in Europe.
Instructions were rushed to Our
representatives on the Security
Council in Paris to slap down the
Dutch as hard as possible. These
instructions were somewhat modi-
fed, it is said, at the sug-
gestion Of the White House, which
was aware of its grave responsibility
If the wishes Of the State Depart
ment policy makers were fulfilled.
If the White House had taken a
more forceful hand in the past in
our foreign relations. there is. no
question that we would not now
be presented with the dismal Far
Eastern picture.
Plea Toned Down.
The strongly worded plea which
our representatives on the Council
in Paris were supposed to make
was toned down somewhat, and in
stead OF presenting the Dutch with
virtual ultimatum they we're
asked to cease hostilities.
This is the story of the hidden
tug-of-war in Washington up to
this moment. The State Depart
ment has exercised its prerogative
under the law and stopped further
expenditure of Marshall Plan funds
earmarked for Indonesia This In
itself is said to cause little concern
to The Hague government, since it
cannot effectively use those funds
50 long as present conditions exist
In the Indies.
The Dutch feel that they are act
ing in the interest Of all the West
ern powers by endeavoring to pre-
vent the further Communist pene-
tration of Java and Sumatra. They
fear that our State Department will
be moved by emotional rather than
practical considerations and put
further more painful squeezes on
the Netherlands to prevent 1t from
bringing its present action to
Quick conclusion.
The Hague is said to be willing
to live up to its pledges so far as
the creation of the Indonesian Re-
public is concerned, provided that
the Indonesian leaders show a def
mite desire to break their ties with
the Communist oonspirators.
Evening star., 1948-12-23
'Yule Presents Delayed
Truman Reported Putting Off Problem
Of Patronage Until After Inaugural

inherit the presidency of the Senat,
Ladies Luncheon club from Mrs
Arthur Vandenberg.
One Capitol wit Is already sug'
gesting it is "a season Of glad Tyd
ings."
Goodwill Spills Out.
Democratic goodwill is also spill
ing out over the Republican they
really will miss: Senator John Sher'
man Cooper Of Kentucky who wa!
defeated for reelection by Repre-.
sentative Virgil Chapman. A Ken.
lucky Republican swims upstream al
best and Senator Cooper could not
survive the combination of a Demo.
cratic year and his colleague, Sena.
tor Barkley, in second place on the
national ticket.
The Christmas present unani.
mously proposed for Senator Cooper
is q place on the Federal Trade
Commission from which a Republi.
can member, Robert z. Freer, Is re.
firing. From National Chairman
McGrath on down Democrats ap.
pear eager to give it to Senator
Cooper, If he wants it.
The Senator who is being paie
this unusual tribute is young, pro.
gressive and very likable. Because
he has these qualities, however, he 1.
being urged by his party to stick tt
the grass roots and run for the next
Senate vacancy in 1850. He has tole
friends he was not interested in 9
lame duck appointment to boarc
or bureau here; that he might bt
tempted by chance to work on the
European Recovery Program.
A possibility for the FTC post Il
Senator Cooper should prove i'm.
mune to Potomac fever Is William
Rogers, counsel for the Ferguson
investigating committee, a Nav
veteran and former Dewey aide
Since Mr.. Rogers took over following
the fiasco of the Hughes hearing
that committee successfully de.
veloped the General Myers case
conducted model loyalty hearing!
and in general won the commenda
ton even of its Democratic minori.
ty. Like Senator Cooper, Mr.. Rogers
will have Democratic friends al
court should he make a serious bic
for the post.
Evening star., 1948-12-23
Non-Conforn1ist Nuns Blamed
For Portuguese VILLAGE Flood

an order Of the Vatican diSownlng
them. Their nonconformist views
for one thing they believe nuns
should be gay-brought down the
wrath of the local clergy.
The defiant leader of the nuns,
who still claims to be a mother su-
perior, is Maria do Carmo do Cora
Gao de Jesus. She has refused to
let any men enter the convent. Re-
Gently when local priest surprised
the nuns at dinner and tried to read
the Vatican decree disowning them.
the nuns plugged their ears and
sang the ave Marie" at the tops
of their voices.
The Congregation of Religious Or
ders of the Vatican issued the de-
cree disbanding the nuns, but the
sisters barricaded themselves in the
old convent and refused to bulge.
When the storm struck in october,
villagers besieged the convent shout
ing threats.
Evening star., 1948-12-23

plans WHICH sIIlC
Dutch representatives in Indonesia
got hold of showed how extensive
the Communist conspiracy was. Be-
sides Java and Samatra the evidence
covered Malaga and Borneo.
It soon became evident to our
military leaders not only that there
was q threat to our supply Of basic
raw materials needed in the event
of another world conflagration. but
also that successful establishment
of Communist-dominated regimes
in that part of the Far East event.
ually would put a squeeze on the
Philippines and the rest of the
vitally important South Pacific area
Proof of Conspiracy"
The documentary proofs, provided
not only by the Netherlands author
tiles, but by our own intelligence
officers, showed unmistakably that
the situation was rapidly deteriorat-
ing. Under the impact of the dis
aster suffered by the Nationalist
government in China, for which we
are to blame, the Kremlin- INSPIRED
conspiracy in Indonesia and Malaga
progressed much faster than was
expected.
When the Dutch limited that some
police action" was contemplated
and soon would be taken, they
found tacit approval on the part
Of those officials in Washington who
are responsible for our overall
strategy. The latter cannot afford
to indulge in the luxury Of thinking
like so many of our ideology-
minded diplomats-that there is no
danger Of war with Russia.
AS soon as the Dutch troops be-
gan to smash up the recently Gre
ated Indonesian Republic the prag-
matte State Department thinkers
koror, %o y,,orr1, Loot tho oo{innc of
Evening star., 1948-12-23
On the Other Hand
1t Takes Time,' Said the Young
Women To Learn to Be Free

dock. She spake only her own Ian
guage but obviously was intelligent
She was very guarded in her re-
plies and finally the interpreter felt
| it necessary to assure her that she
had nothing to fear.
You are free" he said; lin this
country you are free
II know" she said, with timid
smile, but it takes time to learn
to be free!"
Somewhere in America this
Christmas she is continuing her
education in freedom. Ironically. it
could have been In Mississippi II
she had been one of group Of 90
Latvian farmers for whom work and
homes had been provided near the
town of Senatobia, Miss. However
that group was composed entirely
of men. It Is q group, incidentally
so acceptable that a number OF
other Mississippi communities are
asking the Displaced Persons Com
mission to send them similar
workers.
Largest single GFOup.
This is also the largest single
group to be furnished thus far to
any community. Wisconsin, with
requests totaling more than thou
sand persons, received only five out
of the first boatload; California,
asking for several thousand, received
only 80.
There is no question of the de-
mand. The Georgia farmer whose
son married and moved away, leay-
ing a job and good house avail
able for anybody that knows some
thing about pigs, is still holding both
the job and the house open for one
of>the displaced persons. Eventually
his request may be met, but that
is not true as to the men who have
written asking for women they can
marry or the women who explain
their need for husbands.
The 60 orphans who came in each
Of the first two boats are installed
in the homes that had been pre-
pared for them, through the efforts
Of various church organizations.
Skilled workers and professional
men-physicians, teachers, engineers
some single and some with. theil
families. have been placed. But
since the total thus far Is still
SO small. action on requests from
various industries for large num-
bers has had to be deferred.
Copyright, 1a4s. Globe Syndicate)
Evening star., 1948-12-23
Bv LOweH MeUen

The best Christmas story in this
country this year is probably to be
found in the hearts of 2,496 men
women and children newly come
Evening star., 1948-12-23


and his family fight over for the
choicest pieces each Christmas.
1t is my guess that Mr.. Truman
has been sent more turkeys than
there we're soldiers in the Obi thea
ter during the war. Any turkey
raiser worth his salt always sends
the President a choice gobbler in the
hope that his bird will be the one
that the photographers snap the
President shying away from as if
| it were hooded cobra with
feathers. You know the old picture.
All of us have seen it in its full
unimaginativeness since we were old
enough to recognize turkey and
President. Incidentally, there have
been times when they were hard to
tell apart.
Financial Windfall.
Not to have to pay for turkey
this year Is a financial windfall, in
deed. If you have priced them-and
I know you have-you know that
they are almost worth their weight
in cut diamonds. I am surprised
that butcher shops. most Of which
lack massive vaults and iron-grilled
windows, are willing to handle them.
Turkeys priced as they are now
should be handled by firms with
adequate facilities for protecting
articles Of high value-National
City Bank, Carriers, Bank Of Amer
lea and Fort Knox to name a few.
For a butcher to leave the turkeys
in plain view is to invite burglary.
Too, with our national bird cost
ing what it does a pound, it seems
out of place for butcher. wearing
white apron sprinkled here and
there with bits of liver and ham
burger, to handle them. They should
be sold by men with clipped, phoney
accents, wearing striped trousers,
and a naughty attitude, who would
ask the prospective buyer il he
wanted to see the Kohinor turkey
or the Hope turkey.
Frankly, 1 hope the prices of
turkeys keep soaring into the STRAIT
osphere until there comes day
when the cost of them will prohibit
them from being our national bird,
and we Americans can settle on
something easier to serve, and
something which does not linger in
the ice box so long.
E1o. fhn roct couay, nr oiohS uoops
as those of you who have been
patient enough to read my column
know, L have been advocating the
meat loaf as our national bird-no
feathers to pick, little or no trouble
to cook, and highly cooperative to
the carver's knife, and much more
reasonable in price than the gobbler.
Hail to the Frankfurter.
But have changed my mind
about the meat loaf. This year I
want to come out strongly for the
frankfurter as the main course at
Thanksgiving and Christmas din
ners.
The frankfurter is an even more
JIdCtdUIc UlI u GIldA VIC AlC6t
loaf.
AS for carving, a man who can't
carve a frankfurter shouldn't be
trusted with knife. He is dam
gerous fellow.
The meat of the frankfurter Is
full bodied and rich.
1t can be arranged in many at
tractive and amusing designs and
there is nothing that can be done
with it afterwards.
Frankfurters don't make good
hash. They make poor croquettes,
and as for frankfurter soup-well,
just open a restaurant where that
is the speciality of the house and
see how long it takes you to &C
broke.
So, hail to thee, blithe frank
furter. bird thou never vert! But
you don't cost nearly a dollar a
pound, either.
Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1948-12-23

from Europe TO
take up their
homes here.
The number
includes 833 ar
irving on two
boats this week.
This is the small
beginning of our
none too gener-
GUS commitment
to accept 100000
of Europe S dis
placed persons
in the course OF
two years. Be-
fore another
Evening star., 1948-12-23

OF NetherlanQS
action in Indo-
neSia.
The situation
appears to be as
follows:
w en- tn e
N e h RI a nds
authorities OBJ
tanned all the
posi- l e evil
dence of Com
munlSt plotting
in In on eSia
they presented
it to our military
authorities. The
Evening star., 1948-12-23

tu ACy lOI 1IcC.
Starting with
George w a S h
in g ton, W h o
C oul d probably
shoot a turkey
from the back
porch Of Mount
Vernon, g a m e
being what it
was in tn os e
days, right on
down to Harry S.
T r u m a n, no
President has
had to dig down
in his pocket for
Evening star., 1948-12-23

j IlC WI u 10 OlLd Y
t h eSe matters
are to 60 over
until after in
auguration, a . by
which time the
budget and the
s t ate Of the
Union message
also will be be-
hind him.
One presiden-
tial problem in
this field is that
some people to
whom he owes
much want that
which it is going
to be dimcult to
Evening star., 1948-12-23

give them. The most conspicuous
example is Louis johnson, the West
Virginia lawyer who did the job no
body else would take-Chairman OF
the Finance committee of the Tru-
man campaign-and did it well.
A former Undersecretary OF War,
Mr.. johnson pines to be Secretary
of National Defense; he has been
offered an ambassadorShip, any
ambassadorship practically, but will
accept no substitute. There Is his
torical drive behind Mr.. Johnson's
ambition. Franklin Roosevelt had
given him assurances he would be
made Secretary Of War when Mr..
Roosevelt put out Harry Woodring
in 1940: Mr.. Roosevelt then reneged
on the ground that he had to have
bipartisan foreign policy support
and put in Republican Henry l..
Stimson.
Shuttle Would Be Difficult.
But it Is difficult to shuttle the
National military establishment in
times like these; its complicated
budget Is a military and political
headache both and Defense Secre-
tary Forrestars abilities generally
are admired.
The President, hesitating on Mr..
johnson, hesitates also to reward
anyone else ahead of him.
On Capitol Hill the Democrats
have no such qualms and are briskly
parcelling out the plums. At this
point, Senator Tydings of Maryland
leads in the contest for the biggest
single beneficiary of the great VIC
tory. From his eminence as fifth
ranking Democrat the experienced
and articulate Marylander is reach
ing out for president pro tempore,
Chairman Of Armed Services, men,
bership on Foreign Relations and
the Atomic Energy committee. His
beautiful wife Is also scheduled to
Evening star., 1948-12-23
By Constantine Brovn

An underground tug-of-war is
taking place in Washington once
more between the Pentagon and the
State Department on the question
Evening star., 1948-12-23
'McLenno:re-
Price Of Turkeys
Invites Burglary
By Henry McLe ore

Before anything is done about
raising the Presidents salary 1t
should be remembered that the man
in the White House always gets his
Evening star., 1948-12-10

taken from some other source thar
citizens pockets.
At the same time, the group
passed a motion recommending a
general cleanup drive in the South
east area before the Inauguration.
Traffic Director George E. Ken
eipp addressed the group on the
numerous requests his department
gets from citizens associations,
asking installation of traf1ic lights
and stop signs. He said the public
puts too much faith in signs and
mechanical devices for preventing
accidents. When there are too
many signs, people lose all respect
for them, he contended,
The meeting, conducted by Ver-
mis- Absher, president, was held in
Evening star., 1948-12-10

Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
by Daniel Singer, builder and en-
gineer. Mr.. Singers partner, Her
man w. Huffman, spoke to the group
last evening saying:
The Congress Heights business
district has not kept pace with its
residential development" he de-
clared. Business, Mr.. Huffman said,
is moving to other parts of town
while people like my partner are
trying to develop it in the area SO
it will benefit local merchants.
The association Endorsed Adelbert
w. Lee for reappointment to the
Board of Education.
The meeting was held In the Con-
gress Heights School, Nichols ave-