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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-01-06
THREE HELD ON
CATTLE STEALING
CHARGE

Another chapter was added to
the cattle rustling case in trial
justice court here Tuesday. Fred
Williams of West Dante was
bound over to the grand jury. AL
SO bound over were James Thorn
as Stevenson, alias Louis Green,
and Helen Green, who likewise
sports quite list of names.
Williams stated that he pleaded
guilty to three charges of cattle
stealing. However, only one of the
tnefts occurred in this county. He
is also charged with two offenses
in Russell County. Since the Rus
sell County court meets in Janu-
ary, his case will probably be
disposed of in that county be-
fore Dickinson gets whack at
him. He was sent to the Lebanon
Jail.
Williams had previously impli-
Gated the other man and the Wo-
man in confession made to Of
ficers, but he repudiated the con
fession before the trial justice
court here, alleging that he meant
two other parties: That did not
save them from the grand jury.
They are being held in the local
Jail, but will be sent to the Wise
Jail at an early date if they do
not make bond.
The Dickinson County case to
which Williams confessed was for
the theft of cow from Wilbur
Mullins of West Dante.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-01-06
THIEVES BREAK INTO TWO
GARAGES MONDAY
NIGHT

Two more HOUSEKEEPING occur
red in Clintwood Monday night.
The Ford garage and Charlie Per
kins' garage were entered and
pillaged in small way. The stock
in the Ford place had been ram
sacked thoroughly, but little loss,
outside Of small bit of petty
cash was found. Some automo-
bile parts and accessories were
missing from the Perkins place.
The Ford garage had been en-
tered from the rear, while the
other place was entered from the
front. 1t is said that the Perkins
garage has been broken into four
times within the last week.
Mail volIr news in early
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-01-06
Granny Is A
Mother Again

Mrs. Rose Wright announces
that her famous COW, Granny, has
become a mother again. The lat
est addition is strapping calf,
unusually strong and cookbook
ing.
This is Granny's sixteenth gift
to the world. Six of her calves
have come singly, andthere have
been five sets of twins. Granny's
twelfth birthday will arrive on
February %.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-01-06
Local Recruiter Has
Biggest Day; 20
Volunteer

January was the biggest day
in the history of the ClintWood
recruiting station, according to
Sgt. LESSEE C. Dye. On that day
twenty men volunteered for the
army. Their names follow:
Dallas Stanley, Clintwood Rt. 2
Thurman G. Amburgey, Nora
Earl Sutherland, Tiny
Herman C. Rose, Haysi
Carl L. Powers, Dante Ri. l
Houston Burke, Cranes Nest
Milton C. Culbertson, Nora
Ferris Mullins, Dwale
Hairless D. Mullins, Tarpon
Elmer Sykes, Tarpon
George F. O'Quinn, Nora
Paul M Mullins, Baden
Paul K. Fleming, Baden
Harold Richardson, Long Fork
Elmer R. Mullins, Rt. l, Clint
wood
Kelver V. Virgins, Haysi
Wiley M. Powers, Rt. 2, Coe-
burn
Harold J. Smith, Rt. 2, Clint
wood
Oscar J. Deloach, Clintwood.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-01-06
OF
All
Things!
Editor Dickinson Herald:

Your column on "Boll Weevil
Music" in the issue of December
% was plain shoW-off. You
dragged in stray bits of learning
by the ears and draped cute phras
es around mountain music. Yet,
a note of true feeling showed up
now and then in this Word-mix-
ing display. The few sincere
notes in that piece Of writing
prompt me to offer some ideas on
the subject.
You Jumped all this stuff sent
out over cheap radio programs
and heard in country school
house exhibitions" under h
head of mountain music. Right
there, to my mind, you went
wide of the truth. In the first
place, that ear-splitting jangle
is not music. In the second place,
though cheap as dirt, it has been
slicked and tailored until it has
no trace of mountain dignity.
The mountaineer once had a
music of his own. 1t was native
as hoecake or mountain laurel
and had something of the hoe
cakes body and the laureals beau
ty. That music was the express
sion of backwoods life. 1t grew
out Of mountain ways and was
both the heartbreak and the hap
piness of the hills caught in mel
ody. Though neither deep as a.
well nor wide as door," it was
the harmony of our own culture.
With more of travel and knowl
edge of the outside world, we
grew ashamed of our own culture
and tried to shed it all at once.
We thought our speech, with all
its inheritances from the "spa-
cious times of great Elizabeth,
was barbaric. We judged our ma
tive manners were crude. The
only music we knew seemed I'M
couth. We tried to shun them all
and take on another culture.
Even, then, the outside world was
learning that there was some
thing Of dignity in our ways, OF
strength in our speech, and melo
dy in our songs.
And then the radio came along
and, in its search for material,
found mountain music. An at
tempt was made to dress it up.
Instead, they dressed it down
and took the heart out of it. In
the way they play them now, the
pieces all sound alike. The radio
and personal appearance" noun
tain music heard now is not the
music once played by Blind Ed
Haley, Fletcher Powers or Boge
Robinson. 1t is a poor synthetic
thing, all the way from Roy
Acuff down to the corn cob
plucker" band. 1t draws t h
crowds in, but it lifts nobody up.
Schools that sponsor such are do
ing no service to education.
1 wonder if mountain music
is the only debased form of art
found among us. Specifically, l
wonder what Sophocles or Shake
speare would have thought of the
slapstick sacrilege and broad vul
garity of a "Womanless We'd
ding, presented in the name of
drama?
John Henry Turnipseed.
The Herald $3.50 a Year
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-01-06
CHURCH NOTICE

Earl Mullins and James Wright
will preach at Pine Creek church
Sunday, Jan. 8, at IL a. m. The
Mullins Family will sing at this
service and it is hoped that "Sing
in Dock" Mullins will appear
with them.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-01-06
County Jail Does Light
Business During
December

The county Jail did compare
lively light business during the
month of December. Only II
guests were registered during the
month. The Christmas business
was very light, due to the severe
weather, probably, which kept
the jewellers indoors.
Of the II prisoners, five were
minors under the age of eighteen,
two were women and thirteen out
of county visitors. The break
IovT, fellows.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-01-06
4O5 MARRIAGE
LICENSES ISSUED
DURING YEAR


Der. That brings the total for the
year to 405. The names of con-
tracing parties follow:
Archie Deel and Rita Deel, both
of Nealy Ridge
Jim Hamilton, Clintwood, to
Delphine Mcpherson, Baden
Fielding P. Bradley, Castle
wood, to Make Keith, Dante
Paul Farmer, Coulwood, to Sal
lie Harrison, Duty
Bob Brumit and Edith Salyers,
both of Toms Creek
Pearl Varble, Wise, to Lille
Mae Hoback, Coeburn
Ishmael Mullins, Mcclure, to
Edith Salyers, Nora
Thurman Meade to Claudette
Mullins, both of Pound
William J. Singleton and June
Ball, both of Clintwood.
Vernon Mullins and Lucille
Holbrook, both of Clintwood
John Henry Owens, Vicey, and
Ella Mae O'Quinn, Bee
Arthur Walton Meade and Max
lie Louise Mccoy, both Herald
Harold Leon Ward and Lola
Mae Bond, both of Herald
James Cassell and Maxine Nc
Murray, both of Trammel
Worley Carico and Ruth Turn
er, both of st. Paul
Ernest Crabtree and Alma Bar
yon, both of Cleveland
Ralph Ramey, Haysi, and Paul
inc Viers, Viers
Wallace Roberts and Bobbie
Dotson, both of Pound
Jess w. Steele, Clintwood, and
Joan Mullins, Dwale
Jack E. Perry and Dorothy
Keen, both of Norland
Lambert Sizemore, Blackey,
KY, and leila S. Ould, Carbon
Glow, KY.
Kim Griffin and Ora Sanders,
both of Venia, Va.
Tarnicie r. Fleming and Mar
lene Mullins, both of Clintwood
Leland Victor McFall and Hell
en- Brumit, both Clintwood
William Lee Sutherland and
Wanda Virginia Leidig, both Of
ClintWood
Bascom Booher and Bessie Cox
both of Clintwood
Fermon Parker, Clintwood, and
Lois Paige, Nicklesville
Orval Perry and Della Mae
Hawkins, both of Clintwood
Ulysses Edwards, Tense and
Nary Kiser, Wars.
Lewis Franklin and Maureen
Fleming, both of Fremont
Charlie Harmon and Edith
Fields, both of Castlewood
Mcneil Phillips and Frances
Imogene Couch, both of Trammel
Troy Meade and Iris Cox Max
well, both of Pound
William O'Quinn and Trinie
Charles, both of Vicey
Elmer Kinkead and Joy Brick
ey, both of Fit. Blackmore
Paul Leverne Tull, Mich, and
Jacqueline Poore, Clintwood
Carl Miller, Claremont, w. Va,
and Polly Irene Stanley, Darwin
Boyce Ray Mullins, Dwale, and
Sarah Jane Perry, Norland
Ferd Greear and Mildred Suth
erland, both of Stratton
J. D. Kennedy and Sylvia Pat
rick, both of Trammel
Louis Gillian, Tiny, and Mary
Kate Anderson, Birchleaf
(See back page)
Evening star., 1949-02-07
Atomic Energy Debate
Lilienthal Favors Giving People
Facts So They May Act Wisely

ployes. Defense considerations
necessarily make much of it a
secret. How much, is the question
being posed by Senator Mcmahon
and Mr.. Lilienthal.
The biggest budget In American
history with its new pressures on
the pocketbook nerve give the
question added point. A con-
siderable body of military opinion
backs the Senator when he says
Congress cannot judge defense
needs without knowing the size
of our atomic stockpile. Accord
ing to Senator Mcmahon, Con-
gress is like a general who must
train his troops without knowing
how many rounds of ammuni-
ton they will be issued.
But there are also military
factions who not only resist any
attempt to open up the question
but labor increasingly to bring
atomic energy back under mil
itary control as 1t was during the
war. And they have important
congressional support.
This is the battle that Mr..
Lilienthal heads into with his
admonition at Lehigh: 1T Is well
that we recall our basic tenet:
that this democracy of ours is
founded upon a faith in the
Judgment of the people as a
whole. 1t is founded upon a be-
lief that when people are in
formed, their conscience and their
common sense can be relied upon
to carry us safely through any
crisis"
Evening star., 1949-02-07

blacklisted by his confederates
behind the Iron Curtain.
There is more. however. than
meets the eye in the present re-
lationship between the Yugoslav
and Western governments. With
out any fanfare of publicity the
Yugoslavs have frightened up
somewhat on the Greek guerrillas.
Medical and food supplies deliv-
cred literally in the past have
been drastically curtailed.
The Greek guerrillas are con-
|centrated now principally on Bull
garian and Albanian territory.
since Tito's border guards, while
permitting them to cross the from
tiers into Greece, prevent them
from returning after raids and
encounters with the Greek army.
"Observers" Left.
Until year ago Yugoslavia was
the chief operations base for the
Soviet-sponsored Greek rebels.
Bitolje and Skoplje, in Yugoslav
Macedonia, used to be the head
quarters of the Greek Commu-
nists and also sheltered Soviet
missions which were planning
military strategy for them.
When the break occurred be-
tween the Cominform and Tito
the Soviet military missions and
persons who were attached to the
Yugos]av army and secret police
as observers" were invited to
leave the country. When they
went, the advisory commission
in Bitolje also departed.
Western diplomatic observers
believe now that substantial in
crease in trade between Yugo-
slavia and the West, as well as
continuation of the cold war"
between the Cominform and Tito
Evening star., 1949-02-07

have third Henry McLemors.
man I want to cast a ballot fol-
this year. don't know his name
but he could be any one of hun
dreds of class D ballplayers who
spend their summers eking out a
miserable and precarious living
close to the bottom of the ladder
of organized baseball.
Let's call him George. make him
shortstop, and after I tell you
of his routine from April through
September, see if you don't think
he deserves a place in Coopers-
town. even If Cochrane, Cobb and
Wagner have to move over a bit.
Salary Is Limited.
George plays on a team which,
under the rules of Commissioner
Chandler's Office, is restricted to
a salary limit of $2.400 a month
for all the players. And there are
always is players, usually II, to
cut up the $2.400. Being a pretty
good class D shortstop, George
gets a little more than his share
and averages about $140 a month.
He has a wife and baby, and his
wife's mother lives with them.
Georges only chance to pick up
a little extra money during the
season would be to get the job of
driving the rattle trap bus in
which the team beats around the
State. That pays $100 extra a
month, but he doesn't have a
prayer to get the job-the star
pitcher has that sinecure.
George plays practically all OF
Evening star., 1949-02-07

made If the Wegner law Is re-
enacted or even If a new law con-
tanning the best features of the
Taft-Hartley Act is passed but ad-
ministered by a pro-union board
If the board is to continue as 1t
is. it ought to be put in the La
Dor Department, where Secretary
Tobin could write the decisions
He is frankly and avowedly pro-
union, but he is a member Of the
Presidents Cabinet and this would
make it possible to hold the Presi-
dent directly accountable for obvi-
ously political decisions on labor
management relations.
Reproduction Rishts Ressrved)
Evening star., 1949-02-07

campaign, could be similarly hui
man and candid in reaching oul
own people and the people Of the
world about international trou-
bles, and particularly the vex-
atious Russian dilemma that nov
overshadows all else.
Like other Presidents before
him, he sits behind curtain
drawn between him and the peo.
pie, the velvet curtain Of diplo.
matte custom. This is not pecu-
liar to us. It exists in every other
nation, too, whenever foreign
policy is involved, though there
would seem to be less reason fo1
the sanctified atmosphere here in
the worlds greatest democracy
less reason for the diplomatic
double-talk which is often very
small talk.
There was a little bit of busi-
ness here the other day.
Lawyer" Speaks for Him.
At his press conference the
President chose to step behinc
his lawyer, who is his Secretary o1
State, and not speak for himself
on what is certainly the over
whelming issue of the day. thai
same Russian matter. Yet, only
few weeks ago the same mar
was speaking out on his own anc
for himself, and he used simple
direct language that his hearer:
could understand. 1t is like two
entirely different persons.
It was most entertaining tC
watch such a lawyer and diplomat
as Dean Acheson, our Secretary
of State, go through tile beautiful
performance of last week when
he deftly handled the Joe Stain
overture for direct conversations
with our President, completely de-
molishing the Russian, case with
his balanced sentences, his deli
cate irony. his occasional sar-
casm. It was what we call a
tour de force. The old masters
Talleyrand, Metternich. Disrael.
and their likes, never did it better
To at least one witness, the per-
formance in that theater at the
State Department where press
conferences are held was remi-
niscent Of Victorian play-acting
with little connection with reality
or with people. It was pretty
and it was art-but what then:
1t didn't seem to get us much
further forward with the prob
lem that confronts us.
1t was finely polished. The
Evening star., 1949-02-07
This Changing World
US. Reported Willing to Increase Trade
With Tito Without Political Conditions

might improve further the situa-
ton in the Balkans.
According to available infor-
nation, no question is raised OF
our providing Yugoslavia with
material which could be used di-
rectly to increase the strength of
TiSo's armed forces. Although
there have been hints from Bel
grace that Tito desired some new
observation planes and tools for
war plants, he was informed that
the Western powers are not pre-
pared to comply with such re-
quests.
The Western powers are willing
to send Tito electrical equipment
as we'll as materials for repair of
the railroads and communications
system and other essential indus.
tries in order to make Yugoslavia' s
economy more self-supporting
But it would require a political
agreement, which Tito either is
unable or unwilling to make at
this time. before we would con-
slider supplying HIM with prod
ucts other than those needed for
civilian use.
. Agreement Seen Possible.
The amount involved IN the new
plan is said not to exceed $685.
100000 to $3o,OOO.0OO in the cur
rent year. Shipments to Yugo-
slavia would be balanced for the
most part by export of nonfer-
rous materials, timber and other
surplus products. These. in all
likelihood. would go to Italy and
other countries participating in
the Marshall Plan.
While Tito remains, in appear
ance at least, the foe of Western
capitalism some diplomats. partic-
ularly in London and Paris, believe
in the possibility of an agreement
tween Yugoslavia and Greece.
There is no great traditional en-
nifty between those two countries
as there is between both of them
and Bulgaria.
The chief bone of contention be-
tween Belgrade and Athens in the
past has been the question of
Yugoslav access to the Aegean
Sea through the port of Salonika.
At one time, before World War II,
a compromise was reached, where
by Yugoslavia was granted free
port privileges in that area.
1t is felt in British and French
diplomatic quarters that some kind
of agreement regarding Salonika
would mark definite step toward
further detachment Of Tito from
the Cominform and would i'm
prove the present extremely diff
cult situation of the Athens gov
ernment.
Evening star., 1949-02-07

against sides Of buildings until
it Is time to go to the park.
There he unpacks his one dirty
road uniform, puts 1t on and goes
out on another ill-lighted, DEATH
defying diamond. When the
game is over he gets in the bus,
jiggle-joggles home through the
night, and gets to bed after day.
break. That night he plays at
home and is more than apt to be
booed by the crowd if he isn't
up to top performance.
The next day he climbs in that
little home-away-from- home Of
his, the bus, and starts all over
again.
See what mean? Don't you
think that one of these class D
men should be in the Hall Of
Fame to represent all Of his
comrades who give 50 much en-
tertainment, but who must suffer
so doing 1t? .,
Distributed by McNausht Syndicate. Ine)
Evening star., 1949-02-07
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.
MokDAy, FEBRUARY J. ls49

his games at night, under lights
that are so weak they don't ever
attract playboy moths, and on 8
diamond that is dangerous just
to walk across in broad daylight
much less field a ball on at night
When George stoops to pick up 9
sizzling grounder he doesn't know
where the rocks are going to make
it bound. Often they send it right
into his face, and being as he
doesn't have any extra money fol-
facial repairs. he just has to wear
his face as it Is.
The schedule is enough to kill
off the healthiest of horses.
George has to spend every other
night bouncing along In bus
driven by that tycoon Of a pitcher
The schedule is like this: A game
at home, which is often not fin
ished until midnight because class
D teams don't play many close,
tight games. Lots of runs and
more errors are the usual order Of
the night. After the game George
bathes under a tricky shower in
a poorly ventilated room and goes
home.
OF Again in Morning.
The next morning he takes of
in the bus for a town 200 or so
miles away. He does all the pack
ing of his gear. There are no
attendants to see that his bats,
glove. etc.. are packed and slowed
on the bus. He eats on the way,
and he eats in the cheapest places
he can find, for his travel allow
ance is of the smallest.
Arriving at the town where he
is going to play that night he
doesn't check into a hotel. He
just wanders around, or leans
Evening star., 1949-02-07
Foreign Policy Approach
Truman Urged to Speak Out Candidly
Instead of Using Acheson as LAWYER

/ Secretary had carefully memorize;
his statement. and he delivered i
with magnificent calm and elo'
quent precision as he sat at th'
table below the stage. 1t recalled
another scene witnessed by thil
reporter several years ago during
the turbulent days Of domesti,
crisis Id the early New Deal era
That was in the United Statel
Supreme Court, also very augus
place, suffused with as much dig.
nifty in our domestic affairs as 1.
the State Department IN our for
eign relations.
Talked From Memory.
Justice Owen j. Roberts, 6
handsome figure in his black robe
there on the high bench. de.
livered from memory in thai
beautiful voice of his the Ions
and tedious and involved decis.
ion that killed. with elegance anc
soft grace. the Agricultural Ad.
justment Act contrived to deliver
the distressed farmer from his
own particular depression. He
had the gentle suavity Of 6
Shakespearean actor Of the ole
school as he sat there recitine
his lines, looking out over the
court room. 1t was certainly nc
place that day for an Iowa farm
er.
But there was another justice
who spoke out that day, not sc
polite or eloquent. the stalwart
Harlan Fiske Stone, later Chief
Justice. He disagreed with JUS
tice Roberts and the majority and
took the occasion to talk very
frankly to the Court, saying in
effect that it was getting toe
high and mighty. that it was
setting itself up on a pinnacle
that 1t was arrogating legisla-
tive power to itself and. in doing
this, it was "torturing" the Con-
stitution, as he put 1t. He con-
cluded:
while unconstitutional exer-
else of power by the executive and
legislative bodies is subject to
judicial restraint, the only check
on our exercise of power is oul
own sense of elf-restraint."
He was, Of course, in the mi
nority. The Justice Stones still
are in a minority in diplomacy
He's dead now. There is use to-
day for his frankness and sim
plicity of approach in the field of
diplomacy-here and all around
the world.
Harry Truman is, by nature,
the sort of fellow who could in
troduce it. if he'd only thrust
aside that velvet curtain and be
himself and speak up on his own.