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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-15
May the Audience
Hiss the Villoin"
In q Courtroom?


A youthful truck driver was
arrested on charge of Staying his
bride. At the trial, the defendant
pleaded that he had been insane
at the time Of the murder. The spec
tators in the courtroom promptly
decided that this defense was
''phony," and began to hiss. boo
and smoker. Such demonstrations
were repeated again and again in
the course of the trial, without the
slightest interference by the judge.
When the jury finally brought in
q guilty" verdict, the truck driver
appealed-and the appellate court
ordered the trial to be held all over
again. The judges said that public
hostility toward a defendant ''has
no right to breathe" in q court
room.
A 10-year-old girl. riding on one
Of the flying horses" on merry
go-round, decided upon an expert.
ment. Paying no heed to warnings
posted on the wall. she dismounted,
looked around bit and then tried
to climb back on. But as she did so,
the heel Of the descending horse
struck and injured her ankle. She
later brought suit against the owner
for damages. but the court ruled
against her. The judge said that.
by disobeying the posted rules. she
had brought her injury upon her.
SELF
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-15

Doc Simpson was saying, "Hospi-
tails are building up bone banks
that work just like blood banks.
When bone IL needed, the surgeon
takes one from q refrigerator, cuts
it to the right shape and simply
spices It In"
"You doctors are sure making
progress" says, "but tell me, are
any Of the patients fussy about
whose bone they're getting?"
mo sir!" replies Doc. mo more
than they worry about whose blood
they get, No one yet asked for 4
bone from man who went to the
same school or church he did"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-15
Do Courts Recognize
The Low of Grovity?

A telephone repairman was aloft
one day, fixing wire, when the
cross-arm on which he was lean
ing suddenly broke off. Injured in
the fall, the repairman sued the
company for damages. In mis- petit
ton, he told everything that had
happened-except that he forgot to
mention dropping to the ground!
The company promptly seized upon
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-15

this technicality to insist that the
claim was no good. The company
argued that, in presenting a legal
claim, nothing may be left to the
imagination" However, the judge
brushed aside that objection and
allowed the repairman to collect
He said the court took it for granted
that, when the cross-arm broke, the
law of gravity took over the situa-
ton!
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-15
FLEMINGTOWN

A Christmas program will be
held at FlemingtoWn School on
Wednesday afternoon at o'clock.
Edna Faye Mullins and Gar
denia Boyd sponsored a candy
party at the home Of Floyd Ball
ely Thursday night. Several young
people and Cecil and Jarvis Pow
ers of Darwin were present.
Auty Fleming has found q VAL
liable watch which he lost about
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-15
High School News
Contributed by Journalism Glass

after getting into trouble; h e
new idea of lawyer is a person
who advises one how to keep out
of trouble.
The speaker outlined the train
ing needed to become an attor-
ney and predicted more stringent
requirements for the practice of
law in the future.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-15
QUARTETTE

The Chicago Brass Quartette
gave a performance in the high
school auditorium at the activity
period last Wednesday. The quar-
tette was made up of two women
one man. The attendance was
good, and the audience applauded
the performance very heartily.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-15

The merchant later filed suit for
the damages he had sustained. At
the trial, the young couple pro-
tested that the mishap had been
absolutely unintentional but the
court decided they were liable any.
how. The judge said that each
tenant in a building must use ''rea-
sonable care" not to damage the
property of fellow-tenants.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-15
COAL

Coal supports every business in
Dickinson County. The nnine pay
rolls, either directly or indirectly,
keep every household in the coun
ty going, Without coal, this COM
munity could not support one
fifth of its present population.
Dependent as we are ca the
black diamond, perhaps we can
endure a study of some figures
on coal.
There has been a shrinkage OF
l00,000,0000 tons in the coal mar
ket of the United States during
he past year. Where there was a
market for five tons of coal
syear ago, there is market for
only four tons at this time
Sixty-eight million tons of coal
were exported from the United
States IN 1947. Thirty-five mill
ion tons were shipped in 1949.
Rising coal production in Europe
accounts for the shrinkage
The railroads of this country
used l32,oOO.O0O tons of coal in
1914. The same railroads used
100000 tons in 1949. More and
more Diesel engines, cheaper to
power and more efficient than
coal burners, caused the falling
off.
Imports of crude Oil from the
Mediterranean and the Middle
East have been growing since
1945. Oil, as household fuel, is
cleaner, more instant in action,
and less bother to handle than is.
coal
Twenty-fiv thousand miles Of
natural gas lines have been laid
in this country since 1947--even
into the coalfields of Kentucky.
Machinery has replaced a great
bulk of manpower. in the mines.
A hundred men with machines
can bring more coal to the sur
face than could three hundred
men a score of years ago. Then
what does the future hold for the
5000 mines operating in the I'm
tied States?
Coal operators, business men
and even some miners blame John
L. Lewis for the fact that the
mines have operated only half
time during the past year. After
all, is the three day weel. merely
the edict of dictator, or is it
the result of causes beyond the
control of man? After all, is the
three-day week harmful to the
country as whole? When we
think Of a declining market and
a productive capacity that could
supply twice that market, need
we hope for anything more than
half-time work in the mines for
the future? Could Lewis have set
the three-day week going so that
all miners could have IN equal
amount of work?
Why blame Lewis and the min
ers because the coal business is
sick? No one man, nor any set OF
men, made it so.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-15
three months ago.

tnree mOntnS ago.
ALA Maye, Roger Gray and Pat
ton Jay Duff visited their grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Patton Mul
Inns, Saturday night.
c. ]. Sluss visited his sister,
Mrs. John w. Mullins, Saturday
right.
Catherine Mullins visited at the
home of Fannie Lee McGlothlin
Sunday night.
Jenky McGlothlin visited Ed
Mullins and family Sunday night.
Clayton Pickett is in on leave
from the army.
Pauline Mullins, who has been
staying at the home of Mr.. Hill
man in Clintwood, visited home
folks Saturday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Junior Fleming
spent Saturday night with Mrs.
Fleming's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edd Mullins.
On the night of Dec. "a there
will be q Christmas program at
the Flemingtown Freewill Bap-
fist church. Everybody invited to
attend.
Mrs. James Wright and daugh-
ter, Anna May, who have been
taking treatment in the Univer-
sity Hospital, Charlottesville,
have returned home much i'm
proved.
Little Ollie Kay, daughter of
Farmer Duff, has been quite i'll.
Annette Fleming spent Friday
night with ALA Mae Duff
Garnet Artrip spent Friday
night at the home of Leonard
Sluss.
A large number of people at
tended Regular Baptist church at
Solid Rock Saturday and Sunday.
Geneva Artrip, who has been
i'll for some time, is making a
rapid recovery.
MIR. and Mrs. John Artrip have
gone to Roanoke to spend the hol
idays.
Mrs. Leafy Willis visited at
the home of Verlin Fleming Sun
day.
Billie Sue Branham spent Sat
urday night with Shirley Ann
Fleming.
grandmother, Mrs Ellen Fleming,
grandmother, Mrs. Tllen Fleming,
at Dickinson County Hospital on
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. HE Mullins Wis
tied Dan Beam Sunday.
Billie Gene Mullins visited his
grandfather, Doc Mullins, Satur-
Gay.
Guy Mullins house was blown
down Thursday night by high
winds.
Don Rita Wright spent Satur-
day night with Shelby Jean Null
Inns.
Edna Bates of Neon, KY, visit
ed Mrs. Sarah Wright Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lindsey Mullins
visited Uncle Jim Arlington a.
Clinchco Sunday.
Harry Lee Fleming was calling
on Carl Fleming Sunday.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-15
Is on Upstairs Tenant
Liable for Letting
Water Drip on the Floor?

A pair Of newlyweds moved into
a flat over stationery store. One
evening, the wife absent-mindedly
left the faucet running in the wash
basin-with the plug in! During the
night, water leaked steadily through
the floor and dripped onto some
merchandise in the store below
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-15
From where | sit by Joe Marsh,
Now Hospitals Are
Banks, +" Too!
Advertisement,

From where | sit, it would be a
better world If we were half as
willing to accept other peoples
ideas and tastes, as we seem to be
willing to accept their bone and
blood, There'll always be differ
ences. Some like buttermilk, others
would rather have a sparkling
glass of temperate beer. But
underneath we're pretty much the
same-deserving each others re.
spect and tolerance!
@e MA4<
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-15
Readers Courtroom
Absent.Minded Drip
X
Elderly Injuries
Gravity Takes Over
By Will Bernard, LIB.
BY Will Bernard, LIB.

State laws vary. For personal
guidance, see your local attorney.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-15

VEECK Control OF
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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-15

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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-15

eapwigAt. 1910, United States Brewers Foundation
Evening star., 1949-09-30
2 Cadets Killed in Crash
Of Corsuirs in Texas
BY the Associated Press

CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex, Sept
30.-Two students in the Navy's
advanced carrier fight training
program were killed yesterday in
an air crash about four miles
south of Beeville.
The students, stationed at Cabi-
ness Field here, were flying F-4-U
Corsairs, which crashed and
burned just off the Sinton-B
vile highway.
The Navy withheld names of
victims pending notification of
next of kin. At Waterbury, Conn.
the family of Midshipman Paul
Boulier said it was notified he was
killed in Corpus Christi plane
crash yesterday. The Beeville
crash was the only one reported
by the Navy here.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
|Gray 10 Give VACuts
To President Soon;
|Who|e Offices 10 Go
By WiIIiom J. WheotIey

The program for impending cuts
in Veterans Administration per-
sonnel, expected now to affect ap-
proximately $500 persons through
out the country, is expected to be
laid before President Truman by
Veterans Administrator Carl r.
Gray. jr., early next week.
Gen. Gray has spent most OF
the week studying the proposals
which, it was indicated today. are
to close Offices completely in some
areas to absorb the reduction in
current appropriations amounting
to $28, 100000 for salaries and ex-
penses. The cuts must be made
deeper because the administra-
ton already has been operating
on the reduced fund for three
months. The cutbacks will require
approximately another month to
effect after the directive is issued.
No announcement of the af-
fected areas is expected until after
the President is acquainted with
the proposed program, because OF
the repercussions which are sure
to come from individual Congress
men. The reductions are expected
to hit many more areas than
those ordered by Secretary of De-
fense johnson recently.
Skeleton Forces Opposed.
A VA spokesman said, however,
that Administrator Gray has in
dicated he favors closing entire
Offices in some areas. He does
not lean to personnel reductions
which would leave Offices entirely
inadequate to handle business. it
wass aid. He is insisting, it was
added. that each Office left intact
be fully manned so that it will
be capable of handling all VA
matters without complaints of
delays.
Closing of Offices, it was ex-
planned, will save a greater pro-
portionate amount of funds, as
rental comes out of them as we'll
as travelling and other expenses
incidental to operation. OF course,
it was added, some of the rented
quarters have been taken on
long-term contracts, and these
will have to be adjusted, which
involves payment for the quarters
for a period in which they are not
used.
Delay Means Deeper Cuts.
The longer the decision is de-
layed. the deeper will be the nee
essary cuts. VA operated for
more than two months of the cur
rent fiscal year before it knew
what Congress was going to do,
and the remaining time has been
used to determine where the
slices are to be made.
The administrator is expected
to lay the matter before the Presi-
dent on Monday when he returns
to Washington for a day before
leaving on a trip of approximately
two weeks to the Middle and Far
West.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Air Freight Men Shown
Speedy New Tronspolr,,ts:.
BY the Associoted Press

SANTA MONICA, Calf, Sept.
30.-Before executives of air cargo
lines, a Douglas Aircraft Co. pilot
test flew it's new DC-6A Liftmaster
yesterday. .....
Douglas describes the, plane, as
specifically designed for high
speed, low-cost, long-range trans
portation of air freight"
The test flight was called "suc-
cessful."
The cargo craft is a develop
ment of the DC-6 passenger trans
port. Five feet longer than the
airliner, it can carry a 10000
pound payload long distances at
more than 300 miles an hour.
Only 10 per cent of American
foreign commerce was carried in
American ships at the close of the
10th century.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Soviet Treaty Remuneration,
Taken CoImIy by YuqosIovs

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia. Sept
80 (P.-Russia's renunciation OF
her treaty of friendship and al
lance with Yugoslav produced
no official reaction here yesterday
and little surprise.
officials circles refused to COM
ment. The official Yugoslav press
and the government-controlled
Belgrade radio thus far have ig-
nored the development.
The average Yougoslav had
taken it for granted months age
that the pledge had become only
a paper promise with decreasing
significance, since the Soviet
dominated Cominform had begun
a cold war of nerves against Mar
shall Tito's government.
However. Russia's action did
constitute one potentially signi-
ficant step in the Balkans cold wal
"a definite move toward a break
in formal relations between the
u. s S r. and Yugoslavia.
So far, even though Russia and
her satellites have applied stiff
economic pressure and, as Tito
put it this week, ratified theil
arms" the formal step of a COM
plete diplomatic break has beer
avoided.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
AFL Central Unit Backs
Gravel Strike by 7 Unions

The strike of two unions against
the Smoot Sand and Gravel Co.
now four weeks old, has been in
dorsed by the Washington Central
Labor Union, o,,,, 1r,e
,. The central body Of American
Federation of Labor unions here
fully supports the strike of the
Operating Engineers Local n
and the Truck Drivers Local $50,
C. F.. Preller. president Of the Cen
trail Labor Union, said. He said
the sand and gravel company had
a virtual monopoly" OF raw ma
terials used here in the production
of concrete and that as supplies
dwindle, the operations of many
building firms will have to be cur
tailed.
More than 200 workers are in
volved in the strike.
Mr.. Preller said the sand and
gravel company's attitude in the
strike Is a threat to the COM
munity's welfare and pointed up
the need for a District department
of labor and a city mediation and
conciliation service.
Evening star., 1949-09-30

d z " o1AAs
wherever possible without causing
undue hardships. agencies will be
required to absorb some OF the
pay costs. However, budget Off
cials emphasize this cost absorb
ton will be only on partial
basis and won't be applied at all
in cases where departments and
agencies show such a move would
cripple their operations.
OF course, Federal departments
and agencies would have to foot
the entire cost if Congress orders
them to. And it's certain such
amendments requiring agencies to
absorb pay raise costs will be Of
fered in the Senate. although Sen
ate administration leaders will
fight this proviso. The House
passed it's Federal pay reclassi-
fcation measures without includ-
ing such an amendment.
The odds are, however, that
even if the Senate did approve
such an amendment it would be
knocked out in House. Senate con-
ference.
HMMM-When the National
Press Club recently reopened its
remodeled mems bar it allowed
ladies there for that night only in
honor of the occasion.
One of the Press Club regulars
saw the fair sex swarming into the
room and muttered:
"Women's place is in the Eng
lish Channel"
X ~
AGO-DismisSal notices are be-
ing prepared in the Adjutant Gen
erals Office for $50 civilian en-
ployes. While some reductions were
in prospect, only about half that
number were expected.
REMINDER-Don't forget that,
starting tomorrow night the Fed
eral Spotlight radio broadcasts
will be heard every Saturday at
BIS p.m.e over ,WMAL. The Star
station.
t9F e2"ot = R"trt'o9 ~
NEW ASSIGNMENT John
Mitchell, who headed the Civil
Service Commissions statistical
division, has left to join the De-
fense Department, where he will
be in charge of co-ordinating sta
tistics for the Army, Navy and
the Air Force Departments. Mr..
Mitchell has long been regarded
as one of the Governments ace
statisticians.
RETIREMENT-The House yes
terday completed action on the
|Senate-approved measure to low
er the cost for Federal employees
upon retirement to provide sur
vivorship annuity benefits for
their wives. The bill now goes to
the White House. President Tru-
man is expected to sign it.
The measure reduces the pres
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Steel
Continued From First Page.)

continued from F1rSC PdgeD
doubtedly set a pattern for the
rest of the steelmakers.
Conference Called.
Federal mediators feel they can
get Mr.. Murray and United States
Steel together. They're going to
try in conferences throughout the
day and night.
Mr.. Murray was jubilant yester-
day in announcing Portsmouth's
capitulation. 1t was the first
crack in the solid industry front
against the free pension-insurance
plan.
But nowhere else did industry
knuckle down to the union terms.
And as the strike deadline ap-
proaches the picture grows bleak
er. A steel shutdown, economists
hint, could start a slide toward re-
cession.
A steelworker walkout would
push the Nations Strike-idle past
the million mark. About 100000
coal miners have been idle nearly
two weeks.
Industry spokesmen refused to
say how long present steel supplies
would last. But a long strike could
wipe out reserves. Production in
steel-using industry would be cut.
perhaps curtailed entirely. Un-
employment would be heavy.
Pickets circled Crucible Steel's
Midland, (Pa.) plant where 1000
quit work yesterday. So hours
ahead of schedule.
+: Crucible called it "a full -f1edged
strike"
Banking of mill furnaces, be-
gun early this week. continued
unabated. 1t takes "a to 48 hours
to halt steel operations completely
and the industry wants to pre-
vent damage to equipment valued
in the millions.
: Republic. Bethlehem, Jones IL
Laughlin, Inland, Midland, Car
-negie- Illinois, Youngstown Sheet d
Tube, National Tube, Geneva
everywhere across the Nation the
steel mills are shutting down.
v Negotiations with two big firms
Bethlehem and Republic-col-
lapsed completely.
These companies, together with
U. S. Steel, offered identical plans.
The union spurned them. q
The firms had offered To put =
cents for each hour an employe
works into an insurance Plan. But
and this is what Mr.. Murray
turned down with loud "no"-the
employees must pay 2 cents an
hour into the fund.
The Presidents fact-finulng
board said the steel industry should
pay for all insurance which in
cludes life, sickness, accident, sur
gical and disqualification benefits.
AS for pension, the companies
offered to contribute 6 cents an
hour but didn't say how the pro-
gram would be set up. This would
be organized later. And employees
would have to contribute an un-
specified sum.
The Ford Motor Co. yesterday
announced acceptance of the free
on-insurance program as
devised by the presidential board.
It's exactly what Mr.. Murray
wants the steel industry to grant.
And that's exactly what the
steel industry saws it won't do.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Tito
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Continued From First Page.)
Kallai to the Yugoslav envoy in
Budapest. Jura Jovanovic.
The note said Hungary con-
siders all her obligations under
the treaty null and void. 1t ac-
cused Yugoslavia of having "de-
famed the pact and behaved in an
unfriendly manner toward this
country for years.
The note charged that Rajk's
trial proved "the present Yugo-
slav government organized a plot
to overthrow the Hungarian gov
ernment and that the Yugoslav
minister of interior alexander
Rankovic) came to Hungary
clandestinely and negotiated with
Rajk, who had been a police in
former, provocateur and i'm
perialist agent"
Following the Rajk trial, Hun
gary ordered 10 members of the
Yugoslav legation in Budapest to
leave the country.
The Hungarian -Yugoslav friend
ship pact was signed by Marshal
Tito and former Hungarian Prime
Minister Lajos Dinnyes IN Buda-
pest December 8, 1947.
Evening star., 1949-09-30
Ewing Says Point 4
Can Help Improve
Social Conditions
BY the Associoted Press

Federal Security Administrator
Oscar Ewing said today that Presi-
dent Truman's Point -Four" pro-
gram can be big factor for better
social as well as economic condi-
tions in the world.
That would improve the outlook
for the United States, he told the
House Foreign Affairs Committee.
The security administrator thus
backed up other administration
spokesmen who have urged con-
gressional approval of Mr.. Tru-
mans bold new program" for
squirting the economic develop
ment of backward areas abroad.
Mr.. Truman's plan was proposed
in his inaugural address last Janu-
ary as Point Four of his foreign
policy program. In legislative form.
it is now the subject of committee
hearings.
SA ncduy W Assist.
Observing that it cannot be ex-
pected to- produce sensational
overnight results, Mr.. Ewing de-
clared:
But in the long run it can be a
major factor in the improvement
of economic and social conditions
throughout the world and in
making the future secure for
peaceful, democratic United
States"
Mr.. Ewing told the COMMITTEES
his own security agency is pre-
pared to lend technical assistance
in improving social conditions
among the so-called backward
peoples of Asia, the Americas oAd
the Far East. He cited its ex-
perience in health, education and
social security.
To Supply Advice, Guidance.
"As I visualize this program,
our task will be, first of all, to sup
ply the technical advice and guild
ance necessary to enable the
people of these underdeveloped
areas to improve their own health
conditions" Mr.. Ewing said.
Second, or even simultaneously,
we will help to establish programs
of basic education to improve the
standard of literacy and develop
vocational skills, without which
economic development is difficult,
if not impossible.
And, third, we will give advice
and technical aid in the estab-
lishment of necessary programs to
assure social stability"