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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-01
LONZA LOCALS

Wedding bells rang Thursday
Nov. 25th, for Layton Musick and
Irene Mullins. They are making
their home with his parents at
present.
Anita Gibson spent Saturday
night with Mabel Foote and
Fern Cochran.
Everette Delaney called on
Lovella NeWberry Sunday night.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-01
FLEMTNGTOWN

Flemingtown School rendered a
very good Thanksgiving program
Wednesday afternoon. The Case
sisters sang two beautiful songs.
Many were present.
There was a large attendance
at the Freewill Baptist church
Sunday. Elders Earl Mullins,
James Wright and Ledford Ma
han were the ministers in charge
of services.
Services were also held at the
Skeetrock n Pound River
churches of the Brethren.
Farmer Duff and Tom Mana
han killed a deer each in High
Knob section last week.
Mrs. Francis Mullins was bap-
tised Sunday in Pound River.
Goble Branham has been snuff
fering with heart ailment but is
now better.
Lorraine Browning spent Satur-
day night with Shelby Jean Null
Inns.
Buford Barrett and family were
visiting at the home of Lindsay
Mullins Sunday.
ALA Faye, Maye, Alice Faye
and Shirley Gay Duff visited Cla-
ra Lou RameySunday.
Joe Mullins and son, Eddie
Ralph, were visiting Farmer Duff
Wednesday night.
Mrs, Joe Mullins and daughter
have been sick for the ppast few
days.
Mrs. Edna May of West Vir-
ginia has been visiting Mrs. Edd
Mullins over the weekend.
Miss Martha Turner, who is
working in ClintWood, visited
homefolks over the weekend.
Carl Mullins was calling on Lee
Artrip Sunday night.
Mrs. John Aririp has been Sc
Mously i'll,
T. j. Mullins is planning fam
lily reunion for Christmas. Mr..
Mullins is quite i'll at this time.
Mrs. Wretha Grimes and daugh
ter, Roma, were visiting her faith
er, Jimm Hill, on Georges Fork,
who is very sick at this writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. James D. Yates
were visiting at the home of Sell
don Fleming and Mrs. Wretha
Grimes Sunday,
Shirley Gay Duff visited An
nette Fleming Sunday afternoon,
Mr., and Mrs, Luke Wright have
moved into their new home, Just
recently completed.
Mrs. Eva Mullins is very i'll at
this time,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-01
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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-01

Charlie Perkins and family eel
ebrated his birthday at the home
of his mother, Mrs. Joe Perkins.
Several friends enjoyed the din
ner with the family.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-01
CHURCH BUS SCHEDULE

Clintwood Baptist Church will
operate a bus to bring people to
Sunday School and church each
Sunday morning.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-01
Schedules:

Bearpen School House -. 900
Up Brush Creek
Butler Mullins Store 49,. $50
Up Fremont road
We will be glad to pick you up
along the road as we pass. Just
give the driver signal.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-01


Mrs. Worley Gibson and chill
dren visited her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. S p Cochran, Sunday
Mrs. Frank Foote, Fern and
Melville Cochran, Joyce Faye
Musick, Shefford Sluss and Ami
ia Gibson attended the show at
Haysi Saturday night.
Shefford Sluss spent Saturday
night with Mr.. and Mrs. Estus
Musick.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1949-12-01

Read The Little Ads"
Evening star., 1949-08-18

came ill last Thursday and wanted
orange juice, which she gave her.
Mr. Carver said he found his
daughter lying on her stomach in
the dining room when he came
home from work that day. He
said she complained of pain in
her stomach. He then rushed her
to the hospital.
"She had always been in the best
of health" Mr.. Carver said. THE
only diseases she had were the
ordinary childhood ones"
Mr.. Carver is an assistant sig
nal repairwan for the Baltimore
g. Ohio Railroad.
Just before Claudette became
i'll, another of the Carver children,
Elizabeth, 3. was ia ken to
Children's Hospital with a
stomach ailment attributed to i'm
proper food. Mr.. Carver said he
was told Elizabeth had eaten too
much sweets and not enough
solid food"
The Garvers have two other
children, Esther, Z. and John
Wayne, 19 months. Neither has
ever shown any tendency to chew
on Wooo, according to the parents.
Evening star., 1949-08-18
Henry |. Scott Heads
Virginia Firemen
BY the Associated Press

FARMVILLE.. Va, Aug. 18.-
Henry L. Scott of Alexandria was
reelected president of the Vir-
ginia State Firemen's Associa-
ton here yesterday. Norfolk was
chosen as the convention size for
1850.
All officers were reelected. Be-
sides Mr.. Scott they included j. J
Charles, Newport News. vice presi-
dent; Wallace Hicks, Hampton
secretary, Roy Manning, Galax
treasurer, and the Rev. j. c. Gar
Der, Staunton. chaplain.
Executive Committee and
Standing Committee appoint
ments are made after the con-
venUion.
A memorial service was held
for 81 f1remen and six members of
the ladies auxiliary who died in
the past year. The service was
conducted by members, of the
auxiliaries of Chincoteague. Gal
ak and Alexandria, led by Mrs.
Alice Guckert of Penn-Daw, State
auxiliary chaplain.
The 18th annual memorial ad-
dress was given by Mr.. CARRIER.
Alexandria had the largest
delegation at the service, Al. and
was presented with a Bible by
Chaplain CARRIER. The Alexandria
auxiliary had Is ladies present to
take a prize, a religious picture.
Evening star., 1949-08-18

A divorce has been granted
Nathaniel Horace Luttrell, jr., heir
of the late Woodward & Lothrop
director, from Nina Lunn Luttrell,
a check of Arlington Circuit rec
|ords disclosed today.
The Luttrells were married at
the Sulgrave Club January 8, 1948.
Representative Martin of Massa-
|chusetts, then Speaker of the
House. and Mr.. and Mrs. Horace
A. Hildreth attended the cere-
mony. Mr.. Hildreth was Governor
of Maine at that time. After a
wedding trip to Nassau, the couple
went to live at 6407 Wilson boule-
ward. Arlington. She is "a.
The Arlington decree was
granted June 16, only five days
after it was filed. Under the order
of Circ&it Judge Walter T. Nc
Carthy, all papers lin the case,
other than the decree. were sealed.
The defendant was allowed to re-
sumo her maiden name.
Attorneys said sealing of divorce
papers is extremely unusual" and
is done most of the time where
children are involved. The decree
notes that a written property set
tlement was agreed on by the
couple.
Miss Lunn Is q granddaughter
Evening star., 1949-08-18
Massenburg Appointment
To VMl Post Protested
BY the Associated Press

ROANOKE. Va. Aug. 49,
James P. Hart, jr.. Roanoke attor-
ney and Virginia Military Insti-
tute graduate. has protested to
Gov. Tuck the appointment to the
Board of Visitors of G. Alvin
Massenburg. State Democratic
chairman. :.
Mr., Massenburg, also speaker Of
the House of Delegates, was de-
feated' In the Democratic primary
for denomination to the House.
Mr.. Hart. in a telegram last
night to the Governor. said the
Honor of VMI goes back further
than the disgrace of the Byrd
machine" Mr.. Massenburg was
not referred to by name in the
telegram, but he was indirectly
labeled a "discredited political
hack" and a "shop-worn stooge."
Evening star., 1949-08-18
Mortgage Holders Buy
Corby Estate at Auction

A representative Of holders Of a
mortgage on the 120-acre Corby
estate on the Rockville pike near
Bethesda bought the property at
auction yesterday for $165,000.
Only bidder at the sale, held on
the Rockville Courthouse steps,
was w. Hiles Pardoe. vice presi-
dent of the National Savings &
Trust Co.. Washington.
Mr.. Pardoe refused to identify
the four mortgage holders he rep
resented, adding that they planned
to sell the property and recover
their investment as soon as the
Montgomery County Circuit Court
ratif1es yesterdays sale.
The sale was ordered because
of the failure of Diplomat Prop
critics. Inc, New York. which
bought the land about five years
ago for slightly more than $780,
900, to make necessary payments
on its mortgage. After buying the
tract the firm announced plans
to erect a $40, 900, 900 luxury hotel
on it. Construction was, never
started, however.
One of the members OF the
the Diplomat Properties firm was
Benjamin F. Fields, who figured
in the congressional investigation
of Murray Carson. Howard
Hughes and former Representa-
tive Andrew j. May.
The property is located at the
intersection of the Rockville pike
and the Garrett Park road, dag
onally opposite Georgetown Pre-
paratory School.
Evening star., 1949-08-18
Taxpayers Get Chart
On County Budget

Charts showing the sources ,of
Montgomery County's income and
how the money is distributed are
enclosed in real estate tax bills
being, sent out to all county tax
payers.
One of the charts Is a break
down of the county's $7.907.57
operating budget for the current
fiscal year. A second contains a
similar breakdown of the county's
receipts and disbursements from
bond issues, loans, special taxes
and assessments.
The idea was initiated by
County Manager Irving G. Nc
Nayr, who said it is intended to
give residents a more thorough
understanding of how their county
operates.
Previous tax bills had included
diagrams showing the disposition
of each tax dollar. The charts.
however, according to Mr.. Nc
Nayr, are designed to give clearer
picture of the county's fiscal op-
erations.
The operating budget chart
shows, for example. that of the
total. 4543 per cent goes for edu-
cation and 1105 per cent for pay
ment of principal and interest on
school bonds.
The largest item in the capital
budget also is education, for which
$5,352.000 is distributed for new
schools. The next largest ite.n
is $1,092 900 for construction of
roads and sewers.
Evening star., 1949-08-18
Star Movies

Community movies, sponsored
by the Star, the Recreation De-
partment and the Film Center.
which have been postponed be-
cause of rain. will be held tonight.
Programs of comedy, sports, car
toons and musicians will be
shown at the following play
grounds and recreation centers:
GEORGETOWN, Thirtyfourth and Volta
streets NV.
Powell, Sixteenth and Lamont streets
NV.
Raymond. Spring road and Tenth street
NV.
shipley Terrace. 2soas Southern avenue
Trinidad, Trinidad avenue and Meiss
street NE.
Cooke, street between North Capitol
and First streets NV.
Syphax School, Halt street between N
and o streets s.W. 4
Evening star., 1949-08-18
ChId's Death From Chewing
Paint Off Furniture Probed
Continued Practice
For Yeor Despite
Adeauute Meals

Prince Georges County health
officials today planned an inves-
tigation into the death from lead
poisoning of a 4-year- -old Hyatts-
vile girl who. her parents said,
had been eating paint off furni-
ture for the last year.
The child. Claudette Carver.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Claude
Z. Carver. 4503s Decatur street,
died : Saturday in the Prince
Georges General Hospital. two
days after she was admitted.
Dr., Thomas s. Englar. county
health officer, said he would visit
the home today in an attempt to
learn all the details in the case.
DR.. John T. Maloney. county
medical examiner, who issuea "a
certificate of death due to lead
poisoning, said hospital authori-
ties told him the child was under
nourished. Hospital officials said
that in cases where children
suffer from certain vitamin def
ciencies. it is mot unusual" for
them to eat paint off objects.
For this reason, they said, manu-
facturers of baby furniture recent
ly started covering their products
with nonharmful vegetable paint.
A law passed at the last session of
the Maryland General Assembly
prohibited the use of poisonous
paint on cribs and other children's
furniture unless it is so labeled.
The Garver's said they had pur-
chased some of their furniture sec
ond hand.
Tests to Be Made.
Specimens of the child's body
fluids have been sent by the hos
pital to the National Institute of
Health. Bethesda. for analysis.
DR.. William Manion, hospital
pathologist, explained this was
done to verify the finding of lead
poisoning. .
Mrs. Carver told reporters the
girl had been gnawing for about
a year on her crib, other furniture
in the house, the porch railing
and the steps leading to the Sec
ond floor. The paint on a desk
was almost all chewed off.
I'VE asked doctors why she did
it but they didn't know" she said.
II always whipped her and so did
her daddy, She ate fine but after
leaving the table, she would sneak
out and chew on wood"
The father said physicians who
had examined the girl had told
him she lacked something in her
system"
Il asked what it was" he re-
called, "and the doctors told me
to give her sassafras root. I gave
1t to her but she refused to eat it.
Mrs. Carver said Claudette be-
Evening star., 1949-08-18
Falls Church Festival
Put Off 10 Tomorrow

Opening of the third annual
Falls Church Festival, scheduled
at $50 o'clock tonight, has been
postponed until the same time to-
morrow because of rain last night
and the forecast for more today.
The festival will run for three
days and wind up a week-long OBJ
sservance of the first anniversary
of the municipality as a city of the
second class (more than 5000 pop
ulation.
A parade of So units marching
from West Broad and Spring
streets to the festival site-a three
.acre tract opposite the high school
will lead off activities. Other
events tomorrow night will include
Army platoon drills, first elimina-
ttions in a red-head contest, a
creased pig contest, a white ele-
phant auction and dancing.
Evening star., 1949-08-18
September Ruling Due
on Validity Of Virginia
Riqht-to.Work Law
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 18-The
Virginia Supreme Court is ex-
pected to hand down decisions at
its September term in two cases
testing the validity of the States
right-to-work law and the Mas
.senburg Anti-annexation Act.
The court will convene in
Staunton in September S.
In the right-te-work test case
Harley A. Hawkins. print shop
employe in Newport News, won
a $500 judgment on the ground
he lost his job because Of refusal
to join a union.
The employer. Claude F. Fin
ney, appealed. He contended the
act banning union and closed
shops in Virginia contravenes
both the Federal and State con-
Stitutions.
Expansion Blocked.
In the Massenburg act test, the
city of Newport News has at
tackled the validity of the act
which it says has blocked the
city's expansion into Elizabeth
City County since the laws pas
sage in 1898.
Sponsored by G. Alvin Massen-
burg of Hampton, Speaker of the
House of Delegates, who was de-
feated for reorganization in the Au-
gust 2 primary, the act provides
that certain counties cannot be re-
duced to less than 60 square miles
in area.
Elizabeth City County has a So
square mile area. This. the city
argues, has prevented it from an
nexing any of the county's land.
+ May Affect Arlington.
+. The decision could have some
bearing on the situation in Arling-
ton, where q similar law prevents
further annexation by the cities of
Alexandria and Falls Church.
Also up for decision at the Sep
tember term is an appeal by Jacob
Hevener, SO, Statnton Army vet
eran, from a Staunton Corporation
Court sentence of 16 years in
prison for murder.
Hevener was convicted in the
death of his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Arlene Hudson Hevener. "A, regis
tered nurse. Mrs. Hevener. wife of
his brother, Harold, died March %.
1948, of a head injury. Jacob Hev-
ener was charged with beating her.
Evening star., 1949-08-18
Virginia Hearing
On Milk Price Set
For August rs

A hearing by the Virginia Milk
Commission will be held at 2 pm.
August Is in Alexandria on prices
in the Arlington Alexandra mar
ket.
The Maryland and Virginia Milk
Producers Association requested
the hearing to seek approval of the
association action increasing the
price of milk in the Washington
area one cent quart August /.
An association spokesman said
no further price change was con-
templated.
Several Washington dairies de-
scribed the association action OF
August / as arbitrary" The retail
price is now the highest on record
here.
Evening star., 1949-08-18
LuttreII, Store Directors Heir,
Granted Divorce; Papers Sealed

of former Senator White, Demo-
crat, of Maine. Mr.. Luttrell and
his sister shared equally in a ST.
|258.137 estate. when their father
died in June, 1912. The senior
Mr.. Luttrell was a son-in-law OF
Alvin M. Lothrop, one OF the
founders of Woodward 81 Lothrop.
Washington society has specu-
lated recently that Miss Lunn
might marry. the Argentine Am
bassador, Jeronimo, Remorino, a
bachelor, currently in his home
country.
Evening star., 1949-08-18
Infont Suffocates in Crib
At Silver Spring Home

A 6-month- boy was found
suffocated yesterday in his crib
at 9005 Sudbury road, Silver
Spring.
The child, Lawrence A. Wild
mayer III. was the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lawrence A. Widmayer, jr.
Montgomery County police
quoted DR.. F. j. Broschart, county
medical examiner, as saying death
was caused by an enlarged thymus
at the base of the neck which cut
off the infants breathing. They
said the child was lying on his
stomach with his face turned to
one side. The body was taken to
the Warner E. Humphrey funeral
home, Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1949-08-18
Tie-Breaker Is Called
To Settle Deadlock
On Fairfax zoning

For the first time in about four
years a decision of the Fairfax
County Board of Supervisors today
hinged on the vote of the official
tie-breaker.
Board members said it was the
first time within that, period that
the boards vote on a question had
resulted in tie, necessitating call
ing in r. l.. Popkins of Groveton.
Mr.. Popkins is out of town, how
ever, and yesterdays question will
be held over until the boards next
meeting, September 7, when Mr..
,Popkins will be available.
Under Virginia law an official
tie-breaker is appointed by the
Circuit Court in cases where the
County Board of Supervisors has
an even number of members.
The tie resulted yesterday when
the board at it's regular bimonthly
meeting voted on a request Of the
CrestWood Construction Corp. for
rezoning of land from suburban
residence to urban residence.
Located at the northeast corner
of LeeSburg pike and Glen Carlyn
road, the tract comprises about
1872 acres. The Crestwood firm
requested the rezoning: so that
100 semidetached houses could be
built. The County Planning Com
mission recommended that the re-
quest be granted. q
When several board members
objected to semidetached dwell
ings in that section. B. Steinburg,
president of the Crestwood cor
poration and William A. Moncure,
the firms counsel. said they would
promise that only one-family
dwellings would be constructed.
The opponents on the board, how
ever. said such promise would
not be binding and that if the re-
zoning were granted it would be
possible for the Board of Zoning
Appeals to grant permit for
Semidetached houses.
On a motion to grant the
change, the vote ended 3 to 3,
with Chairman G. Wallace Car
per, Arthur I. Shaffer and Robert
r. Dye voting in the affirmative.
On the other side were Maurice
w. Fox, c. B. Runyon and E. C..
| SheadS.
Evening star., 1949-08-18
Delegates
Pass Up Horseplay al
Cumberland Meeting
By the Associoted Press

CUMBERLAND, Md, Aug. 49,
Delegates to the 17th national
convention of the Military Order
of the Purple Heart today settled
down to their first business
session.
Missing was the boisterouS
horseplay usually associated with
the veterans gathering. So digni-
fled and reserved we're most of the
l .000-odd delegates as they opened
a four day meeting yesterday that
one resident remarked:
They're so quiet you'd hardly
guess there's a convention in
town..
National Comdr. = Clifford A.
Parmenter set the pace in his
opening address. The Long Beach
tCalif) wounded veteran told his
fellow delegates: @
"Wearers of the purple heart
wiz lldFC 1OoV 1CSS. al A1lo, CyCc oAAA
who otherwise bear scars or dis
abilities from their Nation S
battles-have more serious prob
lens before them than pranks
against the public"
One of his first official duties
was awarding the decoration to
a World War I veteran, Elmer
S. Wilderman, 54, Frostburg, Md.
Mr.. Wilder read about the con-
vention and notified officials he's
like to attend.
A check of War Department
records showed he had never re-
ceived the Purple Heart for ma
|chinegun wounds suffered in the
Argonne November 6, 1918.
Honorary chairman was Repre-
sentative Beall. Republican, of
Maryland. He said he hoped the
81st Congress-earlier called "an-
ti-veteran" by Commander Par
menter-would approve legislation
to raise pensions for disabled vet
Grams.
Evening star., 1949-08-18
County Fair Season
Opens in Maryland
With 15on Schedule
By the Asseeioted Press

: BALTIMORE, Aug. l8.-The
county fair season opens in Mary
land today with Is on the agenda
for the next three months.
Howard County farmers will
start the ball rolling on the heavi-
est fair schedule the State has
seen in many years. The Howard
County Fair will run today through
Saturday at the Laurel Raceway
arena.
Nightly trotting races win be
the fairs feature attraction.
Next Monday a six-day agri-
cultural fair will open in Cam
bridge. 1t is the first such event
to be held on the Eastern Shore
in IL years. It will be a district
show and not confined to the
farmers Of Talbot County.
Montgomery Plans Fair.
Another area which for 81
years has been without q county
fair except for a limited live
stock program during the past
four summers will return to the
circuit when Montgomery County
holds an agricultural program
August 1927 at Gaithersburg.
The spotlight shifts to Cumber-
land August 28 where Allegany
and Garrett County farmers will.
participate in a program at the
Cumberland race track. 1t will
run through September 3.
The annual State Fair al
Timonium opens August 81 but .
"prettiest farm girl" contest will
precede it on August 81. 1h.
Timonium Fair will run through
September 10. -~
The Eastern Shore plans gtil
another fair-a one-day show-a
Fair Hill in Cecil County Septem,
ber TO- so
Hagerstown Fair September 10.
From September 10 to "a tn
Great Hagerstown Washington
County Fair will get the atten
ton of Maryland farmers. SSom,
500 entries have already been re-
ceived for the cattle show.
Here's the rest of the fail
schedule:
September 23-25-St. Maryi
County Fair at Leonardtown.
September 1880 - Hartford
County Fair at Bel Air race
track.
September 2S-October l.
Charles County Fair.
October 1-Southern Maryland
Horsebreeders' Association craft.
horse show at Dsvidsonville lr
Anne Arundel County.
| October 4-8-Frederick County
Fair at Frederick.
October 8-Calvert County Fail
at Prince Frederick.
| October 12-15-Southern Mary.
land Agricultural fair at Upper
Marlboro.
November 12-18-Eastern Ma
tional livestock show at limo.
mum.
Evening star., 1949-08-18
Linton to Speak Tonight
To County Historians

The Montgomery County His
torical Society will hear a talk by
F. B. Linton, member of the Lin
coin Group of Washington and
noted collector of Lincolniana. at
a meeting at 8 o'clock tonight in
the Sandy Spring Community
House.
Mr.. Linton will speak on Lin
coin and Fort Stevens
Music will be provided by Miss
Margaret Ann Bopp, vocalist.
William Parkins, president of the
society, will conduct the meeting.
Evening star., 1949-08-18
Wife PerpIexed
| Bv 'Six-Month'
Marriage License
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 18-Mrs.
Sausan E. Carr of Burkville, Va.
who was married here in Novem-
Der, 1s47, wants 2 marriage license
that's good for longer than six
months.
She wrote the courthouse that
her license carried small type
which read:
Not valid after six months
from date"
Courthouse clerks said they
would write Mrs. Carr and assure
her that her marriage was and
still is legal and return 81 she
sent them for a new license.