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Evening star., 1951-02-11
By |. Edgar Prino

sells and Moore Nc Cormack also
wants to build two ocean, going
ships.
6. When a new shipbuilding
subsidies plan is worked out, new
incentives are expected TO be held
out to shipping lines to invest in
new construction.
There is general unanimity on
the Importance of adding to our
tanker fleet. Apparently needs
here were misjudged by all hands
and, at present, just about every
available tanker is in use. There
is none remaining in reserve.
The needs of Korea, the heavy
increase in domestic consumption
Of oil and gasoline, the increase
in the size of the Air Force and
Navy, the plan to set up a string
of airbases in many parts Of the
world-aH these factors indicate
steadily increasing demand for
tankers.
Keep Making Tankers
An idea OF what full-scale war
would mean to tanker demand
may be gathered from these
World War II figures: Our armed
forces used 1.8 million barrels of
oil every day and one armored
division consumed $4,000 gallons
Of gasoline daily.
Surprisingly enough. tankers
are the one ship we have been
turning out since the war. Some
"a have been built and most of
them are larger and faster than
the wartime To, which had a
capacity Of 100000 barrels of oil
and speed of 14.5 knots. The
new ones carry 100000 barrels, or
IL million gallons of aviation gas
oline. and can do 18 knots or
better.
Plans have been drawn for even
larger craft-with a capacity of
800, 900 barrels and speed in ex-
cess of 20 knots. The Navy wants
tankers that can keep up with the
carrier task forces.
Almost half the merchant ma
rine-6.7 million tons-is tied up
in the $50 tankers Of our fleet.
Some $50 others are owned by
American firms. but are under
foreign registry. The MSTS has
another SIS in operation.
AS for cargo ships-which have
been given top priority by the
USMA the situation is this:
There are 729 dry cargo vessels in
the active service. 1000 Liberties
and about 100 Victories in reserve.
Fifty of the latter have been given
basic repair and 26 of these have
been allocated to ECA work. More
probably will follow.
Virtually all of the merchant
men broken out of the reserve for
Korean duty were Victories-136
of them. The MSTS wanted these
faster craft in preference to Lib
critics, even though they were more
expensive to operate and despite
the lack of a submarine threat.
incidentally. it takes from five
days upward to prepare a reserve
merchantmen for active service.
Oil and oxide method of preserva-
tion is used on the boilers and en-
gines.
The cargo ships just ordered by
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that only SO fast passenger troop
carriers. II of which are now being
operated by the MSTS, are avail
able. compared with 81 at the time
of Pearl Harbor.
And the federation recalled
that the Presidents Advisory
Board on the Merchant Marine,
after a nine-month study of the
subject, recommended in 1948 that
about so new troopers be built
Admiral Cochrane was a member
of the board and concurred.
The Maritime Administration
acknowledging we have fewer
troop transports than we had In
1941, has these answers as to why
it hasn't pushed a Government
building program for this type:
/. Besides the 80 passenger
troopers mentioned earlier, there
are available % Liberties, 10 Vic
tories and 81 other ships which
were converted during World War
II. ct might be pointed out that
the bulk Of these conversions were
made after the German submarine
menace had been lickedD
2. We could build a sufficient
number of these types as fast as
the additional troops, in the event
of an all-out war, could be
trained and equipped.
8. Under the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization a pool Of AL
lied merchant shipping. from
which we probably would be able
to draw considerable tonnage, is
being worked out. Britain's Queen
Mary, it will be remembered. car
ried $4,000 GIs on one trip in
World War II.
4. Shipping needs must be
geared to strategic war plans and
it is significant to note that the
Joint Chiefs of Staff have not
recommended the building of new
troopers. In fact, the chiefs re-
versed themselves in December
and decided against conversion OF
the United States Lines new
superliner.
Ttoopship Outlook
5. One 26,000-ton, 28-knot pas
senger ship, the American Export
Lines independence. has just
joined the merchant fleet and its
sister ship. the Constitution. Is
due later In the year. Each vessel,
capable Of being converted quickly
to troop duty. would provide lift
for 5000 GIs.
Three ships, originally sched-
uled for passenger service with
the American President Lines, are
being completed as troop carriers
the first entirely air conditioned
ones. Each will be able to lift
about $500 troops and exceed 20
knots.
Then there is the United States
Lines superliner, the United
States, scheduled for completion
on one-work- shift basis for 1852.
It will be at least 48,00O tons,
exceed 80 knots and, if converted
under plans already drawn, could
lift from 10000 to $4,000 troops.
Finally. there is other construc-
ton planned by private lines
Grace has asked permission to
build two 16,000-ton, 18-knot
combination cargo-passenger ves-
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oClS-WA4 Uc Ol dUOut 1Z,UUU
tons. will exceed 20 knots and will
cost an average Of So million. This
cost compares to about SIT mil
lion for Liberty and $2.5 million
for Victory.
There has been talk of putting
an aft-deck platform for a hell
copter on these ships to aid in
anti-submarine work. Also pro-
vision is expected to be made for
the latest anti-aircraft weapons.
Marpower Wranglc
What revolutionary thing this
building Of so cargo ships of 90
knot speed is may be understood
when it is considered that in all
the world today there are only 26
cargo ships capable Of surprising
18 knots. Twenty-six out Of some
10, 900.
On the personnel front there is
a spirited battle being waged be-
tween management and labor over
the handling of merchant marine
Imanpower in the national defense
picture. The unions, generally
speaking, want full control and
favor training of seamen aboard
ship. Management favors Gov
ernment-directed training pro-
grams and registration of all sea-
men.
The Maritime Administration
sees no immediate need to set up
training courses, and Is apparently
convinced that the unions will be
able to supply the bulk of the
workers needed for a full-mobili-
zation effort. Instruction in the
use Of new equipment will be nee
essary as will the upgrading of
some personnel.
Short on Radiomen
There are today about $4,000
seagoing workers. This compares
with wartime peak Of $50, 900.
According to the Federation of
American Shipping, one shortage
already exists. It has informed
the USMA that 1t found in a
survey that virtually every one
of the $500 certificated radio op-
orators is employed. With 1873
ships coming out Of the reserve
in the next month or two an ex-
tremely tight situation appears
to be developing.
The federation asked that op-
orators with at least six months
Of training be placed on the crit
ical list so that the Defense De-
partment could take that into
consideration as far as the draft
was concerned.
The small amount of work done
in American shipyards last year
(23 ocean-going craft were built,
only four of which were for United
States registry is reflected in the
shipyard work force of only 49,
600. This compares with peak
of Ia million workers in the last
war, when some 5000 ships were
constructed.
Only six big yards are engaged
in building today. along with six
others on the Great Lakes. Some
80 are active in repair jobs and
four big Government yards are
on a standby basis. Altogether
there are 81 yards which could
be utilized in the event of an
other wartime building program.
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Eisenhower Aims at Solid
Front of Non-Red Nations
Commander Apt to Bow Out if Defenders
Do Not Include Spain, Greece, Turkey
By Constantine Brown

BY the end Of this summer either European defense against
fully inegrated the the nations
which willing fight Moscow aggression, Gen. Eisenhower
will to be supreme commander of those forces.
This intmaed the members of
others with whom he had publicly
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y. S. Is Borgoin Counter
Of the World Gold Market
Other Nations Buy 1t Low Here, Sell High;
Black Market Mocks Monetary Fund Rules
By Herbert Brotter

In Washington today dollar one thirty fifth Of
OF gold But about the gold
nation gold the only commodity that
since you get gold legally
to hoard.
The Treasury though The Treasury gold
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24
VISITS OLD HOME
AFTER 40 YEARS
ABSENCE

The former Miss. Eta Ramey,
now Mrs Fornia Tesrau, is visit
ing Clintwood, where she was
born, for the first time in forty
nine years.
Mrs. Tesrau, accompanied by
her husband, has been renewing
old friendships here during the
week. She is the daughter of Ty-
Ter Ramey, one of the first settl-
ers of Clintwood, brusque bus
mess man, as business was then.
He operated a small drug store
in a little frame building, which
was located about where john
sons Five and Ten now stands.
He died here and was buried in
the cemetery in the east end of
town.
Mrs. Tesrau was married to
Tom Thornbury, and the couple
emigrated to the state of Wash
ington sometime during the year
of 1902. Her first husband was
killed in the freck of a log train
nearly twenty years ago. There
were two sons by the first marie
age. Later, she was married to
Mr.. Tesrau.
She is looking over a number
of the scenes of her childhood,
She recalls old acquaintance
here, among them Mrs Walter
Rush, Mrs. Columbus Phipps,
Miss Hattie Phipps, and DR.. R. l..
Phipps From here, Mrs, Tesrau
plans to go on to Washington, D.
c.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24
CLINTWOOD WINS
ONE FOR A
CHANGE
BY CLAUDE SHORT

The Clintwood baseball per-
formers changed the tune last
Saturday, taking Suggest from
Keokee. Although Bob "What a
Teller" Messer was not on the
mound to entertain with his as
sortment of sliders, twisters,
slants and floaters, the game had
its thrills
Clintwood held an edge through
out the early frame, with Keokee
changing pitchers in dizzy fash
ion. However, in the eighth in
ming the lads from Keokee pound
ed into the lead. When Clintwood
came to the bat, trailing 80, Far
mer waddled to the plate, carry
ing, as it proved, a heavy piece
of timber. To make the story
short and also sweet, Balloon lift
ed one up and out and out, clean
into the highway. This knotted
the count
The next two batters singled,
and then came Jordan, who up to
this point had not exactly glitter
ed. Two strikes went over the pan
as Willard, with his bat resting
on his shoulder, kept his eyes
glued ON the distant horizon. AS
the pitcher wound up for the
third heave, Jordan's mind re-
turned to the game. On the next
pitch the crack of his bat drown
ed out his grount, and the ball
took off for a patch of poison ivy
beyond the highway. The runners
ahead of him ambled in and Viii
lard logged around the bases
Cintwood was leading 1873.
That ended the fireworks. Cred
it should be given Tommy Ro-
mans, who went to the mound to
relieve Richardson in the sixth
inning and kept the Keokee bats
muffled until the last man was
out.
On the coming Saturday, the
Clintwood boys will go to Dixiana
and will entertain the Dixiana
boys here Sunday.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24
CCC ROAD DOWN
CRANES NEST TO
BE IMPROVED

Roy Bentley, citizen of the
Cranes Nest section, brings news
of great development in his
section.
He states that the quagmire
that made a nightmare of the
Cranes Nest road will be in the
future mere memory. Highway
workers are going ahead to make
first class road four miles down
from the bridge. The road will
first be subgraded, and then
heavy stone will be laid down.
Lighter stone and gravel will be
placed over the base Then sand
will be spread on top to make it
waterbound.
This road, it will be recalled,
was built by the CCC force. With
the development of truck mining
along the river, it became main
travelled highway, and many
homes were built.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24
NAMED OUTSTANDIN G JUNIOR OF THE
YEAR BY JUNIOR WOMAN's CLUB

Pictured above is Mrs. Joe Ken
nedy, who was chosen from
among some ten contestants as
the Outstanding Junior of the
Year" by the Clintwood Junior
Woman's Club. Her award is a
sterling silver engraved PLAGUE.
Mrs Kennedy was so honored
by her many achievements in her
community, church and club. De-
spite the fact that she is the moth
er of two children she served in
the following capacities: Director
of the 1851 March of Dimes, rails
ing near $4,000 for Dickinson
County; chairman for the past
two years of National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis; clerk in
the school bond election; taught
in DMHS during National Educa-
ton Week; taught in the Baptist
Vacation Bible School; was pro
gram chairman for her mission
airy society; secretary to her Sun
day School class; secretary to the
PTA; president of the Woman's
Republican Club; helped with the
Red Cross, cancer and tuberculo
sis drives; and was chairman of
the Miss independence contest
which was held county wide and
which brought in over $500 for
the Junior Wornan's Club.
In March Mrs, Kennedy was
elected president Of the Clintwood
Junior Woman's Club. However,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24
ALFRED HENRY BEARE OF
HERALD DIES IN CO5BURN
HOSPITAL

Alfred Henry Beare, As, died
Saturday night at 10 o'clock in a
Coeburn hospital. He was a resi-
dent of Herald.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Rosa Marshall Beare of Herald;
and the following children: Mrs.
Joe Nolan, Herald; Miss Dorothy
Beare, Herald; Claude Alfred
Beare, Herald; and Mrs. Quinton
Freeman, of Coeburn.
Funeral services were held on
Tuesday at 2 p. m. at the Freewill
Baptist church, with Elder S M.
McFall in charge, assisted by Ed
er Wythe White. Burial was in
the Edwards Cemetery at Herald.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24
Represents State All
Clubs At Safety
Conference

Darrell Large, sn of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hiram Large, Coeburn, Rt.
2, will represent the All Clubs of
Virginia at the annual Virginia
State Safety Conference, to be
held at the Monticello Hotel, Nor
folk, on Friday, May rs. He will
talk on the subject of farm and
home safety.
Darrell, a junior in Dickinson
Memorial High School, did such
outstanding safety work in the
Yates Community Club last year
that he was chosen to discuss
farm and home safety at t h e
All Convention in Chicago in the
fall of 1850.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24

she will be unable to serve the re
mainder of the year, due to the
fact that her husband has purch-
ased business in Kingsport and
she will be moving in. the near
future.
Mrs. Kennedy is native of
Wise and soon after her marriage
to Mr.. Kennedy, who was at that
time employed by Kennedy's Pig
ely Wiggly in Wise, they moved
to Clintwood. Her many friends
of Cintwood and Dickinson
County regret that she is moving
away but are extending the best
Of wishes,
IRENE WRIGHT, Reporter
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24
PFC. JOHNNIE ARTRIP
BACK FROM KOREA
MEN IN UNIFORM

MEN IN UNIFORM
Pic Johnnie w. Artrip, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs Jim Artrip OF the
Foxtown section Of Clintwood, re
turned to the U. S. on the trans
port, Gen. r l.. Howe from Ko-
rea on May 81. He, among the
1895 combat soldiers on the trans
port, landed at San Francisco.
Pfc, Artrip will undergo
checkup at Camp Stoneman, Cal,
and will then be sent home on an
extended furlough. He comes
home under the rotation plan,
whereby a soldier who has been
in combat for a specified time is
relieved for visit home.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24
RETURNS TO STATES

Goble Wright, seaman, son OF
MIR. and Mrs. Monroe Wright of
near Clintwood, Va, is back in
the United States after more than
six months duty in the Far East.
His ship, thes destroyer tender
USS Hamul, recently arrived in
San Diego, Calf, from Korea,
where she equipped and repaired
destroyers in the area.
On her way to the Far East
last year, the Hamul provided
communication service for the
conference between Gen, Douglas
Macarthur and President Truman
At Wake Island,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24
UNION FACES CRISIS
IN WISE COUNTY

Events of deep significance in
the field of labor, though scarce
ly noted in public print or discus
sion, are taking place in Wise
County. Some coal operators have
found, or think they have found,
ways of breaking the miners I'M
ion.
The processes are being tried
out at Esserville and Glamorgan.
Both places once had active locals
OF the u M W Ownership Of
both places has changed within
the past year or two. After brief
cessation Of work, the operations
started again under new manage
ment. But a number OF new work
ers had been brought in, and the
new operators declared that they
had no contract with the UMHA
and would run their mines to suit
themselves. Furthermore, it got
about that if the locals were re-
activated the mines would simply
close down for good
The mines have kept going on a
non-union basis. Union men have
picketed, but the picket lines have
been ignored. The union cause
has been further weakened by a
steady flow of coal coming into
the tipples at Glamorgan and Es-
serville from the truck mines, all
unorganized. However. all the
fight does not appear to be gone,
and there are reports of guerilla
activity along the state line. I'm
ionism has been firmly entrench
ed in Wise County since 1884 and
evidently will not tamely yield.
According to state policeman
McLemore, a tipple in the Hurri
cane was demolished with dyna-
mite late last week. He also states
that the substation at Glamorgan
No. was blown up Sunday night
by a heavy charge of dynamite.
The report is that non-union
workers, living in Kentucky but
working in the Wise county
fields, are being boxed in along
the highways and compelled to
sign union cards at the point of
revolverS,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24
Circuit Court Will
Convene Here June IL

Deputy clerk Lee Stanley an
nounces the docket for the June
term of circuit court as follows:
Grand Jury and formal
motions .............. June IL
Civil appeals and removals
........ .......... June II
Motions and issue for trial
..,.... June IL
Criminal appeals and
removals ,........... June 10
FelonieS ..........,... June ~
Mr.. Stanley states that there
are few civil cases or felonies and
that the term is expected to be
rather short.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24
Two County Communities
Will Take Part In
Improvement Contest

Two Dickinson County COM
munities will participate in the
1851 Bristol Area Community I'm
provement Contest, sponsored by
the Bristol Chamber of Com
merce in cooperation with the Elk
tension Services of Virginia and
Tennessee. Yates and Bise COM
munities, both on Caney Ridge,
are the only entrants from this
county.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24

Read The Little Ads"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24
BADEN YOUTH REENLISTs

NELLIS AFB BASE, Nev.-Sgt.
Robert A Beverly, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Andy Beverly of Baden, re
enlisted at Ne1lis Air Force Base,
Nevada, and is assigned to the
3598th Training Squadron for
duty.
Sgt Beverly entered the mill
tary service in April, 1948, and
has had previous assignments
with the air force at Lakeland,
Texas, Lowery, Colo, and Good
fellow, Texas.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24
COMBAT INFANTRY BADGE
AWARDED FOUR
COUNTY MEN

The First Cavalry Division an
nounceS the award of the Combat
Infantry Badge to the following
soldiers from Dickinson County:
Pfc. Carl E. Skeens, w. Dante
Sgt. James c. Rasnake, Duty
Cpl Clinton c Stanley, Clint
wood
Pfc. Melster l.. Duty, Duty
All these soldiers are members
of the 5th Cavalry Regiment ana
have served on the firing line in
Korea.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24
BICYCLE RETURNS

Junior Bicycle Kelly informs
US that he has just returned from
an extended visit to Washington,
Baltimore and other points, He
frequented his favorite bistro,
the Dixie Pig and found the goose
hanging high. He returns to Clint
wood to rest up from heart at
tack, which usually follows his
visits to Washington.
Advertise or Be FORGOTTEN"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

Sgt and Mrs. R. E. Swindall
announce the arrival of a son,
Robert Erwin, Jr., on May 14th
at Tynall Air Force Base Hos
pital, Panama City, Fla.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-05-24
OF
All
Things!
BY E. r. B.

In his column "Strolling" In the
Knoxville News-Sentinel one day
last week, Bert Vincent tells OF
passing through Haysi sometime
in 1928. He describes the place as
then consisting of a post office IN
a general store. He goes on TO say
that the only meal he could find
was a can of something or other,
eaten off the counter of the store.
Verify, the human memory Is
tricky. Haysi in 1928 had an auto
mobile sales agency, wholesale
grocery, a hardware store, de-
partment store, several general
stores, bank, hotel, and res
taurant He need not have eaten
from a can, and probably did not,
for the old Haysi Hotel served ex
cellent and bounteous old-fashion
ed meals, all on the table and eat
all you want.
While all minds are set on the
forthcoming meeting in the
Breaks, June 10, we stop to Won
der why some recognition is not
given to Granville Colley, who
has done more than any one per-
son, probably all others together,
to call the attention of the world
to the scenic area. Is memory so
short that we cannot recall how
he was a lone prophet for years,
scheduling meetings, attracting
notables, and picturing the Breaks
as future park area?
*
Jerry Waddell has been assign
ed to an antiaircraft battalion
training at Indiantown Gap, Penn.
Even if he didn't make the air
force, he got somewhere within
striking distance of it.
Billy, the other half of the
famed Twins, remains in Clint
wood, working most of the time
as a contractor He is almost quiet
and sedate in manner and lacks
the air of genial rascality that
once distinguished the pair. The
Twins went together, ond one
without the other is as branch
water without the bourbon.
Long Noah" Mullins spent a
couple of days in town recently,
holding forth on the public
square. According to Corbett Ham
ilton, Noah discoursed at length
on the lost silver mine, located, as
the legend has it, somewhere in
the vicinity of Osbornes Cap
Noah said that he had seen the
opening and the tools with which
it was worked. He described the
output as low-grade ore, scarcely
profitable enough to mine.
This is next to the most beau
tiful time of the year in these
hills. The slopes are almost lit
orally "white with May" The To-
Gust is abloom with the loveliest
OF wild flowers; the dogWood mas
not shed all of its white; the Gu
cumber has put out its gaudy
bloom; the poplars and buckeyes
have hung out their blossoms. 1t
is somehow odd to think that
spring comes to us first dressed
in pink and then changes her
garments to white. When the
leaves turn afianae with early au-
tutAn, we shall name for you the
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