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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-11
Estate Settled

KNOXVILLE. Tenn. ar - Chan.
cellor Charles E. Dawson ruled
Tuesday that the s6O,0 estate Of
a veteran Tennessee Valley Au.
thority engineer go TO charitable
organiZations-not to five brothers
and sisters somewhere behind the
Iron Curtain.
Gregory Tour, the engineer.
stipulated in his viii that the rela.
tiveS be notified and that they
come to this country to receive
their requests. The chancellor
ruled that the Hamilton National
Bank, executor of the estate, Is
not required to make further
search for Tours family.
Bank officials said the State De.
partment declined to try to find
Tours brothers and sisters in Rus.
sia on the ground that such a
search might endanger their lives.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-11
Julie Stone Is
Cum Laude Grad
At Ohio Hi School

Miss Julie Stone. daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Stone il.
graduated cum laude from Wyo-
ming, Ohio High School at exer.
cises attended by her parents last
week.
Julie won top honors in her
school, being among the first five
in her graduating class, as well as
being in the first seven out of the
class of 81 graduates. She also
made scholastic honors in a state
wide examination given by Ohio
State University.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-11
Officials Say
Money Is Still
Urgently Needed
as Peace Looms
By ELTON c. FAY

WASHINGTON R--Now that the
dust has settled and debate has
died away, the Army finds some
solace in the senatorial investiga-
ton Of ammunition shortages.
Economy trends had whitfield ap-
preparation proposals for ammuni-
ton to a fraction of the requested
amount earlier this year. But Con-
gress and the administration,
alarmed by the charges Of pre-
vious critical shortages in ammu-
milton, restored to the budget much
of the money originally requested
for this purpose, it was learned
today.
Ammunition accounts for large
part of the $923, 4s7 900 added by
the Eisenhower administration to
the original Truman administra-
ton budget item for Army procure
ment and production. The new to-
tai for Army production, as pro-
posed by the Budget Bureau on
the basis of Defense Department
recommendations is $2,471, 799 900 ,
Officials say the money is ur-
gently needed to build up reserve
stocks of ammunition badly de-
pleted by the heavy drain Of the
first two years of the Korean War.
when new production facilities had
not come into full operation.
The Army was the only one of
the three services to emerge from
the administrations budget revis-
ing with more money than it would
have had under the Truman
budget,
But Army officials say this is
accounted for entirely by two fac.
tors-the increased money for am
munition and the inclusion in The
1854 budget OF items for the ko-
rean War, including the cost Of
equipping additional South Korean
divisions.
The difference between reduc-
tons made elsewhere in the Army
budget and the Increases for ana
munition and for operation Of the
Korean War showed up IN a net
increase Of 1851 SOC 600 fer the
Army Total appropriation recon
mended for the Army now stands
at si3, GIL 600 goo.
While the euthacks elsewhere in
the Army budget we're substantial
In some instances. officials cen.
orally do nos consider them as
impossible to meet
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-11
Restrictions
May Be Forced
On Secretary
Benson Is Faced
With Setting Up
Crop Restraint
BY OVID A. MARTIN

WASHINGTON h - Secretary
Of Agriculture Benson, an avowed
foe Of government controls, today
faced the prospect of having to
apply restrictions on more crops
in a single year than any of his
predecessors.
An official crop report yesterday
put the wheat supply at surplus
level which-unless there is an I'M
foreseen major development will
require Benson to invoke rigid
marketing quotas on the 1854 crop.
Growers already have approved
1864 controls for the major types
OF tobacco and for peanuts. Benson
announced this week he viii inn
pose marketing controls Of this
years production Of sugar in
Puerto Rico and in the domestic
cane sugar area.
Reports on cotton planting indi-
cate production of this crop may
put supplies in a surplus class also
requiring controls on next years
production.
Returning from a recent farm
conference in the Midwest, Under
Secretary Of Agriculture True d.
Morse said il appeared that the
corn acreage would be larger this
year than last. Thus, it would be
possible for the corn supply to
reach a surplus mark also requir
ing quotas next year.
During the campaign last year,
President Eisenhower pledged
minimum Of agricultural controls
Benson. in speeches and state
ments. has said farmers want q
federal farm program that would
free them from government dom,
nation.
The secretary has little choice
in using measures 10 cut down On
production Of malor crops in ex-
cess supply. Farm laws require
use Of acreage planting allotmcats
ard marketing quotas when sap
pines Of MAJOR crops reach apecl
fled levels.
Benson has pledged faithful ID
niu5stration Of these laws Never
theless. he has ssid that be val
seek better pEursas
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-11
President Rhee Is Simple,
Direct But Stubborn Man

SEOUL R-Allled troops reoccu-
pied Seoul in September 1850, after
landing at Inchon and routing the
North Korean Reds. A throng of
Koreans gathered In the battered
capital city to hear an address by
their white-hairet President, Syng-
man Rhee.
1t was a momentouS occasion for
the little man who had endured
prison torture and SO years of exile
in his long, relentless fight against
monarchiSts, japanese militarists
and now the Communists. Ameri-
cans present expected a dramatic.
spine-tinglipg speech from the
leathery-Skinned Harvard and
Princeton graduate.
Rhee fastened fond gaze on his
people and said:
I'VE have returned to our be-
loved city. Now let's get the stink
out of the streets and get some
trees on those mountains.
The incident illustrated several
points in the character of the rs.
year-old Chief Executive. He is a
simple, direct man with no appar-
ent affectations, but stubborn in
persisting for what he believes is
best for his Korea.
He is a passionate lover of trees
and Towering things. He has a
mania for sanitation.
Today, in the midst of a great
armistice crisis which has found
him standing up both against the
Reds and the United Nations at
times, he still is exhorting Seoul
residents at least once each week
to clean up and plant.
1.-THE development of the coun-
try is as important IS the armis-
tice question:" he explained.
His love is for a country in which
he was born under a monarchy
March 2, 1875; which threw him
in prison when. as a Methodist
mission convert, he tried to sir
up the spirit of democracy; and
from which he was exileG, fleeing
for his life soon after the japanese
took control in 1910.
He returned to Korea in 1945
after Japan's defeat only TO be
caught up shortly in a war which
kept him moving in and out of
Seoul as IFS fortunes Swayed.
Rhee lives il fine, concrete and
tile mansion on a Seoul hillside. He
spends many waking hours in his
spreading. beautiful gardens.
This week, when Gen. Mark Clark
lew TO Seoul for an urgent con-
ference over Rhee's bitter opposi.
ton to a truce with the Reds. they
held their meeting in the garden
office" A third party present was
Rhee's little brown and white ter
ricr Smartie.
Visitors often find him playing
in the garden with two bear cubs,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-11

gifts of South Korean Army units,
and with a second dog, Chindo.
Rhee toyed with the bears and
stroked his terrier last Monday
while telling newsmen: 'I am be.
ing criticized by everyone-excepi
the Korean people"
Rhee's daily schedule begins al
is a. m. After a light breakfast.
he reads newspapers for an hour
then sketches Chinese characters
on paper with a brush dipped in
heavy black ink.
Rhee, who in boyhood received
a classical Chinese education. Is
highly proficient, at this form OF
painting. His characters spell out
such notices as Respect heaven
and love humans"
AT $50 a. m, he goes to a large
pond and feeds bread and rice "a
more than 100 goldfish.
Then he walks to his office and
receives reports on the war. He
consults with his ministers. By
$3.50 a. M, he is back in the garden
receiving visitors and giving in.
structionS 70 his secretaries.
Just before noon, he, sits down
to his typewriter to bang out per.
sonal letters or statements. Very
often they are appeals to his people
to plant trees. use coal instead OF
wood for cooking and heating.
AT 1880 p. m. daily, he lunches
with his Austrian-born wife, Fresh.
cesca, 20 years his junior. whom he
wed in 1884. His digestion is re-
markahle. He eats what he likes,
including chicken. fish, beef and
pork. He preferS Western food but
occasionally eats rice and some
Korean dishes.
After receiving visitors from ? TO
4 p. m, he plungeS into the work
of receiving government reports
and dictation.
After a walk and p. m. din
ner, he listens to the radio, often
reads American books and maya,
zines. He was reading a book of
poetry last Monday when a Com
munist plane dropped a bomb
which shook his home. He was
unperturbed. waiting calmly for a
police report that told him the
bomb hit a school and injured two
teachers.
Just before retiring, he opens his
Christian Bible and reads passages
aloud TO himself and his wife. sat
urday nights he allows himself a
special treat films from the u. S.
Eighth Army.
And while the crisis eddies about
him. Rhee sits in his garden as
impassive and seemingly as age
less as Korea's tfmeless mountain.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-11

mons shirt front, quacked while
police questioned HIM about
broken window and missing duck
last April IA. Shannon was found
guilty of larceny.
He told Circuit Judge Michael
j. Scott he had planned to have
"a duck dinner.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-11

Sweden was an important factor
IN the settlement of what is now
the United States. having founded
a colony on the Delaware river in
1888.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-11
THE CASE OF THE
QUACKINC DUCK

ST. LOUIS tR-John w. Shannon
was sentenced to year in the
city workhouse yesterday because
a duck quacked out of turn.
The duck, hidden inside Sahn-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-11
AMMUNITION SHORTAGE PROBE
BRINGS ADDED ALLOTMENT OF
NEEDED FUNDS In US. BUDGET
Pages THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, June II, 1859

$50 million bushels year, not in
Guiding exports which have dig ed
from a peak of about 500 million
bushels after World War II to 800
million.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-11
Cross Marks the spOt

Mother - Well, Jimmy, do you
think your teacher likes your
Jimmy - l guess she does: she
puts a big kiss on all my sums.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-11

EnEIana's famous ccron alter
chair has been used at every cor
onatloR az a British sovereign since
l
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-11

The Italian government has tried
to popdlarize metal coins. but the
people prefer paper money and
the coins are returned to the banks.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-09-15

inches. The rain will help pas
lures and fall seeding, Mr.. Strip
lin predicted.
Low Temperature
The lowest temperature reading
since last spring was recorded in
Farmville, Monday morning. The
thermometer dipped to a cool 81
degrees.
Some hail damage to tobacco
crops during the storm has been
reported in the county.
A two-foot hole was knocked
IN the roof of the south side of
the cupola of the Farmville Meth
odist Church, Saturday night
about $50 when lightning struck
the church.
I'VE were mighty fortunate
that it was raining SO hard" the
Rev. C. O. Kidd, pastor, said. IF
it hadn't been raining, fire
might have started because there
are burned marks on the cupola. )"
Damage to the church is be-
lieved to be small The slate on
the roof was knocked off. How
ever, no damage has been report
ed to the interior of the newly
redecorated church.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-09-15
Weeping Child Embarks on Education
Worth Half a Million Dollars This Year

Ignorance is bliss, so the saying
goes The mOist-eyed young lady
IN the picture Weeps because, on
a Hateful day last week. She step
ped from SIX years Of carefree ig-
norance to the threshold of
twelve years Of increasing knoWl-
edge She stands at the beginning
OF the long road to responsible
citizenship
10 Ann Clabo does not know it.
and if she did, perhaps she would
really bawl at the responsibility
being placed on her. She is en-
barking On her education, which
this year alone is worth over half
a million dollars
Half million dollars that's by
far the greatest part OF the c0um-
tvs budget for the coming year.
Prince Edward expects to spend a
little over seven hundred thousand
dollars next year all told, OF which
five hundred and siXty-siX thou
sand dollars is earmarked for 10
AIMS education
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-09-15
Buckingham Board
Supervisors Urge
Surveyor Choice

The appointment Of Carroll
GillsSpie as county surveyor will
be recommended to Circuit Court
judge Joel Flood, according TO a
resolution approved by the Buck
ingham County board of superviS-
ors at the monthly session Sep
tember 7.
Judge Flood will name a sue
cessor to f. D. Glllispie. who has
resigned the post of county sur
veyor
Supervisors III another action
appropriated SIPS for the purpose
of providing prizes for the Buck
lngham County Junior Farm Show
to be held Friday, Sept IS, be-
ginning at 9 a. hi.
The junior farm show will have
members CT the county All, Fu-
ture Farmers o. America and Fu-
ture Homemakers of America as
competitors,
The supervisors also GRANTED
permission to the Gold Hill Com
munity Club to give an historical
pageant on the Court House
Green.
The board approved payment of
county accounts totaling s4,768 95
Study of as separate items was re-
ouired before TIE board authoriz-
ed payment Of the total amount
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-09-15
2.I3 Inches OF Rain Falls
Church, Tobacco DAMAGED

Weather wise, things happen
ed in Prince Edward county last
week end.
More rain fell Saturday in the
Farmville area than has fallen in
any 24-hour period this year, E. F.
Striplin, weather observer said
The rain was accompanied by the
most severe electrical storm OF the
year, also. Lightning damaged the
Farmville Methodist Church dur
ing the storm.
Not General
A total of 2l3 inches of rain
fell in the Farmville area. Satur-
day night and morning. However
this rain was not general, even
throughout the county. Mr.. Strip
lin said that the southern part
of Prince Edward county did not
have the amount of rain that
Farmville had.
Below Worsham, there was
about half as much rain.' he
said.
HEAVY rains were reported in
the Five Forks and Prospect
areas of the county.
Saturdays rain brings the
months total to about three
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-09-15
POwhatan Sergeant
Ends Korea Service

Sgt. Jack r. Sullivan, whose
wife, Rheba, and parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. James c. Sullivan. live in
Powhatan, is returning to the U.
S after duty with the 25th Infan
try Division in Korea.
Sullivan, who was a clerk in
Headquarters Company of the
35th Regiments 3rd Battalion,
had been in Korea since July
1852 He holds the Korean and
UN Service Ribbons and the Com
bat Infantryman Badge A grad
uate OF Powhatan High School,
Sullivan entered the Army in
January 1852
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-09-15
400 IA Members
Attend Assembly
Towns Hospitality
Pleases Delegates

Members from ii states and the
District Of Columbia were among
the 400 who attended the Fourth
Virginia State Assembly of Al
cohollcs Anonymous at Longwood
College last week end.
The state assembly opened Fri
day night with an open meeting
at Jarman Hall 1t closed with a
Sunday afternoon forum.
One speaker said that he had
attended state. regional and ma
tional AA assemblies and he had
never seen such hospitality and
facilities that FarmVille gave dele
gates to the assembly He felt that
since town the size of Farmville
and LongWood College had opened
the doors of welcome to AA. a
step for AA in the right direction
had been taken.
States represented at the meet
ing were Vermont. Connecticut,
New Hampshire, New York. Della
ware. Maryland. Virginia. North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
and Kentucky
During business meeting.
Sunday morning. the group voted
to hold the 1854 state assembly,
at the Hotel Roanoke, May 21-23.
This years assembly was the
first to be held in a town the size
Of Farmville Previous assemblies
had been held in Richmond, Nor
folk and Roanoke.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-09-15
4 Safes Cracked
In Buckingham
About 500 Taken
At Hanes Company

Four safes were cracked in
Buckingham county, Friday night
OF early Saturday morning.
One safe stolen from Hanes
Motor Company, DillWyn. and a
truck used to carry it off we're
recovered Sunday. About $500 had
been taken from the safe, accord
ing to reports.
The safe and truck were stolen
IN the early hours OF Saturday
morning in one Of a series OF three
robberies in the county They were
discovered about six miles north
of DillWyn on a side road off
Route IS. near Rocky Mount
Methodist Church by Claude Dun
can, who lives in the area. He saw
the truck, Saturday. and reported
it to the police.
Officers found that the safe had
been broken into but that about
$1,000 in checks and numerous
papers had been left near the
truck. All money in the safe had
been taken.
Two safes in the post office
store at Wingina and the safe in
the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road Depot in Wingina were also
cracked. Friday night or early
Saturday morning. with the loot
totaling about S3l2.
Officers said that they thought
the same thieves carried out the
Wingina robberies and the one at
DIllWyn
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-09-15
Carnage, State FLA
President, Guest
At Rotary Club Meet

Lennie Carnage. Of Gainesville,
state president of the Virginia
Future Farmers Of America and
winner Of a 81 1000 Smith Douglas
scholarship at Virginia Polytech-
mic Institute fascinated Farmville
Rotarians Friday night in a guest
talk about the objects and OPP
portunitieS Of FLA
Carnage. an honor graduate
last June at Cumberland High
School Will enter VPI this month,
Using the speaking techniques
that brought state champion
ship debating title to Cumberland
High durino his FLA membership,
Carnage delighted his listeners
With his account. OF the POSSIBLE
ties the organization Of student
farmers opens to them.
A week earlier he had been
guest OF honor at a similar pro-
gram before the Richmond Rotary
Club, He was introduced here by
Rotarian t. Armstrong Smith.
The program was sponsored by
the Rotary Clubs Community
Service committee. headed by f.
f. Cook
James E. Kinard. new assistant
dean at Hampden- Sydney Col
lege, was welcomed as a new club
member here. He formerly was a
member Of the Rotary Club at
NeWberry. S. c.
Herbert Hatch, OF Richmond
was a guest Of Rotarian J. H.
Whitfield, who presided in the abb
sence Of President R. A. Wilmoth
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-09-15
X-Ray Clinics Set
In Buckingham
Cumberland Counties

A chest diaenostic X-ray clinic
will be held at the Health Depart
ments, Buckingham and Cumber-
land Court Houses. to check on
the progress of all contacts, sus-
pected, arrested. and active cases
Of tuberculosis in the two coun-
ties, according to Dr. II. E. Jen-
kins, Health Director. The clinic
will be held in Buckingham on
September 81 and %, and in
Cumberland on September %
The hours in both places will be
from 10 a. m to 4 p m.
Letters have been sent to all
people reported to have tubercu-
losis. Doctors in the counties have
been notified also to send any
suspected cases to the clinic.
This is not a Mass X-Ray. ="
Dr. Jenkins advised, But merely
check-up on the progress of
contacts, known and suspected
cases. The clinic is not for the
general public, but those who are
eligible for this service. The clinic
is being held in cooperation with
the tuberculosis Association in
the respective counties.
Tuberculosis often exists with
out the presence of symptoms and
signs. it is no respecter of per-
sons. and it is preventable. The
x-ray will detect tuberculosis be-
fore the appearance of symptoms.
thereby protecting not only the
individual but also the commu-
nifty" DR., Jenkins reports.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-09-15
Buckingham Go.
Farm Show FRIDAY
All, FLA and FILA
Youths to Compete

The annual Buckingham Coun-
ty Junior Farm Show for All,
Future Farmer and Future Home
maker of American competitors
will be held at Buckingham Cen
trial High School Friday, Sept. 10.
Beginning at 9 a. m. when ex-
fibits must be in place
The Buckingham county board
Of supervisors has provided S125
for prizes in the seven divisions
for boys and two for girls.
Three livestock classes will be
opened to exhibitors: dairy calves,
six months to year old dairy
heifers. one to two years old and
beef heifers, one to two years old
Produce Classes
Other classes for boys will in
clude: garden products, including
Irish potatoes; white and yellow
corn: small grains. including
wheat, oats and barley: and eggs.
The girls will compete IN class
es for canned fruits and canned
vegetables and a clothing division,
to include classes for dresses.
skirts, blouses, aprons. sewing
box, pillow cases and hand sew
ing, to include handkerchiefs and
scarves
A tractor drivers contest, for
All and FLA boys, will get under
way about noon. The winner will
represent Buckingham county at
the Five County Fair. at Farm
Vile. September 2l-26.
+. To Show at Fair
All the exhibits will also be en-
tered IN the fair at Farmville to
compete with those Of boys and
girls from Prince Edward, Cum
berland, Charlotte, Appomattox
and Amelia counties.
A committee OF six adult leaders
is supervising the annual show,
under the overall direction of
County Agent R. S. Ellis Members
are Gordon Baldwin. high school
Vo-ag instructor; Malcolm An
dreWs. assistant Vo-ag instructor:
Blanche Howard, county home
agent; Harriet Johns. home eco
Monies instructor, and Mrs. Doro-
thy Morgan. assistant home
pooroo,icc inCtr,,ctcr
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-09-15
Rurkevillc Members
Elect Board Officials

Borum Morris and Noel Nor
ton, both of Burkeville. we've
elected to the Southern States
local advisory board for the
Burkeyille Crewe community at
the annual meeting Of Southern
States members for this area held
Friday. Sept. 4 at BuTkeville The
men will serve three-year terms
on the local board
At the same time, Mrs. Her
man Cook and Mrs. William
Cook. both of Burkeville. were
chosen for three-year terms on
the Burkeville-Crew Farm Home
Advisory Committee