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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-05-15

especially wish to commend each
for her faithfulneSs and untirlng
endeavor in making this campaign
a success" stated Mrs. BoWles
Mrs. r II Percy and Mrs W
D PATTERSON We're volunteer WORK
ers whose names were inadyer,cut-
IL omitted when The volunteer
sroup for the county was PUBLISH
ed
May Memorial had to 20 INTO
extra innings to defeat the Pres
byterians IN softball Monday nIght.
This makes three straigh, for last
years pennant winners Next
week. May 10, Methodist meets
Red Lane on May 20. Presby-
terians play Mt Noriah, and on
Friday night, May % NJ 4 y
Memorial and Beaumont tanele
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-05-15
BASEBALL

Sunday PoWhatan barely de-
feated Amelia l4ll IN SUGGEST.
coming from behind several times.
Both teams used three pitchers.
Tilman starred in the field for
the locals.
Genito lost to Cumberland there
GA in a good game
Next Sunday finds Genito
travelling to Goochland and Pow
hatan to Columbia.
Sunday results: Goochland 13
Columbia 8; Fife 4, Orchid >;
PoWhatan IA. Amelia II. and
Cumberland 6 Genito a
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-05-15

Korea. senator A, Wills ROBERT
son was compelled to give a
peSsimlStic answer, the Virginia
Junior senator writes in his Wash
ington column.
Senator Robertson details the
thought behind that answer this
week He states:
The Korean action is only one
part of a world struggle in which
the Soviet leaders are applying
economic. political and psyche
logical as well as military pres
sure. The war started in Korea
because the Politburo did not be-
lieve we would fight there II will
end. III my opinion, only when
those who started it feel that is
to their interest. II is difficult to
see what the Soviet would gain
now by ending a war in which
the Russions have lost no soldiers,
While we have lost thousands.
have tied up at least one half OF
our effective military force and
have spent billions of dollars
Deeper Questions
"A more serious question than
when the Korean war will end is:
When Will the Soviet leaders take
ether aggressive steps that will
start World War III?
One of the most prominent
political commentators in WASH
lngton told me last week his guess
was that the Russians would
start World War III in 1855, by
which time they would have an
adequate stock pile Of atomic
bombs. He recalled a conversa-
ton he had with the late Sena-
tor Brlen Mcmahon on the race
between the United States and the
Soviet Union TO stock pile atomic
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-05-15
Announce Birth

Dr. and Mrs. F. W. Bradley an
nounce the birth Of daughter in
a Richmond Hospital.
Friends here are sorry to learn
of MIS- Lamphere's death after a
long illness She is the wife Of our
popular Band Director Funeral
services We're held IN Richmond
Tuesday afternoon.
Monday night RED Lane won
over Mt Moriah. Games Tuesday
and Wednesday were postponed
because Of rain On Friday night,
N&r Memorial won over Pow
hatan Methodist who forfeited
because they did not have enough
players on the fed at game time
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-05-15
STANDINGS

american chemists are acclaim
ing a new synthetic rubber called
VulcolIan. made from coal tar and
natural gas, perfected in West
Germany and tested in the U. S,
as SO good we don't have TO look
any further for a rubber that will
outlast the normal life eXpectan-
cy Of an automobile
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-05-15

Mor- than $4,000 persons we're
k.lled IA week end traffic accidents
las: year.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-05-15
Senator Robertson


When a panel of
reporters questioned
Virginia members of
Congress at a State
Chamber of Com
merce d in ner in
Washington ] a S t
week about pros
poets for peace in
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East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1953-04-02

Advantages of the Alcometer, as
set forth by Chief of Police
Weaver, are:
/. A person will not be unjustly
convicted of driving while in
toxicated.
2. A sick person whose symptoms
might make him appear to be
drunk, can be given immediate
medical attention.
8. A sick person will be saved the
embarrassment of false prose-
cut tion on an intoxication
charge.
4. The drunken driver is more
likely to be convicted and re-
move another menace from the
highway and street.
5. Greater certainty of conviction,
penalty and loss of driving per-
nit will tend to make a person
think twice before driving after
drinking.
DR.. Barker explains that the ma
chine would be ineffective without
slide rule statistics of how much
alcohol the blood stream can take
before intoxication sets in. Tests
conclude that a person weighing
$50 pounds with a 2-ounce drink
of wlniskey inside him registers
0.05 on the alcometer dial. Six or
seven drinks indicates 0.15 alco-
hol in the blood and the person
would be considered drunk and un-
able to safely operate motor
vehicle. AS a sort of aside, science
concludes that anyone with a
drink, even if he registers only
0,05, is not entirely sober.
Chief of Police H. S. Weaver,
Municipal Judge Stanton Adams
Adams and Prosecuting Attorney
Stanley Webster have all recon-
mended purchase of the Alcometer
which is approved by the Ameri-
can Medical Association, National
Safety Council, American Bar AS
sociation, the FBI, and the Inter-
national Association of Chiefs of
Police.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1953-04-02

One little breath into the tube
of this instrument, the Alcometer,
and police will know if the person
doing the breathing has or does
not have alcohol in his blood. The
Alcometer will serve East Cleve-
land Police whenever they need to
know this answer. Shown is DIR.
B. H. Barker, chemist and vice
president of Federal Laboratories,
demonstrating h e machine to
Chief of Police H. S. Weaver and
(seated) Sgt. Charles Kastilahn.
1t is an accepted fact that East
Cleveland means business in its
continuing battle to keep its
streets and highways safe for traf-
fic. A new device just added to the
department equipment adds en-
phasis to this effort.
Henceforth there will absolutely
be no guesswork by East Cleveland
police in determining whether a
person involved in an accident was
sober or drunk at the time of the
accident.
The needed information all
scientifically arrived at - will be
given by that newest of gadgets
the Alcometer. This portable ma
chine weighing approximately 40
pounds, will not only establish that
there is or is not alcohol in the
blood, but will reveal the exact
percentage of alcohol present. 1t is
this percentage that will now be
received by the courts as prima
facie evidence.
DR.. B. H. Barker, vice president
of Federal Laboratories, Inc. ex-
planned the process to police as
follows:
The Alcometer is opera d
through the use of electronics and
chemicals that indicate whether a
person is drunk or sober. The sub
iect breathes into a tube connected
with the machine. Alcohol in his
. breath reacts with a mixture of
iodine and oxygen to yield free
iodine. Photoelectric measurements
of the intensity of the color pro-
duced by the liberated iodine in
fixed volume of starch and po-
tassium iodide are communicated
to the dial on the front of the ma
chine.
If the dial reads over 0.05% the
subject is said to be under the
influence Of liquor. At 0.15fo he is
too drunk to drive. At 0.40fo he
is dead drunk. The whole opera
ton takes a mere seven and-a-half
| minutes.
The primary purpose Of the al
cometer is to protect the innocent,
safeguard the i'll and provide evil
dence of the degree of intoxication.
1t does not measure the amount OF
alcohol consumed, but the per-
centage of alcohol in the blood at
the time of the test.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1953-04-02

final quarter in scoring 10 points
to the Webster 2. John Bodmer
and Biscotti were high for the
Websters with 10 points apiece.
Thiele led the scoring with IA
points.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1953-04-02
Wheeler Hawks
Class B 1st
Round Champs

The Wheeler Hawks, the first
round champions of the Class F
Exchange League edged the
Tomsic Tiger, winner of the Sec
ond round 24-23 in a very evenly
matched contest. The Hawks
trailed Ga, 1879 and 1916 at the
end of each quarter although they
scored 8 points in the final quarter
to squeeze by the fighting Tigers
who were never out of the game.
Norman was high scorer for the
Hawks with 10 points, Wormald
had 9 points. Jim Bodmer led the
Tigers with 10 Points.
In the All-Star contest, the
Websters won over the Boymeyers
1927 in another close game. The
Bolmeyers failed to score a point
in the first quarter while the Web
sters scored IL. The Websters led
10 to 10 at the half and 20 to II
at the end of the third quarter.
The Bolmeyers caught fire in the
Evening star., 1953-09-21
Testing the New GI Bill

More than 100000 veterans of the fighting
in Korea will take advantage this fall of the
special educational benefits provided by the
Federal Government in the revised servicemen's
"bil of rights" The cessation Of hostilities is
not expected to raise the total appreciably, as
there will be no demobilization of the sort that
marked the end of World War II. But the num-
ber of CT students in college the forthcoming
term will be substantially higher than last
term as a result of the increased number of
discharges under existing active-service limits.
Thus, the new CT schooling law will receive its
first major workout with the advent of the fall
and winter Semesters. The result will be of
interest, in view of criticisms that have been
voiced Of certain provisions of the new law.
Taking cognizance of widespread evidence
of abuse of the World War II "bill of rights"
Congress, in rewriting the law year ago to
encompass veterans of the Korean war, elimt-
mated Objectionable parts of the old legislation.
The revised law was designed to rid the CT
educational program Of hy-by-night schools
which Sprang up in large numbers after pas
sage of the original bill 1t also did away with
grants to students for maintenance Instead,
the Government makes tuition payments direct
to students who select approved schools and
keep up the payments themselves. Although
it had been feared in some quarters that the
QlTeCG CulIIOH payments 10 StuuentS HlISuL re-
suit in Irregularities, a survey by the New York
Times disclosed that most colleges have found
that the system worked satisfactorily last term.
In fact, the Times survey showed that the
colleges in general welcome the servicemen as
above-average students intent on serious study
and given to less-than-average horSeplay OF
the traditional college-boy type. As class the
CT students are younger than their World War
II counterparts were on enrolment. They seem
to accommodate themselves to civilian life
easier than the other group did. The peak of
CT enrolment Is not expected to be reached for
another year or so. Since the new law applies
to all selective service men hereafter indicted,
a total of about 100000 GI students annually
is the eventual prospect. All will depend, OF
course, on the degree of success of the new
educational program, on future emergency de-
velopments and on availability of appropria-
tions. A permanent scholarship" program on
the present scale will cost the Government
about $400 million year.
Evening star., 1953-09-21
By Charles E. TroceweN

which was a good thing, since he was
getting too fat, anyway
He has always regretted it, though
The loyalty of the average male
American to chocolate is amazing,
amusing and bit sad, for in the end
chocolate gets him.
There comes time when the doctor
says, mo more chocolate" That is a
severe blow to any American, male or
female. because the chocolate ice cream
soda is usually the first love.
For years, as he was growing up, he
resisted the lure Of vanilla, lemon, root
beer, cherry, hundred different fla
vorS, to remain true to chocolate.
He is not sure. now, that the drug
store without sodas is a real drugstore
Isn't chocolate a drug? It contains
that surely is drug.
The old-faShioned prescription drug
store that sold only drugs had a flaw
from the beginning, which was simply
that people wanted more than drugs.
Happily, they want drugs only now and
then. except when they are intrigued
into buying them in some other form.
The modern drugstore is q product
Of the people and the times. and not
too many viii lament the passing Of
the old type. After all. it had its day.
which was q good day And 1t surely
is handy to be able to buy few vital
vitamin pills and can Of floor wax
At the same place.
Evening star., 1953-09-21
This and That

A neighboring paper, the Baltimore
the end of one of the few remaining
prescription drugstores there.
Templeton Jones says he can't re-
member such stores.
The only drugstores he has ever
known have always sold sodas.
In the old days, real soda was used
to make the fizZ.
A vanilla ice cream soda was the
end of all the young Jones desires. in
the old days: it was 5 cents q glass,
and mighty good. as he recalls.
When he came to Washington, at
the age Of eight years. he visited the
counter at 17th and @ streets-still
there under the old name-and got
acquainted with his first chocolate ice
cream soda.
Until he gave up soda fountain
drinks. Templeton Jones thereafter
never had anything except chocolate.
Oh. now and then, perhaps, he would
take limeade.
But the years do something to ones
faster.
Finally the limeades became too sour
for him. but he still manfully stuck
to the full-blown chawklate soda.
He was always willing to take one
Of these, at any time of day or night.
It was one Of the new-fangled drug
stores. replete with playing cards, lawn
Evening star., 1953-09-21

Nine. Pandit, the first woman to be elected
president of the United Nations General As
sembly, Is well qualified to serve in that i'm
portant post. A handsome and exceptionally
able person, she has acquired a rich interna-
tional experience in a wide variety Of assign
ments, notably as India's Ambassador to Moscow
and later to Washington. In addition, as key
member of her country'S delegation to the
U. N, she has become intimately acquainted
with the U. MS problems and procedures
fact that should be of great help to her in
carrying out her new role.
Like her brother, Prime Minister Nehru,
Nine. Pandit does not agree with the United
States and other Western powers on a number
of outstanding issues, such as the question of
admitting Red China into the U. N. However
again like her brother, and like India as
whole, she has no love for communism.
Throughout all her adult life even if at times
with seeming fuzzineSS or inconsistency, she
has been an ardent advocate of freedom and
genuine democracy, and she has often indicated
for example, by having two OF her daughters
educated in this country-a high personal re-
gard for our American system.
In commenting on her election by the
Assembly Cher term will expire with the close
of the current SESSION. Nine. Pandit has made
q special point of pledging that she intends, as
the U. N. Charter requires, to discharge her new
duties with complete impartiality. Some very
Evening star., 1953-09-21

sprinklers and nails, that ended his life
as a soda drinker.
Not that he wanted it ended.
He would still be drinking sodas,
chocolate flavor, if the boys behind the
counter had continued willing to wait
on him.
Something must have happened to
the boys, mostly from the South, that
have manned Washingtons soda coun-
terS for the past quarter Of century.
They ignored Jones. Poor old Tempt
Our hero felt that If he had worn
skirts, the boys would have rushed to
wait on him, but since he was just
an average American male, so years
old at that time. the lads made him
wait.
Templeton Jones would take his seat
at the counter and hope that one of
the white-clad boys would wait on him.
II would like a chocolate soda." he
would begin, finally catching the eye
Of one of the mighty.
Just a minute" the mighty one
would say. intent on catching the eye.
in his turn, Of the girl with the bare
back down at the other end of the
counter.
After Is minutes of this, Templeton
Jones would slide OF his seat and make
for the door. Enough was enough.
Usually he never came back to that
place. The final result was that Jones
was forced to give Up ice cream sodas.
Evening star., 1953-09-21
Hermit Thrush

/ lonoed to hear the thrush before the
Twilight
Had covered ptDid colors from the tDest.
And wandered all alone into the forest
To listen for the music like best.
The Woodland roices blended all around
me,
Brook r1sGpsodies. tDtnG strumnsin0 q
great pine,
The iDIttr of partridge tOtngs. a cricket
hyntnir0::
/ tDalked wllere scent Of ferns iDere
SDeetly mime
And then the music cdn1e-I paused In
Donder,
As notes of purity rang out, to cease.
A dream nDoke as beautiful as loue q,
And hope iDGs like q toner tuned to
peace.
The moments pere ethereal in passing,
Yet sudden loneliness tDGs mine to bear;
/ tDould hare reached my hand out to q
contT1de
Who understood NTH me the beauty
there.
Avis Turner French
Evening star., 1953-09-21

which have arisen from personal OBJ
Servation.
Career Civil Service employees un-
doubtedly should be helped, but they
should also help themselves. It ap-
pears to me that most displaced work.
ers gripe and complain only, and do
not make any attempt to learn what
they can do for themselves. Appar-
emily. only very few displaced en-
ployes have put themselves on the
Civil Service register for displaced en-
ployes. Unless they do, other agencies
cannot hire them.
disagree with Mr. Rees in his opin-
ion that there should not be promo
tionS while reduction in force is going
on. There are some important va
cancies which must be filed If some
permanent Civil Service employe is
best fitted to fill job, I think ne
should be allowed to do so, else incen-
tive is gone from career Civil Service
workers.
Also, while Civil Service is revamp-
ing its internal organization, hope
1t will allow for inefficient employees
to be fired without the lengthy red
tape now necessary.
Ethel II. Houston.
Evening star., 1953-09-21
Bankers in Convention

Any city would be glad to be host to a
convention Of the American Bankers Associa-
ton, and Washington is no exception to the
rule. The Nations Capital naturally is center
of the banking buSinesS-perhapS the most i'm
portant of its kind In the world just now. Wise
management Of money is an imperative OF
world recovery from world conflict. The mem
bers Of the A. B. A. assembled here are gathered
to face challenges the seriousness Of which
cannot be exaggerated. craftsmanship in the
best meaning of the word will be required Of
them if they are to solve prevailing problems.
But the A. B. A. has tradition of success.
Ever since it was organized at Saratoga Springs
New York, in 1875, it has been bulwark of
American industry and commerce and correla-
lively of the American Government and the
American way of life. Repeated crises have
found the country's organized banking system
equal to its need. Even in the great depression
of two decades ago there was no reason for the
public to lose faith in the elemental Soundness
of the banks. With very few exceptions, the
banking institutions of the United States
emerged from the ordeal undamaged indeed
strengthened by the experience. The Banking
Act of 1888 and its amendments rewritten in
1885, provided insurance for small depositors
which has been of benefit to the banks as well
as to their patrons.
Other Improvements also have been made
through cooperation between Congress, the
Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve
System, and such agencies as State boards of
bank examiners, insurance companies, universi-
ties, trade unions and various thrift clubs, with
all of which the A. B. A. has maintained con-
sistent contact. The present convention will
furnish opportunity for review of the achieve
ments of the past and for planning for the
accomplishments Of the future. Washington's
resident community says: Welcome!
Evening star., 1953-09-21
Beot-Poundinq Pays

Further evidence of the crime -suppressinv
erect OF closely patrolled police beats is con-
tanned in the Semiannual statistical bulletin of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform
Crime Reports" The bulletin, based on police
reports from major cities, showed a gratifying
drop here of nearly per cent in serious offenses
during the first half of this year. Yet crimes
were on the increase throughout the rest of
the Nation The decline of lawlessness in Wash
ington, significantly, coincided with restoration
to street duty of many policemen pulled off
when funds ran out.
The increase in patrol assignments was or
dered by Police Chief Murray when crime took
an alarming jump during the first half of the
past fiscal year. (This was the "disgraceful"
crime upSurge described by Representative Burr
Harrison of Virginia in a recent speech) The
wave OF crtminality followed withdrawal from
the streets Of the equivalent of 200 patrolmen,
because OF the cutting off of recruitment funds
by Congress. The money had been used with
congressional sanction, to pay volunteer police
men for working an extra day each week. The
overtime duty was performed principally at
night in areas where robberies and assaults had
been more prevalent. AS the situation became
worse, Chief Murray called for volunteers to
work overtime without pay. A large number Of
men responded to the call-and the muggings,
housebreaking and other major offenses began
to subside appreciably.
Confronted with such convincing evidence
Of the relationship between police vigilance and
crime, Congress this year restored the recruit
ment funds. Some of this money has been used
to hire new men, but most of 1t is being used
to pay police volunteers for sixth day of patrol
work. AS arrests rose early this year, the popu-
lation Of the District jail reached an all-time
peak. The jail still Is crowded. OF course, CO.
operation Of prosecutors and judges helped to
put the prisoners behind bars. This sort Of team
work shows that certainty Of arrest and punish
ment Is the best crime preventive yet devised.
Evening star., 1953-09-21
U. S. in Liquor Business

am appalled, by the irresponsible
statements of Assistant Secretary Of
Defense Hannah which were reported
in The Star Of September 16. To rashly
state that people in the alcoholic hever-
age industry have inveigled church and
dry groups into opposing the entry Of
the Government into the liquor busi-
ness. without a scintilla Of evidence to
back this remarkable utterance, speaks
poorly for the gentleman.
The church and dry groups used no
prod to oppose this kind of activity on
the part Of the Federal Government.
Likewise. business people, who are also
members of churches, need no urging to
fight the further encroachment of the
Government upon private enterprise.
Similarly, the States, in whose hands
the 21st amendment supposedly left
the control Of the liquor business, re-
sent this intrusion upon their rights
and upon their systems Of liquor control.
And what can be the feeling toward
an executive arm Of the Government
which openly admits it has violated
the law Of the land for years, know
ingly? For to quote Mr.. Hannah: "The
Army and Air Force have sold liquor
under subterfuge for years."
The President should not condone
these actions He should have these
regulations rescinded as against the
public interest and request the resigna-
ton of Mr.. Hannah.
Church Going Businessman.