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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-11
BrooNond Association Points
ToRosy Past and Bright Future
By John M. Rosson

Probably nowhere in the Dis
trict Is there q group of resi-
!, dents possessed of more pride In
It's past. with more satisfaction
In things present and with q
roster outlook toward its future
than the Brookland Citizens
Association.
For this there are reasons
its bygone days were bright with
early success and its present
days are bearing the fruit. But
best Of all. according to Its
president, Miss kathleen w,
Noel, .'the future Is the bright
lest of ALL" !
Miss Noel, q resident of the
Brookland area for more years
than she viii say. is the person
ification Of the pride-in-group,
which sets the association apart,
She has been a part Of 1t for
years.
Miss Noel is fond Of recalling
its history but begins her story
Of the association by reciting its
physical boundaries. They ex-
tend. she said last night at a
meeting In her home at 1862
Lawrence street NE, from
Michigan avenue to Irving street
and along Seventh street Me-,
from Seventh street to the east
side Of Sixteenth street and
from Irving street to the south
side Of Quincy street.
-,.U-
stared In Early 1sS0s.
"Since the associations be-
ginning sometime in the early
1905" Miss Noel said. 1T has
helped develop a fine residential
section of the District Of Column
bia, and we're not through yet"
The group also takes particu-
lar pride In the number Of fine
scholars, its one famous novel
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Includes Catholic u.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-11

Of Kansas. a
good friend
Of Governs
ment workers.
W h o W q 5
cha rman Of
the group DUR
ing the last
two years.
Heading the
list Of Demo-
Gratis win be
Senator john
stor1 Of South
Carolina, who
will be the
~ -. sAAA~y~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-11

The Federal Spotlight Is
Senote Civil Service Unit Gets
Strong Lineup Of Liberals

strong lineup Of liberals assigned Democratic
membership Of the Senate Civil Service Committee
augus well substantial Federal raise well
as other employee benefits this year. since the
Democrats control the committee.
The Republicans viii choose their minority membership
the committee today. Thee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-11

Record Temperaturea TAls Tear.
HieheSt. 50. on January 3.
Lowest. 81 on January 8.
High and Low Of Last - IleurA
z High, Is, at 1;30 pm. @ sss
Low. 30. ct 0.25 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-11

COMMERCE-George Moore,
director Of administrative serv-
Ices for the Commerce Depart
ment, is due to be nominated by
President Eisenhower as Assist
ant Secretary Of Commerce for
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-29
WHY BUTCHER BEAUTY?

The intention the Board OF
driveway constructed in front of the State Capitol
little among Helena folks who hold
deep affection for the beautifully Handicapped front grounds
of the building.
They also wondering what good purpose it will
TO spend good many thousands of dollars putting semi
circular ribbon of concrete to replace number of stately conf
fers which much part of the state edifice the
building itself.
can't say that blame them additionally visitors to the
capitol have parked their the back and then entered
the building ground floor level rather than having
climb the long flight of front stairs They will undoubtedly
continue to do so, though driveway is put in.
Likewise, driveway will take the place of needed
parking lot inconcevabe that the Board of Examin
ers would permit such driveway to become just another
street, replete with parking meters.
Such driveway will, however, raise unhoy ned with the
beauty of the grounds and the serenity that engu the front
of the building because of the blue and other and
shrubs which have been the grounds the than half
century the building has been in existence.
If the Board of Examiners by virtue of legislative appropra
has thousands of dollars spend with reckless abandon
surely better be made of than to put into land
driveway For example, various offices in
the capitol badly need arconditionng hired help
would efficiently the mechanics of public
business Likewise there's lot of sidewalks around the capitol
which badly in need of repairs replacement And
ainly with state government growing by there is
increasingly pressing the provide
parking without trspassng private property owned
individual citizens has been the for number of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-29
By WILLARD SHELTON
In LABOR'S DAILY

The people owe small thanks to
President Eisenhower's leadership for
the new 81 an hour minimum
wage bills that have passed both
Houses of Congress and now are sub
ject to agreement on minor differ
ences.
Never a word did the White
House or the Department of La
Dor say, until after both the Sem
ate and House had acted, to indi-
cate that 81 an hour would be ac-
ceptable to the President.
Labor Secretary Mitchell and Pres
ident Eisenhower persistently stuck
to a proposal to raise the minimum
from the present rs cents an hour
to merely 80 cents.
Even when the bill for 81 had
pending in the House Labor Com
nittee, Mitchell declined to say
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-29
WOULD YOU CONSIDER A SALARY OF
$1,000 A Year?

Elsewhere in this article disclosing
school teaching that only
20 applications have been received for positions
pointed out that salaries offered 59 of the 63
$1,000 to 5000 year.
These not the only statistics teachers salaries which
should give Monanan for
derng The office of the State Supt Public Instruction
made available to THE VOICE other salary figures
which may shock the reader These
clude (based on 1954-55 term:
City Elementary Teachers: Salaries from
$4373; statewide average 1924
Rural Elementary Teachers: S2 1873 $3486 statewide
average, $2,782
School Administrators statewide $5871.
Contrast those salary scales paid people, who by the
nature of their profession have college
training with these typical examples of paid in
skilled crafts which necessarily college,
completion of high school training:
Laborer under union contract yearly basis So 900
Metal miners; year, $4,100.
Truckdrivers per year. $4,700.
Union printers, per year, $500.
Is wonder that older people the teaching profession
leaving the schools other fields of which will
provide decent standard of living? It wonder
that people shy from teaching
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-29

fected that rejects slugs and washers
and other useless collectors items
people put in a phone to get call
for nothing. Sounds like that would
be simple thing to do after seeing
the rest of the feats of the human
brain. Anyhow the next time you slip
slug in a pay phone, instead of
looking to see if anyone is watching,
duck
/. Everything is done mechanically in
this dial system, practically. Even
line failures are located by pushing
a button and an IBM machine finds
the trouble.
1t is all very wonderful, but as you
walk out of the building and think
about it for while you wonder what
pretty soon we are going to do with
people.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-29

Last Friday with about 30-4(
other people, we were guests of the
Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Company
to lunch and tour of their new g.
500, 000-dollar building in Helena
which houses the new Helena dial
system and the administrative staff
of both the state and district besides
| the Helena staff.
Throughout the tour of the beauti-
full new building | kept wondering
what Alexander Graham would say
about the perfection of his original
telephone? Were he to abruptly step
into the present from the past would
he be amazed? Astounded? Bewild-
cred? Or did he dream of the extent
to which his invention would revolu-
tionize communications?
The electrical engineering involved
in the Helena dial system was about
as clear to me as something Einstein
might have written on blackboard.
There were only two of us gals and
we asked most of the questions. The
men either grasped this complicated
maze of 100000 feet of switchboard
cable and why it went where it did
and what happened after it got there,
or they didn't want anyone to know
they didn't.
| still don't know.
But, certainly, it is interesting to
know all that is involved in getting
a phone call through when you dial a
even if you don't know just
how it all comes out right.
For instance the speed of opera
ion: From the time you raise your
receiver until you get dial tone 800 |
'elays operate and all but four re-
ease in 1T of a second When you
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-29
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
By GRETCHEN G. BILLINGS

complete dialing until the time you
hear the audible ringing tone 1900
relays operate, 1,494 release and 6
remain operated in about u of a
second.
An interesting look into the Count
ing house" where pay phone collec-
tions are counted revealed that the
phone company averages about 5000
dollars a day in pay phone receipts.
They get about 5000 dollars month
in slugs and washers. However, they
said, new mechanism is being per-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-29
Higher Minimum Wage -.
A VICTORY AGAINST ODDS

passed the Senate, even when it was
whether he would recommend that
the President sign or veto such a
measure.
Mr.. Eisenhower's last public COM
ment at news conference indicated
that he was still sticking to 80 cents,
although he had been deserted by such
conservative Republicans as Senator
Goldwater, the Arizona department
store owner who wanted Isl an hour
so long as coverage wasn't extended
to protect chainstore operators.
The Republican leadership in the
House recently protested piously
that the President had deep sympathy
for underpaid workers. Said Repre-
sentative Halleck, of Indiana, in argu-
ing for the Republican substitute for
90 cents, it just wasn't wise to wreck
the small-business men.
What small-business men did he
imagine would be wrecked by the re-
quirement that they pay their workers
a minimum of 81 an hour?
The law covers only business and
industry involved in interstate COM
merce, not the corner druggist or
delicatessen owner.
The low-wage industries that
would be affected directly by the
$1-an-hour minimum are textiles,
numbering, turpentine, and similar
operations. They are not pathetic
"smalI business" with purely local
effects.
Deep sympathy may be greatly APP
preciated by people in time of per-
sonal trouble or misfortune. But it is
scarcely substitute for a realistic
concept of the fact that even in this
nation prosperity is not universal,
that many people are underpaid by
any decent standards when there is
no excuse for underpaying them.
No business has a right to stay
in operation by exploiting its work
ers with substandard wages.
The case for 81 an hour was proved
n the labor committees of the House
md Senate.
1t was proved by application of the
ost of living figures, by the figures
m the growing productivity and out
tut of individual workers.
The Republican Senators who voted
or 81 an hour, without even bother
ng to ask for a rollcall, knew that
he case had been proved. That's why
hey voted as they did.
The Administration made one last
itch, however, to hold the increase
0 80 cents. Presidential Assistant
herman Adams rallied his forces,
nd the official COP House leader
nip fought for the 90-cent program
The country is getting ST an
hour because Congress simply re-
fused to be bound by the Eisen-
hover recommendation.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-29
Labor Union In 1850

The worlds oldest trade union Is
claimed to have been discovered" by
British labor leaders.
Ancient records indicate that the
Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen &
Bargemen's Union was founded in
1850 and reorganized in it's present
form in 1872. The union has 1000
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-07-29
Editorial
S1.OO MINIMUM yVAGE--A STEP I'm
THE RIGHT DIRECTION

Approval by the Congress increase minimum
all engaged in in
dusres operating interstate the approve
of the by President Eisenhower despite his earle
of the nation
To the workers directly nvoved-and more thai
two million of hem-t average wage increase
IL cents hour The immediate effects will show vas
increased purchasing power particularly in the South
10 industrial workers, business and other economic seq
ments in the Observation-Disclosures states of the north centr
and eastern United States the higher minimum will
like brake the increasing tendency of industry to
plants the owwage, ghttowork of the
Because of substandard below the MasonDxon line
large industries have moved into that region leaving
formerly thriving northern communities state of economic
distress Most of the nations danger from the standpoint
of unemployment situated in northern historically
dependent manufacturing for their prosperity.
To the rest of the nation higher minimum will
not only standard for achieve but will
further strengthen the another effective buwar
against business recession historical fact that fixed
minmums whether under wages products tend
lessen the dangers of declines because such mini
NUNS shore the purchasing of the great majority
OF the buying public.
AS direct result of the $780, wage envelopes
of the than million workers commerce
affected will be fattened by year. However,
indirect effects of the increase it estimated by u NEWS
WORLD REPORT will of other workers increased
by about and onehaf billion dollars annually when pay
levels raised for workers the brackets the
points out there customary upward adjustment
paid to workers higher Workers now earning
S10O hour will not be satisfied ess-skled
below them moved to 81 90 from rs cents The
anhour will will boost, too will on
up the ladder :,
Two billion dollars wage payments have
arreachng effects the national The uneashng
of that much purchasing among millions
cdncevably increase billions
in the national income above beyond two
billion dollars.
From the standpoint of the longtime webeing the
economy the rs an hour minimum sought by Organized
labor would have been much desirable However the
to S100 be considered positive
ahead not only for grossly underpad
perity of the country a whole
elsewhere this page reprinted chart showing how
workers industries will be affected by the wage
minimum if it is signed into law by the President.)
Montans senator's Murray and Mansfield and Cong Mea
For House (36254 CONG RECORD
1851.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-01-07
Mrs. Mary Miller "a,
OF Glenmore, Dies

Mrs MARY Lucy Ayers Miller. d
lifelong resident Of Buckingham
county and widow Of John Mil
ler Of (}lenmore. died Monday,
Jan. 3 In q Lynchburg nursing
nome where she had been a pa
tlent
She WAS d member Of Glenmore
Methodist Church where fun
eral services were held Wednes-
day. Jan. 5. Burial was in the
church cemetery
Mrs. Miller is survived by three
sons. John. OF Richmond, James,
Of Covinkton. Ky. and William,
Of Glenn1ore. seven daughters
Mrs T T.. Miles and Mrs. Fran
els Harris. both Of Glenmore. Mrs.
VIII Williams. Of Chester Mrs.
John Spencer. of Lynchbuln Mrs.
Deas Richardson. Of pheniX ARR
Mrs Guy Gentry. Of Atlanta. and
Mrs Perry Goolsby Of Russell,
Ky sister MIS-. Frank Tap
scott a brother. Jake Ayers. both
Of Glepmore % grandchildren
and 40 Decentralization
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-01-07
Afrs. Brp,k 5 Fam

Mrs Brooks Fam.
Miss Ida Harvey ana Mrs q
II Dr.skiA attended the Garter
Moore wedding al the Centenary
NJ ,l1o6 Church In Lyncaaurg
Mt aad Mrs Guthrie Naloney
aEd children spent the week ena
N41Il n ANA Mrs Fl Shorter
and NJ afd Mrs R3oert Ma
loney
Mr. ard Mrs Leslie Hamilton
and children Bill and Writ. were
holiday guests at Mrs Hamilton
heane IA Aglo.
MI and Mrs. H2llle SIN, lion
entertained Y .th dinner party
Last Monday evening Guests In
cudec aIr and Mrs. B Cooke
MI and Mrs. Ned Short IN. Miss
Acyis Mae Cmninzham and Geo
re Shorter
The Darlington Heights Bridge
Club met IN the home of Miss
I ''-'' i. II 80 ',<''- Tim 80
4-'s e4'.,.e IT .sols WI 80
ia .'- = s''l e'''' 49, ''ie nm
4, ' III ~ ~ IN '''>'
'-''i''''''
oi' ffiaas afternoon AltSs sing
le'oh had as hef guests 10! otadRe
Misses Ruth and lrma Harris
ana Miss Catherine Hamilton
pr ana Mrs Benson Davis
nave returned 70 their home N
DeLaldt Fla after visiting Mrs,
= y F@sile ioF tne christmas
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-01-07
Lonsvood College Professors Find
49,. =
Christmas Holiday Questionable Joy

Tie Christmas Vocation proved
TO be i dangerous IndertaknR
for several members DC ne Lone
wood COLLEGE faculty and pro
yoked the wonder II the whole
thing was worth is
Joel X Ebersole and ms family
were returning home from Gin
clnn4ti or slos.da5 1ec on wtaea
they ram into peck of trcatle
Eleven miles east Of Amherst on
Route 90. the second car AHEAD
Of the Eberso!e caravan sgeryed
TO miss q dog The oar immediate
~ ahead also swetyed and tie
Ebersole car did likewise plo%!ne
into the car ahead
Apart from being shaken up
there was no damage to the de
cupants The auto. however gtls-
talaed d number III injuries To
both front Tenders the grill the
radiator. and bumper guards I'll
OF which caused Mr Ebersole
member Of the miistc department
at the college 10 remark All
that vas hurt sas nay pride and
pocketbook,
The Robert Meirltts. heading
back To Farmvllle OH Friday
morning from Miami Fla we're
hit by another car from behind
as they entered d bank Of fog a
smoke IL miles north OF Sylyanla.
Ga, at 2:l5 a. m,
The al was powerful enough
TO push the Merritt car over q
6-foot embankment and make Il
do a full turn in the ain before
landing. right side UP
Although no one was hunt
seriously the Merritts we're hospi
TALKED until noon Friday morn
ing Th4q all suffered from CON
siderable shock. some bruises and
cuts and Mr. Merritt member OF
the science department, had III
stitches taken III his head The +.
TWO children. one 2 years Old and
the other months were asleep
when tae accident occurred and +
were fortunately relaxed enough
TO roll around the cat without
much injury
The family returned home via
bus. plane. and q friends private
car since their OWN automobile
IS presumably a total loss
Perhaps $ less spectacular but
none he-l less frightening were
the car tioubles experienced by
Miss Virginia Bedford and Miss
Pickett Asher Miss Bedford it Is
reported was stuck I'D a snow
drift for i'm uncomfortable long
time and Miss Asher was in an
accident While her father was
driving their car. No injuries were
sustained
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-01-07
Chestnut Grove

L,ieky Hlatsme were 4 n
Sen9er on Saturday VITO killed
an elgta pa1u Buck nonB.d- Nh
rts oa sEed an e.ka eea aha theay
qua. ei pound turkey au Mon
day Iues day D r. Wllaes
hagged an eight pnud tmaGy
and q II motifs i afe pound
turkey
Ar and Mrs II + Harris aaI
Anne visited Nf ana Mn ! IS
Jennings a. Caa} latge Court
House on Wednesday ON Thurs
day they visited Nj. and NJ 4
II chernauit az Prospect
Miss Gladys MORRIS BE BETH
sesaa. Md spent the CHRIS sra,
holidays with heg parents NH
and r It Morris
M ana MIS- II F Harris
and children visited several
friends in ParmYle on Wadues-
day "Wednesday nlaa; they tat-
ed Mr. and Mrs Frank Oruge "a.
nigglss
AFR and Mrs r G Moore Jr
and caildteu ST Rlchmlud spen
sever4 dsys l9-t week. vJth Nd
T. N saul
Mf and MRS B.l Carter of
Farmy,lle spent Ne4 Yu IMs
with Mn and Me- IA n ra.a
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-01-07

Funeral rites for Albert Edward
Denis. 10 who died Tuesday. Jan
q at the local hospital here will
be held Saturday. Jan al 1870
b m at the J william Lees Sons
Funeral Home In Washington
with intefment in the Congress-
ional Cemetery there
A retired Capitol Transit Com
Dany employee, Mr. Denis had
lived in Abeline. since 1851 He
was a member Of Beulah Church
H is survived by his wife Mrs
Elizabet Driscoll Denis. Of Abb
lene and two SONS + Edward
Denis. Of Baltimore and Louis M
Denis Of Fort Worth. Texas.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-01-07
t.unter Rites Held
In b uckin CHAM

Funeral rites f01 Marshall Rem
Cs9s2 er 70 Who died 4 aesday
Jan. nt ais home on .he Gei-
nansoWh Road. we're held Thurs
day. Jam 6. At Tie Union Baptist
Church IN Buckingham county
FIFE was retired farmer and q
mem Der Of Pleasant Grove Meth
odg, Church In Buckingham
Surviving are his wife. Mfrs Rosa
Franklin Gunter and four ehl-
drer bv former marriages. Ben
and OryIlle Gunter. OF Gladstone
paul Gunter, Of AppomattoX and
Mrs. walter L Wright. Of Glad
stone. d nd sister Mrs Hazel
Brown df West Springfield Mass
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-01-07
p r,onn( N snG;on

Mrs dieorge w Palmer ard
Mrs. &. B Beck attended tlA
evening d Danced Theatre pre-
sented IS Mata and Han an
I.onEwoo4 Colleges Ja-man Han,
WEDNESDAY, night.
Mr. ark Mrs. n p. Henderson
and children Potter ard Hannah
Price. Of Parsley. spent part
Of tire Christmas holiday with iei
parents Mr. and Mrs George
Price. u Rannes
/ Among those of the Longwood
College l4culty that attended the
concert given by the Philadelphia
s. IN d II Dny Orchestra at the
Mosque Monday night, we're Miss
Ruth GIetge8. Mrs Janice Lemefl
Miss Annie Lee Ross Miss Nancy
Chambers Mrs. Charles Hall
Davis. III Miss pickett Asher
Roy Jessdn and Joel X Ebersole
Mr.. and Mrs z f Price and
daughter Paula 81 Weyers Cave
were guests Of MI and Mrs
George nrice during the holt
days.
:.
sunday Guests If Miss Julia
r,avdsor Uere her, neuhews DR.
NJ K Hut nDhrles and Mrs Hum
pm - 7 - - e., ~ -, 90
~ -, - ~ -. IL. -
III, !. III, - ~ pr
.rl-,;,.
W9if pas been received itlat
Ernest w NeA man "I 'lie U .