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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-09-11

defense, Mrs, S w Putney. ST
community service, Mrs. John T
Hickman; education and scholar
ships. Mrs, T. A. McCorkle. legis-
lation and national security. Mrs
Owen Dunkley membership, Mrs
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-09-11

Mrs, f. f. Cook honored the
Misses Pamela and Valerie Slusser
with a pajama party last Friday
night Overnight guests were
Trude Newman. Nancy Jean Cook
and Cheryl Nobln.
The Slussers are moving soon to
Pottsville, Pa
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-09-11
WILLIS STUDIO OPENS

Miss Matte Spencer Wills will
open Ter Studio Of Muse on Fri
day. September IA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-25
Fight Over Project
On Colorado Ends

NEW YORK, Jan. Is (P.-
The Council of Conservationist.
disclosed yesterday it is dropping
its opposition to The Upper Col.
orado River storage project. II
said members Of Congress have
guaranteed amendments to elm
innate features the council op.
posed.
The council is a registered
lobby, whose members include
officials of a number OF national
conservation groups. Il had op.
posed the Echo Park Dam, 9
part Of the project. and con.
tended the original plan wou!t
impair the Rainbow Bridge Ma.
tional Monument.
/ In lettes. to all members Of
Congress, the council said Coz.
gressmen and Senators con.
cerned with the bill had guar
anteed that Echo Park Dan
would not be put back into tbt
bill.
THE administration has slst
reversed its former stand on thi!
matter, and has agreed to droI
! the Echo Park proposal" TIT
letter stated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-25
|Siassen Gives
Views on Arms

Harold E. Stassen, special as
sistant to the President for dis
armament, predicted today the
force Of world opinion eventually
will cause the Russians to agree
to a plan for inspection for arm
aments.
Mr.. Stassen was the first wit
ness before a special Senate SUBJ
committee created to study dis
armament possibilities. He will
be followed next month by Sec
Rotary Of State Dulles and De-
tense Secretary Wilson.
Mr.. Stassen said that while the
Soviet Union has not accepted
the Presidents plan for mutual
aerial inspection and exchange Of
blueprints. "it has been chary OF
rejecting it outright"
IT believe that the force Of
world opinion will be felt even
behind the curtain and that the
Kremlin will eventually heed it,
the witness said.
Mr.. Stassen also assured the
Senators the United States Twill
mot disarm unilaterally nor under
amy condition except on the basi:
Iof complete reciprocity. assured
by rigorous, unremitting. thor
Iough forehanded internationa
inspection and control
One disquieting factor was
singled out by Mr.. Stassen
namely that for almost 10 years
Inuclear production has beer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-25
Four Afghoniston
IAirfieIds Planned

KARACHI, Pakistan. Jan. Is
l(Pl.-The Kabul radio announced
last night that Afghanistan's
Russian-flnanced five-year de-
Ivelopment plan will include con-
struction of four airfields and a
major highway.
The plan is being financed
from the $100-million loan Soviet
Premier Bulganin and Commu-
mist Party Chief Nikita Khrush-
chev agreed to make to Afghan
listan during their visit to Kabul
in December.
The broadcast added that
Especial grants" had been made
for the development of educa-
ton. communications. agriculture
and mineral resources.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-25

| OF PfOCeStantS DuG clalInlIle
membership also among other
religions. Its program is dedi-
Gated to the doctrine of separa-
ton of church and state.
Today's closed sessions were
devoted to the election of new
officers and to outlining a pro-
gram for the next year by the
organizations so board members
These meetings were held in its
headquarters, 1888 MaSsachu-
sets avenue NV.
Writer Paul Blanchard will
address a dinner meeting at $50
O'Clock tonight in National City
Church. He will speak on THE
Sectarian Assault Upon the
Constitution.
Citations will be presented to
several leaders in the separation
of church and state field by DR.
Louie D. Newton of Atlanta, Ga.
chairman of the organizations
Board of Trustees.
Greetings will be brought to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-25

Igoing on without any interna-
ttional control. during which time
lit has been possible for a coun-
TRY interested IN evading prospec-
tive control TO hide atomic weap-
Ions." He said the tell-tale radio
activity of nuclear materials can
be shielded by containers beyond
the range Of any presently known
detection device. Mr.. StasSen
said this means that older plans
for international inspection based
on total accounting" are no
longer realistic.
Departing from his prepared
text. Mr.. Stassen told the SEN
ators that if they had in the
hearing room the most delicate
detection devices. it still would
be possible to have a dozen
H-bombs hidden within 100 yards
undetected.
This prompted Senator Pas
tori, Democrat of Rhode Island,
to suggest:
/ Doesn't that suggest that we
could never hope to have an
effective agreement to outlaw
atomic bombs until such time
as we can trust the Russians, or
develop the technology to locate
hidden stockpiles? If that is so
what gives you all this hope?"
Mr.. StaSsen said the Presi-
dents aerial inspection program
is based on the theory that the
destructive force of H-bombs is
SO great that an aggressor would
not launch an attack unless it
could have such an element of
surprise as to prevent a counter
attack. He argued that, while
it is still impossible to detect
hidden stockpiles. aerial inspec-
ton would prevent a surprise
attack.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-25


the gathering by DR.. j. Warren
Hastings, pastor of the host
church. The Rev. Robert w
Olewiler, pastor Of Grace Re-
formed Church, will give the
invocation. DR.. Joseph M. Daw-
son of Austin. Tex, recording
secretary of the organization and
well-known Baptist leader. will
preside.
Open meetings will be held al
$3.50 am. and 2 pm. tomorrow
The conference will end with a
mass meeting at 8 pm. to-
morrow in Constitution Hall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-25
Church-ond- Stote Group
Beoins Conference Here

Protestants other Americans United for Separation Of
today opened its eighth annual conference at
National City Christian Church, Thomas circle.
Conference theme this Let Us Keep Public Education
Public"
about 900 members composed largely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-25
Liquor Plan FOUGHT

Europeans in New Guinea are
fighting against a proposal to
grant liquor permits to selected
natives in and around Rabaul.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-25
Cleun Air Record

British European Anyways
planes carried 1.874.3l6 passen-
gers without a fatal accident in
the company's last fiscal year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-25

Our Wotehmokers Are Specialists!
Homilton specialists Fine Swiss
. EIoir-WoItham specialists
specialists chronosroph
The Hechf Co.'S wafehmakers Average IS years
experience
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-25

DECORATOR INSPIRED console to
blend with rich Mahogany. Auto
matte Top-Touch Tuning. Super
sensitive Micro-Grid Tuner with
KISS Tube to shatter all perform
ance records. 21-inch diagonal mea-
surement Photo-Perfect picture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
Georgetown Man
Feared Drowned
In Potomac River

A 23-year-old Georgetown man
was believed drowned late yes
Iterday in a boating mishap on
the Potomac River just below
Chain Bridge.
Police said the victim, Richard
Lewis Mawson, of 3419 NJ street
NV, and companion, Patrick
Sweeney. 40, of the same apart
ment house, were in a rowboat
equipped with an cupboard mo-
tor that foundered.
Pvt. Charles B. Kadel, of the
Seventh Precinct, said Mr..
Sweeney made it to the District
shore. Mr.. Mawson struck out
for the Virginia side. changed
his mind and went back to the
boat. Just as he reached the
boat, the officer said, Mr.. Nav
son went under. Police are
scheduled to drag the river for
his body today.
Mr.. MaWSon, route man for
Tolman's Laundry, is the son of
Mrs Mary Mawson of the home
address. He has a sister and
four brothers, Mrs. Mable Bicks-
Ter, also of the home address:
Thomas, of 4331 Harrison street
N W.; Robert. of SOILS Seventh
place NV; Edward L.. Vienna.
Va, and Joseph Mawson, resi-
dent of Maryland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29

Hotel that there is a tendency
among officials at all levels of
Government ito forget that the
public business is the peoples
business. He added:
Sometimes it is too easy to
put a classification stamp on a
document or a policy rather than
to explain it to the press and to
the people"
NBC President Robert Sarnoff
said that network television has
profoundly influenced the polit-
ilcal consciousness" of Americans
by extending the old town meet
ing to Nationwide gathering
"ElectrOnic Journalism"
I'm the field of public affairs,
the network offers the total pop
ulation direct access to the whole
range of issues and events that
stir our times" he said.
Describing MICS Meet the
Press" as "electronic journal
ISM" he said that it and similar
programs develop. expose and
diSsect issues in the invigorating
tradition of give and take"
Robert Frost. the renowned
American poet. spoke briefly and
read one Of his poems on the
American Revolution.
One of the features of the
evening was a model Meet the
Press" interview with Prof. JON
athan Farnsworth of Harvard
University as the guest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
Park S Beech Drive Open
i rom Zoo to Maryland

off traffic in that stretch for
several months.
The Beach drive section
opened this month means that
on a lucky day-a motorist
can follow the Rock Creek and
Potomac parkway and Beach
drive all the way from the Lin
coin Memorial to Maryland, an
especially popular drive during
summer months.
1t has to be a lucky day,
though, for the motorist to get
through the two pesky Rock
Greek fordS at the north and
south of the ZOO. The slightest
flash rain usually is enough to-
force zoo police to haul out the
ford barriers, and route dis
gruntled motoriSt back to city
streets.
Traffic Figures Cited
To show what these two fords
really do to park traffic, Zoo
police provided some figures.
OF the 365 days in 1855.
Both the Zoo fords were closed
all day on 122 days.
Both were closed for part of
the day on 81 days.
Sixty-eight of the closed days
occurred during December, jan
uary and February.
Mop officials said studies are
under way now on a new route
to bypass the southern Zoo ford
near the Calvert Street Bridge.
The plan is to bridge the creek
below the ford and extend a new
roadway along the eastern edge
of the Zoo. e
Congress actually gave Federal
park officials money for this
project two years ago, to the de-
light of the District Highway De-
partment and a good segment of
the motoring public. But the
bridge was never built. National
Park Director Conrad L. Wirth
said cost estimates exceeded the
amount on hand and so-instead
of seeking more money-he ap-
piled the money to other park
improvements.
Park officials wouldn't hazard
guess on when the new bridge
plans will be finished, and no
funds are being sought for the
next fiscal year.
So 1t appears that for a few
more years. at least, motorists
approaching the Zoo from either
side will continue to find Ford
Closed" signs. and YEARLY turn
away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
Police Sdy2
Admit Murder

BLACKSTONE. Va, April %
R.-Authorities say two former
students, 18-year-old cousins
have admitted the brutal mur-
. der Of a kindly 62 year old
Nuremberg County school teacher
yesterday. All three involved in
the case are colored.
They said Mrs. Lucille OVERLY
a widow. was slain after giving
first aid to one of the boys. Her
badly beaten body was recovered
from the reservoir at nearby
Camp Pickett. now closed.
County Sheriff Emerson Hardy
said Samuel Thomas and Russell
Thomas of rural Kenbridge had
signed statements admitting the
Staying, which he termed zone
of the most cold-blooded MUIR
ders we've ever heard Of" They
were charged with murder.
According to the sheriff. the
Thomas boys said they thought
Mrs. OVERLY had much cash in
her possession and planned tc
rob her and head for New Jersey
4, The youths were apprehendeo
by Kenbridge police after they
fed a Blackstone patrolman
/ making routine check because
their cars headlights were
aAickering.
N Mrs. OVERLY was described by
The county school superintendent
rs an excellent teacher with 2s
years experience. She taught 9
sixth grade class at Kenbridgt
Z Negro school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
Stains Cohorts Draw
KnowIond's Criticism

Senator Knowland said last
night that Soviet leaders Bull
ganin and Khrushchev seek to
gain responsibility by denouncing
Stain without returning the
loot"
Speaking at the 10th anniver-
sary dinner honoring the radio
television program. Meet the
Press" and its founder and ex-
ecutive producer, Lawrence Spi-
wax. the Republican leader OF
the Senate asserted that the
free world cannot trust the pres
ent leadership of the Soviet
Union nor rely on the United
Nations Charter.
He said that the group now in
power in the Kremlin "all rose
under Stain" and participated
in his crimes.
He warned the Kremlin that
It should not assume that the
rough-and-tumble character of
the coming presidential cam
paign will immobilize our for
eign policy" or weaken our de-
lenses.
500 Attend Dinner
Senator Knowland said that
the communications media had
responsibility to alert the
American people to the oppor-
tunities and dangers with which
they are faced.
He told the audience of about
500 Government leaders and
newsmen at the Sheraton-Park
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
50 Million Fire
Races Plant

HARRISBURG, Pa, April %
(P.-A So million fire in the Air
plane Engine and Parts Corp. in
nearby Grantham destroyed the
factory and threatened the small
Cumberland County community
today.
Stores of magnesium in the
building exploded as flames con-
sumed the two-story, 250-foot-
long brick building. A shower of
sparks from the explosions
started a brush fire three-quar.
tiers of a mile away. 1t was
quickly extinguished.
Firemen from 10 companies,
including some from Harrisburg,
soaked houses in the town of $50
population to protect them from
the sparks.
The fire was controlled in
about four hours. An employe,
Herbert Myers. 80, suffered burns
of the leg and was taken to a
hospital Fire Chief Daniel
Keefer of Grantham was over
come by smoke, but revived al
the scene.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
Labor Leader Gets
New Threat by Mail

MIAMI. Fla. April % (P).-
Bert Ross, labor leader who
narrowly was missed by gunfire
from ambush Wednesday night,
received a letter today which
warned him to get out of town"
by midnight.
Mr.. Ross turned the letter
over to police and said he in
tended to continue his work
here. He is heading a drive of
the hotel employees union to
organize the hotels in Miami
and Miami Beach.
Two bullets smashed through
the glass window OF his living
room and passed about a foot
over the heads of Mr.. Ross
and his wife Wednesday night.
A telephone call 10 minutes
later warned him to leave tow
within "a hours and said this
is not just the hotels
Mr.. Ross said the letter read.
This is warning Number 2. You
have until IL pm. Saturday to
get out Of town."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
Stresses
Teachers Pride

Pride in teaching was the
prime theme at District teach
lers' conference yesterday at the
Mayf1ower Hotel.
The 700 delegates also heard
pleas for higher salaries and
better working conditions.
The occasion was the spring
conference of the District of Co.
lumbia Education Association. at
which commissioners Robert E.
Mclaughlin and Thomas A. Lane
appeared. John NJ. Fletcher,
president of the association, pre-
sided at the conference.
DR.. John Lester Buford, preSi-
dent. National Education ASsoci-
alton, told the conference that
teachers should be paid decent
salaries. He declared they should
be high and flexible enough to
compete for quality manpower
in the same markets in which
business and industry are siph-
oning off the top talent. He said
the ceiling in the teaching pro-
fession is too low.
/ He asserted the teacher is en-
titled to respectable working con-
ditions. Given these. he said,
the educational output will be
increased for it will raise the
teachers morale.
If children are to be respect
full and courteous in the class
room. he said, the newspapers,
home, church, the theater, tele-
vision and everything about
town" must seek return to
respect for authority
He said the schools should
give the media newsworthy ma
terisl. He also advocated that
parents frequently visit class
rooms to become ambassadors
for education"
Teachers. he said. should doll
up the little red schoolhouSe
and not say they are just
teachers.
Representative Wilson, Re-
publican Of Indiana. member of
the House District Appropria-
tions Subcommittee, himself a
former teacher and principal,
addressed the gathering. He
said enthusiasm is the key to
success. but added that some
school administrators put the
wrong emphasis on selecting
teachers. He declared teachers
should be normal human beings
not put into a strait Jacket and
blamed from playing cards or
dancing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29

GUEST EDITORS-Will
Rogers, jr., star of CHS net
works Good Morning show,
will be the guest editor and
master of ceremonies at the
Washington Newspaper
Guilds 10th annual Front
Page Ball Friday night in
the Statler Hotel. Pamela
Good, his TV girl Friday,
will help Mr.. Rogers in pre-
senting awards to WASH
ington newsmen for supe-
rior reporting, photography
and Guild achievements.
Mr.. Rogers, son of the
famed humorist, was editor
of both his high school and
college papers and later
edited and published the
Beverly Hills Citizen for 10
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29

s. On one of the rare occasions
during the last four years, Beach
drive-the meandering. two
lane. 81 mile road through Rock
Greek Parks open to motorists
all the way from the Washington
i Zoo to the East-West highway
in Maryland.
I National Capital Parks work.
men this month finished recon-
i struction and took down the
traffic barriers on a l.6-mile
stretch Of Beach drive between
Broad Branch and Military
roads.
! That leaves just one more
stretch-from Bingham drive to
Kalmia road in the upper reaches
Of the park-to be completed in
"a major road and bridge re-
building program which began
four years ago. This stretch will
remain open at least through the
summer.
Except for a few brief periods
since the Spring of 1852, trust
rated commuters and pleasure
drivers have been unable to fol-
low Beach drive and the creek
on the shortest route through
the park.
Began With Sewage Spill
In 1852. one of the Districts
trunk sanitary sewers spilled raw
sewage into picnic areas north of
Military road. While the sewer
work was being done, park Of
ficials launched a two-year re-
construction job on that stretch
Of Beach drive. Since, it has been
remaking other road sections.
MOP is asking Congress in the
current budget for $4,000 to
rebuild the final Bingham-K Kali
mia stretch of Beach drive, and
work probably will start on it
next Iall.
In the same budget, the park
people are seeking money to
build bridgeS-which will wipe
out another motoring Illustration
over Rock Greek at three
points: At the foot of Blagden
avenue NV, where motorists
now have to cope with an often
flooded ford; at Milkhouse Ford
further north. now served by a
rickety timber bridge, and at
Kalmia road.
None of the bridge work, now
being designed. will require
Beach drive to be closed at any
point. But the road improve
ment scheduled this fall between
Bingham and Kalmia will shut
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
sSeuqIe Wins Award

NJ Jonathan Seagle, a senior at
Wakefield High School in Airing
ton. has won a $500 scholarship
in an annual contest sponsored
py the Virginia State Federation
of Labor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-29
Su Zu Court to Meet

X Su Zu Court No, 81 OF the
Ladies Oriental Shrine Of North
America will meet at 8 pm.
Tuesday, at Stansbury Lodge
HAL. Georgia and Missouri ave-
nues NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-01
Woman Dies in Attempt
To Suve Son in Crush

/ MORGANTOWN, w. Va,
June / (P).-Mrs. Mabel john
Ison. Al. was electrocuted yes
lterday in an attempt to save her
son from an automobile wreck.
unaware that he had been
thrown clear Of the car.
Police said Donald w. john
son, %, hit utility pole in front
of his home. Mrs. johnson, hear
ing the crash. rushed outside.
Officers said that as she
grabbed the car door, a wire
knocked loose from the pole fell
across the wreckage, electrocut-
ing her. She. was pronounced
dead on arrival at a Morgantown
hospital.
The young man was thrown
from the wreck and had man.
Jagged to go to a nearby tele-
phone to call the fire depart
Ement. His condition was de-
scribed as fair" by hospital at
tendants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-01
Polio Shows
Decline in IS
By ths Associated Press

Polio cases showed a seasonal
increase to liz last week but the
count was less than half the 24C
in the corresponding 1855 week
The 112 cases represented an
increase Of 81 over the IS in the
week ended May 10.
The weekly totals are con-
|sistently running below those Of
Ia year ago, but a public health
spokesman reiterated today that
it is too early to say what lies
ahead.
It has been pointed out previ-
ously that heavy outbreaks in
July. August and September OF
1852 made that the record polio
year.
The spokesman also reiterated
there is not enough information
yet to say whether the decrease
in cases reflects use Of Salk polio
vaccine.
There had been 1.744 polio
cases reported between January
] and May IS. compared with
1926 a year ago.
For this disease year. which
started about April /, there had
been 676 cases, compared with
Il,223.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-01

evidence against narcotics traf-
fickers.
Instead Of the Wire-tap clause,
the Senate approved a substitute
calling for prison sentences run
ming from two to i've years and
a maximum fine Of 5000 for
any one using a communication
facility" IN connection with IL
licit traf1c in drugs.
Senator Daniel. Democrat OF
Texas. who headed the Senate
narcotics investigation. agreed to
the substitute sin order not to
Iendanger the passage Of the 20
other important provisions" 81
the bill. He announced, how
ever. that he would introduce q
separate measure to authorize
wire-tapping by Federal law en-
forcement officers with the
courts permission.
Control strengthened
The wire-tap provision is still
in the bill reported out Of the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee yesterday.
The District bill. also drafted
by the Daniel subcommittee,
strengthens control over dope