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, 1956-04-11
OF oTTLEY'S
SPEECH TO BE PUB.

The interesting speech Of
Senator Earle Ottley, part of
which was published yester-
day, will be published in sub
sequent issues of the AVIS
Arizona sun., 1956-02-03
An Open Letter
To All Voters
Moricopo County District 3:

Moricopo County District 3:
The current effort recall james T. ONel supervisor in
Morcopo County District g. hreot to continuation OF fo
employment poctices in Morcopo County, 1t battle OF
good against evil.
For many years. Negro organizations such the Urban
LEAGUE and the National Association for the Advancement OF
coored People, have struggled obton fair employment
practices for people, This has been accomplished under
Jim OeiIs administration, demonstrated by the PubIco
cation in which this letter appears
We now have fact, instead of promises which given
to US by politicians before Jim ONei.
Many of our people have found it to obtoin
treatment the county hospital In post years. the hosPo
was in rundown, shameful condition. Under the Jim ONei
administration however, now all be proud OF me nos
pitoPs surroundings and the treatment it gives US.
Who would thought three short years thot the
chief XRoy echnicion and bocerioogst could be Negro
men? Just couldn't have token place under the old political
mochine
Now total Of 81 and women employed in
so-coIed white-coIor positions in MocoPo County,
urge all Of my people to vote for Jim O'NeiI and q
election is Tvesdoy, February 7.
REV. c. " NELSON, Pastor
Lone Stor Baptist Church
REV. c. N. HALL, Pastor
Mount Calvary Baptist Church
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-10-09
Ashby

Mr.. and Mrs Dennis Hart had
as Sunday guests Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Amick. of Washington D c.
Mrs. W. P. Sanderson, Jr., and
BCb and Dave. Of Waynesboro, are
spending a week here while w. P
SanderSon. Jr. is in Schenectady
Syracuse and New York on bust
ness
Mr and Mrs Jack Heiger. OF
Fredericksburg visited Mr. n d
Mrs L. K Ford on their return
from Kansas and Ohio
The Ashby community was happy
over the ribbons won at the Five
County F'air-for the three ribbons
on the three club booths, for Mrs
J. P Martins 10 ribbons on II Ell
| tries. for the blue ribbons in the
style show and other individual lrib
bons.
Mrs. Dennis Hart won blue rib
bons at the State Fair for hel
devils food and caramel cakes. anC
red ribbons for her loaf bread ant
gingerbread
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-10-09
Funeral Services
Set Wednesday
For George Frank

Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. Wednesday at the Doyne-
Burger Funeral Home III Farm
vile for George Henry Frank, IS,
a retired farmer who died Sunday
at his home in Amelia County In
terment will be in the Plgah Bap
fist Church Cemetery at Rice
MI Frank. the son OF the late
George and Martha Rhine Frank.
was born May |. 1881
Among the survivors are six
sons. w. Edward II. James R.
Herbert w. and Robert J. Frank,
all Of Rice. G Henry Frank, of
Burkeville, and Charles w Frank,
of Compton. Cal, and five daugh-
tiers. Mrs. Alfred L. Anderson, OF
Junction City. Wis. Mrs. Paul .
4 Woodbury. and Mrs Tommy
I Thompson, of Richmond Mrs
Raymond C. Glazebrook, il. OF
Fredericksburg, and 1t. Lulle M
I Frank. a Navy nurse at Chlnco-
league.
/ Two sisters. Mrs. Mary Williams
and Mrs Lena MaXey, OF PoWha
tan: two brothers, Dr.. w. G
Frank of Louisville, Ky. and W
f. Frank. of Rice, and l9 grand
children also survive.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-10-09
Woteh Oronse And Freeman
Powhatan Takes Easy Contest, 42-O;
Tight District II Race In Sigh
De And Freeman

The warehouses; in District II
football lived up TO their regulations
this week end as they made good
showings without exception
Powhatan took an easy contest
as was expected. with a 42-0 win
over Midlothian Boggs scored one
touchdown and three extra points
while teammate Archie Goodwin
ran wild scoring four touchdowns
Orange, one of the top place con
tender III District II eased past
the strong Fluvanna team with a
1910 victory They scored in the
first. third and fourth quarters to
take the game. Powhatan Will NEE,
the Fluvanna eleven two weeks
hence for real test of eli
strength.
Sharing the spotlight with Powha
tan and Orange in the District II
rAce is Douglas Freeman of Rich
lnond They moved into city com
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-10-09

Mckay were Mrs w ] Pollard
Mrs. Garyden Pollard, OF Keysville,
MIR and Mrs Tommy Dowler. Mrs.
George Cralle. and sons, Alec and
g G.. and Miss Myrna 10y Jor-
dan, Of Farmville.
Mr.. and Mrs. c F. Ellington went
to Richmond recently.
Mss Eunice Chernault, Of Gov
lngton. spent last week end with
M and Mrs Raymond Chernault
Mrs A B Hughes is at home
after spending week with Miss
Lynette and Hugh Calhoun
Mn and Mrs John Wilcks. and
daughter, visited his parents in
Appomattox
Mrs. Iva Overstreet has returned
to Lynchburg after visiting her sis
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-10-09
Mt. Zion

Mr. and Mrs John Daniel lost
their home by fire Friday morning
The Dillwyn volunteer fire depart
ment came but was unable to save
the house Neighbors helped save a
few pieces of furniture The Daniels
are living temporarily at Bickford S
Corner in the house formerly occu-
pied by Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Bick-
ford. They plan to rebuild in the
near future.
Mrs W E Tatum recently visit
ed the Misses Mary and Louise An
derson Other recent callers were
Carlton Boatwright. of Richmond
and Miss Mae Snoddy, Charlie and
John Davis.
Mr. and Mrs Goode w Johnson
and Lewis recently visited Mr. and
Mrs Clarence Meador at Cumber-
land
Orange Families Visit
MI. and Mrs Willie Trainum.
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petition to tie the ST. Christopher S
eleven in a 1913 deadlock
Thus the District race boils down
to the powerful teams from Orange
and Douglas Freeman. and the UNI
known power of the Powhatan team.
Powhatan is definitely the dark
horse this year. and has looked ex-
exceptionally good thus far.
Powhatan will meet Varina this
coming Friday with night game
at Varina The Indians should take
the Varina eleven handily to add tc
/ their district standing.
One of the real powers in the
District II group is Thomas Dale o.
Chester This high school team
chalked up 27-7 win over Benedic
tine in Richmond Thomas Dale il
not a contender for the District L
race as they do not play enough
teams in the district to be eligible
/ Many believe that Thomas Dale vii
move up to the Group | league mex
yea or IN the near future.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-10-09

Mrs. Ercelle Lee and sons. Ranny
and Gene. all of Orange. spent a
recent Sunday with MIR. and Mrs.
Goode W johnson.
Miss jamie Patterson and Miss
Mary Anderson attended teachers
meeting recently in Charlottesville.
John Moss, of Gladstone, visited
his son-in-law and daughter Mi.
and Mrs. Ernest Anderson, last
week
Dunns Go to Exposition
Oscar NJ Dunn. and sons Pat
and Dan. and Jimmy and Joe Jones
attended the Atlantic Rural Expo
sition in Richmond Tuesday.
The quarterly business meeting Of
Mt Zion Baptist Church was held
Thursday evening at the church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Bickford
have named the new addition to
their family Kenneth Ray Theif
son. Mike, has returned home after
/ spending week with his uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Bobby Bickford
in Louisa.
Several Call at ArvOnia
Mr. and Mrs. M E Deane. Mr.
and Mrs. G. w. Johnson and Lewis
were recent visitors in the J A
Deane home at Arvonia
Mrs J. L. Toney and Mrs. r. A
Martin, of Richmond. spent the
week end at their home.
j F.. Toney. of Church Road
spent several days recently witt
his lnother-in-la Mrs Mary F
Davis
Miss Mary Anderson called las
week at the B. l.. Apperson HON,
in New Canton.
Mrs. Jones Has Guests
Mr. and Mrs. NJ E Deane an(
G. w. johnson recently visited Mrs
f. i. Jones at Jamestown.
Mrs. Ernest Anderson and Mis-
Louise Anderson visited Mr.. ant
Mrs A H. Martin and Mrs. Mar,
F.. Davis
Mrs. T. W. Harris. and four chill
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-10-09
Ransons

w R. Flowers of Lynchburg
spent last Sunday afternoon with
his sons. Wallace and Cleveland
Flowers.
Miss Lulie Patteson visited Mr.
and Mrs R l. Agee in Richmond
recently.
MI. and Mrs. Charles Hay, OF
Kingsport visited B. B. Patteson
recently. Mrs. Hay is a niece OF
Miss Louisa c. Patteson who lives
in the B. B. Patteson home.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-10-09

Garage Owner" Fourteen d 0 l.
lars That's outrageous | would
not pay Michaelangelo to paint my
garage al that price
Painter ttl-ucently r." Listen. If he
does tie job for any hess, Wen pie
ket the placel".
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-10-09
Worshanl

Mr.. and Mrs, Willie Jennings. III,
of Richmond. MI and Mrs. Melvin
Tribble and son, Of South Boston,
and Lloyd Mckay, Of Norfolk visit
ed their parents recently While
here they attended the Five County
Fair
Recent guests Of ms Stanley
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-10-09

ter Mrs T 5. Baskervill
Miss Ollie Porterfield was re-
cent luncheon guest of Mrs John
Rodgers and Mrs. Elon Wilkerson.
Mrs Wilkerson and Miss Porter
field were celebrating their birth
days.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-10-09

dren, Of Winston Salem. N. c.. were
week end guests Of her sister. Mrs.
A. D. deBettencourt.
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COMING ATTRACTIONS
STAGE
STAGE
SCREEN

NATIONAL-The Kabuki Dancers, starting January 81.
SHUBERT-"Kismet." starting tomorrow.
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Ernest Borgnine Gould Sour Milk,
But He Wouldn't Trade That Face

starving but I knew I was going
to get fred because ] was sup
posed to be fat for the role.
and I was skinny from hunger.
I left and landed a part in
Mrs. McThing'-Helen Hayes
was its star" d
''Mrs. Nothing" closed and
Ernie was back pounding the
pavement again, but mis- mother
wouldn't let him quit. Then
he landed in 1.-THE Mob" with
Broderick Crawford. At this
time Columbia Studio was
searching for a ''Fatso Judson"
for From Here to Eternity"
The casting director happened
to catch 1.-THE Mob" called
Ernie, and he landed the role
of the brutal sergeant who beat
Frank Sinatra to death.
Pop Was Ashamed
my father didn't go for this
acting business and when the
neighbors asked What's Ernie
doing?' he was too ashamed to
say I was an actor because
he just couldn't see me in that
category. And he would say
See GRAHAM, Page E-1
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acting crazy around the house,
you like to make q damn fool
of yourself. why don't you be-
come an actor?' SO / went to
a library to find out how to be
an actor. Then went to
Yale University and applied
for their drama school. They
told me I would have to take
mathematics and science. I
said I wasn't going to play
Einstein parts so why did I
need math and science? They
told me 1t was required, so I
quit after my first day.
Next / went to New York
City. After starving-I wasn't
as fat then as I am now-I
finally got a TV job in q
Captain Video' show. But
when I saw myself, I told my
mother, I'm an awful actor
and I'm giving it up She
screamed, Don't give up. keep
trying, work harder. You'll
make 1t if you want to make it,
$50 I went back to Broad
way and really starved this
time. / finally landed a part
in Harvey with Joe E. Brown.
I was paid enough money from
this job to just keep me from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-22
By JAY cARMoDY

Otto Preminger who has no.
hair himself has made some-
thing Of a career Of getting In
the hair of others.
He has Just produced, and
directed, his second sealless
movie, THE Man With The
Golden Arm" His first to be
denied the Hollywood Produc-
ton Codes seal of approval
was THE Moon Is Blue" Two
unapproved productions do
not mean that Mr.. Preminger
has embarked upon a program
to wreck Hollywood's volun-
tary censorship canons.
Nevertheless, he has found
a gimmick that might en-
courage him to do so. in that
both Of his prescribed works
have been huge boxoffice
successes. 1t takes a man of
moral stature to resist the
temptation implicit in this
kind of popularity.
Others Grimmer
AS a matter of fact, this
reviewer is hard put to dis
agree with Mr.. Preminger,
save on the discipline, con-
corning "The Man With The
Golden Arm" The theme of
drug addiction is taboo, per-
haps no longer validity, but
Hollywood surely has made
pictures more degraded in
theme and eloquent in treat
ment that were approvable.
And were approved.
What one can demur at is
that the sensational aspects
of the controversy over THE
Man With The Golden Arm"
Will make 1t more popular than
Its actual merits justify. The
truth is that Nelson Algren's
novel Of the drug traffic on
Chicago's west side did not
provide Mr.. Preminger with
a script as dr0Matic as his re-
volt against The Code implies.
Hollywood has made many
revelations Of humans who get
a bum rap more dramatic
than that suffered by Frankie
Machine Frank Sinatra) in
Preminger's latest. What drugs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-22
THE PASSING SHOW
Bolding Man Keeps Getting
IN Everybody EIse's Hair

The surface Of reality, Ger.
tainly, is to be found in Pre-
minger's film. It's depths are
something else again, save for
agonized intervals in Sinatra's
performance.
A great many others are
present but their presence Is
something that Preminger
does not insist his players ex-
plain The phony invalid wife.
thinly written and played by
Eleanor Parker, is a domestic
goad who cuts of the retreat
the hero might have by fleeing
home to escape temptation.
The peddler (Darren McGav.
I'M is an equally one-dimen-
stoned character, a smoothie
in q Homburg hat bent upon
getting Frankie back as o
customer after the State has
given him the cure. So is the
poker game proprietor Rob
ert Strauss who viii not
surrender his golden-arm deal
er to the latter's wan dream
of becoming a dance band
drummer.
GoOd-Bad Girl
Others Of the human dregs
who drive Frankie to drugs
include Kim Novak, who does
it unwittingly. Miss Novak Is
q girl with a weakness for
the weak, males especially.
This Is a modest virtue at
best but one which makes her
a paragon of nobility among
the creatures Of the story's
haunted half-world.
The most real Of the lot Of
them, Sinatra's wistful victim,
compares unfavorably with the
same types dramatized by
Michael Gazzo in "A HatfuI
Of Rain" This. a play at the
Shubert earlier in the season
and now a Broadway hit, also
deals with a drug addict.
It does so much more grip
pingly, not because the stage
is a superior medium for the
creation of reality. but be-
cause its treatment of its drug
victims is more sympathetic
and more honestly and deeply
concerned with their plight -
human sufferers.
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BY sHEMAH GRAHAM

HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 81
tNANA).-"You don't have to
be tall. dark and handsome to
be a movie star" said Ernest
Marty" Borgnine, his plump.
ness squeezed into a chair in
my Office. But I was the first
one to prove 1t. With these
looks I could turn milk sour,
but ! wouldn't trade my face
for Robert Taylor's or Greg
DRY Peck's."
Ernie. who may win the
Academy Award for Marty"
and is now in the big time
with a per-picture price Of
$4,000 CHS latest is Square
Jungle" co-starring with
Tony Curtis) added: st know
there are thousands of actors
on Broadway and in every
college in the country who are
better actors than / am. but
I am here and I just can't be-
lieve 1t.
BE an Actor "
AFTER 10 years in the Navy
I came out not knowing what
I wanted to do. My mother
told me. Son, you're always
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do to Frankie is cruel, but
less so than what the labor
racket did to Marion Brando in
ION The Waterfront" and
what life. and Brando, did to
Blanche Dubois in "A Street.
car Named Desire Or than
alcohol did to Bing Crosby in
THE Country Girl"
Sinatra Superb
It is a singing portrait Of
a drug addict that Sinatra
creates In THE Man With the
Golden Arm" It is also a
shocking illustration of the
helplessness Of the addict and
the cruel guile of the peddler
tempting his victim with the
next FIX"
Nevertheless, 1t falls short Of
Disgusting the truth that
Frankie was a born pushover
for almost anyone. with a viii
to push. His neighborhood on
Chicago's west side is filled
with humans who have as
much. d, not more. reason to
dive into the nearest degrade
ton. They could not live in
more sordid propinquity, they
have the same poverty. inse-
curity and general misery.
Frankie Machine, dealer" in
the neighborhood poker joint,
and a good, or golden-armed
dealer at that, is the only one
who lacks the discretion to stay
away from heroin.
Frankie, in short, is a dope
who took to dope which is a
pitiable thing. His case as re-
lated in Preminger's picture,
including a happy ending that
Algren himself scorned in the
original novel. is not the sum
total Of the tragedy of addic-
ton its emphasis suggests.
There is too little in the
flavor of 1.-THE Man With the
Golden Arm" to suggest that
Director Preminger feels any,
thing like the sympathy or in
dignation that Algren showed
toward his characters. In the
picture version they are crea-
lures being used for a pur-
pose which rarely seems high
enough to justify preaching
the code.
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BY BOB THOMAS

HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 81 d.
These are great times for
writers. The field is wide
OPEN"
This comes from Herman
Wouk, and he should know.
He is perhaps the most sue
cessful writer of recent years.
Wouk is the one-time gag
writer for Fred Allen, who
turned his hand to serious
writing after the war. His
first two novels, Aurora
Dawn and city Boy" were
middling successes, as was a
play, THE Traitor" But he
busted loose with 1.-THE Game
Mutiny," one Of the most
popular books Of the century.
Now his Marjorie Morning
star" is booming on the best
seller lists and may turn out
a bigger hit than "Caine."
1.-THE only real barometer
Of a books success is the retail
sales in book stores, excluding
the book clubs" he remarked.
THE publisher tells me that
Game sold 100000 copies in
three years. and Marjorie has
sold 100000 in three months.
So she may well end UP a
bigger seller"
Film Is Popular
The dramatic rights will
probably amount to more, too.
This is despite the fact that
Wouk's dramatization, "Caine
Mutiny Court Martial" was a
hit on Broadway and the road.
Also, the movie is one of the
biggest srossers of all time
$8.7 million in this country and
Canada alone, according to
Variety. But Wouk (pro-
nounced Woke) realized only
$4,000 for the rights. Curl
ously, this is the same amount
paid Margaret Mitchell for the
all-time top grosser, Gone
With the Wind"
But / understand David
Selznick paid her another
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-22

To keep In fettle at enter
tanning. Borge has two tele-
vision shows shortly coming
IDyand In all probability win
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-22
BY WILLIAM GLOVER

NEW YORK. Jan. 81 R.--
Victor Borge. a sentimental as
well as amazing Snowman. al
ways mas q lump In his throat
when a performance ends
and tonight the lump was a
bit bigger than usual.
ut1he oldest show on Broad
way. Borge's COMEDY in Mus
ic" rang down its final curtain
on the most Enthusiastically sue
cessful one-man theatrical
stint in show business history.
"I've achieved what many
people would give their right
arm neutrality-suspicious.. fun
ny-man Borge soberly sum-
married. in an au revoir inter-
view. I'm in funny situation
---and that's no joke"
Since he first walked on the
stage Of the Golden Theater
on October 2, 1858, Borge. his
show and Broadway have each
aInassed some startling statis-
tics.
comedy in Music" registered
$40 performances-one began
late (three minutes) and an
other single show was cancelled
when Borge had a temperature
Of 104.
On All-Time List
There have been 116 other
shows come and go on Broad
way as Borge rolled on, and
his run not only far surpasSeS
the record of any previous solo
effort but puts durable Victor
$50 on the all-time list of long
running Broadway smashes.
Personally, the Borge fam
lily has been increased during
the Comedy in Music" run by
one son. and another tot Is
due in a few weeks now.
Most remarkable Of all is
o second career, poultry farm
ing, which has engulfed the
Great Dane since first his
name went up in lights on
Forty-fifth street.
It is this growing enter
prise which has been a key
factor in Borge's current with
drawal from Broadway, for he
feels Comedy in Music" could
draw crowds to the boxoff1ce
for another season.
He's Numb =
Fright now I'm numb" he
replies when asked about fu-
ture show plans. "All I know
is that If this were back in
] the days before big taxes I
could make enough in three
to six months to do me the
rest Of my life. AS it is. I
can come and go as I please"
The double load Of daily
performances plus the respon-
sibilities of his bucolic enter
prise, Borge indicates, has i'm
PEELED him to AXE this
breather.
when the show opened"
he says, II had one plucking
machine on the farm in Con-
necticut. and just plucked
birds for my friends. BY the
end Of this month we will have
facilities for processing 10000
birds q month.
EVERY time I look around
we add, add, add equipment.
The question is how far shall
we go? I'm going to let 1t keep
growing for a while"
Borge, who specializes In
Rock Cornish poultry and
pheasants, is keenly aware that
the business has developed so
remarkably because of his show
business fame.
Hell Be Back
To keep in fettle at enter
tanning. Borge has two tele-
vision shows shortly coming
uryand In all probability viii
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These Are Great Times
For Writers, Soys Wouk

$50, 900 after it had made
many millions" the author
smiled. II haven't heard from
Columbia.
Unfortunately. I sold it
before / realized it was going
to be a hit. The reviews dis
missed 1t as mere entertain
ment; 1t was the public who
discovered the book. Also, the
studios were worried that the
Navy wouldn't cooperate with
the film. Only Stanley Kramer
agreed to take the chance"
But No Million
He stands to do much bet
ter on Marjorie Morningstar."
though the purchase price was
not a million dollars, as re-
ported.
THAT story came out be-
cause of an incident before the
book was published" Wouk
explained. "A producer was
very interested in it and de-
manded to know the price. My
agent and I said we didn't have
a price until we found out
whether the book would sell.
The producer insisted, saying
everything had a price. So we
told him million dollars"
The author finally made q
deal with Producer D Milton
Sporting and Warner Brothers
that could net him a million
and more. He will be q so
per cent partner in the film.
It's an unprecedented deal for
a writer.
First Vacation
Wouk was here at Sperling's
suggestion to interview writer's
for the script. Wouk decided
against doing the script him.
self. reasoning that he was too
close to Marjorie after three
years of living with her. He
is taking his first vacation
from writing since the war. but
plans to get started on his
next project soon. It's an
other play, a comedy. He also
is mulling novel No. 5.