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AIl(Iersonyiile

Follow5na Homecoming at Bethel
Church Sunday August ~ there
viii be revival services each Dlebt
AUGUST I2I1. at AS pIa
Recent yetlrs of Mrs. = q C+r-
liata were Mn Leon ions zrrs
Robert Holmes d Buckinen3rn
and Dr. SAM Jones IF SCHENECTADY
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Knoxville

Mr. and Mrs Andrew Beavers
Of alexandria. and son, Sherwood
Of University Of Richmond; Mrs.
Bill Hailes and daughter, of Ro-
chester N ". and Mr. and Mrs
F ebert F Smith and children, Of
Richmond spent Sunday with Mrs.
Katharine Alien
Miss Carolyn Wooten is spending
This week with Miss Peggy K d e
Klbiineer of Madison
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wilkerson. Of
CreNe We're week end visitors Of
} Y and Of B II Word.
Mr. and Mrs r P. Smith, Debor-
al and Johnnie, spent several DAYS
this week at Virginia Beach
Lyle Ranson. of Danyille. an d
Rooney and Scott Word of Rich
mond, spent the week end in their
horieS
MIS- Claude Moring, Of r c h
mond, is spending some time with
her mother, Mrs B. E Payne. Mr.
hlcllng spent the week end
Miss Margaret Sterrett Mrs. Lei
ia Sterrett and Mrs Echols, OF
Stanton. spent Sunday with Mrs
Mrs r L Gillispie
Mrs B C Ransom, Mrs ] f
Ransom ana Miss Pauline Peters
were Joint hostesses at picnic at
Holiday Lake Wednesday evening,
August, / honoring Mr. and Mrs
Walter Wyatt who left Sunday to
make their home at Hammond
Ind Those present were Mr.. and
Mrs j f Ransom and "Chet". Mir
and Mrs r Z Coleman, Of Farm
Ville MI and Mrs B G Ransom
and Garland, Mr. and Mrs. Willie
tones and family OF Manteo; Mr.
and Mrs Robert Baber. of How
ardsyllle; Mir and Mrs Walter
wyatt. Miss Pauline Peters and
Mrs r LII Gillispie
Mr. and Mrs Q. 7 Featon, OF
Charleston w Va visited Mrs.
2 < Coleman Tuesday on their
way home after spending a two
week vacation at Daytona Beach,
Fla
Mis-. Colenan's visitors Saturday
we're Mr. and Mrs D v Coleman
Of Buckingham Mr. and Mrs .
P Word Mrs Jack Wilkerson
Charles Duty and Miss Lille Barr
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buckingham Claims Roberts T,uins Are
Oldest Lining TWins In The World

Nat and Bill Roberts. whose ages
total 1874 years. celebrated another
milestone IN their lives and were
81 years old last March l8.
Nathaniel Marvin Roberts and
William Slnithton Roberts were
born March l8. 1864, at Massies
Mill in Nelson County They moved
TO Buckingham County when they
were ten years old where they have
been living the rest of their lives
except for some years that Bill
ScotIsVille.
They have farmed all their lives
and Nathaniel is still active and en-
Joys getting IN his tobacco field to
work
Bill has trouble walking or stand
ing because OF arthritis He and his
Wife, the former Mary Elizabeth
StinsOn. have been married So years
as OF June 81 They live near Scots
vile.
Nathaniel lost his wife a number
OF years ago and lives with t Wo
sons and a daughter, In all. he has
a family Of nine children l6 grand
children and four great-grandchil-
dten. They live near DillWyn. in
Buckingham
Mr. and Mrs Bill Roberts have
son and a daughter, two grandsons
and three great grandSons.
Their mother lived to be 81 years
and their grandmother lived to be a
hundred 50 they have a mark set to
live up to which they seem to be
doing.
When talking over old times, they
recalled when the price OF corn was
50 cents per bushel. tobacco as low
as $3.50 per hundred pounds, wheat
SO cents per buShel and wages 40
cents per day for a man and Is
cents per day for a woman DAYS
work then was from sun-up 10 sun
down, six days per week
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Buckingham Home Demonstration
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day we've Mr. and Mrs H Z Wood
all Nh and Mrs r L Jones. Mr.
ana Mls J Fl Spessard Mrs r.
jeffrey Mrs " T Johnson Nh
and Mrs NJ F LeSueur and Betty
Dr and Mrs 7. N Spessard. of
NorfoiE are visitors Of MI and
MIS- H Spessard
M i Alfred Seay, Jr. and infant
son, Charles LeSuer Chuck have
returned from Medical College Hos
pital
Mr.. and Mrs. Eddie Patton and
Micfie were guests of Mrs T s
Jeffrey Oh Monday
NOS ) M Hannah is able to be
out after q minor operation Iii
Richmond last week
MI and Mrs Roger Smith, Jr
Of Richmond. and Mrs Roger
Smith Of Westfield. N j.. We're
Week end guests Of Mr.. and Mrs
" = Johnson
Mr. anu MIS- II. Spessard. Mrs
J NJ Hannah. Miss Sarah Hannah.
Mrs X l. Cones Mrs Care u
Hughes and Mrs M F. LeSuem'
were Richmond visitors last week
y f. Seay was q visitor to Farm
vile or Tuesday
Mrs T s Jeffrey and Mrs r s
Pierce attended the Homecoming
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Arvorniia

Mrs Gene Hifschbergcr Of Chi
caeo ana Mrs Norman Philips
and Ronme, Of Richmond are visit
ing Their parents. Mr.- and Mrs.
Tom Ford
MI and Mrs owen Williams.
Bobby and Anne We're Challottes-
vile visitors Saturday
MI and MIS-. Franklin Woodcock
OF Salisbury Md. are visiting Mr..
and Mrs. j H. Spessard.
MI. and Mrs. Ernest Seay and
daughter. OF Norfolk. were guests
OF Mr. and Mrs John Williams
Friday and called on Mrs. T S. JET
frey ana MI and Mrs j. H. Spes-
sard
Mrs John Senger is a patient at
Retreat foc the Sick Hospital where
she underwent surgery
Vernon Pierce left for his home
in CoVington. Ind Saturday after a
ten-day visit with his mother. Mrs
r S. Pierce
Mr.. and Mrs William Barbee
Mr. and MIS- Stuart Foulkes. Of
Richmond and MISS Martha
Foulkes. of Charlottesville. spent
the week end with their mother
Mrs. w w Foulkes
Mrs Carey Hughes had the mis-
fortune to fall on Tuesday and dis
locate her thumb which necessl-
tated a trip TO Richmond for x-ray
and treatment
Air and Mrs Eddie Patton and
Mickey of West Virginia. are the
guests Of Dr. and Mrs. E. j Hadcn
among those attending the chic
Eel barbecue supper given BY the
Cold Hin Improvement Club Sat,lr-
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Well Water

The annual Homecoming Dav
viii be held at Sharon Baptist
Church Sunday August -. Services
viii begin at II IN All friends are.
glatly welcomed
Mr. ana Mrs j Self attended the
funeral Of Charlie Bautuu at Miner
al Spring Church III Nelson county
last Monday.
Sympathy OF many friends Is ex-
tended to Mrs 0 B MaXey in the
bereavement Of her father
TIE many friends Of Mrs Abe
steger are grieved to hear Of her
~ecioent when She fell last Friday
breaEnc her hip 1t is hoped that
he. stay IN the University Hospital
viii be OF short duration
Mrs r. p. Blayloch and dauehter.
lillian, are spending the week IN
the home of Mr. and Mrs Greene
DAVIS and attending Goshen revival
this week
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force base. Fla, as part of his Re
9r"Ve officer training at college
While at summer training, Cadet
Snana berger observes and actually
participates IN Air Force opera
tions
Following graduation at VPI, he
viii be eligible tor appointment as
a second lieutenant III the Air
Force Reserve andx for entry into
flight training to win the silver
wings Of an Air Force pilot
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from Dayton ONO where they
nave been for the past three WeekS
visiting Nh and MIS-. Raymond
Eolan
Mi. and Mrs, William MullianS
o. richmond spent the week end
N!th MIS- Susie Raelaud.
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Paul Shanabereer Is
At mir Force Base

PAU T shanabvtser Son Of Nh
and Mrs T " sIianabereer Is An
Ar Force ROTC cadet at VPf
Cadet Shanabergtr who complet-
ed MS Junior year IN advanced air
force RO1C is attending four weeks
OF summer training Al Iyndall air
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REVIVE LEATHER HANDBAG

REVIVE LEATHER HANDBAG
To revive The appearance Of the
leather handbag you carried last
year try this simple treatment
Clean the bag with a good saddle
soap Dry carefully. then wax with
good paste wax Cover the bag
with a thin film Of the wax and rub
it carefully # the frame is worn.
retouch it with a light covering Of
Gilt or aluminium and coat with
clear nail polish
Evening star., 1956-12-26
Hungarian Athletes Get
Bio New York Welcome

NEW YORK. Dec. 26 fR.-
Thirty-seven Olympic athletes
who decided not to return to
their Iron. Curtain homelands
were given a rousing welcome
when they arrived by plane to-
day from San Francisco.
Thirty-three we're members OF
the Hungarian team and four
we're from the Romanian team
joyful reunions and speeches
Of welcome greeted them as they
disembarked. With barred heads.
the athletes and their greeters
stood beside American and Hun
garian flags v1ile the Hungarian
national anthem vas played
from a recording. The ceremony
ended with q rousing Hungarian
cheer.
Lidia Domolky, 20. former
world fencing champion. broke
from the Hungarian group and
embarced her brother. George
IS. who was In the welcoming
crowd. She did not know that
Evening star., 1956-12-26
Parker LikeIy
To Be Offered
.Two-Yeur Poet

DETROIT, Dec. 26 B.-
Sources close to the Detroit
Lions today said the club would
offer Coach Buddy Parker a
two-year contract today.
A news conference was called
for 3 pm. at which formal an
nouncement was expected to be
made. Club officials refused
comment until that time.
The Lions 15-man board OF
directors met earlier in the day
to discuss Parkers' reluctance to
accept the usual one-year con-
tract which he has had in his
six seasons with Detroit.
Parker's current contract ex-
pires Saturday. After turning
down the one-year renewal Of
fer last week. he indicated he
would just let his contract run
out and fail to sign a new one
unless offered more tenure"
The Baltimore Colts and the
Pittsburgh Steelers are report
edly interested in acquiring
Parker If he leaves Detroit.
In the event the Lions di-
rectors let Parker leave, AS
sistant Coach George Wilson Ia
repeatedly the No. / choice as a
successor. Wilson has been with
the Lions for eight years.
Evening star., 1956-12-26
North Favored
In Shrine Game

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 26 (P). -
Bolstered by Tommy Mcdonald,
an All-America halfback. and
four of his Oklahoma team
mates, the North ruled a touch
down favorite over the South in
the Shrine's college all-star
football game in the Orange
Bowl tonight.
Coach Duffy Daugherty of the
North planned to throw the
multiple offense his Michigan
State teams have used so effec-
lively against the Rebel squad
coached by Art Guepe of Van
derbilt.
Working with Mcdonald in
the North backfield will be Len
Dawson, a passing master from
Purdue; Dennis Mendy of Mich
Iigan State at halfback anc
Jimmy Harris Of Oklahoma al
lfullback.
Guepe planned to counter
with a backfield punch of Van.
dy's Don Orr at quarterback
Mississippi's Ed Crawford anC
Wake Forests Bill Barnes al
halfbacks and Miami's ALI
America Don Bosseler at full
back.
Game Rules Modified
The South has won six of The
Iprevious eight games, sponsored
by the Mahi Temple to raise
funds for the Shrine's crippled
children's hospitals. One game
ended in a tie.
In an attempt to try to insure
la close game, Director Andy
Gustafson, University of Miam
coach, modified the rules so thai
the team trailing at any time
during the game will be able tt
receive the kickoff even after
Just scoring.
A crowd of about $4,000 is ex-
Ipected. The contest will not bt
televised but will be broadcast
over the Mutual network. (NC
Washington outlet will carry thu
Igame0 The kickoff is set fol
1915 pm.
Daugherty has done consider.
able juggling with the backf1elC
material. In addition to switch
ling Mcdonald from left half II
fright and Harris from quarter
back to full. he also expected tt
use Jerry Tubbs. Oklahom;
center and another All-Americi
;performer, at fullback. Tubbi
played fullback with the Sooner
lIas a sophomore.
Guepe said he would use Orr
Ia one-time polio victim. for tht
short passing and Dukes Sonny
Jurgensen for the long ones. Ht
can throw 'em a mile" Guept
said.
/ The North starting line prob.
See SHRINE. Page c.;
Evening star., 1956-12-26
Brother Herman Is Dead:
First Coach of Babe Ruth

BALTIMORE, Dec. 26 (P).-
A solemn high requiem mass
will be offered tomorrow for
Brother Herman, the first base
ball coach of the late Babe Ruth.
Brother Herman, who died
Christmas eve after a long ILL
ness, was rs.
Funeral services will be held
at 10 am. in Mount st. Joseph s
Preparatory School Chapel, with
burial in New Cathedral Gene
terry.
Brother Herman had lived at
the school since his retirement
six years ago. He entered st.
Agnes Hospital two weeks ago.
1t was at st. Mary's Industrial
School-within sight of the hos
lpital in which he died-that
Evening star., 1956-12-26
By the Associated Press

The Big Seven tournament,
another in a score of Christmas
college basketball get-togethers
that will open in the next few
days, gets underway tonight with
Kansas and Wilt Chamberlain
facing what could be their stiff
est test of the season.
The Jayhawks. again rated No.
l in this weeks Associated Press
poll, take on Iowa State in the
second game of a double-headeI
at Kansas City. Both teams
have won their first six games
The ECAC Holiday Festival in
Madison Square Garden kicked
of the tournament competition
yesterday with New York U.
beating Villanova, 1856, and
Temple turning back Fordham,
l79-70.
Kansas is favored in the Big
Seven tourney mainly because of
Chamberlain, who has averaged
I35.5 points game. Still Coach
Dick Harp says he's not too
happy over the way the Jay
hawks have performed.
Iowa State Tough
! Iowa State has beaten Michi-
gan State. Houston, Brigham
Young. Texas Tech. Tulsa and
Wyoming. 1t managed to defeat
Texas Tech by only a single
point but scored 80 points
against Houston and IS against
Wyoming. Iowa State is the de-
tending tournament champion.
Kansas State and Oklahoma
open the tourney which also in
cludes Michigan State. the guest
team: Colorado, Missouri and
Nebraska.
The ECAC twin-bill furnished
two hotly-contested games. NYU
had to come from behind to turn
back Villanova with a 13-point
spree in the second half. Tom
DeLuca paced the Violets' win
ming drive with three successive
baskets as NYU overcame a ST.
so deficit and ran up a 63-5l
lead.
Guy Rodgers turned in a fine
all-around showing to pace
Evening star., 1956-12-26
Kansas Faces Stiff Test
As Journeys Get Rolling

Temple to its victory. Rodgers
scored 80 points and had six as
sists while pulling down seven
rebounds. Jim Cunningham's 81
points enabled Fordham to make
it close.
Today's quarter-flnal pairings
match st. Johns Of Brooklyn
and Brigham Young and Temple
and Ohio State in the afternoon.
In a night double-header. Man
haitian takes on Niagara and
Notre Dame meets NYU.
Mcclure Praises Utah
st. Johns is given an excellent
chance Of winning the ECAC
shindig. But Frank MCGUIRE,
former st. Johns coach, doesn't
think his North Carolina Tar
Heels should be favored in the
Dixie Classic opening in Raleigh,
N. c., tomorrow.
Utah is the best team in the
field" MCGUIRE said. Put that
down in your little book. They've
got it. Utah beat st. Johns in
the Garden and st. Johns has
the best team in the East"
North Carolina, second-ranked
nationally, goes against Utah in
the second game of a night
double-header with west Vir-
ginia (No. A. meeting Duke in
the opener. The afternoon COM
petition pits Wake Forest against
DePaul and North Carolina
State against Iowa.
Among the other tournaments
starting tomorrow are the
Southwest Conference at Hous-
ton. the ALL College at Oklahoma
City, the Richmond Invitational,
the Orange Bowl at Miami, the
Queen City at Buffalo. N. Y;
the Gator Bowl at Jacksonville,
Fla; the NAIA Tipof at Omaha; /;
the Louisiana Invitational at
Shreveport and the Hofstra In
vitational at Hampstead, N. Y.
Other major Journeys, such as
the Motor City Classic at De-
troit. the Blue Grass Festival
at Louisville, the Sugar Bowl,
All-American at Owensboro, KY;
Evansville (Ind.) Invitational
and the Far West Classic at
Corvallis, Greg, starts Friday.
Evening star., 1956-12-26
RosewaII Hoad Quickly Kill
Americas Davis Cup Bid
Seixos and FIom
Bodily Beaten in
Opening Singles

ADELAIDE, Australia, Dec. 26
(R.-Ken Rosewall and Lew
Hoad, 22-year-old tennis pre-
cisionists. methodically wrecked
Americas faint hopes Of stealing
home with the Davis Cup by
crushing Vic Seixas and Herbie
Flam in the first two singles
matches of the challenge round
today.
Before a crowd Of $4,000 al
most-bored fans in sunny Me-
morial Drive Stadium Rosewall,
who won the American cham
Ipionship less than four months
lago. blunted a bold gamble by
Seixas, 6-1, Ga, 4-6, 6-1.
The tempermental Hoad, tend
ling strictly to the business at
hand. chopped down Flam, 6-2.
l6-3, 6-3.
Now the Aussies need to win
only tomorrow's doubles or one
of the remaining two singles to
retain the cup they won at For
est Hills last year.
The Americans task is next
to impossible. They conceded
Rosewall and Hoad the doubles
even before the challenge round
got under way.
Only once before in Davis Cup
competition has a team come
back from a 0-2 deficit and won
the cup. That was in 1899 when
the Americans won the first two
Singles but the Aussies rebounded
behind Adrian Quist and Jack
Bromwich and won the doubles
and both remaining singles.
This United States team, how
ever, can entertain no such hope.
Rosewall and Hoad we're head
and shoulders over their oppo-
lnentS. Their victories were pure
ly routine.
True, Seixas caused a furry Of
excitement when he decided to
throw caution to the winds in the
third set of his match with Rose
wall. He won the set. but it was
a desperation measure. He tried
the same strategy in the fourth
set and hit a stone wall.
Completely outplayed in the
first two sets, Seixas began rush.
ing in on Rosewall's services in
the fourth and banging the ball
right back at Little Ken's feet.
Continued on Page C-3, Col. 5
Evening star., 1956-12-26
Pitt Checks In Today
For Gutor Bowl Come

JACKSONVILLE. Fla. Dec. 26
.R-Coach Johnny Nicholson
brings his University Of Pitts
burgh football team here today
for the 18th annual Gator Bow
game.
Coach Bobby Dodd Of Georgia
Tech will bring his yellow
Jackets in tomorrow.
Upon arrival. the Pittsburgh
squad planned TO go to It's head
quarters at Ponte vedra Beach
IS miles from downtown Jack
sonville. Workouts are scheduled
for the Panthers at jacksonville
this afternoon and tomorrow.
Evening star., 1956-12-26
BY the Associated Press

Mrs. Patricia Keller McCor-
mick, winner of two Olympic
gold medals in 1856 in an un-
precedented double slam" and
holder Of q national diving
championships. today was recog-
nized as the outstanding woman
athletic of the year in the AS
sociated Press year-end poll Of
sports writer's and broadcasters
Mrs. Mccormick won by 9
huge margin over golfer Marlent
Bauer Hagge in the hallotinl
by 172 writers and broadcasterS
The attractive Lake wood
Calf. housewife received 81
first-place votes and a total oi
$50 points on the basis Of three
for first, two for second and one
for third. Mrs. Hagge. whose
1856 record in golf was almost al
remarkable as Mrs. Mccormick
in diving. polled % firsts and l3s
points.
Althea Gibson Third
Third place in the ballotini
went to Althea Gibson, New
York tennis player who ran ur
a long string of tournament vic
tories in a year-long, Worldwide
tour that took her from Indi;
westward to Australia. She re-
ceived 108 points.
Tied for fourth place with 81
points each were Shelley Mann
Olympic butterfly swimming
champion from Arlington. Va.
and Shirley Fry, National anc
Wimbledon tennis champion.
Golfers Patty Berg and Wifi
Smith followed and Mildred MI
Daniel, Olympic high jumper
was eighth. Betty Cuthbert
Australian sprinter who wor
three Olympic gold medals, beat
out Skater Tenley Albright fol
ninth.
AS a result of winning thu
poll, Mrs. Mccormick will re.
ceive two important trophies
the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Frederick G. Miller award, anC
the Babe Didrikson ZahariaI
Trophy.
The first will be presented a
Evening star., 1956-12-26

DOWNTOWN
ad
Evening star., 1956-12-26
SHELLEY MANN TIES FOR FOURTH
Pat McC Cormick Voted
Best Woman Athlete

Ia dinner in Milwaukee January
81. with Joe E. Brown as toast
master. The Miller awards, which
are large silver trophies given to
the outstanding male and fe-
male athletes, were won last year
by Miss Berg and Hopalong Cas-
sadly. The male athlete of 1856
is Mickey Mantle.
The Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Trophy, given for the first time
by George zaharias in memory
of his famous wife, is awarded
to the outstanding woman anna
teur athlete. Hereafter a sep
arate poll will be conducted to
determine the winner.
/ Mrs. Zaharias, who died last
September, was named on SO of
the ballots because of her long
and courageous battle against
cancer. although she was not ,ac-
tive as an athlete in 1856.
Mrs. Mccormick is the wife ot
an airline flight engineer who
also is her coach. Mother of q
9-month-old son, she announced
her retirement from competition
after the Olympics. She has
been diving since 1946. She won
both the Olympic springboaro
and platform diving champion
ships at Helsinki in 1852 and re-
peated at Melbourne. She also
won the Pan American Games
titles in 1851 and 1858 and has
been defeated only twice since
1852.
Mrs. Hagge. % and a golf pro
since she was 16. won eight tour
naments during the year. includ-
ing the women's PGA champion
ship. She set a money winning
record by collecting $20,235. Her
scoring average of 74.74 strokes
per round was second only to
Miss Berg's 74.57.
The poll leaders, with first
place votes and total points on
a 3-2-1 basis:
Evening star., 1956-12-26

Brother Herman indoctrinated
the Bambino in baseball. Ruth
was sent to the school after the
death Of his mother.
Later, at his confirmation,
Ruth took Brother Herman's
name as his middle name. The
two continued their friendship
after Ruth entered professional
baseball. Ruth died in 1948.
Brother Herman entered the
Xaverian order at Mount St.
JoSeph's in 1896. He was born
William Bahr at Fort Laramie,
Wyo.
Brother Herman was once a
10-second man in the 100-yard
dash and had coached football,
basketball and baseball at a
number Of schools.