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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-06-12
Personal Mention

~ 0Ouu0U oV1SUBSuVUu
Mr.. and Mrs. A. o. Lafoon have
returned to their home after va
cationing in Canada.
Mrs. Erby A. Johnston is SPEND
ing some time at her cabin in
Kennels Beach. N. c.
Elmo Watson visited Mr.. and
Mrs. J. NJ. Hedrick in Guinea
Mills last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Lceper
and daughter, Mary Laura. were
visitors in Richmond on Sunday
F. w. Hubbard was the Sunday
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Hub
bard in Rice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Mcintosh
and daughter, Susan, we're week
end guests of Mrs. McIntosh's
sister. Mrs. S. P. Toney, and Mr..
Toney in Warwick.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ U. Leete and
children we're visitors in Prospect
last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert L. Hurt
were guests in Lynchburg last
week
Miss Susan HarWood. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs John E. Halwood,
has returned home after spending
some time in Richmond as the
guest OF Miss Carey B. Price.
MI. and Mrs. r. w. Motley and
Mr.. and Mrs. George Newman
left on Saturday to spend a vaca-
ton at the Urbanna Lodge in
Urbanna.
Capt. and Mrs. John F. Lewis,
Jr.. and son Greg" of New York
are spending some time with Capt
Lewis parents, Judge and Mrs
John F. Lewis
M ISIS Josephine Crowder is
spending some time as the guest
of Miss Georgianna Kidd at their
cottage in Grand View. Hampton
Mrs. A. X, Loyern. of Roanoke
is visiting in the home of hel
daughter and son-in- law, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. H. Lafoon.
Miss Nancy Striplin. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. F. Striplin
spent the week end at Virginia
Beach.
Mrs Adelaide Edwards is a
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Meade
Robertson of Pleasant Gap Farms,
Danville. this week.
The Rev. David r. Holt. of
Richmond, was guest speaker at
the morning service of the Pres
byterian Church on Sunday.
Nh. and Mrs. T. c. Coleman, Jr..
and daughter, Ann Gail. toured
in and around Washington on
Sunday. They we're accompanied
by Mrs. Colemans aunt and
mother from Crewe
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Whitfield and
daughter Kay. attended the
graduation of Mr.. Wh.tfield's
cousin at Southampton High
School in Ivor They were guests
OF Mrs. Grace Cornwell while
there
The Rev, Charles o. Kidd is
attending the Methodist Con-
terence being held at Madison
College In Harrisonburg this week
The Rev. and Mrs Robert E.
Withers and daughter. Mary Kent.
were guests at the Albemarle Hall
Hotel. at Virginia Beach last
week
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-06-12

Mr. and Mrs. Leon Henderson
and family are visiting his mother.
Mrs. P. B. Henderson, and other
members Of his family IN Baton
Rouge. La
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-06-12
C, H. Lafoons
Have Daughter

Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Lafoon an
nounce the birth of daughter,
Lesia Hamilton, June 8. 1T South
SIDE Community Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-28
Oldest Inhubitunts
Consider Drive
For Home Funds

The Association of Oldest
Inhabitants, Inc. has under con-
sideration campaign to raise
funds for a permanent home
for the association.
The group which meets in
the Odd Fellows Hall. Ninth and
T streets NV. has just COM
pleted Embarrassing drive,
which netted S1,285. The sec
ond drive. if approved by the
full membership of ABS will
begin in January and will run
for two years.
The plan, as presented by
William D. Nixon, association
president, would divide the total
membership into three groups.
The first group of 100 would pay
the association 3 cents a day.
The second group also of 100,
would give 2 cents a day, and
"a third group of 200 would give
/ cent day.
The entire membership has
been asked by mail either to
approve or disapprove. The
result will be announced at their
December meeting.
At the end of two years, the
group hopes to have enough to
make the down payment on a
permanent home. 1t already has
five sites under consideration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-28

Charles r. Sigh, jr., chairman
Of the Executive Committee of
the National Association of Man
ufacturerS, who recommended a
uniform excise tax on all arti-
cleS except food, drugs and sew
eral other specified articles. He
declared such a uniform levy
would establish a better balance
in the Federal tax system be-
tween income and excise taxes.
Robert E. Bryar, representing
the Automobile Manufacturers
Association, VINO moved that the
excise tax on passenger automo-
biles be reduced from the pres
ent 10 per cent to 3.5 per cent
of the manufacturers price.
That would restore the rate to
what it was before the Korean
war. he explained.
Miss Myers, a statuesque young
woman equipped to represent
the organization she said in
cludeS more than $50 executives
in the cosmetics, perfume and
toilet goods industry, thanked
Congress for having dec ased
taxes from 20 to 10 per cent
two years ago on those products.
She nevertheless reported that
women still remain the victims
of facial discrimination. taxwise.
The unkindest cut of all. she
implied, is that lipstick is taxed
whereas razor blades are I'M
scathed by excuses. And, she
added, a woman without lip
stick bears far more of a morale
problem than does a man with
out shave at any hour of the
day.
The subcommittee may have
been on edge because of touchy
testimony earlier yesterday con-
corning tax exemptions for re-
ligious schools and the prospect
of another 10 days of hearing
witnesses urge reduction or elm
ination of excise on a vast
variety Of goods.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-28
Wilson Hears
Navy Pleas on
Budget Funds
BY JOHN A. GILES

Defense Secretary wilson
heard Navy budget pleas today as
he strove to lop some 81 billion
of the armed forces requests for
the fiscal year beginning next
July /.
Some months ago the Army,
Navy and Air Force estimated
they would need a total of $48
billion in the next fiscal period
IN order to fulfill their missions.
The Air Force was shooting for
S24 billion, the Navy $13 billion
and the Army $11 billion in con-
Itractural authority-the bills for
which will have to be paid in the
1960s.
Situation Different Now
Mentioning the asking" total
at a news conference several
months ago, Mr.. Wilson described
the proposals as foolish" and
I"extreme." But that was before
at least three developments
the elections, the Egyptian crisis
and the uprisings in Russian
satellites in Eastern Europe.
Informed sources said the.
| services have since pared some
81 billion off the estimates and
that Mr.. Wilson now is thinking
that something in the neighbour
hood of $40 billion would be ade-
quate. Obligational authority this
fiscal year totals 1868 billion of
which the Army has $7,8 billion,
the Navy $10.3 billion and the
Air Force $17.7 billion.
The military budget process.
being so far behind schedule al
ready (the other departments
and agencies have completed
their plans the Pentagon felt it
had to go ahead now. even
though President Eisenhower and
the Joint Chiefs of Staff have
not as yet decided how much
military strength this country
must have in the light of the
current situation.
Higher Costs Raise Outlay
The actual spending by the
military also will rise during the
next year, largely because of in
creased costs.
There appears little doubt that
the Air Force spending and au-
thority to make new contracts
will be more than half of the
total military budget for the first
time in history during the COM
ing year.
| Even without Mr.. Wilson'S
sweeping order taking long range
and intermediate range missiles
and all but the lightest planes
out of the Armys budget, the Air
Forces dollar total was creep
ing close to the aggregate for the
Navy and the Army.
For the current fiscal year.
Air Force spending will be Just
under SIT billion out Of the total
of $36 billion.
Mr.. Wilson heard the Army
budget presentation Monday.
The Air Force was heard yester-
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-28
Miss Stevenson to Wed
Gov. Meyner jan. 1o

OBERLIN, Ohio. Nov. % (F).
New Jersey Gov. Robert B.
Meyner and Miss Helen Day
Stevenson of Oberlin will be mar
ried at a small family wedding
here January 10. her mother said
last night.
Miss Stevenson's father, Will
liam E. Stevenson, is president of
Oberlin College.
Mrs. Stevenson said the we'd
ding will take place at.4 pm.
(EST) in the First Congrega-
tional Church of Oberlin, fol-
lowed by a reception in the Ste
venson home. She said the
couple will leave that night for
a two-week honeymoon in Bar
badoS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-28

II overall effect of testimony
Vterday by Miss Janet Myers
dNew York City. AS spokesman
Il Cosmetic Career Women,
/ IS Myers declared the levy on
tstick and several facial ne
tssities discriminate against
bmen.
Mrs. Dunckel, however. told
be subcommittee today that if
be tax heat is to be lowered on
my product it ought to be done
IN such household necessities as
Electric, gas and oil appliances
Used for cooking and water heat
ing.
Excuses on such appliances, she
declared. are really sales taxes
ion food and good health. On its
face, a tax of that kind appears
even less desirable than a tax
on cosmetics. she insisted.
In its third day of two weeks
of hearings on possible revision
of the excise tax system, the sub
committee apparently had as
stunned it would not have to face
the lipstick problem again. But
when it began hearing witnesses
for groups or industries urging
excise cuts on various mechani-
cal appliances and automotive
apparatus, it again encountered
a tax question affecting both the
faces of women and woman's
place in the home.
In contrast to yesterdays dis
cussion between Miss Myers and
some subcommittee members, no
member of the subcommittee
stirred up a further dispute by
taking issue with Mrs. Dunckel
concerning the tax on kitchen
appliances.
Her testimony was backed up
later by l.. r. Mendelson of
Cleveland, Ohio, chairman of the
Water Heater Manufacturers
Tax Committee. In support of
his own request that taxes be
cut on his product, he presented
each subcommittee member with
a little pocket knife. Other wit
nesses included:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-28
WIFE OMITS WORD
IN WILL, HUSBAND
POCKETS $4,000

SCRANTON, Pa. "a
missing verb has netted Lu-
Their Reed $14.8OO.
Tn everb was omitted in
a sentence of the will left
by Mr.. Reeds wife, who died
in January. The sentence
said: He did not anything
I had so I will him S."
Orphans Court Judge
James Brady ruled yesterday
that the will didn't stand
because of the missing verb.
Mr.. Reed got $14.805.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-28
Lbstick Tex Preferred
I Levy on Appliances
By ROBERT K. WALSH

IA difference Of outlook between women witnesses on
er excise taxes should be applied pstck rather than
Then ranges posed domestic dilemma for all
1Vys and Means Subcommittee members today
Mrs Pauline Duncke executive secretary Institute
kppance Manufacturers with Offices here did remove
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25
Airmen Living LikeLords
Pose TickIish AT Problem

WIESBADEN, Germany. April
25 MANA Some imaginative
United States Air Force officers
and airmen have learned to live
like lords-literally--in Europe
posing ticklish problems for the
Air Force.
For example. is riding to the
hounds a seemly sport for a red
blooded American airman?
Sergt. Robert Swami, of
Chavez, N Mex, is the center
Of the good-natured fox-hunting
controversy at United States Air
Forces in Europe headquarters
here.
Over in England the sergeant
spends his of duty hours trail
ing around the British country
side under a silk hat shouting
"Tallyho and "Yoicks" in a rich
Texas crawl
The sergeant. thanks to his
Texas and New Mexico saddle
background, has been accepted
into a number of blue FLOODED
British fox-hunting outfits, in
Guiding the Fit2william Fox
Hounds, the Essex Suffolk
Hounds, the Norwich Stag
Hounds and the Eastern Har-
riers.
Even more embarrassing is the
case Of All Force Maj. Herbert
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25
Living Costs
Rise Slightly

Consumer prices rose one
tenth of ! per cent between
February and March, the Labor
Departments Bureau of Sta
tistics reported today. This was
the first advance since November
1855. the Bureau said.
Prices averaged higher ovel
the month for all categories Of
family spending except housing
and transportation. The March
consumer price index was 3 OF
per cent higher than the same
month a year ago
Retail food prices. the Bureau
reported, rose . Of per cent
from February to March, follow
ing a five-month decline. Food
prices in Washington edged UP
i Of per cent in the same
period.
Price advances for fresh
vegetables. coffee. fats and oils
and restaurant meals were
largely offset by lower costs fol
fresh meats. milk and fresh
fruits. At 100 the food index
was l.6 per cent below its March
1865. level.
No wage changes are expected
to result from the rise in con-
sumner prices. bureau Spokesman
said.
The bureau also reported that
home pay Of factory work
ers reached new peaks for Marcn
The gain in purchasing power
over March was SO tat $ Of / per
cent. Compared with March a
gear ago. buying power was UP
almost I per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25

A. Monroe. While the Air Force
in Washington is beseechinl
Congress for more money Il
spend on Air Force housing. par.
ticularly abroad. the major anc
his wife have taken over the
country nome of the Earl Of
Lucan, Laborite floor leader ii
the House of Lords.
The major and his wife Gthey
have no children are rafting
around IN IA rooms. They have
five bathrooms and two acres oil
garden, orchard and Handicapped
grounds.
Mrs. Monroe. an Australian
girl. recently put up eight rela :
tives with no trouble at all.
Mai. Monroe observed sue
cinctly: AS for living like a
lord. ! like It.
The Air Force is happy tc
have a more or less contcnted
officer like Mai. Monroe. But
since there are more AT families
living in trailers than manors
1t would prefer to talk about
the trailer families From that
perspective MAJ Monroe Scrgt.
Swami and miscellany Of other
Air Force families who have
latchcd onto castles N Italy,
France and Germany are a sore
point.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25
Eisenhower Says US.
Must Test H-Bombs
THANKS
VOTERS WHO CAST
BALLOTS FOR HIM

President Eisenhower to-
day expressed his gratitude
to the voters of Pennsyl-
vania, Massachusetts and
Alaska who cast ballots for
him in yesterdays primaries.
His thanks came at his
news conference this morn
ing.
With a broad smile the
Chief Executive, in reply to a
question as to how he felt
about the vote in the pri-
maries yesterday, said he
was always astonished when
anyone voted for him-and
very grateful.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25
YeIIs Score Off Bandit Here
Customer OWING SC

Meanwhile. customer picked up
a paper outside and started in TO
pay for 1t.
Mr.. Walczak said he pointed
out the intruder. explained to
the customer a holdup was in
progress and asked him to hold
the door shut while he called
police.
The customer. Mr.. Walczak
said. then vanished.
Mr.. Walczak said he began
yelling "Holdup. help, police as
loud as he could. While he was
III a nearby apartment house
calling police the bandit left. AT
first Mr. Walczak said nothing
was missing, then he recalled the
customer.
You Know he said, that
guy didn't pay for that paper,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25

replied, he hcSitated to answer
that question. He went on to
say that Mr., Nixon had moi
given him any right to quote
him and that he did not wish to
give any impressions he might
have.
1t was then the President, in
more serious vein. said Mr.. Nixon
has not given him any answer
that he would consider final and
def1nitive
At the March 7 press con-
ference the President, heatedly
replying to a question about re-
ports he had dumped Mr.
Nixon, continued: The only
thing I have asked him to do
is chart his own course. |
have no criticism of Vice Presi-
dent Nixon to make. either as a
man. associate or as my run
ming mate on the ticket.
A week later the President
See NIXON. Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25

Everything was SO confused
when a holdup man walked into
Henry's Market early today the
proprietor let a customer get
away without paying a nickel
for his morning paper.
It all started when shabhily
dressed colored man walked into
the grocery at 900 K street NE,
and demanded that Henry Wal
czak, 43, the proprietor, give
him $50
Mr.. Walc2ak said he didn't
have that much.
The holdup man. his hand in
his pocket as though he had a
gun. decided TO look for himself
Mr.. Walczak said he ran toward
the door as the bandit was APP
preaching the cash register
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25

For the LaboriteS-and Other
Britons as well-this response tt
what was considered a perfectly
reasonable request has been al
eye-opening shock. Optimistic
views about the great Russian
reformation are being rapidly re-
vised. Whatever Marshal Bull
ganin and Mr.. Khrushchev may
have to say from now on about
liberalism. friendship and good
will inside the Iron Curtain will
be taken with a larger grain OF
salt.
Russians Not Happy
There are some indications
that the Russian delegation as
a whole is not happy about this
turn of events II seems prob
able that Mr.. Khrushchev COM
pletely misunderstood the seli-
business of the question that was
asked him, thought that he was
being maliciously needed, and
lost his temper. 1t is also pos
sible that he thought the con-
versation at this dinner would
be kept as confidential as his
formal conferences with Sir An
thony.
Whatever he thought. his re-
marks are bound to have their
effect in Europe where Commu-
mist parties everywhere have
launched a new about cam
paign calling for cooperation
with their Socialist allies" and
the revival of popular front"
governments. Party leaders
in France and Italy
will have hard time squaring
this effort with Mr.. KhrushchevS
sweeping condemnation of all
Social Democrats as enemies Of
the working class. From a pf
litical standpoint it has the cary
marks of major blunder which
the Communist Party will have
TO live with in the coming
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25

of vice presidential nomination
can still be opened-and GER
tainly by the Vice President
himself.
A reporter touched off the dis
IcusSion when he reminded the
President that six weeks ago on
March 7 the President said he
had asked the Vice President to
chart his own course and report
his decision back to the Presi-
dent. Has the Vice President
made such report. the PreSi-
dent was asked,
The President replied that Mr..
Nixon had not reported back in
the light of terms. he, Eisen-
hover used on that occasion.
Won't Tell Impressions
The President was asked a
few minutes later if MI. Nixon
had replied to him in any man.
ner that would give an impress
sion he wanted to run again. Be-
cause impressions can be mis-
leading the President laughingly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25

ards and effectiveness of thu
schools by:
81. Increasing the sizes Of
already too-large classes, espe-
cially in English. science, math.
ematicS and social studies.
20. The curtailment and pos.
sible elimination of advanced
courses such as college algebra
grammar and composition. jour.
nalism and advanced foreign
languages and also of all rene.
dial or special courses for SLOW
learners.
Activities Seen Hit
80. The elimination of i'm.
portant school services and &C.
tivities such as publications
school store and bank, studen
council. all clubs and intramura
and varsity athletics. -
Council members voiced i'm.
mediate concern after the read.
ing CT the petition.
The mention of athletic;
caused a stir. Duff Greene. IS
of 693i Western avenue NV.
a football player. stood ano
warned that IF this thing goes
through in sports, the popula.
tion of the school is going tc
drop tremendously"
The meeting was Informed
that Walter N. Tobriner, a men,
Der of the Board of Education
has accepted an invitation tc
take part in tomorrow's assem-
bly,. Mr.. Tobriner has a son in
Continued on Page "A, Col.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25
BULLE TIN
z Hurt on Bus

Seven passengers were in
jured today when a runaway,
driverless cement mixer truck
careened down a hill and
through an alley into the side
of a Capital Transit Co. bus.
The accident occurred in the
45O0 block of q street NV.
The injured were removed to
Emergency HOSpital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25
Calls Blasts
Essential to
OurDefense
By JAMES E. ROPER

President Eisenhower declared
today that the United States Will
20 ahead with its H-bonb tests
despite Adlai Stevenson's sug-
gestion that the administration
consider hating the experiments.
He insisted these tests must be
continued in view OF the world
situation.
Mr.. Eisenhower told a news
conference that ii was q para
dox to urge the United States to
work Oh guided missiles and at
the same time stop H-bomb
tests.
One without the other, Mr..
Eisenhower said, is rather use
less. He added that research
without test is useless.
He explained that the United
States is not trying to get
bigger ban from its H weapons
but is experimenting for de-
fensive purposes to see how we
can shoot them at fleets of air.
planes. The tests. he said. are
not aimed at increasing the
H-bombs mass destruction
effects
Discounts Soviet Claim
Mr. Eisenhower also;
/. Discounted the claim by
Soviet Communist Secretary
Khrushchev that Russia soon
will have guided missiles with
hydrogen warheads that can
land any place in the world. Mr..
Eisenhower said there is very
large distinction between the
capability of doing something
and really having an effective
instrument of war.
2. Said the United States Is
somewhere around its maximum
practical effort in deyelorllg
guided missiles.
3. Said he had received
lengthy report from Harold Stas-
sen on his conversation yesterday
with Mr.. Khrushchev in London.
He said the report was so long
that he had not had time to
study it fully but it apparently
did not indicate any change in
the Soviet position on the dead
locked East-West negotiations on
disarmament.
4. Declared that there would
be very little point in Mi. Khru-
shchev and Premier Bulganin
visiting the United States at
this time.
Have Discussed Issues
Mr.. Eisenhower pointed out
that particular issues between
the United States and the Soviet
Union mad been discussed n the
Summit Conference in Geneva
last summer and at Biz Foar
meeting last fall. As of this
moment, he said. nc secs no
useful purpose in a visit by the
Soviet leaders, Until there il
some new idea brought forth
for discussion, the President
concluded, there would be very
little point for such a trip.
Mr.. Eisenhower also SHE'D
away from talk of another kind
OF Summit conference, this time
on the Middle East. Mr.. Essen
hover said that whenever he
can promote peace he will meet
with ANYBODY and 80 almost any,
where within keeping of the
dignity of the project. He en-
however, that he would
have TO be convinced that a
Summit conference on the
Middle East would be useful.
He was commenting in reply
10 question about the idea OF
a Summit conference involving
Mr.. Eisenhower, and representa-
tives of the Soviet Union. Great
France, Israel and
Egypt.
Hopes for "StabiIizing"
On another aspect of the Md
die East crisis Nj Eisenhower
said he hoped the dispatch OF
four additional dcstroyerS to the
area would have a stabilizing in
huencc
, A considerable amount OF
questioning by reporters CEN
,ered around the guided missile
dispute Throughout. MI Eisen-
> See H-BOMB, Page Al
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-25
GHOCO JUNGLE
IS A GRAY SEA

; ABOVE THE DESERT stA-Thomo,
Z Henry. science editor Of The stoy.
Jokes you over tho choeo Jungle in
Colombo, where occasional yellow
Arce'ops look like yellow woyes on a
2roy SEQ, and no birds fly The third
o series Of reports BY Mr. Henry Is
q The Stor's Feature Pose, A.4l.
WASHINGTON NEEDLE-Thot,,
Tie Washington Monument from
5000 feet up. The Rombler. lock
Jonas, takes you on o BIRDS eye view
Of our town on puqe 81