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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-11-08
Cumberland G. II. Items
40 Dumb KIur Khan Members Sponsor
Halloween Party at Recreation Hall

Mf and Mrs James Taylor
Williams enteftaine Halo
ween night with a costume party
for their daughter, Kathy. Decora-
tons games, refreshments 4 II d
favors were in keeping with the fes-
tive occasion.
Forty pre-teenagers. known Us the
Dumb Klux Khan. sponsored a
Halloween party Thursday night al
The recreation hall III the village
Folk dancing and varied games
We're enjoyed
Miss joyce Ransom accompanied
a of her relatives from Ballsvllle
to Mt. Airy. N. c., for 4 week end
visit with W. T. Joyce and other
members OF his family. The oc-
casion was the celebration OF her
grandfather ninety sixth
birthday anniversary November 8.
Mrs Larkin c. Garrett enter
tanned with dinner party October
80, honoring the birthday anniyer-
Safy Of her husband.
Miss Lovins Goes to Races
Miss Margaret Lovins, OF Peters
burg, was the overnight guest Sun.
day OF her mother. Mrs. Roscoe L.
Lovins. Miss Lovins spent the week
END III Middleburg as guest Of Mr..
ana Mrs. Howard Reubin They at
tended the Middleburg horse races
The Rev 7 P. Reynolds and
daughter. Miss Nancy Jean Reyn-
olds, viii attend the Virginia Baptist
General association next week at
the First Baptist church in Roanoke.
The Rev. and Mrs. Luther B
Franck spent portion of this week
visiting relatives in Richmond. Mrs.
Franck attended the woman's forum
q the Richmond Woman's club.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-11-08

Mr.. and Mrs. N d. Clements. OF
Lynchburg. Noel Clements. Of Wash
ington. D. C.. and c. G.. Sanderson
Of Ashby.
Diamond Staters Visit
Guests Of Mr. and Mrs. l.. B.
Dandy during the week end were
Mr.. and Mrs Andrew j. Dandy, OF
Cheswold. Del Their d aug hit Ell.
Nancy, and son. Billy. returned
with them after spending some
time here with their grandparents
Stuart George spent the week end
i'll Richmond with his brother-in-
law and sister. Mr.. and Mrs. r. S.
Spease, who moved recently into
their new house al 2909 Seible road
East Highland Park.
Dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. E.
Allen Carter last Sunday were MI.
and Mrs Fl S. Hancock, of Sedley
Week end guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew E. Godsey at Burleigh Hall
were Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin A. Glib
son, Of Fredericksburg.
Addlemans Visit
Mr.. and Mrs. James Andrew
Addleman and daught Lynn, of
Richmond. spent Sunday at Med
wood as guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. A. jenkins and Mrs. Meade W.
Foster.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Garrett. and
OF Guinea. were dinner
guests Saturday Of Mrs. r. o. Gar
rett. Other guests during the week
end were W. Allen Garnett. and
family, Of Takoma Park. Md. and
Carl Ray Banton. OF Highland
Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. +. Seay, Jr.,
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-11-08
Martin Lewis Cook
Dies in AndersOnville

Martin Lewis Cook. 76. a farmer
died November at his home in
Andersonville. Funeral services
were held for him Tuesday at
Chestnut Grove Baptist church,
Buckingham county. With burial
in the church cemetery.
Surviving are a son, Woodrow
r. Cook. Of Andersonville. four
grandchildren. one great-grand-
child, sister. Mrs. Mary Lou
Davis. Of New Canton, and two
brothers. John Cook. of Prospect
and George f. Cook. Of Appomat-
toX
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-11-08

A newly developed electronic ma
chine. the Cytoanalyzer- an auto
matte oatical electronic machine
Is expected to speed detection of
cancer Of the uterus the second
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-11-08

largest cause Of cancer deaths
among women. The cytoanalyzer is
designed to detect abnormal cells
By microscopically scanning slides
bearing specimen smears
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11
Thomson Named to Head
Virginia RocioI Probe

RISHMOND, Jan. IL (P).-
The 10-member com mittee
named by the General Assembly
to investigate groups promoting
racial litigation yesterday elected
a chairman, selected name,
and lost a member.
A 32-year-old member of the
House of Delegates from Alex
andria. James M. Thomson, was
named committee chairman. The
group said 1t would call itself
the Committee on Law Reform
and Racial Activities.
Delegate w. Roy Smith of
Petersburg resigned, citing a
heavy load Of other legislative
study assignments and the
press of business. House Speaker
Z, Blackburn Moore will name
o replacement.
Subcommittee Named
The General Assembly estab-
lished the committee at its spe-
Sial segregation session last Sep
tember and provided 1t with a
$4,000 fund. The committee
was directed to report not later
than November /.
The committee yesterday des-
ignated a three-member sub
committee to consider obtaining
counsel and hiring any help the
committee might need. The sub
committee is composed of State
Senator Earl A. Fitzpatrick Of
Roanoke. who was named vice
chairman Of the whole commit
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tee; Mr.. Thomson and Delegate
Charles B. Cross. jr., Of Ports
mouth.
No date was set for a meeting
of either group but Mr.. Thomson
said he plans to move las quickly
as we can" so as to cover as
much ground as possible.
Duties Are Similar
Some members of the law re-
form committee met with men,
bers of the Committee on
Offenses Against the Admins
tration Of Justice. Both COM
mittees are expected to direct
most Of their efforts toward the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored People
which has instituted several
school segregation suits across
the State. The measures Great
ing both committees were called
the NAACF Bills.
The latter is a five-man COM
mittee, headed by Delegate John
B. Boatwright Of Buckingham,
which was established to study
questions similar to those Of the
larger investigating group.
Mr.. Boatwright said the two
groups decided to cooperate as
much as they could to avoid du-
plication of effort. Each will
have its own counsel, and staff
however, and each will pursue Its
own assignment.
The Boatwright committee de-
cided to meet again January 80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11
Three Area Youths
Held in Robberies

Two Fairfax County youths
and another from Alexandria
have been arrested in a series of
grocery break-ins and auto parts
thefts. police said today.
The trio, and another juvenile
Coast Guardsman who has not
been arrested. also are to be
questioned about the theft and
burning of an auto which was
found January 3 on Shirley high
way.
The three in custody are
George G.. Cross, 10, Route l.
Springfield; Floyd w. Robert
son, 10, Route 2, Springfield, and
Chester c. Redmon. 81, of the
400 block East Clifford avenue,
Alexandria.
Fairfax police have the youths
charged with breaking and en-
tering of a grocery in Spring.
field and petty larceny of auto
parts. Alexandria police said
they would barge them with
breaking and entering Of a gro
Gerry. Both jurisdictions said
they are questioning them in
several other breaking and
enterings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11
PIunnersO 0. K.
.Zoning Plea

The Alexandria Planning Com
mission last night recommended
rezoning of a tract at Shirley
highway and Duke street for
construction Of a regional shop
ping center.
The application for rezoning
on the 46-acre site was made by
Omer L. Hirst. a State delegate
from Fairfax County.
The planning commission rec
Iommendation was made on a
.6-to-1 vote. The one member,
whose name was not disclosed,
objected to the rezoning on the
grounds that Alexandria already
had too much undeveloped COM
mercial land. said Denis Cahill,
planning director.
The planning commission was
requested by Mark Winkler,
Washington real estate man, to
give full consideration" of
whether there is a need for more
commercial land in that area.
Mr.. Winkler plans to build a
$50 million regional shopping
center at Shirley highway and
Seminary road, about / mile
away
The Hirst rezoning request
will 60 before City Council for
final action on March 90.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11
School Bonds
Sold at 4.57%

SOUTH NORFOLK. Va. Jan.
II R-A Virginia investment
combine has bought a $500. 900
South Norfolk school improve
ment bond issue two months
after its previous bid was re-
jected as too high.
City council last night voted
to sell the issue to the syndi-
cate on bid Of a 4.57 per cent
average net interest rate. The
previous bid from the combine
last November offered a 4.99 per
cent average net interest rate.
The rate agreed to yesterday
was better than the 4.74 per
cent Fairfax County got on a
So million issue, but not as good
as the 3.84 per cent Norfolk got
on $2.5 million issue.
All three issues were bought
by the same combine of five
flrms-the only school bond
issues sold in the State since the
General Assembly passed the
Stanley school plan.
Some investment bankers
blame the Stanley plaza pro-
posal Of Gov. Stanley which
would close public schools in
locality If a school desegregated
for the high interest rate and
lack of bids on school bond is
sues. Gov. Stanley has said
the present tight money mar
ket is to blame.
Yesterdays offer was made by
G. Powell Davis, representing
the Investment Corp. Of Nor
folk. Other members Of the
combine are the Peoples Ma
tional Bank of Charlottesville
and Edward G. Webb g. Co.,
Strader & Co. and Scott, Horner
& Mason. all of Lynchburg.
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Virginia Woman
Dies of Crash Injuries

Mrs. Astrid Riffolt. who was
injured in an auto-truck crash
which killed her husband, Nils
A. Riffolt, on Wednesday near
Centreville. Va, died last night
in Arlington Hospital.
Mr.. Riffolt, 81, former tech
nical director of the Dahlgren
(Va.) Naval Proving Ground,
and Mrs. Riffolt have lived in
Criglersville, Va, since his re-
tirement a year ago.
The accident occurred on
Route oil in Prince William
County just west of the Fairfax
County line. Mrs. Riffolt was
a passenger in the car driven
by her husband.
The Riffolts, natives Of
Sweden, came to this country in
the early 1905. Mr.. Riffolt
taught physics for a time al
Clark University. Worcester
Mass. He joined the staff of the
Naval Proving Ground in 1924.
The Riffolts are survived by
a daughter, Mrs. Robert Varney
ST. Louis. and two grandchildren
Funeral services will be con.
Quoted at noon tomorrow at the
Hebron Lutheran Church. Mad
ison. Va. Burial will be in
Madison.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11
Highway Protest Meeting
Set Tonightin Glen Echo

An emergency town meeting
will be held in Glen Echo tonight
by town residents who are COM
ing to q slow boil over the pro-
posed Potomac River express
way through the heart of the
community.
Glen Echo school children this
afternoon were to be drafted to
distribute flyers announcing the
meeting.
Town officials, meanwhile,
have been alerting all residents
by telephone in an effort to mo-
billie q spirited demonstration
against the recommended ex-
pressway route.
At issue is the Districts pro-
posed expressway designed to
link the inner loop highway to
the Potomac terminus Of the
Washington National pike (new
U. s. 240).
Glen Echo townspeople we're
alarmed by recent statements
made by District and Maryland
highway planners that the con-
Meeting expressway will slice
through old. residential parts Of
Glen Echo.
They fear, for example. the
superhighway will cut through
Vassar circle. where the old Glen
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Echo Firehouse stands. The
building is being renovated to
house the towns Baptist Church.
The town council on Tuesday
unanimously passed a resolution
protesting the proposed route of
the expreSSway. Mrs. Edward
w. Cannon. council member,
said the highway would threaten
the town with extinction. She
said the new $4,000 Town Hall
under construction would have
to be abandoned If the highway
plans are followed.
Town officials are hoping for
a turnout tonight of over half
of the towns homeowners. Town
population is nearly 500.
Tonight's meeting will begin
at 8 o'clock in the old Baptist
Church at University and Har-
ward avenues.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11

this 90-day session. measure
introduced yesterday by Senator
John G. Turnbull and Delegate
"A. Gordon Boone. majority lead
ers Of their respective houses
The two Baltimore Countians
have sored unsuccessful
roadside control legislation in the
past.
Their bills would permit the
county governing bodies to label
all highways as commercial or
non-commercial, and in the lat
ter designation all billboards
would be prohibited, except those
advertising business enterprises
actually located along the roads
and "for sale signs" Existing
signs on non-commercial roads
would have to be removed within
three years.
The State Roads Commission
plans to present its own bill this
year, contemplating a more
stringent method of roadside
coming. especially along the thigh
speed" roads.
DeSegregatiOn Bill
Senator Harry A. Cole, Re-
publican Of Baltimore and the
first Negro elected to the Mary
land Senate, said he will spon-
sor legislation to eliminate seq
regation in Baltimore hotels,
State race tracks and other
amusement places.
He also said he will introduce
the same resolution he has put
in for the last two sessions since
his election in 1854 calling for
Maryland at long last to ratify
the Fourteenth Amendment to
Constitution of the United
States. That is the amendment
which guaranteed equal rights to
all citizens and which has been
ratified by all States except
Maryland, Delaware and Ken
lucky.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11
SHOE OF VICTIM
IN CRASH YIELDS
GRIM DIVIDEND

ROANOKE. Va. (P.-The
battered wreckage of a Grey
hound bus which last Friday
carried seven persons to their
death north Of Lexington
has yielded a grim dividend.
Greyhound officials here.
where the demolished Scent
cruiser awaits the scrap pile.
received a call from the
brother of Mrs. Nellie Mae
Craft of Baltimore, who died
Monday in Lexington's
Stonewall Jackson Hospital.
The man said his sister al
ways carried spare money in
her shoes.
Greyhound people secured
the twisted bus. They found
a pair of shoes. Deep in the
toe of one shoe. neatly wrap
ped in a handkerchief, was
$40 in cash.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11
W. S. King Named
Finance Director
For Alexandria

Wilmer S. King has been APP
pointed Alexandria director of
finance.
The appointment Of Mr.. King,
A. was announced today by City
Manager E. @. Heatwole.
Mr.. King who lives with his
wife and two children at 100
West Nelson avenue, has been
Ia city employe since 1888 and
became acting director of f.
nance when Mr.. Heatwole was
moved from that position to city
manager last summer.
The new finance director was
born in Clifton Forge, Va, and
attended Fort Union Military
Academy, William and Mary
College and the Walton School
|of Commerce in Chicago. He
was an Army captain in World
War II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11
Boy Killed by School Bus
After Getting OHAnother

An 8-year-old Fairfax County
boy was killed yesterday when
struck by a private school bus
a few minutes after he got of
a public school bus near his
home.
kenneth Gunter, son of Mr..
and Mrs. L. D. Gunter, Of 1921
Arlington terrace. Huntington.
was dead on arrival at Alexan-
dria Hospital.
The accident occurred on
Huntington avenue at Blaine
drive, just south of Alexandria.
around 4 pm. as Kenneth was
going home from the Cameron
Elementary School.
Fairfax County police said
two witnesses told them Ken
meth was playing tag with some
pals and suddenly darted across
Huntington avenue into the
path Of a Congressional School
bus. The Fairfax County public
school bus which let Kenneth
of already had left the stop.
Got OF With 10 Others
w. H. Ebhardt, supervisor of
transportation for the Fairfax
County School Board, said Ken
meth was one Of 10 children who
got of the county bus at Hunt
ington avenue and Fenwick
drive.
Six Of the youngsters crossed
the street as they are supposed
to while the bus remained
stopped. while traffic was
stopped by the flashing warning
lights of the bus.
Kenneth. however. did not
cross the street at Fenwick
avenue, said Mr.. Ebhardt. but
walked up to the next stop at
Blaine avenue with some friends.
At Blaine avenue, the county
bus again stopped to let one
child of and remained stopped
while that child crossed over.
Still, Kenneth did not cross the
street, Mr.. Ebharct said.
No Charges Placed
Fairfax County police said
after the public school bus left
Blaine avenue, Kenneth sud-
denly ran into the street. He
was struck by the Congressional
School bus, which was approach
ing from the opposite direction.
No charges were placed against
the Congressional driver, Rob-
ert Lee Wilburn, 81, Of 2482
South Lowell street, Arlington.
Kenneth's death was the third
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11
$4,000 Sewage Job Let
To Close Pollution GAP

come badly overloaded, and the
river an open septic tank.
S3.S Million Price Tag
The construction that has
ended these conditions cost $3.8
1t includes a sewer line
from Bladensburg to a newly
built pumping station on Beav-
erdam Creek: the pumping sta
ton itself. and the further ex-
tension of the line from the sta
ton to the Washington system
on the east shore of the Anacos-
tia near East Capitol street.
Earlier this week, a contract
was let for developing engineer
ing details to extend this line to
connect with Washington's main
outfall sewer at Poplar Point,
near South Capitol street bridge.
This is necessary since the Dis
trict sewer now tied into at East
Capitol street is inadequate to
handle all the Maryland flows at
peak periods. The result is per-
iodic discharge of raw sewage
into the Anacostia at that point.
Construction of the Poplar
Point extension for which
money has been allocated, will
total SIT million. 1t is due for
completion in 1858.
Plant Improvement
Meanwhile, the Sanitary Com
mission is putting in $3.6 million
as its agreed share toward build
ing improved sewage treatment
facilities at Washingten's Blue
Plains plant. Completion of this
huge project is slated for 1859.
Harry B. Shaw, chief engineer
Of WSSC. regards these measures
and all those that began in the
formation of the sanitary district
in 1913 as part of a continuing
program of Kidding area streams
of pollution.
Pointing out that the western
most reaches of the Sanitary Dis
trict have been linked with
Washington's sewer system for
years, Mr.. Shaw said he is con-
vinced that the impending pro-
jects in the Ancostia watershed
will mark the end of polluted
streams under the commissions
jurisdiction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11
Bill Will EXEMPT
Dam From Tax
BY q Star stan Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 1.-THE
1887 Maryland Legislature is be-
ing asked to throw its weight
behind the fight of Montgomery
and Prince Georges counties to
keep a proposed $500 million
PEPCO power plant on the
Maryland side of the Potomac
River.
Senator Edward S. Northrop,
Democrat of Montgomery. said
today he will introduce a bill to
exempt from State and county
property taxes the dam that
PEPCO would have to build on
the river in conjunction with its
power plant.
The Senator said the exemp-
ton lis part of the agreement
we made to get PEPCO to build
the plant in Montgomery Coun-
ty." He emphasized that the
exemption would not apply to
the plant and grounds itself.
PEPCO has picked out sites
for its proposed new plant on
both the Loudoun County (Va.)
and Montgomery County sides Of
the river. The power that would
be generated would be trans
mitted to Maryland consumers.
In this connection. Delegates
Perry o. Wilkinson, Democrat Of
Prince Georges. and Blair Lee.
III. Democrat Of Montgomery.
introduced a bill to require a
State permit for any conduit,
pipline, wire, cable or trestle"
could be constructed across the
Potomac. Mr.. Wilkinson said
frankly the bill is aimed at in
f1uencing PEPCO to build the
plant on the Maryland side of
the river.
The two delegations, along with
Senator Northrop and Senator
H. Winship Wheatley. jr.. OF
Prince Georges. decided to in
vite T. Howard Duckett, special
counsel to the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission. to present that
agency's reorganization plans
here on Tuesday.
Senator Northrop yesterday in
PRODUCED a County Council-re-
quested measure to set up rev.
enue authority in Montgomery
to issue bonds for airports, hos
pitfalls. public housing and other
projects.
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present voted with the majority.
This years bill. like those in
1855 and 1856. envision an in
Ispection system for Maryland
patterned after that in Pennsyl-
vania. where motor vehicles are
inspected annually by private
garages under State police SUI
lpervision.
Gov. McKeldin has come out
for the first time this year in
favor Of an automobile inspec-
ton law, but he said he wants
IState-owned operated inspection
stations, such as those in the
District and Delaware.
Fee Of $3.50 Set
Under the House-approved
bill. which comes this year from
the Legislative Councils Com
mittee on Motor Vehicle Laws.
motorists would pay $3.50 in
Ispection fees. The law would
take effect this July /.
The action on the bill came as
State police disclosed that nearly
one out Of every 10 persons killed
on Maryland highways last year
died in accidents involving de-
fective cars.
1t. Joseph X. Cushwa. director
of the State Police Central Acct
dent Record Bureau, said this
represented only the cars with
proven defects. Defective cars
were suspected in at least twice
as many fatal accidents. he
said, but police could not prove
1t because of extensive damages.
Roadside Control Bill
He said accidents involving
proven defects took the lives OF
so persons last year as against
a 1856 total Of SAT traffic deaths
Known defective cars we're in
volved in "a of the States 473
fatal accidents. he said.
The Legislature was faced with
Its first roadside control bill of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11
Man, 80, Kills Self
At Herndon Home

An 80-year-old Herndon, Va,
man died yesterday Of a gun
shot wound in the head.
Fairfax County police said the
bullet which killed Spencer Darr
was self-inflicted. Police said
Mr.. Darr shot himself in the
bedroom of his home on Route
682 near Herndon.
Police said Mr.. Darr had been
Ill for some time. suffering heart
trouble and asthma.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11
MARYLAND BARS
LICENSES TO o,237
WHO OWE FINES

BALTIMORE (R.--Names
of more than 5000 persons
have been tagged in Depart
ment Of Motor Vehicle rec
ords and they'll be barred
from getting new Maryland
auto license plates until
they pay up old traffic fines.
Chief Traffic Magistrate
Stanley Scherr said 9,237
persons are involved. They
were charged with traffic
violations and could not be
located on warrants.
Most are persons who dis
regarded traffic tickets,
changed address and failed
to report the address change
to licensing officials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-11
Senators Retain Posts

Maryland's two Republican
Senators have retained the same
committee assignments they had
during the last session of Con-
gress. Senator Butler was re-
named to the Judiciary and
Interstate and Foreign Com
merce Committees and Senator
Beall was returned to the Bank
ing and Currency and District
of Columbia Committees.