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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-01

Washington, D. c. August 26
Members Of Congress favoring tax
reform legislation were encouraged
by support from Secretary Of Com
merce Mueller
The new member Of President
Eisenhower Cabinet believes that
tax reform is desirable in order to
remove road blocks to business
growth and to establish the right
business climate
Hearings on tax reform proposals
will begin on Nov. 2 before the
House Ways and Means Committee.
Desirable legislation could result.
Secretary Mueller was asked this
question by news man:
'If a tax cut were to come, where
do you think it should come?
II would rather use the words,
4 tax reform, \" the Secretary REL
Piled, because I think we have a
lot of situations in our tax structure
that inhibit business growth, and |
believe that, as Secretary Of Com
merce, my responsibility is to make
every effort to see that we establish
the right business climate, so that
investors and entrepreneurs, II you
wish to call them such, are en-
couraged."
He pointed out that in 1854 I'VE
had a substantial tax cut and, as
result of that tax cut, business
was stimulated to the extent that
within a very short period, we
were actually taking in more
revenue at the lower rates than we
were previously.
Secretary Mueller asserted thai
every effort should be made to de-
crease the cost Of government
Carey Intimidation Resented
A real Juror developed on Capito
Hill as a result Of James B. Carey
letter threatening political reprisal<
against the 229 House members who
voted for the Landrum- Griffin labor
reform bill.
Everyone knew that organized Ia
Dor had been waging an about figh
, against the measure.
But Carey, head of the Interna
tional Union of Electrical Worker:
and a vice president Of the AFL
CIO. went SO far as to threaten
appropriate action at the ballo
. box. .
This was generally regarded a
d high-handed attempt to intimidat'
members Of Congress and va
widely resented even by SOM
7 members who owed their election
to labor support.
Many Congressmen agreed wit
Senator Goldwater R-Ariz4 tina
! Mr.. Carev's letter was the 'wors
display of arrogance I've ever see
! in my life and if it doesn't con
vince the people that unions hav
too much power ! don't know Wha
they need. 7
, What almost everyone in Wash
, ington knows was pointed out re
, peatedly on Capitol Hill-that Sena
some Of the most determined sep
arationists in the world are from
that part Of the world The Japan
ese people especially have a feelins
for racial integrity
What gives Asia a bad opinion 0
America on the Negro question, ",
may believe, is not the truth tia
partial separation exists here bu
!, the lie that the Negro is grievously
: mistreated and underprivilegee
here. Nowhere in Asia or Africa are
any people better off and few art
half SO well off.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-01
Howell X. Lacy
Serving Aboard
Destroyer USS Laffey

Howell K Lacy seaman. USN,
son Of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Lacy.
Of Route 81 Farmville, is serving
aboard the destroyer Uss Laffey
operating with the U S. Sixth Fleet
in the Mediterranean
Departing her home port of Nor
folk on August Z. the Laffey is
Tchaduled to visit ports in Southern
Europe and Northern Africa and
viii participate in various opera
tioaal exercises.
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great principle underlying.
LIBRARIANS AND PROBES
SORS in the South are required to
make adjustment, it seems to me,
for a persisting snobbery which pre-
sunles the South backward and its
philosophy beyond the pale. even as
the turn to individualiSm over
socialism m ke.S some South
ern points Of view Americas most
advanced.
Does Alabama's library service
include that modern classic "1'll
Take My Stand" written in 1880 by
the so-called Nashville fugitives, j.
one Of whom was Robert Penn
Warren, current best seller? Or the
important little volume by one OF
these writer's. Vanderbilt's Donald
Davidson, entitled Southern Writ
ers in the Modern World" 'Univer-
sitv Of Georgia Press, 1857? Or
States Rights The Law OF the
Land" by Georgia's brilliant consti-
4 tutional LAWYER. Charles J. Bloch?
Or "BrainWashing in the High
\ Schools" fDevin Adairl by E. Mer-
rill Root: Congress and the Ameri-
can Tradition" (Regnery) by James
Burnham: The Iron Curtain Over
n America BY John Beatty; the bril-
liant symposium THE L It Il g
South fRegnery 1887; Three
4 Races Under God" Vantage Press,
1859 BY Grady Fowler; The Age
Of Error" Vantage, 1857 by W. 2
Michael: Nine Men Agains
America tDevin Adair, 1853 by
Rosalie M. Gordon?
NOT ALL SUCH BOOKS are pub
lished BY national houses, and thai
is q situation recurring Southern Ii
brarians' attention as honest pro
fessionals. 1t seems to me. There
taboo.
Your The Fighting South Put
nam, New York was the only out
right Dro-South bool. to get in under
tile Wire before Gunnar Myrdal':
American Dilemma gave the wore
Of a Swedish socialist that the
Southern position is beneath consid
GRAFTON, beyond the pale" Rich
m0nd reader writes. After Myrda
10 such book would have been &C
cepted by Putnam or any othel
national house"
But PROGRESS HAS SPIR
4 ALED 70 a place where librarian
II are not entitled to presume certain
propositions backward no matte,
how many backward individuals en-
terrain them or national publisher
abhor them Such propositions as
That the church exists I,
make better human beings ard le
them worship God. not to pass eco
monte political. social and biology
ca' Judgment.
2 That discipline. self-restrain
) and individual excellence are as i'm
n9rtant as "togetherness in schoo
children.
J " That there II Lord God Al
mighty
! That races are not identica
Il. -,
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now you wonder II ne Il really be
allowed to come
is TT BECAUSE ATLANTA is the
South's only raillWashed city that
trouble which the Deep Southern
cities are spared seems to accumu-
late between white and black
there? I think it is rather because
Atlanta suffers from a split person
atty It's people aren't brainWashed,
only its preachers. publicists and
professors and the split makes the
| frictions. Proud to be compared
with New York Atlanta has ac-
cepted among its leadership what
New York no longer accepts so
readily. 1t has learned what New
York is unlearning.
Rumors Of integrationism there are
attracting SO MANY sects and per-
suasions of the cult that the city is
becoming in very fact as much a
capital Of Indignation as Birming-
ham Is called capital OF the con
trary.
e +
SAMUEL f. McCRARY. Of Gun
tersville, Ala. thinks the North 50
Jealous Of economic and other adj
yantages TIE booming South ENJOYS
BY reason of SEGREGATION that we
should stop boasting Of it. that /,
spurs u Jealous North 10 Seek neN
federal Face measures AGAINST thf
South. He thinks the South 5 cne i
to do away with all formal spere
cation and practice informal as as
siduously as the North does.
Y, NJ VI. .h;., A..
Ar, 49, ,,a,,al. IL. ~ H. aos1,
;no co,,th oa,,,t >; Il, w. aaao,a,nt
NAACP would ~ III for To the tune
The North practices segregation i,
hard as we do but the North has nt
such percentages Of Negro popula
ton. What's more VIZ North over
segregates. We do business with .oul
colored people. thousands Of New
Workers never SIZE one.
DAVID LAWRENCE RECALLS
that old John i. Lewis used II fee
that he had bought and paid for III,
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-01

How increasingly hard it is to
imagine Khrushchev here. Even
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-09-01

WHAT WILL ASIA sAYo Sur
plasinG Was the statement Of 2 K
Inouye, the Japanese Hawaiian
who X the new Congressman from
Hawaii that inteeration is not Of
itself 2 solution to the problem of
civil rights and that he believes the
people Of the South have a story to
tell Americans who presume Asians
are for racial mixing forget that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-04
EXCLUSIVELY
YOURS
The Speaker Makes News
AT Perle MestQ's Dinner

and set with exquisite Nielsen
china and candelabra.
The whole House OF Repre-
sentatives delegation from
Nevada was there In the per-
son OF Congressman Walter
Barring. who was accompanied
by his wife. The State Is so
sparsely settled the whole Of
It makes UP only one district
represented by the former
school teacher who taught
math, German and Spanish.
Speaking Of congressional
districts. SENATOR sMATH-
ERs said Florida will gain
four new ones next year. and
that II is believed former
Senator Claude Pepper may
seek one of these seats In the
House.
Glamorous BLOND AC-
TRESS CELESTE HOLM,
weekend houseguest Of Mrs.
Mesta's, told Gen. White that
when she did a tour Of out
of-the-way Air Force bases
in 1947, she discovered that
the colder the climate the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-04

wiehas and sweets after walk
ing the fiower-bordered paths
and with It's backdrop OF the
Mays palatlal red brick man-
sion. rs front vista a distant
treetop view OF the WASH
ington Monument = all
brought 10 mind the gracious
living Of another. more lux
urious era.
on Saturday Soviet AM
bassador and Nine. Menshi-
kov we're there; also Danish
Ambassador and Countess
Knuth-Winterfeldt - Trudy
In a gay, all-over lowered
print Dior coat topped by a
black broad-brimmed hat;
Chilean Ambassador and
Sonora de Muller and the
latter's mother: Edward Mel
Ion from Pittsburgh and
the Herbert Mays. jr.. from
Baltimore: Peruvian Ambas-
sador and Sonora de Bercke-
meyer, Aunt Bessie" Merry
man. with Mrs. j. Hamil-
ton Lewis; Secretary OF the
Treasury and Mrs. Bob AM
derson. Mrs. Arthur Mac
Arthur. the Morris cafrftzes
Gwen In a black flower
printed chiffon dress and
cartwheel hat - and Japa-
nese Ambassador and Nine.
Asakai.
Yesterday drew Secretary
of Defense and Mrs. Neil
McElroy, chairman Of the
Joint Chiefs and Mrs. Ma
than Twining. French AM
bassador and Nine. Alphand,
he Carroll Morgans. Span
ish Minister and Sonora de
Alba. Polly Guggenheim,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-04
o. BFTTY BEALt

Il may not be chairman
Of the Democratic conven-
ton" Speaker Sam Ray
burn said last evening at
Perle Mesta's house.
Finding II impossible 10
imagine the 1860 political
convention In Los Angeles,
without the Speaker pound
ing for order from the plat
form, a dinner companion
asked why.
II may want 10 make a
nomination Of my own" re-
piled the Texan who has run
the House Of Representa-
tives longer than any other
man in history.
1T wouldn't be a fellow
Texan, would it7" asked his
companion. and Mr.. Rayburn
laughed.
As he is extremely close to
Texan Lyndon johnson, this
increases the speculation
that, despite strong state
ments TO the contrary, Sena-
tor johnson is very much in
the candidate contest.
Mrs. Mesta gava an ele-
gantly appointed formal din
ner last evening for young
and personable Gov. Grant
Sawyer Of Nevada. who will
be in Washington until FRI
day. Since her sister and
brother-in-law, the George
Tysons. bought a ranch and
built a house in Nevada, the
Western State has become
Perle's second home. She
loves it, runs out there at
the drop Of a hat. and the
Governor noted in his after
dinner remarks that she has
become quite IAN attribute
of his State"
Attorney General and Mrs.
Bill Rogers, Senator and Mrs.
Clinton Anderson. Senator
and Mrs. George Smathers,
and Senator and Mrs. Alan
Bible of Nevada were seated
around the table covered with
a lace tablecloth over pink
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who won the chrysoprase
and diamond earrings at the
symphony Ball; the Augusta
Rossos with her son, George
Bunker; the Sherman Trow-
bridges and Anne Garter
Greene.
THE CLAIBORNE PELLS
were hosts az dinner Saturday
night 10 a small congenial
group that wound up listening
TO an impromptu concert by
two Of the guests.
Egidio Ortona. italian AM
bassador 10 the United Ma
tons. and George Lodge. son
OF the American Ambassador
TO the U. ~. played the piano
and clarinet respectively.
Since neither had practiced
the composition. nor had they
rehearsed together, they sug-
gested that this was as good
a way as any Of clearing the
room. But I insisted that Il
was only force of habit
that sent Senator Theodore
Francis Green. the Arthur
Krocks. Dorcas Hardin. and
the Alfred Friendlys whipping
out at IL. That's the Gus
tQmary departure hour for q
Washington dinner.
Others who had a chatty
time at the party were the
Bill Merriams and their
houseguests. the Eugene
cronins Of Connecticut; Julia
Ortona-who's looking for a
small house here for her
daughter to live in next
winter; Oatsey Leither. Bill
Walton. Clayton Fritchey,
and. Of course. cute Nancy
Lodge. who looks far too
young to have i've offspring.
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warmer the reception abe al
Ways eot.
New York lawyer Franz
Joseph. who has a book
coming out next fan via the
Princeton University Press.
"As They See U.s." came
down for the party. The book
Is a compilation OF opinions
written by 20 people from
around the world and very
much involved In the world
whom he invited 10 come 10
America as his guests. How
much they saw Is extraor-
binary. he said. but makes us
look pretty good.
Others AZ the dinner were
Mrs. Francis Written. the
Philip Coxes. the Mark
Evanses. and Edwin Laroque
Thicker. the well known
authority on eauchos who
has Just given his collection
OF American and South
American saddles. pictures
and 1000 books on the sub
ject Of the North and South
American cowboy 10 the Uni
versity Of Texas.
49,
THE HERBERT MAYS
had their second successive
garden party yesterday, both
blessed with an abundance OF
beauty. blossoms and balmy
weather. On both Satur-
day and Sunday the breeze
swept, manicured lawn with
its deep border Of vari-
colored tulips. its futed green
marques over the handsome
tea tables. its scattered small
tables where guests rested.
slipped and sampled sand
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-04
Women in the Services Feted
By Newspaper Women's Club

stand why everything wasn't
in right order"
The WAVES ran into a SIM
liar situation in the early
days of the war in their first
indoctrination class at North
ampton. Mass.
Comdr. Mary Mcdonald re-
called the December night in
1912 when she and a group of
WAVE trainees arrived in
Northampton In the midst of
snow. sleet and ice.
Midnight Arrival
eve arrived about mid
night" Comdr. Mcdonald re-
called, land some of us were
billeted at nearby Mount
Holyoke. We had to crawl
up the steps on our hands
and knees. Even at / o'clock
in the morning, the Navy fed
US a good dinner. At 2 am.
we were given two sheets and
told not to turn on the lights
in our rooms because someone
was already there. At 6 am,
a new cry woke us up-'hit
the deck-and we were in
itiated into our first roll call.
That year we had 80 Macs"
in the class"
The first Woman Marines
were taken from among the
graduates of Comdr. McDon-
AIDS class at Northampton.
Also at yesterdays recep-
ton was the first SPAR to go
on active duty from civilian
life, Miss Dorothy futile,
who is also a member Of the
newswomen's club and now a
news writer and editor with
the United States Informa-
ton Agency.
Recalling when she was
sworn in on the first ami
versary of Pearl Harbor Day,
Miss Tuttle said, THE pho
tographers just swarmed into
the room. I thought perhaps
it was also my birthday. But
later they told me it was
because I was the first SPAR
sworn into active duty"
Miss Tuttle said that the
Coast Guard women officers
took a lot of kidding. 1--WE
called all our women officers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-04

The reception given yes
terday by the American
Newspaper Women's Club
for women in the services
was like "old home week"
for the honor guests, many
of whom hadn't seen each
other since World War II
days.
The party which launched
Armed Service month, was
held in the lovely Aztec gar
den setting of the Pan
American Union. 1t was well
attended by WACs, WAVES,
Women in the Air Force,
Women Marines, SPARs.
nurses, medical specialists as
well as top officials of the
various services.
Mrs. Alice Curran, presi-
dent of the club, and 1t.
Comdr. Martha Michaels.
chairman of the reception,
headed the receiving line
which included the nine di-
rectors of women in the
services and the top officer
Of the SPARs, Comdr. Bea-
trice Ball,
Receiving Line
Receiving were Col. Mary
Louise Milligan, director of
the Women's Army Corps;
Capt. Winifred r. Quick, as
sistant chief of naval per-
sonnet for women; Col. En-
ma j. Riley, director Of
Women in the Air Force;
Col. Margaret M. Henderson,
director of the Women Ma
rines; and Col. Inez Haynes,
chief of the Army Nurse
Corps.
Also in the line were Capt.
Ruth A. Houghton, director
of the Navy Nurse Corps;
Col. Frances I. Lay, chief of
the Air Force Nurse, Corps;
Col. Ruth A. Robinson. chief
of the Army Medical Spe-
cialist Corps, and Col. Au-
drey A. Underkofler, chief of
the Air Force Medical Spe-
cialist Corps.
"reminiscences flew I a t
and thick among the guests,
many of them former serv-
icewomen now holding jobs
in civilian life for which
their service experience had
equipped them.
WACs who were in the first
class of the old Women's
Army Auxiliary Corps at Fort
Des Moines, Iowa, have a
lineup of things they can
laugh about:
For instance, that cold Sep
TENDER in 1912 when it
showed for the first time
since 1878. Or their memo
ries of drilling in high heels
in the mud: of wearing Army
surplus overcoats which
sometimes dragged the
ground, and freezing in the
cotton fatigue dresses which
were all the Army could issue
until orders for the women's
serge uniforms were received.
In those first days when
the women were called out
for inspection before their
Army officer instructors, one
former WAC, Mrs. Sarah Nc
Clendon. also a club member.
recalled yesterday. the men
sometimes couldn't under
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-04

sir" she recalled. I'VE also
got kidded about one Of the
slogans put out by our public
relations office-Don't be a
Spare: Be a SPAR.
Evening star., 1959-12-16
OfficiuIsHuiI
Fishwoy at
Ceremony
By JOHN w. STEPP
Star Staff Writer

A whole school" of local and
Federal officials-not to mem
ton the equally pleased Poto-
mac River fish-hailed the
opening of the Little Falls fish,
way today.
If any fish actually swan
through the $550.O0O structure,
however, they couldn't be seen
for the mud in the water.
Commissioner Arnie ]. Suo-
mela of the Federal Fish and
Wildlife Service led the dedi-
cation ceremonies in mid -Poto-
mac, where the complex fish,
way cuts through the new Little
Falls water diversion dam.
Mr.. Suomela first read a
statement from Senator Butler.
Republican Of Maryland. who
had searched the history books
to find that when Capt. John
Smith explored the river 300
years ago he found the fish so
thick at Little Falls he could
have dipped them out with
frying pans.
May the day come again."
the Senator wrote, when the
only equipment needed for a
fish catch here will be an old
fashioned frying pan"
For himself, Commissioner
Suomela lauded the Washing
ton District of the Army Engi-
neer Corps, which built the
f1shway, for its close co-opera-
ton with his bureau in design
ing and constructing the struc-
ture which opens 10 more miles
of river for sea-going fish to
spawn in.
Even more beneficial than
the material gain to sports and
commercial fishing is the
partnership approach so neces-
sary to any conservation or
river basin development" he
said.
Evening star., 1959-12-16

guide. He then said that the
estimate was based upon his
own Judgment and his init
mate knowledge of the riding
habits of the public"
Questioned on a company
point that about so per cent
of the total number of pas
SengerS are now riding during
rush hours. Mr.. Flanagan said
q survey had been made on
three major lines. The pro-
portion, he said. came out to
56l2 per cent and the COM
pany rounded 1T of to go per
cent.
Mr.. Flanagan, in response to
questions. said the company had
not made any allowance for a
reduction in operating expenses
for the estimated switch from
rush hours to non-ruSh hours
because of a fare differential.
At the same time. Mr.. DON
nella pointed out, the company
had stated earlier that it's op-
Grating expenses are higher for
rush-hour service than during
the off hours.
Cost Offset Seen
In response, Mr.. Flanagan
said the company also had not
taken into consideration the
virtual certainty that a number
of cost factors would increase
in the future. This. he said,
more than Offset the point
made by Mr.. Donnella on the
failure to figure in a saving on
the passengers riding time
habits.
The company vice president
told the commission that with
demands for expanded service
and with rising costs he sees
nothing but a struggle" ahead
in the next three years for the
company.
Asked by the PUG. attorney
if the future financial picture
could not better be judged a
year from now, Mr.. Flanagan
agreed, but added that the COM
pany is facing certain increases
in its expenses, such as the
recent wage hikes granted to
its workers.
Evening star., 1959-12-16
Retreat League
Officers to Meet

Newly appointed officers of
the Northern Region of the
Holy Family Retreat League,
Catholic Diocese of Richmond,
will hold their first meeting
at 8 pm. tomorrow at the home
of the new president, Frank
j. McCusker, $40 Hazelton
street, Falls Church.
Other officers, appointed by
the Rev. John Huston, C.S.S.R.,
diocesan director of the league.
are: John A. Lavan. of Blessed
Sacrament Parish, Alexandria,
vice president; Paul M. Lyons.
of Our Lady of Good Counsel
Parish, Fairfax County, sec
retary, and Edward r.
Demeter, of st. Louis Parish,
Fairfax County, treasurer.
Evening star., 1959-12-16

Assuteugue
Bridge PLun

BALTIMORE, Dec. 16 (AP)
The Attorney Generals Office
has thrown a legal hurdle in
front of a plan to have a public
authority build a toll bridge to
Assateague Island from the
Maryland mainland.
An opinion by Attorney Gen.
eral C. Ferdinand Sybert and
Assistant Attorney General
James H. Norris, jr., said it is
seriously questionable" that
such a bill could be constitu-
tionally presented to the short
session Of the Legislature con-
vening in February.
Mr.. Sybert and Mr.. Norris
wrote the opinion yesterday in
answer to a query from State
Senator John L. Sanford, DEM
ocrat of Worcester, chairman
of a commission which recon-
mended building a $1,217,OOO
toll bridge from Worcester
County to the island.
Maryland'S 30-day legislative
sessions in even numbered
years are limited by the con-
Stitution to Statewide legisla-
ton. budget questions or emer-
gency matters. The ruling did
not close the door entirely for
1860 but doubt in such cases
usually is resolved in favor Of
delay.
This would mean the bridge
plan could not be considered
until the 90-day session in
1861.
AS envisioned by the San
ford Committee, a 2.8O0-foot
bridge would have been built
of steel and concrete under
direction of a public authority.