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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-01-30
/" As You Like It" To
Be Lon g.vvOod Garden
Club Program In 80

The Longwood Garden Club held
its annual business meeting al
L0ngwood House Monday, January
26 with Mrs c. T. Fleenor as
hostess.
Mrs. Edgar G. Cannon. n Y Y
president, presided over the meet
ing. Other new officers include
Mrs. Willard Hart, vice president.
Mrs. j. B. Wall. secretary. an d
Mrs. F. S. Blanton. treasurer.
Highlight Of the business meet
ing was the adoption of a program
for the year entitled las You Like
It Mrs. Willard Hart will serve
as program chairman.
In the monthly exhibit entitled.
Something Used in the Home Dur
ing the Month. Mrs. H. E. But
ton took first place. Miss Edna
Putney won the rcd ribbon and
Mrs. G. I. Feenor. the white
In the competition for the great
est accumulation of prizes during
the year 1858 Mrs c. T Fleenor
took first prize Mrs. F. S. Blaa-
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-01-30
Hiss Alicia Larelu Apperson TO
.IarrU DR.. DuUid Charles Stanleu

AIMS. CALVIN Talmage Apperson.
VI NaWbern. announces the engage
aren't Of her daughter. Alecia Larew
WI j. Haabtav. i Charlotte
AZ G.. is spending Thursday and
FRIDAY WITH his parents, Alr. and
Alf4 HI n HaAbury
Mr and Mrs Leroy Culpepper
ana daughtcr Carolyn lea, Of
Richmond we're week end guests
0s AIr. and Ms W, T. Morton and
also visited Mrs Culpepper 4
father. O. r Sheffield, in Pamplin,
Alr= I'll H Hamburg and Mrs. G.
VI Ml-on attended the Pre- wv
lerial board meeting in Bgookneal
Thursday
NiSs Batbara Do9d returned
Iae-daY from tnp M NeW York
Gits
G p B1ah'7fll Jl. n al home
aHer eM1nletia4 twa zar- tQ4r u
alw with thq Ailay
M- Barbara 'Met4u4hln win
Mv ,n vrHA v.a III baltimore.
WOW where -Ae VIII WV Y Bride
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-01-30

to DR. David Charles Stanley. son
Of Nh. and Mrs. Herbert R. Stan
ley, Of Fort Payne, Ala.
Miss Apperson is the daughter Of
the late Calvin Talmage Apperson,
Of NeWbern. and granddaughter Of
Mrs. @. a. Apperson, Of Dillwyn.
she II majoring in music at Rad
for College.
Pr. Stanley is a graduate Of Ala
bama Polytechnic Institute where
he was a member of Omega Tau
Sigma, professional fraternity He
4 IN associated with the Dublin Ami
nal Hospital and will return to
his position there in February.
A spring wedding is planned.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-01-30

Randolph Jones. Of Charlottes-
Vile. visited in the H. S. Whitaker
home during the week.
esthampton College students
IN Richmond, the Misses Sally
Finch Ann Paige Jones. Kay Lacy
aad Daphne Shepard arrive Wed
acs day to spend the between Sc
nester holidays with their parents.
\ Corbet Campbell, Or Hanson
VINE. was an overnight guest Of
hi SISTER, Mrs f. R. Hawkins, and
Mn Hawkins during the week.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-01-30
Miss Wainwright
Webs Howard Kimble

Mr.. and Mrs. William Wallace
Wainwright, Of Amelia. announce
the marriage Of their daughter.
Judith Carole. to Howard Wayne
Kimble. Of Mt. Jackson, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Howard A. Kimble, Of San
Francisco, Calf.
The marriage took place January
10 at Washington Square Methodist
Church. HagerstoWn. Md The Rev
Charles NJ LeFew, pastor Officl-
atCd
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-01-30

Women q Fsrnayille rre>by-
t"r'aa Church Executive Board
rep ;. $50 pm al the church
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
Minister to Marry
Night Club Singer

NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario,
Oct. 10 apt always knew
when the person Of Gods choice
came along, there would be no
question about it, says the Rev.
Robert Laidlaw Rolls Of his en-
gagement to Barbara Alcorn,
night club singer.
The 39-year-old Anglican
clergyman, rector of st. Mar
tins Church in this honeymoon
city, and Miss Alcorn, 81, will
be married Saturday in nearby
st. GATHERINGS. About $50 guests
have been invited to the re.
ception, but twice that number
are expected to jam st. Thomas
Anglican Church for the cere-
mony.
Miss Alcorn, appearing at a
local hotel, attended a Sunday
service at st. Martins about a
month ago and was introduced
to the rector afterward. Two
days later he dropped in at the
hotel to hear her sing and play
the piano. He proposed 10 days
later.
Mr.. Rolls was born in India,
the son Of a New Zealand mis-
sionary. He was a salesman in
Toronto and a radio announcer
in Australia before being or
dained in 1914.
Miss Alcorn, a ma tive Of
Prince Edward Island, has been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13

In these days Of confusion,
both on the national and in
ternational scene, newspaper
and radio commentators
with weight" because their
columns or Gutterances are
"musts" with policymakers
In the State Department play
quite a role in making or
unmaking a Foreign Service
officer. OF course, in their
efforts to reward" those they
regard as skillful, they have
the assistance Of members Of
congressional committees in
which the Secretary Of State
or others of the hierarchy
are strongly interested.
There are two typical cases
showing the power of the
Fourth Estate'(or at least those
Of its members who think
ENTHUSIASTICALLY: One is that
of Charles Bohlen. a career
ambassador who is returning
to the State Department as
top adviser to Secretary Her.
ter. IT. will be said that his
new position is only that Of
adviser on Soviet affairs. But
everything turns these days
around Moscow: Western
Europe. the Middle East, the
Far East and Latin America.
Hence the adviser on Soviet
affairs is actually an adviser
on everything else, par
ticularly In the case Of a
relatively inexperienced Sec
rotary Of State.
The other, a case of I'M
rewarding real services, is
that of the present Deputy
Un6ersecretary Of State, 10y
Henderson, one of the truly
great diplomats Of our gen.
Grafton, who since 1855 has
been in charge Of the dull
and unchallenging job Of adj
ministration Of personnel in
the State Department.
Ambassador Bohlen is one
of the most engaging and
personable people one could
wish to meet. Besides his
clean-cut features and ex-
tremely distinguished looks,
he has the ability to carry
on a most interesting CONVEX
sation on almost any subject.
He is a good Foreign Service
officer, but throughout his
career he has never achieved
any really positive diplomatic
successes. He has been critic
lied for his part in the Yalta
agreement, where he was an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
u. N. Committee
In Laos Leaves:
FINDINGS Secret

VIENTIANE, Laos, Oct. 13
(AP).-A United Nations COM
mittee left by plane today on
the first leg Of q return trip to
New York after investigating
Laotian charges Of aggression
from Communist North Wet
Nam.
Findings Of the committee
during its months study re-
manned secret. Shinichi Shibu-
sawa, Japanese chairman Of the
four-nation commission, said 1t
contains mo judgements" on
the Laotian trouble.
The, committee planned to
stop in Bangkok, then proceed
to Tokyo tomorrow. Mr.. Shibu-
sawa said the group will arrive
in New York october 20 and
make its report to the Security
Council several days later.
The committee left behind q
10-member secretariat to keep
an eye on the situation in the
small Southeast Asian country,
Japanese Minister Morio Aoki
heads the watchdog group.
Several members Of the mis-
sion said the Security Council
may find a way to send an OBJ
server team to Laos without
resorting to a new resolution
that would be subject to q
Soviet veto.
Along with Japan, the COM
mittee is composed Of repre-
sentatives Of Italy, Argentina
and Tunisia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
DAVID LAWRENCE
Against Compulsory Arbitration

dents board may strive ear
nestly this time to get the
parties TO separate the issues
into two categories--those
that could be resolved by fur
ther bargaining. and those
that require some outside
machinery Of arbitration to
be voluntarily set UP by
agreement now but with an
understanding that the rec
concentrations made would
be accepted when subsequent
ly completed. This is the key
to the whole problem.
The alternative to all this
is a dead-end street-Gov-
eminent control and compul-
sorry arbitration. Neither side
wants this. Indeed, both sides
do want a settlement, but the
trouble has been that each
side thinks the other wants
unconditional surrender.
Basic principles are at
stakes Wage rates are not
alone at issue. Should man
agement have the right to
manage? Once q working rule
is established, is it permanent
and never subject to change
in the interest Of efficiency?
The question turns on how
far the working-rule changes
would be applied. Here the
demand arises for techni-
clans. A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
process can devise an answer
to such questions by creating
a machinery for settlement
by experts.
DR.. Taylor is hopeful that
the board can find a way.
He says it is time for a new
approach and that 'inven-
tiveness" is needed as much
in the social sciences as in
the physical sciences. These
next few days will tax the in
genuity and versatility Of the
best minds in the field Of
voluntary arbitration. The
result could be that the 80
days under the Taft-Hartley
injunctions will not be wasted
this time but will be con-
Structively used to set up a
machinery for settlement by
the parties themselves.
(copyright, 1850
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
Head of Steel Strike F0ct-Finders
Seeks New Way to Modify Extremes

pute. You narrow down, by
collective bargaining, the
issues in disagreement. Then
you agree TO submit any re-
naming issues to arbitration.
IF you agree in advance to
compulsory arbitration, you
are committed to submit to
an outsider on any issues that
may come up sometime in the
future - regardless Of what
those issues are. or how im-'
portant they are. II you
agree in advance to arbitrate
on such a broad front. you
leave too many issues for the
arbitrators to decide. -.
II think compulsory arbi-
tration is terrible. I wouldn't
suggest 1t for a minute. If
you agree, in advance. to ar
bitrate whatever people can
strike about, you leave too
many issues for the arbitra-
tors to settle. There's no in
ducement for the parties to
reach agreement on many Of
the minor issues that Sepa-
rate them"
p. DR.. Taylor feels also that
the Taft-Hartley machinery
for handling big strikes sis
not adequate" and that the
procedures should serve the
same function as a strike
that is, get people to modify
their extreme positions"
This is a hint Of what may
happen this week. There is
reason to believe that the
White House shares DR.. Tay-
lor's views and that his ap.
pointment was made with the
very purpose Of trying a diff
ferent method than has been
used before. Heretofore, I'M
der the Taft-Hartley proceed
ures, the boards have been
appointed merely to find the
facts and report them, and
not to make recommended
lions on the merits Of the
dispute or on the machinery
for settling them.
While steering clear of
any recommendations on the
terms themselves, the Presi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
Administration Believed Reluctant
To Invoke Law Because of Effects

phrey is q major spokesman
Of this group and his White
House pipelines have never
been impaired by his return
to private life.
Labor Department observ-
ers are keeping their fingers
firmly crossed as the Taylor
board goes to work. They are
willing to illuminate the
shape Of its problem as they
see 1t.
Wages are described as a
less troublesome aspect, since
the two sides are really not
too far apart. The emotional
issue and the one freighted
with risk for Union President
Mcdonald is the revision In
established work practices
which management threw
into its demands last June.
On that date the Mcclellan
committee was still in seS-
sion and public disgust with
Teamster Hoffa and like bad
apples in the labor barrel was
running high. Apparently it
then seemed possible to the
management negotiators to
open up the Pandora's box of
the problems resulting from
the constant increase In all
United States manufacturing
by automation.
The union instantly took
fright. 1t saw hard-won gains
disappearing and the pros
pect Of worker dismissals in
quantity, even if a wage set
Element were reached. With
it's own case it felt, too, that
it had made progress in pub
lie opinion. The basis of that
case is the high profits Of the
steel industry.
They are a fact, whatever
the case for them, and they
received added publicity in
the mid-year steel dividend
announcements which virtu-
ally conceded with the new
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
DORIS FLEEsON
The Steel Strike and 7 uft-HurtIey

management demands for
greater plant efficiency. At
that point management put
Mr.. cDonald on the spot.
He is not one Of the strong
labor leaders Of the time
with a sentimental hold on
his people. He could be alb
solutely sure that any show
Of what might be called
weakness on his part would
mean rebellion in the ranks.
A further aspect Of the
management terms consti-
tutes tacit recognition that
this is true. This was man
agement'S insistence that the
new settlement include heavy
penalties for wildcat strikes.
One proposal was that the
worker must pay for every
day of a wildcat strike with a
day of his vacation.
None Of this had to be
spelled out for Mr.. Mcdonald.
He could expect a rash Of
wildcat strikes if he granted
the automation in spire d
changes in working condi-
tons. If the men then were
to be penalized for them by
losing vacation pay, Mr..
Mcdonald would be in for it.
This is the thorny part of
the Eisenhower boards prob
lem, not wages. It's success in
handling it will probably add
up to its ability to impose a
settlement on both sides.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
RALPH McGILL
HoIIowness of the Quiz Shows

nonetheieSs went on to win
as much In an evening as
many persons make in a year,
the scene confirm e d the
opinion Of millions in the
audience that education
doesn't really mean much.
AS the sordid confessions
are made, those who read the
news Of them cannot avoid q
certain number Of painful
winces. This is the more true
If the reader happened to be
one Of the millions who never
missed q quiz show.
Such q person now knows
that the creators Of it, in eff
feet. said to themselves:
There are millions of boobs
out there and we will make
them love it. We will fake
it so it can't fail to be humor-
Gus and sad, tear-jerking
and mirthful. We will make
our conniving contestants
dress their parts. We will
teach them the art of look
ing worried and thought
full :"
There is a great deal Of talk
today about the mass man
mass psychology and, God
help us all, of how to make
such a mass man react some
what in the manner of one Of
Ivan Pavlov's dogs.
I keep remembering a con-
versation with Carl Sandburg.
Time" he said, "is the
coin of your life. It is the
only coin you have and only
you can determine how it will
be spent. Be careful lest you
let other people spend it for
you"
Those who faxed the quiz
shows spent a lot Of it for a
great many million Ameri-
cans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
RALPH McGILL
Pooling of the TeIevision Viewers
Called a Melancholy Business

Madison Avenue" is a
phrase which is now a part
Of the vernacular. Freely
translated, it describes a
smooth, slick, shoddiness
dressed up in a gray flannel
suit, merchandise" to a
public short on genuine
values.
THE Hucksters," and
books of similar content
which have followed. have
caused a public wincing and
some eloquent disclaimers.
But, the news stories of
the Congressional investiga-
ton into the now defunct
televiSion quiz shows before
the committee have revealed
the phrase Madison Ave-
nue." to be only too true in
solar as it is there exposed.
What we have on display
in Washington is a lesson
in the anatomy of a fraud.
The artificially fearful con-
testants, supplied with the
answers, but coached in the
histrionicS Of trepidation; the
contestant asked to dress in
an ill-f1tting suit so as to
appeal to the national audi
ence as a "beat-up GIL" and
the whole shabby business Of
trickery and deceit, was
created by agency men," or,
to use the phrase, by ''Madi-
son Avenue" The conniving
contestants sweated in the
isolation booths because the
booths were designed to
make him or her sweat. The
contestants without person.
atty seemingly were knocked
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
POTOMAC FEVER
BY FLETCHER KNEBEL

One thing about Charles Van Doren the $4,000 TV
quiz winner. You don't catch him writing his Congressman
about personal problems
Official hint that the size Of foreign aid program
being CUT Ike gives Mexco President Mateos compact
Kentuckys Gov. Happy Chandler announces for Pres
dent He's in a good strategic position After all,
doesn't have to waste time consolidating his strength when
he starts out with VOTE
Final word of the day: Tv quiz programs? Out Of the
question
Now that the Republican party has outlined its goals for
1876 you breathe sigh Of relief that Of prob
lens will be snatched from you prematrely.
CALIFORNIA; Gov. Brown and Texas Lyndon johnson
deny they're running President There's confusion
whether the nomination supposed to go to the who
takes delegaeor puts out the most disclaimers
TV quzmaster protesting to school principal: 'They
framed my kid the He had to make up his own
answers"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
CONSTANTINE BROWN
The Case of 10y Henderson

bassador, has been in the
service for 40 years. He first
got into trouble in 1899 when
at the request Of Secretary
Hull he wrote an "eyes only"
memorandum opposing the
Soviet request to purchase a
battleship from this coun-
try. Ambassador Konstantin
Oumansky got wind Of that
document. He invited Mr..
Henderson to lunch and told
him that If he played along
with the Soviet Union he
could become ambassador to
Moscow in a short time. But
If he antagonized the Krem-
lin, as he did in the memo
to Mr.. Hull, his future would
remain very uncertain in
deed.
BY a strange coincidence
Mr.. Hull decided within a
few weeks to rush Mr.. Hen
derson to a faraway post in
Iraq, with the terse explana-
ton that he knew what was
best for him.
Mr.. Henderson served sew
eral terms in Moscow and
was the trusted deputy chief
of mission Of Admiral Will
liam STANDBY, our ambas-
sador to the Soviet Union in
the early part of World War
II. Admiral STANDBY talked
tough to Molotov and Stain
and eventually was recalled
"for reasons of health" Mr..
Henderson's facility with the
Russian language easily
matched that of his former
subordinate in Moscow and
Washington, Chip" Bohlen.
But nobody in the newspaper
fraternity praised Mr.. Hen
derSon's diplomatic skill be-
cause "he speaks Russian"
or for other reasons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13

The crisis brought on by
the steel strike Is based on a.
paradox. 1t Is not simply
that the two parties cannot
agree on terms. Negotiations
have broken down largely
because the parties have not
been able to agree on a ma
chinery or method for find-
ing out how to draft the
terms that would be accept
able to both sides.
That's why there is some
hope in the so-called fact
finding" board appointed by
President Eisenhower. which
now is in session. For, oddly
enough, the three expert
enced men appointed to that
board will concern them
selves not so much with find
ing facts as with devising a
machinery Of settlement.
There is nothing in the law
to prohibit this unpreced-
ented approach.
DR.. George Taylor, chair
man Of the Presidents board.
who teaches at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, began
arbitrating contract grew
ances as far back as 1928
and has since served as i'm
partial umpire for many
companies and unions. He
was chairman of the Ma
tional War Labor Board in
1945. He brings to the prob
lem some constructive sug-
gestions. His theory is that
compulsory arbitration is un-
desirable but that voluntary
arbitration Is imperative. He
describes. the difference in a
copyrighted interview, pub
lished this week in ~. s.
News & World Report" The
interview occurred before he
was told that he had been
selected by the White House
to head the board that will
investigate the steel strike.
He said:
voluntary arbitration al
ways remains in the control
Of the two parties in a dis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
Girl Finds Market
For Struy Kittens

ST. LOUIS (AP).-Rosharon
Merlin, 10, had little trouble
finding homes for three stray
kittens.
She took them to a depart
ment store and showed them to
everyone who would listen to
her adoption plea.
She disposed of the three
kittens In two hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13
DORIS FLEEsON

The best proof Of admins
tration reluctance to invoke
the Taft Hartley act to halt
the steel strike is in its selec-
ton Of a frank critic of that
legislation as head of the
three-man board now trying
to achieve a voluntary settle
ment Of the dispNte.
Chairman George w. Tay-
Tor, with his two colleagues
asserting, has indicated his
belief that a TIL 80-day
court order would settle Moth
ing and probably in the end
prolong the strike. Certain
ly, it would result in a peak
of bitterness during the
Christmas season while re-
newal of the struggle would
coincide with the return of a
Congress bound to be highly
critical of the proceedings.
Some economic aspects of
the TIL methods are scarcely
more attractive to the politi-
clans who may be called to
account for them, but it is
possible to hope they might
not materialize. Labor Sec
rotary Mitchell has, however,
warned the White House that
the Mcdonald leadership of
the union cannot give up on
terms now offered by man
agement and hope to remain
in power. The political cost
therefore Of a continuing
steel dispute will have to be
paid by the administration
unless there is a real settle
ment.
1t is said here that pres
sure on the President came
not so much from steel fabri-
Gators who still have a sub
stantial inventory as it did
from the iron-ore shippers
whose Far North mines are
at the mercy Of winter ice on
the Great Lakes and the st.
Lawrence Seaway. Former
Treasury Secretary Hum
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13

off quickly with questions
selected as unlikely to be
answerable.
It is a melancholy business,
and it is the more so because
it is a reflection on all Of us
and on our national char
acter, or society. We are made
to see that Madison ave-
nue." held the American audi
ence in contempt and was,
because Of this contempt,
willing to delude and titilate
its m e m bers with faxed
contestants and fraudulent
emotions.
Unhappily, we deserve it.
every little cheap, cheating
item Of it,. That so many
millions hung on the results
Of the quizzes, in which
sterile parrot knowledge was
put to artificial use, was a
commentary on our public
values. The quizzes revealed
our deep psychological lust
for material things" and
greatly stirred the wish, If
not for easy money, then for
an isolation booth in which
to find it.
If a man or woman could
memorize the pages Of the
Britannica or World Almanac
he or she could win a fortune
in a few weeks. This would
mock the person who had
spent long years in class
rooms and was applying that
learning in a profession or a
job. The quiz shows had the
effect Of cheapening educa-
tion. When a contestant
showed up who said he had
had no formal schooling, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-13

singing in night clubs in Canada
and the United States for three
years. After her marriage, she
says, she'll confine her night
club work to occasional appear
ances for charity. And she's
going to join the church choir.