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Impact on Economy

The Government, on the other
hand. cited the growing impact
of the strike on the national econ
omy and wellbeing in its plea for
an injunction. Mr.. Doub got an
assist from Mr.. Eisenhower. AS
the Assistant Attorney General
was carrying on in the courtroom,
the President issued a statement
at his Augusta vacation head
quarters, which began:
obviously, the steel strike
threatens to imperil the national
health or safety"
The President said that short
ages of steel were delaying missile
and space vehicle production and
test facilities for both programs;
that steel supplies are nearing
the exhaustion point; that $780,
900 persons in industries depend
ent on steel have been made idle
along with the 100000 steelwork-
ers; that by the end of December
the strike alone would account for
million persons out of work.
Reporters in Augusta asked
James C. Hagerty, White House
press secretary, whether the Pres
ident's statement might not seem
unusual or irregular inasmuch as
the Circuit Court was studying
the matter. Mr.. Hagerty said the
President had not been informed
at that time that the Circuit Court
had granted stay of the lower
court order.
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AT the II. NJ:
Arms Plan

Peaceful co-existence got a
boost last week in the General
Assembly of the United Nations
when the United States and the
Soviet Union got together for
informal talks on a mutually &C
ceptable plan for disarmament
procedure.
In the opening debates in the
Political Committee on the sweep
ing disarmament program pro-
posed last month by Mr.. Khru-
shchev, there was some sharp
pickering over the priority of the
controls to be provided over arms
reductions. The Soviet delegate.
Vastly v. Kuznetsov, and other
Communist-bloc speakers called
for disarmament first. with con-
trolls coming into effect as arms
cuts were made The Western
bloc contended that controls
should be established before any
actual reductions in arms were
made.
But the concern with forensics
disappeared with the full realiza-
ton that any actual progress
toward disarmament would be
made not at the U. N. this ses-
sion, but rather at the donation
special disarmament commission
created at the Geneva foreign
ministers conference last sum-
mer.
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Review by Congress

Congress will review the Won
Braun team switch to NASA early
next year. Under the Reorganiza-
ton Act, it has go days within
which it may, by vote Of either
house. block the plan. Although
committees in the House and Sem
ate are planning to scrutinize it,
neither chamber is expected to
diSapprove.
The Eisenhower announcement,
following a White House meeting
of Defense, NASA, budget and
scientific officials on Wednesday
morning, came less than a day
after Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris,
head of the ATmy's missile COM
mand, announced he would retire
as of January 81.
The 57-year-old general took
pains to deny assertions that he
was quitting active service because
of a disenchantment with Govern
ment space efforts and the indie
cision and confusion generally
ascribed to it.
But it is no secret that he has
not been happy with the slashes
made by the administration in
the Army's request for the fund
ing of Saturn and the uncertainty
which had been hanging over the
heads of the Won Braun group, a
part of his command.
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THE WEEK IN PERSPECTIVE
Steel: Mounting Pressure

willing to commit its resources to
the race with Russia.
Shall we go our own way, as
sessing our progress in terms Of
our own ideas Of orderly progress,
and ignore the competition?" he
asked.
"Or shall we as a Nation de-
termine not to be surpassed in
any phase Of this battle for mems
minds and hearts, and bend our
backs to the task of overtaking
and passing a tough competitor"
He has made up his mind. He
obviously feels that Congress and
the President should make up
theirs.
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TeIevision:
Torment

The torment which has en-
quilted Charles Van Doren, most
famous of television's big-money
quiz winners, since the disclosure
Of the sordid story of rugged pro-
grams. never was palmer than it
was last week.
The 33-year-old member of the
noted literary family has publicly
denied he received any coaching,
as other contestants have ad-
mitted getting. in running up win
nings of $4,000 on the now-de-
funct Twenty-One show in 1867.
He made his denial in a tele-
gram to the House Subcommittee
on Legislative Oversight, which
has been looking into charges of
fixed" TV programs. The sub
committee invited him to testify,
but he did not reply. A subpoena
was issued, but he could not be
found for several days.
When he finally accepted serv-
ice for a Capitol Hill appearance
on November 2, he explained he had
taken a brief leave from his teach
ing job at Columbia University to
go to New England to catch the
beauty of the countryside and
think things out.
Meanwhile, he had been sus-
pended, with pay. from his $780,
000-a-year post as a consultant
to the National Broadcasting Co.,
pending the outcome of subcom-
mittee hearings.
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Mutual Support

In return, the aging but astute
German Chancellor has been able
to count on Gen. de Gaulle's sup
port for Germany's aspirations.
And it has been no secret that
the Bonn government has taken
a dubious view of the consequences
for German unification of a
detente between the Soviet Union
and the West. Any real agree
ment. the Germans predict, that
would effectively end the cold
war would also inevitably signal
Western acceptance of the status
quo in central Europe.
To the United States and
Britain, the French position on
the summit timing is at the very
least embarrassing. Mr.. Eisen-
hover on Thursday remarked in
response to a question that he
could not conceive" of a summit
conference without the participa-
ton of France. Neither Washing
ton nor London is likely to resort
to pressure tactics of any kind to
bring the self-willed Gen. de
Gaulle into line. Yet neither
wants the national, or even the
continental, aspirations of France
to wreck the best prospect for an
end to the cold war that has yet
appeared.
AS the week ended, there
seemed to be only one certainty
in the confused international pic
ture. Within few weeks at most,
there will be a Western summit"
probably in Paris, to shape
Western policy. Mr.. Adenauer will
participate. and with Gen. de
Gaulle may be able to bring
powerful resistance to bear against
British and American efforts to
expedite a meeting with Mr..
Khrushchev.
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into the Vests almost completed
program for a summit conference
with Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
The summit, said the French
government, should be held not
earlier than next spring after
"leiSurely" preparation of the
Vests position in pre- summit
meetings in Paris.
Although many Western diplo-
mats had been prepared for some
De Gaulle tactics designed to
qualify or condition the Vests
approach to the summit, few had
expected him to take SO abrupt
course. Adroitly, the general
linked his governments pro-
nouncement for delay of the sum-
init with the disclosure that Mr..
Khrushchev had accepted an in
vitation to visit Paris late this
year or early in 1860.
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market" and similar significant
moves toward a united Western
Europe.
The French President has made
no secret of his dissatisfaction with
the existing status of the West
ern alliance. In the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization, for example,
he has withdrawn French naval
forces from NATO command, re-
fused to allow nuclear weapons
stockpiling on French soil unless
under French control, and consist
emily sought a louder voice. and
a larger role for France in the
determination of NATO policy.
In all this he has had the support
of Mr.. Adenauer.
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Soviet Success Key

This is the background which
must be kept in mind every time
the Russians score spectacularly
in space. Their powerful booster
has been the key to their success.
Their 10-year lead is not to be
erased in a couple years o. less
than about effort by the United
States.
And so it seems clear that we
have to look forward to second
place at least until the time we
have the booster which may give
us parity, or perhaps an edge.
This is the Saturn, a cluster OF
eight improved Rocketdyne en-
gines of 10000 pounds thrust
each, for total of about is mil
lion. At it's present pace of de-
velopment it is probably three
years away.
Every time the Russians have
jolted us with a space success
there has been an anguished public
cutlery. The administrations reply
has been that we are not in a race
with the Reds. 1t has stepped up
expenditures moderately in this
field and has leaned heavily on
the bureaucratic strategem of re-
organizing old agencies or Gre
ating new ones.
Last week, in the wake Of the
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Defense:
Shifts

Shortly after World War II.
the Soviet Union launched an
ambitious rocketry program aimed
at producing a booster engine
capable of delivering a large nu-
clear warhead at intercontinental
distances.
BY the time they achieved this,
the state of the art in nuclear
weaponry, including the advent
of hydrogen explosives, allowed
the packaging Of increasing
amounts of power in decreasing
sizes of warheads. Thus, they
had an excess of thrust for mis-
sile use.
The United States did not show
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Soviet feat Of hitting the moon
and sending a satellite around its
far side for the first time, Presi-
dent Eisenhower announced that
he was shifting the Army's Bal
listic Missile Agency team of
German-Americans, headed by the
celebrated DR.. Wernher Won Braun.
to the civilian National Aeronau-
tics and Space Administration.
With the Won Braun group goes
the Saturn project. NASA already
has a big booster program. the
Nova, designed to produce single
engine of is million pounds thrust
by the mid-1960S,
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THE FOREIGN SCENE
Summit Outlook:
AMotter of TIMING

what prince mould said the oberuan Prince Ncoo
Machdueu, "he must first learn to praise"
President Gaule pesonihaton OF the Of Lorraine
whose pattern for the restoration Of the glory Of France includes
mardom at the stake but does the
Of Joan Of Arc has praised the summit conference And his praise
qualified by his reservations to timing has in the past week
to be potentially the most effective opposition the best
Machiavelian tradition
The austere general, President Fifth Republic
calmly convinced his role of Frances deerer he
the dark DAYS
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Drafts Circulated

Last weeks corridor and dele
gates lounge negotiations were
over the text of a resolution on
disarmament that would be agreed
to by the entire General Assembly.
Various drafts were circulated
among other delegations for sug-
gestions and amendments.
Yesterday it was disclosed that
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Soviets' Position

Moscow, taking quick cognl-
zance of the De Gaulle hurdle, an
nounced in Tass statement on
Friday that the earlier a summit
meeting is called, the better it
will be for the cause of peace"
The Soviet statement did not men,
ton Gen. de Gaulle. But it did
stress that the Soviet position was
in agreement with the views ex-
pressed by the other States as
well" on the advisability, even the
urgency, of an early meeting. THE
solution of urgent problems with
a view to relaxing international
tensions can and must be achieved
by the heads of government" the
Kremlin'S statement observed.
Speculation among diplomats
and close observers as to the
reason for Gen. de Gaulle'S delay
ing tactics centered for the most
part on the imminence of the
French entry into the worlds
"Nuclear Club" At a remote test
center deep in the Sahara, French
scientists and technicians have
been pushing for the past two
years a "crash" program to ex-
plode the first French nuclear
bomb. Reliable sources have re-
ported that West German SCENT
lists and military men are sharing
in the French development and
have predicted that within weeks
or at most months, the world will
be jolted by the announcement OF
not one but two nuclear powers in
the world arms race.
Gen. de Gaulle and West Ger
man Chancellor Adenauer have
been assiduouSly co-ordinating
their policies since the de Gaulle
return to power in France in May,
1858. Both convinced that the fu-
ture of Western Europe lies in
common effort, they have en-
couraged such unifying programs
as the European Economic Com
munity, the so-called common
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a real interest In hallistic missile,

a real interest in ballistic missiles
until 1884. After all, the
United States Air Force, which
dominated the military budget
and defense policy, had the
Strategic Air Command and its
invincible bombers. In 1855, this
country began its first true space
exploration program, but really
large booster engines were not a
part of it.
On October 4, 1857, the Rus
slams jolted the free world by
sending aloft Sputnik I, history's
first earth satellite. They did
this with a booster engine rated
at between 100000 and 100000
pounds thrust. Our biggest en-
CINE remains the 300,OO0-pound-
thrust booster of the Atlas ICBM.
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Surprise Legal Move

The steelworkers had given
ample warning. They would fight.
they said, any Government effort
to dissolve their strike by court
Injunction with all legal means
available. And so it was no sur
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A New Chapter

On Friday, new chapter in the
Van Doren story was unfolded.
He and his lawyer called on Dis
trict Attorney Frank S. Hogan in
New York. Mr. Hogan told re-
porters afterward that the quiz
whiz last year made a state
ment (which he now acknowl-
edges was not correct"
The district attorney said the
1858 statement was made to one
of his assistants prior to Mr.. Van
Doren's testimony before a grand
jury investigating the alleged
rugged programs. Mr.. Hogan
would not say whether Mr.. Van
Doren admitted receiving ques-
tons or answers or both on the
quiz show because, he said, the
matter was before congressional
committee.
Mr.. Van Doren, who looked
shaken when he emerged from
the meeting, declined to talk with
reporters. Later, however, he was
quoted as saying: 81 have not
said I gave false answers"
The district attorney was SYM
pathetic. He's been through a
narrowing experience :" he
said. Since this happened he's
had a mental struggle"
Details of this struggle prob
ably will be disclosed when Mr..
Van Doren takes the stand in a
public session of the House SUBJ
committee a week from Wednes-
day.
Mr.. Hogan also disclosed that
Hank Bloomgarden, $98, 500 win
ner on Twenty-One, came in VOL
UNFAIRLY to see him and, like, Mr..
Van Doren, had made "substan-
tial" changes in earlier state
ments to the district attorneys
Office. He said he expected
parade of former contestants to
follow suit.
Whether these contestants will
be brought back before another
grand jury, Mr.. Hogan said he
could not tell at this time.
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New CHS Actions

Meanwhile, the Columbia Broad
casting System, which last week
announced it was dropping its big
prize quis programs rather than
attempt to police them, said it was
going further in its housekeeping.
According to President Frank
Stanton, CHS is planning to take
steps to end such program deceitS
as canned applause and laughter
and indicate when an "unre-
hearsed" program actually has
been rehearSed. In this latter
category he mentioned Person to
Person." on which Edward R.
Murrow starred until he took his
recent sabbatical. The producers
of the show, which is owned by
CHS, promptly said they were
quitting because of the Stanton
"slur."
One of the big questions in the
wake of the TV "f1x" disclosures
has been what role, if any, should
the Government play in barring
such practices. John C. Doerfer,
chairman of the Federal Commu-
nications Commission, has said
that the FEC has no authority to
act.
Last week FEC Commissioner
Robert E. Lee took the position
that the agency had ample prece-
dent in Federal law to enable it
to deal with dishonest programs.
One way, he said, would be to
require broadcasting licensees to
announce at the beginning Of a
program "the context Of the pro-
gram"
President Eisenhower MADE Rp
first comment on the scandals at
an Augusta news conference. He
said he had never seen a TV
quiz show, but when he heard
of the rigging Of shows he asked
Attorney General William Rogers
to study the situation. He added,
however, that he did not antici-
pate executive branch action.
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Race With Russia?

Gen. Medaris told reporters that
the real question for America con-
Germs the extent to which it is
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West Confused

If the intention of the general
was to create some confusion in
Western capitals. he succeeded ad-
mirably. President Eisenhower,
plainly disconnected, reiterated his
belief that summit conference
ought to be held before the end
OF the year. 6. time is slipping
by, the longer we postpone a sum-
init meeting :" Mr.. Eisenhower
told a press conference Thursday
at Augusta. where he is sojourn-
ing for golf vacation. But the
President, despite his earnestly
spoken conviction that sooner was
better than later, left no doubt
that he was not inclined to dis
pute the French Presidents pref
erences.
In London, the Macmillan gov
eminent let it be known that it
considered the Paris position
alarming" To postpone the sum-
NIT meeting until spring, White
hall officials observed, would be to
risk losing the momentum already
achieved by the visit of Mr.. Khru-
shchev to the United States. In
addition. British diplomats pointed
out. the nearer Mr.. Eisenhower
comes to the end of his term of
office. the less will be his influence
in international affairs.
On one aspect of the prepara-
lions for a top-level East-West
meeting, all parties in the Western
alliance seemed agreed. That was
the necessity for a pre-summit
conference, attended by the United
States. Britain, France and West
Germany, to coordinate policy,
strategy and tactics. In the words
Of Mr.. Eisenhower on Thursday,
such a meeting was essential
otherwise (the summit) would
be lust a DOnnybrook."
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-04-03
Rights Crusade
Continued from page |

told about in indicates that ma
iority Of the committee is Sinking
its responsibility to Virginia by sug-
costing local option as solution
to the school issue Will this not dis
play the white flag of surrender
while they shift their burden of re-
sponsibility upon the localities?"
Silverman asked 'Such a local
option plan would destroy Virginia's
strength in unity he charged, call
ing such a plan whistling in the
dark.
Governor Absent
Governor Almond was not pres
ent. He had notified the Crusade
leaders that busy schedule would
not permit him to leave his office
for the rally.
Silverman made note of the fact
that Governor Almond was not
present.
I'VE wanted our Governor here
with us this afternoon. For what we
have to say about him. we want to
say to him. Not in disrespect, for
VlrginianS are never disrespectful
of their Governor. We are not dis
respectful when we say he has
disappointed and failed his people
in the time of this great crisis. To
us this is fact" Silverman stated.
Silverman further stated that
His voice no longer rings out
agai nst Federal tyranny, and
it appears that he wishes this
legislative body to surrender and
submit to the ruthless might Of
Washington.
Representative Group
The Bill Of Rights Crusade at
tracted people from all over Vir-
ginia. The majority Of those present
probably were from Southside Vir-
ginia. but large delegations at
tended from every other section of
the state. e. Benton Conner, of
Waynesboro, was state chairman of
the Crusade and he welcomed the
group. as they assembled on the
Capitol grounds.
The crowd was estimated slightly
larger than the crowd that as
sembled for the Inauguration Of
Governor Almond.
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Mrs. Haden Anderson and son.
Howard, visited her family in TRAY
ellers Rest, S. e., for several days.
Miss Virginia Tindall. of Airing
ton, Major and Mrs. L. R. Hundley.
of Lexington, Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Duncan and children, Bill and
Jimmy, of Richmond. spent the
Easter holidays with Mrs. J. B..
Tindall at Hatton
Mrs r. w. Jordan. Jr., and
daughter. Sally, Of Richmond. spent
the week end with Mr. and Mrs
Randolph Phillips and Mrs. Helen
Pitts at Belle Haven
Mi and MIS- Donald Carroll had
MI. and Mrs. Herman Carroll and
Mrs Harvard Smith. OF Arlington.
here for the Easter week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Browning
spent several days last week in
Newport News with their son and
daughter Mr.. and Mrs. Phil
lip Browning.
Mr. and Mrs Thomas Burruss
and children, Kay and Marshall, Of
Charlottesville, and Miss Clare
Marie Whitfield, Of Richmond, spent
the week end with Mr.. and Mrs
G. a. Whitfield at Warren.
Mrs. James Conis and daughter.
Malora, Of Charlottesville. and
Billy Mason, of Hampden-Sy
College, spent the week end with
Mr. and Mrs. w. G. Mason.
Mrs. D. c. Lichliter, of Winches-
ter, is spending some time with her
brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and
Mrs r. e. Paulett NJ. Lichliter,
Of Winchester, and Miss Anne Pau
lett. Of Richmond. spent the week
end with the Pauletts.
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The 1857 independent fnoE-Bell y
telephone companies of America, of
which the local telephone company
is one, and which serve Il 900 com
munitieS and more than half Of the
service area Of the country. now
operate l0.l84 600 of the Sc, 9i3 800
telephones in the United States. its
territories and possessions. and
have total plant investment Of
S3.077 076. 800.
According to James Mahan, local
manager of the Virginia Telephone
and Telegraph Company. figures re-
leased by the United States indie
pendent Telephone Association re-
fleet the continuing growth and
progress Of the industry, which has
been expanding at an accelerated
pace during the past 3 years to
meet the unprecedented demands
for telephone service occasioned BY
population growth. increased usage.
and a prosperous economy While
the countiys population increased
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-04-03
Delegate Irby
Continued from page /,


Irby said he intends to continue to
fight for states rights and a return
to constitutional government. which
he said. has been taken from us by
the Supreme Court.
Son of Methodist Minister, born
in Lunenburg County but coming
to NottoWay when he was three, he
is a graduate Of the College Of
William and Mary. Following a two
year stint as principal Of Pittsyl-
vania County High School, he en-
tered the insurance business. In
1881 he took over the w. E. Hurt
Insurance Agency in Blackstone.
now the L. H. Irby Insurance
Agency.
Mr.. Irby is former Blackstone
town councilman, having served
four terms before moving to hi S
country home He is a past presi-
dent Of the Blackstone Rotary Club
and is a member Of the Fourth Dis
trict and Nottoway County Demo
cratic Committees. He is also a
member Of Crenshaw Methodist
Church at Blackstone
Delegate Irby is married to the
former Mary Hurt, of Blackstone
T ey have two children, Mrs.
James Kitchen and a son, Joseph
NH. Irby. who is associated with
his father in the insurance bust
ness.