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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-01-22

pen to the public
The meeting was open Wide
open as ever 300 Interested citi-
zens damned into the courtroom to
express their opinions A handful,
estimated as LESS than Is o.
posed the sale of the building, in the
final showdown vote.
he sch2ol bard went into ex-
ecurive session and shortly at
Il ON. gave olt tvpeWrltte-r
statement that they would rot off
the building for sale. pointing OF
that there is procedure where's
the voters may require and approx
such a sale"
eThat is the background Of the
public meeting Monday nigh. ia.
airy 49,. The pictures on this pag
were selected to capture so~1N XVI
the expressions at the reeting1
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-01-22

regular H. from
and asked the
school would Farmve High School building
surplus and offer it for sale.
until midnight school board
adjourned declaring wished
designated Monday night JAN 10 as te ngh
consider said the meeting
would probably be public session
Evening star., 1960-05-08

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looking for. The DOL
GIN formula is pre-
Scribed by many doc
tors. . used in scores of
hospitals. Get a bottle
of DoLCIN@ tablets at
your drug store today!
Evening star., 1960-05-08
NAVY PHOTOS

UNDAY. THE STAR MAGAZINE WASHINGTON. c. 1860
Evening star., 1960-05-08
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MUSCULAR
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Evening star., 1960-07-10

a First Lady who is inter-
ested in fashion. 1t makes
America conscious of Ameri-
can designers. Half the Won
der Of our whole democratic
system is that you, too, can
wear the same dress as the,
First Lady.
Il don't, believe the First
Lady has to have originals.
Besides designers could not
afford to cut just one dress
alone. Nobody prints only
material enough for one dress.
That concept went out with
the Middle Ages. I believe
that If a woman wears clothes
well and is well-groomed,
what she paid for a dress
doesn't matter. Before Mrs.
Eisenhower there was little
real fashion interest out of
the White House. ed. note:
Dolly Madison cut many a
fashion caper in the White
HouseO Anyway. the gar
ment industry is much more
grown up than just wanting
a fashion plate in the White
House. We care much more
to get the right President in"
PAULINE TRIGERE -
Definitely the White House
is a showcase for American
Evening star., 1960-07-10
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wives certainly play up the
finest designers of their coun-
tries. We should put our best
foot forward. I am opposed
to any form of subsidy. No
free wardrobes, no discounts,
from the fashion industry.
The First Lady should pay
for her clothes like every
other citizen. 1t would be nice
to have her see a special
showing of the new offerings
of designers each season. She
could then make a selection
and have a we'll balanced
wardrobe composed by spe-
cialistS in their particular
fashion spheres.
"Out of courtesy I would
hold back the fabric until
the First Lady had a chance
to wear her dress first. 1t
might help if her wardrobe
were planned in advance with
competent help. What the
First Lady wears should not
be such a great secret. 1t
might clue guests as to what
they ought to wear. I wish
for the future First Lady,
unless she has a distinct
fashion personality like Jackie
Kennedy, the best chamber
maid to be found"
Evening star., 1960-07-10

venson could make her his
official hostess.
The Star has polled a
number of the country's
leading fashion personalities
regarding the role they feel
American fashion should play
in the White House.
Do they feel the First Lady
ought to be a style pace
setter? Should she reflect
the best that our many de-
signers create in various price
ranges? Should it be an
"All American" wardrobe?
Would a White House cou-
turier similar to Norman
Hartnell, who designs by
Appointment to the Queen"
be the answer to the creation
of originals and not dresses
that can show up at a recep-
ton worn by the First Lady
as well as one of her guests?
Should the First Lady's ward
robe be included in the White
House budget since so many
Of the expensive ballgowns
are worn for official State
entertaining?
Here are some of their
answers:
CHARLES JAMES-"The
presidential Office was not
invented in Gen. Washing
tons time to promote the
garment center. I don't see
it as a fashion position.
America has an untapped,
unlimited source of couture
talent. But you must dis
tinguiSh it from commercial
design. There is no Ameri-
can couture. It's been mur-
dered by commercialism."
SALLY VICTOR IF a
woman is smart enough to
be the First Lady. she's smart
enough to be selective in her
clothes. I don't think a First
Lady needs a secretary of
the wardrobe It's up to the
American fashion industry to
provide the interest.
Its difficult for the First
Lady to get out and shop
normally as other women do.
I don't believe we'll ever have
a First Lady who won't fur
ther the aims of American
fashion. I believe the first
thing the Presidents wife
should be is charming. The
fashion role is minor.
Would I like to design
Evening star., 1960-07-10
FASHION NOTEBOOK
/ Is the White House q Fashion Display Case?

hats for the new First Lady?
I hope to retain Mrs. Eisen-
hover but it's always inter-
esting to gain a new Gus
toner"
OLEG CASSINI-"A de-
signer who has an in at the
White House has it made.
Obviously the First Lady
can't buy from everybody.
There ought to be a reward
for originality, however, and
I don't feel that Mrs. Eli
senhower really encouraged
any American designers
other than the ones she used
constantly during the past
eight years. She has a right
to her personal preference,
but the responsibility of her
position obligateS her to take
the different designers offer
ings. to help and recognize
true creators of fashion. 1t
would be obnoxious to Spon-
sor a foreign designer when
there are American sources
available.
MY idea of an ideal First
Lady of fashion would be one
who was refreshingly chic, a
woman who possesses imagi-
. nation. one who could en-
courage designers by taking
a chance and launching
something new but doing this
always in good taste. The
First Lady should have some
one competent to simplify
the clothes question for her
very varied life in the White
House. 1t would depend on
her age and her ability to
wear clothes whether the
First Lady would qualify as a
pace-setter or be the epi-
tome of elegance and refine
ment."
ARNOLD SCAASI-"The
Presidents wife is the fore
most lady in America. She's
the most seen, most photo
graphed and is always in
the news. The White House
is a terribly important show
case. I naturally feel Amer
lean designers ought to star
there.
Events shape her fashion
policy. Designers of quality
clothes are in a better posi-
ton to be advocates Of good
taste rather than manufac-
turerS in America who tend
to be copyiSts. Fashion
should never dominate the
First Lady but should be a
we'll -thought-out part of her
whole life in the White
House. I believe a subsidy
would make the designers
lot easier.
THE First Lady's wardrobe
should be of the best quality
and created by people who
specialize in either suits,
dresses, coats or ball gowns.
The Queen of England
wouldn't have a ready-made
dress.
MOLLIE PARNIS-"It's
good for our industry to have
Evening star., 1960-07-10

fashion. not because of the
lady who is there or will be
there but because of the dig
nifty of the position. A wom-
an should certainly prepare
a special wardrobe for her
life in the White House. I've
Evening star., 1960-07-10

never been there, but GER
tainly the social demands of
entertaining for foreign heads
of state, greeting groups from
all over the United States,
being photographed constant
ly, would have to be consid-
cred.
Foreign Ambassadors
Evening star., 1960-07-10


lace sheath evening gown for
the First Lady to wear to the
dinner honoring President de
Gaulle, headlines heralding
the switch in silhouette from
full to narrow were on wom-
ems pages throughout the
land.
The public's fascination
with the First Lady's fashion
preferences finds reporters
scurrying to find out her
wardrobe plans. Male re-
porters give the nod to their
female colleagues, and fire.
quently run to them for
help in describing that
thing on her head" When
news of what Mamie would
wear to the second inaugural
ball was ready to be an
nounced at the White House,
the reporters were closeted
in a guarded room.
The breathleSS one who
won the 50-yard dash to the
phone after the reporters
were let out. gave her Office
the word. 1t was: "Mamie's
wearing a yellow satin, Nettie
Rosenstein ball gown"
Many designers have OPEN
ly stated that they wished
they, too, could have enjoyed
the publicity attendant in
dressing the First Lady.
They are all agreed Amer
lean fashion never had it
so good.
High Hopes
They view the new admin
istration with high hopes.
Whoever the new First
Lady will be, they hope she
will continue to use the
White House as a display
case for the design talents
of the people who make up
our country's second largest
industry.
Who will it be? The young
sophisticate, Jackie Kennedy
who loves to buy elegant
French clothes as well as
those Made In American"
Soignee Mrs. Stuart Syming-
ton? Neiman-MarcuS fash
ion devotee. Mrs. Lyndon
Johnson? The quietly chic
and always well-groomed
Mrs. Richard Nixon? Or
perhaps it might even be
Mrs. Ernest Ives whose un-
married brother, Adlai Ste
Evening star., 1960-07-10
BY ELEM
Star Fashion Writer

A lot of women in our land
may not be aware who the
Secretary of State is, but
they sure do know that
Mamie Eisenhower's milliner
is Sally Victor. Her suits
and dresses by Mollie Parnis
and inaugural ball gowns by
Nettie Rosenstein have also
gotten their fair share of
press coverage.
When newcomer to the de-
signing team, Arnold Scaasi.
designed the formal white
G.. b;sku.a. -. D..
Evening star., 1960-07-10

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See Pictures on Pose G-2
Evening star., 1960-05-01
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Evening star., 1960-09-11


LOckheed was watching the process by which denti-
6catiOn badges were put together. They had metal
back against which white piece of paper was placed
bearing the employees number written with black
grease pencil. Over the paper went cellophane
cover, and metal rim was then crimped down.
What caught the agents attention sUGs that the
force Of the press sometimes transferred particles
Of pigment from the penciIed numbers to the
celIOphGne He picked up a badge resembling the
one found on the robbers jacket Suddenly he
'O0s wondering If the pOsCeuul press might make
On invisible chemical transfer of the original
numbers to the ceLIophane.
The badge from the Abelar garage had been mailed
to Washington. Nova teletype was sent requesting
that the cellophane cover be given a thorough
examination. On September IA teletype message
came back. Ultraviolet light had brought up num-
bers! They 7s07sS, and LOckheed quickly ident-
fed them as having been issued to Mitchell Beck
with, who had worked there from January %, l945
until April "a. The cold trail was suddenly red hot
Beckwith's file gave the name of Travis Slidel
as the man to notify in case of emergency, and
SEdell had also worked at the plant Both were dis
charged Air Force veterans = Beckwith for psy-
choneurotic disability, Slidell for foot injury.
Employee photographs we're produced. The bank
messengers said they looked like the hoIdup men.
The garage owner picked Beckwith's picture as the
soldier who had rented her garage.
The men had given the same home address =
l0o4O Ophr Drive in Los Angeles. Surprisingly
enough, this turned out to be Robson Hall, DOR
mitory housing students of UCLA There was no
trouble identifying Beckwith and Slidell as being
roommates there. Slidell was enrolled in summer
school, and Beckwith had announced he would
enter in the fall term.
But the men themselves had disappeared. From
the student manager of the dormitory agents learned
that the day after the robbery Beckwith had told
him his grandfather was seriously i'll in Twin Falls,
Idaho. Both men left hurriedly on the morning of
August l. Yes, there - Continued on page So
Evening star., 1960-09-11

trembling voice. The civilian was more composed
Into the back seat, put your heads down, look at
the floor, hands behind your heads" he ordered
crisply. As the messengers obeyed, he slid behind
the wheel.
Twenty minutes later the car stopped on dirt
road. When the captives stepped out adhesive tape
was slapped over their eyes, but not before one of
them caught glimpse Of Lockheed employees
badge on the lapel of the civilians sports Jacket
The messengers were led down steep ravine The
drivers hands were tied around a saplng with rope
and tape. The. other man was ordered to lie prone
little distance away, his legs and arms also secured
with tape. The bandits then ran up the slope and
drove away in the bank car.
Within minutes the messengers had worked them
selves free and were at the top of the ravne where
they hailed motorist who took them to the nearest
telephone.
Decause the stolen money was insured by the
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation its
theft was Federal ofense, and police notified the
FBI field office. Meanwhile, they sent car for the
messengers and took them to the Burbank Police
Station the holdup for questioning There
the FBI stepped into the case.
Agents got fair description of the robbers from
the messengers They in their middle twenties,
the victims thought, the older one about five feet
eleven, the younger five feet eight. This was so
general it might not help much, but an immediate
alarm was put out for lo4l Oldsmobile carrying
military policeman and civilian in sports jacket.
That was specific enough. The hue and cry of hot
chase was unleashed on trail less than an hour
old But as the day wore on there were no reported
sghtings Of the stolen car and its passengers.
Then, at o'clock that erening, zoe had the first
Of three important breaks tUhch seenaed-taIsely,
as it turned out to promise an early solution.
Asuspicious Ford sedan was found in parking lot
the Lockheed plant. The numbers of the license
plate had been altered with black paint and the car
itself had recently been given botchy coat of the
same color. The sedan contained nothing immedi
ately significant: A section of the los Angeles
Times" for July 29 in which photograph of B-32
bomber had been outlined with red pencil; a strip
of cardboard torn from laundry box bearing a
womans name. Agents took these scraps along with
them. The car was towed off and processed for
6ngerprints.
The second break in the case came at 10 o'clock
that same evening. woman reported to police that
her two young sons had just found six bags of coins
in her garage. The door was usually secured by a
paddock, and the older boy had noticed that it was
aar. He peered in and was excited to the bags,
one broken open and spilling half.dollars. The
garage, the woman said had been rented to soldier
late in April. No, she didn't know his name = she
had seen him only twice but her description
could have fitted the military policeman.
The garage was a mine of evidence. The bags
contained all but 81 of the stolen s. 300 in coins.
The uniform blouse with its MP brassard was there
Evening star., 1960-09-11

paper picture outlined in red
1t seemed apparent that the robbers had returned
to the garage Immediately after the robbery changed
clothes in the utmost haste, abandoned the coins
and driven off again in the bank car They had also
left behind AS calibre automatic with the serial
numbers drilled off and one of the .38 calibre
revOlvers belonging to the messengers. There was
an ammunition belt with regulation Navy holster
= odd that it was Navy rather than Army issue =
and partial case of AS calibre ammunition with
markings of the Santa Ana Army Air Base.
Evidence in the garage definitely linked the
robbers to the Ford sedan in the parking lot, for
can Of paint was found which the FBI laboratory
proved to be the same that had been used to doctor
the As final evidence, the garage contained the
laundry box from which the cardboard strip found
in the car had been torn. The name on it was that
of the garage owners sister.
One bizarre item sUGs crunspIed in the end Of the
Macy holster - sheet Of OniOnskin paper on
'Uhch typed sUhGt appeared to be the synopsis
Of short story plotting the LGsUIess adventures of
"a discharged reterun hitchhiking from coast to
coast. Vas the FBI on the trail of an aspiring
crime lrriter?
On Wednesday, August !, we found the stolen
bank car hidden in wooded aleyway about two
miles northwest of the garage. 1t revealed finger
prints, but they all were those of the messengers
The third quick break had been no more productive
of solution than the other two
90 there the case stood two days after the hold
~ up. A great deal of evidence had been turned
up, and all of this was being checked out with the
utmost speed in the hope that it contained clues that
would disclose the identity of the robbers. But from
the moment they abandoned the bank car - and it
seemed probable they had driven directly to the
wooded alleyway from the garage = the trail which
had been so hot completely disappeared.
Agents made progress. The as calibre ammuni-
tion had been stolen from the Santa Ana Base on
July IA, they learned, the same day the Ford sedan
was taken from used-car lot in nearby San Diego.
The ammunition theft was unsolved. At the Naval
Armory of the University of California in Los
Angeles (UCLA) we discovered that IL AS cabre
automatic pistols had been stolen on May 20. The
automatic found in the garage was probably one of
these = it would explain the Navy holster : but
this theft too was unsolved.
One BY one the clues proved negative. The dis
c0rded clothing yielded no useful identifying
marks. There no latent fngerprints. The
LOckheed badge genuine, but the true num-
Der had been cut out and a false one substituted.
1t was likely theory that the bandits had worked at
Lockheed, simply because this would have given
them opportunity to notice the bank messengers
Monday routine. But if the theory we're correct,
mhich of Lockheed's 10000 employees had commit
ted the crime? And were they working there still?
n nd then the real break came = the single slip
L "A which spoiled the perfect crime. 1t happened
on Monday, September 10, six weeks after the rob-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-03
Why Ogden Nash's verse
Is Mr.. Fodimon's cheFce

Wei, the New Year is tceH on its
tCay, and there's not thing to do
about it. You must haze met a fesc
difficulties already. One Of them
comes to all of us. Among other less
foreseeable gifts, 1860 sciH bring US
81 Mondays. Somehow Monday is
not popular; it sciH neUer be chosen
as Mss Day-OfThe-W Week.
The only man l know Who has
rcHtten a poem or a reasonable
fac-simile of a poem = about Mon
day is Ogden Nash. Ionce nominated
Mr.. Nash for the Pulitzer Prize, but
the judges weren't listening. | think
Mr.. Nash not only the best sOiter of
light verse note living, but a sort of
poet laureate o. our age of small
frictions. He wntes, in suitably
bumpy manner, about those troubles
tOe all share, such as the common
cold. And Mondays.
Mr.. Nash recently published a
selection from his Life's WOrk, ''Terses
From 1929 On" 1t doesn't seem pos
able that he has been making US
laugh for 80 years. Yet it's fact,
one of the brighter facts of life.
When his first book came out,
the London Times Literary Supple
ment'' disposed of it tCith digmyGed
severity: ''Neat ideas mared BY
careless nhyming." Here's to another
80 years of careless rhyming. Mcy
Mr.. MASKS verse long be heard in
our land.
NA J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-01-03
What makes
Monday blue?
poetic complaint light versifier
about the weeks most unpopular Gay by OGDEN NASH

MONDAY the day that everything all again.
Monday the day when just you beginning to feel
peaceful you have get up and get dressed and put
ON your old gray bonnet and drive down to Dover
again.
1t is the day when life becomes grotesque again,
Because the day when you have face your desk
again.
1t is day with fun about it,
Because the FIRST of series of days filed with task
another that something has to be done about it.
When the telephone rings Saturday Sunday you
pleased because probably means something pleas
ing and you take the call with agility,
But when it rings on any other day it just usually
additional responsibility,
And if in doubt,
Why the best thing to do is to answer foreign
if you foreigner it in native accent
and say you are out
Oh there is not a weekday moment that can't wiring
sigh from you,
Because you always being confronted with people who
sell you something, or if they don't want to
sell you something, there is something they want to
buy from you,
And every shining hour swaggers arrogantly you
demanding to be improved ~
And apparently not only to i'm "
prove il, but also to shineit, \
is what you are behooved. vs.
Oh for remedy, oh for pana- UTN ATA'
cea, oh for a something, WIN VIZ Y
oh yes, oh for coma or SAET
swoon nv II
Yes, indeed, oh for a coma that III
would last from nine WN
Monday until Friday wi
afternoon. ~
copydshl
all about the fable that husbands dlGys longing for
rs stnrx NTH ending that should please eVeLOUng
Evening star., 1960-02-23

ber. Harold L. Alden, who re-
turned to the University OF
Virginia after 20 years as di-
rector of the Yale Observatory
in South Africa. Working to-
gether and depart. as univer-
sity staff members and as di-
rectors of widely separated
observatorieS, DR.. Mitchell and
Mr.. Alden determined the
brightness of 5000 stars.
DR.. Mitchell was born in
Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He
received his masters degree
from Queens University in
1894 and his doctorate from
Johns Hopkins in 1898.
In addition to the son, DR..
Mitchell is survived by two
sisters, Mrs. c. H. Holbrook of
Ottawa, Ont. and Mrs. R. M.
Bradley of Grimsby, Ont. Two
granddaughters, Mrs. Lewis A.
Rivlin and Miss Priscilla
Mitchell of Washington, also
survive.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday at Charlottesville
with burial in the University
of Virginia Cemetery.
Evening star., 1960-02-23
}. 6. Groeninger,
Served 36 Years
In Foreign Service

Joseph G. Groeninger, rs, a
retired Foreign Service officer.
died Friday after a short illness
at his home, Mall Point Farm,
Calvert County, Md.
Mr.. Groeninger, who first
served with the American Le-
cation at Copenhagen in 1911,
retired from the Foreign Serv-
ice in 1947. He was born in
Baltimore.
Other assignments included
Germany, Finland, Pakistan
and New Zealand. During
World War II and until his
retirement, Mr.. Groeninger
served as American consul in
Bradford, England.
Besides his wife Valda
whom he met in New Zealand
of the home address, he leaves
a brother Andrew ]. of Balti-
more; two sisters, Mrs. Francis
J. Hemelt of 1900 Twenty
eighth place, Mount Rainier,
Md, and Mrs. Harold j
O'Keefe of 1000 Mississippi
avenue Sc.
Funeral services were to be
today in Baltimore.