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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-24

day May they have many more
Mrs. ]. R. Phillips and Mrs.
O. l.. Lyon visited Mrs. j. PA
Cleveland, Of Cohassett. and
took Mrs. Cleveland with them
to the Dickerson Convalescent
home at Palmyra and had
visit with Miss Eva Snead and
ms. Joe Haden. Wednesday.
Two OF he elderly members
Of Buckingham Baptist Church
were buried there last week.
Mrs. Rolf Smith and Mrs. Bet
tie Rush.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-24

They came by the j A. Deane
home and had breakfast on their
way home.
Mss Ruby Pearl ApperSon
and Roy Loving stole a march
on the people last week when
they drove down TO Henderson.
N. C.. and were married. They
spent a honeymoon at Moores-
head, N. c. They will reside
here for the time being.
Golden Wedding
Congratulations to Mr.. and
Mrs. Hubert Anderson on their
50th wedding anniversary, Fri
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-24
American Show
Increasing Resort
70 Health Insurance

More than l27 million Ameri-
cans-72 per cent o. the civilian
population he'd health irsur-
arce at the end o. 1880. the
Health Insurance Cornell sold
today in. reporting the results
ef its ldth annual survey on the
extent Of voluntary health in
surance coVerage in the United
States. The survey is based on
reports from insurance compan-
les. Blue Cross-Blue Shield and
other health care plans.
The Council said both tn e
number of persons covered by
health insurance and the amount
Of benefits raid reached new
highs last year. Coverage in
creased by 4.8 million during
1889 to reach a total Of 127 1885,
coo persons with health insur-
ance protection.
Benefit payments by all health
insuring organizations to help
cover the cost Of hospital, Surgi-
cal and medical care amounted
in 1859 to more than $4.3 billion,
up $500 million over 1858. said
the Council. In addition, per-
sons with loss-of- income policies
received 1888 million of bene-
fits from insurance companies
to replace income lost through
disability.
Thus. a grand total of $5,l75,-
000,0 900 in health insurance bene-
fits were distributed during 1859
UP 1919 per cent over 1858.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-24

visited in the same home from
Friday through Sunda.. Mrs. E.
3. Mahon joined them Sunday
for lunch. and returned to Rich
nlond with Mr.. Phillips.
Congratulations
Congratulations 10 Winston
Patterson, a recent graduate Of
Fluyanna High School He is the
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Pat
terson.
Friends Of Mrs. T. L. Hudgins
were glad to see her ont Sun
day after being quite sick for
sometime.
Miss Nancye Ellen Davies
spent the week end at the beach
with several Of her Richmond
girl friends.
Mrs. j. A. Deane and Mrs.
Lizzie Davies were guests of
Mn and Mrs. NJ. K. Davis on
Wednesday.
Summer In Florida
Mrs. Barbara Deane KOlcum
let Saturday to spend the sum
ner in Coral Gables, Fla. with
her brother-in-law and sister,
Mr.. and Mrs. Will O'F'errell
Mrs. Deane and daughter. Vir-
einia. spent Friday night in
Richmond to be there Saturday
to see Mrs. Kolcum off.
Mrs. W. A. Kolcum, of John
son City, Tenn. drove to Rich
mond Wednesday and left
early Thursday morning taking
her granddaughter, Virginia Kol-
cum, and Carol Deane home
with her to spend the summer.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-06-24

A good rule for campers head
ing into the woods is to leave a
sign in their car window desig-
mating number in party. destn-
alton and estimated time Of re-
turn. Sports Afield.
Evening star., 1960-10-05

satellite from a ground sta
ton at Deal. N. j., and taken
out by another station near
Ponce. Puerto Rico. The mes
sage was transmitted in writ
ten form at a speed of more
than $4,000 words a minute
a thousand times as fast as a
competent Office worker can
type.
Another message. from Sec
retary of the Army Brucker
to the people of the world gen.
orally, was transmitted orally.
The message was barely under
standable when played for re-
porterS at the Pentagon late
yesterday. Army Signal Corps
officials predicted Transmission
quality would improve.
/ Mr.. Morse said the Army had
spent roughly $11 million or
$12 million on Courier, includ-
ing the Deal and Ponce ground
stations and the August and
october payloads. Cost of the
two Thor -Able-Star missiles
used in the launchings would
bring the total close to the SIS
million mark.
The Signal Corps hoped fol
Evening star., 1960-10-05
Versatile Scout Rocket
To Get Space Chores

radiation belts surrounding the
earth"
But it was learned that the
type of equipment being used
is capable of testing the feaSi-
bility of detecting radiation
from any sneak nuclear explo-
sions high above the atmos-
phere.
Such explosions, touched off
by an enemy, could cast a kind
of electronic curtain around
the earth, knocking out another
nations early warning system
and hiding the advance of at
tacking missiles or bombers.
| A detection system conceiv-
ably could be established, in
formed sources said, by launch
ing at regular intervals pay
loads such as the one flown
yesterday.
Evening star., 1960-10-05

one in which only the Puerto
Rican station was above the
horizon. Then it went six orbits
without getting in contact with
either station. t~
Early today the satellite came
in range of the two ground sites
again. 1t was planned this
morning to start transmitting
news dispatches in a scientif-
ically unimportant but journal
istically interesting earth
space-earth stunt.
A message filed by The Stal
with the Army was among the
first in line to be transmitted
by this novel communications
medium. Roughly enough copy
to fill a double-spaced type
written 81axl1-inch sheet oi
Evening star., 1960-10-05
Family Cump-out Set
At Let's hY YMCA

A family camp-out will be
held by the YMCA this week
end at Camp Let's, near Mayo,
Md.
The "Y" held a training
course last June on family tent
and trailer camping and the
response was so great that 1t
decided to hold this practical
demonstration of the skills
learned, officials said.
Evening star., 1960-10-05

satellites in stationary" orbits
$4,000 miles above the equator
This job, assigned recently to
the Army. could be completed
in something over two years at
cost of well over $l00 mil
lion Mr.. Morse said.
Worldwide television might
well be an outgrowth of the
Advent operation, the Army
research chief told newsmen
yesterday.
President Eisenhower's mes
sage to the new U. N. members
was the first to take complete
advantage of Courier's full IA
cilities. 1t was fed into the
Evening star., 1960-10-05
DRIFTING Satellite Relays
Presidents Greeting to U.N.
BY WILLIAM HINES
Star Science Writer

A new type of satellite was
in orbit today-a 500-pound
ball. AZ feet in diameter, with
the power to send and receive
the text of the Bible in 10
minutes.
The satellite, Courier I-B,
was launched from Cape
Canaveral yesterday afternoon.
BY nightfall it had transmitted
to the United Nations
message of greeting from Presi-
dent Eisenhower to the inter-
national organizations 16 new
members.
A joint Army Air Force pro-
ject. with the former service
providing the satellite and the
latter the launch capability,
Courier I-B was the second and
last in a purely experimental
series of shots. The first,
Courier IA, failed to achieve
orbit when launched last August
18.
Orbit Data Reported
Yesterdays Courier came
close to expectations. It's
orbital characteristics were:
Apogee and perigee (higheSt
and lowest attitudes, about
755 and $50 statute niles: in
clination of orbit to equator,
28.3 degrees; orbital period,
about hour, Sc minutes;
greatest speed in orbit, about
1920 miles an hour; least
speed in orbit, about 1920
miles an hour.
Because the satellite is fairly
small, quite high above the
earth and rather dark in color,
it is unlikely that ground OBJ
servers without special equip
ment would be able to see it.
Unlike the passive commu-
nications" satellite Echo. Or
bited by the Civilian Space
Agency August Is, Courier I-B
contained a vast array of COM
plicated electronics. Three =
f1fths of its qual ter-ton weight |
was equipment associated with
communications.
Project Advent" Is Goal
Purpose of the Courier shot,
according to Army Research |
Director Richard S. Morse, was
to provide data leading up to
a worldwide, instantaneous
communications satellite setup
called Project Advent"
Advent. Mr.. Morse said, looks /
toward the orbiting of three. or
possibly more, communications
Evening star., 1960-10-05

a years life out Of the orbiter,
an expectancy that seemed rea-
sonable in view Of the altitude
achieved. After experiments are
conducted, the powerful radio
sets aboard can be shut of
for all time by a single COM
mand that will destroy their
ability to transmit.
Using Rare Frequency
Courier was using micro
wave frequency seldom en-
ployed by radios on earth. The
Army refused to give the exact
bands in use beyond saying
that they were between IL
and 2.3 kilomegacycles. This
is far above the kilocycle-range
broadcast band or the mega
cycle-range used in FM broad
casting.
The Army said the Courier
system was not "jamproof,"
but that interference with it
was unlikely because man
made traffic and natural ac-
tivity on its wavelengths are
unuSal. The system has char
acteristics that contribute to
its privacy" Signal Corps
Scientist Robert Brady said.
One of the privacy" pro-
visions is a coding system which
calls for a special signal to be
sent on a secret wavelength
before the microwave channels
will open. Mr.. Brady would
say only that the coding fire.
quency was in the very-high
frequency band.
Unlikely to Be Heard
Radio hams probably will be
able to receive the tracking
signal of Courier, which is being
transmitted on a frequency OF
l07.97 megacycles, close to the
internationally sanctioned 108-
nc. spacecraft band.
1t was unlikely almost to the
point of impossibility, however
that they would be able to re-
ceive traffic signals from the
satellite. To do so would in
volve % having equipment that
would operate in the 1000
megacycle band; CO having
highly directional receiving an
tenna equipment; and go being
on the right frequency at the
right time as the satellite
passed overhead.
Even with such a compound
ing of luck. hams would hear
only an unintelligible burst of
signals from the teletypewriter
circuitry aboard, or a speeded-
up Minnie Mouse" voice trans
mission from the telephone
equipment.
Makes Two Orbits
The most remarkable thing
about Courier I-B is its ability
to handle a vast volume of traf-
fic. AS one Signal Corps expert
graphically put it, the satellite
can receive and transmit stimuli
taneouSly in one five-minute
pass over a ground station
enough wordage to keep 20
high-speed teletypes busy for
the remainder of a 1l6-minute
orbit. This amounts to about
375,000 words received and 375,-
900 transmitted, or almost the
Bibles total length.
The satellite made two orbits
yesterday in which both Deal
and Ponce were in range, and
Evening star., 1960-10-05
Rv the Assnciated Press

The United States describes
as a complete success the test
flight of Scout rocket de-
signed to serve as a relatively
inexpensive yet versatile vehi-
Gle for a variety of space-ex-
ploring missions.
The 72-foot rocket scared
$500 miles high and $500 miles
out over the Atlantic on a 49,
minute arching fight that
ended in the ocean or in fiery
destruction in the atmosphere
between South America and
Africa. 1t was launched from
the Wallops Island (Va,) sta
ton of the National Aeronau-
tics and Space Administration.
Although the test was de-
signed primarily to test the
performance and structural
strength of the rocket itself,
the vehicle carried special Air
Force experimental radiation
measuring equipment.
BY coincidence-b cause
scheduled firingS had twice
been postponed in the last two
weeks-the shot occurred on
the third anniversary of the
launching of Russia's Sput-
mix I.
First of Its Kind
The 36,600-pound Scout was
described by NASA officials as
the worlds first known exam
pie of a four-stage, all-solid
fuel rocket to be launched sue
cessfully, and the first all-solid
fuel booster deemed capable OF
orbital missions.
Several hours after the
launching, Vincent L. johnson
of NASA told reporters the sig
nificance of yesterdays shot is
that:
/. 1t opens the way to using
Scout vehicles for certain Or
bital or space probe jobs which
would otherwise necessitate the
use of larger more expensive
rockets.
2. Because the Scout is a
solid fuel rocket, it can be
launched from a variety of
launching sites-instead of be-
ing restricted to Cape Canav-
eral and Vandenberg Air Force
Base as are the larger rockets
employing liquid fuel in some
stages.
Cheaper Cost Seen
NASA officials said the cost
of the launching was about
100000 but that the hope is
to get this down to about $780,
600. In contrast, the cost of
launching a Thor-Able rocket
is about $3.3 million.
The first orbital flight en-
ploying a Scout as the booster
is planned TO take place in a
few montns-with the hope of
lofting a 100-pound payload
into an orbit 300 miles high.
The rocket carried 112
pounds of instruments in the
payload section attached to the
fourth stage. This included a
78-pound Air Force package
which included instruments de-
signed to make radiation meas
urements in space.
The rest of the instruments
in the payload, and others
weighing an additional 80
pounds distributed in the first
and third stages were designed
to provide information on the
rockets performance and on
environmental conditions it
confronted in space.
Detection Use Noted
The Air Force experiment
was described only as one de-
signed to provide refined meas
urements of both the natural
Evening star., 1960-10-05

paper. its total transmission
time to and from the satellite
was calculated at about a half
second.
Evening star., 1960-10-05
Detection Use Noted

The Air Force experiment
was described only as one de-
signed to provide refined meas
urements of both the natural
Evening star., 1960-10-14
Hearing Ordered
For jailed Woman

NEW YORK, Oct. II (AP)-
Hattie Gibson Hallowell, 81,
who has been held in the coun-
ty civil prison for nearly 3h
years because of a dispute over
a small estate, may be freed
soon.
| Queens Surrogate Anthony P.
Savarese has signed an order
requiring the attorney for Mrs.
Hallowell's creditors to show
cause why she should remain
in Jail. A hearing has been set
for 10 am. Monday.
! Mrs. Hallowell's attorney a
1 Mary J. Mule, said if there is
no opposition at the hearing
Mrs. Hallowell will be freed.
Mrs. Hallowell, a Negro, was
jailed May 81. 1857, on a charge
of contempt of Surrogate'S
Court. She was accused of hav-
ing failed to make an account
ing of her late daughters estate
valued at less than $4,000. A
claim had been placed against
the estate.
Evening star., 1960-10-14
Thick Fog Slows
Rood, Air Troffic;
Extends to Buy

A blanket of thick, soupy
fog covered the Washington
area early today as far east
as the Chesapeake Bay.
Metropolitan area police re-
ported only a few minor acci-
dents due to the fog but said
driving conditions were poor
and traffic in some places was
slowed severely.
Traffic at Washington Ma
tional Airport, with less than
1/16th of a mile Of visibility
and a 100-foot ceiling, was
slowed for over an hour with
several takeoffs but no land
ings shortly after dawn.
The Weather Bureau said
visibility had improved from
less than an eighth Of a mile
just after dawn to about a
quarter of a mile at 8:15 am.
The fog began settling in about
2 am. and became most dense
with dawn as the coolest tenn
peratures were reached.
AS the fog was lifting the
forecast called for mostly sunny
skies. with a high near 80 de-
grees this afternoon. Tonight
should be fair with a low of
So degrees. Tomorrow's fore
cast was for some cloudiness
and continued warm.
Evening star., 1960-10-14
CASUSO

Continued From First Page
She told reporters she had
waited outside the Hotel The
resa in Harlem for seven hours
trying to get to see Mr.. Castro
during his stay there for the
United Nations sessions.
She described him as a man
of war"
He has to be at war with
everybody - with the world -
because he's at war with him
self" she said.
Miss Casuso divided the peo-
pile of Cuba into three groups
"the government, the opposi-
ton and the confused ones"
Classify me in the opposi-
ton now" she added.
Miss Casuso, who said she
had served as Cuban cultural
attache to Mexico for five years
and had been fired by former
Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Ba-
tista, indicated she had no i'm
mediate plans for the future.
She said she had only written
the letter to Mr.. Castro and
had not communicated with
United Nations officials OF
American State Department
officials about her resignation.
She did not say she was seek
ing political asylum in this
country.
Miss Casuso said that If free
elections were held in Cuba to.
day Mr.. Castro would lose.
Evening star., 1960-10-14
Korean House
Backs CHANG

SEOUL, Korea, Oct. IA (AP)
South Korea's lower house
today refused to accept the
resignation of Speaker Kwak
Sanghoon. The vote was a
victory for Premier John M.
Chang.
Mr.. Kwak had offered his
resignation as a gesture of
responsibility for the invasion
of the house chamber last
Tuesday by angry demonstra-
tors protesting that a court
dealt too leniently with officials
Of the Syngman Rhee regime
accused Of responsibility for
police brutality.
The house gave Mr.. Kwak
a 1895 vote of confidence and
dealt a setback to Mr.. Chang's
foes in his own Democratic
Party, who had planned to fol-
low the expected downfall of
the speaker with demands for
the Premier's resignation.
Mr.. Chang yesterday dis
missed Home Minister Lee
Sang g-chul and named former
Defense Minister Hyun Suk-
no to succeed him in a move to
quiet antigovernment feeling
stemming from last weeks trial.
The government also pro-
claimed an extraordinary law
ordering the re-arreSt of IL Of
the defendants who were ac-
quilted.
Evening star., 1960-10-14
VISITED D. c.
WITH CASTRO

Miss Teresa Casuso, who
held the rank of Ambassador
in charge of Cuba's interna-
tional public relations, was in
Fidel Castro's official party
when he visited Washington in
April, 1859, to address the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors. She was one of three
influential women who came
with the Castro party.
A novelist and playwright
who was once awarded the
Cuban national novel prize, she
had been affiliated with the
Castro movement since 1856
when she helped him in Mexico
to organize his first invasion
Of Cuba.
She helped him gather guns
and money and made her house
an arsenal after she was
dropped as cultural attache in
Mexico City under the Batists
regime.
Il knew of Castro" she told
reporters when she was in
Washington, "as a young man
who was trying to free our
country"
Evening star., 1960-10-14
Center Here
WiIIGuther
Data on Seas

A research center that will
try to gather all there is to
known about the oceans will
start operation next month at
the Naval Weapons Plant.
The research unit-to be
known as the Oceanographic
Data Center-is being set up
by the Navy and several other
Federal agencies.
Data will be sent to the new
center from all areas Of the
world wherever information is
available and will be processed
for reference use here.
Cooperating with the Navy
in establishing the new unit
are the Coast and Geodetic
Survey, the Atomic Energy
Commission, the Fish and Wild
life Service Of the Interior De-
partment and the National
Academy of Sciences,
The Navy photographic Of
flee, at Suitland, Md, will
handle the administration of
the new research unit. A staff
Of 80. mostly civilian oceano-
graphic experts. will operate
the unit.
The Navy's interest in oceano-
graphic research is based on the
need for study of geography of
the oceans in connection with
development of the Nations
seapower, a spokesman ex-
planned.
He said the center will serve
to consolidate all the knowl-
edge that is being collected. The
center will make this informa-
ton available to other Govern
ment agencies, industry, mari
time services and others that
need the technical data.
The center will be located on
the third floor of Naval Weap-
onS Plant building No. 100,
which has been used until
recently as a machine shop.
Evening star., 1960-10-14
RUSSIANS TAKING
LARGE SUPPLY OF
u. S. GOODS HOME

NEW YORK (AP).-
Russian Premier Khru-
shchev and his party evi-
IDENTIFY like American
products, even if they
don't like Americans.
Among articles loaded
aboard Mr.. Khrushchev's
plane, which took him
home, and the liner Bal
tika, which brought him
here: Three automobiles.
several portable television
sets. auto tires. radios, air
conditioners. auto batter
les and antifreeze-and a
number of crates with con-
tents undisclosed.
Evening star., 1960-10-14
CONGO

Continued From First Page
ing Mr.. Lumumba unless he
was handed over for arrest.
The U. N. command rejected
the ultimatum.
But Col. Mobutu sought to
demonstrate last night that he
was still in control and could
arrest whoever he pleases.
He summoned newsmen to
the Leopoldville Airport to meet
a plane from Stanleyville, capi-
tai of Oriental Province, where
Mr.. Lumumba has had strong
support.
Four Lumumba supporters
were aboard the plane IN Gus
tody of half a dozen police and
Mobutu officers. The prisoners
included Jean Pierre Finan,
the provincial governor, and
Capt. Fataki, commander of
the Stanleyville military camp.
Capt. Fataki was handcuffed
and all four prisoners looked
frightened and haggard. They
were loaded into a military
truck and taken off to prison
in Leopoldville.
Newsmen asked a British
major commanding Ghana U.
N. troops at the airport whether
he was going to intervene and
free the prisoners.
Il have orders to intervene
only if they are beaten up,"
the major replied.
Asked why U. N. forces had
prevented Mr.. Lumumba's ar
rest, he said, Look, I am only
a simple soldier"
Evening star., 1960-10-14
TREE

Continued From First Page
If the people of the District
wanted to present him with a
gift, he would like a red oak
tree. He likes oak trees.
Mr.. Stephens, returning to
his office. had to call up Rob-
ert Redman, White House gar
dener for the last 80 years,
to see If a spot could be found
for the red oak.
He thought of one-originally
He thought of one-originally
the site Of an old oak tree
planted in the days of John
Quincy Adams but cut down
because of age.
With that out of the way,
Mr.. Stephens called White
House police to see if it would
be possible to stage a ceremony
and invite the public. This was
arranged.
Mr.. Mclaughlin, back at his
desk by then. CALLED Jerome
A. Lowe, chief of the Districts
Tree and Landscape Division
and told him to come up with
a red oak tree for the Presi-
dents birthday.
Mclaughlin Plans Fete
Meanwhile, Mr.. Mclaughlin
called in representatives of a
number Of civic organizations
including the Federation OF
Citizens Associations, the Fed
Grafton Of Civic Associations
the Metropolitan Washington
Board OF Trade, and the
Merchants and Manufacturer.
Association, and officials of Ma.
tional Capital Parks. He askec
their support.
Early this week, Mr.. Lowe wa.
back at Poplar Point to super.
wise the uprooting of the tree
Yesterday the tree arrived al
the White House. With Mr.
Redman looking on, the ole
subsoil was removed from the
selected spot and replaced. A
three-foot hole was dug, sever
feet in circumference.
Whether Mr.. Mclaughlin
idea will take root should bt
known by next spring.
Evening star., 1960-10-14
Tornado Smushes
Building in Texas

BRoWNWooD, Tex, Oct. IA
(AP). - A tornado smashed
through Brownwood's Munich
pal Airport Building, and heavy
rains. high winds and hail
struck a number Of Texas cities
last night.
The twister caved in two
walls of the new $4,000 air.
port building and then moved
down a line of telephone poles.
Heavy rain and hail damaged
autos and homes at nearby
Early and Lake Brentwood. No
injuries were reported.