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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-02-02
Legionnaires' Flag
Sale Begins Tonight

The Farnlville American Legion
Post will kickoff its American flag
sale campaign at a meeting tonight
Tuesday at the post home.
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P0undage Climbs
FOunudge JNn1DS
One-Day Tobacco Clean Up
Sales Set Here February II

Tobacco auctions of the 1859 of dakfred leaf
scheduled to wind February II
The regular
week The annual Famvie Tobacco Jubilee
Feb TO- then the next clean
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Membership Filled
Membership Filled
Democratic Committee Sets
Convention Wheels Mouing'

reorganzed County Democratic Committee last
week motion
state
Robert was reelected chairman
Mrs Harold Garrett Of Frmvle
Richard w Depuy, of Wcrsham reelected secretary.
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expectations. In most cases, the
development programs have been
phenomenal. The Atlas, Thor and
Jupiter all have developed into re-
liable operational weapons. The
Polaris and Titan are coming
along nicely. and soon we'll begin
testing more advanced weapons
like the Minuteman.
Much Of our thinking and
planning now is geared to space.
Someday man may start for the
moon and other planets from
here. The prospects appear un-
limited"
Two of the best-known and
most capable misSilemen here are
Bill Stitt and B. G. Mac Mac
Nabb, project directors for the
Douglas Thor and Convair Atlas
programs respectively. Both have
been with the programs since they
began and have seen these mis-
siles develop into two of the
United States most reliable roc
kets and as boosters for the ma
jority of this Nations space and
satellite shots.
Mr.. Stitt recalls the hectic early
days Of the Thor development.
I'VE same here in 1856 on a
crash p 'ogram," he said. THAT
meant getting the missile program
ready and operational yesterday.
not tomorrow.
THE pace Of the program was
tremendous. Although I was an
operations engineer, sometimes
found myself manipulating
wrenches with the mechanics, CO.
originating activities prior to
launch or manning a console in
the blockhouse during countdown.
THE crew took the early Thor
failures hard, but their morale
and enthusiasm remained high.
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TheCongo:
Major

The United Nations Security
Council authorized the dispatch
of U. N. military forces to Congo,
the new African nation beset by
violence and threatened by an
archy.
The United Nations Security
Council remained in session past
midnight Wednesday to debate, and
finally approve an urgent request
by Secretary General Dag Ham
marskjold for authority to send
U. N. troops into Congo for the
purpose of bringing order out of
chaos.
In, little more than "a hours,
the first troops had arrived-a
contingent of $50 men from
Ghana and Tunisia flown into
Leopoldville by the United States
Air Force.
This was the start Of a U. N.
effort to end the violence which
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cluded unless and until the revo-
lutionary regime changes its ways
towards the United States.
In his complaint to the Security
Council, Foreign Minister Roa
said the United States has har-
bored Cuban war criminals, per-
mitted planes flying out of air.
ports in this country to violate
Cuban air space and attempted to
strangle the Cuban economy by
refusing to refine crude oil shipped
in from Russia.
The latter reference was to a
decision of American-owned COM
panies against refining oil OBJ
tanned in recent agreement with
the Soviets. Mr.. Roa also men,
toned Cuba's sugar problem,
which was aggravated week before
last when President Eisenhower
barred virtually any further i'm
ports Of Cuban sugar this year.
The order will cost Cuba the sale
OF approximately l million tons Of
sugar in the United States before
January /.
But the Castro government
turned hopefully to Communist
countries for customers. At the
end Of the week a 14-member
delegation from Red China was in
Havana to negotiate the purchase
of 100000 tons of sugar and Rus
STA repeatedly was interested in
buying more than already agreed
upon.
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thusiasm for Aberdeen Angus
cattle.
There is broad precedent In the
post-White House careers Of other
Presidents for full and part-time
jobs which might strike Mr..
EiSenhower's fancy.
John Quincy Adams served nine
terms in the House of Representa-
tives. Andrew johnson, tried by
the Senate after he was impeached
by the House, provided one Of the
more dramatic moments in that
body's history when, he returned
briefly as Senator from Tennes-
see few months before his death.
John Tyler, on0 of the quintet
Of ex-Presidents surviving, when
the South fired on Fort Sumter,
got elected to Congress, too-he
served in the Confederate Pro-
visional Congress and was elected
to the House of Representatives
Of the Confederate Congress, but
died before taking ONCE.
Other Careers
Theodore Roosevelt pursued big
game in Africa for q time before
his unsuccessful effort to regain
the presidency on the Bull Moose
ticket. He later led an expedition
into the Brazilian jungles. Will
liam Howard Taft became Chief
Justice. Thomas Jefferson retired
to Monticello and lent his diverse
talents to founding the University
Of Virginia.
When his term of office ex-
pired, President Monroe the nth
Chief Executive, returned to Vir-
ginia and for a while to private
life.
He was among the former
Presidents who experienced seri-
Gus financial difficulties and In
1926 Congress appropriated $780,.
900 for him in settlement Of some
claims he had filed against the
Government.
Mr.. Monroe became a member
Of the Board Of Visitors of the
University of Virginia and in
1929 was elected to the Virginia
Constitutional Convention. He
served as its chairman.
After the death Of his wife,
still involved in financial diff
culties, he moved to New York
City to live with his daughter
and her husband. 1t was there
that he died.
Washington wrote that he was
content at Mount Vernon, ito
make and sell, a little flour to
amuse myself in agriculture and
rural pursuits -"
The first President may have
set precedent for Mr.. Eisenhow-
er. however, when he accepted ap-
pointment as Lieutenant General
and Communicating Chief of the
Army after his retirement to
Mount Vernon.
Mr.. Eisenhower has limited to
friends that he would like to end
his career in the five-star rank
he gave up when he became Presi-
dent. It would take a special act
OF Congress to make him a Gen.
eral Of the Army again, but there
is little doubt that Congress will
readily give back his stars II he
wants them.
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erupted after Congo won It's in
dependence June 80 and which
spread so fast that collapse of
the new government appeared i'm
minent. BY the first of this week,
four battalions will be on the scene.
Mr.. Hammarskjold took pains
to ask that the great world powers
be excluded from sending troops,
to replace Belgian forces that
stirred up native resentment. In
stead Of men, the United States
and Russia. Britain, Italy and In
Ola were asked to provide food and
transportation and the African
states received preference for
troops.
Arrival of the U. N. forces
seemed to create a more relaxed
atmosphere in the tense commu-
mites victimized by rioting, beat
ings, murders and rape when
Congolese soldiers utinied
against their white Belgian off,
GERS.
But in Moscow, Soviet Premier
Khrushchev was making ominous
sounds about the Congo as well
as about Cuba. the United States
and the West in general. Declar-
ing the United Nations action may
not have been adequate, he said
Russia would intercede on its own
If those states which are carry
ing on direct aggression against
the Congo do not stop their GRIM
lnal measures" Earlier he had
accused Western countries, includ-
ing the United States, of attempt
ing to reimpose colonial rule on
the new African nation as soon as
1t became independent.
THE demand of the Soviet
Union is simple-hands off the
Republic Of Congo" warned Mr..
Khrushchev. Thus he continued
to assert Russian rights to dictate
policy around the world.
Premier Khrushchev made his
announcement in answer to an
appeal from Congo's President
Joseph Kasavubu and Premier
Patrice Lumumba for Soviet in
tervention if the Western nations
do not "desist from aggression"
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THE FOREIGN SCENE

The cancellation OF the airline
negotiations also raised questions
affecting talks between the United
States, Britain and Russia on a
treaty to bar nuclear weapons
tests. But the State Department
insisted Washington has no inten-
ton Of breaking off these negoti-
atoms.
While the breach between East
and West widened, the Western
allies made new gestures for unity
among themselves. Washington,
for example. moved to assure
Britain Of its willingness to mod
ify arrangements for use of air
bases in Britain.
The question OF modification
came up in the House Of Com
mons last week when Prime Min
lister Macmillan discussed the
shooting down Of an American
RB-47 by Russia on July l. Rus
STA claims the plane, which oper-
ated from British base, was fly
ing over Soviet territory. Wash
ington, denying this, insisted the
craft was "wantonly attacked"
while in flight over international
waters.
Russia filed a complaint in the
U. N. Security Council. The.
United States welcomed this &C.
ton, saying it could prove its con-
tention.
Obviously the Soviets had seized
upon one more incident in a re-
lentless campaign to discredit
United States leadership and pres
tige, attack the system of mill
tary bases abroad and do what
they can to smash such anti Com
munist alliances as the North At
lantic Treaty Organization
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Extra Protection

But police ordered extra pro-
lection for all top government
leaders, left-wing members of
parliament as well as conser-
vatives. Reports circulated that
several officials had been selected
as prime targets Of the ultra
nationalist.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Ikeda, the for
mer Minister of Trade and In
duStry, proceeded with plans to
restore order, rebuild Japanese
prestige abroad after the damage
resulting from the cancellation of
President Eisenhower's trip and
revive public confidence in the
parliamentary process.
The new premier is regarded as
an able administrator, a tough
and resourceful politician. He is
a foe of Communism and a friend
of the United States.
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Air treaty.:
Postponed

Officials in Washington indefi-
nitely postponed conversations
with Soviet Russia on a civil
airlines agreement.
When the United States, on
Thursday, called off negotiations
on an air transport agreement
with Russia, Washington under
scored its toughening attitude to-
ward the Kremlin.
The State Department already
had rejected Premier Khru-
shchev's protectionist attitude to-
ward Cuba. Now it made clear
that it considered relations with
Russia had deteriorated so badly
that the prevailing atmosphere
would have an adverse effect upon
any discussions held.
The decision to defer talks on a
Moscow-to-New York air agree
ment followed series of bristling
charges by Mr.. Khrushchev
against the United States. 1t en-
phasized the widening gap be-
tween the worlds two leading
powers since the summit collapse
in Paris.
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When missile No. los (the fifth
fred finally broke our losing
streak in September, 1857, we
were on our way and operational
in just two years.
Looking back, it's hard to be-
lieve that technology has ad-
vanced to its present state in so
few years."
Leorned by FoiIures
The Atlas program also got off
to d bumpy start, "but each bad
shot taught us something and en-
abled us to develop the missile
we have today" explains Mr.. Nc
Nabb.
Personally" NJ. MacNabb said,
Il got the biggest kick when we
put No. lob into orbit in De-
cember, 1883" This is the satel-
lite that relayed President Eisen-
hower's Christmas peace message
to the world.
Mr.. MacNabb cited the recent
success of the Atlas over a 5000
mile course and the Atlas-boosted
Midas satellite as major achieve
ments of the program.
There also have been disappoint-
mentS, such as the failure of two
Atlas-Able moon rockets last fall.
Wen get a couple more cracks
at the moon this year." Mr.. Mac
Nabb added. Were confident
we'll make it,"
Atlas. Thor, Jupiter, Redstone,
Shark and Matador all grew to
maturity here and now are de-
ployed at operational bases around
the world as a deterrent to war.
Titan and Polaris are expected to
join them within few months.
Since the first fumbling try to
match Russia's Sputnik with the
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BY WILLIAM HINES
Star SriAnca Writar

The recent international Geo.
physical Year was acclaimed as a
civilized period in history when
contending nations managed to
cooperate Fundamentally in the
interests of science. But ICY
type cooperation was achieved
nearly two centuries ago when
British scientific ships sailed the
Atlantic during the Revolution
amy War, free from molestation
by the American Navy.
The agency that made this
early scientific amity possible was
the Royal Society, Britain's august
congress of intellectuals which
marks its 300th anniversary this
week. The Royal Society engaged
the good offices of one of its fell
lows in the rebelling colonies, DR..
Benjamin Franklin of Philadel-
pfia, who arranged to have hands
kept off the scientific expedition
of Capt. James Cook and Joseph
Banks, botanist.
The Royal Society Of London
for the Promotion Of Natural
knowledge" was the ak that
severed the modern worlds last
link with the error ridden past
of Aristotle and Ptolemy. Formed
in secret during England's Crom-
wellian civil war, a precursor
group coalesced around the skep-
tical writings of Francis Bacon,
Lord Verulam, and eventually
grew into the Royal Society.
Boeon's Views Were Bosie
Bacon was that wonderfully
brilliant, wonderfully corrupt
Elizabethan jurist who is remem-
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SCIENCE PIONEER
London's Royal Society

in 1855. Franklin would be in
eligible for Fellowship in the Royal
Society If he were alive today,
because Fellows must be subjects
Of the British crown. However, he
undoubtedly would be a foreign
member"-not entitled to append
the coveted initials F. r. S. to his
name, but accepted by the Eel
lows as an equal.
One-third OF the 50 foreign
members Of the Royal Society to-
day are Americans. Among them
are Drs. Linus Pauling and Harold
Urey. Nobel prize winners. and
James Bryant Conant, chemist,
former president of Harvard and
government scientific adviser. All
three are members Of the Society's
American counterpart. the Ma
tional Academy Of Sciences.
This "hands-across-the-sea" ar
rangement works the other way,
too. Foreigners are not eligible to
become Members Of the MAS. but
may be named Foreign Associates.
Among the Fellows Of the Royal
Society who are also Foreign As
sociates Of MAS are Mathemati-
clan Paul Dirac, Psychologist
Baron Adrian of Cambridge, and
Physicist Sir William Bragg.
The day has long passed since
King Charles laughed at the Eel
lows for trying to weigh air, and
since the Fellows tested scientif-
ically the theory (false) that young
vipers can be generated from the
powdered livers and lights Of old
vipers. But the quest for scientific
truth that brought the Royal So
ciety into being three centuries ago
is being prosecuted as vigorously
as ever today.
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Japan:
New Premier

Hoyute lkedo, Joponese Minister
Of Trode, wos chosen heed Of the
eountV's ruling political party ond is
due to be elected the new Prime Min
lister Of Jopon.
Uneasiness prevailed in Tokyo
last week as Japan began a new
phase of its test in popular democ-
racy. The time had come for Pre-
mier Nobusuke Kishi to make
good on a pledge to step down, a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-17
BY HOWARD BENEDICT
Associated Press Stan Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, FIa.-They
called the rocket Bumper" 1t was
a makeshift vehicle of two stages;
built by marrying a German W.
and an Army Wac-Corporal.
The launching stand was a
plumbers nightmare: an 8O-foot
spider-web Of pipe and scaffold-
ing, weighted at the base with
Sandbags. Wires, cables and as
sorted gear hung Imply from its
sides.
A jeep raced back and fourth
on a sandy road leading to the
launching site to frighten away
poisonous snakes.
After five days Of frustrating
labor, and one miSfire, Bumper
blasted of in a swirl of fire and
thunder at 9:29 am. July "a, 1850
just 10 years ago. The rocket
performed perfectly and dropped
into the Atlantic so miles offshore.
That was the first missile shot
from Cape Canaveral, proving
ground for Americas military
missiles and her biggest port of
departure for space.
The changes at Cape Canaveral
In 10 years have been startling.
Before that first missile crew
moved in, the cape was desolate
arrowhead of land jutting into the
ocean. 1t was a wasteland Of
scrub brush, inhabited by alliga-
tors, snakes and insects.
Time has transformed these 49,
900 acres into a spectacular COM
pick Of soaring gantry towers,
concrete blockhouses, hangers,
roads and electronic marvels.
Scrub brush still covers much
Of the land, out beneath it spreads
q finely woven network of cables
and wires to carry impulses Of en-
ergy, vital messages and electronic
signals that send missile roaring
into the sky.
Here, thousands of scientists,
engineers and technicians work
with mammoth missiles of awe
some power and possibility.
Almost to Africo
Canaveral is their workshop but
their testing ground stretches
more than 5000 miles down the
Atlantic along chain of IL island
stations extending almost to the
coast Of Africa. From these is
lands, most Of them foreign owned,
United States tracking facilities
record missile flights. A dozen
tracking ships fill big gaps be-
tween islands.
Eighteen miles south Of the
Cape is Patrick Air Force Base,
administrative and technical sup
port headquarters for the Air
Force Missile Test Center-which
calls signals in the workshop and
downrange.
Test center facilities represent
a total capital investment of $3.50
million. Operating costs for fiscal
1859 exceeded $3.50 million.
Maj. Gen. Donald N. Yates COM
manded the Missile Test Center
from 1854 to May, 1860, during its
years of greatest expansion. Look
ing back before turning over his
command to Maj. Gen. Leighton
I. Davis, Gen. Yates said:
THE progress of the military
missile program has exceeded all
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Three Ex-Presidents Will
Revive an Old Question

Buren,, Tyler. Fillmore, Pierce and
Buchanan.
Unlike several Of his predeces-
sorS, Mr.. Eisenhower will face no
financial worries as he leaves Of
fee. Under the 1858 presidential
pension act, he will receive SIS, 900
a year for the rest Of his life.
The law provides an additional
$4,000 a year for office expense
and q clerical staff.
Mr.. Eisenhower's total worth,
including stock holdings and the
value of his Gettysburg farm, has
been estimated at close to 81 mil
lion. Crusade in Europe" his
best-selling account Of World War
II, earned him some $476,000,
after taxes.
The President has confided to
intimates that he plans to resume
a part-time writing career on
leaving the White House. He re-
CARDS writing as the most logical
employment open to him, since it
will permit him to present his
views on important national is
sues in a way which will add to
his income without demeaning
the presidency. His first project
is expected to be his White House
memoirs.
AS an author Mr.. Eisenhower
may find himself in competition
with Mr.. Truman, who has al
ready completed three volumes
dealing with his own years in the
Executive Mansion. Mr.. Hoover
has also authored books since
leaving the White House but has
made his most lasting mark as an
expert on reorganization Of the
executive branch.
Gen. Grant, like Mr.. Eisenliow-
er military hero when he won
the presidency, wrote his memoirs
in desperation to pay of his debts
after a brokerage firm he had
founded on leaving Office went
bankrupt. Completed shortly be-
fore his death, they brought his
family $450,000.
Oldest in History
BY the end Of his term Mr..
Eisenhower, who will be 70 Octo-
Der IA, will be the oldest President
in the Nations history. Andrew
Jackson's second term ended II
days short Of his 10th birthday.
Buchanan's single term ended a
month before he was 70.
Mr.. Hoover, So. Mr.. Truman,
rs, and Mr.. Eisenhower are all
contenders for the longevity rec
ord set by John Adams, who lived
to be 80 and died July 4, 1926,
the same day as Thomas Jeffer-
son, his successor in the presi-
dency.
Buchanan, who left the White
House just 100 years ago, was, like
Mr.. Eisenhower, a gentleman
farmer who retired to his Penn
sylvania acreage.
Mr.. Eisenhowers permanent
address will be Gettysburg when
he leaves Office, though he has
indicated some interest in buying
q cottage in Palm Springs, Calf,
one of his favorite golf -and-sun
retreats. He will have a chance
at Gettysburg to indulge his en-
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mier is scheduled tomorrow. Just
an hour after the choice was
announced a right-wing fanatic
rushed up to Mr.. Kishi at his off,
cial residence and stabbed him in
the thigh six times with a hunt
ing knife. Bleeding profusely, he
was taken to a hospital, where
doctors held hope for an early
recovery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-17

pledge he offered during the
heated debate over the Japanese
United States security pact.
To replace Mr.. Kishi the domi-
nant Liberal Democratic Party
selected Hyato Ikeda as its presi-
dent. His formal election as Pre-