The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-03
News Summary


law professor and specialist IN
labor law, as Solicitor General,
No. 3 post in the Justice Depart
ment; Rex Whitton. Missouri
highway engineer. as federal road
administrator: Robert V. Rosa.
banker. to be undersecretary OF
the treasury; and James NJ. Lam
dis as special presidential assist
ant to help draft a program OF
reform fol the federal regulatory
agencies.
KING BAUDOUN of Belgium
and his bride cut short their hon
eymoon in Spain to return to
Brussels last week. On Friday,
the 18th and most violent day OF
the general strikes which have
been called by the Socialists, one
demonstration was killed. The So
cialists bitterly oppose an auster-
ity program of higher taxes and
lower pensions which Premier
Eyskens is expected to try to
force through the Parliament on
Tuesday. The Socialists say this
program would place an unfair
burden On the poor. The strikes
and violence have crippled bust
ness in the major cities. and some
of Belgium S NATO troops have
been recalled to help keep order.
MISMANAGEMENT, not pests
and droughts. is the primary
cause of food shortages in Red
China, according to experts in
the State Department. Last week
radio Peiping announced that Red
China faces famine because OF a
drought that almost dried up the
yellow river. pests, and wind.
American experts admit Red
China had some natural disasters,
but they estimate the 1860 crop
roughly equalled that Of the year
before and was about average.
They point out the Chinese Com
munists have put millions on
strict rationing while exporting
large quantities of food to other
countries, such as Cuba and Guu-
nea. to promote communism.
THE BERLIN QUESTION is
believed to have been put in cold
storage temporarily. West Germ
any signed a new trade agree
ment with Russia Saturday. The
three-year pact does not specific
ally mention West Berlin. but the
Soviet ambassador acceptance
of a statement that the agree
ment's area of application would
be the same as before indicates
an unofficial Russian tolerance OF
West Berlin as an economic part
of West Germany. Previously
West Germany had sought more
definite assurances on the status
of West Berlin. and the SovletS
had baked. West Germany has
also reached agreement on a new
trade pact with communist East
Germany. HOW yer Premier
Khrushchev repeatedly told the
British ambassador in Moscow
he expects the Berlin question to
be settled in 1861.
CUBAN NEWSPAPERS which
support the Castro regime have
again warned that an American
invasion of Cuba is imminent.
The semiofficial Revolution and
the government-oWned FL Mundo
said. in almost identically worded
stories, reliable sources" had
told the government of plan,
approved by President Eisenhow-
er, for U. S. marines to land in
Cuba before Jan. 49, They re-
ported Cuba foreign minister,
Raul Roa. had left for New York
to denounce the plot before the
UN.
THE STOCK MARKET ended
1860 on an apparent note of eau
ton. For the final week of four
trading days the APP 60-stock av-
erage was up 81 go in an irregular
market to close at S22090. Last
minute switching for tax pur-
posses was a major re e son for
the many cross currents. The APP
average reached its 1860 high of
$233.90 in January and a low of
cOno ca nofahn,.