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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-17
Achievement Program Highlights Year
POwhatan 4-H's-
Enjoy Program
"Share The Fun

POWHATAN. Mar. i3-Powha-
tan county All Clubs held their
achievement program on Mon
day hight, February 27. at 7:3O
pm. in the Powhatan High
School auditorium.
Bill Richardson. director of
youth activities for the Southern
States Cooperative of Richmond,
was guest speaker. He stressed
the healthy activities and prof.
ects offered by All club work
under the direction of the eX-
tension department. Richardson
also entertained the All 'ers for
few minutes. and distributed
lots of balloons in all shapes and
cOlOrs.
Interesting reports were given
by Mary Gayle Hatcher of the
Belona All Club who attended
Camp jamestown last summer,
Bunny Hurt of the Ballsville All
Club who went to the state All
Short Course in Blacksburg last
year, and by Betty Lee Nichols.
also of the Ballsville club. who
was made an All Star last year.
She gave a most interesting re-
. port on the activities at their
special events.
Another highhght of the pro-
gram was the Share the Fun
contest in which there were nine
acts in the junior division, with
H. w. Henry as master of cere-
monies.
Winners in the Junior division
were: first. Mary Francis and
Carolyn Morris; second. Sara
Ann Bradley; third. Ellen Kay
Morris and Joan BoWles, tied.
Winners in senior division were:
first. Nancy Newton; second.
Bunny Hurt.
1. B. Wilson, Jr., president Of
the All County Council, presided,
led the All Pledge and gave the
welcome. The devotional was
given by Mae Boyer, and Annie
Allen. secretary of County Coum-
Gil. called the roll.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-17
Award Winners
Are Recognized
And HOnOred

POWHATAN. Mar. 13-Recog-
milton and awards for outstand-
ing All club members in 1860
were presented by Mrs. joyce
Wood. home agent, to number
OF girls in Powhatan county.
They were selected on the basis
OF how well they have prepared
records and what achieved, club
attendance. and participation in
county programs and district
contests.
Those who have achieved most
through All Club work receiving
an Achievement Award were:
Anne Lester. Nancy Little, Betty
Lee Nichols
The Home Economics Award
for best overall records on Al
and home economics projects
was given to Betty Lee Nichols,
Charlotte Morris. Martha Rouse
and Laura Wood.
The citizenship award for best
well-rounded citizen. who pro-
notes as citizen All work in her
club. community and county. was
presented to Betty Lee Nichols;
and the leadership award was
presented to Anne Lester. Anne
shows greatest leadership in her
All activities. She is junior
leader in her own club at Balls
camp.
Other awards went to the fol-
lowing: bread. Betty Lee Mich
OILS; clothing, Judy Ford, Myra
Lipscomb, Virginia Mae Boyer,
Diana Chrisley: electric, Martha
Rouse, judy Simmons, Sandra
Simmons: food preparation, Inez
Windel, Carol Blevins, Sara Ann
Bradley, Sandra Walton: home
improvement. Emma A k S,
Charlene Deroon: laundry, Betty
Lee Nichols, Sandra Walton, and
frozen foods, Bunny Hurt.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-17
Richard Coleman
Presented Plaque

AMELIA, Mar. 16 - Richard
Coleman. son Of Mr.. and Mrs
Harry Coleman, was the recipi-
ent Of an award plaque from the
Virginia Beef Cattle and Virginia
Feeder Calf Associations.
A student at Ferrmn College
he was unable to be at the meet
ing at Natural Bridge to receive
the award in person.
The plaque is approximately
one by two inches on a black mat
enclosed il a three by five silver
frame.
1t was presented to him as Viz
ginia's representative on the Ma
tional Al Livestock Judging
Team.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-17
Pet And Talent
Shows In Al
Club Plans

A pet show and a talent show
We're two topics of interest dis
cussed at the March meeting of
the f'armviIle Junior All Club.
Doug Thompson and Carol
Matthews were selected club con
testants for the county public
speaking contest.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-17
''Chubby" Ladies Start To Work

on their way to good health, said
that overweight was a health
hazard. She told the ladies first,
they must change their food
habits, and eat properly.
Mrs. Thompson said that one
cut OF every four persons is
carrying around more weight
than he should, and overweight
is the major problem in adults
today, everywhere She stated
that there are more than 1000
weight control groups over the
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-17
BY GENEVIEVE AGEE

BUCKINGHAM, Mar. l6-Tre-
mendous interest and enthusiasm
was shown by IS chubby
ladies'" who enrolled in the
weight control course for women
OF Buckingham County.
The first meeting was held Fri.
day. March 10, at 100 pm. at
the Dillwyn Elementary School.
Mrs. Mary Thompson, nutrition
specialist from VPI, here for the
first meeting to start the ladies
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13
WILLIAM S. WHITE

A decision at least as fate
full as that which sent Amer
lean troops to Korea a
decade ago now hangs in the
balance in Southeast Asia.
In large measure, it hangs
first on the trim, civilian
jacketed shoulders of an old
soldier back from retirement
to serve the Kennedy admin
istration in a higher capacity
in multi than he ever knew
as Army Chief of Staff in the
Eisenhower administration.
Gen. Mr.. Taylor, Mr.. Ken
nedy'S personal military ad-
wiser, is being sent to South
Wet Nam to study how the
United States can better help
that country survive the
growing attacks of Commu-
mist guerrillaS. His report to
the President, on his return,
may we'll propose another
kind of help altogether-the
dispatch there of American
fighting forces.
If that should turn out to
be his recommendation it
cannot be said with conf
dence that President Kennedy
would accept it. But it can
be said with total confidence
that he would not, at mini
mum, lightly reject it. The
Kennedy Taylor relationship
is very close.
This is the knife-edge of
the decision that impends in
Southeast Asia To send
American troops into South
Wet Nam would be to risk
anew all the horrors of the
Korean War and so perhaps
again to become involved in a
shooting war not only locally
but also with the hordes of
Red Chinese lying just to
the north.
Not to send American
troops, assuming the Taylor
mission should find them
necessary to the salvation of
South Wet Nam, would be to
invite the swallowing up of
South Wet Nam and then,
progressively, of all South
east Asia.
1t thus will be seen that
the President may shortly be
burdened with a problem
hardly less immense and
heartbreaking than the one
he Immediately faces over
Berlin. For there is no doubt
at all that if honorable nego-
tiation fails we shall either
defend West Berlin, at what
ever cost, or see the destruc-
ton of the whole Western AL
lance. So, in the end the
issue here, however danger
GUS, is at least simple: To
fish or cut bait.
But there is and can be no
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13
Incentives to National Growth

VI 1l1C. 41lC rCOCA a. OAS'SAAA
ment doesn't put any brakes
on the growth of unions
which set the wage rates in
an entire industry and COM
pei employers to accept uni
form wage costs that, Of
course, affect prices. There
are no antitrust" laws re-
stricting the growth of ma
tional unions.
Lots of talk has come from
the White House lately about
holding down prices, along
with some vague talk about
urging labor to be moderate
in it's wage demands. But the
big point is being missed.
Profits are being reduced by
one-sided policies. Prices are
an economic problem and
cannot be resolved by a po-
litical formula. National
growth will not come by gov
ernmental control of wages
and prices. 1t will come by
removing restrictions against
growth and by revising or
repeating m any antitrust
laws that have been written
by the courts-and not by
Congress.
It's time to take a look not
only at the whole "monop-
oily" situation but also at the
outmoded rules and regula-
lions of Federal agencies like
the Interstate Commerce
Commission. There is need
for a denomination, too, of
the functions of the National
Labor Relations ard,
which, every time an admin
iStration changes, reveals a
tendency on the part of new
ly appointed members to re-
gard the board as a quasi
political instead Of a quasi
judicial agency.
National growth is Ameri-
cas- most urgent need. 1t is
being blocked today. The
much-discussed competition
with the Soviets is not con-
fined to the field of educa-
ton or science but extends
to the field of production as
we'll. Unfortunately, produc-
ton doesn't have a lobby in
Washington. What's needed
is not just a political Sec
rotary of Commerce but a
Secretary of Transportation,
a Secretary of Foreign Trade,
and a Secretary of National
Production-each of them
nonpolitical, like the Secre-
tary of Defense. For all this
is related to national Sc
curity.
(CopyriEht, 1860
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13
Problem of Gen. Taylor and the President
In South Wet Nam Called Knife-Edqed

such simplicity as to South
east Asia. We have no such
total moral and human COM
mitment to Southeast Asia
as we have to West Berlin as
the symbolic heart of West
ern Europe. While there is
much to save in Southeast
Asia, there is, to be brutally
frank, not so much to save
as in Western Europe, either
in cultural or power terms.
Shall we, therefore, fight
in Southeast Asia, knowing
that even victory could not so
much as damage the central
source Of world menace, the
Soviet Union? Or will we be
forced, slowly and terribly
but surely, to begin a long
retreat in the Pacific back
from the Philippines and on
at last to Hawaii and San
Francisco?
The question is a still-dis-
tant one, but no less real for
all of that. 1t is a question
that will not be absent from
the mind of Gen. Mr.. Tay-
lor, nor yet from the mind of
President Kennedy. 1t is a
question a thousand times
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13
DAVID LAWRENCE

The biggest problem before
the country today is domes-
tic. But it has worldwide
implications. 1t can mean the
difference between defeat
and victory in the contest
with the Communist regime
in Moscow. 1t can be de-
scribed in a phrase-incen-
tives to national growth.
For the truth is that ma
tional growth is being i'm
peded, INSTRUCTED, retarded,
and even discouraged. The
greatest obstacle to national
growth is the Federal Gov
eminent itself, aided and
abetted by demagogic politi-
clans and narrow-viSioned
economic advisers in the
Government.
Two examples stand out.
First, if war broke out to-
morrow, the Nations whole
transportation system would
be inadequate to move troops
and supplies. The railroads,
for example, are in the worst
condition they have ever
been in American history.
Who is responsible? The Fed
eral Government, of course,
and this means the Con-
gresS as we'll as the Execu-
tive branch. For, while be-
lated studies, at last have
been ordered, there still is
no sign that the railroad
problem will be tackled eff
fectively.
The most Anticipated of all
laws are those governing the
railroads. Mergers are a ne
cessity today. Yet they are
being blocked by local con-
siderationS; the national in
terest is not being given
paramount attention.
The consolidation of many
small railroads into a few
big systems would give the
country efficient rail trans
portation once more under
a private-enterprise formula.
The Government can help by
removing impedimentS and
providing certain assistance
particularly to meet national
defense needs.
The next example is in
the field of production. If
America expects to compete
successfully with Soviet pro-
duction in the next 20 years,
there must be an opportunity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13
Fund Rally Set
For Notre Dame

A rally will be held at the
Standardization Hotel at 8
pm. Tuesday to open a fund
raising drive for Notre Dame
University.
The university is seeking $18
million for a history memorial
library for 2 million books,
which is now under conStruc-
ton; two graduate residence
halls. and faculty and student
aid. The Ford Foundation will
contribute one dollar for every
two Notre Dame raises.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13
DORIS FLEEsoN
Welfare Aid in National CAPITAL

tions about the humanitarian
instincts, public values and
even concepts Of fair play
in a country and government
now Boosting Of the greatest
prosperity in history. 1t also
shows that politicians too
cowardly to support family
planning do not mind, in eff
feet, enforcing it on the most
defenseless of the poor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13
Obstacles to Strengthened Rail System
And Production Blamed on Government

for American business to ex-
pand naturally in the interest
of efficiency. Tax laws on
depreciation must be revised.
Growth cannot come, more
over, if expansion is retarded
by antitrust laws that are
more theoretical than prac-
teal. More extensive opera
tons by single companies
would mean that prices could
be lowered as volume of sales
were increased and economies
were achieved through large
scale production.
1t doesn't make sense to
delegate to a bureaucracy Of
lawyers in the Department of
Justice or even to a Federal
court the solution of eco
nomic problems involving
growth. How can such Off
Gals decide whether 40 per
cent of total production in a
given industry is too much
or too little for one company
to have? Which is more i'm
portant to preserve some
ones ideas on these theoret-
ical percentages or to give
America more growth and
more employment by enabl-
ing the industries of the
United States to become eff
ficient and step up their
production?
Things of climactic impor-
lance are happening. The
common market in Europe
means stiff competition for
America. The rest of the
world is moving on while
America is tagging.
For several weeks now the
Kennedy administration has
been hearing that it is con-
sidered anti-busineSS. 1t Won
derS how this impression
gained currency. The answer
is that it isn't due simply to
speeches or comments by ad-
ministration officials. Nor is
it related solely to any an
nounced policies. 1t is the
net result of efforts to en-
force old antitrust laws that
are long out-of-date, ambig-
uous, confusing and deStruc-
tive. The politicians fear that
to help national growth by
sensible policies is to become
allied with or too friendly to
big business"
Big unioniSm, on the 9TH
er hand, is accepted as a fact
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Pakistan camel driver visit Vice President
Lyndon Johnson Lyndon determined to get this people
to- people program the hump.
Jimmy Hoffa is indicted again. The Transfers boss is
consderate SOUL No America has done for the
and feeding of lawyers
President Kennedy backs away from balanced budget
in 62 New Frontier fiscal slogan: ASK not what your
try will do you-nor where will get money do it,
Dedicated person: The guy at p-launchng
who gets beaned with the champagne bottle by mistake
Real conservative: A who further out from
town he get in of pools that
tine to criticize the administration
Democrats who oppose Boston's John Mccormack for
Speaker of the House seek support from Bostons Jack
needy Question Can they get up-to keep Irish
John down?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13

University Shop takes your favorite dress-up color
-bue-and gives it new depth and distinction.
Meticulously tailored, these suits are up to U. S.
standards in every way-styling superior wor-
steds and uncommon patterns in pure blues and
mixtures with grays and olives. Be recognized
as man of good fashion-sense this season.
wear Camelot blue suit from the University Shop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13
Choir Workshop
Set Tomorrow

A junior choir Workshop for
Washington area organists and
choir directors will be held
from 10 am. to 4 pm. tomor-
row in Westmoreland Congre-
gational Church, Westmoreland
circle NV.
DR.. Roberta Bitgood of Det-
roit, director of music at Red
for Presbyterian Church, will
lead the meeting.
The workshop is being spon-
sored by the District of Colum-
bia Chapter Of the American
Guild of Organists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13
DORIS FLEESON

The chill of autumn and
approaching winter is over
taking the United States. 1t
seems also to be quietly
creeping into the public
style and heart Of the rich
est country on earth.
The relief of human misery
has taken backward steps be-
fore, but it has been possible
to believe that these were
isolated and occasional. Now.
however. one is being taken
at the very fountainhead of
the national will.
Washington is governed
by District Commissioners
appointed by the President
with Congress holding the
power Of the purse. Acting
virtually under orders from
Congress, the Commissioners
have decided to cut back
welfare payments to father
less families with large num-
bers of dependent children.
The decrease is being made
without any showing that
the cost Of rearing children
has dropped one penny.
There can't be any such
showing really as every par
ent knows.
Support for schools in the
District is similarly being
slashed, even while the Pen
tagon gets whatever it asks,
from bombs to brass polish.
The Kennedy administra-
ton, despite its affirmative
responsibility for the District
of Columbia and its piously
liberal attitudes on social
questions. acquiesced to con-
gressional conservatism with
respect to the District. 1t has
not protested the action of
its Commissioners nor sought
means to avert it.
Like a gorgeous night
blooming flower, a new social
season is opening in the Ma
TONS Capital. The White
House is more splendid than
ever before; more thought
and creative energy is going
into its entertainments. The
Kennedy touch of youth and
elegance is refreshing in a
cherished institution prone to
Stodginess.
Yet it cannot be overlooked
that the Kennedy admins
tration has shown that on
an issue of htman need it
seems content to stand to
the right of Senator Gold
water. For those on welfare
rolls and their children, sac
rifice is apparently not des-
tined to be a fleck of rhetoric.
The actual reduction or
dered here is small-unless
one is trying to feed, clothe
educate and civilize four fast
growing, hungry youngsters
on a total family income OF
less than 5000 a month. The
order reads that public as
sistance for destitute families
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13
Kings Point Club
To Hear Admiral

Rear Admiral John Harllee.
retired, commander Of Presi-
dent Kennedy's Navy torpedo
boat squadron in World War II.
will address the ninth annual
banquet and dinner-dance of
the Kings Point Club at 7 pm.
tomorrow. The event will be
held at the Naval Weapons
Plant officers club, Eleventh
and o streets Sc.
Admiral Harllee recently was
appointed by the President to
the Federal Maritime Commits
sion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13
WILLIAM S. WHITE
FotefuI Decision in Southeast Asia

more significant that the
perpetual question of
whether the Red Chinese are
to be allowed to muscle and
threaten their way into the
United Nations.
For the Pacific was the
Pacific cons before the
United Nations was a pup.
And the military allies we
have long had in the one are
not so easy to find in the
other, that great tower in
New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-13
Question of Humanitarian Instincts
Seen in Relief Cut for Some

whose fathers have died, de-
serted or become unable to
work will be reduced by 50
a month for a family Of four
children to $50 for a family
Of II children.
1t raises unsettling ques-
Evening star., 1961-09-19
BY JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Star Staff Writer

SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. Sept.
19.-Commonwealth's Attorney
T. Stokeley Coleman today
launches the prosecution of
Melvin Davis Rees, jr., in Cir
cult Court here, producing the
first of more than 10 witnesses
in the Hyattsville Md mu-
Sician's murder trial.
Under the supervision of
Judge John D. Butzner. jr., op-
posing counsel today completed
selection of a jury of 10 men
and two women to decide Rees'
fate. Most of a panel of nearly
100 men and wome nwere elm
mated for various reasons in
the day and a half it took to
select the jury of IL and two
RlternateS.
Those sworn in just before
the noon recess by court clerk
w. Cary Crismond we're: w. C.
Dozier. a post office clerk;
Helen Brown, a housewife; Will
liam F. Shelton, an American
Viscose Corp. engineer; Frank
L. Browne. an insurance agent;
William D. Brame, lumber
salesman; Bernice Dickinson,
worker in shirt factory.
Also Thomas R. Brown. a
civil service employe; Jesse
Winn, a laborer; Bruce Acors,
Robert A. Atchison and James
Evening star., 1961-09-19
Rees Prosecution CoIIinq
1st Witnesses; 2 Are New

c. Mitz, all employees of Amer
lean Viscose. and Horace Brown,
an electrical store operator.
Mrs. Helen Brown is the only
Negro on the jury, and the
other three Browns are not re-
lated.
The alternate jurors are j. M.
Young, a sawmill operator and
Lee T. Nunnery, merchant.
At least two of the witnesses
Subpoenaed by the prosecution
were not among those who
testified against Rees at his
Federal kidnapping trial in Bal
timore last winter. They are
Irving and Denise Adams, a
P asadena Md married
couple, who are expected to
testify of their escape from an
armed man in 1857 after he
forced their car off a road in
Anne Arundel County, Md, in
a kidnap attempt.
Rees, 80. is being tried here
in the kidnapping and murder
of the four members of the
Carroll v. jackson family of
Apple Grove. Louisa County,
Va, on January IL, 1859. He is
specifically indicted in the
fatal shooting of the 29-year-
old father.
He is also charged but not
indicted in the death of 18-
month-old Janet jackson. He
Evening star., 1961-09-19

already has been sentenced to
life Imprisonment for the kid
mapping of Mrs. Mildred Jack
son, 81. and the other daugh-
ter, Susan Anne, S, whose
bodies were found in Anne
Arundel County.
In the main, the list of wit
neSSes subpoenaed by the Com
monwealth is similar to that
used by the Federal prosecu-
tors earlier this year. The only
witnesses subpoenaed by the
defense attorneys. Joseph l.
Savage, jr., and Alfred w. Gar
nett, are william Flynn, a
Washington music store owner
who once employed Rees, and
Vivian Storm, listed in the 1400
block of N street N. w.
Reporters were told she is a
21-year-old night club dancer
who testified at Rees' first. trial
that she had lived with him at
various times and has been
known as Pat Rees, Pat Routt,
Pat Widenhouse, Laura Stew
ems. Pat Gossett, Pat Seaford
and Tanya.
Mr.. Savage, Rees' court-ap-
pointed attorney, was over
ruled by Judge Butzner yes
terday on a motion he made
to change the location of the
trial after the court ran out of
jury candidates.
Evening star., 1961-09-19

are displayed on Chesapeake
Bay. Cloudy with rain, heavy
at times tonight and tomor-
row, in east and central por-
tions. Increasing northeasterly
winds. becoming gale force or
stronger in east tonight and
tomorrow. Low tonight rang
ing from upper SOS in noun
talns to low 70s along the
coast.
Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay-Gale warnings are
displayed on Chesapeake Bay.
Northeasterly winds increasing
to Is to 40 knots tonight and
probably stronger tomorrow.
Cloudy with rain becoming
heavy tonight and tomorrow.
Visibility 2 to S miles but less
than lmile at times in fog and
rain. Small craft should re-
main III port. increasing tldeS.
Pollen Count
The D. C. Medical Society re-
ports a pollen count for the "a
hours ending at 9 am. today of
7 grains per 3.6 centimeters
square slide area.
River Report
Potomac, River clear at Harper's
Ferry and partlv cloudy at c 80.
Falls. Shenandoah clear at Harper S
Ferry.
Temperatures for Yesterday
Midnight 80 Noon SIS
am. 5B pm f6
& am. 5R pnl "a
Record Temperatures for the Year
Htghest 95 on September 3.
Lowest 4 on February ..
The Sun and the Moon
Rises Sets
Sun today 6:53 am. 1.lUp.m.
Sun tomorrow 6:54 am 7:Og pm.
Moon today 3:52 pm. 1907 am.
Automobile lights must be turned on
IA hour after sunset.