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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-03
Smiths Attend Wesleyan Methodist
Convention In South Carolina

NEW CANTON, Mar. 2 Mr..
and Mrs. James Smith spent last
week in Central, S. c., attend
ing a Wesleyan Methodist con-
vention.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maury Jones
honored their son, 1t. Jones, at
a birthday dinner Sunday. Be-
sides 1t. Jones and his family.
they had Mrs. Jones parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Harris.
Later in the evening Mr.. and
Mrs. Billy Harris. Mr.. and Mrs.
Jimmy Blank and family, Patsy
Harris and Lewis Moss joined
the party.
Mr.. and Mrs. Billy Harris and
family are spending a few DAYS
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Harris.
H0nOred on 95th Birthday
Henry Harding celebrated his
18th birthday on February 10 in
the home of his son, Ellwyn
Harding. and Mrs. Harding.
There were A present, children.
grandchildren and great-grand-
children with a few other rela-
tives and friends.
MIR. and Mrs. Harding's 4Oth
wedding anniversary was on Feb
ruary 10 so they celebrated to-
gether on Sunday.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-03

Snoddy Sunday were Branch,
Annie May, Willie, John and
Junior Davis and James Snoddy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Llewellyn
and family, of Buckingham, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman Childress
and family were guests Sunday
of their mother, Mrs. w. T. Chill
dress.
Mrs. Jewel Davis spent Sun
day with Mrs. Harold Harvey.
Mrs. Clarice Christian and
Raymond Sogren spent Saturday
in Richmond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boyd Snoddy
were in Charlottesville Thursday.
Mrs. Sroddy went for a check
on her broken limb. Doctors told
her they thought she was i'm
proving SO well that they could
remove the cast in April. They
stopped in to see Mr.. and Mrs.
Perkins Snoddy on their return
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Ragland
visited her father, Roy Gormous,
Sr., Sunday in Stuart Circle Hos
pital, where he is recuperating
from a leg amputation last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Harvey
visited his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. B. Harvey, near Scottsville
Friday evening.
Mrs. June Nixon and Archie
Nixon visited her uncle, R. A.
Childress, and Mrs. Childress
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-03
Scholarships
Offered By
Continental Can

The Hopewell, Virginia Dis
trict of the Continental Can Com
pany, Inc, Woodlands Division
has announced that it will again
in 1861 offer two forestry schol-
arships having total value of
100000 each. Each Scholarship
is for Sl,0O00O per year for four
years OF study in the field of pro
fessional forestry.
These two scholarships will be
awarded to an outstanding high
school graduate. one in Virginia
and one III North Carolina. In
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-03-03
Wind Blows Out Electric Lights;
Guests Enjoy Candlelight Supper

SUNNY SIDE, Mar. 2 = Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert Hindle Good
man entertained at candlelight
supper on Saturday night. The
reason for the beauty of the can
die lighting was lack of electric
Evening star., 1961-05-13
Police Seize 3
InHousebreukinq

Pvt. Billy ]. Gam of the 14th
precinct was walking his beat
in the 5000 block of Minnesota
avenue Sc. early this morning
when he saw three men shinny
up a drainpipe to the roof of
a group of stores. He tagged
down a bus driver and told him
to call more police.
When three scout cars and
two patrol wagons arrived the
three men climbed down the
pipe, to be met with waiting
police guns.
All were charged with at
tempted housebreaking "a ven-
tilator paddock on the roof was
found forced OPEN and pos
session of implements of
crime" A set of burglar tools
was found on the roof.
Charged were Francis S.
Hawkins, 26. of the 200, block
Thirty seventh place Sc;
Charles Adams, "a, of the 600
block Oglethorpe street NV,
and Harold Marshall, 26, of the
$500 block Nichols avenue Sc.
Thief told police somebody
had tossed their car keys on
the roof and they were search
ing for them.
Evening star., 1961-05-13
Young Driver Fined
In Crash Fatal to ;

An 49, year old Alexandria
boy yesterday was fined $75 for
losing control of his car, which
crashed on the George Wash
ington Memorial parkway jan
uary 27, 1861, killing three
teen-agers and injuring him.
self and two others.
Judge Oren R. Lewis of the
Alexandria Federal Court ac-
quilted James Ward of 124 East
Raymond street, Alexandria, a
student at George Washington
Higs School, of charges he was
speeding and driving reckleSSly
at the time of the accident.
Judge Lewis ruled in the case
after hearing testimony from
the two other survivors of the
crash, along with a member of
the Ford Motor Co.'S chemical
and metallurgical department,
foreman of the auto shop that
serviced the car, and park po-
licemen.
Killed when the car went off
the road a quarter-mile north
of Collingwood and smashed
into a pine tree we're Donald c.
Rotramel, 16, of 3515 Mount
Vernon avenue, a Junior at
George Washington Hig h
Evening star., 1961-05-13
CruckdoWn
Weighed in
Job Deaths

The United States attorneys
office at Municipal Court is
studying the possibility of per-
scouting company officials for
involuntary manslaughter for
fatal job accidents.
Such a conviction, which
would require proof of criminal
negligence, could result in a
maximum sentence of Is years
in prison, a $1,000 fine, or both.
At present, persons respon-
sible for conditions that cause
fatal accidents are prosecuted
by the District for violations of
safety regulations. The maxi
mum penalty is a $500 fine or
80 days in jail.
Harold Sullivan, assistant
United States attorney, who is
preparing a memorandum on
the subject, said the possibility
of stiffer penalties might pro-
vided IAN added incentive to
firms to provide safe working
conditions"
Mr.. Sullivan was assigned to
study the possibility of involun-
tary manslaughter prosecutions
in cases involving negligence
after three unattended children
died in a January fire believed
caused by a defective television
set.
Within the past month, two
constructions firms which for
feited collateral on industrial
safety violation charges in fatal
Job accidents, have again been
brought to Municipal Court to
face new safety violations
charges.
Mr.. Sullivan's study is not
limited to construction acci-
dents and includes a survey
Of other cases where criminal
negligence might justify man.
slaughter charges, such as mall
nutrition deaths of children.
The study will not be COM
pleted for another one or two
months, Mr.. Sullivan said. Any
recommendations would require
the approval of David C. Ache
son, United States attorney.
Evening star., 1961-05-13
Point System
DropsArrests

BALTIMORE, May 10 (Spe-
ciaD-Maryland's new traffic
point system apparently is
making motorists more aware
of the traffic policeman.
Figures released by the De-
partment of Motor Vehicles yes
terday showed a sharp drop in
the number of traffic arrests
for the first four months of
1861 compared with the same
period of 1860.
The point system, under
which motorists are assessed
points for traffic violations,
went into effect January l.
Since then ticketed motorists
have collected a total of 17,439
points.
Arrests for traffic violations
totaled 64,669 during the first
four months of 1861, compared
to 83,602 for the same period
of 1860. A spokesman for the
Division of Motor Vehicles at
tributed a major share of the
drop to a more cautious atti-
tude on the part of motorists
who fear loss of license"
Part of the drop also was
attributed to the bad winter
which caused a drop in traffic
volume. The slippery roads
were given most of the credit.
however, for a jump in another
statistic-the number of acci-
dent reports-which jumped
from 4O,345 for the first four
months of 1860 to 48,404 for
the same period this year.
Under the new point system,
motorists are assessed from l
to IL points depending on the
seriousness of the violation.
Most of the 17,439 handed out
so far were for one and three
point violations. Licenses are
suspended when the motorist
accumulates eight points and
revoked at IL points.
Evening star., 1961-05-13
POWER OF A WOMAN'S mo-
HoIdup FoiIed, 3 Seized

The power Of a woman's
NO." the response of a citizen
to the unusual and an unreli-
able car spelled failure yester-
day in Bladensburg for three
would-be bandits.
The woman, Mrs. Edrie E.
Brown, AZ, defiantly told two
would-be robbers mo" when
they pointed a. gun and asked
for the $4,000 she had just
withdrawn from the Citizens
Bank of Maryland, 4805 Annap-
oils road.
The citizen, Francis E. Gasch,
As, of 4OO2 Forty-eighth street,
Rladensburg, followed the car
until it broke down four blocks
away, got the license number
and then led police to the
scene.
Wouldn't Move Over
Mrs. Brown said the incident
began about II am. when she
was accosted by two men as she
got into her station wagon out
side the bank. She had just
withdrawn $4,000 for Louie's
Industrial City Restaurant, at
3415 Fifty-second avenue, Bla-
densburg, where she is a wait
reSS.
One man approached the car
after she had gotten in and
said, Move over" she said. He
Evening star., 1961-05-13

School; Lamar Moehring, 18,
of 448 Argyle drive. also a
George Washington Junior. and
Sue Irene Milaknis, 18, George
Washington senior. of 1902
Edison road.
Detective Sergt. James j.
Lyons of the Park Police testi-
fled young Ward told him after
the wreck he was taking the car
through a right turn in the
north bound lane of the park
way at about so miles per hour
lat the time the car went into
a skid off the road.
Detective Lyons said young
Ward told him the wheels did
not respond when he turned
the steering wheel.
Judge Lewis rejected a re-
construction in chart form of
the path the vehicle took when
it left the road, drafted by w.
j. Pfander, the Ford Motor Co.
representative.
The judge indicated he gave
little weight to testimony by
Mr.. Pfander, who said he based
his opinion on an examination
of the wrecked car three days
after the crash, that the car
must have been going in excess
of rs miles per hour"
Evening star., 1961-05-13

OIlC 1dbCl Va NOlLoCl NoOA
turned Liberal on Mr.. Stephens
in an address at Martinsville.
With biting sarcasm, Mr.. Har-
rison told his 5th district audi
ence he would postpone ex-
tensive comment on Mr.. Ste
phenS, who ran as a conserva-
tive but is now emerging as a
liberal"
We'll just have to wait I'M
til the emergence is complete,
Mr.. Harrison said.
Mr.. Stephens. meantime. in
vaded the home country of Sem
ator Harry F. Byrd in Win
chester and delivered another
scathing attack on the Byrd or
ganization before a gathering
of some rs persons.
Sees New Blood Barred
He said "the machine" re-
fuses to allow new blood. new
talent, to break through" in
Virginia government. that it
STILES ambition crushes
incentive"
And, Mr.. Stephens charged,
the organization is run by a
CLOSE, exclusive inner circle
of advisors" that is now al
most reduced to a father-son
DEAL" in obvious reference to
Senator Byrd and his son, State
Senator Harry F. Byrd, jr.
While Mr.. Stephens dealt
almost exclusively with the
alleged evils of the organiza-
tion in his speech, Mr.. Harri-
sons comparatively mild re-
joinder was merely an off-the-
cuff elaboration of an address
in which he discussed the prob
lens of education and agri-
culture.
He told the 5th district din
ner meeting he didn't believe
Evening star., 1961-05-13
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR:
Canals Beauty and Blight
Is Viewed in Sunday Star

FLOWERS, BIRDS AND SHANTY TOWNS the
advent of spring the C&SO Canal is a sight not
to be missed. In SUNDAY, The Star Magazine
you're taken on word and picture visit including
view in full color showing you the beauty and
also the blight along the historic canal
SEVEN GIFTS MY MOTHER GAVE ME"-In This
Week Magazine, Meredith Wilson, Broadway's
famous Music Man." offers special Mothers Day
salute by recalling some of the special memories he
has of his mothers teachings; Secretary of Labor
Arthur Goldberg tells young people How to Make
Your Summer Job Really Pay" and Senator
William Proxmire offers three -pronged plan for
doing away with the needless secrecy that costs
American taxpayers millions of dollars every year
WOMEN IN THE CIVIL WAR-This Sunday, in the
SocetyHome Section, Ruth Dean takes look at
the part the women of the North and South played
in getting supplies to- the front during the Civil
War; with account of the service rendered by
Clara Barton.
WHERE TO GO CAMPING On Sundays Leisure
Sports Page outdoor Editor Charles Cove tells you
where to get camping information camp sites in
every State in the Union and Canada. In addition
learn all about camping facilities available in Mary
land and Virginia.
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1961-05-13
BY PAUL HOPE
Star Staff Writer

Two organizations OF Mary
land savings and loan associa-
tions were on record today
against a movement to force
the States new savings and loan
regulatory bill to a referendum.
Petitions seeking a referen-
dunn on the measure are being
circulated in Baltimore by
sources who have not disclosed
their identity. 1t was reported
however, that those behind the
petition movement appear to
be we'll organized and financed
The petition movement was
opposed today by the Maryland
Savings and Loan League and
the Maryland Council of Inde-
pendent Savings and Loan AS
Sociations.
Sees Required Signers
Carl Gottschalk. executive
secretary of the league. said it
seems obvious that the people
behind the referendum move
are savings and loan associa-
tions which don't want the
curbS imposed by the new law"
Mr.. Gottschalk's group is made
up of Federally insured asSocia-
tions which worked actively for
the new law.
Mr.. Gottschalk said it seems
likely that the people behind
the referendum movement will
be able to get the 10000 sigma
lures necessary to place the
regulatory measure on a refer
endum. He said he believes
that every effort" should be
made to head off the referen-
dunn.
He said this would include
litigation to have the, courts
decide whether the savings and
loan act is subject to a refer
endum.
Most acts of the General
Assembly are Subject to a ref
erendum, but appropriation
measures are not. Mr.. Gott-
schalk said that since the
Evening star., 1961-05-13

the problem of school desegre-
CATION would be solved in this
generation. But he said Vir-
ginia has done nothing to bring
dishonor upon itself in the
recent years of crisis, and he
pledged that if elected he would
work to strengthen education
for every Virginia child.
Others Appear
Other candidates for State
wide office in the July II
party primary also were on the
hustings last night. Mr.. HarTi-
sons running-mates on the
organization backed slate,
State Senator Mills Goodwin
for Lieutenant Governor and
State Senator Robert Y. Button
for Attorney General, shared
the platform at Martinsville.
State Senator Armistead
Boothe, the Stephens-Boothe-
Boyd ticket aspirant for Lieu
tenant Governor, spoke in
Richmond.
Mr.. Harrison won the praise
and support of two former
Governors, Thomas B. Stanley
and Representative William M
Tuck, in his appearance at
Martinsville in the organiza-
ton dominated 5th district.
Mr.. Stephens told his Win
chester audience he considers
machine rule" in Virginia is
"a tragedy greater than our
lack of industry, adequate high.
ways or adequate financing
State Senator Boothe said in
Richmond that Virginia's en-
tire State and local tax struc-
ture must be revised, re-ex.
amined and in places over
hauled" if State needs are tc
be met.
Evening star., 1961-05-13

waved a gun at her and de-
manded money.
NO" Mrs. Brown replied.
Il said move over" the man
repeated.
You're crazy; I won't move
over" responded Mrs. Brown.
With that, Mrs. Brown said,
a second man got up from the
back of the car where he had
been lying in wait, and said,
Wed better get out of here. "
The two made a fast exit,
Evening star., 1961-05-13
Science Pupil
Winners in
State Named

LEXINGTON, Va. May 13
CAP).-Names of Is top win
ners and IA honorable men,
tions were announced yesterday
in Virginia Junior Military
Academy of Science competi-
ton here.
Judges picked the winning
projects out of the 73 set up at
Virginia Military Institute.
where the junior groups and
the adult Virginia Academy of
Science winds up their joint
annual session today.
The 73 science projects were
the cream of hundreds sub
mitted by high school science
students in five Junior Science
Day competitions held around
the State.
The following partial list
includes winning rank, name,
school and project.
For Biology:
First place - william Sieefried.
Prince william County's Garfield High.
second-Sharon Lynn Bynaker, James
Monroe High Of Fredericksburg. third
Julia Meredith, Blacksburg High: hon.
orable northumberland and Daniel
Peacock. Fairfax High: Lawrence
MacMara, Francis Hammond High in
Alexandria.
For Chemistry:
First piace-Russell Cook, j. E. B.
Stewart High in Falls Church; second
William Burtchaell, Fairfax High;
third-Charles Baltimbre. r. B. Worth
High OF Saltville: honorable mention
Michael Finegan. Fairfax High.
For Physics:
First place-John M. Cone, jr., Fran
els C. Hammond High of Alexandria;
second-Michaeil Souders OF MacLean
High: third-Peter H. Henry of War
wick High in Newport News.
For miscellaneous entries:
Honorable mention-Carolyn Sanders
Of Hoffman Boston in Arlington.
Douglas Houweling of Fairfax High,
Stephen Barker OF Gunston Junior High
in Arlington and Randall zisler OF
GunSton.
Evening star., 1961-05-13

tumbled into a nearby car with
two other men and drove off
quickly.
Il never gave it a thought
that I could be killed." she
said later. Il just thought.
They're not going to get the
money and the car"
Mr.. Gasch said his curiosity
was aroused when he saw the
two men running across the
bank parking lot. He was
driving home at the time, but
decided to trail behind their
car.
Cover Rear Tag
Il turned left into Quincy
street and saw their car conk
out by Bladensburg Junior
High. I saw three men get out.
One of them threw a rag or
cloth of some kind over the
rear tag of the car" But Mr.
Gasch noted the front license
plate number.
Mr.. Gasch. who said he is
a cousin of Oliver Gasch, for
mer United States attorney fol
the District. radioed his wife
on his citizen band radio tc
report what was happening.
Il saw one of the mer
change coats and tear off q
mask he was wearing earlier
I headed back to the bank and
told police about it,"
Prince Georges Police Pvt
Walter Bosch then arrested two
men by the broken down car.
A third suspect was spotted
by Mr.. Gasch running across
Annapolis road in the 480O
block. lar. Gasch said he drove
back to the bank. notified po-
lice and again led them up the
road. where Sergt. Adam j
Lindsay caught the man.
, His Second Cousin
The third man was identi-
fled by police as Donald L.
Gasch. 25. a plumber, of the
first block of Danbury street
Sc. He is being held in the
lookup at Hyattsville in lieu
of $2.7O0 bond on charges OF
assault with intent to rob, con-
spiracy to assault and rob, and
an old bad-check charge. Mr..
Gasch said the suspect is his
second cousin.
Also charged with conspiracy
to rob were John H. Putnam
25, of the 1900 block of East
Capitol street, and Alvin l.
Hankins, 25, of the 1400 block
of Twenty-Second street S.E.
A preliminary hearing is
scheduled for the three men
Monday in HyattSville Police
Court.
Police are looking for a fourth
suspect in the case.
Detectives Blair Montgomery
and Everett Husck said that the
three men had visited the res
taurant where Mrs. Brown works
several times in the last two
weeks.
Mr.. Gasch, who operates the
E. A. Gasch & Son plumbing
concern. 4723 Annapolis road
Bladensburg, said that his dog
Lady, was along with him dur.
ing the entire incident.
Evening star., 1961-05-13
Blossoms at Height
In Shenandoah Park
BY the Associated Press

Dogwood, Service and Tril-
lium will be at their height
in Shenandoah National Park
this week end, the National
Park Service announced.
The dogwood is most abund-
ant in the southern area of the
park, between Swift Run and
Waynesboro, Va, along the
Skyline Drive, the announce
ment said. Service and Tril-
lium are found throughout the
park area.
Evening star., 1961-05-13
Loan Unit Chartered

RICHMOND, Va, May 13
(AP) The State Corporation
Commission has chartered the
Orange County Savings and
Loan Association.
Evening star., 1961-05-13
2 Sovings-Loon Groups
Fioht Law Referendum

savings and loan act levies a
tax on association deposits to
finance the supervisory activi-
ties, the act may be classified
as an appropriation measure
and not subject to referendum
If the referendum is forced
it would mean the vote would
not be held until November
1862, and a delay of nearly two
years before it would go into
effect, providing it is approved
by the voters. The law, which
was passed at the recent ses-
sion of the General Assembly
is scheduled to go into effect
June !.
If we allow the abuses that
have gone on during the past
year to continue for another
18 months it will be too late to
do anything" Mr.. Gottschalk
said.
Won Amendment
The Maryland Council of In
dependent Savings and Loan
Associations announced its op-
position to the referendum
movement, even though it
fought some of the provisions
of the new law when it was
before the Legislature.
The council, made up of
about 40 independent associa-
tions, was successful in having
the act amended to remove a
provision which would have
outlawed multi-stock savings
and loan associations. Most OF
the members of the council are
multi-Stock associations. The
new law allows multi-stock as
sociations in operation as of
January l, 1861, to remain in
business.
In Baltimore, copies of the
petition were available at head
quarters of the Trenton Demo-
cratic Club, according to an
official of the group, the Balti-
more Sun reported. The club is
a stronghold of James H. JackJ
Pollack, Northwest Baltimore
Democratic leader.
Evening star., 1961-05-13
Maryland U. Sets
PI Iacement ests
Stephens and Harrison
Trade Campaign Fire
Byrd Rule Scored as Exclusive Deal;
Its Candidate Derdes New Liberal

Virgnias Democratic primary campaign generated more
heat last night 1t Gov E. S. Stephens launched
broadsde at the Byrd organization and the first return fire
came from the organization camp.
Former Attorney General A. S. Harrison r the organiza
candidate the nomination Governor hung
Evening star., 1961-10-17
Kennedy Studies
Eisenhower for
Peoples Chief

President Kennedy is con-
sidering asking former Presi-
dent Eisenhower to head the
people-to-people program which
seeks to promote better under
standing with other nation,
through personal contacts. ad.
ministration officials said today
Gen. Eisenhower launched
the program when he was Pres
ident. calling together repre-
sentatives of various private
organizations to promote peo-
ple-to-people contacts as the
surest road to peace"
The program is operated
privately outside the Govern
ment. but with the Govern
ment assisting in many ways
to coordinate the efforts OF
private organizations.
Officials said there has been
some discussion at the White
House recently Of naming Gen,
Eisenhower to head the pro-
gram. but that there had been
no final decision.
Evening star., 1961-10-17


United States policy toward
President Tito's government
might put Yugosiavia in a dip
lomatic no-man's land between
East and West. ..
Receipt Not Confirmed
State Department officials
would not confirm receipt Of
the note.
Informants said Marsal Tito's
government expressed the hope
there will be. no change in
basic relations including
United States economic Coop
eration-between the two
countries.
White House Press Secretary
Pierre Salinger said yesterday
a current review of United
States-Yugoslav relations goes
into all aspects of assistance
to Yugoslavia."
The Tito regime recently
asked the United States to con-
slider selling to Yugoslavia
some additional surplus agri-
cultural commodities with pay
ment to be in Yugoslav cur
rency. To date, the United
States has not agreed to nego-
tate this request.
Kennedy Reported Irked
1t has been reported that
President Kennedy was irked
by Marshal Tito's stand at the
Belgrade conference of IS un-
aligned nations. Marshal Tito's
speech at the conference