The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-10-24

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mendouS deterrent force"
A PLEA for the Soviet Union
to call off its test of a 5O-megaton
bomb seemed assured of passage
by the l0l-member UN political
committee Saturday. The pc
tition is sponsored by six small
nations which would be in the
path of radioactive falout from
such a test. But an Afro-Asian
group was seeking to widen it
to include an appeal for a mora
torium on all nuclear testing.
A CAMEL DRIV from
PakiStan. whom Vice President
johnson met and invited to come
to America, visited the U. S. last
week. He spent several days
with johnson in Texas and went
to Washington to meet President
Kennedy. He even took a side
trip to talk to the students at
Varina (Va.) high school, telling
them to take advantage of edu-
cational opportunities which he
never had.
FINNISH PRESIDENT Urho
Kekkonen also visited Washing
ton last week. He proudly re-
called that his country has re-
paid every cent of loans made
to it by the U. S. following the
devastation of World War II. AT
a press club luncheon he ex-
planned that because of Finland s
small size and nearness to the
Soviet Union, it must remain
neutral in the cold war struggle
to maintain its liberty.
A NEGRO MINISTER and in
tegration leader, Rev. Martin
Luther King. has turned down a
chance to play a senator from
Georgia in the movie Advise
and Consent" Otto Preminger,
the films director, had announc-
ed King would play a small part
as Senator King from Georgia. :"
The idea was attacked by many
Georgians, including Gov. Ernest
Vandiver who said it would turn
a good book into sheer fan
tasy." One can't help wondering
ii this was a publicity stunt.
FORD MOTOR COMPANY re-
sumed operations at most of its
plants last week following a
strike by the United Auto Work
ers. JAW President Walter Reu-
Their moved on to contract talks
with Chrysler.
A NUCLEAR ATTACK on the
U. S. would be suicidal for the
aggressor, Roswell Gilpatric,
deputy secretary of defense, told
a group Of businessmen in Hot
Springs. Va, Saturday. In a
major d e f e n e policy speech
cleared by the President. Gilpat-
ric said, This nation has nu-
clear retaliatory force of such
lethal power that an enemy move
which brought it into play would
be an act of self-destruction." He
said the nuclear striking force Of
the U. S. is equal or superior to
that of the Soviet Union, limiting
that American intelligence has
come up with a new estimate of
military might. The U.
S. has hundreds of manned
bombers, including 600 long
range planes, six Polaris sub
marines at sea with a total of IS
and dozens of intercon-
tinental ballistic missiles. all
capable of delivering a nuclear
payload to Russia.
PRESIDENT DE GAULLE of
France has suggested that this is
not the time for the West to me-
gotiate with Russia over Berlin.
He thinks the West should sit
tight and await developments in
the struggle for power within the
Communist world.
PRICES moved in narrow
range on the New York Stock
Exchange for the second straight
week with trading volume show
ing little inclination to expand.
However. the AP average closed
Friday at a new historic high of
$3.50 4Q. up R.lo from the preu-
GUS week.