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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-02-17
Virginia's 3lst Mobile Emergency
Hospital Now In Readiness Here
Leaf Sales End

This weeks two clean up
sales ended tobacco auctions
Of the 1860 crop. Nearly
10000 pounds were sold
Tuesday and Thursday here.
Prices held fairly firm.
and a near-record general
floor average for the season
is anticipated when all ware
house reports are in.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-02-17
Federal Court
School Hearing
Set April II

A Federal District Court hear
ing on request by the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People to file an
amended supplemental complaint
in the Prince Edward county
school segregation case has been
set for April II at Richmond.
Federal Judge Oren R. Lewis
has been asked by NAACP at
torneys for permission to file the
complaint which in effect chal-
lenges Prince Edwards educa-
tional grants and tax credit ordi-
nanceS.
The complaint was presented to
the court January s, but has not
been accepted as part Of the liti-
cation. State Attorney General
Albertis S. Harrison, Jr., and Col
Inns Denny, Jr., attorney for the
Prince Edward county school
board. have said they will oppose
! the filing of the complaint.
The amended supplementary
complaint asks Judge Lewis to
enter an order prohibiting:
ID The expenditure of public
funds for the direct or indirect
support of any private school
which excludes Negroes by rea-
son of race.
~ The expenditure of public
funds to aid or reimburse per-
| sons for money paid as tuition to
any private school that excludes
Negroes by reason of race.
49, The award Of a tax credit
to any person who pays or con-
tributes to any private school that
excludes Negroes by reason of
| race.
A demonstration by several
hundred Negro children from
Prince Edward county will be
held in Washington. D. c.. this
spring, according to the Congress
of Racial Equality CORE.
James Farmer. national direc-
tor of the Congress. made the an
nouncement February II at Lex
ington, KY.
Farmer said CORE S national
council will co-Sponsor the dem
onstration with the Sou h n
Christian Leadership Conference
1t will be held, according to the
national director, to dramatic
the situation in Prince Edward
county where public schools have
been closed for two years in the
face of a court order to deSegre-
gate them.
| A Kennedy Administration view
of the Prince Edward school
situation was given last week in
Washington after a presidential
press conference in which Presi-
dent Kennedy spoke on the school
issue, with particular reference
to New Orleans.
| The APP reported the president
said. Students should be per-
mitted to attend schools in accor-
dance with court decisions. The
broader question. of course. is.
regardless Of the court decision
believe strongly that every
American should have maximum
development of his talents under
the most b e Il e. c al circum-
stances. and that is what the
Constitution provides"
The President also said he
would assume role in the school
indignation dispute lat such time
as I think it most useful and eff
fective.' He added he would
bring the moral authority or po-
sition of influence of the presiden,
tial office to bear in New Orleans
Continued on page 81
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-02-17
Nuclear Blast, Flood, Hurricane
Could Call 20O-Bed Unit Into Use
BY JOHN STICK

Somewhere those supplies
ment Leoa Wheeler Dortoy Longwood College Wednesday
there are 10 bottles OF Benzakonium Chloride solution.
Somewhere the pilowcases
Both will be the covering
cubic feet of storage
their intended Civil Defense hospital
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-02-17
Rusty, Missing Boxer, Lone Casualty

njured-n0 shaken up-Edward H. and Merrill j. Cot
fin, brothers of West Bath, Me.
Damaged-Cofns 1857 Lincoln sedan 81 200 ttota
driven Eugene Heights
S. c., $3.50.
MissingRusty Boxer dog and constant companion Coffin
Brothers Rusty reddish brown with white
red collar eaped from the smashed windows Of the
hasn't been SIS awaits the finder
the WeyanOke Hotel FarmvlIe.
Driving north Route IS Monday at 4:3O pm Driver Ed
ward Coffin &c. failed to yield stop right of heading
Rounte O Souhside Community Hospital Before ca
reening sceechng collision halted truck and hurded
north side curb and to rest in the
Patteson residence Observers could the
jury miraculous
Evening star., 1961-03-18
Labor Terms Agreed
At Honford A-PIont

RICHLAND, Wash, Mar. 18
. CAP) "A 7l2-month labor dis
pute at the Hanford Atomic
Works was settled early today.
General Electric Co., prime
contractor for the Atomic
Energy Commission at the Han
ford works said it and the Han
ford Atomic Metal Trades
Council reached agreement, in
principle, subject to ratifica-
tion by the member unions Of
the council, on all matters open
for negotiations at l am.
today"
The Metal Trades Council
includes members of about 10
union locals and represents
almost half of GE's 5000 en-
ployes at Hanford.
Production and craft workers
in the council had planned to
strike early last Monday, but
a last-minute plea from Presi-
dent Kennedy postponed such
action to March 81.
Both the union and manage
ment agreed to go back to nego-
tiations about a new contract
when the President advised
officials that because of the
nature of the operation at the
plutonium producing plant, "the
public interest requires a speedy
end of this prolonged dispute. -
The company said the agree
ment provides:
For a 3 per cent salary in
crease, retroactive to October
3, 1860; an increase Of 3 per
Evening star., 1961-03-18
Woman FoiIs Gunmon
HoIts His Crime Spree

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo, Mar.
18 (AP). - Douglas Wayne
Thompson's 18-day crime spree
is over. The California des-
perado, accused of two slay-
ings in a week, was talked into
surrendering by a farmwife
who outWitted him.
The 27-year-old gunman
was captured yesterday un-
harmed.
A bullet grazed him in the
last of three gun battles with
Southeast Missouri law Off
GERS. He eluded officers in a
week long manhunt.
Two persons, one a police
man, were killed. Four others,
three of them law officers,
were wounded. One is in serious
condition.
Authorities sought a murder
warrant today against Thomp-
son in the Staying yesterday of
Raymond S. Glover, As.
Thompson hitched a ride
with Mr.. Glover and offered
him IS to drive him to Poplar
Bluff. Minutes later Mr.. Glover
was fatally wounded when
Evening star., 1961-03-18
VOTE

Continued From First Page
and opponents a fair hearing.
The House on Tuesday referred
the bill TO the ZolliCoffer COM
mittee, but proponents hope to
bring it back for another floor
test by Thursday.
Timed to Visit
In Kansas, House leaders
yesterday leaned toward a de-
ferral of action until March
81, when Republican National
Chairman Thruston Morton
would be in Topeka. The Sen
ate has unanimously approved
the measure. In-party pres
sures built up over the week
end for quicker action since
the session is short and the
House committee is overloaded
with State bills.
Ohio, also in no rush earlier
this week. is being urged to
expedite the resolution, already
passed by the House. The Sen
ate has 18 Democrats and 20
Republicans.
A New Hampshire House Ju-
dietary Committee prodded by
Gov. Wesley Powell, agreed to
consider a ong-delayed Senate
resolution next week. District
Republican Chairman Carl
Shipley has asked to appear
as witness.
Evening star., 1961-03-18
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity-Ram
tonight, probably beginning as
wet snow; low, "a. Rain to-
morrow with slowly rising tenn
peratureS.
Virginia-Rain tonight with
a chance of some wet snow in
the mountains and over the
northern sections. Low tenn
peratures tonight in the 30s.
Continued rain tomorrow with
slowly rising temperatures.
Maryland-Wet snow turn
ing to rain tonight; lows in
the 30s. Rain tomorrow with
slowly rising temperatures.
Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay - Light east to
southeast winds tonight be-
coming southeasterly at Is
knots tomorrow. Overcast skies
with rain in the south and wet
snow turning to rain tonight
in the north, continuing rain
over the entire area most of
tomorrow. Visibility tonight
8 and tomorrow will range from
, to miles.
Road Conditions Today-AAA
West-District of Columbia to Penn
sylvania turnpike, clear. Pennsylvania
turnpike, clear; Ohio turnpike, clear
Evening star., 1961-03-18
Olivier, Joan PIowriqht
Wed, Return to Stage

NEW YORK, Mar. 18 (AP).
Sir Laurence Olivier, SO, and
Joan Plowright, 81, a British
actress, were back on Broad
way today after an impromptu
marriage.
They were wed in Wilton,
Conn, yesterday and returned
in plenty of time last night for
the curtain calls of their re-
spective E Broadway shows -
Beckett" for Sir Laurence and
Taste of Honey" for Miss
Plowright.
1t was an event anticipated
since last December when their
respective mates divorced them
for adultery.
Sir Laurence had been mar
ried for 20 years to Vivien
Leigh, star of the movie, Gone
With the Wind" but last au-
tumn he told her he wanted
a divorce to marry Miss Plow-
right.
On December 2, Miss Leigh
divorced him for adultery,
while admitting two instances
of adultery on her own part,
without naming the man in
volved.
On the same day, Miss Plo%-
rights husband, Roger Leonard
Gage, a British television star,
divorced her on grounds of
adultery with Sir Laurence.
Sir Laurence and Miss Plow-
right took along as witnesses
Arnold WeiSsberger, an at
Evening star., 1961-03-18

than the Salk vaccine and
easier to take since it is taken
by mouth rather than injection.
DR.. Salk rejected any idea
of competition between his vac
cine and the oral vaccine
developed by DR.. Albert B.
Sabin. DR.. Sabin's vaccine is
not yet in commercial produc-
ton in the United States
although it is in use in some
foreign countries.
1T is unfortunate that such
an air of competition exists, 4"
DR.. Salk said. LAS a scientist
I do not want to be connected
with it in any way"
Earlier, DR.. Sabin testified
his oral vaccine could be pro-
duced at one-tenth the cost of
DR.. Salk'S and said it would
finish the job" started with
Salk vaccine.
DR.. Sabin said Russia has
successfully used his vaccine
in large areas in Eastern
Europe. He said it also has
been used in several areas of
the United States.
Evening star., 1961-03-18
Ndzi Flyers
Victim Found

GREAT FALLS, Mont, Mar.
18 CAP).-A l9-year search for
an American fighter pilot
named in the will of the Ger
man flyer who shot him down
may have ended here.
Maj. Norman L. Widen of
Minneapolis believes himself
to be the P-38 pilot downed
over Tunis, North Africa, in
1912 by Anton Hafner, who has
since died.
Maj. Widen heads fighter
branch of the 29th Air Divi-
sion at Malmstrom Air Force
Base.
The will didn't mention the
Americans name but some de-
tails of the incident were re-
vealed by Mr.. Hafner's family
in starting the search. Details
of the legacy were not known
here.
A photograph of the Amer
lean taken at the time of his
capture appeared in the March
Is issue of the Air Force Times
This led to Maj. Widen's iden-
tification by a fellow officer
Capt. James B. McClary.
Maj. Widen was on a high
altitude bomber escort mission
from BiSkra to Bizerte when
a German ME-109 knocked
him out of the sky. He para
chuted into 3 feet of water
near the airfield on which his
plane crashed.
His diary says of the Incl
dent. Il was escorted with
many grins, gestures and beau
coupS, German talk which I did
not understand, to the drome
where I met Sergt. Hoffman,
who had shot me down"
| Mai. Widen believes "Hoff-
man." the name in his diary,
actually was Hafner.
Il was very impressed with
the man." Mai. Widen wrote.
Il got the impression I was
the first victim he had met or
seen. I didn't feel so bad when
I found out I had gotten the
business from a real expert"
Maj. Widen learned he was
the German pilots 8lst victim
Evening star., 1961-03-18
Grand JuryHoId
RickenbuckerSon

NEW YORK Mar. 18 CAP) -
A Federal grand jury has in
dicted William F. Ricken-
backer, son of the Eastern Air
Lines board chairman, on
charges he refused to answer
extra questions in the 1860
census.
Rickenbacker, 33, is the son
of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker.
If convicted, he would face a
maximum Of 60 days in Jail and
a $l00 fine.
Rickenbacker was questioned
last December as to why he
tore up a special census ques-
tionnaire submitted to every
fourth householder.
He told reporters at the time
that he considered the extra
questions snoopy" and a vio-
lation Of his constitutional
rights.
Evening star., 1961-03-18

cent on the current rates on
April 2, 1862; an adjustment of
~ cents on a pay grade set
out in an appendix to the con-
tract, an increase in shifts
premium of 2 cents. effective
October 3, 1860; another in
crease of 2 cents, effective July
2, 1862; a fourth week of vaca-
ton for employees with more
than 25 years of service and an
eighth holiday, effective this
year.
The new agreement is for
three years, starting last Oc-
tober 3.
Evening star., 1961-03-18
WifeHeIdos EmbezzIer,
Husbands Bets Blamed

INDIANAPOLIS, Mar. 18
(AP).-A troubled mind and a
1860 Pontiac convertible were
the only things left today of an
alleged $4,000 embezzlement
perpetrated by an attractive
blond bank teller to satisfy
what her lawyer called her
crippled husbands "compulsive
gambling habit"
Mrs. Patricia Ann Jones was
free on $4,000 bond after an
appearance before the United
States commissioner here on
a charge of misapplication of
funds. The 28-year-old former
Indiana National bank teller
was arrested by Federal agents
yesterday.
Assistant United States At
tOrney Philip L. Melangton, jr.,
said Mrs. Jones was charged
specifically with a single S4,-
93238 misapplication. He said
the defendant placed the total
at about 100000" and said
I've been waiting for the ak
to fall
She was discharged from her
S62 .50-a-week job February "a
for other reasons. Mr.. Melang-
ton said the swindle occurred
between July, 1858, and the
date of her dismissal.
Mrs. Jones attorney, Owen
w. Mullin, described her 40
year-old husband Gerald as a
part-time janitor who spent
most of the last two years try
ing Ito break the bank in Las
Vegas New gambling casinos
Evening star., 1961-03-18
D. Woman, II,
Loses $500 in
FIim-FIum Trick

A 72-year-old District wom-
an lost 5000 in a film -flam
scheme carried out by a man
and woman who offered her a
share in $4,000 they said they
had found.
The victim, Mrs. Katie Dob
son of TOO Fourth street NE,
told robbery squad detectives
that the woman approached
her in the 700 block of H
street NE. and told her that
she had just found $4,000 in
a phone booth. The man then
came up, said he had seen what
happened and suggested that
the three Of them should divide
the money.
The pair suggested that to
make sure no one would spend
any of the money for six
months all three should put up
collateral. Mrs. Dobson then
withdrew $500 from her bank
account, went to the 600 block
of 1 street to meet the couple
and gave the man $500 plus
$l00 more she had had in her
pocketbook.
The pair told her that a man
at a nearby automobile agency
was holding the $4,000 and she
was to get her $4,000 share of
the find" from him. When
Mrs. Dobson went to the
agency and discovered her loss.
she tainted, and was treated for
shock at Casualty Hospital and
released.
Police are looking for a COL
ored woman described as about
40 years old. 5 feet 2 inches
tall, wearing a pink hat and
brown coat, and a colored man
about so, 5 feet 4 inches, with
a heavy muStache and wear
ing a gray felt hat and blue
short coat.
Evening star., 1961-03-18

dy program would take farm
legislation out of the hands of
lawmakers.
While Congress would be re-
lieved of the onerous burden
of a detailed analysis of a null
titude of separate proposals,
commodity by commodity, sea-
son after season. under count
less and fragmented preSSweS,
it would have an increased re-
sponSibility for considering
broad programs and policies in
their entire implications, and
for the continuing and final
authority to determine what
programs should become the
law of the land" he said.
Evening star., 1961-03-18

productive capacity-at least
not in the years Immediately
ahead.
Farm productive capacity, he
said, exceeds demand by 6 or
8 per cent and is growing each
year-faSter than the demand
for farm products. The Secre-
tary made these points in
appealing for early congress
sional approval Of a long-range
farm program President Ken
nedy sent to Congress Thurs
day.
Veto Allowed
The Kennedy program would
give the Secretary Of Agricul-
ture and farmer advisory COM
mittees power to develop sup
ply control and stabilizaIon
programs for all commodities
subject to veto by either house
Of Congress.
Mr.. F. eemsn said the Ken
nedy program was designed to
give farmers the counterpart
of induStry's corporate struc-
ture and lahor's collective bar
gaining for Stabilizing produc-
ton and incomes.
Agriculture alone among
major aegments Of our economy
lacks the economic organiZa =
ton and tools with which to
deal with the problem of ad-
justing production to demand, -
his letter said.
The new program would
give to the farmer the tools
whereby he could act, through
government, under accepted
democratic methods, to man
age his own enterprise"
Answer to Critics
Mr.. Freeman had an answer
for those who said the Kenne-
Evening star., 1961-03-18

among young children who had
received four doses. Increased
potency and wider distribution
could make it almost 100 per
cent effective, he predicted.
Eliminating polio is no
longer a scientific problem" he
said. 1T is a problem of devel-
oping the mechanism to bring
together those who need the
vaccine and those who admin
lister it,"
Differs With Kennedy
In effect, he advised there
was no need to spend 81 mil
lion as President Kennedy re-
quested to store an oral polio
vaccine against future emer-
gencieS.
What is needed is money
to get the vaccine we already
have into the areas where it
is needed, not prepare for an
emergency that should never
arise" Or. Salk said.
The hearing was called to
discuss Mr.. Kennedy'S request
for a Stockpile of the oral vac
cine, which is more easily stored
Evening star., 1961-03-18

Mr.. Jones suffered serious
leg injuries in an auto accident
several years ago.
"A troubled mind and a 1860
Pontiac convertible" Mr.. Null
lin said, was about all Mrs.
Jones realized from her mis-
deeds. She had been preparing
to turn herself in for some
time"
Evening star., 1961-03-18
WEAPONS

Continued From First Page
plant. AS of March IL, total en-
ployment at the plant, includ-
ing numerous tenants" not
associated with the Naval Wea-
pons Plant itself, was 6,627.
After next January l, the
Navy announcement said, Navy
sponsored total employment
will reach approximately 4,l00.
about half military. These en-
ployes will occupy less than
one-half of the plant.
After the weapons plant it
self is closed, the Navy said,
Navy activities presently 10
Gated in temporary buildings
scheduled to be vacated will be
relocated into the plant. New
construction savings. the
spokesman said, will amount to
about SIS million.
The announcement also stated
that Secretary Connally has
reviewed the NaVy's personnel
placement program, instituted
when reductions in employ
ment began. AS a result of the
study, new procedures Ito
maXimize the effectiveness" of
the personnel program have
been established under the per-
sonal supervision of Navy I'm
dersecretary Paul B. Fay, jr.
To date, the Official said, so
per cent of plant employees who
have been laid off have been
placed in other Government
agencies. About 19 per cent
reached retirement age and
were placed on the retired rolls,
II per cent found other employ
ment or left voluntarily and
about 4 per cent declined offers
of employment.
The Navy spokesman said
many functions of the Potomac
River Naval Command will be
consolidated in the Weapons
Plant area. Among these will
be personnel research activities,
the naval training publications
center, the Navy Weather Serv-
ice Office naval tactical,
doctrine development and pub
lications activity, the Photo
graphic Division of the Bureau
of Naval Weapons, meteoro-
logical units and the Naval
Intelligence School.
Evening star., 1961-03-18

the Air Force has no wish or
plan to interfere with, infiltrate
or eventually take over that
agency. Gen. Schriever noted
that II Air Force officers have
been assigned to NASA but said
this was done at the request of
NASA and under congressional
authority.
Mr.. Gilpatric said that un-
der the March 6 directive the
Army and Navy will turn over
to the Secretary of Defense
any space projects they come
up with. The Secretary will
evaluate the ideas and turn
over to the Air Force the ones
he considers feasible.
On another front yesterday
the Defense Department an
nounced a reorganization of
Air Force research and pro-
curement to create a new Air
Force Systems Command" for
centralized direction Of missile
and space programs.
Schriever Will Command
Gen. Schriever will command
the new organization, sched-.
uled to be ready for business by
July l. 1t will have four major
divisions:
l. The ballistic missile divi-
sion, made up Of elements Of
the ARDC ballistic missile divi-
sion and the Air Materiel Com
mand ballistic missile center
which operate jointly at Inglc-
wood, Calf. Also included will
be the ballistic missile office of
the Army Corps of Engineers,
which directs construction of
missile sites.
. 2. The space systems divi-
sion. made up of the other
elements of the ARDC ballistic
missile division and AMC bal
liStic missile center at Ingle-
wood.
3. The aeronautical systems
division at Wright Patterson
Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio,
combining the Wright Air De-
velopment Division and the
AMC Aeronautical Systems
Center.
4. The electronics systems di-
vision at Hanscom Field, near
Boston, and the AMC electron-
les systems center, also at
HanScom, will be combined.
Evening star., 1961-03-18
SPACE
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put into effect with compara-
tive speed and only limited
consideration by the separate
military departments.
Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, Army
Chief of Staff and chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, pro-
tested in a memo repeatedly
declaring that the ruling went
too far and gave the military
chiefs no chance for adequate
study.
The committee has not yet
announced whether it will hear
Gen. LemnitZer. Chairman
Brooks, Democrat of Louisiana,
said at the start of today's
hearing that his group is con-
cerned primarily with eStab-
fishing lines of demarcation
between the military and civil
ian space agencies" He de-
clared the committee has no
intention of interfering with
the internal operations of the
Pentagon."
AT Reaction Favorable"
Gen. White told the commit
tee that the Air Force reaction
to Secretary McNamara'S order
was "of course, favorable" He
said the directive defines more
clearly the function of the Air
Force and the respective roles
that the Army and Navy will
continue to have in some
aspects of the military program.
Il am absolutely certain,
he assured the committee, we
will bend over backwards tt
make sure that every letter anC
spirit Of the SeCretary'S direc.
tive will be carried out by the
Air Force to meet the require
ments for the Army and Navy
as stated in the directive"
Gen. White said the Ali
Force, for instance, has nc
designs whatsoever" on the
Navy's Polaris missile. He also
said that the Air Force in nc
way opposes Army production
of a defense system such as
the Nike ZeuS anti-missile mis-
sil0.
Empire" Plan Denied
AS for NASA, Gen. White anc
Gen. Schriever insisted that