The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-05-18
NATIONAL
NEWS
SUMMARY
n. V. LANCASTER, JR.
= US. IN THAILAND
= COMMUNIST FALL BACK
= VOTE BILL DEFEATED

VO1E DILL OEE Ch Ell
U. S. PLANES landed in Bang
kok. Thailand, Wednesday to
Spearhead the buildup of Ameri-
can forces in Southeast Asia. The
IL jet fighter bomber Supersabres,
capable of flying 1000 mph., were
to be followed by eight more
FlOO's and a squadron of AID
Skyhawks. Some 1900 marines
were also expected to land and
join 1000 U. S. army troops which
were on maneuvers in Thailand
when trouble broke out in neigh
boring Laos
IN LAOS Communist troops
have apparently fallen back so
miles from Houei Sal on the Laos
Thailand border. About 800 Lao
tan troops, who were driven
across the Mekong river into
Thailand by the Communist Of
fensive, have repeatedly reoccu-
pied HOuei Sal. The U. S. was
said to have no plans to send
troops into Laos itself unless the
situation worsened, and if the
Communist voluntarily withdrew
from the border this would seem
to signal renewed hopes for a
settlement by diplomacy rather
than by force.
FIVE MEMBERS of the French
cabinet abruptly resigned We'd
neSday. The move came in pro-
test to statement made by Pres
ident de Gaulle in which he re-
peated his opposition to a plan
for closer political union of Eu-
rope and advocated instead
loose confederation of European
states. The plan is strongly ia
vOred by the Catholic Popular
Republican party (MRP) which
was represented in the cabinet by
the five men. The designations
seemed to mean trouble for Pre-
mier Georges Pompidou. who was
already unpopular with some
members of the National Assem-
bly, because he is not a member
of that body.
A SECOND OFFICIAL has been
dismissed as the result of his
dealings with Texas financier
Billie Sol Estes. Secretary OF Ag-
riculture Oryille Freeman, him.
self under fire from the Republi-
cans because of the Estes case,
fired former assistant secretary
of Agriculture Orville Freeman,
himself under fire from the Re
publicanS because of the Estes
case, fired former assistant sec
rotary of agriculture James t.
Ralph because FBI investigation
showed Estes had paid some of
his telephone bills. Ralph. who
stepped down as assistant secre-
tary last February to become an
agricultural attache, called his
dismissal unjuStified. Meanwhile,
Sen. Williams (R.-Del.) accused
the Agriculture Department of
railroading a secretary into a
mental hospital because she knew
too much about the Estes case.
The woman was later released by
the mental commission of the
District of Columbia.
THE LITERACY TEST bill was
tabled for the session Tuesday
after Senate leaders tried twice
unsuccesSfully to shut off South
ern debate against the measure
by cloture. The bill would have
substituted completion of h c
sixth grade for iteracy tests as a
requirement for voting in federal
elections. Civil rights advocates
promised another try next year,
but the real fight may come at
the beginning of the session if
they try to change the rule requir-
ing a two-thirds vote for cloture
to one requiring simple major
ity.
r. S. WEAVER, JR. of Victoria
was appointed to the State High
way Commission Wednesday by
Gov. Harrison. He will fill the I'M
expired term of Emory p Bar
tow of Lawrenceville who died
May 5. His place on the Cover
nor's Highway Study Commission
will be taken by A. Robins, Jr.,
retired publisher Weaver is the
Lunenbrg county judge and a
director of the Southside Com
munity Hospital in Farmville.
A NEW COLD VACCINE has
been discovered by a research
team at Tulane University in New
Orleans. DR.. Neil Weaver. CO.
author of the teams report, said
1.-The number of cold-like diseases
not previously covered by influ-
enza vaccines was reduced by SO
per cent" The findings. the re-
suit of a four-year study Of the
vaccine which uses killed viruseS.
were announced Tuesday at a
meeting on respiratory diseases
in industry at Skytop, Pa.