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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-01-05

and Miss Evelyn Hancock. Of
Washington. D. G.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. L. Young
visited Mr.. and Mrs. ''Bill"
Cash in Keysville last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John M. Ed
wards and Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis
Franklin were dinner guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Edwards
last Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. P. Thackston
and son Marshall spent last
Tuesday with Mr.. and Mrs. J.
H. Thackston of Kenbridge.
Mrs. Marlene Stuart Hamil-
ton of Pennsylvania and Roger
Stuart. of Rising Sun. Md, at
tended the funeral Of their
father. Roscoe H. Stuart, on
Wednesday, December %. al
Mt. Nebo Baptist Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Young, Of
Alexandria, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Bruce Waddell, Of Sedley. visit.
ed their father, T. L. Young
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Layman Cash
of Keysville. were dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. M. c. Jordan
on Thursday evening. Other
guests in the same home during
the holidays were Mr.. and Mrs
Billy Scruggs. of Yorktown. anc
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Mckay. o.
Farmville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Bailey
of Brookneal, visited her moth
er. Mrs. Sophine Gale. during the
holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Howard
and daughter. Carol Ann. spen
Christmas day with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. F.. A. ChildreSS
Of Phenix.
Mrs. c.. P. Thackston ant
Mrs. Curtis ranklin spen
Christmas day with Mrs. Thack
ston's sister. Mrs. Charlie Ar
rington, Of Red House. Mrs. Ar
rington was happy to have hel
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-01-05
Mrs. John Elliott
Welcomed Back To
|Deatonville

DEATONVILLE. Jan. 1--WE
welcome Mrs. John Elliott ane
family to cur neighborhood. She
moved on the farm owned by MIR
ard Mrs. Harry Carey.
Dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Albert Hillsman on Christmas
day were Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Morgan. Of Henderson,, N. q.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bruce and
-on, of Rice. Mr.. ard Mrs. Jam
es T. Bruce and children, Mrs.
Bill Clawson and Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Woodward and family Of
Richmond, Mrs. Paul Wheeler. Of
Arlington, Mr.. and Mrs. Lee
Gray. of Falls Church. and Miss
Jane Bruce Hillsman.
All of Mr.. and Mrs. Witt Bor-
urn's children and most Of their
grandchildren were with them
for Christmas day. Some Of chem
stayed several days.
Mr.. and nll's. VeSter jenkins
and Mr.. anG Mrs. Jay Bell
were supper guests. Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Rodger Burton last Wednes-
day night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Barker
ard SCH. Denny. Of Richmond.
spent Wednesday with Floyd
Rucker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Gearheart
and Kathie, of Sandston. and Mr..
and Mrs. Barney McGinty and
sens, of Charlottesville, spent
Christmas eve with Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Nash and Dick
Gearheart. of Sandston. and
Manly Pritchard, Of Newport
News. spent Tuesday and
Wednesday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Nash.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Hamlet
and sons. Douglas and Allison,
were supper guests of MI. and
Mrs. haywood Hamlet, of
Jetersville. They were also sup
per guest of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM
free Smith, of Farlnville. one
day during the Christmas hoh-
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Green. of
Ohio, were supper guests. of
Mrs. Alice Jenkins last Friday
night. Wednesday. Mr.. and Mrs.
George Shpil and sons and Mr..
and Mrs. Melvin Jer kins and
son. all Of Richmond speM the
day with Mrs. jenkins. Thurs
DAY, A c and mrs. Robert
Meador and family Of Sasan-
nah. came and stayed .lntil
Monday.
Mr.. ard Mrs. Dawson Joyc,
and family, spem Christmas day
with her mother, Mrs. iottic
Goodman. Of Amelia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Weldon Kin, and
girls wee supper guests of MIR.
and Mrs. Gordon Estes Friday
night.
Miss Edna Barton Of Rich
nsond spert the week end with
Mrs. A. C. Mann and MSS Sadie
Meador. Of Rich.nond, spent last
week with Mrs. Mann.
Miss Snithley Carter and
brothers. Leon and George, we're
dinner guests Of VI. and Mrs.
Jake Carter Wednesday.
Vester Jenkins visited his SIS
ter, Mrs. Bertha Corker. in
Richmond Sunday.
Calvin Meador. Of Richmond.
was a supper guest Of Mrs
Alice Jenkins, Ft'iaay night.
Mrs. Bessie Dau,enspec| Of
Thenix. spent the week eni with
Mrs. Howard Garrett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Borun
and family who lived in
Richmond last yea: have moved
back TO their farm here. We
welcome them back.
/ Miss Edna Barton. Of Rich
mond. was a dinner guest O.
Hrs. Dawson joyce Sunday.
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lican rival of spouting vague gen.
eralities and of showing ignor-
ance about State problems. Mr..
Nixon denied it-and went on
trying to appeal to the broad
mass of voters.
Again. in the Republican pri-
mary, Mr.. Nixon chose to ignore
the steady, often caustic attacks
by his party opponent, assembly,
man Joseph c. Shell of Los An
geles.
Day after day, Mr.. Nixon con-
tinued to pound at Gov. Brown
with a blast here and there
against President Kennedy. He
was confident they'd win the
G. o. P. nomination. His strategy
was to do nothing either to build
up Mr.. Shell or ALLEVIATE Shells
conservative voters.
Whether it worked won't be
clear, of course, until voting time
in November. Mr.. Shell finally in
dorsed Mr.. Nixon after the pri-
mary. He declined, however, to
urge his followers to get behind
the G. o. P. nominee.
Slow Stort-Fost Finish
Mr.. Nixon. who carried Cali
fornia narrowly in 1850, cam
paigned sporadically this spring.
He announced his candidacy for
Governor last Sept. 81. then re-
tired to practice a little law and
finish his book, six Crises" It
was only in the final month or
so that he put on steam, winding
up with four-hour telethon.
He said he prefers to start slow
and finish fast.
MY campaign is aimed at No
vember," he said. I'm not max
ing the mistake of throwing all
my resources into the early cam
paign."
Visiting some areas, he recalled
he had trouble attracting q crowd
when he was last there-as a
young candidate for the United
States Senate in 1850. He made it
clear that times have changed.
Not long ago." he said, II Wis
tied two fish canneries in San
Pedro where the registration is
about 80 per cent Democratic. I
didn't have to go around intro
ducing myself. They came to me,
wanting to shake hands"
In few localities, schools were
let out so that the youngsters
could see the national and inter-
national celebrity. He finally Or
dered supply Of personal cards
imprinted with his name. He au-
tographed them en- route on
planes or in hotel rooms.
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VA building at Vermont avenue
and H street NV.
Mr.. Gleason walked swiftly in
side, took the elevator to the 10th
floor and pushed open an I'M
marked door. He nodded to his
two secretaries and marched into
his office, large, softly lighted
and carpeted room with a sweep
ing penthouse view of Lafayette
Park, the White House and the
Washington Monument.
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THESE ARTICLES

The entire Nation will be
watching in November when
the almost champ, Richard M.
Nixon, squares off against the
State titleholder, Gov. Pat
Brown. for Governor of Cali
fornia. It's a political fight
that has everything.
Mr.. Nixon, who two years ago
came within inches of the
presidency, is now, at the age
Of only 40, fighting for his po-
htical life. He's up against a
Governor whose Democratic
Party is in a majority in the
State and who drew a surprising
turnout Of votes in an uncon-
tested primary:
Mr.. Nixon never has lost an
election in California. But the
Democrats lead in voter regis
tration by over a million.
Confronted with these facts,
how are the candidates map
ping their strategy? How have
the voters reacted when a former
national leader tries to transfer
his reputation to a local party
coffee klatch?
Is the Brown camp running
scared? What made Nixon give
up a lucrative job to risk OBJ
hvion? Is Browns campaign
taking a big political risk?
The answers are supplied in
these two campaign roundups
by Associated Press Reporter
Morrie Landsberg, veteran cor
respondent at Sacramento and
close observer of both candi-
dates in the preliminary rounds.
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see everybody's stopped smoking"
Mr.. Gleason remarkedD, plans for
new hospitals, and drug purchases
(the VA is the worlds biggest
buyer.
A Briefine Session
Promptly at II, MIR. Gleason
was back in his office to receive
a model-and-b blueprint briefing on
another new hospital. Then he
hoped once more into the elevator
and went down to meet the wait
ing Cadillac for a trip to Capitol
Hill and one of his frequent meet
ings with Chairman league Of
the House Veterans Affairs Com
mittee at his office in the old
House Office Building.
The conference broke up shortly
after IL, just in time for a 1915
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peared and the mail signing be-
gan. The administrator, all busi-
ness now, scanned some letters,
read others more carefully and
asked a question from time to
time between signatures.
Boss Of S5th Division
Mr.. Gleason had a 4:30 appoint
ment with a White House aide,
but he was told that his man had
been delayed at the Capitol. So
when mail signing ended at 4:25,
the group moved into an adjoin-
ing room to watch the last five
minutes Of the Presidents press
conference on TV. Then it was
time to be off to the White House.
After that, Mr.. Gleason went
back to his office and mopped
up odds and ends until his wife.
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Mary Jane, arrived from home
to join him at a Disabled Ameri-
can Veterans reception that eve
ming.
Every two weeks the schedule
gets a little more frenetic when
Mr.. Gleason becomes Maj. Gen.
Gleason, commander of the 85th
Infantry Division, Army Reserve,
in Illinois. ("When the President
asked me if I wanted this Job,
I told him did provided didn't
have to give up my Army COM
mand.D
Every other Tuesday night, Mr..
Gleason boards a plane for Chi
cago at $50 pm, has dinner
aboard. and arrives in Chicago
in time to be met by a staff
Car and attend drill with one of
his divisions units. He spends
Wednesday on VA business (the
VAS Hines Hospital, one of the
largest, and electronic data proc
essing headquarters are in Chi
cago) and holds a Wednesday
night meeting with his division
headquarters staff. He's back on
a plane at II o'clock, arriving
in Washington about 2 am. Thurs
day.
His Frontier Credentials
Mr.. Gleason is on leave from
the First National Bank of Chicago
where he has been a vice president
since 1855. A native of Chicago,
he started at the bank as a mes
senger after attending the Univer-
slty OF Notre Dame and the Har-
ward Graduate School of Business,
His father was a vice president
Of the same bank.
He interrupted his banking
career in 1910 to enlist in the
Army as a private and finished
the war as lieutenant colonel
after combat duty in the Pacific.
Mr.. Gleason was national COM
mander of the American Legion
in 1878. He was head of vet
Grams affairs for the Kennedy
presidential campaign in 1860.
Despite his banker background,
Mr.. Gleason's New Frontier Gre
dentials are formidable. He's young
as bureaucrats go. he went to
Harvard and he's hooked on touch
football, which he plays in the
back yard with his six sons 6
to 10 years. when the weather's
suitable.
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The Personal Touch

If he speaks at a banquet, Gov.
Brown will duck away long
enough to tour the kitchen and
say hello to the staff. If he calls
on a newspaper publisher, he
rarely fails to go out to the COM
posing room for a round Of hand
shakes.
Gov. Brown interrupted his busy
schedule just before the primary
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VAS Chief He Does Business With ID Million Veterans

crocked~, half-serious opinion
from the general counsel that the
prayer that opens the admins
traitors weekly staff meeting was
legal, a query to a section chief
about an official in the field who
had attacked a veterans organiza-
ton c'Is he cracking up down
thereby.
At 10 o'clock, since it was
Wednesday, it was time for the
hour-long weekly staff meeting.
Mr.. Gleason and the four aides
trooped into a conference room
and sat down at a big table with
the heads of the 81 VA sections.
Some of them had things to talk
about, others kept silent. The
agenda included legislation to give
pension to World War I veterans,
VA research on lung cancer CT
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luncheon date with Representative
Mack, Democrat of Illinois. Lunch
wasn't over until nearly 1870, and
another congressional appoint
ment was scheduled at 2, but Mr..
Gleason headed back to his Of
flee anyway. Time for a couple
of phone calls" he explained.
At 1:55 Mr.. Gleason jumped
back into the Cadillac and rode
off to see Representative Fogarty,
Democrat of Rhode Island, in the
new House Office Building.
By 3 o'clock Mr.. Gleason was
back in his office. buzzing for
the next caller on his schedule, a
VA chaplain. At $3.50 Mr.. Gleason
buzzed his secretary and called,
How about the mail?" Right on
schedule.
The 9 am. delegation reap
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-05
BY EMERSON BEAUCHAMP
Contributing Writer

The biggest businessman in the
country is pro Kennedy. The
President gave him his job.
He is John s. Gleason, jr., head
of the Federal Governments larg-
est independent agency, the Vet
Grams Administration.
AS administrator of veterans af-
fairs, Mr.. Gleason is boss of:
/. The largest medical program
in the country, with I'll hospitals
and 90 clinics.
2. The third largest life in
surance program, with million
policyholders carrying $40 billion
in coverage.
8. An educational program
which has helped put 1912 million
veterans through school; a COM
penSation and pension program
that pays out $3.5 billion a year,
and home, farm and business
loans which have totaled $50 bill
lion.
All told, Mr.. Gleason and his
10000 employees do business with
1913 million veterans and their
dependents-45 per cent of the
Nations population.
He's an Elbow Grobber
The VA Chief, a Chicago banker
on leave, is Al years old. Short
and stocky, he has white hair
with only a few streaks of black
left, a rudy face and the bearing
of a general, which he is. When
he reads, he wears half-moon-
shaped glasses over a pair of
piercing eyes. When he talks at
close range, he's an arm puncher
and an elbow grabber.
Spending a day with him is a
grueling experience. The pace is
swift and the timing tends to be
split-second.
One recent day, Mr.. Gleason
left his house in nearby Maryland
at BIS am, bounded into his
air-conditioned, chauffeur-driven
Cadillac and unfolded a morning
paper as the car slipped out of
the neighborhood and into the
rush-hour traffic on East-West
highway.
The chauffeur, a good one,
fought the battle of Sixteenth
street Skillfully, and at 8:45 the
Cadillac rolled up in front of the
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to pay a sentimental call on Miss
Flora Rosenfeld, his first grade
teacher in San Francisco a half
century ago.
It was at her school, incident
ally, that Gov. Brown acquired
his nickname. The 12-year-old
son Of a nickelodeon operator
ended World War liberty bond
speech with Patrick Henry's give
me liberty or give me death" He
was dubbed Patrick Henry"
Brown and then Just plain pat"
Nobody calls him anything else.
Touring the Sacramento Valley
in February. the Governor walked
the main street of the little COM
munity Of Paradise in a cold rain.
In a drugstore, he spotted a dis
play Of valentines and promptly
mailed one to his wife, signed
Love. the Gov"
Gov. Brown remarked in an
other Of his courthouse forays that
tits harder to run for reelection.
You're older and you haven't the
zip" His stamina, however, con-
tinues to amaze his aides.
There were days during the pri-
mary campaign when Gov. Brown
made 10 appearance. One day he
started in Los Angeles, flew to
Sacramento, San Francisco, San
Jose and Fresno for speeches and
returned to Los Angeles.
Gov. Brown put in an estimated
1000 miles of travel during his
1858 race for Governor against
former Republican Senator Will
liam F. Knowland.
I've moved into so many places
in so many ways" he observed
then, that I feel like a marble
in a pinball machine"
-Four years ago. Gov. Brown
would spend q full day in one
Of the SO counties. This year, he
devoted his pre-primary efforts to
hitting areas of Democratic
straightforward that he can de-
feat Mr.. Nixon if he can hold his
own party.
His Political Career
Gov. Brown first began seeking
votes at the age of % when he
ran, unsuccessfully, for the State
assembly as a Republican. CHe
switched registration in the 30's).
He lost the first time he ran for
District Attorney of San Francisco,
was elected the next time in 1913.
The same thing happened in his
bid for State Attorney General in
1946. He was elected in 1850.
Gov. Browns favorite spots for
informal campaigning are depart
ment and drugStores and street
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His staff says Mr.. Nixon re-
ceiVed an average Of 125 invita-
tons daily. They tell of a faith
full party worker who Indignantly
inquired why he never attended
the traditional neighborhood cof-
fee hours.
Il would be glad to-" Mr.. Nixon
said. but will your home hold
1000 people?"
At Republican rally dubbed
"sing along with Nixon night" he
played the piano in a rinky-dink
style Hail! Hail! The Gangs All
Here, My Wild Irish Rose, Home
on the RANGE. At another ap-
pearance, he offered former Pres
ident Humans favorite, Missouri
Waltz.
Mr.. Nixon told and retold his
pat" joke.
81 want Pat in Sacramento"
he said. mot Pat Brown, but Pat
Nixon"
Mrs. Nixon didn't do much
travelling with her husband dur
ing the primary campaign, but
she intends to be active in the
race against Gov. Brown. The
Nixon girls. Tricia, 16, and Julie,
Is, stood in a receiving line for
two hours and shook hands at
one affair.
A woman came into Nixon
headquarters in Los Angeles, as
his assistants tell it, and asked
for the big photograph in the
window. She was told she was
welcome to a smaller picture of
the candidate.
mot Mr.. Nixon's picture, a pic
ture of that man behind him."
she said. That man behind him
is my missing husband and I'm
going to find out where the pho
tographer took that picture and
go UP and get my husband back"
Mr.. Nixon writes his own
speeches and statements from
material prepared by his staff.
He rarely speaks from prepared
texts, except to confirm excerpts
given out to the press in adj
vance. His informal talks follow
a set pattern, polished by repeti-
ton and with variations adjusted
to the locality.
Habits on Tour
Out on tour, his only regular
meal is breakfast (fruit juice, cof-
fee, oatmeaD. He doesn't smoke
and he doesn't drink at public
functions. His staff usually has
a hamburger and a pineapple
milkshake waiting for him when
he gets back in his car, bus or
plane.
Wherever he goes, Mr.. Nixon
manages to bring in a reference
to his many trips abroad during
the years under former President
Dwight D. Eisenhower. His theme
is that as California approaches
the day when it will be No. in
population, it needs some one of
his experience and stature to
head the State government.
And so, at 40, Richard Nixon
is bidding for the start of a new
career. If he wins, it's bound to
recharge his future chances in
the national arena, although he
says he will not be a candidate
for President in 1864. If he loses,
it probably will mean political
oblivion.
Mr.. Nixon gave his own reason
for running for Governor when
he announced his candidacy:
"On my return to private life,
I have found that, from a salary
standpoint, the income has been
beyond anything I could ever
have dreamed. And I have found,
of course, other things in private
life that are very attractive.
But after IA years as a Con-
gresham, as a Senator and as
Vice President of the United
States, I find that my heart is not
there-it is in public service. I
want to be in public service"
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corners. He shuns bars because
Of a lesson he learned from an
old San Francisco friend named
Jim Brennan.
Never go into bar" Jim used
to say. You'll do nothing but
lose votes"
The Governor has since set
down this reasoning behind what
he terms Brennan's Law:
If you buy everybody a drink,
they think you're a sucker.
IF you don't, they'll think
you're cheapskate."
Gov. Brown reads most of his
formal speeches, although he's
often most effective when he ad
Ibis. He has a tendency, he
grants readily, to talk too much
at saying things that prove
politically embarrassing. To the
relief Of his advisers, he is be-
ginning to show some caution at
news conferences and in public
statements.
Lacking a timbrous voice Gov,
Brown strains to get his message
across. He feels he has a solid
record as Governor and he quick
ly becomes hoarse trying to tell
the people what he has accom-
plished.
1t annoys him that critics pic
ture him as weak and indecisive
when, he says, he can point to
a legislative program unmatched
in modern California history.
Bond Issue
Typically, Gov. Brown worked
for months behind the scenes to
bring warning factions together
and win both legislative and voter
approval of a SITS billion bond
issue for a vast State water pro-
gram.
When the voters this June
turned down a $270 million bond
issue for State construction, Gov.
Brown ignored "don't-rock-the-
boat" advice and called a special
session of the legislature. The
measure was reSubmitted to the
November ballot.
A natural worrier, Gov. Brown
is seldom outwardly ruffled; his
bland. boyish-looking face is still
unlined. He can be breezy but
whatever humor crops up in his
speeches is put there by his writ
ers in the form of quips and tell
ing phrases.
For instance, he characterized
Mr.. Nixon as a career kibitzer"
and said he's "Dick-be-nimble on
water. He is dick-be-quick on
bonds. And he will be Nixon-be.
gone come November" Mr.. Nix
on's charges that Gov. Browns
policies were hurting the States
economy brought a sally that lik-
ened the former Vice President to
Chicken Little in the children's
classic shouting that the sky is
falling"
Brown Sense Of Humor
Gov. Brown also will try to
warm up an audience once in a
while with his own stories, such
as this oft-repeated one:
The Governor and his wife saw
little Of each other during the
primary campaign. One night, he
arrived late at night in San Fran.
cisco and went to bed in a hotel
He woke up about 3 am. and saw
a woman in the adjoining bed.
1t occurred to him, he says:
That Nixon, he's framed mel" OF
course, it turned out - as you
knew all along that the woman
was Mrs. Brown, who had come
in while her husband was sound
asleep.
To Gov. Brown, however, the
campaign is no laughing matter
and the Nixon challenge no Joke
He has warned his supporters that
they're in for the fight of their
lives.
II know we can whip him." he
says.
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California Governors Race Already Spectacular
On Nixon's Side

SACRAMENTO, Calf. (AP)-
Richard M. Nixon stood hatlesS in
a soft rain in a semi-ghost town Of
CALIFORNIA; mother lode country.
About so people clustered around
the chartered bus.
All the glitter of Washington
was behind the dark-haired can
didate. The world traveller, the
veteran Of the Khrushchev debate
and the egg-pelting of Caracas,
the almost-president was home
again, running for Governor.
Mr.. Nixon mingled with the
modest and obviously aWed crowd.
History had forgotten the tum-
ble-down hamlet-once alive with
the hustle of gold miners-but the
Republican campaigner declared
every part of the State is vital"
A 7-year-old girl asked and got
an autograph.
Does that say Kennedy" she
asked in all innocence, looking at
the signature.
mot quite" Mr.. Nixon replied.
The stop in the place called
Coulterville (pop. 1851 dramatized
the drive by the former Vice
President of the United States to
make a political comeback. To a
man who lost the presidency by
the narrowest of margins, mot
quite" is deep challenge.
He probably has talked to
more people," an aide says, "shak-
en- more hands and been seen
by more people than any candi-
date for Governor in the history
of the State.