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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-06
Belona

July 5-Again the weather has
been the chief topic of CONVEX
sation for some time. In fact
it has been quite chilly and very
damp. Fires felt good.
On July 2, the Rev. and Mrs.
j. S. Duckwall. of Winchester,
brought Mrs. Dobbin's uncle, j.
H. Chesterman, of Washington,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-15

or to cities within 225 miles OF
the border. No tax will be lev
led on international flights and
travellers from abroad will pay
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-15
IS Whites
Find Home in
Negro Town

/ PRINCEVILLE, N. c., Nov. is
(AP).-Princeville's white citi-
zens-all rs of them in a town
Of 925 Negroes-are happy with
their lives here, Mayor Ray
Mattewson says.
There's no problem with pol
itics; no suggestion that schools
should be integrated. The
towns major problem is one
that concerns every citizen,
how to stop flooding from the
Tar River.
Mr.. MatthewSon is a Negro,
as are all of the members of
the town council of Princeville
in Northeastern North Caro-
lima, rs miles east Of Raleigh.
Princeville, since it's incor-
poration in 1885, has had a
Negro government, although
white people have moved in
slowly since the early 1900s.
Most Of the white residents
rent homes or apartments from
Negroes, and work in nearby
Tarboro, One white citizen
owns a small grist mill.
Mr.. Matthewson, who is serv-
ing his fourth 2-year term as
mayor. said in an interview yes
terday that most of the white
minority group supports him in
the mayoralty elections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-15

regulatory control is firmly es-
tablished, we face the problem
of oscillation in future years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-15
Hourly Pay Hits
Peak $2.40, but
Work Week Dips
BY the Associated Press

The Labor Department says
factory workers earned a rec
ord average of $2.40 an hour in
October and September.
But average weekly earnings
in October dipped 70 cents be-
low the September level because
of an 18-minute drop in the
average factory work week.
Seymour Wolfbein, the La
bot Departments manpower di-
rector, reported yesterday the
average weekly paycheck in Oc-
tober was $96.72.
He said reduced economic &C.
tivity and lost time because of
the Columbus Day and Yom
Kippur holidays many have
caused the average work week
to dip to 40.3 hours.
The record hourly average
compares with $2.18 an hour
in October, 1851 The previ-
GUS high was $3.50 hourly last
July.
DR.. Wolfbein said there were
56.3 million workers on non
farm payrolls in OctKober, an
other record, and an increase
of about LIS million over the
October, 1861, figure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-15
Travel Tax Ends at Midnicht:
To Cut Cost by $3.50 Million

Immediately by a 5 per cent
user charge" designed to help
pay for airports. navigation
aids and other Government
financed facilities used by the
airlines. The 10 per cent tax on
rail, bus and boat tickets will
be eliminated.
Air Fares Cheaper
These tax changes, approved
by Congress last summer, will
trim about $170 million from
Federal revenues. Cash bene-
fits to the public will be less,
however, because "a railroads
and about so buslines will in
crease fares to offset all or part
of the tax savings.
At present, no major airline
plans to increase fares to take
advantage Of the tax action.
Air fares thus will be 5 per
cent cheaper on all flights
starting on or after 1901 am.
tomorrow. Air carriers hope the
reduced cost will attract more
business.
All 20 Eastern railroads will
increase fares by 10 per cent
as soon as the tax expires. And
the Chicago g. North Western
Railway will put q similar
boost into effect on coach
tickets. These lines hope, in
this way, to reduce heavy pas
Senger hauling deficits.
No fare changes are planned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-15

by Southern and Western rail-
roads, which enjoy a better
profit position. The cost Of
tickets on these lines will drop
10 per cent.
An Interstate Commerce
Commission spokesman said
no fare changes have been pro-
posed by the big interstate bus
carriers such as railways and
Greyhound. Some regional OPP
orators will impose 2 per cent
to 10 per cent increases.
Backed by Kennedy
The tax changes were In
dorsed by the Kennedy admin
istration, which hoped that re-
duction or elimination Of the
tax would help ailing transport
tation companies by permitting
fare raises or by encouraging
more travel at present fares.
The tax on passenger travel
was imposed in 1941, when the
rate was 5 per cent. The pur-
pose was to help finance re-
armament and, later, to dis
courage non-essential travel
on an overloaded transporta-
ton system.
Congress increased the tax
twice during World War II,
eventually to is per cent. The
rate was cut to 10 per cent in
1854 and has remained at that
level since.
on airlines, the 5 per cent
user charge will apply to all
trips within the United States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-15

Washington area in connection
with another round of pay raise
for 10000 Defense Department
and other Government agencies
per diem (blue collar workers
in this area.
It's expected that the in
creases will average somewhere
around 10 cents an hour. The
increases are due to go into eff
feet on December 2 and will be
announced within the next few
weeks.
PAY acknowledgements
atives of the various Govern
ment and postal employee I'M
ions will meet with Civil Serv-
ice Commission officials at 2
pm. next Wednesday to discuss
the Bureau Of Labor Statistics
report comparing Federal and
industry pay.
The meeting will be held in
the main international confer
ence room of the new State
Department building.
Under the new pay reform
law, the views Of Government
and postal employee unions must
be considered by the President
in the annual pay reports and
recommendations that he must
submit henceforth to Congress.
&& &E
FORMAL OPENING Gov
eminent Workers Local SO of
the Amalgamated Lithograph-
ers of America yesterday for
mally opened its office at 1912
Fourteenth street NV. The new
Federal employee local of the
ALA represents 800 Autograph
ers in the plants of various
Government departments and
agencies in the Washington
area.
GODDARD FLIGHT CEN
TER-Goddard Space Flight
Center at Greenbelt, Md, needs
a recruitment and placement
officer, grade IL or IL and
clerk-typists and Stenographers,
grade 3 and 4. Send applica-
ton forms to John Soden,
Goddard Space Flight Center,
IGreenbelt, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-15
STEVENSON SAYS
DONOVAN MIGHT
RANSOM MIKOYAN

NEW YORK (AP).-
Adlai e. Stevenson suggests
sending James B. Donovan
to Cuba Ito see if he can
ransom Mr.. Mikoyan."
The Ambassador to the
United Nations, with tongue
in cheek, was referring to
the fact that Anastas I.
Mikoyan, a Soviet First
Deputy Premier, has been
in Cuba for two weeks con-
ferring with Prime Minister
Fidel Castro.
And he named Mr.. Dono-
van, the Brooklyn lawyer
who has been negotiating
for release Of the Bay of
Pigs invasion prisoners, as
a likely man to return Mr..
Mikoyan to the outer world.
Mr.. Stevenson made the
quip yesterday in introduc-
ing Mrs. Lyndon B. john
son, wife of the Vice Presi-
dent, at a medical research
awards luncheon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-15
India Attacks
Along Border

NEW DELHI, India, Nov. is
(AP). = Indian army troops
have launched their strongest
offensive in the undeclared
Himalayan border war with the
Communist Chinese, a Defense
Ministry spokesman said today.
He said the attacks were car
'ried out on the northeast from
tier and that a number of Chi
nese were killed.
The Indian forces attacked
Chinese positions near Walong,
about is miles from the Burma
border, and carried out often
sive actions against a Red-held
village near Jang, near the
Bhutan border.
The spokesman said there
were no Indian losses in the
attacks, opened yesterday.
Latest reports said the fight
ing was still going on around
Walong. The Indian troops
consisted of "a strong patrol
the spokesman said.
"a small patrol raided a will
age held by the Chinese agrees
sors a few miles from Jang, I"
the spokesman said. Jang is
just below the main Indian
defense line on the Sc Pass in
the area of China'S main thrust
into India east of the Bhutan
border.
The spokesman said United
States and British weapons are
in the hands of Indian troops
facing the Chinese. But he was
unable to say whether these
arms have been used in any
action so far.
On the diplomatic front,
Prime Minister Nehru has sent
a three-page reply to Chinese
Premier Chou En-lai'S Novem-
Der 4 offer to withdraw, with
concessions, an External At
fairs Ministry spokesman said.
He declined to disclose its con-
tents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-15
Loughton's Condition
Worse, Hospital Says

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. is (AP)
The condition of Actor
Charles Laughton, suffering
from spinal cancer, has become
worse, Cedars of Lebanon Hos
pital reports.
Mr.. Laughton, So, has been
hospitalized since July 80. He
entered the hospital for surgery
on a collapsed vertebra, but
physicians reported last month
that he was suffering from
cancer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-15
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
Star Staff Writer

Aircraft, missile and other in
dustries are complaining to the
Kennedy administration that
the new Government pay raise
is making it difficult for them
to- compete with Government in
attracting and retaining engi-
neers and scientists and other
key professional personnel.
Furthermore, they contend
that the second-phase of the
pay raise to take effect in jan
uary, 1864, will make it even
more difficult for industry to
attract and retain essential
personnel.
Industry officials brush off
the recent Bureau of Labor
Statistics figures which show
that generally Government en-
cheering and scientists salary
trails that of private industry.
They declare that this may
be true In the top levels, where
only a relatively few jobs are
involved.
But in the majority Of jobs
which involve engineers and
scientists of average ability and
experience, the Government pay
scales compare favorably with
that of industry, they contend,
The industrialists declare that
their employees have shown a
heightened interest in Federal
employment since the Govern
ment pay raise became law and
that some already have quit to
join the Federal service. They
declare that another thing that
is Turing their employees toward
Government is the fringe bene-
fits offered by the Federal
service such as retirement,
health and life insurance, an
nual and sick leave. as well as
general stability of Federal en-
ployment in these fields.
AN of this is quite surpris-
ing to Federal officials, who fee
that the BIS figures are &C.
curate.
1t will be interesting to see
what industry's reaction will
have on the move to have Con
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-15
Protest Filed at State
On News Contact Rule

Reporters covering the STATE
Department have proteste
against instructions to depart.
Illent officers to report all their
contacts with newsmen.
The instructions were issued
by Assistant Secretary of State
for Public Affairs Robert j.
Manning, the first week in No
vember. Correspondents regu-
larly assigned to the State De-
partment met with Mr.. Man
ming last Tuesday to discuss the
new order and urged that it be
reconsidered. The order has
not yet been lifted.
Text Of Letter
The text Of the letter to Mr..
Manning follows:
1.-The undersigned correspond
ents regularly assigned to the
Department of State wish to
register their objections to in
structions given last week to
departmental personnel to re-
port their contacts with news
men to the Bureau of Public
Affairs.
I'VE do not question your In
tention in issuing these instruc-
tons. We are deeply concerned,
however. about their effect both
In the immediate and the long
term future. 90
1--WE believe:
81. Officers Of the depart
ri1ent viii be discouraged by the
surveillance from providing
legitimate news information.
They may well decide that the
personal risk they take is
wholly disproportionate to the
impersonal benefits for public
understanding which can be
gained through discussion with
newsmen.
20. Officers who are still
willing to talk to reporters may
in some cases be subjected to
unjust accusations Of having
provided unauthorized infor-
nation which. in fact, came
from other sources in or out of
the department.
s"3. Once a precedent of
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By the Associated Press

Millions of American travel
ers will begin saving nearly
$3.50 million a year on their
combined travel expenses when
wartime transportation taxes
are wiped off the books at mid
night tonight.
The 10 per cent Federal tax
on air fares will be replaced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-15
Protest on Principle


"As newsmen we protest, a
a matter of principle, any &C.
tons that restrict the legiti'
mate flow of news. We believe
the instructions which yor
have issued are bound to have
a restrictive effect.
1--WE urge you to reconsider"
The letter was signed by
Ellie Abel, National Broadcast
ing Co., Murrey Marder, WASH
ington Post and Times Herald;
Edward Weintal, Newsweek;
Earl H. Voss, The Washington
Star; Peter LiSagor, Chicago
Daily News; John Hightower,
Associated Press; Andre Mar
ton, Associated Press; Stewart
Hensley, United Presenter
national; Robert C. Young,
Chicago Tribune; Michael
O'Neill, New York Daily News;
James E. Roper, Columbia
Broadcasting System; Max
Frankel, New York Times, and
Robert Hager. U. s. News and
World Report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-15
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
New Federal Pay Law Blamed
As Key Personnel Leave Industry

gress next year hberalize the
second-pltase of the Govern
ment salary increase that goes
into effect in January, 1864.
The BIS findings. under the
new pay law, serve as the basis
for the annual report and rec
concentrations on Federal SAL
aries that the President must
make to Congress each year.
starting next year.
= =
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Langan
has resigned as operations d.
rector of the AFL-CIO Govern
ment Employees Council. Mr..
Langan was able and we'll Liked
and will be missed on the Wash
ington scene as he returns home
to Pennsylvania.
No successor is expected to
be named until the end of the
year. Among those being men,
toned for the post is John Nc
Cart, legislative representative
of the American Federation of
Government Employees.
IS
CLARIFICATION - A typo
graphical error in our column
last Friday detailing the inequi-
ties Of the new pay law regard
ing engineers, scientists and
others who were promoted prior
to october IA and consequently
who make less money than those
promoted after that date, indi-
Gated to some readers that there
was a savings" provision in the
new law that could correct this
inequity.
Actually, this column sug-
gested a savings" provision
that Congress could enact next
year to give those promoted
prior to october IA the same
two-step cash increase guaran-
tee as those promoted after
that date and hence attain
equity. This savings" provi-
sion is not in the new pay law
as it presently stands.
\ =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-15

BLUE COLLAR RAISES
Defense Department officials
are now tabulating the indus
try pay data collected In the
Evening star., 1962-11-07
COP. Scores
Victory Over
Birmingham

ToWSON. Md, Nov. 7 (AP)
Republicans scored a re-
sounding upset of Democrats
for the top office in Baltimore
County yesterday as Spiro T.
Agnew defeated Democratic
National Com mite e m a n
Michael J. Birmingham for
county executive.
Mr.. Agnew is the first Re-
publican to head the county
government since 1895.
Returns from all 273 Of the
populous county's precincts
gave the 47-year-old G. o. P.
attorney a margin of more than
1900 votes.
The final tabulation was:
Agnew, 74,487, and Birming-
ham, 60,993.
Mr.. Birmingham, 70, was 9
leading figure in State Dem
ocratic politics.
Baltimore countians defeated
o proposal to provide unre-
stricted bus transportation fol
children attending private anc
parochial schools. The so-callec
Tyler bus bill lost by a margin
of 81 1862 to 81, ,624.
Baltimore County already was
one Of seven Maryland counties
offering free bus transportation
on q limited basis to students
at private or nonprofit schools
The Tyler bus bill would have
provided the bus service re-
gardless of where the students
live.
Evening star., 1962-11-07
Mrs. McDonouqh,
Former Resident

Florence McDoneugh, widow
of a Veterans Administration
officer, died Monday at Sub
urban Hospital after q short
illness.
Mrs. McDonough had worked
here during 1945-55 with the
American Chemical Society, but
since the death of her husband,
James S., Farmer Loans Guar
antee Officer for the VA in
Delaware, she had lived in
Delaware and Maryland.
At her death. she was presi-
dent of the Colonial Package
Stores of Wilmington, Del.
She was the daughter of the
late Prof. Walter s. Quinn
and Mrs. Madolyn Quinn, who
survives at 8130 Georgetown
road d, Bethesda. Mrs. Nc
Donough also leaves her sister,
Miss Madolyn Quinn, and
brother. John F.. all of the Be-
thesda address.
Services will be on Saturday
at st. Rose Catholic Church in
Carbondale. Pa. Burial will be
at Cathedral Cemetery in Will
mington.
Evening star., 1962-11-07
News and Guild
Close to Accord

NEW YORK. Nov. 2 (AP).-
Negotiators for the strike
bound New York Daily News
and the New York Newspaper
Guild have reached tentative
agreement on minor issues and
made progress toward settling
major issues, a Federal official
says.
Announcement Of progress
on major issues was made by
John w. Leslie, Deputy Assist
ant Secretary of Labor, this
morning as the talks were
recessed until 2::30 pm.
Mr.. Leslie had announced
last night that tentative agree
ment had been reached on '"all
but major issues"
In his announcement early
today, he said: Progress has
been made tonight in resolving
the remaining issues ~"
Thomas j. Murphy, executive
vice president Of the New York
Newspaper Guild and its chief
negotiator.. said I'VE made
progress in some areas" that
were discussed late last night.
He did not say the progress
indicated the end Of the strike
was near,
Mr.. Leslie and Mr.. Murphy
would not identify the major
issues under discussion.
Mr.. Murphy, however, said
money issues were "in the pic
ture TO some extent"
There was no new statement
by the Publishers Association
of New York City, which rep
resents the Daily News and the
six other major newspapers in
the city. Representatives of
the association have been keep
ing watch on the negotiations.
Evening star., 1962-11-07
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity - In
creasing cloudiness and not so
cold tonight; lowest near So.
Cloudy with occasional rain to-
morrow; highest in the SOS.
Maryland - Mostly cloudy
and not so cold tonight, with
rain, expected in the west; low.
35 to 40. Cloudy tomorrow
with occasional rain and colder
in the west.
Virginia-Mostly cloudy and
not so cold tonight, with some
rain likely in the west; low
from 35 to AZ. Cloudy tomor-
row, with occasional rain; not
much change in temperature.
Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay-Southerly winds 10
to 20 knots tonight. South to
southwest winds 10 to 20 knots
tomorrow, shifting to north
west or north 10 to 20 knots
in the afternoon or evening
Increasing cloudiness tonight
followed by occasional rain to-
morrow. Visibility 10 miles, be-
coming 3 to 6 miles tomorrow
Evening star., 1962-11-07
Marguerite Louise Reed,
Was Liberiun Missionary

After 18 years in Liberia,
Mrs. Reed retired and, in 1925,
became a teacher in Maryland
schools, serving on the Eastern
Shore for % years. Her hus-
band died in 1882.
At the time of her death,
Mrs. Reed was living at the
home of her daughter, her only
survivor, at 2101 New Hamp-
shire avenue NV.
Funeral services will be at /
pm. tomorrow at the MCGUIRE
Funeral Service. 1920 Ninth
street NV. Burial will be in
Lincoln Memorial Cemetery.
Evening star., 1962-11-07
Alvin Allen, 81,
Postal EmpIoye

Alvin Allen, 81, a volunteer
fireman in Bladensburg and
Greenbelt and a postal employe
for the past 33 years, died SUM-
day at his home, 42l1 Fifty
sixth avenue, Bladensburg, of
a heart attack.
He had served with the Bla-
densburg volunteers since 1854.
and previously with the Green
belt volunteers.
He leaves his wife, Grace, Of
the family address; a son.
David A., of 8OO1, Fourteenth
avenue, Langley Park; and two
daughters, Mrs. Daniel Stew
art, 4105 Seventy first avenue,
Landover Hills, and Mrs. Dom
aid w. Wood, a University Of
Maryland student who lives
in the campus housing project
at College Park.
Services will be at 2 pm.
today at the r Robert Mat
tingly Funeral Home, l31 Elev-
enth street Sc. Burial will be
in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star., 1962-11-07

Marguerite Louise Reed, wife
of the late DR.. John N. Reed
and a Methodist missionary in
Liberia for many years, died
here early Monday. She was 81.
A native of Jefferson, Tex,
Mrs. Reed was educated at
Philander Smith College in
Little Rock, Ark, and the
Union Missionary Training
School in Brooklyn, N. Y. She
and her husband went to Africa
as missionaries in 1905.
Mrs. Reed, who came to be
known as Mother Reed, "
helped to educate many of the
men who later rose to promi-
nence in Liberian affairs.
Recognition of her service to
Liberia came in 1852 when Mrs.
Reed and her daughter Flor
ence were guests of the govern
ment at the Inauguration of
President William v. S. Tub
man.
Queen Elizabeth could not
have been treated more re-
gally." she told friends on her
return to the United States.
Evening star., 1962-11-07
Mary V. Smith,
Active Methodist
Chority Worker

Mary v. Smith, 70, a 3O-year
member of the Woman's Society
of Christian Service at Ed
brooke Methodist Church here,
died yesterday at her daugh-
ter's home, 1923 Ellicott street
NV, after a long illness.
Born in Kinsale, WeStmore-
land County, Va, Mrs. Smith
came to the District in J911.
At that time she was married
to Hervey A.. Smith, a retired
District Fire Department Off
cial. Mr.. Smith died in 1854.
In 1881 Mrs. Smith Joined
the Eldbrooke Methodist
Church and became active in
charity work.
She leaves two sisters. Mrs.
Thelma S. Cohee, 1929 Ellicott
street NV, and Mrs. Rita
Blundon, 1918 Alton place NV.
Mrs. Smith also leaves a son,
Edward A. Smith. 15707 Syca-
more lane, Norbeck, Md, and
six grandchildren.
Services will be at IL am.
Friday at Gawler's Funeral
Home, Wisconsin avenue and
Harrison street NV. Burial
will be in Parklawn Cemetery.
The family requests that ex-
pressions of sympathy be in
the form Of contributions to
the cancer fund.
Evening star., 1962-11-07
Ross E. Morris,
Aide Merchant

ALDIE, Va, November Z
(SpeciaD Ross Emerson Nor
ris, AZ, merchant and veteran
of World War II, died unex-
pectedly Monday at Loudoun
County Hospital after a heart
attack.
A native of Elmo, w. Va,
he came to Loudoun County in
1948, Prior to that time he had
worked with the Army Map
Service and Veterans Admin
tration In Washington.
During the war he served from
1941 to l945 in the Air Force
and was stationed in the Paci-
ficf area. He had operated a
store and service station in
Aldie for the last three years,
He is survived by his mother,
Mrs. Rose B. Morris; a sister,
Mrs. Mary Morris Harvey. and
a brother, Charles Preston Nor
mis- III, of Aldie. t
Funeral services will be at
IL am. tomorrow at the Muce
81 Reed Chapel in Leesburg,
with graveSide services and
burial at pm. at Arlington
National Cemetery.