Harrisonburg Daily News Record (Newspaper) - May 22, 1953, Harrisonburg, Virginia The Associated Press Greatest News Service 8HEWAWDOAM VALLEY OF DRIVE The Life You Save May Be Your Own VOL. 115, NO. 13. ASSOCIATED PRESS KIWI ' AMD FEATURE SERVICES MAY 22, 1953. FOR BUSINESS OFFICE OR DEPARTMENT DIAL 4-71M FIVE CENTS 17 High Schools In 4-County Area To Graduate 635 Broadway With 88 Tops Sermons On Sunday A record number of 635 boys and girls are listed as prospective graduates of the 17 high schools In this Northern and Southern they will receive their diplomas at commencement exercises held over the next First of the graduation exercises are scheduled for next Thursday night and the last will be held on June 8. Broadway High In Its first tops the schools In the number of graduates with 88. In second place is High School with 72. Montevideo High School Is third with 62. The number of seniors announced In the various schools Rockingham - Broadway 88: Montevideo 62; Elkton 47; Bridgewater 40; Dayton 31: Mt. Clinton 18 - a total of 286. Page - Luray 49; Shenandoah 38; Stanley 17 - a total of 104. South Jackson 35; Edinburg 28; New Market 23 - a total of 86. North Augusta - North River Weyers Cave 23; Mt. total of 77. Harrisonburg High School 72; Simms High School 10. First of the baccalaureate sermons will be preached Sunday in the three Shenandoah county with the Rev. L. A. Wertz at New Dr. Paul at Mt. and Rev. Ben at New Market and Edinburg will have the first finals of the on next Thursday Dr. Percy of Madison will be the speaker at Newt with Rep. Burr P. of the Seventh Virginia the graduates at Mt. Jackson will be the third one of the schools graduation these being set for next Friday Dr. Albert P. of the Mt. Vernon Methodist Washington will be the Baccalaureate services on May 31, and the speakers Harrisonburg 8 in the new the Rev. Allan H. Muhlenberg Lutheran Simms High 3:30, In the school auditorium the Rev. E. E. of Shenandoah 8 the Rev. Lester Stanley 11 the Rev Kern Weyers Cave 8 the Rev. Albert G. North River 8 the Rev. Kern Luray at 8 the Rev. J. Raymond Den Luray High School graduation exercises will be held on Monday June 1, ranking members of the senior class giving the Four graduation exercises are scheduled for June 3. These with the Weyers Cave the Rev. Harold of New Simms with student Shenandoah Preston secretary of the Virginia Education and Stanley student North River High's on Page 20 Col 8) Judge Marshall to ' Preside At Case Here The State Supreme Court has designated Judge Elliott Marshall of the 17th Judicial Circuit to pre side In Rockingham County Circuit Court in the case of Henry H. Behnke Jr. and others against Earl Haddox and It was learned The case is set for May 29. The designation was made at the request of Judge H. R. who asked for assistance in the performance of his Judge May was designated last Oct. 28 to preside over the Rockingham court while Judge Hamilton Haas is Family's New Star OPERA STAR Patrice sings softly to baby who seems to be singing along with her famous mother as she makes her camera debut in New is the first child of the singer and her Robert Schuler The Weather VIRGINIA Partly warm and humid highest in the 80s Saturday continued and humid with scattered afternoon mostly west north WEST VIRGINIA Rather cloudy warm and humid with scattered thundershowers mostly in north portion highest Friday 80-86. Saturday warm and windy with thunderstorms followed by cooler towards Dale High Low Set Rain 77 53 73 69 52 60 79 51 73 C-C Group Asks Electric Survey Directors Also Favor Zoning Around Connecting Road Following extended discussion at their monthly meeting Wednesday the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce acted by resolution to ask the Harrisonburg Planning Commission to make a thorough study and survey of the City's electric power structure and with special reference to its present schedule of industrial The Chamber body further asked that the Planning Commission report Its conclusion and recommendations to the Harrisonburg City Council for their In a second the Directors asked that the Harrisonburg Planning Commission and Rockingham County Board of Supervisors to work together In the interests of controlling the future development of streets and zoning within a two-mile limit of the A third resolution instructed the several committees to Join in making a preliminary study and survey of the proposed extention of Charles Street west to Va. Route 42, thence to and via Secondary Route 849 Waterman to U. S. Route 33, and to report their findings to the board of supervisors at their next meeting June 1st. This proposed extension is in- on page 4.. col. 1) Eisenhower To Attend Big Three Bermuda Churchill Hopes Parley With Malenkov Results Possibility Of Red Meet One Subject By ARTHUR May 21 Wl - Prim Minister Churchill said today hi main hope for the Western Bi Three conference scheduled to bj held in Bermuda next month i that may take a definite stei toward a meeting of far grave - with Soviet Premie Georgi N. The House of Commons cheered as an old traveling man announced he would hit the roa again soon in quest of lasting world He said he would meet Eisenhower and the Premier of France shortly June If on a sunny British is land colony that is one of his own favorite vacation Who will represent France is 8 The French National As sembly threw Premier Rene May er's Cabinet out of office ofer a financial issue today shortly Mayer had announced the plans for the Bermuda Pre Mayer's successor will go The doughty 78, whc wants to go down In history a an architect of peace as well as a war told the Commons Eisenhower had expressed a wish for the face-to-face talks and have sought and obtained the Queen's gracious permission to leave the United Kingdom for this majesty's government feel that such an exchange of views could only be of advantage at the present he has been suggested that Bermuda where incidentally there is an would be a suitable meeting He said he made that Former Prime Minister Clement whc leads the labor asked Churchill wheth on page 3 col. 2) Atomic Bomb Miss ' Can Sink Carrier MaV 21 Margaret Chase Smith passed along the word today that an atomic bomb could miss an airplane carrier by 1,500 yards and still destroy it. woman senator quoted Adm. William top Navy on this as she made public scores of questions she put to defense officials on the new defense She is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and has been sitting in with the Senate Appropriations Committee now considering the reduced defense Sen. Smith didn't disclose any other Miss Vance Wins Beauty Contest 400 Persons Attend Ruritan Event At Mt. Clinton High Esther pretty brunette daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Vance jaf 424 East Street carried off first place in the annual West Rockingham Ruritan Club's beauty contest before a of over 400 persons in the Mt. Clinton High School auditorium last Miss a freshman at Madison wore a pastel strapless evening with white netting and a hoop She was sponsored by Supply and and was presented with a golden pear Second place in the went to Mattie of Keezletown who was sponsored by Service Miss an eighth grade student at Montevideo High School was awarded a gold vanity Third place in the contest went to Gaynell of Rawley sponsored by Huffman's Gulf Service while fourth place went to Beverly of 1, a senior at Dayton High School with both of on page 5. col. 1) Former Head of NLRB Refuses To Say If He Red Says He Is Not Spy And Never Was One At Senate Probe By HERB ALTSCHULL May 21 win S. National Labor Relations Board member for seven years under President Franklin D refused to tell Senate investigators today whether he was a Communist now or when he held his federal At one Smith burst out am not a I never have and never will engage in espionage in connection with the Soviet Smith was a witness before the Senate internal security which iR investigating wha Chairman Jenner calls pattern of Communist infiltration of the A tall man in his 60s, Smith refused time and again to answer Questions about alleged Communist connections He based his refusals on the Fifth which permits witnesses to decline to questions which might tend to incriminate The a resident of told the committee he now operates two and one literary and music Under questioning by Sen. Willif Smith the witness said his photo agency distributed pictures received from Soviet and Communist Chinese Among those he were several to do with germ Smith asked him if he believed the United States had used germ warfare in as the on Page 11 Col 1) Tornado Hits Along Border May 21 rare northern tornado across the U. borde late today dealt death and destruction in the twin cities of Sarnia and Port and beyond in South western Seven persons were reported kill ed. The twister blew part of a freight train off its tracks in Four dead had been identified by name late Others believed killed in the sudden moment of destruction were being sought by rescue crews digging in The identified and otherwise Port Charles La Forest of Port two others A crossroads 40 east of Simor 50, his 6-year-old and Miss Sarah about 80. They died in shattered one Many were most of them apparently by flying glass and Parts of the twin along the St. Clair River international boundary were left mounds of Bulldozers plowed through and helped push aside fallen so ambulances laden with the injured could reach After dipping down onto the tornado moved or to the east-northeast and again struck down in Ontario It hit the area of Ont. and destroyed most of the build in a highway junction on Ontario Highway No. 4 Help for that area was asked urgently by police and rescue The Toronto weather bureau said late tonight the vortex of the storm had passed Toronto and headed out over Lake ROK Troops In Win Over Reds Drive Off Chinese After 12-Hour Battle For Allied Outpost May 22 Tough South Korean troops Thursday drove off Reds after a bitter 12-hour battle for an Allied outpost on a jagged Eastern Korean Victory came for the South Koreans on their third after 150-to 200 Chinese had smashed their way into the outpost southeast of Christmas Driven from the western end of the 300-yard-long the South Koreans fought desperately and retained their hold on the then mounted the first of three The third finally cleared the ridge of Elsewhere along the 155-mile Korean Chinese and North Korean Communists jabbed and Allied positions and a score of patrol fights flared in no man's Clouds and haze restricted Allied air strikes to attacks against positions and supply and personnel areas behind Communist Ruritan Beauty Contest Winners Many Tax Plans Being Studied Humphreys Declares Even National Sales Being Considered By FRANK O'BRIEN May 21 of the Treasury Humphrey said today the Treasury is con all sorts of including a national sales as i1 works on a sweeping revision the nation's tax which Humphrey called brand new tax will be rent to Congress in Humphrey declined to take e personal stand for or against a sales But when asked at a news conference whether the Treasury has a sales tax under he are considering everything We are not ruling out anything at this Humphrey said he hopes it will be possible to balance the budget in the fiscal year 1955, which begins July 1. 1954. He indicated the government may only if at avoid having to ask Congress to raise the national debt limit 275 billion dollars in the 1954 fiscal beginning July 1, 1953. Humphrey was making his first news conference appearance since becoming He said the proposed new tax law would the entire He declined to go into possible turning away questions whether excise would be and whether personal and income taxes would be Until the Treasury completes lengthy studies of revenues which would be lost or gained by tax and on the general economic he said he On Page 20. Col. 1) Fire Destroys Scott Barn A large barn on the farm of H. H. Scott between Grottoes and Port Republic was destroyed by fire of origin last night at 10:45. Destroyed in the blaze were 300 chickens ready to move to market and worth of The 60 by 100 foot barn was a mass of flames when the owner discovered the blaze and called the Fire Co. The county fire truck was also called to stand Firemen saved several outbuildings with lines from the booster John Paul captain of Hose Co. No. 4, said last night that the owner placed the value of the barn at It was said to be partially covered by HAT SALE V-i Starts this Lillian ltc Yesterday Year ago 5-yrs. ago Sunrise and Sunset Sunrise today 4:59 Sunrise tomorrow 4:58 Sunset today 7:26 THE FOUR TOP BEAUTIES IV THE WEST ROCKINGHAM RURITAN CLUB'S BEAUTY contest held before a crowd of over 400 persons In the Mt. Clinton High School last night are caught by photographer Bob Riley as Presi dent Howard Lanham of the club presents the prize to first place winner Esther of g. To Miss Vance's left are Misses Mattie of Gaynell Rawley third and Beverly Route 1, BLACK PERSIAN hat and medium excellent Call 4-4050. ltc WANTED MOWING in or near R Dial 4-3638. 5-22to28p PROFESSIONAL NOTICE I will be out of town May 23 and 24. Dr. L. J. M. 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A spokesman described the appointment as a emergency who speaks Persian early last year was named minister to troubled Iran but Premier Mo hammed turned him Iran later broke diplomatic relations with Britain over the bitter quarrel which followed nationalization of the bil Oil Com holdings in There was nq indication how long Hankey will remain in Cairo He is going there during a depen ing crisis between Britain and Egypt which threatened further nationalist demonstrations against Britain's big garrison in the Suez Canal Negotiations recently were sus Bended and Egypt's strong man Premier Gen. Mohammed Naguib has stepped up his threats to oust the British from the guerrilla warfare if Britain has steadfastly refused to pull her troops out of the strategic Suez until Egypt agres to join other Western allies in a Middle East defense pact guaranteeing protection of the British lifeline tc Far East. The Foreign Office said the British Embassy in Cairo has ad vised some 4,000 British in Egypt to leave the country if they have no pressing business The step was taken ns a long term precautionary measure against any repetition of the antl British riots in Cairo 16 in which at least 60 persons were nine of them French Assembly Throws Cabinet Out oT Office Government of Mayer Fails to Capture Vote of Confidence By HARVEY May 21 French National Assembly threw Premier Rene Mayer's Cabinet out of office on n financial issue thereby casting a shadow over an impending meeting Mayer was to attend with and British Prime Minister By a vote of 328-244, the Assembly declared its lack of confidence in the Mayer had just announced that France and the United States had agreed to meet on the highest level in Bermuda in June to prepare for a possible Fig Four conference with This drew applause from some moderate and rightist but Mayer's critics were unmoved and the announcement failed to stave off Who will represent France at Bermuda is therefore a Presumably there will be a new government by The Mayer most conservative of the 18 that ruled France since the was formed Jan. 7 after a 16-day Formation of a new government may be even more difficult this for the rapid turnover in Cabinets has made the task of Premier a thankless The issue on which Mayer lost was a to give him special powers to slice a mounting deficit He demanded a vote of confidence on the In the was opposition to his proposal to cut the subsidy of 85 million dollars on page 5. col. 4) Will Confer With French And British Tito In Tirade Against Russia Says That Relations Between Russia Still Bad May 21 Tito declared angrily today that relations between and the Soviet bloc are Just as bad as despite the recent softening of the Kremlin's five-year propaganda war against his independent Communist the frontier their rifles are shooting our Tito waving a press is slandering If the USSR has softened its that is not enough for our country to change its attitude and fall Into the arms of those who have so badly harmed Any changes must be demonstrated by not The President addressed a crowd of several thousand at this military airbase outside Belgrade on the 11th birthday of Yugoslavia's Red Air Military attaches from the West were among the made up mostly of members of A scheduled air show was cancelled because of threatening Tito said rumors had circulated that his ousted from on page 4, col 4> By WILMOT HERCHER May 21 Eisenhower plans to meet in Bermuda next month with Prime Churchill and the Premier of France to strengthen the Big Three alliance and discuss the advisability of a high-level meeting with the News of the conference was announced simultaneously today in London and The French Foreign Office said it will begin June 17. Soon the French National Assembly denied Premier Rene Mayer a vote of confidence and his Cabinet Presumably Mayer's successor will go to but the French political crisis could delay the It was understood that Eisenhower proposed the get-together and that Churchill suggested it be held on the Sunny British island about 700 miles off this country's Atlantic The President Issued a statement saying the primary purpose of the face-to-face meeting of the Big three leaders was to tackle many problems that must be solved co-operatively so that the world cause of peace may be But Churchill and Mayer immediately saw in the consultation a path toward a later meeting with Kremlin main Churchill told that we may take a definite step forward to a meeting of far graver Soviet Premier Eisenhower's statement did not mention the possibility of a meeting with the Members of Congress received news of the Bermuda conference with general ' Many of thm saw in it an opportunity for them saw in it an opportunity for the differences among themselves before attempting any sort of approach to It would be a fatal said Sen. ' Knowland chairman of the Republican Policy Committee in the go into a four-power meeting with a wide divergence of opinion among the Allies about Korea and other unsettled problems because the Communist technique is aimed at dividing the statement said the governments of the United Great Britain and France have been in consultation about the idea of holding informal high-level agreed that such a meeting is desirable at a date convenient of all of the President went A primary purpose will be further to develop common viewpoints with these friends on the many problems that must be solved so that the cause of world peace may Diplomatic informants here said one purpose of the meeting undoubtedly is to shore up faltering Allied unity in the face of a number of pressing including the dragging truce talks in Eisenhower was represented as believing that a session with Churchill and the new premier the French select would go a long way toward dispelling misunderstandings and would dramatically symbolize the common interests and purpose of the three Western Weather Bureau States A-Bomb Tests Not Causing Recent Rain By FRANK CAREY May 21 Wl - Weather Bureau officials said today many querulous citizens have been asking if the Nevada atomic tests have caused the abnormally wet in the East this The weather man says Dr. Harry Wexler of the bureau's scientific staff said he's been kept on the hop for the last few weeks answering mailed and telephoned inquiries on the He says he tells folks in effect that if they don't like the they must blame mother and not the S. 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