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IF COMMUNISM WERE tne success they claim wouldn't they put up a plate glass window instead of an iron curtain? That 'Dirty Ankles' Bit A Compulsive Neurosis Perhaps many of our readers will feel that some sort of a milestone has been reached when they learn of this, hut for the second day in succession we find that we must 'basically agree with our elected officials, Mayor Cecil L. Miller and County Court President John C. Ward. Monday morning's t-Herald quoted both men as differing strongly with Thomas F. Stafford, former Beckley editor turned Charleston writer, who claimed that our "once beautiful courthouse square" has gone to seed, that "no pains are being taken to keep.

clean" the main business streets, and thai Beckley "is dirty around the ankles. Basically Mayor Miller and Commissioner Ward are right in their claims that Stafford is, as is often the case, largely wrong. However, it would seem to us that the logical reply from both men would have been a single great big horse laugh. For a Charleston Gazette staffer to call Beckley dirty is like the old pot calling a gleaming crystal pitcher black. We were in dirty Charleston the weekend that Stafford's diatribe appeared.

The Kanawha metropolis is noted over the nation for its basic filth and pollution. And the city fathers there have admittedly been unable and unwilling to keep the Municipal Auditorium from falling into disrepair and the general appearance of an eyesore. By comparison, Beckleij is truly close to heaven and a shining example! THE GREATER IRONY of it all, however, is that one of the major improvements in the appearance of our courthouse area has come with the replacement of the ancient and dirty drugstore formerly operated by Stafford's father-in-law by a new and jewelry shop. Frankly, the beauty of the 'courthouse lawn would have been far less than it now is had there not been some against the scheme of some time ago to pave an additional large area of what is now lawn, and to save the lovely big oak tree at the Main and Heber corner. The courthouse building itself is quite resplendent, having had brand new coats of paint over the metalwork between and around the windows.

Except for the unfortunate topping of the big evergreen near the General Alfred Beckley monument, the shrubbery is all reasonably attractive. Certainly, it outshines the Kanawha Courthouse considerably. Stafford and the Gazette often seem to have an actual compulsion to throw in a few detrimental diatribes in even the most complimentary articles. It gives the appearance that thev are really a bit anything nice. Top 0' The Morning Truman Gives Proof New Name Needed! By EM1LE J.

HODEL If ever anyone offered solid proof of the need for a change in West Virginia's name, it was former President Harry Truman yesterday afternoon at the 9Sth birthday anniversary celebration in Charleston. "Old Give 'em Hell" Harry proved time after time that he well knew the difference between Virginia and West Virginia, but he repeatedly made the common error of referring to our state as just plain "Virginia." Two such references that we specifically recall were his statement that he was familiar with, and loved the history of Virginia, and later that he hoped to live to be as old as Virginia. In both cases he obviously had reference to the Mountain State but got himself twisted the same way 90 per cent of the rest of America does--when they know the difference. West Virginia's history is somewhat similar to that of his own state of Mis-' souri and Truman pointed this fact out so he had to be referring to our history rather than Virginia's. -0- In addition, Virginia is now more than 350 years old in its history, so it just isn't possible that the former president had any hopes of reaching that age.

He really meant West Virginia's age of 99. He has only 21 years to go to match that. If you happened to hear the broadcast of his address yesterday, which was carried, we understand, by something like 28 stations, then you know just what we mean. There is good reason to doubt that Ex-President Truman hoped to further the proposal to name the state for our 16th president, because he has no real use for any Republicans, however great they may have been. But it would appear that he gave the idea pretty fair backing, unintentionally.

HAD THE ARTICLE taken Beckley and its suburbs to task where there is properly room for such, we would be saying amen. There are few cities anywhere which will permit a horribly unsightly junkyard to grow as an eyesore right next to a cily park and within full view of a main hiffhwav artery. Bccklcifs approaches on the highways entering the cily are prctiy terrible in several cases. And it is primarily the city's own fault. Virtually nothing has been or is being done to remedy that situation.

There are also many other points where this community could stand some cleaning and general improvement. One that is particularly notable is the Eisenhohwer Drive bypass where tumble down shacks and generally disreputable appearances are common, but more so on the cily side tnan the opposite side which is outside the city. We do need to look after a lot of such situations and many of them cry out for a proper annexation program on the part of the city. But Stafford's criticism was mis-directed badly. He must have had a nightmare which seemed so realistic, he believed it was real.

Or Mayor Miller is right. Something must be wrong with his glasses. FINANCIAL ASTRONAUT ashamed of ever saying There were any number of funny events in connection with the observance yesterday which turned out to be something of a mess. When the Randolph County nonagenarian Harmon S. Hamrick was greeted and invited to come into the governor's suite to rest, he was asked if he would like something to drink.

They always have coffee and cold soft drinks on hand. The Valley Head man asked if he might have a little whisky, saying that his doctor had recommended he have a little each day for the past six years-There was quite a flurry of activity, we were told, in rounding up a drink ol the harder variety. Then when it was presented the near-centennarian, he found it not to his taste and wouldn't drink it. Evidently, it wasn't the kind of hooch they have up at Valley Head. -0- There was also a mix-up over the weather.

When it began to shower pretty well, it was first announced that the entire proceeding would be moved into the Capitol Rotunda. But within a minute or two the order was countermanded. Barron and Truman had indicated they were neither sugar nor salt, would not melt, were in good health, and would prefer to go on in the rain, thank you! It wasn't long then before the precipitation let up. Bill For Governor Then, too, there was the business of David Aibaugh, the "Honey" choral director, handing the governor the "card" that came with the cake. When he reported having done so, the "Honey" crowd began checking to find out about it.

Turned out Aibaugh had handed the governor the bill for the cake. Sort of topping off the afternoon for us as we came home on the Turnpike, just south of the tunnel was a trailer overturned on the two southbound lanes of a four-lane stretch. Spilled out all over the highway were Quaker Oats. We immediately thought of Glida Meyers' favorite expression to the effect that she doesn't care "if it snows oats." It almost did just that along the Turnpike yesterday. And top of the morning to you! Ray Tucker-Kennedy Finds Alienation Of Business Rather Deep WASHWGTON-Ai, a result of several White House conferences with spokesmen of business and industry, President Kennedy has discovered that he nas far more difficult task than he realized in soothing their fears of his administration.

There is deep sense of frustration and misunder- a i both sides. His conferees i indignantly that they were "hostile" to h'im. Like he, they realize that a running conflict between a powerful federal establishment and the directors of the private enterprise system will do harm to the nation's economy and to this country's role as leader of the free world. Prices on European stock exchanges fell along with Wall Street's a few weeks ago. What they did tell him is that they are afraid of his policies and of some of the persons, principally professors akin to FDR's "brain trust," on whom he relies for economic counsel.

of reporters' homes by FBI agents to question them on a Bethlehem Steel official's comment on Big Steel's price hike. TOO MANY KENNEDYS Since most of them are probably readers of the -New York Herald- Tribune, they thought that the cancellation of that Republican newspaper was not only an act pettiness, but also evidence of contempt for the viewpoint of the opposition, including their own. Another minor irritation, although a factor in their appraisal, is the expanding "Kennedy dy-, nasty," which recalls to them the pervasive influence and activities of the "Roosevelt family." Accustomed to the seniority system in their operations, they think that Edward M. Kennedy, the President's youngest brother, should wait a few years before seeking a U. S.

Senate seat. Finally--and fortified by the President's ingratiating speeches before tumultuously applauding labor audiences businessmen feel that, like FDR and Harry Truman, the administration is too partial to the union hierarchy and members. Yesterday And Today- Williamsburg Area Abounds In History--3 By SHIRLEY DONNELLY Williarnsburg in Greenbrier County is sequestered village some 15 miles northwest of Lewisburg. It is ten miles south of Cold Knob and between Culverson and Sinking creeks. This is one of the state's great a i sections.

Pastoral scenes abound. Title to a lot of these lands was i by James Monroe a there in the land grant days of more than a century and a half ago. As early as 1800 persons acquired holdings in the Sinking Creek area in that way. IN 1S33 what is now Williamsburg was laid out as a hamlet by Moses McCoy. It was named in honor of Thomas Williams.

Williams, of Welsh descent, was the pioneer settler. He reared his rude log cabin some three miles southwest of the site of Wiliiamsburg today. One day the Indians pounced upon Williams and killed him. They carried away his children and reduced his cabin to ashes. Old timers always said this region was a favorite hunting ground savages.

Williams made the mistake of poaching on redskin territory and they made quick work of him. drew Donnally settleu seven miles south of where the five families had built log houses. Donnally, destined to be the first sheriff of Greenbrier County when it was formed in 1777 from Bptetburfc and Montgomery counties, fixed his abode in what today is known as Rader's Valley. Knowing that the Indians resented the coming of the white settlers, Donnally scented trouble in the offing. He set about building Fort Donnally as a refuge for the settlers in the event of Indian forays.

He proved himself a prophet because the Indians did attack the fort with the settlers in it May 28, 1778. recall. Always a small church in more than 30 during any one year," they say--the Lacy Church has left a deep impression on Greenbrier countryside. FORT DONNALLY was built on land owned by Hugh Donnally, father of Andrew. It was a two-story double log house and was one of the most noted- of the frontier strongholds.

In the Indian attack it was Dick Pointer, a Negro owned by Andrew Donnally, who proved himself quite a hero. Reinforcements from tho Lewisburg settlement, under the command of John Stuart and Samuel Lewis, lifted the Indian siege. CLOSE TO 200 YEARS AGO William Hughart settled near the Thomas Williams home. It was about 1769 that Hughart reared his dwelling on this spot. William McCoy accompanied Hughart in this venture and fixed his home hard by Hughart.

Two years later came James Jordan, John Patton, and William Blake. That same year, 1771, An- BY 1800 the population in Williamsburg' and vicinity had grown rapidly. Names of those families are detailed in a history of the community which the Lacy Presbyterian Church of Williamsburg issued in 1961 on its 75th anniversary. This congregation worships in the little frame meeting house erected in 1388. It was named Lacy Presbyterian Church in honor of Rev.

Matthew Lyle Lacy. (1833-1912), pastor of Old Stone Presbyterian Church at Lewisburg from 1832 to 1888. He had previously been co-pastor of the Old Stone Church with the famed Dr. McElhenney whose pastorate of that church -ranks as about the longest in the annals of ecclesiology, some 62 years, as I THE FIRST GRAIN grinding mill at Williamsburg was built in 1800 by John Wooden. It stood on Sinking Creek, which powered the grist mill.

Timbers used in building this mill were transported from Anthony's Creek. The first blacksmith shop stood on the land of Washington McMillion. It was the Livesay shop, built in 1783. Grist mills and blacksmith as these, were community centers in pioneer times. They were-great places for the dissemination of news.

Williamsburg was once incorporated. In 1931 Thomas McClintic was chief of police. The community also had a bank. Many other efforts at giving Williamsburg a larger place in the sun did not come out as their sponsors pi aimed. But 82 per cent of Williamsburg families own their homes, says an authority, with pride.

One-third of the farms in the Williamsburg community range from 100 to 300 acres. Methodists are the strongest sect. Nearly half of the people who belong to any church are followers of Wesley. Forty-three per cent of Williamsburg women claim housewife status, says my informant, and do not work outside of their own homes. One native plaintively said to me, "The trouble is that ail our young people leave here as soon as -they finish high school." They go off to the centers of trade where their incomes are consumed in high taxes and living expenses.

In the long run those who remain on their rich farms in the Williamsburg section are better off. FINANCIAL IDEAS DOUBTED --Privately, they have in mind Walter Heller, chairman of the President's Economic Advisory' Council; David E. Bell, director of the budget; and Stanley Surrey, assistant secretary of the Treasury in charge of taxes. The visitors questioned the of their kleas on financial questions and their general attitude toward business and industry. President Kennedy's intervention in the Big Steel controversy, they insist, was only one of many incidents that have led them to be fearful and skeptical.

In their opinion, there seems to be an underlying attitude of hostility -and anti-business atmosphere--at Washington. They may not have mentioned these specific things to the President, for they are only symptomatic rather than punitive, but the contribute to the totality of their clouded outlook. They did not like, for instance, his angry reference to his father's description of businessmen as "SOB's." They regarded as arrogant and dictatorial the midnight invasion SEES SELF AS FRIEND--Any analysis of the relations between the administration and big business would not be. complete or fair without taking into consideration the President's attitude and reaction. It serves to explain his feeling of frustration, and to measure the task he faces in order to effect a reconciliation.

Mr. Kennedy believes sincerely that he has done more for business than recent predecessors, including former President Eisenhower. He cites the faster rate of depreciation for plants and machinery that is now in preparation by the Treasury; the 7 or 8 per cent tax write-off for expansion or new construction; the attempt to increase foreign trade through cutting tariffs; and the promised across-the-board tax cut next year. Finally, his friends note, he is the multimillionaire product of: the system of private enterprise. Why, they ask, would he want to kill the goose that hatched $10 million for him and an estimated million for his father, Joseph Mel Heimer-A Pleasure To Find A Guy With A Mind Of His Own' Burf Lancaster NEW YORK Things one New Yorker thinks about- The night, in an icily calm manner, Burt Lancaster told off a local TV m.

c. in no uncertain terms, for nosing into his personal life, and then picked up and walked off Sfe watching public i diately to was split into sides: those who thought Lancaster did the right thing and those who thought it was just terrible of him. Maybe it's time for me to visit the headshrinker. I found myself cheering Lancaster when, I suppose, I should have been on the other side. I suspect that the main reason I was for Burt, was that he had the integrity to chew out an interviewer, even though he was thus insulting the great god Publicity.

What I mean, I guess, is that it's a pleasure to find a guy with a mind of his own. There are an awful lot of sheep in world today. Drew Pearson-Worst Alcatraz Criminals Not 'Foreign' McCoy," ex- QUESTION: Sometime ago my doctor prescribed for me a narcotic which has enslaved me, I've tried repeatedly to get along without it, and have prayed, but God does not seem to answer my prayer. I'm afraid to discuss this problem with my doctor for feared shall lose my fob. What shall I ANSWER: Ii would appear that you are on the verge of narcotic addiction, which one of the greatest bondages to which a human being can be subjected.

You are making a mistake by not discussing this natter with your doctor, job or no job. Your health and your future is worth more than any job. your coctor immediately. Perhaps he can help you to break this habit before it strengthens its grip on you. If it has gone too far.

he can arrange for proper treatment. This we do know, narcotic addicts CAN be cured, it they really WANT to be. You say you prayed, but God did not you! God helps those who care enough about being delivered to exort effort. Jesus said to the paralyzed man: 'stretch forth they hand; Of course, being paralyzed, he couldn't no it-- bu 4 at least he indicated by his futile effort that he really wanted to be made whole. When God sees that you really mean business, He will give you strength greater than you can imagine.

SAN FRANCISCO Walking along the catwalk around Alcatraz, I noticed a prisoner working alongside the incinerator look up and wave at Fred Wilkinson, assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. "That's George plained Wilkin- son. "We trans- ferred him here after he killed Remington at Lewisburg." Wilkinson referred to Wil-! liam Remington, the form-, er Communist official in the Commerce Department, who was murdered in his cell by McCoy and two other prisoners at the Lewisburg Penitentiary. McCoy is one of the original feuding McCoys of Kentucky, and still thinks he did a patriotic service in killing Remington. Director Wilkinson once served as warden at Lewisburg, and 0.

G. Biackweil. now warden at Alcatraz. was his -assistant. They have grown up in the federal system, seem undiscour- by the difficult, sometimes hopeless job of reforming men.

of making hardened criminals realize that there is a better way of life. Their chief. James V. Bennett, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, is one of the most dedicated men in prison work. Both he and Wilkinson know almost important criminal in fed- era- penitentiaries, understand their problems both in person and at home.

They can teli you whether a wife is waiting to help encourage a man when he comes home, or whether she has given up and sued for divorce. Wilkinson has worked in so many other prisons -that 150 out of the 2fi6 inmates at Alcatraz have served under him. As we walked around the catwalk, a Negro prisoner cnDed up from the exercise pen below. He had held up a bank near Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. "Mr.

Wilkinson," he called, "when you gonna transfer me out of here?" "Where do you want to go?" asked the assistant director. "Back to Atlanta," was the reply. Another prisoner standing beside him wanted to go to Arizona. "He wants to go to our Florence. institution because he comes from Arizona." Wilkinson explained.

"We've had a lot of trouble with him. had to transfer him from one place to another. But now he's settling down. He's due to be discharged in a short time, but unfortunately his wife is divorcing him and he won't have much to go back to." Tne three prisoners stood, in Navy pea jackets, in the cold wind which swept over San Francisco Bay. Tnere weren't enough prisoners off duty from the workshops to get up a handball game and they stood looking off at the skyscrapers of San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, and all the unattainable joys of life that lay beyond.

MOST FASCINATING character of the week the one-legged panhanoUer on West 48th, near the Pierre au Tunnel restaurant, who waves a "Thank You!" flag when somebody drops a coin into his box. Street, downtown, may have more 100-year-old buildings than any other Manhattan road. One, at No. 279, is more 'than 150 years old. The old El Morocco site's going into another period.

Now a sidewalk cafe'll be opened there. .1 suppose we must swallow our disappointment. Connie Francis decided not to do a Broadway show this fall. gay, mad life: The Rpundtable, a local saloon, is installing a trapeze on the ceiling for twist bandleader Dale Hawkins, who used to be a circus flyer and will lead his good group while swinging from the chandelier. ALCATRAZ GO ROUND -When you have been on Alcatraz you can understand the accuracy arid poignancy of the rseiv motion picture.

"Reprieve," Millard Kauf- msnn's gripping story cf a prisoner in the death cell who at the last minute is reprieved. The toughest criminals of the USA are not bom. but white Anglo-Americans. Out of the 266 Alcatraz inmates. 175 are Anglos, 75 Negro, two Chinese- Japanese.

three Indian, ten Mexican, and one Puerto Rican. The Japanese, according to pen authorities, almost never commit violent crimes. The toughest criminals are native midwesterricrs. The criminal "circuit" used to extend from Kansas City to St. Paul, right through middle A i a It takes 160 prison personnel to handle the 266 inmates of Alca- traz, an illustration of fact that crime doesn't pay, either for the criminal or for the taxpayer who has to support him.

Prison personnel are part of the Civil Service System, especially trained for the work. But it's difficult to hire" prison guards. Government pay is low compared with high wages in San Francisco, and the work is inclined to be depressing. Inmates at Alcatraz, as in most prisons, pass through a metal- detection machine which can even detect metallic foil in a cigarette pack. Inmates must have cigarettes packed in non-metallic paper, also wooden belt buckles and wooden supports in their shoes.

The average sentence for Alcatraz prisoners is 25 years, but their average stay on the rock is five years. When they improve they. can go back to other institutions. Most prevalent crimes for which they-are sentenced are bank robbery, kidnapping, and narcotics. Average age of prisoners is 34....

Their average IQ is 100. The library- at Alcatraz is more in demand than almost any other in the USA. Prisoners go in for heaw reading -especially philosophy and sociology. They can take extension courses courtesy of the University of California, Perm State University, and the International Correspondence School. Though heavy weights are available in the exercise pen.

prisoners have not used them as weapons against each other. They seem to reject the importance of keeping their pen free from any vio- I THINK A LOT OF OTHER newsmen and radio-TV interviewers feel as. I do which is that too many show-business stars butter us up, turn on the charm, tell us how wonderful ou; last column was, and so on. After the' first few years of this (which we eat up, greedily), we get a little bored with it all and long to meet an actor with enough guts to say coldly to us, "Now, that's a damfool question you asked. For the same reason, I've always been in Ted Williams' corner, when the great ballplayer was snorting at sportswriters and telling them to go learn the game before they ask him why he didn't bunt with txvo strikes on him.

I am intrigued, too, by Bill Hartack, the brilliant jockey, who tells racing writers of whom there are too few good ones, or even ones who know the finer points of the trade to go roll a hoop. Notes On The News- ABBE LANE AND XAVIER Cugat have an apartment at the Lombardy Hotel here. Anyone renting it while they're away has to spring for $10 over the regular charge to pay for the upkeep on the sunken bathtub and the marble-and-white-mink bedroom. passing scene: Herman Wouk strolling on 42nd Street West --a on the wild side. Singer Robert Weede sighing as he passes the condemned Met Opera House Weede Pagliacci.

Diners at the Hob Nob being startled by opera star Anna Moffo an Ava Gardner lookalike. 104 years since City Hall here passed into private hands to satisfy a judgment against the municipality. It was put up at public auction but the mayor of that time got it back into city hands with a private bid. exercse lence. Aussies Help U.

N. UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (AP) --Prime Minister Robert G. Mcn- zies of Australia helped the United Nations out of a temporary financial difficulty Friday by bringing a check for $4 million for U.N.

bonds. U.N. officials said last week 7 worked a 35-hour week, right now I'd be through until Monday mornina!" that unless money from bond sales and other sources came in, the organization would have to borrow $2 to $3 million to pay for expenses in the Congo, Middle East and normal operating costs. Hospital Patients HINTON (RXS) Twentythree admittances and 12 dismissals were listed at Hinton Hospital Tuesday. Admitted were Miss Brenda Lee Jan-ell, Mrs.

Arnold D. Bennett. Mrs. Rufus 0. Grimmett, Dorsey Chapman Lyons, John C.

Cantrell, Ellen- Cantrell, Mrs. Wanda Gertrude Brookman, Mrs. Edward Charles Bennett, and Mrs. Bessie C. Williams, all of Hinton; Robert Lee Goff of Pipestemr Miss Edith Pearl Lucas.

John Arkansas Upton, Patricia Gail Meadows, and Dcloris Meadows, all of Jumping Branch; Mrs. William N. Hicks and Mrs. Plummcr H. Ward.

both of Sandstone: Mrs. Jessie Harrah of Meadow Creek; Willie Fieshman of Elton; Mrs. John Chester Jones of Layland; Mrs. George Beaty Hall of East Rain, elle: Mrs. Emma Florence Light of Forest Hill: Basil Edgar Meadows of Green Sulphur Springs: and Lewis Franklin Crane Jr Rainelle.

Dismissed were Gary Franklin Wood, Patrick S. O'Connor, Mrs. Minnie A. Adkins. Mrs Ada Christian, Quillie Grimrnctt Jr.

ar.d Amie G. Deeds, all of Hinton; Mrs. Nellie Allen.of Mrs, Tony Falvo of Roderfield; Miss Minnie Harwood of Alderson; Leslie Harvey of Nimitz; Miss Carolyn Leo Raines of Indian Mills; and James W. Cooper of Sandstone,.