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25 well as all AP cews dispatches. Can West Virginia Get Good Government? -III (Continued From Page One) the Department of Commerce where the foul-ups seem almost endless. He has never served at any other level, being unwilling to start in a lesser job to gain experience and prove that he deserved to move higher. Rather he wants to start at the top in the state and then move on 10 Washington, presumably. THE WORST OF ALL THIS, however, is that Smith seems to have a double standard.

One set of standards is for himself and his cronies. The other is for everyone else. For example, Hulett Smith has been attempting to brow-beat his opponent with, not facts, but insinuations that the state cannot stand another four years of administration by Cecil Underwood. His claim goes back to the supposedly "sloppy" right-of-way acquisition practices of Underwood's State Road Commission. It built considerably more roads than the current administration, but it had to pay high prices for right-of -way to do so- to Hulett Smith in one case.

In Hulett's eyes, this makes Underwood guilty of some sort of "crimes" on the part of various road commission underlings. On the other hand, however, when the activities under the Department of Commerce bring about indictments in Kanawha County, including the indictment of one of Hulett's employes therein, he sees this as having him of any blame. He wasn't indicted, just one who was supposed to be doing his bidding! This "absolves" him, yet! IRONIC IN THIS RESPECT is the fact that the State Road Commission really is an independent agency. Once confirmed by the State Senate, the road commissioner is subject to the governor's bidding only if he is COoperative and thankful for the appointment. If the road commissioner wants to "go his own way," he can do so and none can say him nay.

This is not true of employes of the commissioner of the Department of Commerce. HARKENING BACK to the administration of Governor Underwood, there is much to be observed. And, obviously, there is little really subject to strong criticism or we would have been hearing considerably more about it, and in great detail. Underwood makes no claim to have been perfect while he was in the governor's chair. He merely points out, justifiably, that his stewardship saw more and better roads built over the state than in any other administration and a generally better and more reliable government for the benefit of its citizens at a cost of something like $41 million a year less than the present Barron government is spending.

The "jumping" Charleston Gazette, which supported Underwood at the last minute in his 1956 campaign and then went neurotic and wild over what it had done in supporting a Republican, has primarily objected to just two of his appointments. The jumping Gazette began upbraiding him even before he could take his oath of office. The editors apparently thought he should have an outline of four years of activity in the office ready for them to approve or disapprove before he took office. No doubt they thought their last minute rush for the bandwagon should have given them some sort of unofficial veto power. When it did not.

they turned pouter for four years-now eight. CECIL UNDERWOOD IS the only governor the Mountain State bas ever had who was willing to put his record on the line for a vote by the people in the office. He also is the only and ask for a second four year term governor we nave had recently who did not come out of the office a greatly wealthier man compared to his status going into his term. Had any of the other governors of recent vears come back four years later and sought the office again, with the possible exception of Gov. Okey Patteson, we do not doubt that they would have virtually been run out of the state.

They knew it. too. because they had been grabbing everything that was not tied down in the statehouse. so to speak. Now the people of West Virginia have the opportunity to reward comparative.

excellence by returning Cecil Underwood to the governor's office. And in doing so, they will be rewarded by putting at the helm an honest man who has not only proven his qualificatwns, but nas a juli jour years of experience in the job, plus 12 years of prior legislative experience. If West Virginia can get good government, a vote for Cecil Underwood is the surest and quickest method at the moment! BECKLEY Top O' The Morning The Food Was Fine, The Crowd Good By EMILE J. HODEL The ox roast for Cecil Underwood and his supporting Board of Public Works candidates at the Dry HillProsperity Fair Grounds Tuesday night was really quite a shin dig for this era. There were well more than 1.000 people there to hear the former governor, congressional candidate Jim Comstock, and Louis Reed, Donald Michels, Donald Carman.

and Nicholas Homes. The itself was a big part of the attraction. Mrs. Natalie Austin was in charge of the food arrange. ments and did a simply marvelous job.

Everything was delicious and our younger son claims he went back for a fourth helping from the kitchen. We overheard a family of crats in which the wife was telling a "surprised-to-see-you" Republican that when she found 1 out about it. she let her husband come home to nO food on the stove so that be would have to take them all to the 0X roast. -0 In any case, 816 tickets were sold in advance for the dinners and some 200 more paid at the door. There were others who came to hear the speeches but had not been there to eat.

Not only were the bleacher seats at the show ring packed, there were almost as many more standing all around. Some sat in their cars to hear as best they could. We saw Dr. Bill Richmond and he asked us relay word they should turn up the loudspeakers. Dr.

Bill's looking good again, too. Of course, he cannot run any foot races, but we've seen him out and about two or three times. The loudspeakers were already as high as they would go, but he should have been able to turn on his car radio to bear the speech by Underwood which was broadcast. -0- It would appear that City Editor Roy Harmon on The Register is getting worried. Not only did he use almost a column of space yesterday afternoon on a story about Hulett Smith speaking in Hinton where The Register is not delivered at all he failed to have a single word about Underwood's appearance here where the former governor took The Register to task a bit and replied to the old and often-repeated charges made by George Titler that were spread across the top of the Tuesday afternoon front page.

This is what Harmon and The Register deem fair reporting and unbiased news coverage, we suppose. It doesn't surprise us a bit. But we must say we are disappointed in the former assistant editor of the PostHerald, brother John. Oh, yes, Harmon was urging all the Democrats to vote for Smith as well as Johnson because "every So often I run into a lifelong Democrat who has been brain-washed by one of Cecil Underwood's disciples," meaning one planning to vote for Johnson and Underwood. But finally Harmon got around to writing, "I suggest that those who want a Republican governor should go all the way and also try to get a Republican president, so they will at least vote for harmonious efforts." (See, we'll even pass along the gist of his stuff for our readers!) -0- We would beg to differ, however.

The important place for more harmony is not between president and governor, but between governor and Board of Public Works and Legislature. Here's where you should be consistent. If you vote for Underwood for governor. you should vote for some Republicans for House of Delegates, State Senate. and such offices as secretary of state.

auditor, attorney general, and such. We DO need both parties in this state badly! --0- It has never been announced. but both Johnson and Goldwater received by mid-September more threats than any other presidential candidate since Al Smith. By now, they have probably both set new records. We baven't yet heard who leads between them in that category.

Top of the morning! MY ANSWER by Bill Crahom QUESTION: What do people mean when they speak of the "fatherhood of God" and the "brotherhood of Do you believe in these literally? J.D.D. ANSWER: This is a misunderstood term. All men are brothers. in the sense that we have all descended from Adam. We are brothers in the human family.

And God is our Father. in the sense that we were created by HIM. But there the metaphor breaks down. The Bible sars. "In Adam all men die.

but in Jesus Christ shall all be made alive again." When man sinned he forfeited his right to sonship, and can only be reinstated through Jesus Christ. That is why He reconcile us to God." Jesus Christ is the only one in earth and heaven who can restore this lost relationship. and make complete the family of God. The people of the world we live in hardly act like brothers. They fight.

deceive, harass. steal from each other. and murder. True brotherhood can only be restored. and the fatherhood of God realized, through Jesus Christ who reconciled.

redeemed, and regenerates man, POST-HERALD, BECKLEY, W. THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1964 Repair Job RED CHINA- DA RECONCILIATION Yesterday And Today- Greenbrier's By SHIRLEY DONNELLY After the ghost of Zona Heaster Shue appeared to her mother, hirs. Mary Heaster, in the Leivasy Mill section of Meadow Bluff District in Greenbrier county in 1897, telling that Edward Shue had killed her-Zona -the people believed the Godly mother. mother. In prayer and class meeting in her church, Mary Heaster gave her testimony and plified her experiences with Zona's ghost and what the ghost told her.

Prosecuting Preston believed regardless of thought and said. protector of the prosecutor of fended against dignity Preston the case that Edward Shue Zona. PRESTON private investigation. into Meadow questioned the they knew of Dr. J.

M. Knapp, hood medicine if there was any diagnosis of Shue might be mitted he could Prosecutor that Zona Heaster be dug up and nation of it be mine the exact woman's death. on the part of to be set at ease, the guilty one Shue was notified Notable Shue person at his blacksmith shop that his wife's body was to be exhumed. Shue knew what that meant, too. INTERESTED VOLUNTEERS were on hand to dig up the dead woman.

There was a morbid curiosity on the part of many and there were more men to dig up the coffin than were needed. Preston directed that the coffin with its remains be taken a nearby one-room school. Once in the schoolhouse, all persons but Dr. Knapp and Prosecutor Preston, were excluded. Mrs.

Mary Heaster was outside. After Dr. Knapp re-examined the dead body it was returned to the grave and reburied. Zona had been murdered! Henry Gilmer took Edward Shue in charge and took him to the Lewisburg. Gilmer was assistant prosecuting attorney.

SHUE WAS INDICTED. His case had the county by the ears. William Rucker and James Gardner were attorneys for the accused Shue. Gardner was the first Negro lawyer to practice in the circuit courts of West Virginia. Gardner's office was in Lewisburg.

Of course, the state had to admit that its case rested on unusual evidence, something not mentioned in law books, the supernatural, the testimony of a ghost! And the word of a woman who said what the ghost said. Dr. Knapp ate crow! He was wrong in his first guess about what produced Zona's death. Mrs. Martha Jones and Andy Jones were sworn and testified to Shue's actions that January Murder-III morning.

They told a simple, straight story. But the dead girl's mother presented the testimony that convinced the jury. MRS. HEASTER TOLD in steady detail about four times her daughter's gbost appeared to her. Jurymen hung on her words and spectators in the old courtroom craned their necks and cupped their ears to catch every word.

She was honest and simple in her story. No objections from the counsel for the defense. That mother quoted her daughter at length. Shue had fussed about what Zona had for supper and flew into a rage when Zona pointed out it was a good meal, good enough for any man! Thea Shue grabbed her face in hands and wrenched her neck and broke it. Mrs.

Heaster said the ghost appearance was no dream. Shue denied everything on the stand. WHEN BOTH SIDES rested in the case and it was given to the jury, the 12 men deliberated an hour. "Guilty," was the verdict but mercy for Shue was recommended. Shue was sentenced to' Moundsville for life.

But the public was not satisfied. A mob formed, rope and all. George Harrah, neighbor of men in the mob, sent the sheriff the news of the mob. Sheriff Nichols talked the mob into breaking up and returning to their homes. To forestall further mob action, Shue was rushed to the state penitentiary be died in years 1905, of his after serving, eight sentence.

The Shue murder case and trial attracted nationwide attention. Drew PearsonKansas Believed Leaving Its GOP Ways EN ROUTE Most amazing phenomenon of this election is the probability that Lyndon John A. Attorney Mary Heaster what others As the sworn state and the those who ofthe peace and launched out in was to prove that killed his wife, MADE HIS own He rode Bluff District and people as to what happening. the the the the the the the the neighborman, was asked possibility his what killed Zona wrong. He adbe mistaken.

Preston ordered Shue's body a further examimade to detercause of the A restlessness the public needed or else have brought to jusice. by Preston in Johnson, a southerner, will carry the Republican Civil War state of Kansas. This is a state which fought the batties of John Brown and abolition long after John Brown was mouldering in his grave, a state where I spent some time in my youth listening to a staunch Republican grandfather VOW that Kansas would never go Democratic. It hasn't since 1936 but it probably will next week. Reason for Kansans' waywardness today is chiefly its political isolation and worry over Barry Goldwater's haphazard statements about getting us into war.

Such statements. "I'll have to admit that possibly I shoot from the hip." made to Der Spiegel the San Francisco convention. or his Salt Lake City statement last May 5. "I don't want to hit the moon. I want to lob one right into the men's room of the Kremlin and make that sure I have hit it." made are among those Republican Midwest voters run to the Democratic bomb shelters.

IT EXPLAINS ALSO why Bar. ry's staff pulled backstage wires to get the dramatic nuclear war movie "Fail Safe" side. tracked until after the election. The film shows a bombing of Moscow -by mistake. As Kansas voters know.

in contrast of GOP platform adopted under Goldwater's eye at San Francisco called for the avolition of the line between Washington and Moscow to prevent accidental war. The Kansas trend toward Johnson began last summer with the editorial support of a publisher who since has supported Republicans the days of U. S. Grant -Jack Harris of the Hutchinson News. Andrew Tully- Jenkins Tragedy Villain Was Not A Republican! WASHINGTON.

There is a villain in Waiter Jenkins tragedy and he is not a Republican or even a dissident Democrat. The name is Lyndon Baines Johnson, President of the United States, and the charge is slave-driving. Psychiatric experts are still vague as to what trig. gers a man's lapse into sexual deviation; they are only sure that it is latently within us all. But in this house, the most significant portion of FBI's report is its notation that many of those interviewed about the case observed that Jenkins' two arrests on morals charges "occurred during a period of extremely intense emotional strain and physical exhaustion in Mr.

Jenkins' life." Any reporter acquainted with White House routine could have stated it in much simpler language, many months ago: Lyndon Jobnson worked Walter Jenkins too hard. THIS IS NOT A CRIME that cries for the President's immedlate impeachment. Lyndon Johnson is only one of many offenders in a city whose officials seek constantly and frenetically to enhance their careers at the expense of the hired help's bealth. Hubert Humphrey's staff toils often by the light of midnight oil, and so do the men women who serve Barry Goldwater and Bill Miller. At the State Department and the Pentagon, the 15-hour day is normal at the higher levels.

But because so many officials are does not legitimize the practice. And it is especially reprehensible in the White House, where a careless word or a weary decision can affect the national security. JENKINS TOLD the FBI that during the Oct. 7 episode in the men's room of the Y.M.C.A. "his mind was befuddled by fatigue, a a a a alcohol, physical illness, and lack of food." White Houso doctors reported he was "suf.

fering from gross fatigue and overwork." No wonder, Since Lyndon Johnson became vice president, working long hours of overtime had become Jenkins' way of life. Even after his Oct. 7 ar. rest, he returned to the White House and worked until midnight. At 9:35 one recent night he still had 89 telephone calls waiting for him to answer.

And as early as last November, after the assassination of President Kennedy, Jenkins was warned by his doctor that his blood pressure was climbing dangerously. IT IS NOT THE PURPOSE of this piece to attack Lyndon. Johnson as heartless. His affection for Jenkins was, and is, genuine. And Johnson has not spared himself in a job that has no quitting time.

But Lyndon Johnson cannot evade the charge that Walter Jenkins was the victim of the egotism of a President caught up in an unceasing drive to insure his own personal and political security. Citizens who work for their government are perhaps a cial breed. Some serve selflessas did Walter Jenkins. ers keep their gaze riveted on the main chance. But even the rascals remain human beings.

dogged by "the ills that is heir to." And Walter Jenkins' flesh, weakened by long hours at his desk, was an invitation to those ills. Mel HeimerNew N.Y. Police Academy Has A Gruesome Museum NEW YORK Things one New Yorker thinks about: Thirty -seven years ago the tabloids field day with a murder in these parts, when a woman a med Ruth Snyder and her lover, Judd a belted her husband to death it a sashweight and if you are old enough to remember it, and would like to wallow Ruth Snyder in wistful Academy nostalgia for a remembers her. bit, New York's new $10 million Police Academy building is the place for you. Basically the academy is for the training of the 1,500 recruits who join the local gendarmerie's woman squad each year.

But it also includes a museum of sorts, and some of the evidence from famous cases on display including the Snyder sashweight, the bottle of poisoned booze that Ruthie first tried on her spouse, the gauze pad with which he was chloroformed and so on. ACTUALLY, THE EXHIBITS are there mostly to familiarize policemen with the kind of stuff they're apt to run into while on duty. There also are on hand a collection of Chinese betting slips cops can spot the ordinary police-number betting slip, but the Oriental is something else again the lathe and other items from the workshop of George Aletesky, the Mad Bomber, blotters showing the violence in which more than 1.000 persons died during the Civil War draft riots in New York, et cetera. The academy is by way of being a fabulous place. The men and women in training not only receive a four-month course: they also can qualify for a degree in business administration.

with a major in political science. The public is permitted to tour the place twice daily, and see experts at Benedict Believes In By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS U. S. Sen. Robert C.

Byrd was called a segregationist Wednesday opponent for re-election. Republican Cooper Benedict. In a news conference at Charwith Byrd's no vote the Civil leston. Benedict said he, agreed Rights Act in the Congress, but on different Benedict said he was opposed to the bill on constitutional grounds, but that Byrd's vote was based on his belief in segregation. The Republican cited Byrd's former membership in the Ku Klux Klan as an indication of Byrd's racial views.

Meanwhile. Byrd was slumping for re-election in Pocahontas County where he told a Mar. linton audience West Virginia can expect more increases in federal funds for soil and water conservation projects. "Federai participation in projects to conserve and improve ouT soils has increased each year," Byrd said. He said funds work in the laboratory, medical bureau, ballistics quarters and other areas where the chores of solving crimes are in sway.

There's a swimming pool and a pistol range, too although the pool isn't chiefly for recreation. It's used to teach waterrescue techniques. FUNNY BOOK: Mike Jackson's "Sugar and in New which, York he notes, he rhapsodized while living Los about California while in ManAngeles and penned his" stuff hattan. Now a L. A.

Herald. Examiner columnist, Mike says of his second novel, "Karen Ellis," that he made "30 dollars less on the book than the girl who typed it for Kannon's Ratfink Room is a year old and he claims he has greeted 76,124 customers, "of whom 8,956 were drunk on arrival." Young punks held up a couple of passengers in Central Park the other day the first time within memory that such had been a caper pulled. Fellow drivers silk hats) say it was good for (they're all old in high the thugs that Matt the driver, didn't know his Sheehan, cab was being burglarized. "Sheehan is a fast man with the whip," they declare. "Those guys would have been in for a tough time if he had gotten into action." This was followed by an unusual split among Kansas Newspapers about 50-50 between Johnson and Goldwater.

Usually there is about one Democratic paper in the entire state, that of of John Montgomery, publisher the Junction City Union, HOW running for Congress in the Second District with a good chance of winning. Montgomery is called "Mr. Kansas" by Jim Farley. GOLDWATER HASN'T been helped in Kansas by his campaign oratory. Editor John McCormally of the Hutchinson News said: "Goldwater is even funnier when he is trying to be serious than be is when he's trying to be funny.

But because you suspect he's serious, you can't laugh." And the GOP candidate for governor. William Avery, also hasn't helped Barry much. Bill has been a Kansas congressman for a long time. a faithful, unspectacular follower right. Nobody much ever bothered to examine Bill's congressional record when he was merely running for the House.

But in statewide campaigns it's different. Today roters find that Avery voted against practically every picce of legislation that would benefit small farmers. plus some that would benefit big farmers. He voted against the wheat. cotton bill which added an CXtra $400 million income to the 1964 wheat crop: against the Food Stamp Act.

the voluntary feed grain bill. against extension of the Sugar Act, emergency feed grain bill, against anti-poverty, against the public works bill and against rural electrification, although 91.000 Kansas farm families share in the REA program. BUT AVERT'S MOST interesting vote of all was against the now popular Tuttle Creek Dam. built to prevent catastrophic Kansas floods in his own district. This project has become so valuable that two weeks ago Avery suddenly reversed in himself the and made a statement Congressional Record trying to claim credit for the dam.

His statement was made of course as his past record was beginning to catch up with him. but in 1955 (June 16) he was almost tearful in urging Congress to vote the other way. "Mr. Chairman, I spoke to the committee yesterday on my objections to Tuttle Creek in my district of Kansas," he said. "I plead with today that this appropriation be deleted, at least for this session of Congress." And when the next session rolled around.

Avery was right back, with position his in blocking regard to tactics. the construction of Tuttle Creek is the same as it has been ever since its original authorization in 1938." he said. Now that the dam is built and Bill is running for governor, hindsight is better than foresight and he claims credit for it. THE POLITICIAN WHO has been yelling most about government subsidies les in the Northwest is Don Short. the lient, sometimes vituperative GOP congressman from North Dakota.

There are several things the voters know about Short, among the fact that the John Birch Society gives him a perfect score for voting their way. voters also know Short has ranch in the Badlands and gets the benefit of leasing low. cost government land--an indirect form of subsidy which he seems to appreciate. But what the voters do not know is that this enemy of subsidies wan't at all bashful about applying a government subdrought hit the Northwest in 1961. Congressman Short applied for government grain in order to feed 195 cows, 35 two-yearold heifers, 20 heifers under two years.

and 10 bulls, or a total, 260 head. The anti-subsidy congressman got 182,000 pounds of feed at 63 cents per bushel for barley. SAM LEVINE IS GETTING into that Shirley Booth rut: being cast in bad plays. The artistic Mr. Levine got good notices for his new one, "The Last Analysis," but the play was a dud.

York's hotel owners may band together Lo put up a big convention hall for the city, at an estimated cost of from $30 to $60 million. According Joe Binns of the Hilton hotels, the Coliseum is adequate for certain conventions and expositions, but not the large ones that draw up to 70,000 delegates. to the City Youth Board. there are 181 "fighting gangs" in New York and 248 "peripheral" gangs, involving some 16,000 adolescents including 3,000 girls. Declares Byrd Segregation ia from for Washington to West such programs have gone up from $2.6 million in 1963 to a projected $3.4 million in 1965.

Benedict also told newsmen that Byrd has been almost hiding from the public: to list a phone number in refusing Washington or in his hometown of So. phia, W. Va. He said Byrd's reluctance to talk with the people is because "he would like to avoid facing questions on his record." Chamber Study Course Starting A course in Economic Undersianding, sponsored by the BeckCounty Chamber of Commerce, gets under way tonight. according to W.

A. Thornhill chamber coordinator of business government relation. C. Higgins, Beckley atJames torney, will be moderator for the 17-weck course to be held in the chamber conference room weekly at 7:30 p.m. 1.