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I A I Of Serving The Growing Southside Virginia Area Tri-City News Sunday, December 23, 1962 Blue Calls To Yeferan Jumpers UP WE GO-- Col. Harold L. Dorsett, (right), of the Airborne Division, Ft. Lee Quarter- Staff Photos by Julie Willia master helped into the AC-1A Caribou aircraft by Sgt. Allan Cunningham.

"WHEN YOU JUMP--SFC Everett Travis, (left), instructor at the QM School, gives, Dor- Dorsett is one of Dorsett was preparing to make a free-fall jump this week at Ft Lee, when the photo sett the final pointers in jumping procedure before the Caribou leaves the Ft T.PP iumoina course taken. The Caribou is the Army's largest aircraft. TERRA FIRMA--Dorsett lands at the Ft. Lee Drop Zone after his 3,200 foot jump. Dorsett is one of a six-man team at the Quartermaster post involved in a free fall pointers in jumping procedure before the Caribou leaves the Ft.

Lee Jumping course designed to develop proficincy among the QM School faculty In this -i TX fm i i Airstrip. The Caribou flew to the Drop Zone where Dorsett made his free fall jump. phase of the parachute jumping procedures. Area Baptists Plan School Of Missions The Baptist churches of this area and elsewhere in the Petersburg Baptist Association, will hold a week-long School of Missions, beginning Saturday, February 2. Approximately 40 mission speakers, representing State, Home, and Foreign Mission emphases, will be speaking'during the week of special services.

The 'visiting missionaries speaking will be- as- on a rotating basis so that U. S. MoVes 1 PG School Suit RICHMOND (AP) The Department of Justice filed an am complaint Saturday naming the Virginia Pupil Placement Board as a fourth defendant in the Prince George County school segregation suit. The other defendants in a suit on file in U.S. District Court here the county school board, its superintendent of schools, James 0.

Moorehead, and the state of Virginia. The Pupil Placement Board was brought into the suit by the Jus tice Department because it has the sole authority to assign pupils to Prince George schools. The government is seeking a court order to bar county offi cials from allegedly discriminating against the children of Ne gro military and civilian personnel at Ft. Lee in school assign ments. Ft.

Lee does not have any fchool for children. The military post is in Prince George County and the government pays the county for their education. White children attend the coun ty's all-white schools, while Negro are required to attend Negro schools in Petersburg. The suit will be heard in the district court May 14. Youth Killed By Revolver HAMPTON (AP) George Robert Cole, 14, was accidentally killed Friday while playing with the service revolver of his police- inan brother-in-law.

The youth was babysitting for Hampton policeman W. R. Nelson at the time. The policeman's two year-old son was not hurt. Police Chief L.

H. Nicholson said the boy had taken five bul lets from the gun and apparently believed it was empty. He was hit in the head when the gun fired. ach church wDl have, opportunity hear several of- the speakers, connection with the missionary ddresses, mission study classes vill be held in. the local churches ach evening, beginning at 7:30 m.

in most cases. Specially pre- )ared books on a gra'ded age level mphasizing the 1 ministry of the louthern Baptist denomination to pecial groups, will be taught ocal church school.leaders. Many of th'e missionary' speakers; will, be 'living, for homes- of Baptist "families md taking meals with many oth- Transportation to and from be churches on a fixed-schedule, being provided by transporta- ion committees in the churches, 'he-missionaries will begin arriv- ngfo'r their speaking assignments Saturday, February 2. One hundred four persons at- ended the planning committee meeting, held last Thursday at the Hill Baptist Church. On Thursday, -January 3, at m.

in Walnut Hill Baptist Ihuich, a mission- study institute vill be held to prepare those teach- in the local churches who will be teaching this special graded emphases. The adult hook, "The Chains Are by W. C. Fields, vill be taught by Mrs. H.

Edward lenderson. The young- people's book, "The Vacant Hearted," by Cate Ellen Gruver, will be taught Miss Arlene Youmans. The in- book, "Son of Israel," )y A. Jase Jones, will be taught by Mrs. R.

C. Henderson. The unior book, "ButcJi Discovers America," by William N. McElrath, will be taught by Mrs. Charles E.

Spain. The primary ook, "The Happy House," by Doris Curtis Tubbs, will be taught Mrs. Henry Simmons. Committee chairmen- for the School of Missions are as follows: mission study committee: the Roland Powell; entertainment: the Rev. S.

-W. Cowles; ransportation committee: the Rev. Robert 0. Brown; publicity committee: Dr. i T.

lorne; radio-television commitee: the Rev. Woodrow W. Hill; 'inance committee: the Rev. H. rlenderson; and conservation comniuee: the Rev.

John L. Grass The Rev. Charles E. Spain is su- erintendent of i i anc chairman of the steering commit- Girl Injured In Collision SOUTH HILL (AP) A schoo bus and a truck collided on an icy bridge Friday, injuring a 15-year-old girl. Hilda Jane Connelly of Rt.

1 admitted to a Rich mond hospital with severe cuts on the left foot and leg. Officers said the gus, carrying Negro children to West End High beween Clarksville and Chas City, was struck by a Iratle truck which jackknifed am on the bridge. No one else was injured. School Trustee Board To Meet DINWIDDIE The Dinwiddie School. Trustee Board will meet Thursday in the county school system 'office to.

select a School Board member from Rohoic' District. The new magisterial district, created Nov. 19 by Circuit Judge D. Mayes, will become effective Jan. 1.

It will be carved from the. county's present Namozine District and lies south and west of the City Petersburg. Board jmember will bey the second person chosen to serve, on county, bodies. Last Tuesday, Judge Mayes named A. Mitchell Smith as the supervisor from the Smith begins his duties, Jan.

4. The Rohoic i i School Board member will join W. Phillips, Fred W. G. Field Baskerville and Merle N.

McCann on the four-man board. The new member will be chosen by the trustees, a group made up of Henry B. Thrift, chairman, and W. Potter Sterne and Clifton A. Maitland.

They -will meet at 11 a. m. Thursday. 'Operation Halo' Bears Little To Angelic Flight Aliens Must Make Reports District Director, Lewis Dale Barton of the Immigration and Naturalization Service reminds that aliens in the' United States will be required to report their addresses to the Attorney General within the near future. All'aliens, with few exceptions, who are in the United States January each year must report their addresses by the end of that month.

Only the following classes of aliens are excused for this requirement: accredited diplomats, persons accredited to certain international organizations, and those admitted temporarily as agricultural laborers. Forms with which to make the report may be obtained from any Post Office or Immigration and Naturalization Service Office during the month of January. The law provides severe penalties for failure to comply with the reporting requirement. By JULIE WILLIAMS Staff Writer "Operation Halo." Contrary to 'what one might think at this the year, "Operation little to do with angels, harps and joyous melodies, heard.on high; The six men involved Halo and the traditional angels both fly through the, sky, but the similarity ends is the designation for a parachute jumping instructional course the Airborne Division of the Ft. Lee Quartermaster School, and the.

word itself means, "high altitude, low opening." According to Col. Harold L. the course is designed to "develop proficiency- among the faculty members in the techniques of free fall parachute jumping." Instructors in the course are Sgt. Robert Donahue and Sgt. Everett Travis.

Students are: Dorsett, Col. Roland Savilla, Capt. James L. Anderson, MSgt. Kenneth A.

Robinson, SFC Richard C. McCormack and Spec. 4 Gerald Hall. Dorsett explained that in a free fall jump, the man must be fully conscious and aware of he is doing, for he must pull his own ripcord and concentrate on every aspect of his jump. "This is contrary to static jumping," he continued, "for in static jumps, the ripcord is pulled automalical- to open the parachute, and the does not lie with the men." Free fall parachute jumping is a relatively new field in the Army, Dorsett said.

The echnique's main advantages are the aircraft can remain at a ligh altitude, and free fall jump ing is beneficial in air-sea rescue operations and frogmen Free Fall Has Advantages In a battle situation, free fall is advantageous in a an aircraft at high altitudes is not so readily visible to the enemy anr therefore, is not jeopardized. Also, in free fall, the paratrooper a considerable distance be Fore opening his parachute, and is thus, not so easily seen. The maximum delay before opening the parachute in free approximately the' sensa- Jon as -one would- get jumping from a height of eight feet," Dorsett added that the movement of the'man at the time 1 of landing and the ground conditions Sale Of Hogs Is Set For Dec. 31 In City An estimated 1,000 graded hogs will be offered for sale at the Southside Stockyards in Petersburg December 31, a Virginia Department of Agriculture said today. The quality market sales are being sponsored by the Swine Division of the Virginia Agricultural Marketing Association in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture and the VPI Extension C.

Barns of VDA grading service will be in charge of official grading which will follow USDA slaughter hog grades. During recent weeks representatives "of the VAMA, the VDA, and the Extension Service have been contacting hog growers in the state ot secure quality hogs for the Monday sales. This sale will be the beginning of sales to be held in Petersburg each Monday. No other livestock will be offered for sale at Petersburg on future Mondays. Lassiter, VAMA manager, said all hogs will be sold by grade and in trailer-load lots.

Lassiter pointed out that this is something new for- this in slaughter hog marketing. In the past hogs have been, sold only by weight and not by grade and weight at auction markets. The yard will open at 6:30 a. m. to receivo the hogs.

The animals will be graded and sales will start at 11 o'clock. These sales have been established 1 to give producers markcl which will provide premium prices for quality hogs. AH Eastern hog slaughterers have been contacted concerning the sales. Producers interested in this markel should contact their county agent or A. T.

Lassiter. R-M College ASHLAND A former Virginia Methodist minister and Army chaplain has made a $10,000 bequest in his will to Randolph-Ma- Con College. The bequest in the will of the late the Rev. S. Otto Wright will be used for a'scholar- ship endowment fund.

Chaplain Wright, a native of Pennsylvania, received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Randolph- Macorr in 1900 a-nd his Bachelor of Divinity degree from Vanderbilt University in 1905. He was admitted to the Conference in 1900 and served pastorates throughout the'state in eluding Powhatan, Danville, Petersburg, Portsmouth, West Point and Newport News. He served in the Army chaplaincy i World War I and from 1920 until his retirement in 1932. In announcing the bequest, Randolph-Macon College President J. Earl Moreland called Chaplain Wright "a man who generaously supported the college in his lifetime and who in an exceptionally fine way proved his loyalty to his Alma Mater." During his retirement from the chaplaincy after 1932, the Rev and Mrs.

Wright lived in Charlottesville. have a great effect on the Ian ring. Rough or'frbzen ground make a landing considerably more difficult, he said. Members of the free fall jumping course have been using helicopters and small army aircraft. This week several of the students made their first jumps from the AC-1A Caribou, the Army's larg est aircraft.

The six students attire themselves in colored suits when jumping," ed'as he donned an orange suit before enables our instructors see us more, easily and to determine mistakes -in our jumping techniques," he said. In addition to making severa' parachute 1 jumps each' week, stu dents' in the course engage in physical training approximately 45 minutes 'every This in eludes two-mile run at double time, push-ups, sit-ups, side strad die hops, and other exer cises. developed by. the faculty members to keep themselves. in shape.

Several of the student: noted that none of them could keep up with the 50-year-old Dor sett. Started" In 1932 Dorsett made his first para chute jump in 1932 at' Clark Field in the Philippines. He noted tha he did not begin jumping officially until 1950. At this point, Dorset hss made nearly 200 free fal jumps. Robinson commented that had made more than 1,000 stall jumps beofre joining the free fal course.

Asked if fear was an ele ment in free fall jumping, Robin son said that-, "one works up to the point where he is confiden and conscious of what is happen ing." Few Employers In Va. Ready For Tax RICHMOND CAP) The man who keeps a close eye on Virginia tax matters said today less than half of the state's approximately fall jumping is two minutes, Dor- 75 000 employes have their house sett said. Free fall jumpers are able to leave aircraft at a height of more than 20,000 feet, he continued. At the time a free fall jumper leaves the airplane, he falls. at the rate of 16 feet per second.

After falling 10 seconds, Dorsett said, his rate of descent has increased to 174 feet per second. After opening the parachute, the rate of descent is slowed to about 17. or 18 feet per second, he continued. In free fall jumping, a man is able to change his course by "tracking." Tracking is moving the body in such a way as to gain momentum while one falls. Once the parachute has opened, the jumper can still change his course means of the "risers" or lines attached to the canopy.

By. pulling down several risers aiid tilting the canopy in so doing, the lift surface canopy is decreased and thus the rate of descent increases, Travis explained. Travis continued that the parachutes used in free fall jumping are equipped with "cutaways," which is a hold in the back of tho canopy. By pulling down on other risers, he explained, a man can distort this cutaway and produce a turn. "Landing in a parachute-gives.

in order for the new state income tax withholding plan, effective in 10 days. Slate Tax Commissioner C. H. Morrissett said slightly more than 30,000 employers had returned withholding registration forms to his office during the past months. That leaves something like 40,000 to go.

the commissioner said perhaps as many as 80 per cent of employes have been reached of the approximately 1,200,000 in the stale. That's because the small employers haven't responded. The first payment from employers is due in April and presumably those who don't start withholding on Jan. 1 will have to back up and collect some more. On the eve of the program's inauguration, Morrissett says the biggest problem has been the matter of non-residency, either on the part of the employe or em ployer.

If a worker lives in another state and commutes to Virginia, no tax is withheld. It's deducted, however, if he's a legal residonl of another state and lives and works here, even temporarily. I works for an out-of-state firm in Virginia, tax is withheld. The 1962 General Assembly re luctantly adopted the withholdin a plan to plug a budgetary gap. Dormitories Low Bid $1.4 Million BLACKSBURG (AP) A bid of $1,403,623 was submittec yesterday by the T.

C. Brittai 2o. of Decatur, for construe of two dormitories at Vir ginia Tech. The two buildings will house of 520 students. Seven con tractors submitted bids for th project.

The bids will be analyze before a contract is awarded. Sentencing Is Delayed PRINCE GEORGE The sen- encing of Robert Edward Caba- liss, 49, convicted last April of ape of a 15-year-old girl, was yesterday' in Prince Jeorge Circuit Court until Jan. 7. Cabaniss, who was found guilty Prince George Circuit Court ast April, has been in custody in he Petersburg -jail- since then, except for a short period during ich he underwent mental examinations -at Southwestern State Hospital in. Marion.

The tests a jail physican 'and later at Marion Institution were ordered, after a request by defense counsel which said Cabaniss had een reported'as acting peculiarly. The last week reversed its conviction and set aside the guilty verdict against Rena Todd Cab abiss, wife of the defendant. She lad been found guilty at the same time as her husband on charge of aiding and abetting crime. She has been free on ler own recognizance since tha iime to care for young children at home. 7,750 Applications For Jobs Received Mrs.

Arline P. Phillips, manager of the local office of the Virginia Employment Commission, reports that during the drawing to a close a total of 7,750 new -applications were received, as compared with 6,565 during 1961. Total number of job'listing during 1962 was 5,653 as compared with 3,411 during the previous year. Applicants referred to jobs during 1962 totaled 7,192, as compared with 5,807 in 1961. A totad of 3,575 tests, were in 1962 as compared with 2,349 in 961.

Counseling of applicants totaled 765 last year compared to 677 in: 1961. New applications means "records made for the first time on persons applying for work. Job listings means all requests received from employers for workers during the year. Applicants referred to jobs means those applicants who are prescreened or tested who appear to meet the specifications set up by an employer when he re- applicants to work for him. Tests consists of what is erally known as a General.Apti- tude Test Battery which brings out the aptitudes of an individual to perform certain, types of work.

The office. also gives performance tests--such as typing, social worker nurses aides, and a number- of other tests. Firestone National Aniline only hire test selected male and female workers through our office. Counseling service is one provided to the young, old, and misplaced or'those who adjust information is collectejd about each person falling into the categories, they 'are worked, with considerably find suitable employment, and are given spe-' cial assistance and a follow through after they have'. placed on a job: Most of the requests during-the past year have been for and synthetic fibre -operators, with some professional and a large number of clerical.

The office has served three new plants: Jerose Shirt Cantrell and Cochrane, and Master Tank Welding, plus a total of several hundred various employers. Virginia Will Not Have Fair Exhibit Shopping Days 'Till Christmas RICHMOND (AP) Virginians visit the New York World's Fair in 1964 will have to do without a reminder of home. And there are some, remembering the state's 1939 plunge into fair exhibition, who think it's probably a good thing. Virginia has declined an invitation to participate in the up- i extravaganza on the ground the several hundred thousand dollars it would take to field an exhibit "in. keeping with Virginia's dignity and commensurate with those of other states" could be better spent on other forms of advertising.

The board of the Jamestown Foundation, asked by the General Assembly to decide whether Virginia should participate, concluded she shouldn't. The matter never even arose at least not publicly during the budget- making sessions of the 1962 General-Assembly. Financial difficulties touched off the first great controversy over Virginia's participation in the 1939 New York World's Fair. But by far the greater controversy arose over whether the state's attempt to create "an oasis of quiet in an ocean of noise" hadn't been so unostentatious that it a insipid. Then, too, there were the protests from other sections of the state to a proposal later withdrawn that the Williamsburg Restoration be given space.

$35,00 Provided The General Assembly appro priated $35,000 so Virginia could make its showing. The rent for the exhibition space came to nearly $15,000 and plans didn't proceed too far with the remaining $20,000. It got so bad that the New York World's Fair Commission sent a delegation lo Richmond lo inform Gov. James H. Price that more money was needed for Virginia "lo comporl with the dignity of the stale." Price, an early advocale of a slale exhibit, said he was "disturbed" at the mounting cost.

But he authorized a $30,000 deficit appropriation. Leslie Cheek then head of the fine arts department' at the College of William and Mary and now director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, designed the room Virginia occupied in the Seorgian Building. In the center was a fountain symbolizing the rivers of Virginia. Murals were scattered on the walls. But the major attraction was more than 200 volumes of photographs which visitors coulrl ieaf through while lounging in leather chairs.

Regional exhibits were housed on a rotating basis in several alcoves. Exhibit Criticized Many visitors criticized the exhibit as offering only a good place for a nap. Others said Ihe murals were so sketchy lhat a visitor from another state could never catch any of the Virginia spirit. Some said a better system than albums could have been dreamed up for displaying the photographs which covered Virginia's agriculture, industry and tourist attractions. But the exhibit had its defenders, too.

Beverly Campbell, the state's on-the-scene supervisor, termed it "a most profitable investment." He said every bit of the investment had been more than paid back in tourist dollars a to the Old Dominion through the glimpses offered at Ihe fair. One New York newspaper writer termed it "durned clever." When cold weather came the i i was dismantled' and placed in storage on the fair grounds. The state's fair commission did not recommend either for or against an appropria lion of $15,000 lo $20,000 lo keep the room going the next year. A bill to appropriate the money died in a General Assembly committee and Virginia's fair fling was at an end. NegroPlanning Quick Appeal GREENVILLE, S.

C. (AP) -The suit of a Charleston Negro seeking admission to all white College has been dismissed, but there is little doubt that the ruling will be appealed promptly. "I still want to go to Clemson," was the only comment, of Harvey Gantt, 20, the Negro architecture student who sought to break the racial bar at Clemson. South Carolina is the only state which has not given ground in some degree toward school desegregation. Fast action by Gantt's attorneys would make it possible for the U.

S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to pass on the appeal before the start of the next school term, late next month. U. S. District Judge C.

C. Wyche threw out Gantt's complaint yesterday on grounds he failed to comply with rules and regulations at Clemson when he made application to the school. "He has not been denied admission to Clemson College because of his race," said Judge Wyche. Gantt's a Matthews Perry and 1 Lincoln Jenkins did not say what their next legal steps would be. But both pointed to the wording of a previous decision made by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in the Gantt case.

The appelate court's ruling ordered the case to be tried quickly before Judge Wyche so that any appeal from his decision could, in turn, receive prompt action. AA Forms New Chapter Here Alcoholics Anonymous has formed another AA group in the 'city of Petersburg. This group is known as The West End Group. Meetings will be held each Friday evening at 8, starting January in the basement of St. John's Episcopal Chvirch on West Washington St.

at W. Washinuton and Dunlop Sts..