Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 1

mrvyyyT W- -W Retirement It can be the best years of a life says a retired executive First of six articles on Page 10-C The Weather RICHMOND: Cold cloudier today high 38 Cloudy tonight low SO Cloudy snow likely tomorrow Local Data on Paoa a 108th Year Milton 4-1851 Second CUu Mall Privileges Authorised at Richmond VS 15 Cents Volume ioa Number IX Published Moraine and Sunday 'i Richmond 11 Virginia Sunday January 12 1958 Asks ration Top-Level Talks Seen This Year ft Next Move Said! Up to the West Inauguration Talk Charts Course of No Compromise 1 I By James Latimer A brand-new Governor urged Virginia yesterday to expand its line of massive resistance in two directions against racial integration of the public schools James Lindsay Almond Jr having taken the oath of office at about 12:25 pmt launched his four-year administration on a no-compromise course dedicated to keeping the schools separate equal and open He asked the General Assembly for these immediate additions to existing anti-integration defenses: (1) A new law empowering the Governor to dose any school patrolled by federal troops as an added Rock" measure of protection against any hap- pening in Virginia Co-operative Endeavor (2) Establishment of a state commission that would work with- the Governor and like-minded groups from other states toward restoration of state sovereignties by telling the constitutional story behind the resistance to the Supreme Court desegregation decision In a 55-minute Inaugural address devoted largely to the school segregation issue and Its constitutional background Almond said he was dissatisfied" with the anti-Uitegration laws enacted under the administration of outgoing Governor Thomas Stanley He told reporters later however this necessarily mean he won't have any changes to propose in the existing laws This seemed to imply intentions to plug some possible loophole! rather than to alter the general policies More Money for Schools Apart from the racial question the new Governor confined his inaugural recommendations to measures for improving the schools and education generally He expressed the hope that On Page Major Almond's text priate 15 State construction This more last Almond Though in his possible than the the In also 3i literary state Here he the goal with appendages For urged and Got Almond Delivers' Inaugural 'Address Top-Hatted Inaugural Committee in Background Quick Sivitch 1 Section Bead: portions of Governor address million dollars to the Library Fund for school loans to the localities would be five millions than Stanley had recommended In his final budget message week also urged the Assembly to provide in teacher salaries he mentioned no figures speech he later told reporters he hoped it would be to a little Increases outlined In Stanley budget message Lower Rate on Loans school construction recommendations the new Governor proposed to lower the present per cent interest rate on Fluid loans and modify school building regulations said must be watchword substance the dispensable frills and education generally he the state to take steps developing more and better-trained scientists and engineers He said recommendations in this direction last year by the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council should be the and that Virginia should not be content with the minimum- The new Governor promised to deliver -a special message soon on Urgent heed of economic development in said he would have several recommendations for highway safety and on would also talk about natural resources penal institutions mental hospitals and public health A crowd of more-than 3000 clustered around the south portico of the Capitol and applauded sometimes politely sometimes with whoops and whistles as Almond spoke Reaction afterwards was generally favorable though there were some dissents Sen Byrd chief strategist in massive resistance program said Almond delivered of the most notable speeches ever delivered in Virginia" But Republican State Sen Ted Dalton opponent for Governor last year expressed disappointment He said Almond plans to follow the Stanley pattern on -the school segregation which means that Vir- Continued on Page 6 Column 1 Picture Page Full page of pictures on inauguration Page 25-A Mrs Almond Takes Oyer V' As First Lady Captain Jaclf 1 Greets Almond a Probably the oldest man at the inauguration and almost certainly the most experienced inauguration -watcher present was Pettis of Richmond Now 94 he attended the inauguration of Fitzhugh Lee in 1886 and all thereafter 19 including Governor For many years Captain Jack was captain of the Capitol police SPECTATORS Watching the inaugural ceremonies are (from top) former Gov John Battle former House Speakers Harry Houston and Alvin Massenburg Attorney General Kenneth Putty State Rights By Wright Jr Governor Almond in' his first press conference after he took office said yesterday he wanted to begin work Immediately on the creation of a vigorous commission to promote: the cause of rights within Virginia and throughout the- nation Discussing in' detail some of fiie recommendations In his Inaugural address the new Governor also said he hoped to find enough money to raise teacher salary scales higher than recommended by Governor Stanley Governor Almond also Indicated he might have some suggestions to make about changes in school segregation laws He was unwilling to discuss details but his address had made it quite clear that any change would be an effort to continue complete segregation as long as passible Restored to Proper Dignity In his formal address Almond recommended that the General Assembly consider establishing a commission to work with the Governor and with other states the end that the several States may be restored to their proper dignity and defended in the exercise of non-delegated and reserved powers under the (federal) At the press conference Almond said cry about these things yet we do nothing about His commission he said would be established for the purpose of about rights Almond thought it could be a commission appointed partly from the General Assembly and Continued on Page 4 Column WASHINGTON Jan UP) Russia and the Western powers were completely deadlocked Saturday on the issue of holding a big East-West conference But diplomats privately predict a foreign ministers meeting a summit session or both later this year The prediction Is based on a belief that both sides in the cold war need high-level talks and that public opinion particularly in Ebrqpe and in neu- -tralist countries like India is exerting a steady pressure for efforts to reduce the risks of nuclear war Up to The West President Eisenhower and other Western leaders are due to make soon the next move in the diplomatic poker game now being played over the issue of how to negotiate They have completed replies to messages from Soviet Premier Bulganin and these it is understood are in diplomatic channels for delivery in Moscow Just as the Soviets released Bulganin-s sages promptly so the Western responses are due for almost immediate publication They are expected -to re-em- phasize the demands that Russia resume negotiations on some kind of safeguard disarmament agreement and to leave the way open for a new East-West summit conference provided two conditions are fulfilled One is that there should be careful preparatory talkg at the lower levels the other is that these talks should show solid -ground for belief that a summit meeting would produce re--suits As the situation stood Saturday: (1) Russia had proposed through messages December 10 and January 9 that Mr Eisenhower and the other Western government heads agree to a top level meeting by April 9 (2) The United States British and French governments Continued on Page 4 Column 2 Red Suggests Scandinavia A-Free Zone COPENHAGEN Jan UPI Premier Bulganin of Soviet Russia suggested Saturday an a topi-free zone throughout Scandinavia and Finland In a note to Premier CL Hansen of Denmark he said this would extend the proposed zone in Central where atom weapons and missiles should be banned throughout Northern Europe He said that so far neither Denmark Norway' comprising Scandinavia 'proper nor Finland has acquired stem weapons Bulganin said this might be excellent condition far making all Northern Europe a zone which is free of atomic and thermonuclear weapons and this would be a considerable guarantee of the preservation of peace and order in this 1 Killed 2 Hurt In Henrico Crash1 One person was killed and two others injured about -midnight last night as a car struck a tree at Three Chopt and -Parham rds in Henrico county The victim who was believed to have been the driver of the car was identified as William Pajehak 26 of Glen Allen The injuried were identified as Herbert Strang 40 of 8117 'Michael rd who suffered leg injuries and Robert A Proffitt 26 of 2111 Rainbow dr injuries had not been determined early today at Richmond Memorial Hospital Officials said the car ran off the right aide of the road veered across the roadway and struck the tree The left side of the ear was badly damaged Earlier aeddent story i on Page 4-DJ the 1958 Assembly would appro- as they lined up facing the podium opposite their husbands As the Governor took the oath of office Mrs Almond lowered her head and stood with' out moving She stared off across the Capitol grounds then looked at him as he fin-ished During the military parade which followed she carried on an animated conversation' with Mrs Stanley tapped her foot in time to a band playing You From Later she shouted he when a friend of Mrs Stephens marched by with the Virginia Military Institute KeydetS After the ceremony she broke away from a crowd of well-wishers and walked to her new home across the Capitol square The mother of the Governor Mrs Lindsay Almond Sr watched proceedings with a solemn expression -She sat behind the younger Mrs Almond during the inauguration A burly stale policeman gave special protection to four dainty Continued on Page 4 Column 1 WASHINGTON Jan Off) Lyndon Johnson (D- Tex) said Saturday that action to some heads at the Pentagon might produce more missiles I The Democratic leader of the Senate said such firm action might be more effective than a reorganization of the Defense I Department Johnson who heads the Sen-I ate preparedness subcommittee Investigating the missile program told reporters he foresees I ahead I In President an- nounced plans to reshuffle the military system I is considerably evi-i dence to indicate that organi-I rational forma have been stumbling blocks to Johnson said the other hand it may be that what is needed 'is a determined effort to knock some heads together rather than new organizational Johnson spoke out after the subcommittee was reported to have received reports from the army navy and air force on proposals to revamp the present Joint Chiefs of Staff system The subcommittee has received suggestions that the joint chiefs whose decisions usually are reached on a compromise basis of unanimity be replaced by a single commander of the services The three services were said to have been unanimous in their separate reports to the subcommittee in opposing any such change Members said that Continued on Page 12 Column 1 140 Pages By Jo Hyde Mrs Lindsay Almond Jr effected a quick switch from housewife to First Lady of Virginia yesterday In the morning she cooked breakfast for her husband in their home at 4310 Cary Street rd In mid-afternoon die presided -at a luncheon for some 45 guests at the stately Mansion In the interim she saw her husband take the oath of office as Governor Outwardly calm and gay her hands trembled almost imperceptibly as" she touched up her lipstick in the Capitol rotunda before going out to face the crowds in Capitol square1 Mrs: Thomas Stanley wife of the outgoing Governor was poised and smiling Sense of Satisfaction -1 feel such a sense of satisfaction and a great longing to go she said before being ushered to the Capitol portico by a aide The First Ladies end Mrs A ES Stephens wife of' the Lieutenant Governor made a study in mink stoles and orchids Seven Sections News Index Today Henrico Fires Cause Death Loss $100000 Two fires in opposite ends of Henrico county yesterday brought death to one person and caused more than $100000 in damage The Rev Berry Dickerson 68 a Negro Baptist minister died in the far West End fire that destroyed his home in the 700 block of Fountain ave about pm The Bettendorf Lumber Co building at Sandston burned ifl a two-hour blaze which began about 6:45 pm A plant official listed damage at approximately $117000- The fire in the far West End completely burned out the inside of an adjacent house that of Roscoe Dickerson son of the fire victim There was no immediate damage estimate for the two West End homes and the cause of the fire had not been determined last night Fire units from Tuckahoe Lakeside and Pembrooke Farms fought the fire from about 8:30 pm till a little after 10:30 pm Henrico patrolman Hubbard who arrived on the scene before the fire units said the whole house was a mass of flames Willie Gain 30 who lived Continued on Page 6 Column 8 Russian Predicts 3500-mpli Plane LONDON Jan Radio 1 Moscow Saturday night quoted a Soviet scientist as saying Russia will soon build planes capable of hypersonic speeds in the range- of 3500 miles an hour The broadcast said sudi speeds opened up the prospect of a maimed plane zooming skyward and circling the globe like an earth satellite The week's news developments are rounded up in the foU unving separate features Richmond the state the nation the world all on Page 3-D business on 9-B 1 A profile look at youthful Maj Gen Bernard A Schriever air force ballistic missiles chief Page 21-A Test pilots may be a vanishing breed when push-button aeronautics takes over but now among the glamorous figures of the air age Page 28-A Pitchers Johnny James and Bill Bethel returned to Virginians roster Ed Cereghino and Gordon Windhom sent to Denver Pagel-B Layoffs of workers are increasing across the nation and the job situation is expected to worsen before it gets better Page 8-B' Mrs Thomas Stanley the former First -Lady has left a lasting imprint on the Mansion Page 14-C State Highway Department reports it could save costs if it had more engineers Page 1-D Central Virginia high school students show little interest in science careers Page 4-D Cast of the motion picture of the Lost" found life hard in the Sahara Page 1 Leisure Section Scott Crossfield: Will he be the first man into space? Page 8 This Week Magazine r-HtfnM ville (in back) sister of Governor Almond Mrs Lindsay Almond Jr and Mrs Thomas Stanley Mrs Stanley spent her last night as First Lady at the Mansion Friday night MINK AND Watching the inauguration with a special interest yesterday were (from left) Mrs A Stephens wife of the Lieutenant Governor Mrs Newman of Charlottes-" i fi 2 a A.