a DAILY ITEM SUMTER, S. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1962. Sales End In Carolinas Trend Of Prices See-Saws On All Tobacco Markets By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The trend of prices see-sawed as the week's flue-cured tobacco sales ended in North Carolina and South Carolina Friday. The Federal-State Market News Service reported a slightly upward trend in South Carolina and Border North Carolina.
Increases were $1 to $3 a hundred pounds over the previous day. There were a few declines of similar amount, especially for primings. About one third of the average held firm. The season's, average is $59.08. Belt The eastern North Carolina was steady to slightly lower.
Averages by grade for untied and tied leaf fluctuated $1 to $4 either way, with a few more losses than gains. The average for the day-old season $47.70. The Tobacco Board of Trade in Winston-Salem, N.C., has urged U.S. senators and representatives from North Carolina and Virginia to press for full government price supports on tied tobacco when Winn-Dixie's Sales Go Up Winn-Dixie Stores recorded a 4.69 percent increasi in sales during the 4-week period ended July 28 compared with the corresponding period a year ago, it announced. The volume was $58,238,991 901 com pared with $55,632,558 last year, an increase of $2,606,433.
An increase also was recorded for the 52-week period ended July 28, when sales totaled $764.631,067 compared with $752,223,873 last year, an increase of or 1.65 percent. Winn-Dixie, which operates a number of supermarkets in the local area, now has 561 retail stores throughout the South compared with 535 units a year ago. St. John's Men To Meet Monday The Methodist Men's Club of St. John's Methodist Church will meet Monday, at 8 p.m.
The dinner meeting will be held at the church on Poinsett Drive. The Rev. Mrs. Bessie Parker, assistant pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, will be speaker for the evening. Marion Dennis, vice-president of the club, will preside.
Varous proposals from the executive committee will be presented during a short business session. KEEP YOUR AND WAITING FOR the Old. Belt markets of the two states open. An an experiment, the Department of Agriculture is allowing the sale of untied or loose-leaf tobacco for the first five sales days this season in South Carolina, North Carolina and Vir- Eagle' Home, Booming Bobby's Stock NEW YORK (AP)-Col 'Hubert Julian, Harlem's "Black Eagle," returned home Friday after having been held by the United Nations in the Congo on an accusation of aiding in the betrayal of fellow Negroes. "I can make no statement until I consult the presidential candid date of 1968," the 63-year-old avi ator told newsmen at Idlewild Air port.
Asked to elaborate, he said he meant U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, brother of President Kennedy.
Julian said he wanted to con sult with the attorney general on "Whether my constitutional rights were abridged by my detention." Julian, arrested last April, and released Thursday, was accused of aiding in the betrayal of fellow Negroes at a face-to-face meet ing with Robert K. A. Gardiner of Ghana, the chief of the U.N.I Congo operations. PANORAMA (Continued From Page 3.) sion, and placed 2nd in 2-baton. HAIL AND FAREWELL A luncheon on Wednesday afterNOON GIVEN BY Mrs.
Lawrence Brunson brought together group of girls who went through high school together. Honoree was Mrs. James Madison (Norine Bryan) who with her husband Maj. Madison, and children, has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Bryan. The Madisons are route from California to an air en base in Florida. Getting together were Mrs. Betty Brunson Moore, Mrs. Simms Oliphant (Byrd Murray) and Mrs.
David Wright (Libba Compton) all of Columbia; Mrs Ed Ervin (Irene Yates), Mrs. Allen West (Margaret Ellen' Mrs. Ramon a Schwartz (Rosa Wein berg) and Mrs. Don Fraley (Linda Brunson). A.
number of parties have been given in honor of Mrs. Eugene Jackson, who with her family moves to Atlanta, Ga: on Tuesday. Mrs. Thomas Edwards and Mrs. Sigmund Stoudenmire entertained at the Edwards home with a luncheon for.
18; Mrs. Jackson's bridge club felted her at the home of Mrs. J. Kalish; Mrs. Raymond Fowler gave a small afternoon bridge party for Mrs.
Jackson; and Mrs. Robert Burgess and Mrs. Robert Wilder gave a drop-in at the home of Mrs. Wilder. Mrs.
Frank McLeod entertained at a bridge luncheon: six tables of bridge were given by Mrs. Graham Hill, Mrs. Morris Spruill and Mrs. J. W.
McCoy at the McCoy home: Mrs. Eugene Carroll honored a small group, for lunch; a luncheon hostessed by Mrs. by James Mrs. Cuttino Bill and Buddin, a drop Mrs. given Robert Gauthier and Mrs.
Ross McKenzie at the McKenzie home on yesterday rounded out a full schedule before Mrs. Jackson leaves. Her daughter, Joanne, was surprised with a slumber party for ten given by Bet Hill. ginia. Untied grades of lugs, primings and nondescript receive the protection of price supports.
Tied tobacco, the usual kind on these markets, is not barred the first five days, but doesn't get price supports during that Lime. The Winston-Salem tobacco mien told the congressmen that unless tied tobacco receives full support all season, Old Belt auction warehouses "will lose millions of pounds to the three belts that will be selling tied tobacco only when we open." Winston Salem warehousemen announced this week that they personally will guarantee that all tobacco, tied or untied, sold in that city the first five days will bring prices at least equal to government supports. They want the government to guarantee that protection for other cities on the belt. More Drug Deaths Seen WASHINGTON (AP) George P. Larrick, commissioner of food and drugs, says that additional infant death can be expected i in this country from use of the drug thalidomide.
Larrick said Friday that one i infant death has been traced to the drug, "and unfortunately it now appears that there probably will be more." During a television program taped with Rep. Jessica Weis, R- N.Y., Larrick said more than 200 pregnant American wom received the drug and 27 of them. have not yet had their babies. Of the others, he said, all but one had normal deliveries. Kennedys Censured For Photos DENVER, Colo.
(AP)-A Colorado Southern Baptist, executive has written Sen. Wayne Morse, objecting to published photographs of President and Mrs. Kennedy in swim attire. "From the pictures appearing in the daily press," the Rev. Willis J.
Ray wrote, "it appears that all decorum, dignity and decency has been thrown overboard by our President and the First Lady." Dr. Ray, executive treasurer of the Colorado Baptist General Convention, referred in his letter dated Thursday, photographs of Mrs. Kennedy in a bathing suit on the beach at Conca Dei Marini, Italy, and the President in swimming trunks in the ocean off Santa Monica, Calif. "The garb Mrs. Kennedy has on does not reveal that of a First Lady of our great U.S.," Dr.
Ray added. "'We believe she should honor the position to which the public has elected her husband." Dr. Ray's letter was published today in the Rocky Mountain News, Denver morning newspaper: Addressing Senator Morse. Dr. Ray wrote that "I don't know whether you, the U.S.
Senate, the Supreme Court, or anyone else can do anything about it." LOCAL WEATHER Observations of Sumter Weather Bureau for the 24-hour period ended .7 a.m. today: Yesterday's temperatures: max. 85; min. 65. Low this morning: 67.
Rainfall Jan. 1 to date: 34.41. Same period last year: 46.78. An To those of you who were unable to attend our formal opening last weekend we will have another OPEN HOUSE tomorrow from 2 to 6 p. m.
Please come in and tour our modern facilities. Visitors Always Welcome Harris Funeral Home 501-503 Bultman Drive UA Second Phase Opening Monday A second United Appeal sion, the Chapter Plan, swings into action Monday in advance of the general campaign. The group, headed by Paul Bullock and John Wilson, joins the Pilot Plan division in soliciting selected business firms of the com munity prior to the start of the advance gifts drive (September 3) and the general campaigning (October 2). The Chapter and Pilot plans together have a quota of $47,000, the largest of any of the divisions involved in the Appeal for $111,000. The work schedule for Chapter Plan solicitors calls for second contacts to be made August 311 and an end to solicitations by September 21.
Orientation classes for the benefit of chapter division workers were held in the conference roomof the National Bank of S.C. August 16-17 under the direction of G. Weber Bryan. At each of the busi ness firms chosen as campaign pacesetters the solicitors are work with in-plant representatives. serving as liaisons between the Appeal and the firms.
The ninth annual Appeal combining the fund drives of Community Chest agencies and the Red Cross is led this year by Ramon Schwartz, general chairman, and H. H. Keith, director. JOHNSON ON GOODWILL TOUR Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is greeted by women and children of the U.S.
community in Beirut, Lebanon. Johnson, accompanied by his wife, Ladybird, and their daughter, Linda Bird, is on a 16-day goodwill tour that will also bring him to Iran, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus and Italy. (NEA Radio-Telephoto) Soviet Offensive Has Look Of Kremlin-Inspired Probe By WILLIAM L. RYAN I AP Special Correspondent The 1962 Soviet offensive against West Berlin has the look of a careful probe inspired by what the Kremlin reads as signs of weakness. Red propaganda creates an impression that Premier Khrushchev detects cracks in the Allied West and intends to take advantage.
It is cautious, however. The world Communist leadership appears to believe a sudden nuclear war is entirely possible through accident or miscalculation. The Russians have abolished their military command in Berlin permitted their East German puppets to appoint a commander of their own. The U.S. State partment says it sees in this an attempt to disassociate the Russians from events revolving about the wall cutting Berlin in half.
That may be so, but it is difficult to believe it's the whole story. The new offensive was months in preparation. This time there are indications that Khrushchev hopes to achieve significant gains. Undoubtedly Moscow noted the behind-scenes debates between Washington and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's West German government. There were signs of West German nervousness about current U.S.
strategic defense planning. There have been hints of annoyance in Washington at West German criticisms of U.S. policy in dealing with the Communist threat. There is European uneasiness over the developing French-West German alliance which might dominate the Common Market. The Soviet aim in reheating the crisis could be to exist aggravate ever tensions among Western partners, to widen rifts, to come out of a patently dangerous Berlin situation with concessions.
The world has lived with the Berlin crisis 17 years. In a half dozen separate offenses, the Russians brought it to a perilous boil. Each time the Russians backed off when the going became too hot. The first such offensive was Stalin's attempt to take over West Berlin with a blockade. He backed off in May, 1949, defeated by a massive airlift." The next try came in 1955, after the U.S.S.R.
got over the shock of Stalin's death. Responding to a Western decision to bring West Germany into NATO, the Kremlin formed the Warsaw Pact and made new threats against Berlin. It backed away amid growing unrest in its own satellite empire. In 1958 the Russians did it again. Khrushchev issued an ultimatum: The West would sign peace treaties with both Ger manys in six months or risk the consequences.
He withdrew the ultimatum later and eased matters with his visit to the United States in 1959. The threats were renewed in 1960 in advance of the Paris sum- The Sumter Daily Item Established 1894. Published every Afternoon except Sunday by Osteen Publishing Company, 124 E. Hampton Sumter, S. C.
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Deaths and Funerals Services Set Sunday At2 P.M. For Mrs. Watson Mrs. Irene Blair Watson, 76, widow of J. Frank Watson, died Friday night at the Tuomey pital after an extended illness.
Born in Fairfield County, she was a daughter of the late Minnie Scott and John Davis Blair of Blair. She was a member of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter, the Women's Auxiliary, American Legion AuxiPost 15 liary, Post 3034 V.F.W. Auxiliary, YWCA, Golden Age Club, DAR, Amerants, and the UDC. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. D.
R. (Frances) Kolb of Sumter, Mrs. C. V. (Hannie) Richbourg of Anderson, and Mrs.
S. (Tootsie) Armour Jr. of Columbia; her step mother, Mrs. Hannie Long Blair, of Blair; four sisters, Mrs. H.
E. Cromer of Spartanburg, Mrs. Henry Lominack of Newberry, Mrs. H. H.
McLaughlin of Cayee, and- Mrs. C. I. Parker of Blair; two brothers, W. S.
Blair of Blair and J. D. Blair of Atlanta; five grand children; two great ren; number of -nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday from the Church of the Holy Comforter by the Rev.
William Seddon Lee. Interment will follow in the Salem Crossroads Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Fairfield County. The body will remain at the ShelleyBrunson Funeral Home until the hour of service. Active pallbearers will be Marion Frazier, Otis Blair, Hugh Mann Dawson Kolb, Que Clay tor, and W. W.
Wilson. Honorary pallbearers are A. F. Blair, Ray Blair, Ernest Blair, Hugh Mann, T. S.
Armour, Ray McCoy, C. L. Pemberton and W. F. Harrelson.
FUNERAL NOTICE Final Rites for Mrs. Gertia Singleton who departed this life at her home, 807 Peace St. on Monday night. She is survived by her husband, Mr. Daniel Singleton, two daughters, Mrs.
Guanita Howard and Mrs. Vernell Brown, all of Sumter, seven grandchildren, three sisters: Mrs. Rachel McGee of Sumter, Mrs. Wilhel-1 mena Bell and Mrs. Minnie Walter, both of Philadelphia, one brother, Mr.
John Pitts of Sumter, and a number of nieces and nephews. Memorial service will be conducted from the Trinity Baptist Church Sunday August 26 at 2:00 Rev. H. H. Harvin is the minister.
Interment Bealanx Cemetery. James Funeral Home is in charge. Mrs. Mary F. DeLaney, Clover Mrs.
R. J. Huggins, Nichols Mrs. L. T.
Dukes, Columbia Viola Cartrette, Aynor Kelly 0. Smoak, Moncks Orangeburg J. W. Goodwin, Corner Miss Lula Alexander, Patrick Vance D. Moore, Mt.
Croghan Mrs. Lawrence Knighten, Woodruff Mrs. Daisy D. Cox, Lancaser mit meeting, which blew up fore it could get started. Only a few days later Khrushchev, in East Berlin, was backing away, telling the Communists have to be patient.
The 1961 crisis temperature rose with the construction of the munist wall and a U.S. Soviet Attackes' Identity Still Unspecified (Continued from Page 1) and reject a direct attack, too." Castro's communique said the raiders slipped up to within approximately five-eighths of a mile of the coast before opening fire. Nearby residents said there had been no fire during the night from guns permanently emplaced at the water's edge in the hood. Miramar is a suburb of treelined streets where former homes of well-heeled Cubans now house scholarship holders brought to Havana by the government. It is also a favorite residential area of many diplomats and other foreigners.
Castro's communique was featured on front pages of Havana newspapers under big headlines. The 250-world statement did not report what happened to the raiders or say whether there were any casualties ashore. In Miami, the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil claimed credit for the bombardment in a printed news release. The group said two vessels, mounting more than 40 cannon, destroyed the hotel where the Red technicians were housed. Simultaneously, the release said, anti-Castro activity increased in the Escambray Mountains.
The shooting damaged nine rooms in the hotel, the Havana newspaper Hoy It carried photographs showing how what it said were "Yankee bullets" shattered mirros and glass doors. Another picture showed a hole beneath a window sill. On a nearby bed, Hoy said, two children slept and escaped death when the bullets ricocheted into the ceiling. The attack lasted "six or seven minutes, according to (hotel) employes and guests and some 60 shots were fired," Hoy said. Shortly after the raid, Castro showed up at the hotel.
Simultaneously today the armed forces ministry denounced what planes." These. the statement it called two further air violations by "North American said, took, place Monday and Tuesday when the aircraft flew over a Soviet merchant ship steaming in Cuban waters. The communique came in the wake of American reports of a new wave of Soviet arms deliverlies, apparently intended to strengthen Cuban coastal and air defenses, and the arrival of Communist bloc technicians estimated to number between 3,000 and 5,000. Washington officials said Friday that eight Soviet cargo vessels docked recently at Cuban ports with military equipment including radar vans, trucks, mobile generator units and pernaps antiaircraft missiles of the Nike type, such as Moscow has supplied to Indonesia. A dozen more Soviet freighters were reported en route.
U.S. authorities said they had no evidence that the Soviet bloc was shipping in combat troops, surface to-surface (offensive) rockets or atomic warheads. They theorized, therefore, that the chef aim of the buildup is defensive. tank confrontation. Once again, when things looked dangerous, the Russians backed off.
Now the pressure is rising again. This insistent hammering may be a Khrushchev gamble that the West will crack under heavy psychological pressures involving fears of nuelear war. But the Russians themselves are not immune to such fears. Soviet propaganda tells them of a clear danger that Berlin will detonate fearfully destructive forces. It says the only way to ease this threat is for the United States to bow to plans for "normalizing" Berlin.
It says the United States resists only because. it wants Berlin as a NATO base, a constant threat to Soviet security. The Kremlin now may be trying to find out how far the West can be pushed, to learn whether the United States possibly under pressure from non-Communist nations- would deal with the East Germans and thus push the Red regime a step closer to respectability. The Russians repeat over over that when they sign a peace treaty with East Germany, the United States, Britain and France will have no choice but to deal with the Communist East Germans. It.
repeats also that West German policy under Adenauer makes a settlement difficult but that "The Adenauer era is coming to an end." The propaganda then swings 1 to the experience in Laos, where a neutrality settlement averted extreme peril, and 1 says in effect: Why not negotiations on the Berlin-German problem? What would be wrong with a neutralized Berlin and, indeed, a neutralized Germany? The Kremlin may speculate many in the West Germanswho would accept such a solution to ease fears. Failing to wring concessions from Washington, eventually may want to create a situation in which the United States will appear in the light of an aggressor. This would raise enormous and present the opportunity of offering a peaceful solution--along Moscow lines, of course. Final Rites Planned For Wesley Bennett Final rites are to be held top.m. morrow at 2:30 p.m.
from Cal: vary Baptist Church for Wesley Bennett. Interment will follow 11 in the family plot at the church cemetery. Bennett died Tuesday, morning at the Tuomey Hospital following a brief illness. He was the son of the late Richard and Emma Williams Bennett. He was born June 29, 1894 in Sumter county, a World' War veteran and a farmer.
He was also a deacon in the Calvary Baptist Church. Survivors include. his widow, Mrs. Rosa Kelley Bennett, twelve children. Mrs.
Maybell Ovens. Elease Hastie, Mrs. Katie Bellamy, Mrs. Tish Washington, Mrs. Dorothy Myers, Tommy, Sylvester, James, Neal, William, Timmothy and Bobby Bennett.
He is also survived by six sisters Mrs. Christian Anderson, Mrs. Emma Sherley, Mrs. Agnes McDow, Mrs. Ida English, Mrs.
Nora McCray, Mrs. Alma Spann and a brother, Charlie Bennett. Military honors will be given at the graveside. The family will receive friends this evening at p.m. at Palmer Memorial Chapel.
"POOR WHITE TRASH' See how they Fire Comes To Waiting Firefighters HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP)-The firemen didn't go to the firethey sat down and waited for the fire to come to them. This is how it happened: A car of a Pennsylvania Railroad train' caught fire Friday about seven miles south of here. But the Williamsport, fire department ran out of water while fighting a series of brush fires the car left benind and could not extinguish the fire on the train. A fire department from Hagerstown was summoned, but when it arrived the train had been, the car was gone.
Railroad officials had ordered it towed to Hagerstown. After trying vainly to catch up to the car--even taking shortcuts across bumpy fields in the fire engines--the firefighters returned to Hagerstown, hooked up their hoses near the tracks and waited about 30 minutes until the flaming car arrived. The blaze was extinguished: within a few minutes of the car's arrival. KEEP YOUR AND WAITING FOR Sunday Buffet MENU Roast Tom Turkey, with dressing, Giblet Gravy and Cranberry Sauce. Swedish Meat Balls Barbecued Pork Chops Brown Rice with Mushrooms Sauteed Whole Green Beans Chicken Salad Candied Yams $1.75.
Lime Congealed Salad COMPLETE Assorted Fruit Tray WITH DRINK Pickle Relish Tray DESSERT Devils Food Cake with Marshmallow Mint Sauce CHILDREN Potato Salad UNDER 12 Fresh Vegetable Platter $1.00 Fresh Fruit Bowl Deviled Egg Halves Buffet Served Congealed Fruit Salad from Cottage Cheese Bowl 12:00 to 3:00 Tossed Garden Salad Hot Rolls and Butter ALA CARTE Ice Cream and Sherbet from Coffee or Tea 11:30 to 10 PM HOLIDAY INN DINNER CARDS ACCEPTED Hole 226. Phone WASHINGTON NORTH 775-2323 ST..