iTHE NEWS LEADER! SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1955 7 32,800 Dip Reported In Va. Jobs i Decline Held To Be Seasonal Market Cost Data Expected Council to Get. Housing Proposal Revival of Glen Lea Talks On! City Sewage Link Seen Tuckahoe Pact Said i Pattern uurs ft i tSV -T7 rV 1 Sphinx-Like Collage Chess Players Hold Tournament at University of Richmond I NO COMMENT COLLEGEfCHESS MEN POKER-FACED I Waff Phata) SYMBOL FOR RED CROSS CAMPAIGN CEREMONY A narrative production interpreting disasters faced by men alone before -the Red Cross was established will be produced here Tuesday to open the Richmond-Henrico-Chesterfleld Red Cross campaign for $299,093. Mrs. William F.
Grigg, Jr. (above), portrays tho "Greatest Mother in the World in tho allegory, written by N. Carl Barefoot, Jr. Tho program, staged bv the Richmond Department of Recreation enj Perks, will be held at 6 P. at a Dutch treat dinner.
Virginia's nonagricultural industries dropped 32,800 peri'- from the payrolls during the month ended in mid-January, largely because of seasonal factors, the State Department of Labor and Industry reported today. The decline left total nonfarm employment at 867,300 persons, or 1,900 more than were employed at the same time last year, the agency in a monthly report. Losses were widespread throughout the Industry list during the month, Jbut the hardest hit were stores, government, contract construction, foods and. tobacco stemming and redrying. Drops In these were attributed almost exclusively to normal seasonal trends.
I TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES In stores alone, the loss was 19,100 persons, most of them temporary employees hired for the Christmas season. A drop of 6,800 persons in government also represented temporary employ-ees, principally in the Post Office. Other declines: Contract construction, 2.300; food and similar products, 2,400, and tobacco stemming and redrying, 800, The reduction in nonfarm employment was accompanied by a slight drop in the average Statewide weekly wage for an estimated 195,000 factory production employees. This drop, from $57.92 to $57.46, was due to a shorter average work week. In the Richmond metropolitan area, the average weekly wage dipped from $64.06 to $61.10 for 29,400 production workers the result of a combination of shorter work week and lower average hourly pay rate.
AFL Laborers At 2 Projects Offered Raise AFL laborers at the Richmond Memorial Hospital and a Henrico County school have been offered a wage increase of 10 cents an hour after -five consecutive days of G. E. Bolt, superintendent for the contractor, John Tester Son, said that work will resume. Monday morning: There was no work at either of the construction projects today, a normal day off. Tester agreed to put the wage increase into effect Monday morning.
CL L. Lane, business agent for Ldcal Construction and General Laborers, AFL, said he would recommend that the union accept Tester's offer. The offer will be submitted to the union Monday night. Lane said. If the local approves, a contract will be signed at 3 P.
M. Wednesday at Hotel Richmond, he added. The picketing ended yesterday after Tester offered the increase. Lines were Installed last Monday for the purpose of organizing "12 or more nonunion workers on the Job, Lane had said earlier. The hospital site Is.
on' West-wood Avenue In Richmond. The new elementary school is going up north the flty limits on the Richmond-Henrfco Turnpike. Hourly wage raises proposed for Local 789 members on the two Jobs are: Laborers, air topi operators; labor pushers, mortar mixers, wagon drill operators, $L75; blasters, and powder men, labor foremen, $2.15, and general labor foremen, $2.50. Between 23 and 30 men bn the two' Jobs will receive the 10-. cent increase if it is approved.
Lane said. Elevator Safety Tests Reveal Defective Devices 1 Defective safety devices have been discovered in an estimated; 60 per cent of local elevators subjected so far to a recently instl-j tuted series of safefy tests. Elevator Inspector C. Campbell said; today: Campbell said 'about 15 per cent of the faulty elevators were; ordered shut down pending coon- j- pletion of repairs. The others, ni whose safety mechanisms needed rlfrPTT Plan only slight adjustments, were 1 1 I Oil fixed in the presence of the inspectors, he said.
The checkups on the safety equipment Jire the first to be made since-Campbell took over the job of-, city elevator in-' spcctor. He said that while passenger elevators are Inspected four times a year and. freight elevators twice a year, those periodic inspections do not include. technical checkups of safety equipment "A true safety inspection calls for an actual physical test of the equipment" he noted. "The Insurance inspectors who handle much of the periodic inspection work are not qualified to do that An Army announcement that; Camp Pickett will be kept on a standby basis yesterday 'met with a Cold 'reception in Blackstone tajay: Roger D.
Maben, Jn, town anager, said the action: had not: hanged the opinion of South Ida Virginians at all. He has; strongly urged the Army to either dispose' of the camp com-, pletely or use it fully. An Army spokesman said Beck Voices Hope for Future Revival of Richmond-Henrico talks on the inclusion of Glen Lea aea inter the citys sewage treatment system was indicated today after signing 'of a-contract including the Tuckahoe-area. City, Manager Edwards told Gounqji during negotiations on the Tuckahoe contract, signed earlier this week, he hoped the. contract would set a pattern future contracts.
County Manager E. A. Beck said proposals to Integrate the Glen Lea Sanitary District 7 area were made before discussions were begun on the Tuckahoe (Sanitary District? A) area. He said he hoped for early revival I Meanwhile, city engineers said plans for tf)e $1,312,800 (estimated) work required to provide mains and pumping facilities in the West End would be ready for the asking of bids in late April. CONTRACT PROVISION Under the contract, the city must accept sewage from the, area by March 1 next year and the plan is to have half of the1 city's sewage under treatment by 195a The County Is In process of doing some $2,000,000 worth of water and sewer work in the area after having spent in excess of $1,000,000 in acquiring private systems.
Beck said. Hie area covered by the. contract sighed Wednesday includes about 20,000 residents. No esti-, mate was available as to' the Glen Lea area but It Includes Glenwood Farms, East Highland Park, Montezuma Farms, the Central Airport area' on Mechanlrsville Pike, arid other developments' generally east of the tracks and north of the city to the Chlckahominy River. SAID FORWARD STEP Officials see the Tuckahoe area contract as a significant forward step In metropolitan area planning.
Edwards said It was the "most significant development between Henrico and Richmond since I have been associated with the city government (1938). C. Longan, chairman of the-Henrico County Board of Supervisors, said it Is the "most Important step these communities have ever taken. 1 The county and the city now work together' on a cpntraetural basis aa far as domestic waterll concerned, and now this has been extended to sewers in the particular area covered. The citys gas mains are extended into the county, on a purely commercial HEADS COMMITTEE Councilman Harold H.
Derw vlahlan is chairman of a utilities policy committee which Is attempting to work out a policy that will eliminate many of the controversies of the It is expected that this committee will report to Council within the next few weeks. Under the new cohtract, Henrico will pay approximately for sewer facilities in the city Instead of building its own plant at a cost of $1250,000. The city, on its part, will be able to serve the sections of the West End -without sewers at a cost estimated, at $340,000 Instead of $500, D00. Roth communities will be able to enjoy cheaper treats" ment costs, according to the calculations. In addition, It pointed out, the treatment schedule will be stepped up by two years; the West End area without sewers will be served at least seven years earlier, and the metropolitan area will benefit through an Integrated system.
City Council probably will receive a report Monday night, on the cost of the purchase of a Shockoe Valley site for a wholesale produce market. Resolutions creating a housing co-ordination committee also are expected to be introduced. Also on the agenda are four ordinances having to do with the rezoning of land to, the west of Brook Road between Sherwood Avenue and Rhoadmiller Street, which have been postponed sev eral times while parties at interest have tried to arrive at a solution that would be acceptable. City Manager Edwards said he hoped to be able to report what it would cost to acquire the market site, which, under Council's plan, the city would purchase and develop for sale to the Richmond Market Authority. In this manner, the authority, without cost to the city, could take advantages of low interest rates on city borrowings.
Mayor Bryan said he hoped to tuve resolutions ready for introduction that would make it possible for the city to present a united front in a fight on slum area i and areas where residential blight is beginning. The plan under consideration would qualify the city for Federal aid Act of 1954. URGED CITY ACTION The Home Builders Association of Richmond has urged the city to take this and Mayor Bryan said his idea Is to have a committee that will co-ordinate the work of private builders, the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, the City. Planning Commission, the City Health Departments Housing Sanitation Division, the office of the Building Xnspectqr, and other private and public organizations Interested in clearing slum districts. A cemetery code which apparently has met with the1 approval of those Interested will be up for public hearing as will be another ordinance -designed to put tor-hire ears other than taxicabs under regulations similar to those now In force for taxicabs 'The controversial snow chain ordinance Is on the.
agenda, but probably will be either postponed or rejected. Under It a motorist whose ear Impeded traffic because he did not have snow tires or chains would be subject to removal from the streets at his own expense. Wet Weather On Way Despite The Sunny Skies The weatherman today said those sunny skies were deceiving wet weather ii on the way. He predicted cloudy skies and a chance of rain tomorrow and rain for sure Monday. The mercury took off from a 25-degree lowr-ioday and soared into the high 50s.
The weatherman figured it would hit the low 60s before the day ends. Hie bureau said a high-pressure air system over Virginia was responsible for the pleasant weather, but It was rapidly moving off the coast. It is being displaced by a low-pressure air mass from, the southwest, the weatherman said. Hie bureau also predicted odder, weather after Monday. A frigid rold air mass poked southward from Canada with temperatures as low as 20 below zero today, he said.
It will moderate greatly before it arrives he added. Funds Campaign At 20 Mark Pledges of $100,000 have been received in the St. Or School Foundations campaign drive to raise $500,000 for the school. Osmond T. Jamerson, administrative vice-chairman of the drive, told general solicitation workers at a luncheon meeting yesterday that the campaign is one-fifth completed.
The first $100,000 will be used for building a lower school addition and fo increasing teachers' salaries. 4:55 P. M. Got In line, accompanied by two daughters, ages 4 and 8, long distance from the Arena. Woman ahead asked plaintively "Ronnie, are you sure you want to see Cisco this badly? Child pulled large six-shooter from holster, shouted.
"Mother, you promised! and herded mother back in line. 5:15 P. M. Young father ahead In line bought balloon from vendor for snow-suited 2-year-old. Fifteen other children shrieked in unison, "Daddy, I want a balloon too." A baker's dozen of older fathers glared dls-palringly at tha turncoat p- T- A'.
7 SBSS CM jv asar, as a at- a -j j)i iy-i started at the University of Richmond early yesterday afternoon and the combatants hoped to finish up before midnight io-night. The chess players, steel-nerved and poker-faced to a man, figured they would get through the match without incident, which is to say as much as a loud snort. Once, several years ago, the same five teams became "quite vocal, because a couple of poky players were too poky. In chess, "quite vocal is as unheard of a dull and quiet double-overtime "basketball game. What sort of college students play in chess tournaments? Well, there wasn't a Chinese checker addict in the crowd.
Outside of that they all looked pretty normal -no double-domed craniums. The icientific students seemed to have the edge, however. The University of Richmond, for example, fielded a four-man team that included, one physics and three chemistry students. They insisted you don't have to be brainy to play chess, obviously there wasnt a magna cum ordinary scholar in the of the Richmond players. Gunors might have had a chance to play some of the Russian chess experts a years ago.
He declined, however he was afraid It would, be in Siberia. Soon to become an Major Youell Opposes Old Jail Restoring Major Rice M. Youell, director of the Division of Corrections, State Department of Welfare and Institutions, said today he could see no advantage to remodeling unused county jails as a means of relieving overcrowding at the State's penal institutions. Hie majors attitude was given today after a proposal yesterday by Hanover County Sheriff John B. Vaughan, that the State pay two-thirds of the cost of remodeling the.
unused county Jails. Youell however, said he did not think. much 51 of the idea of "holding people in jail. He explained that money could be spent to better advantage for city farms or for jail farms than for renovating old Jails. lie said the convicts should be put to work and not cooped up in a jail and said city and jail farms would provide the means of keeping prisoners busy.
Keeping them in Jail, he said, tends to make good "crap shooters out -of them. The major said molt of the localities had done ait excellent job with their jails an that only a few in the State were in "bad estimated there were 20 to 25 unused jails. The major explained that suggestion by Sheriff Vaughan would be a matter for the General Assembly and not for the Department of Welfare and Institutions. Action by the legislature would be necessary to carry out the Vaughan proposal floor of Arena, observed with dismay that horse was absent. 6:30 M.
Great moment arrived. Ecstatic 8-year-old received her autographed picture with murmured thanks and brief curtsey. Four-year-old asked bluntly, "Cisco, why you ever lose your liat when you fight bad men?" Cisco, not prepared for but recovered quickly. "Mafbe because I fight so good," he. said with smile.
6:35 P. M. Emerged to find line longer than ever. Wondered if wife would have warm beverage waiting at home to ward off chill of evening. Shfdld.
(Man P1MMJ American citizen, Vilcins is a "DP from Latvia, who fled before the advancing Red armies during World War Hie University of North Carolina is the defending champion. The teams trying to rook them out of it are Randolph-Macon College, Duke the University of Virginia, Georgetown University and the University of Richmond. The team that wins will, hold onto the association's big silver trophy until next year. OfficialsHope Vandalism Wave Ended Henrico County officials were hopeful today that a wave of vandalism in Highland Springs had come to an end. Both Police Chief W.
J. Hedrick and Assistant Commonwealths Attorney Paul Byrne expressed that hope today after the conviction yesterday of two youths charged with causing disturbance fighting and using profane and indecent language in Charies" A. Stellate, 20, of Washington and Willie J. Evans, 18, of Sandston, were fined $50 and sentenced to 30 days in jail each. Both noted appeals.
Assistant Trial Justice Samuel T. Binns, Imposed the sentences -and told the youths to tell other members of what Highland Springs residents described as a "gang of vandals" that they would get the "same or' worse if brought into court. MEMBERS! OF 'GANG' Byrne iaid the two were brought into court as a result of a warrant sworn out by J. B. Lipscomb, owner of the Center Pharmacy, in Highland Springs.
Hie youths were arrested after they bad engaged-in a fight in fhmt of the drug store. In court, the two admitted they were members of the gang" and said they had thrown beer cans and watermelon rinds at Lipscomb and had broken a front window in the pharmacy. Byrne said one other member of the group had been arrested two weeks ago and found guilty on three charges of petit larceny. He said the youth had received fines on all three counts as well, as a jail sentence. From what informatoin he has received Byrne said, he understood that none of the members of the gang resided in Highland Springs proper.
They are from outlying areas, he said. He said some of the gang members were juveniles. MAYBE NOT TOO BAD Chief Hedrick said he felt the situation Is not as bad as it sounds. However, he explained that he based that assumption only on the complaints the police had received. lie added that merchants have refused to swear out warrants against members of the gang iii a number of cases, leaving police powerless to take action.
The wife of a restaurant owner in Highland Springs said she had not heard of -any difficulties with the group of "young boys 'and girls for about four months. She explained several of the youths acted up when they first started coming in, but that her husband reprimanded them and ordered them out. Since then, she said, they have been back and have behaved fairly well. Gov.jKennon To Speak Here Governor Robert F. Kennon, of Louisiana, will be the principal speaker at a joint meeting of the Richmond Rotary and Kl-wanla Clubs at 12:30 P.
ML Monday at tha Hotel John Marshall. BY GENE MILLER The young men scowled ferociously. One puffed smoke across the table. His opponent puffed smoke right back. There Jwaa a stony silence.
Then a plastic queen dacked across the. checkered field and someone mattered "checkmate." Duke University, without benefit of a cheering section, scampered off tola one point lead. The affair was the Southern Intercollegiate Chess Auocia-tion's fifth annual tournament Two Menr Die On Highways; Toll Now 1 A 23-year-old Bussell man and an unidentified of a hit-run driver 'died early today in separate Virginia locations to raise the States 1955 road toll to 103. The Russell County maiji, Otis M. Lucas, of Dante, was killed instantly at 12:40 A.
M.jln an auto-truck collision about a half-mile north of Abingdon, Washington County, on State Route 19. State Police Sergeant G. J. Eldridge identified the driver of the truck as Jack Lee Mtnnick, of Route 1 Abingdon. He said Lucas was driving "the car involved In the crash.
The unidentified whiter about 65 years old, died alj 12:10 A. M. in a Fredericksburg hospital of injuries suffered about 7:45 o'clock last night when he was struck down on U. S. (Route 1, four miles north of Fredericksburg, In Stafford County, State TTOoper H.
L. Powers was assigned to the lnvestjgatiop. SM1TII FIELD FATALITY An 8-year-old school girl, Mildred Ann Wells, of Smltjhfield. Isle of Wight County, wssj killed1 yesterday when struck by a truck as she pressed a street in the business area at Smlthfleld. Hie victim was the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James M. Wells, The name of the truck driver was not available immediately. In addition to her parfnCs, the girl is survived by a Katherine; and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Nelms and Mr. and Mrs. John E. Wells, all of Isle of Wight County. The highway toll through February 25, last year, was 122.
In Richmond last night I Richard Atwell Burruss; 20, of 4205 Decatur sustained aj. head injury In an accident Involving four, vehicles at Fifth! and Franklin 'Sts. Traffic Officer R. L. Hopkins said the Burruss vehicle was struck by a car driven by Leon N.
Bruce, of 920 St, then hit the rear of a third vehicle parked in front of Hotel John Marshall The parked dar, in turn, was rammed into another parked car. Burruss was treated at Medical College Hospital. A West End man, Ray Helm, of 219 North Boulevard, suffered a-hcad cut last night whjm the ear he was driving crashed into utility pole at Grove Avenue and Robinson Street. Hie was treated at Retreat for the Sick Hospital 1 5:43 ML Balloon escaped from clutch of small boy, 5:50 P. M.
Woman in blue coat emerging from Arena exit fold acquaintance In line, tit will take another hour after you get through the door." 5:55 P. M. Jabbed elpow in ribs of vendor peddling small holsters, self, between daughters and vendor selling souvenir whips, entered arena, realized woman iln blue coat was right, 6:17 P. M. Surrendered to clamor, bought 1 popcorn.
Girls got first debt of Cisco Kid acjoss Camp Pickett had been given an M-Day, that Is Mobilization Day, assignment and explained the Army must have the camp or a comparable base in the area ready for use in case of an emergency. Maben re-emphasized today that the town was highly displeased with what he termed the Army's Opening and Closing of the Camp and the consequent boom and bust economy of Blackstone. Earlier, Representative Welkins M. Abbltt, Democratic Congressman from Appomattox, aald he will soon reintroduce a bill to. force the disposal of Camp Pickett as surplus property.
Maben also has pressed the Commonwealth, of Viffelnia to try to take over the abandoned camp for mental and penal tutions, a plan that he said worked successfully at Camp Butner, North Carolina. Reached by telephone today, Abbitt said the Armys announcement was the "same old story. said, "In my opinion the Army hag utterly failed to use Camp Pickett efficiently." He said he thought the Army had not given the requests South Side Virginians "due consideration." Clothes Make the Man Police Patrolman J. Plummer is. out to get.
his man. A thief last night stole 4 police uniform trousers, overcoat and raincoat from his car parked in the 400 block Munford St. LIFE IN A LONG LINE ALMOST COMPLETED The safety checks, which Campbell said he expects to make an annual event, are made by elevator mechanics from private companies under the supervision of the elevator inspection division. 1,000 elevators have been checked In the new program, started about, the first of this year. Campbell said the Inspections are almost completed.
Frequently found out of order; he. Is the governor an instrument that actuates the emergency safety apparatus In case of a fall or in event of overspeed. Campbell said 74 persons were injured here in the 1953-54 fiscal year in elevator and escalator Fourteen. of the injuries were classified 'as serious. 4 Judges Propose Separate Facility Fqr Alcoholics A Virginia Advisory Legislative Council subcommittee had before it today suggestions from four trial court Judges that the State set up a separate institution for treating alcoholics.
views advocating a separate Institution were advanced yesterday as the subcommittee met at the State Capitol. Before adjournment, the study unit decided to' meet again March 23 to try to decide on recommendations to the full VALC. The judges appearing before the subcommittee were: Trial Justices R. Dixon Powers, of Henrico; Hugh of Arlington, and Charles Taylor, of Big Stone Gap, and Police Court Judge J. A.
of Newport New. They agreed alcoholic treatment facilities should be separated from mental institutions and that State clinics similar to the 12-bed ward operated by the State Health Department at the Medical College Hospital here should be expanded. Dr. Ebbe Hoff, medical director of. the State clinic here, doubted the wisdom of sentencing persons to treatment centers.
He explained an individual must want to be cured before much progress can be Party to Precede Democrat Dinner A co*cktail party for Virginia Young Democrats- will precede the State party's Jefferson-Jack-son Day dinner Friday at the Hotel John Marshall. The party, scheduled for 5:30 P. M. In the hotels Roof Garden, was announced yesterday by the dinner headquarters. Arrangements will be handled by French Slaughter, of Culpeper, chairman, and Miss Jeanne White, of Richmond, vice-chairman, who were named by the dinner chairman, State Senator A.
S. Harrison, of Lswrenceville. United States Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr of North Carolina, will bs the principal speaker at the $25-a-plate dinner, the State party's annual fund-raising event. Governor Aljots $20,000 for Library Governor Stanley has allotted $20,000 of its $30,000 library Hanning appropriation to the Norfolk division of the 'College of William and Mary.
The school has a $375,000 appropriation for acquiring a site, erecting a building and purchase lng needed library equipment The $20,000 Item was requested for preparing engineering and architectural plans and specifications) 'I? CISCO SCRIBBLES 6 HOUtfS, SEES 14,000 ADMIRERS Richmond Datebook Events scheduled in Richmond tonight and prior to 6 P. Monday include: Tonight United Commercial Travelers of America, Richmond Council Not 159, Hotel Jefferson, 8, Monday Richmond Klwanla 1 and Rotary Club of Richmond, joint meeting. 12:30 P. Hotel John Marshall; Robert F. Kennon, Governor of Louisiana, speaker.
Red Crow, Special Gifts Division. 12:30 P. Hotel Richmond, George W. Passage, speaker, Clviton Club ef Richmond 6J) P. Hotel Raleigh.
By WILLIAM B. FOSTER, JR. A smiling TV cowboy with a popularity any politician would envy spent, approximately six hours here yesterday as the object of the affections of mpre than 14,000 assorted children and parents. He patted, heads, chucked chins, sftook irhands or spoke kindly to each Others who. participated less joyfully In the childrens crusade Included hundreds of fathers, some of them old enough to know better.
A notebook kept by one of them discloses these Items:.
