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Jol, XX, No. 36.
‘d Dodd Tells Editor's
[eet Of Cartoon Trials
The man who created the
ark Trail” eomic strip told
(;eorgia editors here today that
ometimes the job of creating
haracters who go into 30 or 40
illion homes can be an awesome
experience. i -
2d Dodd, the Atlanta cartoon
+t, spoke to newspapermen and
.ditors meeting on the University
of Georgia campus for the 24th
nnual session for the Georgia
ress Institute. He was the guest
f the Atlanta Journal. |
It is startling to realize that a
‘op-flight comic character will
.<it so many homes, Dodd pointed
ut, adding that he is sometimes
.wed to think of the influence, for
ood or bad, that his lead char
cters might exert wupon the
vounger generation.
" The strip artist can render val
..able service, he said, by bringing
o the fore the basic ideals of
\mericanism, or by promoting
onservaiion of natural resources
r by advaneing the sale of sav
ngs bonds, provided, of course,
‘hat he leaves out ecemomic and
solitical prejudice,
Slap-Stick Fun
“The eomic in the old days was
only a slap-stick form of enter
ainment,” Dodd explained. “Basi
cally the eomie is still entertain
nent, but something else rather
mportent has been added. Comics
sre now beginning to carry eon
.iderable information — in most
.ases accurate informmation.”
In his own comie strip Dodd
<aid that he tries to get over a
sood many of the interesting
‘hings abous natural history. |
“T try wery earnestly to be as |
~uthentie as is humanly possible.
”1y assistants and I spend a great
teal of time doing research both
n the matter of story and art, and
wwhen 1 do make a bust I usually
wear from some segment of Mark
Trail readers who are familiar
with that particular thing.”
He cited as an instance his mis- |
take of putting antlers on a deer
last spring, Deers don’t have ant
lers in the spring, and he soon
heard about it.
Dodd wouldn't make any pre
d.ctions about the future of the
comic business. He said that the
technique of drawing and writing
has improved in the last few
vears, and that he has often won
lered where the comie strip will'
He confessed that he has a good |
time drawing and writing his
strip, but-he wouldn’t give his
licteners any hints of the answer
to their question, “Are Mark Trail
and Cherry planning to marry?”
“They are good friends of
mine,” he said, “but I hesitate to
k such a personal question.”
Roxane Cotsakis
At an earlier session Roxane
Cotsakis, an Atlanta advertising
py writer and the author of
The Wing and the Thorn,” soon
to be released, talked to the edi
tors about world brotherhood. She
aid that brotherhood can come
only after Americans know and
understand each other.
As a first-generation immigrant,
Miss Cotsakis, recounted the dif
ficulties she met in becoming a
real American even though she
vas born in Atlanta.
In American today minority
groups are still considered as for
cigners and are misunderstood,
she said. She added that this mis
mderstanding must be cleared up
before there can be any real world
peace through world brotherhood.
“Until we know our neighbors
n our own country and under
stand them to be one of us, then
¢ cannot succeed in speaking of
brotherhood to our other neigh
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Clarke Youth Is
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n Ag Hill Fair
: }*‘.His Johnson, Clarke County
I member, will be one of the
articipants in the Ag Hill Carn
val scheduled for tomorrow night
1 the ‘Womens Physical Educa
ton Building. Ellis, distriet winner
n the state contest last year, will
resent a program of magic in the
riety show that is one of the
itures of the program. He was
¢ of three from this area select
by the College 4-H Club, spon
of the carnival, to present his
ented number,
{irq carnival will begin at eight
ock and remain in progress
I twelve., A gala occasion has
n planned for young and old,
‘ccording to Carnival Manager
°d Kellogg. One of the main
tures of the evening will be the
cowning of a king and queen by
cident O. C. Aderhold. This
touple will be selected by a “pen
-a-vote” method and will reign
over the carnival for the evening.
Various clubs on the agricultural
campus will sponsor candidates for
this honor.
A number of booths have been
Sc¢tup to attract every one seeking
@nv-iype of entertainment. Drinks
and sandwiches will be sold during
the evening,
.. An admission charge of twenty
''Ve cents has been set. A door
prize- will be offered the lucky
tket holder,
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
Steel Walkout:
r
May Strike Lat
PITTSBURGH, Feb, 22—(AP),
The nation will escape a steel
strike Saturday but a walkout
may eome March 23 unless a bitter
contract controversy is settled.
Top strategy makers of the mil~
lion member CIO United Steele
workers did as expected yesterday
in postponing their strike. They
issued this warning:
“We hope that a strike may be
averted but the patience of our
members is running out.”
The union decided to cancel its
week-end strike threat in order to
give the Wage Stabilization Board
more time to recommend a settle
ment.
The union headed by Philip
Murray, also president of the CIO,
has been working without a eon
tract since Jan, 1.
The USW’s wage policy com
mittee, in unanimously adopting &
resolution of the executive board
to set back the strike date 29 days,
made it clear it expects the final
settlement will be fully retroac
tive to the contract expiration
date,
edTho wage policy committee add
“We eall upon the Wage Stabil
ization Board promptly to make
its recommendation for fair and
equitable terms of settlement of
this dispute and to enable the
board to do this we extend the
present postponement of our
strike until midnight; March 23,
1952. :
“And we authorize President
(Philip) Murray to call a strike in
the event a fair basis for an equi
table settlement of the dispute is
not forthcoming by that date.”
Mercer §
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BY TOM HORGAN
“ABOARD HALF OF SS FORT
MERCER, OFF NEWPORT, R. I,
Feb. 22-—(AP)—Thirteen mer
chant sailors who elected to ride
out a storm—Kurt Carlsen fashion
’——arrived today on the end of a
tow line aboard the stern section
of the tanker Fort Mercer,
They scoffed at the superstition
sometimes attached to their num
ber.
The tanker broke in half Mon
day oif Cape Cod, Mass., in .the
winter’s worst storm.
Some of the crew of 43 drifted
away on the bow section before
the gale.
Thirty-four were on the stern.
Twenty-one were rescued. Five
were lost and the others saved
were taken from the bow.
A crew of three Associated
Press staff members including
Photographers Frank Curtin and
J. Walter Green and this writer
boarded’ the shattered stern today
well off Brenton Reef lightship
which guards the harbor entrance.
They were the first strangers to
tread her slippery decks since the
disaster.
Captain Bill Champion, in his
sturdy diesel craft bearing his
name, located the stern of the
Mercer shortly after dawn and put
us aboard while the tow was trav
eling at a brisk pace.
The first crewman encountered
was Alphornise Chauvin, 72, of New
York.
“Want a cup of coffee?” he
asked.
Chauvin disclosed the 13 had
been living “high on the hog”
since the stern section was taken
in tow some 40 hours earlier off
Nantucket lightship.
Chauvin, who shipped as a gal
ley man, and found himself senior
in the culinary department af‘ter
i rescue of a majority of his sth-‘
lmates, served up turkey for
!Wednesday’s dinner. Steak Wwas
| commonplace,
State Authors Confide
Tribulation Of Writing
Athenians and collegiates alike
rubbed elbows with outstanding
Georgia authors yesterday after
noon at an informal get torether
of writers from this state and their
reading publies. The Authors, in
Athens for the Annual Georgia
Press Institute, accepted the in
vitation to Michael’s to meet Ath
enians and students and to auto
graph copies of their respective
publicatiens which are on sale at
Michaels.
Many of the distinguished writers
of this state haa been in Athens
many times in the past for Press
Institute, study or for visits to
friends and were right at home in
the Michaels’ Book Shop crowded
with local and University friends.
Aspiring authors cornered writ
ers who have “proved that it can
be done in Georgia” and garnered
precious information on how to
attack the job of writing success
ful. Some of the “literary hope
fuls” were a ftrifle discouraged
with the recurrence of the phrase
“ork, work, and then work some
more” but were. extremely . en
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WILLIE SUTTON’S PAL CAPTURED—
Thomas Kling (second from left), identi
fied by George Monoghan (right), New
York City police commissioner, as a pal
of Willie “The Actor” Sutton and one of
the 10 most wanted of the nation’s crim
inals, is flanked by two of his captors in
South Kerean Marines Beat Off
Island Invasion; 33 Hour Battle
End Air Rif
Danger In City
Pending passage of a city ordi
nance at the next meeting of
Mayor and Council banning the
playing with or shooting of air
rifles inside the city limits, Mayor
Jack R. Wells today asked the co
operation of parents in terminat
ing the practice.
Mayor Wells acted in response
to a communication from the
Clarke County Medical Society
which called his attention to the
fact that since Christmas alone
three eyes have been lost and an
other seriously damaged as a re
sult of careless handling of air
rifles,
There is of course, the possi
bility that others have been in
jured and the cases not having
been brought to the attention of
the Society.
Text of Statement
Text of the Mayor’s statement
follows:
“The Clarke County Medical
Society has called to my attention
the fact that during recent months
there have been several tragic ac
cidents in Athens resulting from
the careless discharge of air guns
by children. It is apparent as a
result of our recent experience
that the protection of the health
and eye sight of our children re
quires that the practice of allow
ing children to play with air rifles
be terminated.
“Accordingly, it is my intention
at the next Council meeting to
recommend to the City Council
that an ordinance be passed mak
ing it unlawful for air rifles to be
played with or-discharged within
the City limits. In the meantime,
I urge that the parents of all chil
dren in the City make it impossi~
ble for their children to play with
air rifles within the City limits.”
CITIZENS CAPTURE THIEF
MIDDLETON, Tenn., Feb. 22—
(AP)—The Bank of Middleton
came out of its holdup yesterday
with a SI.BO profit. .
Money was tossed about freely
as irate citizens wounded and cap
tured the gunman, Robert H.
Bondurant.
Citizens, bystanders, hostages,
officers and bank employes gath
ered it all up and turned it over to
Bank President H. G. Simpson.
Simpson wouldn’t say how
much was stolen, but he said he
got it all back plus SI.BO. Nobody
knows where the extra money
came from.
couraged with the example of
Georgia born and bred men and
women who have successfully
completed and published works of
their own.
Athenians heard many and vari
ed reasons for writing in their
conversations with the visiting
writers, Mrs. Maybelle Jones De
wey, author of “pPush Button”
and wife of a distinquished Emory
teacher, told her newly met friends
from Athens that her “literary ef
fort” was the result of a desire to
“do something to keep up with my
husband.”
Learned Fram Husband
Mrs. Dewey related that she had
been saved from any undue feel
ing of “being good” by the attitude
of her family maid who has been
with her for twenty-one years.
“Mary”, she said, “informed me
when I told her that I had pub
lished a book just like Mr. Dewey,
that he had ‘larned’ me all X
knew."”
Mrs. Dewey was perhaps the
most surprised wflgx;‘in Athens
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ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1952.
New York after his arrest in a Manhattan
rooming house. At left is Detective Victor
Shanley and third from left is Detective
George Walsh. Monaghan holds two of 19
pairs of handcuffs found in Kling's room.
— (AP Wirephoto.)
.
13 Red Ships Are
i y
Taken In Fight
By MILO FARNETI
SEQUL, Korea, Feb. 22—(AP).
South Korean marines beat off a
Communist amphibious invasion
of an Allied-held island off the
northeast coast of Korea in a 33 |
hour battle, the Allies announced '
today. ‘
The Korean Army said its ma
rines sank 13 of the 20 invasionJ
boats. |
Seventy invaders were reported |
killed and six captured. Prisoners
included the commander of the
amphibious attack.
Nine South KXorean marines
were killed and six wounded, thel
Navy said. .
The assault was made by a Re:u
battalion—about 800 or 1,000 men.
It was not indicated whether they
were Chinese or North Koreans.
The battle began about 1 a. m.
Monday and lasted until 10 a. m.
Thursday when the last of the
attackers fled back to the Red
I mainland in their remaining boats.
The assault was directed against
Yang Island, about 18 air miles
from the Communist east coast
port of Songjin.
Yang is believed to be the;
northernmost island held by the{
Allies. It lies midway between |
the 40th and 41st parallel and
serves as a lookout post off the
Red coast. The island presuma
bly is one that the Allies would
give back to the Communists if
an armistice is signed,
Republic of Korea (ROK) Ma
rines have occupied the isla\ndl
since last summer. |
Captured Equipment ]
Capt. Choi Chung Song, com- |
mander of the ROK garrison on
Yang, said captured equipment in
cluded three rocket guns, a wire~
less, 75 Russian-made submachine
guns, light machine guns and
rifles.
Planes from the U. S. Carrier
Essex swept into the Songjin area
Thursday smashing every Red
boat in sight., The Navy said
American airmen sank one Red'
supply boat and 25 sampans. An
| other 25 sampans were damaged. |
| On the opposite coast the heavy
! eruiser Rochester plowed through
ice strewn waters of the Yellow
Sea and bombarded a communi
cations center between Pyong
’ yang, the Red Xorean capital, and
its port ecity, Chinnampo. Her
I eight inch guns blew up 12 build
| ings and set off two explosions in
| Red supply dumps. i
The battleship Wisconsin turned
‘ her guns on the eastern end of the
snow-swept 155 mile battleline.
' Heavies fighting in recent days
| has been in the valleys between,
j eastern mountains. Thursday
Allied troops called on helicopters
l to pull them out of a Red trap in
{ the east. North Kcreans who had
l pinned down the Allies, withdrew
over the snow covered ground un- !
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Showers tonight and Satur
day. Warmer tonight, cool Sat
day. Low tonight 48, high Satur
day 54. Sun sets today at 6:22 p.
m. and rises Saturday at 7:11
a. m.
GEORGIA—CIoudy with little
change in temperature this aft
ernoon, tonight and Saturday,
except warmer tonight, occas
fonal rain tonight and Saturday,
beginning in west peortion this
afternoon. .
EXTENDED FORECAST
Extended forecast for period
ending 7:30 p. m., Wednesday,
February 27:
GEORGIA == Temperatures
will average two to five degrees
below normal, mild Saturday,
cooler Sunday or Monday and
warmer by Wednesday. Precipi
tation averaging about three
fourths inch with rain Saturday
and Sunday and again about
‘Wednesday.' ;
N l Olf. i I
To Study Campus
A T ini S.i
Through the efforts of Congress
man Paul Brown, the Defense De
partment will survey the Coordi
nate College campus of the Uni
versity of Georgia to determine if
this property can be utilized in the
defense program. Representatives
of the Navy will soon visit the
property and will confer with Uni
versity officials in accordance with
Congressman Brown's request, it
was announced through the Cham
ber of Commerce this morrming.
For several months University
officials have had the matter of
government utilization of the Co
ordinate College property before
various departments of the govern
ment, Congressman Brown has
been steadily pressing, on behalf
of Athens and the University, to
have the campus and buildings at
the Corrdinate College put to their
fullest use.
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College Singers
Present Concert
A sacred concert by the well
known - Milledgeville College A
Cappella Choir will be presented
’here Sunday, February 24, at 4
p. m., in the First Baptist Church.
The choir, which is composed of
students of the Georgia State Col
lege for Women and the Georgia
Military College, sings without
! accompaniment of any kind, pre-
I senting an interesting blending of
! voices. Long intensive hours of
| practice under Director Max Noah
jare evidenced in their smooth
y vocal line, wide range of dynam
{ics, and unity of interpretation.
‘Members of the group are not
professional musicians, but are
| drawn from all departments of the
{two colleges, and participate in
musical activities “just for the
fimn.of it ’
| Much of the “fun” comes on
|the choir’s concert tours. Besides
i giving concerts throughout its
thome state, the choir annually
{makes an out-of-state tour to
Miami, Chicago, New Orleans, or
]New York. This year their long
ttour will take them to Chicago,
singing enroute in Kentucky, Ten-
I nessee, Ohio, and other cities of
;lllinois. b
: ‘The public is invited to attend.
§ ARNALL SWORN IN
| ATLANTA, Feb. 22 — (AP) —
Chubby, energetic Ellis Arnall
was sworn in yesterday as the na
tion’s price boss.
The 44-year-old former Geor
gia governor promised a ‘‘brass
iknucks" fight on inflation when
lhe took the oath as head of the
. Oftice 0f Price Stabilization.
US Agrees On French Loan
Of 570 Million For Arms
Both Sides Vet
Port Suagesti
By WILLIAM JORDEN
MUNSAN, Korea, Feb. 22 —
(AP) — Allied and Communist
truce negotiators offered each
lother compromise package deals
" on troop rotation and ports of en
i try today.
~ Each side said “no!"”
| But their differences were nar
rowed to only one port of entry
and 5,000 men in the monthly ro
tation ceiling. Originally the dif
ference was nine ports of entry
and 70,000 men.
Once again the U. N. rejected
]the Reds’ nomination of Soviet
‘Russia as a member of the neutral
| inspection commission.
Repercussions of the Commu
nist-led riot which left 69 Ko~
reans dead and 142 wounded in an
Allied compound for civilian pris
oners were expected in the truce
talks on prisoner exchange.
| Observers said Red delegates
i probably would try to use the
! Joje Island incident as a lever to
get their own way in the delicate
negotiations for exchanging pris
oners and displaced civilians.
‘ Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief
t Allied negotiator, refused to spe
| culate on what propaganda use the
Reds may make of the bloody riot.
’ Slow Progress
| Staff officers have been making
slow but steady progress on a
'prisoner exchange plan, but are
| deadlocked on the key issue of
voluntary repatriation,
The Communists have insisted
that all prisoners in Allied hands
be repatriated regardless of their
wishes and have protested U. N.
reclassification of about 37,500 as
South Koreans.
The U. 8. Eighth Army iadicat
ed the segregation of reclassified
prisoners in a Keje compound was
responsible for the riot.
Communist staff officers Friday
offered to permit inspection at
! five rather than four ports of en
try on each sgide if the Allies
would cut the monthly rotation
ceiling to 30,000 men.
The Allies countered with an
offer to open six rather than seven
ports of entry to inspection if the
Reds would permit rotation of
135,000 men a month.
| Observers said the gap on both
issues has been narrowed to a
| point where eventual agreement
{ appears certain. Originally the
| U. N. asked for 12 ports of entry
on each side and a rotation ceil
ing of 75,000 men a month. The
i Reds offered three ports of entiy
[and rotation of 5,000 men.
DeMolays Hold
Dance Tonight
Members of the Frank Harde
man Chapter, Order of DeMolay,
will entertain their dates and
guests tonight at an informal
dance at “Dad” Bridges’ Cabin on
the Tallassee Road from the hours
of 7:30-10:30. Light refreshments
will be served during the course
of the evening and round as well
as square dancing will be enjoyed.
The announcement of the party
is made by Master Councilor Don-~
ald Branyon, jr. through his social
committee, DeMolay is an organi
zation for character building and
is sponsored locally by Masonry.
Chapter advisors include D.
Weaver “Dad” Bridges, who in
augurated the Chapter over 21
years ago and has served as Chap
ter “Dad” ever since, C. O. “Fat”
Baker, and Jimmy Lay.
Chapter officers and advisors
urge a good attendance at the par
ty and remind members that the
social tonight is “on the Chapter”
with no individual payments.
Dress will be informal.
ID’s Annual Dinner Is
Slated At Country Club
The Athens Touchdown Club’s
sixth annual dinner meeting here
tonight at 6 at the Country Club
will be featured by an address by
University of Maryland head foot=-
ball coach and athletic director,
Jim Tatum. Over 300 members
and guests are expected to attend
the meeting, according to W. O.
McDowell, Touchdown Club presi
dent.
Other highlights of the occasion
will be the presentation of the W.
K. Jenkins trophies to the most
valuable Georgia Bulldog lineman
and back of the vear. Bulldog cap
tains Marion Campbell, tackle, and
Claude Hipps, back, are the recip
ients of this year’s awards, which
are given by the Georgia Theater
Company.
Top Athletes
Another feature of the program
will be the announcement of the
first three Georgia athletes to be
elected to the Palace Theater
gponsored University of Georgia
Hall of Fame. The selectors com
mittee for the Hall of Fame are
Dan Hill, Athens representative of
‘the Savannah Theatre Company;
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
NATO Council Gives Blessings Teo
German Divisions In Europe Army
- LISBON, Portugal, Feb. 22.— (AP)—The United States
agreed in principle today to give France an additional 570-
million dollars in aid to help fulfill her rearmament p re
gram. In French money this is 200-billion franecs.
The figure is not final but is the one tentatively agreed
upon, said an authoritative American source. ok
He disclosed the decision just
before the full North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO)
Council met to give its blessings to
the European army plan to bring
12 German divisions into a unified
force,
France, in turn, will raise an
additional sum estimated at 100
billion francs to close the gap be
tween what her rearmament plans
will cost and what her inflation
stricken economy can afford.
A spokesman said most of the
new U. S, assistance will be in the
form of procurement contracts
outside the United States, arms,
contributions to the infrastructure
(supporting netwerk of air bases
and communications) and similar
|measures.
It will not be in the form of
direct dollar aid because that
would require special Congres
sional authorization.
French Premier Edgar Faure
put in the request for additional
aid in a conference with U. S.
Secretary of the Treasury John W.
Snyder yesterday.
Discuss Request
U. 8. Secretary of State Dean
Acheson called in his senior ad
visors this morning to dis:uss the
French request.
Faure told Snyder that if France
met the arms targets set for her
by W. Averell Harriman's eco
nomic committee, she must spend
1,450 billion francs ($4,100,000,-
000). He felt the French -could
raise only 1,190 billion francs
($3,400,000,000). Gt
Informed sources said France
must dig in and find another 200
billion francs to close the gap
caused by the rising prices in her
economy. i i e
French sources said inflation
has cost the proposed European
army the equivalent of four div
isions. Originally the French
pledged 14 divisions to the one
uniform 'six-nation force. P
At present French prices which
would have paid for 14 divisions
last year will pay for only 10 to
day. But the French said they
would undertake to contribute 12
divisions anyway to make up half
the divisional loss caused by in
flation.
. The divisional loss may not be
reflected in actual manpower loss,
the French said.
“Beef Up” Strength
By “beefing up” the strength of
each division, money can be saved
since fewer headquarters and
staffs would be needed.
Meanwhile, finance and defense
ministers made “substantial pro
gress” in splitting up among the
Allies the estimated 450 million
dollars cost of building the infra
structure—air bases, communica=
tion lines, depots and headgquar-
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EDITION
ters-—across Western Europe. . gy
In announcing that progress, f
NATO spokesman said one repre
‘sentative from each of the 10
countriesinvolved will meet later
today to sort out the difficult
problem.
The United States is expeected to
end up with batween 30 and 40
percent of the check. :
The formality of adopting the
proposed European army—an es
timated 2,000,000-man force of
Germans, French, Dutch, Belgians,
Italians and Luxembourgers—
would come about 5 p, m. (noon,
EST), Council sources said.
W. H. Belk Dies
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CHARLOTTEE, N. C,, Feb. 22—
(AP)— William Henry Belk, head
of the Belk Brothers De_fllarm
store chain, died here ursday.
He was 89,
The Belk Brothers firm operates
some 300 stores in a dozen south
ern states, including Georgia.
A native of Lancaster, S. C.,
Belk launched his merchandising
career at Monroe, N. C, Ilater
opening a store at Charlotte which
eventually became headquarters
for the firm.
STORE IS CLOSED
The Gallant-Belk Store here
was closed today and will hermain
closed Saturday, F. E. McHugh,
manager, announced today due to
the death of W, H. Belk, sr., in
Charlotte, N. C., Thursday,
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Couch Resians;
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Goes To Augusfa
Randall Couch, city editor eof
the Banner-Herald has resigned
to take a position on the editorial
staff of The Augusta Chronicle.
A graduate of the University of
Georgia, Mr. Couch had been with
the Banner-Herald for a number
of years, with the exception of the
time he spent in the armed forces
in this country and in Europe. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. D.
Couch of this city.
Succeeding Mr. Couch is Miss
Virginia Woodall, also of Athens
and the daughter of Mr. and Mys.
Paul Woodall. Miss Woodall is a
graduate of the University of
Alabama Journalism School and
was on the news staff of the Ban~
ner-Herald for some time before
going to the Gainesville Daily
Times, where she was city editor.
Miss Woodall left Gainesville to
take up graduate work at the
Henry W. Grady School of Jeur
nalism. During that time, she o~
peared in a number of the Uni
versity Theatre® productions. Re
cently, she has been associated
with theatrical stock groups and
was member of a troup touring a
musical production through the
scuthwest.
ROYALTY VISITS STATE
BRUNSWICK, Ga., Feb. 22 —
(AP)—Sea Island is brushing up
on pretocol for a visit by Queen
Juliana of The Netherrancs.
The queen and her husband,
Prince Bernhard will arrive April
10. The royal party and guides, 15
in all, will stay at the Cloister
Hotel Beach Cottage where Viee-
President Alben Barkley had an
SBO a day suite during his honey
moon,
Queen Juliana will visit in the
United States and Canada for two
weeks.
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LIZ WEDS
Elizabeth Taylor, 19-year-old
Hollywood star, and Bwitish
actor Michael Wilding, 39, smil®
at crowds after wedding in drab
registry office in Londem. It
was the second marriage for
both.— (NEA Telephoto.) .