June 26, 1956

Staff

Published Sunday, June 27, 2004

Stories featured in the Suffolk News-Herald on this date 48 years ago:

Soviet control less, Dulles says

WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Dulles said today he believes Moscow's control over Communist parties outside Russia has greatly weakened since the downgrading of Stalin.

Dulles told a news conference that there is grave dissatisfaction among party leadership outside Russia, and also within the Soviet Communist party, with the Khrushchev Bulganin regime.

The Soviet leadership, Dulles asserted, has been put into an almost impossible dilemma.

As he defined it, the failure of the international communism to expand control over new countries in recent years made it impossible to justify strong-arm methods of leadership.

Yet the declining use of such methods, he said, has created demands for freedom among Communists in and out of Russia.

Suffolk Democrats select delegates

Ten delegates to the state Democratic convention in Richmond were chosen last night at a Democratic Party meeting at City Hall.

Selected were Theodore H. Myrick, Harry P. Taylor, E.C. Ferguson Jr., Willis E. Cohoon, Mrs. Louise Elmore, Thomas Odom, Jimmie Darden, Doug Barker, T.L. Elmore and W.J. Bailey.

Whaleyville personals

Mrs. Raymond Mitchell and children, Layne, Gay, and Billy, and George Dougherty are spending the week in Nags Head, N.C.

They are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Dougherty.

Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Horton and children, Del Cross and Bert, and Mrs. Sybil Bowen are spending the week at Nags Head, N.C.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thompson and Mrs. W.W. Konnegay of Portsmouth were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Walters Sunday.

Mrs. Sallie Cross is spending the week with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Carlyn Askew, at their home in Aleasleie, N.C.

Miss Ann Moore is visiting relatives in Richmond.

Mrs. Allen Faircloth and daughter Hope of Suffolk visited Mr. and Mrs. M.S. Ward on Sunday night.

Net players in Richmond tourney

The bulk of Suffolk entries in the annual Byrd Park tennis tournament left early this morning for matches which open today in the capital city.

Nine youngsters, shepherded by Bobby Spivey, a former Suffolk High School net star, formed the championship honors in two boys and girls' divisions.

In Richmond today, representing the boys, were Ronnie Luke, Eddie Neal, Mark Schnitzer, Jeff Bertstein, Bobby Draper, Billy Babb, Jackie Bartley, Buzz Hofler and Blair Harry

The girls don't start play until tomorrow. Making up the locals are Barbara Brantley, Betty Ann Allsbrook, Jackie Kiser, Sandra LoCasico, and Katherine Baird.

Three Holland boys win FFA honors

Three members of the Holland High School Future Farmers of America were among those elected to receive state farmer degrees at the annual FFA convention in Blacksburg on Monday.

The awards for outstanding accomplishments in vocational agriculture are to be presented to Mills Arnold March, Cecil Worrell and Clifton Louis Duke. Each has completed three years of vocational agriculture and are now carrying out their fourth-year projects. All three young men intend to make farming their life's work.

- Compiled by Allison T. Williams

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