No. 3
nual gift from Mrs. Herman
Childersi to share with her
friends.
Meanwhile, in Miss Kinne
brew's dining room, decorated
in pink and white and filled
with roses, the gifts of many
friends to Mrs. Crawford, was
the big birthday cake for the
honoree ? an old fashioned
pound cake, covered with 91
candles. # ft
Mrs. Crawford, just to prove
that the years have not short
ened her breath, blew out all
91 candles, with a single puff.
Earlier this summer, as queen
of the Franklin Centennial ball,
she not only attended, but
-danced.
Mrs. Crawford, the former
Miss Carrie Sloan, was show
ered with gifts, not only from
those present, but from friends
far and near. And all through
last week and on into this one,
every mail brought birthday
cards.
No. 4
and a course on "Adult Work
in the Church School" will be
taught by George Rudislll, of
Salisbury, the director of adult
work in this conference.
The courses will offer helps
for each department of the
Church School, Mr. Moss point
ed out, adding that Franklin
Methodists are looking forward
to being hosts to their Metho
dist neighbors from throughout
the county. 0
The Conference Board of Ed
ucation and the participating
churches will be the sponsors
of the school.
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Byrd Campbell. He had spent
his entire life in this county.
Survivors include his widow, |
the former Miss Nattie Mae
Gibson, whom he married Oc
tober 11. 1907; a sister, Mrs.
Annie Campbell Wilkes, of
Franklin; a niece, Mrs. Wendell
Keener, of Franklin, Route 3;
and two nephews, Tom Wilkes,
of Los Angeles, Calif., and
Chester Wilkes, of Hawkinsville,
Ga.
No. 6 '
ice Guilds in this and five ]
other counties will attend an
all-day coaching conference
and officers training school
Sunday at Nantahala Lodge,
near Bryson City. Among the
speakers will be two from this
county, Miss Laura M Jones,
president of the Woman's So
ciety of Christian Service in
this district, and Mrs. Florence
S. Sherrill.
A little less than nine million
bales of cotton is expected to be
used by U. S. mills this year.
Last year 8.6 million bales were
consumed.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our deep
est appreciation for the beauti
ful flowers and the kindness
shown us during the illness and
at the death of our loving hus
band and father.
.Mrs. Glow B. Reynolds
and Children.
Fran kli II
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
"THE OUTLAY
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Also
"SINGIN' IN THE
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SUN.-MON., SEPT. 25-26
"YOUNG BESS"
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Continued From Editorial Page
1 similar courses far their own
services.
The brainwashers of Lem
mons Valley could not (and
would not) duplicate the tor
tures of Communist captivity,
but their methods are adapted
from reports of Korean prison
ers and could hardly be more
realistic. Even the lectures are
not for restless stomachs. Sam
ple advice for life after cap
ture: Maggots contain valuable
proteins and should not be re
moved from food; rats should
be eaten ("the meat is as good
as you'll get") but their heads
contain poison and must be dis
carded; dysentery can be treat
ed by burning a bone (includ
ing one from a human corpse i
and consuming the ashes for
their calcium content.
No Questions
Nobody questions the instruc
tors' recommendations. Nearly
all are former PW's. None hand
out advice they haven't person
ally tried. Some of the advice
cannot be disclosed, but an in
telligence officer summarizes:
"First we teach them not to
talk. Then we teach them how
to talk in the event they are
tortured into it."
Then, for ten days, students
are let loose 7,000 feet up in
the Sierra Nevadas to practice
survival on two and one half
days' rations. Chipmunks and
porcupines, caught with snares,
are standard dishes and men
have argued over possession of
a snake. An officer with a gash
in the arm is offered needle
and thread and the choice of
sewing himself up or letting a
medic do it without anesthetic.
Toward the end of the "trek,"
bone-weary airmen are ordered
to evade well-fed "aggressor"
forces.
Few make it. Those who don't
are "captured" and tied togeth
er for a barefooted run-and
walk "death march" into the
stockade. There, they break
rocks, sleep on the ground with
out blankets (night tempera
tures drop to near-freezing
even in summer l and subsist
on "bloody mary" : Coffee with
uncooked spinach and raw
spaghetti, reddened with beets
and served lukewarm. "It's
awful stuff," says a training of
ficer.
All this is a mere curtain
CARD OF THANKS
We would like to express our
thanks for the many acts of
kindness shown during the ill
ness and at the death of our
son and brother, Glover B.
Reynolds. Also for the lovely
floral offerings.
Mrs. Allie McCarty
and Daughters.
WACOM
THEATRE ll
FRANKLIN. N. C.
Phone 131
Matinees on Tues., Thur. have |
been discontinued.
SCHEDULE OF SHOWS
I Week Days ? 7 and 9 p. m.|
Saturdays ? 1 p. m.
continuous.
Sunday ? 2:30 and 9 p. m.
THURS.-FRI., SEPT. 22-23
GREGORY PECK
IN
'PURPLE PLAIN"
I SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
double! FEATURE
"ROAD TO
DENVER"
And
WALT DISNEY'S
"STORMY"
SUN.-.MON., SEPT. 25-26
"BAD DAY AT
BLACK ROCK"
Starring
Spencer Tracy-Robert Ryan
In
CinimaScope and Color
TUE.-WED., SEPT. 27-28
Ginger Rogers
Edward G. Robinson
Brian Keith
In
"TIGHT SPOT"
raiser for the 36-hour tnterro- i
gation phase when interroga
tors employ the little hand
crank generator that adminis
ters harmless (but often fright
ening) shocks; "the hole," 10
feet underground where men i
spend hours In darkness, shoul- 1
der-deep In water; the tight
"coffin," which imprisons
trainees flat on its gravel bot
tom; and the steel "sweat box" ,
where there Is ample time to
decide what is worst ? the pain (
that comes with crouching al
most motionless in a space too
small to sit, lie, or stand, or
the heat, or the ear-ringing
produced by guards pounding :
the box with rifle butts.
Trainees Exhausted
Often these devices are sup
erfluous. On orders from In
terrogators, trainees exhaust
themselves with exercise ("I'm
sorry I lost count," the ques
tioner says after asking for 50
pushups, "would you start
over?") or, they collapse after
kneeling on a hroomstlck with
their outstretched arms hold
ing up large rocks. The broom
stick treatment looks innocent,
but a strapping B-47 bombar
dier who experienced it a few
days ago says: "I'd have ap
preciated it if they had knock
ed me out. It \ would have felt
good."
Each man is tackled where ]
he is most vulnerable. Officers
who ask for water get it thrown
in the face. Meek "prisoners"
are bounced against the wall
by the brawniest interrogator,
a 240- pounder with a Prussian
haircut and face scar. Men who
are shy about undressing may
not keep their shorts on. In
terrogators munch sandwiches
in front of the hungriest
trainees. Anyone asking to go
to the latrine is sure to be
questioned longer than sched
uled. And when two majors,
close friend*, were questioned
together, the stronger man,
after watching his partner per
form knee-bends until he drop
ped, was told: "OK, either you
talk or we'll make him do this
forever."
After a while, the stronger
man became the weaker one.
He talked.
To break resistance, interro
gators try almost anything to :
make men angry. Lies and in
sults about a captive's person
ality, race, national origin, and
religion are routine starters.
(Catholics have it extra rough
at the hands of an interrogator
who Is himself a devout Cath
olic.) When a trainee's wallet
yields a picture of an attrac
tive wife or girl friend, her
looks take a vicious verbal
beating, a major who let slip
that he only had an eighth
grade education, and a lieuten
ant whose membership card in
Alcoholics Anonymous laid him
open to ridicule about his
weakness for alcohol, were
hammered until they talked
just to end their humiliation.
A bachelor lieutenant, badgered
until he became convinced he
could not find a girl because
his face had been deformed in
a childhood accident, finally j
broke up In tears.
Some Blow Up
Some men blow up violently. !
A Negro Interrogator, finding
a photo of a Southern captain's
wife, harangued him about her
until the prisoner floored him.
Later, during the critique when
each trainee's interrogator and
a psychologist brief their vic
tim on his errors and most
dangerous weaknesses, men like
the Southern captain were
warned that in real captivity
such explosions invite reprisals
and may leave them off guard.
By then, trainees are so wary
that some still refuse coopera
tion ("I ain't talking till I get
off this base"i. And they have
learned to be wary of kindness.
One Interrogator, after offer
ing a B-57 navigator a ciga
rette, worked like this:
Q: Anything I can do for
you? How are you feeling?
A: Well, pretty good except
my leg bothers me.
Q. Your leg? What seems to
be wrong with It?
A: I scratched it pretty badly
on a barbed-wire fence and It
seems to have become Infected
(pulls up trouser leg*.
Q: Mm, that's bad. We'd bet
ter have the doctor look at it
right away (calls doctor and
talks to him). Do you think the
wire was rusty or did you get
in some dirt?
A: No, It must have been the
wire. We were running In the
dark and hit this fence before
we knew It.
Q: Was it last night that you
were separated from your
friends?
A: (Realizing his mistake) I
was alone.
Q: (Shouting) Don't lie to
me . . .
A fist flew on the desk. Three
spotlights whipped into the
prisoner's face. The ordeal was
on.
Why do men "break," know
ing they won't be harmed? A
few, softened by fatigue and
hunger, simply can't take it
and are washed out of their I
crews when they return to
home base. Most just aren't j
sufficiently steeled against the I
tricks of interrogation. "I
didn't realize I was saying any
thing before I'd already said
It," explains an F-84 pilot, a
veteran of 100 Korean missions.
"It just came out."
Plays Dumb
The best students are those
who out-wit their captors. A
lieutenant who was let off
lightly because he convinced I
interrogators that he was too
stupid to answer questions that
! were fired at him, turned out
to be a University of Chicago
Ph.D. with a flair far acting.
"That man had learned an im
portant point," says one of his
instructors. "He recognized that
his Interrogator was human.
He'll succeed before any Inter
rogator."
Another officer held his
breath, turned purple, and so
successfully enacted an epilep
tic attack that the terrified
guards scampered off for a
doctor, allowing a truckload pf
prisoners to get away. At least
one man pulled a hidden knife
on a Jeep driver and escaped.
Another jumped barefoot off a
moving truck. Taking such
chances is encouraged: Whoever
gets away need not undergo
interrogation.
Why win men submit to the
trials of Lemmons Valley?
Training officers point out that
crewmen of today's jets are
well-educated volunteers, most
of them war-hardened, who
realize that armed conflict has
lost Its last touches of hum
anity; that survival In enemy
territory can become a Ufe-and
death problem for them at any
time; and that there can be
no soft way to prepare against
the hard facts of captivity.
Obviously, the terrors of an
enemy stockade cannot be re
created in the minds of men
who know that they are in the
hands of fellow countrymen
and that their troubles will
cease within hours. Most stu
dents are convinced, however,
that the training would bolster
their resistance to Communist
questioning by giving them a
taste of what they would face
("When you know what to ex
pect. you're better prepared")
and by screening out any poor
risks among them.
No trainees have formally
complained of harsh treatment.
"They take It because they real
ize It's as Important to them
as their life Insurance," says
Col. Burton E. McKenzie, the
base commander who was a
PW In Germany In the second
world war.
Last week the brainwashing
business boomed In Lemmons
Valley. A $4.1 million construc
tion program was in full swing.
By next year, the size of classes
will be up from 500 to 1,000 stu
dents 'monthly. Eventually, the
Air Force hopes to send every
combat crewman to Stead Base
every three years. Will it get
tougher? Some Instructors hope
so.
"Sure this training looks
tough, but in reality those guys
' are fat-cattlng it," scoffed one,
a mustached captain from Ida
ho. He should know. Not so
long ago the Reds In Korea
hung him from a wall by his
elbows for two days.
News Making
? By BOB SLOAN
Continued From Editorial Page
local boards decide an issue or
1 favoring the matter was before
they rendered any decisions.
However there is, it seems to
me, among some of our state
officials the reeling that it Is
ail right to let local boards de
cide the issue as long as they
are in favor of segregation.
Since Governor Hodges has
seen fit to use his prestige and
I influence In the matter, he
should certainly do all In his
power to uphold the opinions
of local boards whether they
agree with his own personal
i beliefs or not. Anything less is
partiality and verges on hypo
crisy.
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