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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-10-09
WdffOdt NeWs
Rev. Lee King Accepts Church Call
OF Union-Pi edmont Baptist Field

Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Lawrence
and Linda spent Sunday in Rich
mond visiting relatives and
friends,
Several ladies from the Mattoax
Presbyterian Church attended the
district conference of the women
of the church, whic hwas held in
Blackstone. last Wednesday. They
also attended open house at the
manse at Amelia, Sunday. to meet
the new student pastors and
training school students
The Rev. Lawson Pankey. Sun
day school superintendent Of the
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-10-09

Mr.. and Mrs Benjamin Rucker
and their three chill dre
have returned to their home in
Arlington. after spending a month
in the home OF Mr.. Fuckers par
ents, Dr.. and Mrs, H. c. Rucker.
Leigh and Johnny Deeds have
returned to their home in Durham
N c.. after spending a few days
in the home of the Misses Esther
and Alma Wilmington.
Miss Evelyn BoWlin has return
ed to Longwood College, after
spending the summer at home.
William House Is again at VPI.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-10-09

Mr.. Nolan is in the hospital.
a. Nj. Dodson Is a patient at
Grace Hospital in Richmond.
Mr.. and Mrs Dewey Joyce,
visited Mr. Joyces father in Stuart
Circle Hospital. Richmond. Tues
day
Mr.. and Mrs John Beasley and
Bruce, spent Saturday night with
MI and Mrs Thomas BeG5ley.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. c. Beasley and
Mrs Nolan visited Mr.. Nolan, on
Sunday.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-10-09

Missionary society met in fro
nome OF Mrs, H. A Ravens, Fri
oay night, and plans were made
ior a tea to be given by the So
clety, Oct. IS.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Francis visit
ed their daughter and son-in-law
Mr.. and Mrs. B. C. Christian in
Richmond over the week end.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-10-09
Green Bay

r. T. Redd entered the South
side Community Hospital, Monday
for checkup.
Mr.. and Mrs Gordon MILESTONE
and Dale were week end visitors
In the home of w. B. Cheatham.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-10-09
(,Illlla

w H Nolan is a patient at ST,
Elizabeths Hospital Richmond
Mrs j w, Simpson and Frank
lin are guests Of Mrs Nolan while
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-10-09

Charter No. 1858 Reserve District NJ <
REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Or IARMviLlE IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, AT THE
CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON SEPTEMBER 3d. 1853 PUB
llSHED IN RESPONSE TO CALL MADE BY coMPTRoI-
IER OF THE CURRENCY, UNDER SECTION 5211, u S
REVISED STATUTES
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-10-09

Reserve District No. 5
State No. 80
REPORT OF CONDITION OF PLANTERS BANK AND TRUST
COMPANY OF FARMvlLLE OF FARMyiLLE. PRINCE
EDWARD COUNTY. VIRGINIA At THE CLOSE OF
BUSINESS SEPTEMBER 30. 1853. A STATE BANKING
INSTITUTION ORGANIZED AND OPERATING UNDER
THE BANKING LAWS OF THIS STATE AND A MEMBER
OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. PUBLISHED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH A CALL MADE BY THE STATE
BANKING AUTHORITIES AND BY THE FEDERAL RE
SERVE BANK OF THIS DISTRICT.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-10-09

ASSETS
Cash, banks. including
Of collection
United States Government obligations direct and
anteed 1907 sol 81
Other bonds notes and debentures IA s2l 88
Corporate dncluding $4,000 stock of Federal
discounts lncludng 1891 ovedrafts)
Bank premises owned sl3,7ools furniture and fixtures
sl5so2 20 % COZ a
TOTAL ASSETS 1000 1913 IS
LIABILITIES
Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships and cor
poraions 13lo14337
Time deposits Of individuals. partnerships and
porations 1387s4547
Deposits dncludng postal
savings -. 2s5e84
Deposits political subdivisions 53734
Other certified and officers checks
TOTAL DEPOSITS .-~.,~"..~.."......~ $2756 1929
Other liabilities 1888
TOTAL LIABILITIES mot including subordinated
obligations 276454582
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
Capital 100000
Surplus
Undivided profits 65.69243
TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS . 235 6e2 %
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 5000 25
This capital
Common stock with total par value of 100000
MEMORANDA
other
l. j. c Bondurant. Cashier hereby
certify that
&c. BoNDURANT, Cashier
j..
w.
STATE OF VIRGINIA. COUNTY OF PRINCE EDWARD SIS:
Sworn subscribed before this
LOIS z. COOK. Notary Public
My commission expires January H. 1856
IN P. SEAL
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-10-09
THE CATHOLIC TTAfESs
Friday, Oct 2, 1853

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Milford chronicle., 1953-08-28

perience to college professors.
have been told that guards had
instructions to bar summer Job
hunters from many plants.
/ know that in recent years, with
higher costs, mounting taxes, and
union contracts, many company
wOrk-schedules have been arranged
to eliminate summer jobs. Perhaps
the plant shuts down completely for
the vacation period so that no fill
ins are required. Or maybe the
union contract cOmpels manage
ment to fill vacancies from the pool
of unemployed union workers be-
fore it can go outside to hire other
workers. These are facts we have
to face, but feel that the company
who doesn't hire a few carefully
screened young people for summer
work is both shirking a patriotic
responsibility and short-changing
itself. Any company intent upon full
filling this obligation will find a
way-summer work-schedules and
unions Notwithstanding.
Chance To Hire Proven Workers
Actually the summer employment
of young people can work very
much to the advantage of small
businesses that seem most hesitant
about summer hiring. Summer en-
ployment can give management the
chance to size up the young person,
to see the kind of character stuff
Ae has, how we'll he works, and how
he gets on with fellow workers. In
these days when it is so difficult to
fire, it is good to know what kind
of worker you're hiring.
If a worker has what it takes,
then the boss has a direct line to a
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-28
IN THE AR FORCE"
3518 Mayo
Topeka, Kansas
Anpnef 26- 1QE2
81 EIoIno ToMnsend Dlekerson

3518 Mayo
Topeka, Kansas
August 25, 1858
Dear Friends:
All last night / dreamed &C, D,
r, E, D, G, G, d." Then the theme
would change and I'd dream, &C,
B, A, G, B, A, A, c.. Know what I
was dreamin'? was playing the
piano all night long. Some times
I'd vary it little and sing, Here.
we go, up the row, To the BIRTH
day, party" Maybe you can guess
what I'm talking about. Lynne be-
gan her first piano lesson yester-
day. Her teacher, Mrs. VOiland,
said not to make her practice
more than fifteen minutes at
time and a half hour a day would
be plenty. MAKE HER PRAC-
TICE said. Glory be! We
couldn't stop her. Hayes and 1
did relays all day yesterday stand
ing by the piano. She was really
impressed and Obsessed with play
ing the piano. / had that tune
drummed in my head so we'll all
day yesterday that the characters
in my dream were dancing ballet
to it! Hayes says such unusual in
teTest and vibrancy over practice
time will soon lessen. / hope so,
cause 1 can't get anything done
for Standing guard" over the key
board.
Talking about the children
Sunday we went out to Shawnee
Lake, after Sunday School, to take
them boat riding and while we were
waiting for a boat and motor we
began to talk to a couple that was
also waiting for a ride. Bill and
Ginger LOwman we had previous
ly met and found lots to talk
about since they both are from
Annapolis, Maryland. Ginger asked
me if our car had a Rehoboth
Beach, Delaware, sticker on the
bumper and / looked rather sur
prised and said, "NO". And the
boy on the pier with us was from
the Eastern Shore, too; wasn't
that odd? He is from Seaford and
his parents name is Curfman. Re-
Gently this boy and his Kansas
bride spent their leave in Della
ware and acquired the sticker
while they were at the beach one
day. So you see, we don't feel 50
far from home here in Topeka,
meeting all these friends from the
East Coast.
Speaking of Topeka, I have told
you very little about the town
since have been here. It is small
er than Wilmington, about 124,-
600 people. The stores down town
are not as up-to-date as our larg-
est city in Delaware but are quite
adequate. You can tell you're in
mid-western city by the dress of
the natives here. Most men wear
straw hats, of the dressy type, but
with a wider brim than our men
at home wear. Often the teen ager
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-28

wears Jeans, which would have
just been taboo in the rich metro
politan city of Houston, Texas.
Topeka is still a country town.
You know our last Thome town.
was the capitol of California and
again We are in a capitol city
The state capitol building here Is
right down town just like Sacra-
mento and is located on a twenty
acre square Of land, but the land
scaping doesn't compare to the
beautiful gardens surrounding the
capitol at Sacramento. Manv
would lay this to the draught here
in Kansas, but they don't have
rain in California all summer and
Sacramento, too, is extremely hot
in summer have heard.
One of the most famous founda-
tions here in Topeka is the Mem
ninger Medical Center. OF course
you know that there they specialized
IN psychiatric treatments, training
and research. If we're going to
"go off our rocker" this Is the
town to do it in. Another well
known hospital here is the Winter
General, which is a veterans hos.
pital and is recognized for tbel
outstanding job it does for veter-
ans AFFLICTED with nervous disord-
ers. ] believe the word is neuro
/ lpsychiatric.
Some time while we're here
want to go see the Santa Fe shops.
They build twenty freight cars
per day and do the repair work
for the entire Santa Fe system
] Right now we're getting excited
about the Kansas State Free Fair
september the twelfth il begins
and it is right here in our eitv
=; They are advertising It now ana
II sounds very much like the Kent
Sussex Fair-agricultural, live
stock, poultry, culinary, art. tex-
tile fabrics, stock judging. 4-Ha
Club work, amateur band congress
midway, fOllies and grandstand at
fractions are some of the features
We flew over Topeka the other
evening and could easily see why
I it is called the Getty of Elms6
1 I'm RSe- SN " many AdubdS LOWnS
it seems densely populated with
trees and it just looked like para
disc to us in June when we came
through here from the west after
travelling mile in 100 degree heat
travelling miles in 100 degree heat
Even though we are 1900 miles
from home, and in the midwest
our surroundings seem more ia
miliar to us than they did in tropi-
cal Florida, the massive State of
Texas, and in California, one hour
away from the Sierras. even
though each "home" was different
we've enjoyed each state and I
hope we will continue to like our
temporarily adopted homes. Until
the next issue.
Always,
e. T. ID.
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-28

tried and tested full-time employee
when he graduates from high school
or college. And if he does not pan
out during the summer it costs
much less than hiring him as
full-time worker later on. These
are the findings of companies that
are using summer employment as a
trial work period.
Father, Summer Jobs, And Taxes
Another distressing problem of
summer employment of minors is
the tax situation which penalties
father for his children's job success.
1t happens more often than you'd
suspect that father loses a tax ex-
emptiOn because son earns more
than the allowed $500 during the
year. For example, it would cost a
father with a $4,000 net income,
after exemptions, STA in taxes if
his son earns over the $500 exemp-
ton limit and the son would then
become taxpayer too.
1t strikes me there is something
morally and economically unsound
about a system that discourages the
industry Of youth, whether it be
policy of taxation, summer en-
ployment procedure, or clauses in
union contract. Part-time Jobs,
and especially summer jobs, today
are important influences in the
molding Of the leaders Of tomorrow.
Perhaps, too, if we hadbusier teen
Perhaps, too, If we had buster "teen-
age" problems. Businessmen ought
to begin now to make plans so that
in future summers our young people
will find valuable work experiences
available for them.
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-28
HATTERs TURN GREEN

LONDON II (P) = Hatters in
Great Britain are so desperate they
have been manufacturing green
bowlers. Colors are one answer to
the trend away from the use Of
hats by men. The hat men claim
they are selling lots OF the highly
colored hats. Colors also are found
in caps for wear at the beach and
on the golf course.
But even these sales have not
checked the trend away from the
use of hats, they admit sadly. A
spokesman for the British felt hat
manufacturers federation said
that 1852 was a year 'of catas-
trophe in the history Of the hating
industry"
Hatters admit they are lighting
an uphill battle. Even bad wea.
ther does not put hats on many az
their customers, they say.
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-28
PREPARING FOR PEACE

One OF these days, we all hope, something
resembling peace will come to the world and
it will be possible to make really big cuts in
our war spending. When that day arrives,
we can attain a true and sound prosperity
only if the gaps created by the reduction in
production and purchasing for war are fill
ed by production and purchasing for other
purposes.
In other words, the hope is for peace
accompanied by an economy geared to keep
ing supply and demand at reasonable level.
For more than year committee headed by
Professor Malcolm B. McNair, Lincoln Fl
lene Professor of Retailing at Harvard Uni
versity, has been working on a plan whose
principal objective is to develop recOmmen-
datiOns as to how retail distribution can
most effectively help in the necessary read
justments.
Before long, the plan will be completed.
1t deals with the relation of retailing to a
dynamic economy and it's contribution to
higher standard of living. Such matters
as improved operating methods and the es-
tabllShment of successful regional shipping
centers are being given expert attention. So
are government relations and foreign trade.
1t is natural that retailing should do this.
For it and when we make the vast transi-
ton from a war economy to a peace economy,
retallings role will be difficult to exapger-
ate. Retailing-large and small, chain and
INDEPENDENTS one Of our biggest employ
ers. Most of the family's income goes across
retail counters. Retailing is the bridge be-
tween farm and factory and the home of the
consumer. The success of it's selling efforts
largely decides whether times are good or
bad in this country.
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-28
BabSOn CritiCizeS Businessmen For Treatment
OF Teen-AgerS

Gloucester, Mass, August q. It's
shame that so many young people
have been deprived this past sum-
mer of the privilege of vacation
employment. About the only plenti-
full jobs this summer were in sales
Unfortunately, all young people do
not have aptitudes for selling.
Young people ask me how they can
learn to swim if no one will even
let them near the water. So what do
they do after a while? They lie
about the facts and present them
selves as full-time job seekers. On
that basis, they get jobs. Then there
is hard feeling when they leave
for school again after, Labor Day.
There seem to have been several
reasons why more students haven't
worked this summer (D not many
companies have hired young people
for summer work. (2) the tax
structure penalties father for let
ting son work; 60 union pools of
unemployed have been given pre-
ference over summer job seekers;
(4) the unreasonable labor laws of
some states.
Summer JObs-Business Obligation
Many businessmen complain that
our young people don't know how
to work. Often it is these same
businessmen who give the cold
shoulder to summer job seekers
eager to learn how to work. Re-
ports from employment agencies,
from college and high school place
ment Offices indicate that there were
fewer summer Jobs this year than
last. Incidentally, business also
failed to respond in the spring to
a project to give summer work ex-
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-28
Washington Letter - By Robert Nelson Tovlor

to eleven, and who, like the Nine
Little Indians, will become zero
as of September Is. But the ex-
ample could, and should, indicate
to other bureau chiefs what is ex-
pected.
And if the efforts of the Execu-
tive Department to take every
possible step" to cut spending this
year, as ordered by President Eisen-
hover, fall short of protecting us
against boosting the debt limit a.
bOVe 275 billions . we'd say Con-
gress had better come back. But the
President should call the extra ses-
sion, not to authorize a higher
limit but to do some more cutting
in these wider areas of Government
beyond Executive authority.
$50
New Rules Needed
After five months of trial and
thirty hours of deliberation, a jury
of nine women and three men in
Federal District Court in Pitts
burgh found Steve Nelson and four
other Communists guilty of con-
spring to teach and advocate the
overthrow of Government by force
and violence.
Nelson, former Western Pennsyl-
vania Communist Party Chairman,
and his pals, will of course seek
new trial, so that sentence will
probably be withheld until after the
motion is heard. But if it should be
denied, and if the judge should give
these potential mass-murderers the
limit . . they would have five
years to serve!
1t must be pretty discOuraging to
investigators and witnesses who
risk their lives, and the prosecutors
who toll relentlessly to convict such
dangerous criminals to realize that
an automobile thief could draw the
same penalty. BY any other name,
their crime is still treason. And the
historic price of treason is death.
&&H
Another FOeh9
AS Frances crippling general
strike entered its third week-ard
began spreading among private .n-
dustries-the Cabinet met and
supported their fighting Premier,
Joseph Laniel in his refusal to deal
with the strikers until they returned
to work. Within hours, Postal tele-
graph and telephone workers, who
are members of two nOn-cOmmunist
unions, began going back to their
jobs. 1t began to look as though the
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-28
RUsTLERs IN MALAYA

KOTA BAHRU, Malaga - (P) -
Gangs of rustlers are rounding up
cattle in lonely villages in North
Malaga and taking them across the
border into Thailand for sale to
dealers.
Despite close cooperation be-
tween Malayan and Thai police, it
has been difficult to detect stolen
cattle being driven across the shall
low Gelok River dividing the two
countries, according to ranorts.
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-28
A Red Is A Red Is A Red

AT the time the Korean prisoner
exchane, Operation Big Switch, was
first setup and it was announced
that Red Cross teams, both UN and
Communists, would be admitted to
the prison camps to bring what COM
fort they could to the prisoners of
their respective sides We won
dered. How could Communists i'm
plement Red Cross ideas and prin-
ciples, or, conversely, how could
Red Cross people be Communists? &?
The answer seems to be in. They
can't. They're Communists first,
and Red Cross workers as a prOpa-
ganda afterthOught. The United
Nations Command has protested
their activities and warned the
enemy Command that these people
must stick to their proper duties.
AS Operation Big Switch passed
the halfway mark, returnees con-
tinued to report atrocities, the
torture of airmen who refused to
confess to germ-warfare activity,
and to tell of others who were
sentenced on fake charges or
whisked out of sight only days be-
fore the exchange began. A South
Korean reported at least 5000 of
his fellow prisoners had been forced
into a North Korean army brigade
and would not be returned, and
other thousands were being held
at forced labor.
A week or more ago, a demand
was made on the Reds for the repa-
triatiOn of all UN prisoners, in
cluding those "sentenced"-and we
are still waiting for a reply.
Just how to make a peace with
such an enemy becomes no clearer
as the days go by.
H$h
Next!
We are indebted to Budget Direc-
tor Joseph, M. Dodge for the rare
and heart-warming spectacle of a
Government bureaucrat taking an
inspiring dose of the medicine he
has prescribed for others.
Believing apparently that his in
sistence on economy should begin
at home, Mr.. Dodge is closing his
field offices in Chicago, Dallas,
Denver and San Francisco on Sep
tember IS. AS Government opera
tions go, this pares but a tiny
silver off of Uncle Sans budget
burden. These four offices employed
only 20 workers prior to June 30,
when their number was reduced
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-28
GIVE NE SUBSIDY!

In recent speech, DR.. P. G. Dubach,
professor of political science at Lewis and
Clark College, Portland, Oregon, made this
cogent observation: "We want the budget
cut, but we don't wants cuts for appropria-
tionS affecting Portland"
He added that this generation, unlike
that of Patrick Henry's time, has philo-
sophy Of 'Give me subsidy or you can't have
my vote"
DR.. Dubach thus characterized the worst
disease that now affects the body polite.
The idea that government economy is for
the other fellow, never for us, is rampant.
1t is a commonplace for local chambers of
commerce and other organizations to de-
mand rigorous economy as a principle
and cry to high heaven when cuts affecting
their areas are proposed
Here is one of the reasons why balanc-
ed budget and tax reduction have not been
possible so far. Even more important, the
attitude it represents saps the character
and fiber of the people, and impIacably un-
dermines the foundations of free, represen-
tative government.
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-28

The following is a weekly round
up of livestock prices and miscel-
laneous commodities prevailing last
week. This report shows average
prices received by Delaware farm
ers for commodities that were
marketed throughout this week.
LIVESTOCK PRICES
VEALERS
Choice: $26.OO to $34.50, mostly
$28.50 per cwt.
Medium to good: $21.OO to $3.50,
mostly $24.0O per cwt.
Rough and common: $1,000 to
$4,000, mostly $21.00 per cwt.
LAMBS
Medium: $500 TO $26.25, mostly
$23.25 per cwt.
Common: $500 to $1S.75, most
ly $1,000 per cwt.
SLAUGHTER COWS
Medium to good: $500 to $15.75,
mostly $13.75 per cwt.
Common: $1O.50 to $3.50, most
ly SLIPS per cwt.
Gamers and cutters: S7.75 to
$1,000, mostly $3.50 per cWt.
STEERS
Good to choice, light steers
$500 to SPOTS, mostly $16.5O per
cWt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy type: 1925 to $2O.50, most
ly $500 per cwt.
Beef type: $500 to $500, most
ly $21.00 per cwt.
BULLS
lover 1000 lbs.)
Medium to good: $12.75 to $3.50,
mostly $15.75 per cwt.
$500 to 1000 lbs.)
Medium to good: $1,000 to $500,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
HOGS
Straight Hogs (good quality
120 to 40 lbs: $4,000 to $500,
mostly $500 per cwt.
40 to 240 lbs: $26.5O to $27.25,
mostly $270O per cwt.
240 to $50 lbs: $24.75 to $26.00,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
SOWS
(gOod quality)
200 to 300 lbs: $500 to S21.75,
mostly $2100 per cwt.
300 to 400 lbs: $3.50 to 500. 90
mostly $21.5O per cwt.
Over 400 lbs: $500 to $21.25,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-28
COOKING HAZARD

BEMIDJI, Minn. - up - A IL
year-Old poet, Edward Gilhllan.
Long Beach, Calf, started a canoe
trip from the source to the mouth
of the Mississippi River.
When he gave up, after five days,
he wanted it clearly understood
that it wasn't the padding that
made him change his mind.
1T wasn't the river that beat
me-" he explained. Il just couldn't
stand my own cooking"