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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-08-28
Thalman, Track Coach
Football Assistant,
Now at Death alley

Robert Thalman. recently APP
pointed track coach and assistant
on the gridiron staff at Hamp-
den-Sydney, arrived on the Death
Valley campus this week
The former Norview, Va, high
school football and track coach
with other members Of the Tigers
staff, is now helping map pans
for the approaching campaign
with Athletic Director and Foot
ball Coach Jim Hickey.
Thalman is a graduate Of the
University Of Richmond ana play
ed several seasons with the pro-
fessional Richmond Rebels He
compiled outstanding records with
Norview High athletic squads
Claude Milan. who served as
summer recreation director here
has returned to his post at the
college. where he assists with
football and coaches baseball
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-08-28
Former Pastor Here
Wins Fur Coat, Trip
On TVS Big Pay-On'

A mink coat and a trip to Eur
ope we're Some Of the prizes won
Wednesday BY d former minister
here on the teleylsion program
Bis Payroll"
Dr II Conrad Blackwell pastor
Of the Falmrillc Methodist Church
from 1912 to 1897. was vacation
ing II New York City with his
wife and daueil;er. Harriet when
he hit the Jackpot
Friends of his IN FalmVi!le were
delighted 10 suddenly see Em on
the screen acting as calmly as if
he We're conducting a church sery-
ice
d. Blackwell who is now pas
tor Of Centenary Methodist
Church in Lypchburs, answered
the FIRST three questions Of the
quiz show correctly thus earning
himself a wardrobe Of clothes for
his Wife Winning of the mink
coat and he trip to amy chosen
country N Europe depended on
answering the fourth question 1t
was, Who wrote In Abraham S
Arms and III Blackwell COR
rectly answered Paul Green
Daughter Harriet, serior at
N. C Woman's College in Green's
Doro, gets the mink coat but She
declined her fathers offer to 80
on the trip.
Sometime or other Dr. ard Mrs
Blackwell have a trip to SWitzer-
land in store.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-08-28
Store Announces
Fall Fashion Show
For Children Friday

Dorothy May Store Will present
fashion show for children. Fri
day. Sept. 4 at $3.50 ,. N. Farm
vile Jlnlor Woman's Club mem
bers Will judge the show.
The store located at POS North
Nam St.. has recently added a
new girls department, carrying
famous California lines of clothes
IN sizes three to six and seven to
IA There are teenaGer and club
bic sizes in dresses. coats, hats,
skirts, sweaters and underwear.
according TO Miss Lee Cohen,
manager
Prizes viii be given to all chill
dren participating IN the show,
Miss Cohen said
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-08-28

Nations. As a matter of fact. in
addition to fulfilling the assOcia-
TONS purpose Of spreading hook
ey and providing the best avail
able competition for top-notch
teams, these International eet-to-
Cethers foster understanding and
friendship
Miss Burger says. they do give
you an insight into the lives OF
other people and you develop links
with other countries. She adds
that a Christmas doesn't go by
without receiving cards and mes
sages from people all over the
world
There's no doubt about it. Miss
Burger is looking fordward to her
three month stay abroad Thurs
day of this week finds her stick
and aoalie pads in hand, heading
Tor Philadelphia There for a few
days, she and other members Of
the I S. group, hailing from De-
trolt. Philadelphia, Boston. Essex.
n J and Baltimore. viii but in
some concentrated practice as a
team
After they lana ii England.
they vii be Whlsked off to Guern-
Sey Island for a tour and to plav
some local matches On View for
the tlrst time III Britain. MISS
Burger. ylce-captain of her team.
comments we are GOING to see
them see us, too"
Then follows a schedule of more
hockey playing, work, and sight
seeing Before the conference
meets from September'3O to Octo-
Der 10 the u S. girls travel to
Scotland for Games with district
group, and the international
Scotch team In October they
head for Wales and Ireland and
more matches, ending up for
tour Of England in November.
Royalty Treated
Miss Burger says that on her
previous trips to British Guiana
and the Dutch West Indies i'll
1889 and to South Africa IN 1850.
the visiting teams have been
treated royalty Though the play
ers are strictly amateurs and must
inlnace their passages, once at
their destination they become
guests Of the local hockey associa-
ton and the country'S govern
ment. She has learned that about
$4,000 has been raised By the
English to provide hospitality for
the hockey teams, and to show
them the best foot Britain has to
put forward
Yes these trips are something
Miss Burger really looks forward
to Concerning the 1858 trip to
Britain, she says, never thought
l would still be playing
Nothing would keep her from !
going now, and Miss Burger is
looking further ahead
With Australia scheduled for 1856, |
she says, Il have my eyes on it.
1t sounds real exciting"
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-08-28
College Student
Population To BE
Around l,OlO
Hampden Sydney
Will Open Sept. Is,
LC Week Later

A student population of Ibol,
1910 Will return to Longwood nu
HampdenSydney colleges III Mia
September An eleven per cent ill.,
crease in enrolment Is expected
at the former.
LongWood College VIII haze. II
appears at tins time about Ia
students, of whom 250 Will re
new Last year the state inst.tu-
ton had student body OF Go9
At Sydney. the cN-
pected enrolment OF 1872 students
is approximately that Of last year
Hill Starts First
Hampden Sydney VIII open
first, with freshman students ar
irving for four-d day period oi
orientatlon on Tuesday. Sept is
Upper classmen VIII register Sept
emner Is and classes VIII start
Friday Sept 10 The first an
student convocatlon VIII bc held
that morning, with classes follow
ing
LongWood's 250 new students
Will report on the campus sun
day Sept 20 for the oientat,ou
period which begins the follow
ing morning. Upper clasSmen Win
register Wednesday. Sept. % with
classes starting for all students
September "a.
AAIW Recognition
In addition to a number of ncN
faculty appointments. LongWood
College will start the academic
year for the first time under a.
tlclal recognition by the American
Association OF University Women.
granted during the summer
Such recognition while 10.
connected in any way with formal
academic accreditlnp by the var
ious U S. educational accredlt!ne
groups Will permit LongWood
graduates TO become members OF
AAUW chapters III then commu-
mites.
LongWood Will also have its an
nual visit by Governor John s.
Battle and his budget advisers.
now scheduled September II.
These state wide visits to state M
situations are the first step IN
preparation OF the l954-56 bud
get for the Commonwealth.
Nenable Renovated
Hampden- Sydney students Viii
return to find historic VCnabIc
Hall completely renovated. Dun
ing the summer. the college az
pended $95000 in providing the
building built in 1927. with new
bath and plumbing fixtures. new
cement rubber flooring room re-
novation and painting. and re-
furnishing of the ColIece Com
mons
That summer work was the
final phase OF a 100000 five
year program of improvements to
the colleges physical plant. whic.
included building of Johns AUDI
! forum, renovation Of dormItorie,.
ana improvements to the athletic
facilities. Among these were four
new tennis courts, reSurfactrg Iii
Death Valley and laying OF a en-
der track.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-08-28
Newman's Mems ShOp
Opening Set Today

Formal opening of Newman
Mems Shop, at 1T West Third
street. will take place at a m.
today friday. Robert E. New
man. formerly of Davidson's here,
is the proprietor.
Farmville's newest clothing es-
tablishment will feature full lines
of mems suits, furnishings and &C
cessories. Mr. Newman, after six
years service with Southern De-
partment Stores which included
managing the chains Halifax
store, resigned here about six
weeks ago He has been arrang-
ing for the new establishment
since.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-08-28
Area Coop Meeting
AT BurkevilIe School

Annual Southern States Co.
Op membership meeting for the
Burkeville-Crewe area NIL be held
Friday, Sept. 4, at p m. at
Burkeville School
Boswell Company Of Burkeville
and Crewe Ko-Op, Inc, of Crewe
will cooperate with Southern
States in sponsoring the meeting
l. A Dixon Of Burkevllle, viii be
Chairman Of the meeting
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-08-28
Cumberland Woman
Killed In Accident

Mamie Eliza Brown, Sc. Of ut.
/, Sunnyside, was killed Monday
afternoon, Aug "a. in a single
vehicle accident on Route As.
about six miles north of Cumber-
land
State Trooper S. Muslin sold
she was a passenger in an auto
m bile operated By Samuel
Timothy Thompson Jacksoa of
Eewarl: = :
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-08-28
ONE CUMBERLAND SELECTED

Theodore jefferson Keith. of
Columbia. Route !. will be in
Quoted into military service next
month. according to an an
nouncement by the Cumberland
County Selective Service Board.
Keith will be indicted into the
,.,,,p Eeb'a,,,fa~ %
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-08-28

ARM September q
Evening star., 1953-12-04
This and That

Care of books means that they must
be kept unspotted from the world.
This includes cracker crumbs, cheese.
drinks cigarettes, nail polish, and the
like; wide list, indeed.
In other words don't read books
while eating, or smoking, or drinking.
1t is most uncomfortable. for one
thing. to try to hold a book in one
hand.
It just can't be done, with any sat-
isfaction to the reader. And what of
the book? A good book, surely, can be
said to feel certain happiness down
its spine when it is held carefully and
lovingly by good reader.
To spot book, either with foods or
drinks, or ashes. of all things, or smear
it with chocolate or lipstiek-
What greater insult to good book?
To keep book unSpotted from the
world includes good shelf care.
If behind glass. then many problems
are solved
If in open cases, then other care
must be included. mostly periodical
wiping and busting.
The open case is held in high es-
TEEN by decorators, mostly on ac-
count of the colorful jackets.
The total effect of a number of diff
ferent colors, as incorporated in dust
Jackets, is something that is scarcely
duplicated anywhere else.
Evening star., 1953-12-04

Yet one must pay price for it.
Keeping the jackets on gives the
best place in the world for mildew to
thrive.
Probably 80 per cent of an average
book lovers volumes are on the first
floor, which means pretty close to the
basement, and every one knows how
damp today's average basement it,
DampneSs breeds fungi, and these
love the close space between dust
jacket and cover.
Certain colors, notably red. green
and black, seem to attract mildew,
which tends to ape the color it is on.
1t is good practice. therefore. to re-
move the dust jackets, now and then,
and with soft tissue go over the in
side of the jacket where it presses
against the board cover.
Undue pressure will not do. Scrub
bing, in other words, is out. What is
demanded is a gentle sweeping sort OF
motion.
1t will not be possible to remove all
the mildew, so do not try just be con-
tent with getting off most OF it.
If this leaves starting point for
more, it cannot be helped. The fungi
of all types are persistent, and, like a
great many other things in this world.
once started are difficult to break up.
Once the fungi get foothold on a
book, or cover of photograph album,
they tend to be there for life. but much
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Murder Is Condemned

When the Army published its documented
report of the Korean war atrocities some five
weeks ago. a Senator said that the United
Nations should vote resolution of condemna-
tion. The Star-erroneously as things have
turned out-ventured the opinion that mot
even such a milk -and-water penalty as this will
be imposed"
This newspaper welcomes the U. NJ reSolu-
tion which has now been passed by vote of
425, for it at least serves to put the nations OF
the world-not counting the five disSenters and
the 10 which abstained-on record In this mat
ter. But not by any stretch of the imagination
can this resolution of condemnation be called
a real penalty.
Here is a situation in which some $4,000
civilians and U. N. troops-more than 5000 Of
them Americans-were deliberately tortured and
murdered or starved to DEATH There is no need
to review the revolving details, for the record
has been made. And that record-a record
which indicts North Korea and Communist
China-has been accepted as true by the AZ
nations which voted for the resolution Of con-
demnation.
What does the resolution say? 1t says (D
that the U. N. looks with "grave concern" on
the wanton slaughter of helpless civilians and
prisoners, and (2) that it condemns the COM
mission by any governments or authorities of
murder, mutilations, torture and other atrocous
acts against captured military personnel or
civilian populations, as violation of rules of
international law and basic standards of con-
duct and morality, and as affronting human
rights and the dignity and worth of the human
person"
That is quite mouthful. But Mr.. ViShin-
sky has already brushed it aside as "libelous"
and it is not likely that the expression in behalf
of the dignity and worth of the human person"
will make much of an impression on the minds
of the North Korean and Chinese war criminals.
Certainly it cannot help any of their $4,000
victims.
It will be said that, short of fighting on to
decisive victory, there is little or nothing more
that the U. N. could do. Perhaps this is so.
But we have not yet come to the end of this
business Some of the nations which voted for
this resolution have already recognized the gov
ernment of Communist China. Many Of them
soon will be pressing for admission of Red
China to the U. N.
Quite probably the day will come when
Communist China will be welcomed into this
organization of nations dedicated to interna-
tional decency and the maintenance OF peace.
What will be done then about this resolution of
condemnation? Will any one be rude enough
to recite its contents, or even to mention that
it is somewhere in the files? Let us not deceive
ourselves Men have remarkable capacity for
forgetting the ugly past and for refusing to
look at the ugly future. This resolution will
remain buried, along with the Nuremberg Prin-
ciple If any one remembers what that was and,
it must be said, along with the $4,000 human
being who were murdered in Korea
Evening star., 1953-12-04

present portrayals of not very bright
characters" His speech in Atlanta
November "a followed more heavily
than usual his practice of talking
down. to his audience.
Nor did Mr.. Stevenson show political
sense. For when a man who is gen.
orally conceded to be titular head OF
the Democratic Party publicly laudS
Harry Truman as man who has done
more than any living man to check the
forward thrust of communism" he is
surely not acting in the best interests
of his party. Nor was it using good
political sense to proceed on the as
sumption that his audience did not have
average intelligence, as Mr.. Stevenson
has done here in presumably believing
that his listeners would agree with this
irresponsible statement in face of the
mass of evidence to the contrary.
Evidently Mr.. Stevenson expected,
too, that his listeners would swallow
without gagging, his plea for dignity,
objectivity and justice, with some better
motive than political strife" in refer
ring to the Dexter White case. even
though he made a rather silly attempt
in the same speech to restore the hatred
of the South for the North by remind
ing Southerners that the Republicans
in the days after the Civil War had
waved the bloody shirt to keep them
selves in power" The Civil War yet!
Any sign of Mr.. Stevensons famous
intellectually is sadly missing here.
We wonder that he didn't try using
Southern accent.
Lila Douglas.
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Pro and Con Mccarthy

I appreciate the good judgment Of
your statement in ION Curbing Nc
CarthyiSm' (November 27) that earlier
land, / might add, less destructive)
McCarthyS in our history ''could make
no lasting impression on the good sense
of the American people" But I must
sadly disagree with your view that "the
American citizen, by and large, remains
free to write, to speak. and to worship
as he pleases." Have you not over
looked the danger spotlighted in the
recent letter of the United States Pres
byterian Church Council?
What happens to Mister American
Citizen for instance the Roosevelt
Democrat) who has written and spoken
as he pleased if his sincere convictions
on Americas welfare differ from Nc
Carthy's? In many cases he is sum-
moned before the Mccarthy committee
and greeted with the ritual question.
Are you a Communist" If he truth
fully answers, NO." he can, according
to the Presbyterian Council, "be pub
licly condemned upon the uncorrob-
grated word of former Communists"
Yet Mccarthy has claimed repeatedly
that those who refuse to answer his
"sixty-four cent" question under their
rights by the fifth amendment are ad-
mitting their guilt!
Are you serious, then, in asking us
to wait till this impression" so alien
to our country, fades away? Rather it
is time for our President to call upon
the Congress to stop this three-ring
circus by withdrawing the Mccarthy
committees funds.
Rita Bowman.
Whatever his Importance in the ma
tional political scene, Senator Nc
Carthy did not deserve the three
column picture in the November %
Sunday Star IF noticed at all the Sen
Evening star., 1953-12-04
BY Charles E. TroceweN
Lila Douglas.

can be done to keep their depredations
down.
If mildew is discovered, the entire
case should be aired and busted, and
let stand without books for at least a
few hours.
If an electric fan can be played over
the case, so much the better.
Such care is necessary at this time,
even though winter heating cuts down
on any increase.
Another bad habit of some book
owners is to stuff clippings and too
large book marks between the pages.
At the time, they do not mean to let
them remain there, but they forget
about them. Then the bulky marks
proceed to make permanent indenta-
ton between the pages which no
amount of subsequent care will remove.
See to it, then, that all clippings,
book marks, letters, and the like are
taken out before a book is put back in
the case Or, better, never put them in.
The careless person will think all this
a great deal of trouble, but he should
be reminded that others, too. will read
the same books and that some of
these will be sorely offended by his
careleSSneSs.
There is a whole list of other personal
offenses to good books, such as breaking
the spine, turning down pages, ETC.,
which cannot be considered at this
time.
Evening star., 1953-12-04

ator's TRADES should be lost in few
paragraphs among the advertisements.
It is unfortunate that American
newspapers and editors fail to point
out the dangerous parallel between the
actions and words of Joe Mccarthy and
the late Adolf Hitler.
Mccarthy, like Hitler, knew that if
you repeated a lie often enough people
would accept it as the truth. Mccarthy
plans upon an economic crisis to unSeat
Eisenhower and become dictator of the
United States. He has so far had every
thing in his favor, including the Amer
ican press.
]. Wilbur POtherby.
Never in my memory has one person
or his ideas been so vilified OF con-
demned by certain sections of the pop
ulation. But while 'McCarthyism" is
being denounced with unrelerting
vigor and persistency the menace of
atheiStic communism is making coloS-
sal advances in the United States and
all over the world.
Must our cities be leveled, our fami-
lies destroyed, our Nation crushed be-
fore we appreciate the seriousness of
communism? 1t is much later than we
think.
My hats off to Joe Mccarthy.
Edward Miller.
Let's all give three hurrahs for Sem
ator Mccarthy. 1, too, believe that
communism in Government will be a
major issue in the 1854 elections. for
one, believe that we should have more
Senators who are interested in getting
every trace of communism out of the
Government, if not out of the country.
E. G. Jewell, jr.
Your Sunday. November 90, Review
of the Week" left out some extremely
important facts in it's analysis of Nc
Carthyism.
In the first place the "McCarthyism"
cry was started by the Communists to
carry out an order by Stain which in
structed the Communists to raise an
uproar about civil liberties when their
activities are exposed. This serves to
confuse and divert public opinion.
A letter transmitting an article en-
titled Unity Can Defeat McCarthyiSln"
was mailed out by the Communist Party
of Maryland and the District of Colum-
bia on November q, 1850. In Septem-
ber, 1851, an article entitled Major
Tasks Facing the Party Today" ap-
peared in the magazine. Political
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Letters to The Stdr. /.

Affairs. It urged that the ina
jor task" Of the Communist Party
was to seize" the initiative in the fight
against "McC Carthyism." In June, 1853.
Political Affairs said, "The immediate
and broadest rallying ground in the
struggle for democratic liberties is the
fight against McCarthyism The Daily
Worker has for months run q special
section each day devoted to condemna-
tions of 'McCarthyism."
Julian E. Williams.
All the guessing about Senator Nc
Carthy'S speech seems to have ignored
the one essential act of Senator Nc
Carthy: He was not inviting feud with
any one in the Republican Party; he
was simply putting the interests of his
country above his party. "Trumanism"
he condemned as just the opposite.
Communism inevitably will be an is
sue not only in 1854. and 1856, but for
as long as the leaders of Russia seek
to communize the entire world. Why
criticize Senator McCarthy,S fortnight
ness in so stating? This should be
non-political issue.
Opal Evans.
was disappointed in the Review
of the Week" article in The Sunday
Star, November 20, on Joe Mccarthy.
The article asserts that Mccarthy
attacked the present Administrations
executive branch for failing to respond
to last November's mandate. I would
like to point out that Mccarthy stated
in his speech: II think the new admin
istration is doing job so infinitely
better than the -Acheson
regime that there is absolutely no COM
parison."