The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1953-02-10
Town Welcomes
1900 At Jubilee.
Prizes Awarded
Farm Operations
To Need Thought,
Official Believes


for The present. hope for the fu-
ture just about sums up the sec
cnd annual Farmv!Ile Tobacco
Jubilee. which brought l.5OO
farmers to town Thursday to re-
ceive the Community thanks for
their tobacco business.
There we're seats of honor and
public recognition for growers
who had made outstanding crops:
there were helpful words Of farm
advice from Agriculture Commits
sioner Parke c. Brinkley. and
there were hopeful words of pos
sible acreage increases from Con-
gresham Watkins NJ Abbitt.
The awarding Of $3.50 in cash
and merchandise prizes also con-
stituted a helpful gesture for the
present. In all there were II
prizes awarded 10 lucky ticket
holders as little Donald Coin. of
Pamplin. poked tiny. fair
minded fist into the huge squirrel
cage of luck. containing more
than 5000 stubs.
Brinkley's Advice
Commissioner Brinkley. himself
a farmer dividing his time be-
tween Nansemond county and
the Capital office, warned the
crowd which thronged the court
house plaza. that 1858 will de-
mand you use a little more
thought" about farm operations.
!. the agricultural squeeze now
on. is to be successfully met.
Tobacco farmers, he urged.
must give more serious conSidera-
ton to their land other than that
devoted to tobacco The more
you can get from that other land,
while keeping up your tobacco,
too, the better Mr. Brinkley said.
The Commissioner urged farm
ers to get busy on their idle
lands. which are costing you
dearly" and TO follow every rec
commended practice to get more
production from crop lands.
In final word of advice he
i urged his hearers to consider live
stock as a means of diversifying
farm operation and increasing
farm income
Abbitt Speaks
Fourth District CONGRESSMAN
Watkins NJ Abhitt saw the Jubi-
lee as concrete expression of the
cooperation of rurai-urban pco-
pies that has made America
great =
Stating that efforts are now
underway in Washing ton seeking
larger tobacco acreages. Mr.. Alb
bltt reminded the tanners that
dark fired growers Will receive
nearly S4,500,O0O from leaf sales.
That's 48 per cent OF the income
from everything sold off the
farms in Southside Virginia. he
declared
Reminding that much has been
done to benefit tobacco farmers.
Mr. Abbitt said that one out of
every six dollars the Southsidc
Virginia farmers has to spend
for himself is a tobacco dollar.
Mayor w. c. Fitzpatrick, who
Joined the Chamber of Commerce
President S. w Putney Jr.. in
welcoming tobacco growers for
the day. declared that the Jubi-
lee is the community way OF
expressing appreciation for selec-
ton of Farmville as the market
at which to sell tobacco
Without you Falmville would
Mt be the metropolitan city of
Southside Virginia" he declared
Your help and cooperation in
spire us to perspire little more
for your benefit, . the mayor con-
Guided
Others making brief expressions
of welcome were j. w. Dunning-
ton, Walter Putney. senators G..
w. Palmer. T. B. Hall. Joel Wat
kinS Jr.. and W. A. Watson Jr..
Jubilee chairman ana master of
ceremonies.
Prize Winners
Prize winners were jubilant. of
course Mrs Sam Taylor. who
won the $3.50 first prize after one
number went by without a claim
ant. was the center of the little
cotcrle of prize winners who were
assembled to speak a piece over
WFLO. Shaking like leaf at
my luck was the typical COM
ment.
Mrs. Traylor. whose husband
has been selling here all his life.
nearly didn't make it to the Jubi-
lee. Despite premonitions that the
odds were too great, she hurried
off at the last moment, lust in
case it would be different this
time. 1t was, $3.50 worth.
Double Winner
Wallace Shepard. who sold
shout 1900 pounds here this
year from his Buckingham farm.
was the only double winner. He
held the tickets for the second
prize OF $50 and the 18th of IS.
Bill and Mary Reed provided
some tuneful hillbilly music to
fill in around the speaking and
prize award portions of the pro-