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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-26
Rabbit Dishes
Have Become
Popular Meals

Domestic rabbit. sold ready-to-
cook fresh or frozen. is ihcreas-
ingly available in meat markets
The year round II is a mild
favored white meat. far different
from gamey Wild rabbit and free
from hazards of rabbit fever.
A. aid to homernakers who may
neVN have tried TO cook rabbit.
or who would use 1t more often
if they had varied recipes, home
economists Of the y. S Depart
ment OF Agriculture have prepar-
led a new booklet on rabbit cook
cry. based in part on new expert
mental work with cooking the
young fryer rabbits that the
currently gaining favor.
Fryer is the market name
given to rabbits to u weeks
old Their weight ready-to cook
ranges from li2 pounds to about
3i2. The smallest weighing lle
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-26
Final Old Belt
Report Shows
Sharp Decline

Sales volume Of the 1853 crop
OF Old Belt flue- cured tobacco
dropped sharply compared with
the previous year. A drastic de-
cline also occurred in value. This
WAS the result Of much poorer
quality offerings and decreases in
average prices for the majority
of grades.
The United States. North Caro-
lima and Virginia Departments Of
Agriculture report season gross
sales tinclude reSales) totaled
253.3l1. $50 pounds for a value of
1865 million dollars. The average
of S4206 per hundred was $685.
below last years and the lowest
since l947 The volume was 74.4
million pounds under the 1852
crop and the smallest since 1919
A reduction Of 52.l million dol
lars was shown III gross value as
the money paid amounted to only
around tWo-thirds Of the 1852 re-
turns
Quality Of the crop was affected
materially by very unfavorable
growing season. Much Of the to-
bacco was unable to properly
ripen and this was reflected in
the selling of about three times
as many green offerings than
during last year. The proportions
of red and variegated marketings
also increased and there was less
lemon and orange color. The
+. amount OF stnoklng leaf was I'M
usually small The ratio of low
and poor leaf increased and the
percentage OF nondeScript was
slightly larger Principal offer
lngS consisted Of poor to fair
leaf nondescript. and far lugs
Most grades averaged $500 TO
$500 above their loan rates. How
ever. auction bid averages for
about half of the poor to fair leaf
grades were soc to $500 below
Their support levels.
Demand was weak a large por-
ton of the season causing much
tobacco to be delivered to the
Sterilization Corporation under
the Government loan program.
Over half, Of the tobacco offered
after November went under loan.
Season receipts by the Corpora
ton totaled 967 million pounds,
or 1927 of gross sales. This
compares with eli million
pounds. or 1867 delivered in
1852.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-26
Green Bay

Sgt. and Mrs. Billy Pollard are
vacationing in Kentucky.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. c. Kaufman
have returned home after a visit
of sometime with their daughter
Mrs William A. Martin. and Mr.
Martin at Bradenton. Fla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Lee Nor
ing and baby. Of CreWe. spent
Thursday night with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Ravens.
! NJ. l.. Beck is very i'll at his
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Love. Mrs
j. A. Love and Miss Betty Ann
Love were recent dinner guests
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Strickler
at Meherrin.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Wilson w
are proudly announcing the birth
Of a son. r., B. Wilson v, at the
Farmville hospital on Wednes-
day, Jan. 20.
Mrs. c. B. Beck entertained
the Home Demonstration Club
last Tuesday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard New
comb were here Wednesday even
ing viewing the ruins Of their
house which was destroyed by fire
Thursday of last week.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-26
Future High School Teachers Nose Out
Elementary Majors in College Quiz

Future high school teachers
nosed out prospective elementary
teachers by one half point in a
quiz program on subjects ranging
from mathematics to current
events al Longwood College re-
Gently.
Students Of secondary educa-
ton rang up CO points and ele-
mentary majors, 65i2 points out
of a possible SO. in the quiz pro-
gram which was held in the COL
lege assembly and broadcast over
Radio Station WFLO.
Questions ranged from Who is
the Soviet Ambassador to the
United States" TO ITO which Of
these men did Paul write three
letters. John. Peter, or Timothy"
Eight Longwood students were
questioned on these subjects:
politics. literature, arithmetic.
spelling. history. music. geogra-
ply. sports, theater. religion. and
current events.
Students were able to identify
John Wilkes Boothe as the asSas-
sinator of President Lincoln and
Mark Twain as the pen name OF
Samuel Clemens. They recognized
Rhapsody in Blue" as one of
George GershWin's compositions
and knew that the greatest char
acter in literature, according TO
the critics. is Hamlet.
They came up with the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization as
the fun title of NATO and the
European Defense Command as
the words EDO stands for. They
were able to name the presidents
of the United States in reverse
order back TO William Howard
Taft. when the judges threw III
The towel. ,and the five states
which border Virginia
Participants In the quiz were
selected by the four classes File
mentary majors taking part in
the program were Miss Mary
Ann Evans. senior from Rich
mond. Miss Jean Anderson. jun
Tor from Covington Miss Jane
Blake, sophomore from Virginia
Beach; and Miss Dorothy Anne
Thomas, freshman from Rich
mond
Secondary majors sell c ( e d
were Miss Ann Mallory. senior
from Ashland Miss Joan Conley.
junior from Frederick. Del, Miss
Lee Hayes, sophomore from
Chester; and Miss Nancy LEM.
freshman from Warwick.
DR.. George w. Jeffers, head Of
the biology department, served as
moderator, and Richard Meeker.
of the English department. and
Charles Attix. of the music de-
partment. were the judges.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-26
Mothers Polio March
In Scottsville Will
Be Held Friday

The Observation-Disclosures
~ Seottsvllle and community has
been announced for Friday. Jan
%. from seven 10 eight o'clock IN
the evening Tue MalJAinF
Mothers Will call 2t TIE homes
that have left ARhts on collecting
for the March Of Dimes program
Callers win ba MIS-. Guy r.
Moon Miss Mary Pearl Tanner.
Mrs. Sam Robertson Mrs Eliz-
beth Goodwin, MIS- John WI
hanson, Mrs John Derrier, Miss
Matte Leigh Colladay, Mrs. Nil
ton Cohen. Mrs G c Golladay.
Jr., MIS-. Henry Onohundro Mrs
Erwin Mayfield Mrs Bonnie Leap
Mrs JOS Wilson. Mr. and Mrs
+. r Moon Jr H r Nicholas.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-26
ScOttsville Lions
To Seek Industry.
Back Polio March

George r Otnohundro. Jr,.
program chairman Tor the Scots
vile Lions Club meeting January
q. has invited Duncan Kennedy,
acting manager Of the Lynchburg
office Of the Appalachian Electric
Power Co. and Joe Lawrence.
assistant manager of the Roanoke
office OF the Appalachian. TO out
line the proper procedure in locat-
ing OF interesting industries in
locating in community.
Securing new industries in the
Scottsville community was dis
cussed at the last meeting and
q committee formed to act in this
capacity
The Lions Club is sponsoring
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-26
ART H RITIS?

hove been wonderfully
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octjve5Ilfe otter being crippled
in nedhy every ioiht in my
body and with musculor sore
ness from head to foot. | had
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other forms Of Rheunotism,
hands detormed an d my
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ceived this wonderful relief
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-26

When painting, glue a paper
plate to the bottom Of paint
can and eliminate those messy
newspapers.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-26

about 20 recipes. may be obtained
free from the Office OF lnforma-
ton, U. S. Department Of Agri
culture, Washington25. D c.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-26

About 730 cases of infantile
paralysis were reported in Viz
ginia during 1858
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-26

a March II r.He Dance I'll liz
tmemans bu1dina Friday night
Jan. 90. from to one O'Clock
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-26
Mrs. Leila S. Wier

9805 .irhor Hills Drive
+. d. Box 1906
Jackson :. Mississippi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-07
Dorothy Thompson
Diplomatic Weaknesses Of y. s.
Our History Has Not Required That We Become Adept
In Subtle Art of Diplomacy but Now We Need 1t

We unconsciously tend to
see "Americanism" as a pat
tern for universal application.
If a United States of Amer
lea is good, we argue, why not
a United States of Europe?
If Americans of every ma
tional origin can get along to-
gether with equality under
law" why can't the nations
they came from?
That each of our immi-
grants took the decisive step
of severance from his previous
nation. and that the pressures
of American education. ideol-
ogy, and custom are all on the
side of maintaining that sever
ance, is overlooked by our
selves.
9 world leadership" there
fore encounters contradictions
in the American mind. in
which conscious internation-
alism conflicts with uncon-
scious national isolationism,
our foreign policy rejecting
= both.
Our leaders obviously did not
foresee foreign reactions to our
possession and publication of
the hydrogen bomb. To us it
is a decisive deterrent to an
other Pearl Harbor-the only
form which direct military ag-
erosion against the United
States is likely initially to take.
The power of massive retalia-
ton" increases our sense of
security, especially because our
people have never experienced
being bombed by even the
"block busters" and incendiar-
les of World War II, which Sir
Winston Churchill once re-
marked were sufficiently de-
structive for my taste"
From a purely military
standpoint. the continental
United States, given thermo-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-07

sian. Guerrilla fighting is
marked by short and sharp
hit-and-run encounters. The
Wet Mini are now proceeding
with mass assaults. several
divisions strong. thus follow
ing the pattern used by the
Soviets in the last war and by
the Chinese in Korea. These
mass assaults are preceded by
a whitening artillery fire.
Since the Wet Mini must
rely on foreign help for their
supplies. where can that mass
of war materiel come from
except from China and the
U. S. S. r.? Thus it will be
easy to establish the fact that
the Moscow and Peiping gov
ernments are actively partic-
ipating in an aggression in
Southeast Asia.
But whether it will be pos
sible to obtain a. concurrence
in this view from London and
Paris Is a different matter.
We alone appear to be gen.
timely anxious to save Indo-
China and Southeast Asia
from the Communist clutches.
The Labor Party in Britain
will cause grave difficulties to
the Churchill administration
if the aged Prime Minister
decides to subscribe to our
thesis of declaring the Mos
cow and Peiping government
as aggreSSors. In France there
is a political crisis which rem
ders it difficult for Premier
Laniel to take any drastic
steps such as Secretary Dulles
now proposes. The trend of
, peace by negotiation" is
strong among the Paris poll
ticianS and the French masses.
The heroic defense of Diem
Bien Phu. the Verdun of Indo-
China. has lost some of its
luster among the French peo-
pie because of the Shaping"
incident involving Mr.. Laniel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-07
Dorothy Thompson

The weaknesses of American
foreign policy are not military
but political and psychological,
arising from failure of our
leaders to put themselves into
the minds of their allies; to
consider their problems, for
eign and domestic; and to as
sure in advance that American
policies, publicly launched, are
reasonably likely to be
welcomed.
One gets the impression that
Washington is simultaneously
attempting to pursue an inter-
national policy based on main
tanning and expanding foreign
alliances, and an isolationist
policy based on the expecta-
ton that if America takes a
firm posture her friends will
automatically fall into line. If,
then, this does not occur, the
public reaction is to be disillu-
stoned and resentful.
There are understandable
reasons for our American
characteristics which contrib
ute to recurrent crises. A ma
ton of continental proportions
largely Self-sufflcient. without
precarious land frontiers, and
protected until the air age by
what the late Hiram johnson
used to call three thousand
miles of purifying ocean," did
not need to develop diplomatic
subtlety, and still tends to de-
spiSe it, as effete if not dis
honest. The plain spoken
Yankee at King Arthur's
Court" is a kind of national
image.
America. also, has never had
a foreign empire, a fact which
fills us with a sense of virtue
but deprives us of knowledge
and intuition derived from
long experience in governing
vastly different peoples.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-07
Constantine Brown

We are inching toward a
showdown with our Red enc
mics. The final decision
whether there shall be war or
not lies with the men in Mos
COW and Peiping. On their atti-
tude in Indo- China depends
continuance of the present un-
easy peace or the unleashing of
the fury of another war.
Secretary of State Dulles
confirmed in his testimony
Monday before the House For
eign Affairs Committee the
many reports printed in the
press that not only are the
Chinese Communists and the
Muscovites providing the Wet
Mimi guerrillas with modern
equipment to fight in Indo-
China, but they are also mas
ter-minding their strategy.
Moreover, Chinese and Rus
sian specialists are in charge
of radar-directed anti-air-
craft artillery.
Secretary Dulles made an
understatement when he de-
clared that "the Chinese Com
munists are approaching a
form of undisguised agrees
sion in o-China" and
warned that this might bring
about a major retaliation, as
sumedly on our part.
Peiping and Moscow have
been up to their necks in this
'undisguised aggression" ever
since armistice talks started
in Korea. Had this not been
the case. the struggle in Indo-
China would not have as
sumed the present proportions.
It is no longer a guerrilla war
when the "guerrillas" are US
ing the latest type of weapons
except airplanes and tanks.
There is no industry what
ever in the Wet Mimi jungleS.
Everything must come from
across the Chinese border. The
strategy and tactics of the
campaign are typically Rus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-07
Fletcher KnebeI-'
Potomac Fever

Foreign Aid Boss Stassen most United States money
will to the Far East this year. It's better investment
doesn't cost much it does them
Sam Sears quits special counsel in the Mccarthy Army
dispute Senate safari Quitting for trek through
Belgian Congo-n search of who hasn't made up
mind about Senator Mccarthy.
Harry Truman says old Roosevelt-Churchll A-bomb
agreement still in effect. Ike it isn't. This argument
won't far President afford Harry
can't afford to admit it..
Vice President Nixon denied honorary degree by
Duke University Well that's the life Some fellows
get the honorary degreesohes get the honorary jobs.
Rowland Hughes becomes Federal budget director His job
complicated than personal budget At the end of
each he has to figure how much everybody
House Democratic Whip Mccormack likes H-bomb
speech lot Of understanding platudes Mr. Mccormack
never utters sounding platudethe ordinary
good enough for him.
Joe Mccarthy replies to TV Commentator Ed Murrow
Screen credits Timely Murrow. Speech-by Mccarthy.
Truth-by coincidence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-07
Contractor Tried
To Shield Mayor,
Baltimore Jury Told
BY The Assoeiated Press

BALTIMORE, April '7.-Con-
tractor Dominic Piracci Every
foolishly" tried to erase the
names of Mayor D'Alesandro and
his wife and City Controller j.
Neil McCardell from his book
keeping records, it was disclosed
in court yesterday.
Piracci. found guilty last week
of conspiracy to detraud the city
in connection with the construc-
ton of parking garages. went on
trial on another charge. conspir.
acy to obstruct justice.
In an opening statement, the
contractor $lawyer, G. C. A. An
derson, mentioned the erasures.
He said Piracci "very foolish
ly" sought to get the names of
the D'Alesandros and McCardell
off of records the grand jury had
called for in its investigation of
the Rivoli Theater parking ga
rage site.
Anderson said the act was
not an obstruction of justice
because at the time the grand
jury was looking into the single
garage site only and was not
interested in the Mayor and his
wife Nancy or in McCardell.
Assistant States Attorney
Theodore c. Waters, jr., said,
"a completely phony" cash dis
burSements book of the Piracci
Construction Co. and been espe-
cially prepared for the grand
Jury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-07
|srae|is Attacked
Village, Jordan Says
BY the Associated Press .

JERUSALEM, Jordan Section
April Jordan claimed today
that ISraelis attacked a Jordan
village near Bethlehem twice
last night. A spokesman said
National Guardsmen and Arab
Legion troops drove them off
after exchanges with automatic
fire and hand grenades.
Maj. Mohammed Izhaq, Jor-
dams senior military delegate to
the U. N. Israeli-Jordan Mixed
Armistice Commission, said the
attackers left bloodStains on the
ground as they withdrew. This
was the only indication of any
casualties.
Maj. Izhaq said a band OF
about 100 Israelis made the first
attack. crossing the armistice
demarcation line about II pm
and opening fire on the village
of Husan, about 31a miles south
west of Bethlehem.
Three and a half hours later
he said, another Israeli armed
force crossed the border ano
tried to reach the village, prob
ably to carry back casualties
They were repulsed.
Jordan lodged a strong COM
plant with the armistice com
mission. A team of U. N. OBJ
servers and Arab Legion officers
left Jerusalem for Husan to in
vestigate. Israel is boycottine
the commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-07

port from Democrats, how
ever. on his attempt to reduce
the oil depletion allowance.
and likewise from Republic
cans. Oil knows no party lines
as repeated tests in both SEN
ate and House have revealed.
What Senator Williams is
trying to do on oil depletion
is exactly what Democratic
Secretaries of the Treasury
have asked Congress to do for
the last 20 years. This con-
tinuity was broken by Secretary
Humphrey in this administra-
ton, who made no recommen.
dations on the Oil depletion de-
duction. He still is studying
the subject. among others, for
possible recommendations to
the next Congress. Oil con-
tributed handsomely to the
Eisenhower presidential cam
paign.
For exhibits. Senator Will
liams will have the first figures
ever gathered by Congress on
what the depletion write-offs
amount to in specific cases.
They were collected for four
companies by the House Inter-
state Commerce Committee
during its investigation last
year Of gasoline price in
creases. For Phillips Petro-
leum the write-offs were: $28,-
242,000 in 1850: $31.779.000 in
1851; $50, $685. in 1852. For
Standard Oil of California, the
figures were $50, 1896, 900; $685.
100000. and $64, 1928, 900, re-
spectively. for the same three
years. Socony-Vacuum and
two affiliates had these write
offs: $37,232.000; $45. ABS, 900
and $45.184.000. For Humble.
the write-offs for the three
years were. respectively: Sta
$4,000; $89.123,222. and $685.
100000.
The reports. revealed inter-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-07
David Lowrence

President Eisenhower on
Monday night made the best
television presentation any
public man has made since the
new medium has come to the
American people. It was an
outstanding performance be-
cause it was natural, informal
and simple. Whether this was
the result of careful coaching,
or special training by the ex-
perts. the result offers a chal-
lenge to public speakers here
after to match his style Of de-
livery and simplicity.
Unlike some of the Presi-
dents previous appearances
when, with his eyes on a
prompting device invisible to
his audience, he has read lines
that seemed to be poorly
phrased from the standpoint
of the hearers, this didn't seem
to be a speech at ALT was
just a talk.
In his informal conversa-
lions with callers the Presi-
dent has always seemed at
ease, never lacking for a sim
pie word or phrase to make a
point. Now he has achieved
the same sort of informality
before the television cameras,
and that is an important feat.
Regardless of the content of
the talk - and opinions will
differ on the merits of some
sections of 1.-THE net impress
sion left on a fair-minded or
bipartisan listener was one of
sincerity and earnestneSs. His
words carried conviction. The
same kind of delivery in a po-
litical campaign would be ire
mendouS on the vote-getting
side. But it is precisely because
Gen. Eisenhower wasn't asking
for votes, and wasn't talking
politics. that he attained the
same kind of approval the late
President Franklin D. Roose-
welt won when he first deliv-
cred his non-partiSan fireside
chats.
There may be some dues-
ton whether every public man
can match the effect which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-07

what could be called the anna
teur support. The trained or
ganizers in the pay of the
House and Senate campaign
committees take a cold prac-
tical view. They argue that
since the Republican margin
of control is so narrow, effort
must be concentrated this fall
in places where there is the
best chance to win. Obviously
places in the Midwest rather
than the South.
Democratic confidence did
not just happen. The national
chairman named by Adlai
Stevenson, Stephen Mitchell,
doggedly set out to bind up the
party's wounds, and he has
courted the South to a degree
that has aroused apprehension
in the North.
Mr.. Mitchell has been sue
ceSsful beyond his original
hopes. His efforts were eli
NAKED at the recent Miami
meeting which Mr.. Stevenson
addressed with memorable eff
feet. The country is still hear
ing White House reactions to
the Stevenson eproddings on
Senator Mccarthy and the
Dulles theory of massive re-
taliation.
Miami also attracted con-
gressional leaders, some of
whom had not hitherto been
seen at party gatherings. Since
they include men ambitious for
the presidency. the harmony
cannot be permanent, but it is
expected to prevail until the
midterm elections are over.