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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-04-23
Farmers Mon Plans
Open Meeting Friday,
}. B. Vance to Speak

Farmers, businessmen and their
families arc invited to attend
countrywide meeting sponsored
by the Prince Edward County
Farmers Union at Worsham High
school Friday April %, at 7.3O
=. N.
J B Vance. executive secretary
q the Virginia Farmers Union
VIII be guest speaker According
10 Secretary Leslie Hamilton. Mr.
Vance Will explain the Farmers
Union program and platform and
viii answer questions in regard to
farm policy
Mr.. Hamilton reports that there
will be special entertainment and
refreshments will be served. The
county organization now numbers
230 members. with A. w. Lewis, of
Prospect president
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-04-23
OM Folk Tunes, Dances Comprise Ne,O
Sh0W to appear at Jdtn1un Hall WonInv

A company Of 30 dancers. sing
erS, and musicians will recall in
their performance of Musical
Americana. the music ancestors
sang the dances our great grand
parents performed, and the stories
the pioneers handed down
Musical Americana" will be
presented in Jarman Auditorium
at 8 p. m. Monday April IS, as
the last program of the Longwood
College Artists Series for l953-54.
The group will transport the
audience to New England village
Just before the Revolutionary War
where a stern musicmaster with
turning fork and short patience
attempts to teach a group of nice
young people the proper way to
sing a hymn.
In the concert novelty of folk
songs and dance. Benjamin
Franklin will write a letter from
Paris to his children in Philadel-
phia appraising his homeland as
he sees it from that distance THE
internal State of America: being
Il true description of the interest
and policy of that vast continent"
as noted by Franklin, is a faSci-
mating bit of Americana. read TO
a musical setting by Baldwin
BerGenSen. composer n d ar
ranger
Musical Americana" will then
shift its scene to the New Bedford
waterfront where men go down to
the sea in ships. hornpiper will
invoke the jaunty music of nauti-
cal dances and a landlocked sailor
will sing those most durable of
folkcalls. a round of sea chantieS
One of the most colorful works
IN M u S c "a Americana is
"EestN ard Ho ballet With
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-04-23
Remains of Fifth
President To BE
Inferred at Hill

On Sunday afternoon at 330
p. m. April IS. the remains Of
jonathan Peter Cushing. 6fth
president Of Hampdcn Sydney
College VIII be inferred IN Col
leee Church cemetery
Forced to give up the pres. dcncy
on account of i'll health nc dIcd
in Raleigh, n c.. April Is. 1885.
on his way to the far South.
President Cushing. though only
% years Of age when ne accepted
the presidency, became one of the
most distinguished in the history
OF the college He was not only an
able scholar and an inspiring
teacher but also an astute business
man. Both academicaly and ma
terially he made a splendid con-
tribution. 1t was he who erected
Hampden Sydncy's best known
building Gushing Hall.
DR. Gushing did not confne his
efforts to education He was one
Of the founders Of the Virginia
Historical Society and aided the
State in other ways. His admin
lstratlon covered The years from
l82l-l835 He married Mary Jane
Page. daughter of Major Carter
Pace of Cumberland CouDty.
The removal Of the remains Of
President Cushing to Hampton
Sydney is the result of the earnest
efforts Of Rev Robert Bluford
. a graduate Of Hampden-Sydnoy
and now pastor of the Western
. Boulevard PRESBYTERIAN Church in
Raleigh N &.
The public is invited to attend
the ceremony
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-04-23
Lon3wood Summer
School Plans Told
College TO Offer
v ariety Of Courses

Ion-Hood College will offer two.
three FOUR. five and eight-Week
courses in the 1854 summer ses-
sion which viii open June 2l and
end August a.
The program of the summer
session viii offer courses for stu
dcntS.7"ho want to finish college
IN tn, e. years. those who want
to taFa business classes in the
summer for teachers Who want to
renew thcir certificates and hold
crs Of liberal arts degrees who
want to obtain collegiate profess
sional teaching certificates.
In addition. three workshops
VIII be offered for teachers who
want 10 work on special problems
q dance workshop, June 2I-July
9. an education workshop. June
21-July Q and q library Workshop
on cooperation among school Off
Gals teachers, and librarians.
July T-23
Dulng tile summer session
classoA ate scheduled from Mon
day through Friday Living quart
ers VIII be provided for men stu
dents.as ven as women. and 4 re-
creation program has been plan
ned for children.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-04-23
Jaycees Announce
Further Plans For
Prayerful Month

May has been designated as
Come to Church Month" by the
Farmville Junior Chamber of
Commerce, and the period will be
devoted to the promotion Of re-
llgious activities. announces DR.. S.
c. Patteson, local Jaycee presi-
dent
This program is part of a
nation wide Jaycee campaign to
promote Come to Church activi-
ties in May through $500 local
chapters. 1t is based on the line
OF the Jaycee Greed which states
That faith in God gives meaning
and purpose to human life"
Purpose of the project is to
bring the Jaycee membership
closer to religion and to energize
return to religion" in the COM
munity at large. DR.. Patteson ex-
plains. I'VE hope the community
will help us make a success of this
program by coming to church
with us" he said.
Plans for the project include a
corporate act of worship by the
Jaycees on Sunday. May End. on
which day each member will at
tend the church of his choice and
make a contribution in a special
Jaycee collection plate envelope
Other activities planned for the
month are: May day-Pray day, to
be held Saturday, May l.
George Jarrett, religious activi-
ties chairman. will head the local
Come to Church campaign.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-04-23
Hillsman House
Open Next Sunday

The Hillsman House in saylor's
Creek Battlefield Park viii be
open again next Sunday from
100 to 500 p NJ and the BIZ
centennial Lockett District com
mittee assisted by the SAVERS
Greek Home Demonstration Club
will serve tea.
Easter Sunday 285 visitors
registered, and on Tuesday over
100 pupils from Amelia High
School visited the House Wen
over 900 visitors have been regis
tered during April Sundays
Next Sunday Will be last in d
series Of four Sundays in April IN
which the HOUSE VIII BE- open.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-04-23
2.46 Inches Rain
High Temperature
Seen beneficial"
Monday Reading
OF 81 Degrees
High For Year

Last week end s rainfall. which
totaleG 2.02 inches at the Farm
vile Weather Station, was most
beneficial according to E. F. Strip
lin. who views it both as county
agent and official weatherman.
The PRECIPITATION brought this
April's total to 246 inches. which
is below the normal for the month
Of 3.5 to inches, although full
week remains with some promise
Of more. he said
April 1858, Mr.. Striplin recall
ed, brought over five inches OF
rain and proved to be the wettest
mont of the entire year.
High Temperatures
High temperatures for the cur
rent period, running five to six
degrees above the normal for
April, was recorded Monday when
the thermometer went to 81 de-
RreeS. Other official readings were
"a degrees Tuesday, and 80 de-
arees Wednesday.
Speaking as county agent. MI
Strlplin reports that everything
planted has responded" we'll fol-
lowing the fine, soaking rainfall
last week The high tempera-
lures which followed have provid-
cd an excellent growing combina-
ton, y he said
With another good rain, he
foresees splendid early hay
crop" due in May He reports
farmers generally well satisfied
with the progress of early planted
corn. Also, that pastures are re-
covering somewhat and in this
area are now providing a little
better than SO per cent of forage
requirements. Normally h V
should provide about 10 per cent.
Tobacco Beds
Tobacco. he said. is generally
making good progress. but the
recommendations are for watering
bed during dry periods and a
treatment for Blue Mold. since
plants are Just at the right age
Mr. Strlplin said that while the
ground moisture is better now
than for some time. underground
supplies of water remain badly
depleted. and that much rain will
be required to remedy this lack.
induced by two summers of def
cient rain
State wide Report
Rains over most of the State
during the last few days of the
week ending April l6 increased
prospects for pastures and crops.
and greatly improved the supply
OF soil moisture, according to the
weekly weather and crop report
of the Virginia Cooperative Crop
Reporting Service Earlier in the
week land preparation and plant
ing operations made rapid pro-
eress and farm work is generally
ahead Of schedule for this date.
Activity on farms throughout
most Of Virginia centered around
preparing land and planting corn.
BY the end of the week about 10
per cent Of the intended acreage
had been planted compared With
only 3 per cent a year ago Many
farmers are planting early in ord
en- TO escape damage from dry
weather at silking time in case
of another July drought.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-04-23

for Musical Americana " called
Saturday Night Is is roman
TIC story OF mountain courtShip
successfully eliminating in a
rouAng square dance
From the folklore that has al
tC'OuttnarQ on Page o
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-04-23

DR.. Sidney Hook, chairman Of
the Department OF Philosophy Of
New York University Will address
the conyocation at Hampden-
Sydney College on Friday, April
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-04-23

Paul Green. famed author of
'The Common Glory" and THE
Lost Colony" has written an Ap-
palachlan folk operrtta especially
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-04-23
Saturday Night

songs. set in the days of the
American Gold Rush.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-04-23
More Light Shed
On Sayler's Creek
By Eye Witness
Letter Writer
Explains Locale
Of Days Fighting

An witness account Of the
Civil War fighting at Sayler'S
Greek has come to light which
provides information concerning
important details of this last
pitched battle of the war
The information is contained in
a letter written by the late Mrs.
Ernest l. Monnot. of Napoleon
vile La, who was at the time of
the battle an l8-year old girl re-
siding with her father J. S. Lock
EFT and his family at Lockett
Place
The letter was written May 2I.
1884 when copy of the Rich
mond Times Dispatch, carrying an
article on the details of the battle.
was sent her. the letter now in
possession of Mrs B l.. Carter. of
CreWe Va, was written by Mrs.
Mohnot to clear up contention
over the exact location of the bat
tleiield
Fighting Locale
The fighting. she writes. was
on my fathers. J. S. Lockett's.
plantation The Confederate army
formed line of battle across the
front yard where they now have
a marker, the cannonS were
planted on the hill Just in front
Of the house facing the approach
ing Union army which took
stand Just in firing distance of
the Confederate army, back of our
h0use
In subsequent paragraphs of
the letter the writer states that
q Confederate officer of forgotten
name advised the family 10 take
refuge in the basement. and that
hehtine began between 4 and 5
O'Clock and continued until sunset
OF later.
Explains Scars
BY way Of the numerous battle
scars still borne by Lockett House
Mrs Monnot wrote, succinctly.
you can see that the house was
between the two armies"
Another paragraph describes
how her l5-year old brother led
the blockadcd Confederate wagon
trains over fork that led through
Thomas Pcrkinson's plantation,
although they were captured very
shortly afterward
After the fighting relaxed Mrs.
Monnot writes the Confederates
withdrew and the Union Army
camped on the nearby fields for
the night and cooked a sumptu-
ouS supper which they were gem
erous enough 10 share with US. as
VIZ had been too busy COOKING
and feeding our half-starved SOL
dlers to take time to eat"
Wounded Treated
AfterWard She writes. wounded
soldiers were brought to the house
and taken care of by Union sur
Reons. until they could be NOV
ed or died
Mrs. Mannot was 81 years old
,t+tna,, tl,1 10y4 I...
Evening star., 1954-09-05

sculpture But l3exmpes Of this most raeed art form. most
y the hristlng praying mants bMbedwe type, have been
strewn through the l6l Of shops gardens and plazas
12nch replica of N-foottan wxk has become best
selling souvenir item restaurant photographs of the
sculpture its Shoppers identity various areas Of the
center with its Meet at the Peacock Terrace they
say. Che peacock by Arthur Kraft IS network Of bronze
rods welded together with an acetyiene torch)
lHE the idea Of architect Victor Gruen. He says
the pbs response due to the fact that the sculpture
inects IAN emotion element into the gigantic $20O00O00
project The condition Guen laid on the six artists chiefly
Of the Midwest commissioned to execute models for the prof.
ec that their work be light and airy He wanted big
dramatic themes uplifting alegoes He needed pieces he
told them, that would be modern, but fun to look at"
His orders have been followed to the letter. Not
Guen could have foeseen the trouble mothers would have
dragging children off big stone bear by Marshall Fredecs
(see cover) Chances that the sty customs official
of 1929 would enjoy this art. EMILY GEMAuER
Evening star., 1954-10-03

or perhaps even custer from the
Senate.
No one, anyhow. was ready to
predict the Mccarthy issue would
be settled this Congress.
Evening star., 1954-10-03
Mendes-Frunce Phase

It was precisely these "details"
that still bothered M. Mendez-
France. Friday he jolted the con-
ference with a fiat rejection Of the
Spaak plan which most of his col
leagues understood he had accepted
in principle.
Stomachs Of the foreign ministers
got that hollow feeling again, like
the one they had felt at Brussels
IN August. just before the French
National Assembly jettisoned EDO.
M. Mendes-France's objections to
the Spaak plan were old ones. The
restrictions of German rearmament
were not nearly specific enough, he
said. He wanted to write them all
down. In the process, it was ap-
parent, he hoped to see them stiff
ened. He wanted:
/. Specific control procedures for
financing of ornaments production,
inspecting imported arms, and pro-
curing raw materials for manufac-
turing arms. These were lacking
from the Spaak plan.
2. Specific prevention of German
production of guided missiles and jet
aircraft as well as banning of atomic
and archaeological weapons produc-
ton.
8. Precise, rather than general,
delineation of forward" (German)
areas where arms production will be
prohibited.
4. An all-European brussels pow
ers) agency for dispensing American
aid. MIR. Dulles has fatty rejected
this idea.
Evening star., 1954-10-03
Western Powers Write Substitute Formula
To Bring Germany Into Anti-Red Alliance

Statesmen OF nine North Atlantic
powers wrote new formula for
bringing West Germany into an
anti Communist alliance last week
after surviving q final French tan
trum that had sent hearts leaping
to throats once more.
Foreign ministers and their stats
worked from Tuesday through Sat
urday amidst alternating hope and
gloom in the stately music room of
Lancaster House in London. On
Friday influenza ridden Pierre
Mendes-France, the French prime
minister. suddenly rejected the basic
proposal all nine foreign ministers
had been working on so hopefully.
Yesterday, he relented, however,
after more safeguards against Ger
man rearmament had been added.
Then he left Lancaster House and
went to bed.
AS the week ended, France,
Britain and the United States were
readying a proclamation OF intent
to end the German occupation soon.
And the new plan for rearming
Germany in an Communist
harness was sent to working parties
which will fill in the details. Then
the various European parliaments
will get their crack at it.
Especially in France, there va
still chance for many q slip 'twix
the cup and the lip.
Evening star., 1954-10-03
What Now?

NJ Mendes-France's Friday per-
formance served to emphasize some-
thing that many outside observers
and apparently good many diplo-
mats-had lost sight of in the early
glow of optimism. There is still a
long, rough road to travel before
West Germany is taken into Eu-
ropes anti-Communist camp.
First, there will be opportunities
fol. snags when the working parties
try to put on paper what the for
eign ministers are agreeing to in
London.
Second, the NATO Council meet
ing, now set for the middle of the
month, will provide another op-
portunity for differences to develop.
third. Herr Adenauer and M.
Mendes-France will have to settle
the question of who gets what in
the Saar. The compromise solu-
ton that EDO provided-interna-
tionalization-will be more diff
cult to achieve with most of the
supranational features of European
life abandoned.
Fourth, the French National AS
sembly could wreck everything
again. It is still teeming with dep
uties who don't want German re-
armament under any circumstances.
This group of ''aginners" starts with
a pool of IS Communists-and this
nucleus proved enough to kill EDO.
Fifth, the Russians have yet to be
heard from. France-and possibly
even Germany-will have to listen
if the Kremlin combines its new
sweet reasonableness about disarm-
ament Launched in the United Ma
tions last week. with an offer to
reunite Germany in return for
naturalization of Western Europe.
The Mendes- France halk last week
should have been timely reminder
to Europe that october, 1854, was not
a time for renewing the false opti-
mism of May, 1852.
Evening star., 1954-10-03
Dulles Phase

While the British warned that
their new offer to keep troops on
the continent would be withdrawn
If the London conference were to
break down. MFR. Dulles stepped In
with compromise.
France and Germany accepted
enough Of it Saturday to save the
day. Chancellor Adenauer agreed
to more restrictions on German pro-
duction of heavy war equipment
such as bombers, naval vessels and
guided missiles.
M. Mendes-France Withdrew some
Of his demands for other yestric-
tions. Essential points OF the Spaak7
plan were accepted all around.
West Germany will get her sover-
eighty, the three occupying powers
agreed, at least as much of 1t as 1t
Is prudent to give her until she is re-
Evening star., 1954-10-03
Far East
Peipine Love Feast,
lndo-Chino Joekeying
Mark Asiun Week

Both Communist and mont Com
munist forces were consolidating
their positions in the Far East last
week. The Reds had much smoother
sailing.
In Peiping. Mao Tse-tung was re-
elected chairman Of the five-year-old
Chinese Peoples Republic and his
old crony. guerilla warrior Gen. Chu
Teh, was named vice chairman by
the National Peoples Congress. That
made Gen. Chu the heir-apparent,
but most observers put the accent
on apparent. Chou En-lai, renamed
premier and foreign minister, and
Liu Shao-chih, the Red theoretician,
are still rated Macs prime contend
ers. Putting Gen. Chu on top Of
them in formal rank avoided q pre-
mature struggle for power. 1t was
believed.
A more serious power struggle was
under way in Southern Wet Nam.
Chief Of State Bao Dai threw his
weight on the side Of Gen. Nguyen
Van Hinh, ordering Premier Nguyen
Dinh Diem to take the army chief
of staff into his cabinet. MIR. Diem.
who wants Gen. Hinh to leave the
country. didn't indicate how he
would react to the Bao Dai order.
Meanwhile in Washington, France
and the United States worked out
formula for taking the French ex-
peditionary forces out OF Southern
Wet Nam by March, 1856. The
United States win help support them
until then. Free Wet Nam, Laos
and Cambodia sat in on some Of
the meetings, and America an
nounced 1t would channel economic
aid directly to them from now on,
instead Of clearing it through France.
Evening star., 1954-10-03

land that Britain help France bal
nee German military power. It
battered 800 years of British ira
ition for keeping aloof from con-
mental affairs in peacetime.
Actually, the Eden announcement
7as the well-planned second half Of
l United States British one two
punch. Secretary Of State Dulles had
delivered the opening blow by warm
ng France that the United States
would take its troops out of Europe
lnless Europe pulled itself together.
}ritoin's Reasons
He emphasized the negative, in
,ther words, while Mr.. Eden &C
cented the positive. Why had Britain
waited until now, after EDO was
dead, to join the continental powers?
Three reasons:
0 Supranational control of British
troops would be much reduced un-
der the Brussels treaty formula.
Individual nations contingents
would be left intact, as in World
War II, rather than integrated at
levels as low as corps or division.
o There is an escape clause in the
Eden concession. If Britain faces
a big crisis within its empire, she
can conceiyably remove all sher
troops from the continent.
Q Britain has four divisions in Ger
many now and has had no plans to
withdraw them abruptly. Making
withdrawal subject to Brussels
power approval until 1898 (when
the treaty expires) is possibly not
as big step as it appears to some.
France took the Eden announce
ment as a gigantic, historic step.
Paris papers were almost hysterical.
Most the headlines said Britain
would stay on the continent until
1898. To Parisians that sounded
almost as far off as doomsday. M.
Mendes-France's supporters claimed
big victory for his diplomacy.
Optimism scared in London, too.
Diplomats announced the confer
ence was "over the hump" They
spent Thursday on details"
Evening star., 1954-10-03
Defense
New Disputes Break Out
Over Hows and Where's
or Military, Spending

Since World War II government
officials and many vocal members
of the public have been split in a
policy dispute over defense priori-
ties. Two questions have been in
volved:
. How should we spend our defense
money? Which weapons are the
most important and should get first
call on the limited defense funds?
. Where should the weapons be
concentrated?
The question of "how?" has four
answers, none mutually exclusive,
but each requiring a new shift of
emphasis. Z The answers boil down
to: Spend more on the Air Force;
spend more on the Navy; spend
more on the Army; spend more on
continental defense.
The question of "where?" has two
significant answers: Concentrate on
Europe; emphasize Asia.
Neither the how nor the where
has received it's final answer. Air
power frequently has had the bet
ter breaks, but all three services
have had their ups and downs,
usually sharing about evenly in de-
fense spending. Europe, of course,
has had first geographical priority,
but the present administration talks
a better Asia game.
Last week the defense dispute had
another round of public airings as
partisans on each side tried to catch
the public's and the Presidents ear.
For the Army -.
Most direct assault was made by
the Army's big guns. Secretary Rob-
ert T. Stevens and Chief of Staff
Matthew B. Ridgway. They went to
Denver to see President Eisenhower,
then held a press conference.
Gen. Ridgway said experiments in
atomic attack and defense have
shown that more manpower is need
ed. Battle areas, he said, would be
both wide and deep so that per-
sonnel and supplies could be dis
persed.
What he had in mind was the
lesson learned from the just-com-
pleted NATO maneuvers in Europe.
Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme
Allied Commander, reported last
week that tactical A-bombs can
break UP troop concentrations, but
that If manpower is scattered and
reserves are available the bombs do
not end the battle.
The rnaneuvers illustrated the fact
that present military emphasis is on
Europe. No such gathering Of
troops could be possible in the East.
Yet NATO wants even more men.
Gen. Ridgway is not about to get
his bigger Army-for either East or
West. In fact, he is due to lose
AL 900 men by next July. To make
the most of what it will hold onto,
he said last week, the Army will
spread its men thinner and increase
the number of divisions from 10 to
"a. Actually, he said, the strength