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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-11-08
High Schooi P-TA's
Membership Drive
Adds l36 To Rolls

The FarmWlle High School
Parent Teacher Association mem
bership roll has reached 1876 under
a member-driye being led by a
committee OF Mrs Frank Jones.
chairman Mrs. Jack Jones and
Mrs CALVIN Bass
The committees report vas en-
thuslaticaily received during
last Thursday nights meeting Of
the P~TA when patrons visited
classrooms for the association 3
annual parent teacher talks meet
ing
IN the business session preced-
ing 70 room visitation. members
voted TO ION tho National Con-
Rress OF Parents and Teachers.
the nationwide organization Of
P-TA's In the same session. NJ
U Leete FHS principal discussed
With parents the grading system
used OF the school IN arriving at
monthly conduct grades for all
pupils
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-11-08
Old Belt Weekly
Averages Continue
[ pWard to S56.89

Demand vas strong last week
for Old Bet nue tobacco as
average prices for larger mum
oer 81 gIades moved up To their
nigh 81 levcls II the season Gross
sles for the week ending Nopem =
bef 4 amounted 10 70 Coz 998
pounds at All average Of $50 80 per
hundred TIE average exceeded
ne previous high Of last week by
csc
Sales foI the season were plac-
m at ~ 846.l33 pounds ayerag-
my $5387 The volume Is still run
nine over 20 million pounds ahead
of TIE comparable period 81 last
year
Nearly 90 per cent Of the grade
average were higher The IN
cteascs we're mostly 81 90 and
S2.0 per hundred however, a
few were ~ $500 and $500 Sew
efa grades we're unchanged and
onl} very small number we're
lover EHcepi for decrease in the
percentages Of leaf quality Of Of
ferIuRs was about the same as last
week Around 70 per cent of the
matkcllues Hete leaf and smoking
leaf
I4r proportion of tobacco turn
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-11-08
At Green Bay School Friday
Family Supper To HighHght
reinforcement DdyFor Clubs

county federation has planned a
gala evening which includes q
family supper from 7 TO sl5 fol-
lowed By TIE formal program III
tie auditorium from that hour
until 8
OIae Of the h ghllghts Will be a
repeat Of the popular chicken
eating contests for the menfolks
VINO accompany their wives for
the evening
4 five dollar award awaits the
club having the highest percent
age Of members present for the
annual event, Mrs Gee has an
nounced
CLUB presidents R1ll take their
annual reports; scrapbooks viii be
displayed. members introduced
and the hlghiights Of the demon
STATIONS and leader training pro-
gress Of the past year VIII be sum
married
One Of tie federation objectlYes
this year is to have greater inter-
club contacts To promote wider
county friendships Mrs Gee SAID
Fridays meeting VIII provide one
Of the best opportunities for the
clubs to adtancc toward thlsob-
jective
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-11-08
Average Prince
Edward I arm
Valued al S7,9W
New Farm Census
Lists Land Value
500 90 Per Acre

Prince Ed1ard coDty 1879
farms aYefaQe ~ aeres il s.ze
and the average value If lard and
build nqs ID $7se9 preliminary
1854 Census II Agriculture just
released by the y S. Department
~ Commerce states
The average value 81 farm land
per acre is $50 90 when repre-
asnts an increase Of SO since 1853.
me report reveals
Generally the data collected are
based upon t&bulatlon If reports
for al farms IN the county How
ever some ~ The Information
represents cft.males for all farms
made or tne bass u exports fl9m
d sampi' d approximately % per
cent oi the conntys farms
The report states that these
estimates are subject 70 samplIng
errors and hence 4ii! not agree
exactly win sucH totals had they
been obtained by precise taD4-
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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-11-08
IL IIIfRAN MOVIE

A movie entitled THE Meascn-
gcr OF Peace will be shown to
THO 81 John Luthcron conrrega-
don tonight Tuesday at 80
The movie tells thc story OF
Christian pastor who accepts a
rall 70 a small rural community.
aoWs tie sood OF the Gospel.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-11-08
GRAHAM CONVERTS UEDS

Reading England Charlie Pot
ter. 44-year-old Communist par
u organizer went with "A friend
TO hear Billy Graham famous
evangelist lust 10 see what IT VAS
all about Now Potter SAYS he has
rejected .his MarN lst beliefs.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-03-11
THE READERS
FORUM
Teachers Have Responsibility
To Take Needed Action

Editor of The PEOPLES VOICE,
Helena Montana.
We have seen some of the results
of the last session of the Legislature and
doubtless wonder why we even bother
to spend the money for it, The high
ways are left to shift into horse and
buggy gear, and the schools may be
given a Dlanner to build and design
buildings without even down payment
for a piece of ground for them.
/ have been criticized for advocating
that the teachers strike in effort to
force effective legislation. We couldn't
have done worse this session If we hsAAa
not even mentioned schools. 4 am say
ing now that it isn't ease of whether
we want to strike or not. pm telling
you, that won't get what is dras-
ticaIIy needed without showing our
teeth on picket line, kennel dogs and
bird dogs not excepted!
Mr.. Parkinson and I have disagreed
on some issues in the past, but / will
grant him credit he has some good
points in his article about the little
red school houses. In the first place,
it should be mentioned however that
the situation in the past has been, that
those schools were not damned with
so many kids it took the teacher three
days to remember all the kids names.
When | attended those schools, it was
a large class if there were more than
thirteen to a teacher. More often it was
eight or ten. Now there are thirty and
forty and one highly trained baby
sitter, for you are little more than that
in such a situation Who will argue
that a less highly trained teacher is
far more effective in class of eight
or ten than q highly trained person with
thirty? In keeping school costs down,
there is also a point in Mr.. Parkinson's
letter, and that is, the cost of real
estate is much less in a rural district,
and this is a considerable item when
you must provide adequate playground
space in city for example.
You almost must be classroom teach
er with thirty live-wire kids to know
how damaging this overlooking of
classes is. That is why say it is the
teachers responsibility to take the
drastic action needed to force the peo-
pie to act in their own good
Let's quit kidding ourselves, the
teachers are laboring men and women,
and if you don't believe it, step behind
our desks and teach for a week if you
hing your health is good
We are considered public servants,
md as such, it is our duty to serve the
public Well by not only acquainting
hem with the seriousness of the school
,risis, but also to implement action to
correct those problems. This does not
mean covering under our desks and
parking among ourselves like coyotes
n den. Respectfully yours.-KEITH
;. HAMILTON, an eight-hour father of
hirty children, Elko, New.
P.S.-By the way, if anyone wants
letter qualified teachers in Montana
# elsewhere, there is no better way to
Set this done than to pay enough wages
0 justify the extra expense of another
ear or two in college. 1t is the Ameri-
an way and an unfailing incentive.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-03-11

"When the School Foundation Pro
gram was enacted into law by the 31st
| Legislative Assembly in 1949, the
schedule by and through which the
money in the Fund derived from
school district, county and state to be
allocated to the school districts within
the state) was adopted after lengthy
consideration and hard thinking by
leading educators and financiers in
the state had concluded as to what
that schedule should be. 1t was so
arranged that with this school Foun-
dation Program schedule plus the per-
missive levy allowed school boards,
the school boards in most instances
could and did take care of the cost of
the school in their districts without
any further financing.
''But because of initiation and de-
manded higher standards by our citi-
zens, the costs of our schools have
gone up faster and by a greater per-
centage than has the schedule in the
School Foundation Program and as a
result of this, it was necessary last
year for 564 or approximately so per
cent of the school districts in the state
to call special elections so that the
electors in the districts could vote an
additional levy in order that the kind
of schools they wanted could be fl
nanced. And in all of these 564 dis
tricts with the exception of about ten,
the additional levy was voted. This
shows that our people want good
schools and are willing to pay for
them. But | know it is embarrassing
for school boards to have to call these
elections year after year and see no
just argument for tying the hands
of the school boards.
after all, these special elections
cost extra money and the total in
564 districts would be great besides
the inconvenience to the voters.
House Bill No. 80, by raising the
schedule in the School Foundation
Program by about 7 per cent would
permit more school boards to take
care of their school finances without
-esorting to an additional levy to be
voted by the taxpayers within the
district. Even though the schedule of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-03-11

scribed by John Buchanan, Pontiac
Federation of Teachers Local AT
with this terse statement:
Pontiac needs an increased budg-
ct for books, visual aids, and other
supplies. Junior high schools are linn
tied to two boxes of bandaids per
semester. Much of our budget is for
building. Federal aid for building,
would release funds for more ade-
quate salaries"
In the Quaker City, Margaret Root,
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers,
Local 3, said the city's problems are
to erect schools in new areas of fami-
lies with children, and to replace Old
schools in the city.
"Most urgent" she said, "is re-
placement of old buildings dating as
far back as 1885. Generally these old
buildings are in sections where rec
reation opportunities are limited and
delinquency is high"
Thomas Pagan, South Kingston
(R.L) Teachers Alliance, Local 986,
replied: eve have just completed
81 u million dollar junior and senior
high school, paying for it ourselves.
The financial burden is all but I'M
bearable. Because of this burden.
many feel that they cannot afford to
live in our community, and must seek
facilities more in keeping with their
hot 20 a. s,~f T.
not meet needs of our youth without
financial assistance from our federal
government.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-03-11
Mcnamara Urges Immediate
School Building Aid

WASHINGTON, d. C.-The presi-
dents school building plans will take
too long to get going, Senator Pat
rick V. Mcnamara (D-Mich.) warned
Potomac Cooperative Federation's
annual dinner here, March 1. He said
he much preferred the plan of Sena-
tor Lister Hill (D-Ala.) to use exist
ing channels to get classrooms built
right away. Education is our big
gest industry. We just can't afford
to continue in second-class schools" "
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-03-11

ness against next years school dis
trict budgets.
The Bureau has not asked for this
additional $280,0OO, although it was
the Bureaus agent who issued the
orders and made the promises which
resulted in the deficit.
Miss Condor headed delegation
of Montanans who appeared before
the subcommittee to explain the re-
quest.
1t was Mr.. Willard j. Smith, Super
intendent of School District No. IA,
Hot Springs, who called the Bureaus
action in cutting the reimbursement
"enough of a blow to cripple us fl
nancially" Here is Mr.. Smiths Jan
uary 81, 1855, summary of the sit
uation at Hot Springs:
"Under their (the Bureau's) crit
eria, our school budgeted $4,000 as
anticipated revenue for the current
school year This amount was APP
proved by the area office and al
though we were somewhat skeptical
we had no choice but to enter the
amount in our budget. By doing this,
we precluded any possibility of rails
ing the money by taxation on the
school district.
after our tax levies were set
we were informed that the appro-
priation had been cut 500. That
was enough of a blow to cripple us
financially. Last week | was in
formed that the Billings area office
has now excluded us from any as
sistance this year.
"Our cash reserve is about $1,000.
This has been used and we will now
have to start registering all our school
warrants. We will end our school
year with no cash reserve and APP
$4,000 in the red. With
out cash reserve we would have to
operate our school on registered war
rants until December, 1866. This
would mean paying interest on all
our warrants for this period plus
additional levies on our school district
to make up the $4,000 plus interest.
levy of approximately 40 mills is
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-03-11
INDIAN BUREAUS ACTION WILL FINANCIALLY
CRIPPLE Many MONTANA SCHOOLS
By CONG. LEE METCALF
BY CONG. LEE METCALF

A House Appropriation subcom
mittee is considering a request BIZ
which a number of us seek to ware
off what one Montanans calls sc
Gripping blow" to the Montana pub
lie school districts with Indian Edu
cation. The request for $28O,680 de.
ficiency appropriation was heard last
week. Here's the story.
Last year, as usual, our Super
intendent of Public Instruction,
Miss Mary Nj. Condor, other state
tiated a contract with the Bureau
of Indian Affairs. 1t is under this
contract that Uncle Sam reim-
burses Montana Districts educat-
ing Indian children.
The former head of the Bureau S
Billings area office insisted upon
application of new criteria in calcu-
lating the reimbursements. Miss Con-
don warned the area director that the
criteria were unrealistic and would
require appropriation of more than
S640,000 for Montana, almost twice
the amount of money formerly neces-
sary. In spite of these warnings. the
area director insisted upon use of
these criteria and promised that mon
ey would be forthcoming if the crit
eria were followed.
Acting upon the order and assur-
ance of this federal official, the peo-
pie of the school districts concerned
budgeted and levied property taxes
for the local share of education costs.
BY statute, these budgets and levies
are fixed and cannot be adjusted
after they are set. When it came
time to pay up, the Bureau of Indian
Affairs produced only little more
than half the money which its agent
had promised.
lie the rest of the money is not
Forthcoming many of these dis
tricts will be disasterously in debt
at the end of this school year. Cash
reserves necessary TO finance
school operations from July /, 1855
to next December i will be wiped
out in many cases, and some of the
districts will have to register war
rants, which become an indebted
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-03-11

necessary to raise $4,000 on oul
school district"
Roman has $4,000 at stake in
this request.
Other summaries include these
from:
Della c. Carolan, Rosebud county
superintendent" have an emer-
gency situation and | can think of no
way to equalize it outside congress
sional appropriation"
E. Ford Slaught, superintendent,
district No. As, Wolf Point-"We can
conservatively estimate need for
registering warrants from 100000
to $4,000 before this condition can
be corrected
Laura P. Strand, Big Horn county
superintendent" 500 reimburse
ment by the Bureau will leave many
school districts disastrously in debt
at the end of the school year."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-03-11

still have wooden stairs in some grade
buildings"
eThe present situation in the
schools of Kentucky" replied Mrs
Dorothy c.. Hall, president of the
Louisville Federation of Teachers,
Local 672, ''is a national disgrace.
"More than 81 per cent of candi-
dates from Kentucky, July through
November, 1854, failed the Army
literacy tests, against national aver
age of per cent. More than 5000
teachers left the profession in Ken
lucky last year because of undesir-
able working conditions and made
quate salaries"
OLD CHURCH TO RESCUE
'Most of our buildings" Kentucky
Federation of Teachers President
Stella Ball wrote, care of the one
room type. Most have no running
water or electricity. Outdoor toilets
are still used. The old frame buildings
are heated by one coal-burning stove.
The children near the stove burn and
the ones farther away freeze.
"At the school, Woodbine High,
where I teach, four grade school
teachers are teaching in an old
church. They are separated only by
makeshift curtains. The noise is deaf
ening. Another teacher has a room
in a poorly lighted, poorly ventilated
basement room in another building"
Restrictions on Pontiac, Mich, pub
lie schools which has pledged itself
20 pay-as-you-go policy, are de-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-03-11

the School Foundation Program can
be met only about so per cent, it per-
mits the school boards to budget on
the higher schedule; and the appropri-
alton from the state general fund will
be the same whether HB 80 or lib 131
(which continues the present sched-
ule) is enacted into law. 1t VII be
$9,665,000 for the next two years. 1t
was $9,330,000 for the two years
1851 and 1852.
81 cannot see how it will cost a tax
payer in a district for the same kind
of a school more money regardless of
whether the money comes through the
School Foundation Program plus the
permissive levy, if lib No. 81 is en-
acted into law, or from those two
sources plus voted levy, which would
be the result, if lib 131 is enacted
into law. If any difference it would
cost more money under the latter.
Good schools cost just so much re-
gardless of where the money comes
from"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-03-11
Comics OutseII Texts

BERKELEY, Calif.-A University
of California survey reported here
that more money is spent for comic
books in the United States each year
than IS spent for all the nations ele-
mentary and secondary school text
books.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-03-11
Few WHooPING CRANES

The whooping crane, with 90
inch Widespread, now numbers fewer
than 25 in the United States, says the
National Geographic Society. All but
two winter on Arkansas National
Wildlife Refuge, Texas. They migrate
to nesting grounds in northwest Can
ada.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-03-11
Need for Action Emphasized
Need for Action Emphasized
AFL Teachers Union Study
Shows Schools Plight


s
AFL
thes an
of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-03-11
STATE Representative Tells HIS
VIEWS REGARDING SCHOOL
FOUNDATION SETUP

House Bill 49, finally approved represented compromise between
full budgeng
their entirety The Senate attempted
million dollars final
almost half between with the
article, written before na
further light the foundation
school boadEDlTOR
BY REP J. HOMER (R-YeIowstone)
Member, Education Committee
In ellowstone
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-04

Readied by dusk, they pitch camp at
Westport Landing, strike it before day
break, head southwest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-04

Lance and Blaze shrug and do the same.
with sounds of panic as plains animals
scurry before the onrushing flames.
II amt worried bout it." Blaze whispers.
I "But dyew reckon this tent viii keep
, out tn fahr?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-04

Construct hundreds of wonderful work.
ing models! It's easy and so much fun
with Erector! Each set has loads of parts
Rugged steel girders, heavy plates,
precision-made gears, wheels and pinions.
Design and build your own inventions, or
use the How to Make EN-" book with
your set. You'll create models that oper-
ate by remote control, run forward and
reverse. glow with real electric lights!
See exciting action Erector models
now on display at your dealers They're
fascinating. Take Dad along. He'll love
'em. too. Pick the set you want for Christ
mas! Erector Sets start as low as $780,
Write fer Your Free Gilbert Toy cosaios TedayI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-04

EREcToR No, 6L wv The Electric Engine set
More than 325 real steel parts como packed
in this big steel chest. Powerful motor runs
Ia forward and reverse and has Magic Twist
coupling that sends power from the motor IA
\ the model III bends. twists and loops. Make
Nv Windmill, Lift Bridge Pump. Airpiane
Y beacon and hundreds of either wonderful
seton models Only Z pSs
sslshsIy hishsr Deavsf md Wet s4 N
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-06
|Russions Avoid Toronto
To See Big Ottowo Form

OTTAWA. Sept. 6 ga visit
to a big experimental farm was
lined UP for IL visiting Russian
agriculture experts today after
a 40o-mile drive to bypass To-
ronto.
A two-day tour of Toronto
and the Canadian National Ex-
lhibition was Cancelled because OF
reports that Toronto was unre-
Iceptive to the Russians visit,
They came directly here Sunday
from Niagara Falls.
The leader of the Soviet dele
cation. Vladimir Matskevich,
told a news conference plans
were changed because Of a To-
ronto newspaper report that
city officials planned to ignore
the visitors. There also had
been reports that Toronto anti
Communists planned demonstra-
|tions against the Russians such
as have greeted them in Mon
treal. Winnipeg and London.
Ontario.
Toronto City Clerk George
Weale said the city had not
planned a reception. but that
police were scheduled to give
the Russians an official escort.
Another city official said that If
Federal officials had wanted To-
ronto to extend an official well
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-06
Editor Rescued
After River Leap

NEW YORK. Sept. 8 R.-
Mrs. Frances Rushmore, former
women's editor Of the New York
Journal-American and wife Of
Magazine Editor Howard Rush
more. was pulled out Of the East
River yesterday by q garage
mechanic.
81 didn't fan and I wasn't
pushed. ! Jumped" police quoted
her as saying.
Mrs. RuShmore resigned from
the newspaper by telephone last
Friday. giving Ill health as the
reason. a spokesman for the
newspaper said.
Police said Mrs. Rushmore ar
rived at q waterfront gas sta
ton with an unidentified man In
10 car bearing Oklahoma plates.
While the driver Of the car went
into the station to ask for d.
rections. police said, q passerby
notified the station manager that
q woman was In the river.
Mechanic Amasvindo Faria
launched q rowboat and pulled
Mrs. Rushmore from the water.
Mr.. Rushmore. formerly a coll
umnist for the Journal-Ameri.
can. now is editor of Confiden-
tial magazine.