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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-03-23

field trials at Crewe last Satur-
day.
Mrs. Carlyle Sailing and daugh-
ter of Herndon. spent the week
end with her mother, Mrs. Mamie
Darrell
The Book Club met last Tuesday
night at the Home &c Building,
with Mrs. John Morgan, Jr. Mrs.
Noel Allen and Mrs Rodney Smith
as hostesses-
Mrs. Georgia Burgess of Char
lottesville. was in the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs John Crute over the
week end.
Mrs. Herbert Adams, Mrs. Roop
and Mrs. Mamie Spencer were
business visitors in Farmville on
I Saturday.
I Mrs. Grandson Rodgers visit
/ ed her sister Miss Appling Moss
/ IN Richmond over the week end,
Sympathy is extended to the
/ family of Mrs. Fannie Nicholas.
who passed away on Saturday at
/ Arvonia.
Guests for the week end Of Mrs
Margaret Lacy were w. c. Elcan
Of Dayton. Ohio, and Mrs. G, H
Elcan, Jr.. and two children. Anr
md George of Lynchburg.
Mrs. Cara Marcuson, Walter
/ Marcuson and son Teddy of Rich
mond and Mr.. and Mrs. M. D
Harris of Prospect. were visitors
over the week end of Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Webb.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Wood ane
family were dinner guests Satur'
day evening of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce
Spencer in Farmville.
Donnie Shepherd left severa
weeks ago for basic training at thu
Air National Guard TRAINING
school, Lakeland Air Force Base
in the Virginia Baptist Hospita
Earl Pearson, who was patien
in the Virginia Baptist Hospital
Lynchburg for several weeks is a
home and is improving.
Rev. Kenneth Barnes left Sun
lay for Elon where he will con
/ duct "a revival service this week.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-03-23
Cumberland Prince
Edward Pre-School
Clinics Announced

More preschool clinics were an
nounced today BY the Southside
Health District. for Prince Edward
and Cumberland counties. They
are:
Prince Edward Monday. March
IS. Farmville Elementary School
pupils at Health Department. $50
to 10 a. m. For colored patrons:
Wednesday. March %. health de-
partment, $50 to 10, pupils of
New Bethel. Mission. Levi. Epps.
Virso and Felden schools. Tues
day. April 8. $50 to 10. Mt. Leigh.
Peaks and High Rock; Wednes-
day. April 4 $50 to 10. Five Forks.
Pamplin No. 10, First Rock and
Mercy Seat schools. and Thurs
day. April 5, p. M. health de-
partment, Mary ENBranch school
Cumberland county March %.
health department. / D. M. John
Randolph; March Is, p. m,
Hamilton school. and March %
all colored childen. l D. m.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-03-23
Young Musicians
CONTINUED From Pave -

alton degree now within view,
Joel received his Certificate in
Voice from the College of Music
of Cincinnati twhere he met his
future wife,, B. S. in Music
education from the University OF
Cincinnati, and his Masters in
Muse Education and Voice from
Indiana University. He has not
only studied voice under hal. a
dozen instructors, but took train
ing in violin for ten years. and
competent violist as we'll
Understandable Smaller
JAMS list of accomplishment is
UNDERSTANDABLE smaller. After all
she was married in her senlo.
year in college. and managed to
finish requirements for her de
gree by attending night school at
Richmond Professional Institute
and taking correspondence cour-
ses. She took her training II
voice. piano and organ. and has
served as her husbands &C
companist in all but two of hi:
| recitalS.
In addition to keeping house
raising the two children, anC
participating actively in h c
circle at the Presbyterian church
the Junior Woman's Club ant
other organizations. as well a
keeping her hand in at bridge
Jan is a part-time private voic,
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-03-23
Herald SaIuted For
Milledge Boys Copy

The Farville Herald:
AS acting secretary Of the
Class Of 1911, I wish to thank you
for the splendid coverage you
gave to our guests. the Milledge
Boys, " of Miami, I am med
lcal science editor on the staff OF
Public Health Reports, TIL {
governments oldest periodical
and have an appreciation OF the
problems that confronted you in
your task so we'll done.
l think you were going to send
each Of the Boys a copy of the
issue. VIII you please send me as
many copies as the enclosed
check will cover if you have
that many on hand. I wish to
send copy to each member OF
the class who was there and to
our president. Mrs. S. Gardner
Waller who was not able to
come.
Your sincerely,
Emily w. Johnson
Note: A doff of our editorial
bat TO the Glass Of 1911 for its
cnterpriSng embellishments or the
Founders Day Celebration Edi-
tor
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-03-23
Bible College Team
Will Conduct Two
Services In County

George A. Miles, president of
Washington Bible College, and
the Girls Trio, Will conduct ser
vices in two Prince Edward
Churches this week.
The team will be at Tuggle
Community Church, Saturday
night March "a for a service at
8 p. m. Sunday, the widely known
Bible teacher and the singers will
hold a second service al Worsham
Baptist Church beginning at II
a. m.
The public has been invited to
both services according to Her
man Dowdy. local evangelist
leader
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-03-23

homes. OF the remainder, 68.956
were farm loans and 224.2I4 were
business loans.
Of the l,024.9l9 CT loans repaid
in fun. 809,5ll were home loans
totaling 4.6 billion, 42.277 were
farm loans totaling 1872 million.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-03-23

Leaders of the Home Demon
stration clubs in the county enjoy
ed a talk on Family Life given
by DR.. Sessler. Of VPI at Buck
ingham Court House.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Bruce visit
ed Rowlett Bruce. Jr., at Anna
polls. last week.
Mr.. and Mrs Clyde r. Saunders
Betty Jean and Garrett Saunders
If Kenbridge visited Rev. lc
Mrs. William T. Kesser last week
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-03-23

and l73.l3l were business loans
totaling 420 million.
VA has paid claims to lenders
on only 40.o35 loans Tor homes
1arms and businesses. These loans
had an original principal amount Of
approximately 200 million The net
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-03-23
MilliOnth CT Loan
Repaid In Full

The milbonth veteran has re-
paid his @. l. loan i'll fun. veterans
Administration announced. As OF
January 81. 1856, 1.024.9l9 loans
for homes. farms. and businesses
totaling more than$5.l billion had
been repaid in full, or nearly one
out Of every four CT loans guaran-
teed or insured by VA.
In the ii years of the program.
VA has underwritten 1899 ,685 Gil
loans totaling 34.4 billion. Most OF
the loans. or 4,3oS.5l5 were for
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-03-23

loss to VA has been only 10 million.
or a slightly more than SO cents
for every thousand dollars bor-
rowed. VA said the net loss is sub
ject to further recovery. either
from the veteran or from the iqui-
dation OF tangible security,
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-03-23

Mrs. Helen Ellis Petill of. Wash
ington. D C. visited her parents.
MI and Mrs. Richard Ellis III al
Mount Rush over the week end
Misses 10 Ann Aeee and Flor
ence Wright Of Richmond. were
at their home herr over the week
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-03-23

enc.
MI and MIS- Elijah Throckmor-
ton and family spent last Sunday
in Danyille.
Parks Duffy of Richmond. Her
bert Adams. Jim Baird and
Charles M Spencer attended the
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The Battle
OF the IicI

Levity seems almost out of place
in political campaign. Wrath.
indignation. shock, immodest self
satisfaction-these are the emo
tons suited to the huStings. Last
week, however. in party struggle
over a leSs-than-monumental issue,
the Democrats used levity to good
effect.
Over the past few years a grow
ing number of Republicans, START
ing with the ultraconservative right
wing, have gotten certain ma
licious pleasure out of applying the
grating, ungrammatical title,
Democrat Party" to the opposi-
ton.
After angrily protesting the eff
frontery and threatening to retail
ate with publican" the Democrats
tried a new tack last week. They
issued a purported urgent and
confidential" memorandum to all
Democratic officials and candidates.
The glst of the memo: The DEM
ocratic tor Democrat, as you pre-
fer) response to the Republican
gambit is to sit tight and to con-
tinue to call the opposition the
Republican Party. "the brand name
by which our opponents product is
known and miStrusted."
A secret nationwide public
opinion poll' showed, the memo
said, that the vast majority of
those questioned considered Re
publican Party" to be "the most
descriptive and least attractive" APP
pellation for the party of the Eli
senhower administration. 1t also
reported that special farm belt
poll was conducted on the ques-
ton: What do you call the Re-
publican Party?" THE poll will De
resumed" it said, "as soon as the
field crew of lady interrogators
can be replaced with male ques-
TONERS"
All of which brings to mind
humorist Ogden Nash's observation
of a few seasons back:
Some politicians ore 'RepubIieon,
some Democratic,
And their feud is dromotic,
But except for the name
They ore identcoly the some"
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Italian Reds
Face Setback

A political realignment Of great
importance was taking shape in
Italy last week. Pietro Nenni, lead
er Of the Italian Socialist Party's
left wing, confirmed the probability
Of merger with the Socialist right
led by Giuseppe Saragat.
The significance Of the merger
lies in the seriousness Of the blow
10 Palmiro Togliatti's Communist
party. The Nenni Socialists have
co-operated faithfully with the
Communists since the end Of World
War II. II Mr.. Nenni can take his
followers with im--indications are
that he can--the Reds viii have
suffered a tremendous defeat
Mr.. Nenni ascribed the forthcom-
ing change 70 growing discomfort
and GOODNESS" adding our rela-
tons with the Communism are
evolving toward new forms more
attuned 70 the changing interna-
tional climate"
Cold facts 10 the Communists:
Mr.. Nenni's Socialists poll nearly
3.5 million votes In national cleo
tons.
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the Russian silence. with the estab-
lished practice of the United States
in giving advance notice Of nuclear
tests. The Russian attitude, the
President said. was hardly COM
patible with the Soviet talk of abol.
ishing the atomic weapon from the
arsenals Of the world.
Shortly after the Presidents an
nouncement, the Soviet Union con-
f1rmed it. Moscow said the testing
was being carried out ito perfect
nuclear weapons" and to develop
new types suitable for various
kinds Of troops" Noting that the
United States was demanding a
system of international controls be-
fore banning nuclear testing. the
Kremlin said it was compelled in
the interests of its security to de-
vote the proper attention to testing
nuclear weapons"
The Soviet Union has been .url.
yielding in its demand that a fiat
ban on all nuclear weapons must
<precede either a cessation of tests
or a system Of mutual inspection.
The United States. just as firmly,
has insisted that an effective sys-
tenn of international controls must
come first. While the deadlock re-
mains, the tests will go on.
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Stevenson Tour: Nothing New But the Man

by some Of the things they noticed
in the course Of the recent tour.
They have two grounds for OPP
timism, however. The first is that
the "grass-roots" phase of the cam
paign will not be carried on from
now until election day. AS AFR.
Stevenson begins to grapple with
some of the larger issues of the
election. he is likely to shed his
newly-acquired rusticity. The other
source OF comfort to his friends is
the unanimous conviction among
seasoned politicians that Mr.. Ste
venson today Is far tougher,
scrappier and more effective candi-
date than he was four years ago.
The man who most often gets the
credit for this is the new Demo-
cratic campaign manager, James A.
Finnegan. The theory is that this
hard bitten, down-to-earth pro-
fessional from Philadelphia has
coached his candidate in the basic
political facts Of life.
Finneeon's Explonotion
Mr.. Finnegan himself, however.
is the last to claim any such thing.
Its not Adlai who's changed"
he says. When he was running
for Governor Of Illinois back in
l948 he was just this way talking
10 everybody and folksy as hell"
What has changed. says Mr.. Fin
negans is the background against
which the campaign is being waged.
I'm 1882 Stevenson yves drafted.
He not only didn't ask for the NOM
nation. he actively tried TO avoid it.
What he did after that was mostly
because Of the tightness Of his
Continued on Page B-3
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BY CROSBY S. MOVES
star Stah Correspondent

CHICAGO.-For those who fol-
lowed Adlai Stevenson in 1852. his
recent 5,032 mile fact finding"
junket was very much old-home
week.
In four years the familiar faces
were little changed. Some of the
crowd were bit paunchier. or
grayer, or balder. But they still
pounded the same old typewriters;
still tried the same line of chatter
on Helen Renk, the same lovely
blond airline stewardess; still
clapped and cheered every time
Capt. Fred Jeberjahn set down the
big DC-7 on new runway.
The Pottem is the Same
In each town the crowd might
have been waiting there since 1852.
The welcoming committee with
their white ribbons. the resounding
words Of welcome. the waiting cars
and buses, the confusion, the box
lunches, the breakneck schedules,
the eerie early-morning arrivals,
the red-eyed early-morning depart
tures--nothing had changed.
Nothing. that is, except for the
most essential figure in the whole
performance. The short, rather
awkward figure, the quick hands,
nervous smile and alert. anxious
eyes we're familiar enough. And
yet there was no escaping the fact
that since we last saw him. some
thing remarkable had happened TO
the man around whom our small.
chaotic universe revolved. The trip
was not many hours old before
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Downed Plane:
Dual Restraint

Yesterday the United States for.
mally demanded that Communist
China pay damages for the "un-
justified" shooting down of a Navy
patrol plane last week. The attack
of the coast of China took the lives
OF the is crewmen aboard the PAM
Mercator reconnaissance plane.
On Tuesday Mr. Dulles disclosed
that the Peiping regime had ac-
knoWledged the attack in a reply
to British query requested by the
United States. Red China had con.
tinued, however. to describe the at
tackled aircraft as Chang Kai.
shek plane"
The tone of the American state
ment, made Jointly by the State
and Defense Departments, was
plainly restrained in the hope Of
avoiding major explosion in the
jittery Formosa area. The carefully
worded text even admitted the pos
sibility of errors in navigation"
that may have brought the plane
over or near Chinese offshore is
lands. But the statement noted
that the position of wreckage re-
covered by search ships indicated
the downed aircraft was over inter-
national waters when attacked.
The formal protest revealed that
the Peiping government, in its reply
to the British query. had declared
that if the plane turned out not
to be Chinese Nationalist plane
but a United States naval aircraft,
they could not but express great
regret"
Such calm and courteous Lam
guage on the part of both sides con-
trasted sharply with the blunt bell
ligerence that marked most Of the
contacts between the two nations
in the past.
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everyone was asking the question:
What has come over Adlai Steven
son?
His closest associates had no
quick answers.
He's Learned a Lot
"All know" said Wilson WYATT,
who managed the Stevenson caru.
paign in 1852. lis that l could never
have gotten him to do this the last
time. He's learned lot along the
line. But think it was what hap
pened in the primary campaigns
that really did the trick"
Whatever it was, Adlai Stevenson
is a very different man these days.
The reluctant candidate" running
from Office at the same time as he
ran for it is gone. Today. Mr.. Ste
venson rates as one OF the eagerest
beavers in the business His hand
shaking technique may stlll lack
the logged persistence of his run
ming mate, Estes Kefauyer.
Unexpected kisses from excited
lady greeters may still provoke
perceptible vince. Now and then.
under extreme provocation. the
smile may freeze a little. But no
one who has watched the candidate
moving his way through the grass
roots can doubt that he IS in there
pitching with all the will md de-
termination he can muster
The "egghead" has disappeared
too. Today. in speech as in man
ner, there is a down-to-earth folksi-
ness which sometimes borders on
caricature. Addressing small-town
crowds, the clipped accents give
way to a relaxed drawl and even
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way, internationalized by the treaty
of 1888. will be operated SO as
dependably to serve its appointed
purpose.
Nosser Fires Back
A response from Cairo was not
long delayed. The next evening Col.
Nasser summoned United States
Ambassador Henry Byroade on
short notice. He fatty told the
envoy that he regretted President
Eisenhower'S statement. And he
lectured Mr.. Byroade on the ada
mant stand that the Suez Canal
is IAN integral part of Egypt"
Almost at the same time. the
Egyptian Ambassador to Washing
ton, Ahmed Hussein. was protesting
to Mr.. Dulles about the same state
ment. Mr.. Hussein declared that
"all historic facts prove that
the Suez Canal was never interna-
tionalized and was always Egyptian
territory under Egyptian sover-
eighty"
Mr.. Dulles late Thursday let it
be known that in using the term
international he had not meant
to impugn Egyptian sovereignty.
All he intended, it was said. was to
stress the international right to
freedom of passage.
And President Eisenhower. too,
treasured Col. NasSer. At his press
conference on Friday, Mr.. Eisen-
hover said an apparent misunder-
standing" had arisen over his use
of the troublesome word. He sug-
gested that he and the Egyptian
chieftain were talking at cross
purposes and tried to make it
clear that he meant only the right
of all nations, under the Treaty of
1888. to use the canal in perpetuity.
Mr.. Eisenhower again emphasized
that the United States was not
challenging Egyptian ownership of
the canal, and said the proposal to
NC SuDt1llJJCQ W wi. NdooCl OOAAOA
row fully respects the sovereignty
of Egypt"
The President avoided comment
on the military moves of France
and Britain. But in all his remarks,
he appeared to be earnestly seeking
to bring about a calmer atmosphere
for the Cairo talks. I'VE are deter
mined to exhaust every possible,
every feasible method of peaceful
settlement" he told newsmen.
The actual threat of military ac-'
ton had increased during the week
with the dispatch of French units
to Cyprus. The British Foreign Of
flee announced on Wednesday that
Britain had agreed to French
request to send troops there ito in
sure. in case of need, the protection
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THE NATIONAL SCENE
1851 Of Victory

Gov. Thomas B. Stanley to deal
with the problem by refusing State
school funds to any community
that integrates its schools--even
should it be ordered to do so by
a Federal court. Gov. Stanley's
proposal, in effect. shelves the
Gray Commission plan, combined
program of tuition grants and pupil
assignments designed to prevent
forced" indignation.
Opposition to the Stanley plan
was widespread in the Assembly.
Opponents. who were not unsym-
pathetic to the idea OF continuing
segregation. felt that the Gov
ernor's open defiance proposal
would invite an early rejection in
Federal courts. and thus in a few
months require fresh strategy.
Many legislators suspected that a
weeks recess called on Wednesday
was an administration maneuver
to buy time to be used for strength
, ening the support Of the Governors
plan. Developments over the week
end seemed to subStantiate this
suspicion. A compromise move was
afoot which might tone down the
Stanley proposal.
Violence Appears
Other Southern areas, faced with
imminent integration as the new
school term begins. resorted to
more drastic measures to defy the
high courts indignation rulings.
In Clinton. Tenn, pro-segrega-
tionists took a course long familiar
in the South: violence. The fuse
was lighted by q court order on
Monday which integrated Clinton
High School. Out-of-State proseg-
regationists descended on the town
and before long a mob of 1000 was
stopping cars and yelling and
chanting through the streets. Ne
groes in two cars passing through
from the North were set upon and
barely escaped. Local officials
pleaded for State help.
BY last evening, Gov. Frank
Clement found it necessary to dis
patch 100 highway patrolmen to
preserve peace" in Clinton, which
was threatened by new violence
growing out of a scheduled anti
indignation rally. The patrolmen.
were to be followed today by units
of the National Guard.
In Mansfield. Tex, whose schools
also have been integrated by court
order, Texas Rangers moved in to
quiet a mob of 800 near the high
school and roughed up a photog-
rapher and threatened an assistant
district attorney.
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an occasional grammatical lapse;
carefully written statements handed
out to the press get scrambled up
as the speaker fits haphazardly
from roint to point. If there is
applause, Mr.. Stevenson warns:
"You folks better look outfit | 80
on may get all worked up and
make a speech"
New Edge TO Humor
Even the Stevenson sense OF
humor, which flashed so brightly
through most of his speeches in
1852, has undergone transforma-
ton. The polish, the urbanity and
the characteristic tone Of self-de-
probation have given way to more
homespun brand Of laughter.
Today Mr.. Stevenson gives the
impression Of taking most things
including himself--a good deal more
seriously. What quips there are
are usually heavily barbed. aimed
squarely at someone in the Repub-
lican administration. The favorite
targets so far have been Vice Presi-
dent Nixon and Secretary Of Agri-
culture Benson. But there has been
enough sly talk about putting
greens and promises TO go TO
Washington if elected" to suggest
that President Eisenhower himself
may be the ultimate bull's-eye as
the campaign warns up.
To some of Mr.. Steyenson's adj
mirers, the change that has taken
place is not wholly welcome. Those
who applauded his performance in
l952--who rated him as new kind
OF politician. witty. articulate. and
fastidious as he was-are distressed
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Stanley Plan
Hits a Snog

The Virginia General Assembly
began its special segregation ses-
sion last week and in three days
received II bills dealing with school
indignation and racial issues.
Most of them represented ideas
from individual legislators for meet
ing, circumventing, delaying. or
defying the Supreme Courts inte-
grafton ruling or compliance with it.
Of most interest was scheme by
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Soviet Atoms:
New Blasts

The Soviet Union is still very busy
with nuclear weapons President
Eisenhower announced Friday that
the second test blast within a week
had been detected. larger than the
one preceding The disclosure Was
the fourteenth time the United
States had publicly revealed So
Wet nuclear weapons explosions
since the first test on September
%. 1919.
The President took the occasion
TO repeat his criticism Of Soviet
secrecy in not announcing the test
blasts In advance. He contraSted