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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09

weather promised to be ideal No
finer day could have been ordered
and the Scouts busily prepared for
the triumphant hike of the last
few miles
Appomattox Surrender Grounds
The sbn shone brightly and
everyone was in top spirits as they
entered Appomattoy Memorial
Park. They crossed the Appofnat-
toX River without a moments
hesitation this time-nOt on q
monkey bridge but using the
automobile bridge on Route "a
After reaching the old village
of Appomattox Court House, the
Scouts split up and visited the
points Of historical interest. w r.
Turner Of Blackstone. local au-
thority Oh the Civil War Cespe-
cially from Sayler's Greek to APP
poms toXb gave brief description
of ,he battle and the retreat by
the Army of Northern Virginia
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09

Nh Turner had prepared his talk
fol- Friday night, but was rained
ont
The explorer hike fell alm3zt
exactly on the 9Cnd anniversary
Of Lees retreat and the Scouts
now have hopes of receiving a.
National Boy Scout Emblem
coveted Boy Scout Historic Trek
award
Area Scouts among the So per
sons making the "Trip were. Roy
cock and George Plunkett. Farm
vile Scoutmaster William r.
Gravatt. Jack Boswell. and wayne
,BurkeyiIle. Jim Neale and
Gary Harris. Keysyiue: and Scout.
master William Chappel Jim
Price, Gerald Price, John Canada
johnson and Gene
Davis. Pampln Other groups
came from Hurt, Danville. Lynch
burg, Rustburg, South Boston
and AppomattoX
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09
Hugh Runion, so,
Buried at Concord

Graveside services were held
Sunday at Concord Baptist church
cemetery in Charlotte county for
Hugh Runion, SO, a farmer who
died Friday at a Lynchbue hos
pital
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Media Foster Runion; three sons,
J L. Runion G R Runion. and
} c Runion Of Cullen. two
daughters, Miss Roberta Runion
and Miss Betty Runion. also Of
Cullen two brothers, Dolphus
Runion and Cornelius Runion.
both Of Erwin, Tenn, and fou
sisters, Mrs. Issac Chandler, Mrs.
J L. Higgins and MIS-. Margaret
Upton, all Of Erwin, Tenn. and
Mrs Mary Watts, Of Limestone.
Tenn.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09
.oWay school board member.
pauelists' Views

aEltIists Views
III answer to a question about the
proposed II month operation Of
schools, Johnson suggested that PISS
sibly q different type Of educational
program could be offered in the
summer He noted tho strain on
teachers difficulties IN the rehabili-
tatIon Of buildings and equipment
and objections Of parents in telling
that every system which has tried
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09
Scout Hike
Continued from page Il


home. the foundation of the Will
liam D, Jones store KesWick, and
other points Of interest, before en-
tering into the Buckingham APP
pomattox state Forest.
Camp wa5 pitched Saturday
night while it was still light The
day had been windy and. cold, but
ideal for hiking the IS miles
scheduled that day Trees and
bushes were trying To break out
in full bloom, but were held back
by the cold rain
a pleasant campfire was held
Saturday night. before the ex-
plorers turned In. thinking Of the
scant. seven miles that separated
them from their goal, Appomattox
surrender grounds.
Sunday broke clear and the
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09
District P-TA
tContlnued rom page y

Carnage. Cumberland. Mrs Helen
Wilson, Nottoway, and Mrs AGREE
Chappen, Prince Edward
A panel discussion Lets Look at
Our Schools was presented during
the morning session. with Joe Hazel
grove as moderator. Panehsts were
Irwin S Driscol, Buckingham school
superintendent; Edgar johnson. Vir-
ginia Congress Of Parents n d
Teachers first vlce-president, M. O..
Leete, Farmyille High School prn-
cipal and william NJ Gravatt, Not
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09

There were GO patients in the
hospital Monday morning
Patients Admitted
Mrs D. r. Bradley. Prospect.
Michael Waycaster. Dillwyn, Miss
Doris Garrison. Pamplin. Charles
Haag Farmville; Miss Margaret
Southau, Pamplin; Mrs. r. c. Rob
ertson. Farmvlle; Miss Evely n
Cooper, Farmyille; Mrs. {. P. Culli-
ton, Crewe; Mrs A. B Smith.
Jetersville; Mrs. J. H. Burnley.
Farmville, Calvin Bass. Rice
Also, Miss Laura Trader, Oak
Hill A L Pitts, III. Dulwyn John
Hamilton. Burkeyille. Perkins Red
ford, Crewe Mrs. C. T Lamberth,
Cullen. J W Pearce, Victoria, G
f Love. Victoria; Mrs. R W
Fuqua, Prospect; Mrs. B W Gates.
Rice: 0 A Puryear Crewe, and
Mrs Iris Buchanan. Prospect
Births
Mr. and Mrs r r Yeats. Rice.
girl April
Mr. and Mrs. c A. Hackney
Crewe. girl. April S.
Mr. and Mrs Willard Moreland.
Blackstone. girl. April 5.
Mr. and Mrs. T c. Bruce, Farm
vile, boy. April 7.
Mr. and Mrs f M Cehaubeck
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09

things as public use Of buildings,
buses and facilities
Principal Leete outlined the pur-
poses and advantages Of pre-regis-
traitor on the last day of the SEES
sion as against registration at the
opening Of the session Under the
former system. principals would
have the entire summer to arrange
master schedules. and students and
teachers would have more time to
prepare for the new session.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09
Amelia Game Food
AllCttments Made

Amelia county has been allotted
1850 pounds of annual game food
mixture and 230 pounds Of milo.
Handling both are Gonjoe An
derson, Ammon J. M Sydnor
Mannboro; R j Easter Truxillo
/, A. Coleman. M. S, Anderson ana
Island Ford Hunt Club
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09
Amelia Bridge Bids
Requested BY VDH

Bids on a 3O5-foot steel and
concrete bridge. with 24-foot
roadway on new location at the
Appomattox river between Win
terpock and Amelia have been
requested by the State Highway
Department.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09
Mrs. G. L. Willard
Dies at Jetersyille

Funeral services for ms. Bessie
Johnson Conrad Willard are
scheduled for II a N. Tuesday
at Woody Funeral Home III Rich
mond Burial is to be IN River
view cemetery there
Mrs. Willard. the wife of Grady
L. Willard. died Sunday at her
home in Jetersyille. she is a-so
survived by a brother Oliver nj.
Johnson. Of Richmond
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09
Southside Hospital
PATIENT LIST

tota boy April T.
Colored Patients
John Dillard Farmville Cary
Hill, Farmville. and John White,
Farnyllle
C0l0red Births
Harry and Martha Simms. brakes
Branch grit April 5.
Jack and Betty Jones Prospect,
boy, April 8
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1957-04-09

In Virginia 1893 persons were
enrolled in federany aided vocation
al classes during 1855.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-03
Work Restricted

FoI instance. Ill the District boys
under Is MAJ net work on elevators
or in tunnels Oh tobacco ware
houses. Washington girls under 18
cannot ne bcotbIacks OF distribute
handbills And AZ night. the Dis
trict bans work BY girls under lS
and boys uncer IS between the
hours of pm. ana am
Virginia won't let girls under
Is work IL restaurants except in
seasonal hotels if the girls are Is.
Virginia boys under ID cannot work
ENrOund machinery And the Old
Dominion forbids children under
10 to work after pm
Maryland bans girls under ID
from working in places Of amuse-
ment except in the Office after
school and bovs under 18 can't work
on commercial vehicles. Night re-
strictionS on minors under l6 are
between Z pm and am.
OF course, the very numbers of
teen-agers graduating each year
are a problem III Job hunting. Last
year. there we're more than 5000
high school graduates in the area.
- follows:
d. C.. 1904: Montgomery County.
1.I23: Prince Georges County.
I.773: Alexandria. 3s4; Arlington
County. 955. and Fairfax County.
88I This year that number may
increase considerably.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-03
UCYM Plans Reilly
In Arlington Today

More than 600 Arlington teen
ayers will get together at 4:30 pm.
today at a rally at Arlington Meth
odist Church. 1t will be the fourth
rally held by the Arlington United
Christian Youth Movement.
Teeners of all UNCONVENTIONAL af-
filiations are invited to attend the
rally which will feature workshops
or vocations such as law. business,
drama. engineering and others. The
workshops will be led by a member
of the community actually practic-
ing in the particular vocation.
After the workshops, the rally
will feature a panel-quiz game on
combinations of personality and vo-
cational choice. Later DR.. w. Ken
meth Haddock of Arlington Meth
odist Church. will speak.
The Arlington UCYM was or
ganized two years ago as nucleus
for youth groups in churches and
to further relationships among
Protestant churches. Paul ChaSey.
a freshman at George Washington
University. is president Of the
UCYM.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-03
Chances for Typisfs

Employment service officials also
admit that race is a problem in
getting jobs for teen-agers. but
look for a gradual leSsening of this
stumbling block as the community
gets used to integration.
For teen-agers not planning col
-lege careers. the best opportunities
exist today for typiSts. Mr. Hetzel
said a young MN or woman who
can type 40 words a minute can
be hired almost anywhere. includ-
ing the Federal Government. full
time or part-time II could place
dozens right now" he said. The
demand exceeds the supply and the
shortage is expected to continue.
Very high replacement needs as
well as expansion demands make
many jobs available to beginners.
There are some opportunities for
boys in this occupation. but most
ssf the openings are for girls"
Starting salaries here are around
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-03
to Schools

The employment service works
closely with the IL senior public
high schools ard with st. Johns.
Carroll and Gonzaga Maryland
and Virginia rave their own serv-
ices. Unde.. Mrs. Edith Verant,
head Of Youth Employment Coun-
selling. the USES in 1856 placed
1854 boys and girls under 81 in
Jobs suited to them
But Mrs. Beatrice H. Thompson,
IN charge o. ccunseling and testing
in the Special Services Division.
says Youth should look for part
Atime jobs il their own neighbor-
hoods which they know and where
they are known.
What are some of the problems
teen-agers lace II trying TO get
jobs?
Mr.. Hetzei said college students
usually ges priority on Jobs avail
able to teen-agers which makes it
hard for q boy or girl still in high
school Works permits. which must
be obtained from the school system
in Washington. are objected to by
some employers. another problem
Is the law: Maryland, Virginia and
the District have youth labor laws
which control tie age limits on
certain type ~ jobs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-03
TEEN. Pose s


part<time as a mail clerk for the
Wall Street Journal. rs cents an
hour as a oda-jerker in Peoples
Drug Stores and once SIS as
counsellor for the Police Boys Club
summer camp.
Robert had tried Melpar in Fair
fax County but couldn't be accepted
until his 18th birthday John had
tried the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. for an outdoors job
but they wanted him for clerical
job. Sc he tried the employment
service.
The employment service, headed
by Fred 2. Hetzei at 1924 F street
NV. set Up its youth placement
service in 1855. Employers list the
jobs they have open and young
people list the jobs they wish and
their qral.fica lions. Then the USES
brings job and person togsther
The job types are in three divisions:
Clerical trades and industry and
hotel and restaurant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-03

Customer: I want some pillow
cases.
Clerk: What size?
Customer: I'm not sure. but
wear a size seven hat.
From the Maefarland Flame
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-03
Jobs for Teen-Agers

$45 or $50 a week with the Gov
eminent paying slightly more
about $50 to SCI. Part-tine tipping
jobs. which are more difficult to
get. pay from 81 to $125 an hour.
TEEN examined a typical pile
of employers applications for help
and found this Sampling of jobs
and wages for teen-agers with high
school diplomas:
Telephone Operator. $40 a week.
ReceptioniSt. SIS a week.
Clerk-Typist. SIS to 500 a week.
Messenger for Broker. $3.50 mo.
Grocery Clerk. $3.50 mo.
Department Store Clerk, $50 wk.
Apartment Bookkeeper. 81 900 yr.
Shoe Clerk, $35 a week.
Dictaphone Oper.. $5i-$63 wk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-03
Sitting Rates

teen-agers report getting IS cents
an hour if they do nothing but
sit and as much as IS cents an
hour if they put the baby to bed
or do other tasks.
Mclean High School students
last week made use of the odd jobs
open in each community to try to
raise money for the music depart
ment to buy band uniforms and
choir robes.
The student council worked out
a plan whereby willing workers
from the student body farmed
themselves out to residents of the
McLean-Falls Church area after
school and over the week end to be
car-waShers. baby sitters. typists.
to clean up garages, backwards,
attics or do any reasonable task.
The council itself took care Of
the job-matching and tranSporta-
ton.
Mr.. Hetzel pointed out that
Washington is an area without
much heavy industry or manufac-
turing. Retail stores and the print
ing craft come after the United
States Government as top employ
ers. Union members monopolize
printing jobs. Civil Service Com
mission tests determine Government
job placements. the main oppor-
tunities otherwise are in small
private businesses.
Mr. Hetzel said he does not con-
slider the obligation of each young
man for military service to be much
Of a deterrent to employers when
it comes to hiring teen-agers.
The USES has this advice for the
job-Seeking teen-ager:
Look for the job you want and
are suited for
Seek jobs that are realistic for
this area (there is no point in want
ing to be a farmer in Petworth or
a steel puddler in Alexandria,.
If you can't find what you want
on your own, the United States EN-
ployment Service viii help you. But
you can best help yourself by COM
plotting your education. first.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-03

fish that bitewe sometimes Rodney traps them while longing
have pick the Shiny things of the cung board and throw
them into the oyster pile It's supposed bring good luck Ugh
Sometimes enforcement officers pull alongside examine
the catch If there shells bushe
OF oysters it's SIS fine DO know they haven't found
shell in Rods catch culng? Evelyn proudly
The law likes aboard the boats They Gull
better than men, William Mckinley Mills law enforce
ment supervisor with the Tdewaer Fisheries Department
They're accurate and painstaking"
Most GULL occasional one Betty
Lee Creighton g. formerly Washington Fishing Creek
the 18foOt To do this she has
the gunwae pitching She the
rigs
bulge with oysters
You have to pull the hand hand like going
a rope" says fall backward in
the
Betty with husband Horace the and Little
Choptank Rivers She who can't The water
place for husband to with his wife. It's place
woman can't slam the door and walk far"
protect their compilations the water?
hpstck and either apply paint cold cream
Betty explains Most have
lotion their skin from cold
Some oyermen still skepical about their wives doing
the waterman argued Il want to keep
my feminine Another chimed in Il don't want mine all
weather beaten"
according Robinson, I'VE do all right earning
wags-and keeping AS attest to this
with wink MY husband bonus for
Christmas fur coat!"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-09-06
The Disarmament Talk,

Inc DISARMAMENT Talks
Washington A lot Of people
wonder II the world might not be
better place to live II all the
large nations were to scrap their
ornaments and, in effect, beat
their swords into ploughshares."
have heard any number Of peo-
pie ask over a drink or at a dinner
what good it does to build up in
ter-continental missiles only to
learn shortly afterwards that the
Russians have built something else
which makes our military hard
ware outmoded.
There are many peope who
think this government doesn't
seriously contemplate disarama-
ment no matter what the Russians
do, And there are probably a lot
OF people in Russia who feel their
government keeps concentrating
on arms, instead OF consumer
goods, because II must keep up
the DOGGY Of American 'warmon-
gering"
There is probably a lot OF
phoney talk on both sides. It's
called diplomatic bargaining"
But in all the talk during the
London negotiations and later, one
point seems to have been overlook
ed This government has shifted
its position.
We now appear TO agree that
disarmament can and should pre-
cede political settlements in
Europe and other areas. Until the
beginning OF 1857, Secretary
Dulles took exactly the opposite
view.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-09-06
limifless Horizons

Never before history greater the
knowledge Of young people graduating colleges year
Through those with ss such engineering chemistry may
virtually write their opportunity
others with general training.
1t would be well for the graduate however
there s no short cut
job but industry merely
fills a rather than filling a need
There are other sound words advice
l-Remember the virtue humility
depreciation Regardless of may things
to be learned Humility the willingness
cept advice from those qualified
that be corrected
Don't expect to start at the top the business
more than you would expect to enter high school
S-Give the best have your
poyer don't care" attitude
Don't the attribute their
success to luck. II seldom
That graduates face the employment field
past generations should
better opportunity has been built their
has the responsibility way
solid lesson is also gained by youngsters still
there as long and absorb all knowledge possible
Is is wise for graduates today mind
that the world them nothing Today
certain the students horizons Angeles
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-09-06
Dilemma of Some Southern Jews

There individual Jews on both sides of the segregation issue
This only natural individual develops attitude
question the analysis problem
effect his group however follow
ing tradition and religious ideoog cast their lot with the
OF human equality follow the rabbnc that
God created Adam all descendants There
adequate for this view the American Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution.
congregations unanimous
ing this point Nothing please
this the pulpit doing they would
have the support OF many progressive and fair minded Protestant
and Catholic elergymen.
lived the Many
proudly their ancestry through genera
lions Their thinking racial matters follows pattern the
nonJesh community They prepared to magnify the weaknesses
the Negro and unwilling grant him equality They favor
segregation
There many
constrained against their better judgement segregation
Some members Of the White Citizens Councils which
opposition to the Negro These Jews recognize the fact that Jewish
tradition is unaleraby opposed any concept nfeoy
but demands justice and freedom opportunity individual
regardless Of Yet
of their minority status they espouse bgots
They stand trepdaon happen
through ostraesm These
racial They side openly with the white
ton
Jewish merchants and professionals by the Negro The latter
that matter of principle Jews equality
with boycott openly
cause In numerous instances the financial position OF the
almost entirely dependent the patronage
coored population Thus many find themselves
fires which make their existence extremely Precarous Some Jews
afraid that the problem
Se"pegoat This an additional reason why the Southern Jew is
panCsicten,
Greater which largest
Jews in the South not subjected to these fears This due not
only community,
Jews from the North and they
The dilemma OF the Southern fully appreciated
Jewish leaders and national organizations When they many
Southern Jews do their lot with those who
ton they ready to condemn They do realize
Jews OF the South to take such stand might
wiling marrdon 1t is therefore incumbent the
OTIS OF the North TO their indignation sympathetic
a Southern jew finds himself
The solution to the problem point
OF the South lies the gradual healing
alone bring Only three
segregation public schools un-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-09-06
Memphis Negros Boycott Daily Paper

The Southern daily exceptions
been shorsghted the Negro
that press only fought leg
mate aspirations of Negroes citizenship
magned authentic Negro leadership
the Negro community There
late stage in civilization which, while enjoying patronage
Negro community absolutely print picture Negro no
matter represents OF them neglect the
normal productive life of the awabng Negro community
but all Of them headline Negro
For long time the southern Ne
would recognize that they
daily press treat their community fairly and dcceny
news dispatch printed In this edition tells how years
begging the Memphis Commercially Appeal 100000
Memphis Negroes docenty their
gro group have instituted boycott against the paper
Beginning with the August edition pastors
Memphis parts the state
asked their members to stop subscribing to the Appeal
Citizens asked TO utilize such media
the Negro An effort win be made publish
daily sheet TO help n the need for
in the news dispatch of boycott OF the Memphis
which Is owned by the same firm.
With the great competition between various communication
media newspapers as well as other media fighting
ing for the goodwill Of the southern daily newspapers gen
orally have felt no responsibility toward the welfare the
OF Negroes who read their papers
exceptions but too many Of
these bank the thousands OF dollars which spend
with them and continue to eaousy and ndteenty insult
baguard the holding to ridcule
fenoV-citzens.
Since newspapers and price
their Advertising the chief boycots
of Dixie which keep kicking their
teeth change their tune.
newspaper always boycotts only as last resort
In states and communities boyeotts
anywhere buy something he
doesn't Montgomery ctys mayor its
buyboy police chief and city council all
they however the Negro community in
phalanx by many members of the white
community had banrupted the city transit line refusing pay
ride Jimcro in the city buses
say Memphis Negro community in
It's fight the mstrcanent Negro community
by the Appeal Let them continue to refuse 10 buy t
paper unt recognizes It's duty to the entire community
the Caucasian segment
Memphis Negroes should remind the good people IN other COM
Appeal some connection
with the scrpps Howard late date spending
money for either bread or newspapers whose nNgO
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-09-06
'Prayer PiIqrimaqe For Freedom

II 1854 Negroes the United States
segregation by public Early
Negro leaders Prayer Pilgrimage
10000 attendance but emphasized
Washington foebodngs
quarters.
Last Friday the Negroes assembled under the pastor of New
Baptist church There $4,000 them
states, varously
lawns front the Lincoln Memorial Police declare the
throng notably orderly
Negro churchgoers chorused scattered "Amens"
speakers accepting
acclaim Justice
that President Eisenhower high humanity
strongly against Speeches
punctuated by songs and prayers
and there throughout country
reports individual Negro pro-
voked doubt group injustice
There sometimes hoodumsm, which
significance
leadership they respect
Science