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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-06-07
Watson Graduates
From Seminary

Richard Watson, son of Epsie
B. Vale. who is an alumnus OF
FarTQvilie High School and
Hambden- Sydney College. was
graduated from Columbia Theo-
logical Seminary in Decatur. Ca.
June He received the bachelor OF
divinity degree. The graduation
exercises were held at the Druid
Hills Presbyterian Church in At
lanta. Georgia.
Watson has accepted a call to
serve as pastor Of the First Pres
byterian Church in Crestview,
Fla. and will be moving into the
manse there sometime this
month. He expects to be licensed
and ordained by the Florida Pres
bytery when it meets in July.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-06-07

presses this central experience
Reconciliation. What this means
can be seen in the story Of man
who never really found himself
as no one does--short Of being rec
onciled both with God and with
man.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-06-07
Masses Shorted Under Socialism,

me Adv Tx lSER, of Calais, Maine
points out that IN many parts of the
world SOCIALISTS are worried because workers
prefer JOBS IN private industry as against
Jobs in nationaized industry 1t cites two
examples. The private building industry in
SOVIET East Germany has been taking the
more efficient workers away from state
owned companies. And Bolivias expert
heht IN government operation of the tin
INDUSTRY tailed primarily because of low
worker produetN1ty-they worked harder
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-06-07
At Lies End

/ hope t1ot when my course is run
And life's lost sun has set
III know no feor as death drows neor
Or feel vain regret
Upon the whole. cont complain
OF what Fote hos brought me;
I've lived life devoid Of strife,
Learning oil it fought me-
cont assert that Lody Luck
Hos never on me smiled
Nor can oioim thot in Iife's game
BY Fote wos beguiIed
Much Joy to me the years have brought,
NY sorrows have been few;
I've had good health, OCCURRED some wealth
As life I've troveled through.
So when I'm decd and my clay house
IS placed beneath the sod,
hope and proy thot on thot day
NY soul Will be With God
L D WHITAKER
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-06-07

for private owners than they did for the
government
This is not surprising Workers can bar
gain with private industry and get i'm
proved wages and working conditions. But
when government is the boss. it calls the
tune as it sees fit, and anything resembling
equality of bargaining is impossible.
The moral: The mass of working
people always get the short end of the stick
under socialism
Independent and W2verly Ga) Republican
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-06-07
Our International Error

THE United States is making a mistake
in advocating our system Of 'democ-
racy'' for the people of the world. We seem
to think that everyone should have the
same freedom, the same civil rights the
same high standard of living as have been
developed in the United States. We fail to
realize that there are people who don't
want it. We underestimate the ability of
others to operate it. We are too inexper-
fenced as a top world power to know how
to handle the various people and our dip
lomats seem bent on making all nations
like America. Some people like to shift for
themselves make their own way in free
dom, but there are lot of them VINO want to
have someone else do the thinking for
them.
Japan a conquered nation. has been
shifted from an imperial form Of govern
ment. centuries older than ours, to replica
Of our own republic. The japanese had no
choice We forced our will upon them How
long after American occupational troops
leave, and American dollars cease to flow
into japanese economy for war instala-
tons and material the japanese will con-
tinue their present form Of American die
tated government is a moot question.
Any people who have lived under total
~ different form of government for ages
find our system difficult to understand
and to operate. This would be true of al
most any other nation even England.
The English have never understood how
and why we criticize our chief executive,
the President, or why his cabinet does not
fall when he fails to carry through his pol
icies, or how the Democrats and Republi-
cans fuss and cuss each other every four
years and adopt platforms, then forget
both and work together in the new admin
istration. These conditions are essentially
American. Not only do many not under
stand. but the majority of the peoples of
the world do not desire individual free
dom They much prefer being regimented.
We fail to realize this.
The United States government. as CON
ceived by the trainers Of the Constitution,
is not democracy. 1t is a republic com
posed of number of sovereign states Our
first recollection of hearing it called de-
mocracy was during the Woodrow Wilson
administration, when he coined the phrase
during World War l., make the world safe
for democracy
Since that time, and especially within
the past 20 wears the powers-that-be have
attempted 70 ef feet democracy by
stretching the constitution providing for 4
republic. The stretching operation is still
N progress. There IS possibility that the
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-06-07
Reeoneiled
Lesson for June 9, 1857

AT THE heart and beginning Of
\ the Christian life there is
not theory. or set Of PROPOSE
tons, but an experience. It is the
experience which is sometimes
called healing. for the broken It's
sues Of life are made whole again
It is sometimes called conversion,
literally turning around. for In
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-06-07

It the direction
and course Of life
is changed. II
is som e tim es
c a He'd forgiv e.
ness, So that the
church is called
the fellowship Of
the forgiven But
there is another
word still which
sums up and ex-
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-06-07
Letters To Editor
Reader Acknowledges
Virginia Chivalry

Editor of Herald.
The past week end several
friends visited the Flanagan's at
Buckingham Springs. Just outside
Farmville. beyond the turn to
Hampden-Sydney, we had flat
tire. Some nice young man. with
his wife and two children. insist
ed that he fix the tire. We failed
TO get his name He said he lived
in Farmyille. We wish to thank
him if possible.
It's courtesy was greatly APP
preciated by all Of us Carolinians!
Mrs. Alex S. Watkins,
Henderson, N. C,
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-06-07

In the past Sc years mortality
from tuberculosis has declined from
1919 to eight per 100000 population.
according to Health Information
Foundation. While this is remark
able progress. tuberculosis is still
great health problem. with 100000
new cases reported In the United
States I. 1856
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-06-07

present Supreme Court may stretch to the
breaking point and then back unto a dicta
torship VINO knows.
To maintain individual freedom and the
type Of government provided by the consti-
tuition, the people composing it must have
a high amount of intelligence, profound
sense of justice and Christian concept
America was founded on intelligent free
dom, justice and religion Knock out any
one Of these legs Of the tripod and down
comes the governmental structure Not all
nations have this concept. very few nations
could maintain our system of government
and it has not vet been determined that we
can Less than 200 years old, Americas
progress in material things has surpassed
any other nation in world history for SO
short period Roman culture Greek cul-
ture, Egyptian culture have bloomed and
faded English domination Of the world
sulting in America being cataputed into
world responsibilities, woefully unpre-
pared and inexperienced
The wave of universalism, Of interna-
tionalsm sweeping the United States
threatens not only our own economy but
our very system of government We have
a place to fill orld-wise = we can't es-
cape the leadership thrust upon US. Some
place along the line we will have to give up
our idealism for remaking the nations of
the world in our own image, and face up to
the practical by letting the nations develop
their own cultures, economic resources and
types of governments. The drag upon our
own economic strength and resources may
pull us into system far removed from our
former ideal of the republic ere we are
able to change all of the world to our way
Of thinking and living
Whether now is a good time or bad
time, it seems to US that the United States
needs to halt for time, take inventory of
It's position, and patch up its domestic as
well as its international fences. Recent in
cidents in Nationalist China. relationships
over period with India, strained rea-
tons with our chief allies, England and
France. tend to show that friendship can
not be bought, as we have spent billions in
each country to stabilize the economy
The time is here when we must be very
realistic in regard to our own position.
curbing initiation, balancing the national
budget, repaying some Of the obligations,
and generally stabilizng our own wobbly
position domestically in order to be strong
internationally.
II we are to assume world leadership,
we must act as leaders, not as phlanthro-
plsts or idealistc peacemakers.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-06-07
DEATH FROM BREAST CANCER

The lowest death rate from breast
cancer in the whole world has been
found to occur in Japan. However.
mortality increased by fifty per
cent in England S I a and
Wales. Between 1920 and 1858 deaths
from this cause approximately
doubled in many other areas.
thanks for the memories, and
thanks for reading.
Yours.
j. Marvin Brown
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27
Driver Fined $50
lin Hitting Train

A man whose car got clipped
by a Pennsylvania Railroad train
at the Artwick Md crossing
the week before Christmas wound
up paying fines and court cost
totaling $50.40.
Judge Nita S. Human Crane
found John Valentine O'Brien,
40, of 1882 Halleck street, Dis
trict Heights. Md, guilty on four
charges and not guilty on an
other in Upper Marlboro Police
Court on Friday.
O'Brien was found guilty of
reckless driving by colliding
with a train, proceeding over a
railroad crossing when 1t was
unsafe to do so, and two counts
Iof being drunk and disorderly.
The fine was $40 and cost on
each charge. He was cleared on
a charge Of failing to stop within
10 feet of the tracks.
O,Brien escaped from the ac-
cident without a scratch al
though the fast-moving train
ripped of the engine and full
front end Of the car. The mis-
hap occurred about 5:45 am
December 10 on the road be-
tween Defense highway and
Ardmore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27
Icent cut in the increase allowed

cent cut in the increase allowed
for classroom equipment.
The Institutional services Sec
ton was cut some k544.000 with
other slashes being made in
school clerks ($16,200); instruc-
Ition materials ($17.934). and
summer allowances. library books
and consultant funds,
Administrative Costs Cut
The board reduced re COM
The board reduced recon-
$48. 785, permitting an increase
of $131. 900 over the present
yeat.
The maintenance budget rec
concentrations were reduced
$111.750 with $62, 450 coming OF
new employees salaries and $40,-
900 off supply requests.
The board saved $68,540 by
allowing only As Of "a requested
custodial employees and another
$4,000 in supply and equipment
requests.
Cuts totaling nearly $4,000
also were made in the adult
education and junior college pro-
gram.
Yesterdays action completely
reversed the trend Of the three
earlier board budget meetings
when the majority held firmly
to standards adopted over the
last year for various services.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27
Memorial Fund
is Organized For
Hunting Victim

| Senator Olin d. Johnston of
South Carolina has been named
honorary chairman Of a group
Of 81 sportsmen throughout the
country who have set UP a
memorial fund in the name of
John B. Howard of Calvert
County. Md, who was drowned
January 10 in duck-hunting
accident.
Others on the committee for
the memorial fund are State
Senator Louis Goldstein, presi-
dent Of the Maryland Senate:
Herbert Reichelt. president of
the County Commissioners of
Prince Georges County: for
mer Congressman Lansdale @.
SasScer of Maryland. and Carl
ton Smith, vice president of the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
The fund will be used to assist
the victims family. He is sur
vived by his widow and five
children, the youngest 8 years
old.
Mr.. Howard, a farmer In CAL
vert County, was drowned when
q gust of wind swamped his
boat on the Patuxent River. OBJ
servers said he managed to hold
onto the boat in the freezing
water for about IS minutes, but
lost his hold a few minutes be-
fore help arrived.
Persons wishing to contribute
to the John B. Howard Fund are
asked to make checks payable
to Mrs. Irene Howard. and mail
them to o. F. Bowen, County
Trust Co. of Maryland. Owings.
Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27
Athlete Is Injured
As 'Chutes TungIe

Pfc. Kent Woodwork, former
University of Maryland football
player. escaped serious injury
last week when he rode a fellow
paratrooper's parachute to the
ground during a training mishap
at Fort Bragg, N. c.
Pfc. Woodwork suffered a left
shoulder injury on January Is
on hitting the ground after his
parachute twice became en-
tangled with another's. He is in
good condition at the post hospi-
tai.
paffc. Woodworth. %, whose
home is in Darien, Conn, played
freshman football as a fullback
in 1854 and practiced as a guard
with the varsity the following
spring. He entered the service
in September, 1855.
A member Of the 504th Air
borne Infantry Regiment. he Is
q chaplain's assistant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27
G.O.P.Opens
7CoIIegeUnits
In Virginia

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 26. up,
The executive board of the
Young Republican Federation of
Virginia issued charters today to
seven chapters, four Of them at
State colleges.
Chartered we're groups at the
University of Richmond, Mary
Washington College. Roanoke
College and the College Of Will
liam and Mary, as well as chap
tiers in Arlington County and the
cities of Norfolk and Alexandria.
Speakers at the meeting were
Charles K. McWhorter of New
York. Young Republican ma
tional chairman. and Miss Joyce
Bovik of Denver. co-chairman
of the Young Republican Ma
ltional Federation.
/ Erskine B. Van Houten, jr.,
of Richmond, State chairman of
the Young Republican National
Federation. said Virginia Young
Republicans have been asked to
show a preference for GO. p.
nominees for the States top
three Offices.
The board took no action on
the matter. presented in a letter
to- Mr.. Van Houten from Roby
Thompson, chairman of the
State G. o. P.'s nominating COM
mittee. y ~
Mr.. Van Houten said the most
prominently mentioned, how
ever, were State Senator Ted
Dalton of Radford, 9Th District
Representative Richard H. Poff
and 10th District Representative
Joel T. Broyhill for governor;
Horace B. Henderson of Will
liamsburg for lieutenant gov
lernor, and John B. Davenport
III of Richmond for attorney
general.
The board also laid plans for
the party's Roanoke convention
February 1928. The group
agreed the nominating commit
tee for State party officers will
Include one person from each
congressional district.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27
Desegregdfion
DELAY Praised

LIVINGSTON, Va, Jan. 26
R.-Robert Whitehead Of Nell
son County said today he highly
approved Judge Sterling Hutche-
sons action Wednesday in de-
cliping to set a time limit in
which Prince Edward County
must desegregate its schools.
Mr.. Whitehead. an opponent
to much of the recent General
Assembly legislation regarding
Virginia's school problems, Ia
beled the judges action as a
realistic approach by an un-
derstanding judge to a difficult
situation" Z
He called on Virginia ito set
her legislative house in order
so Judge Hutcheson's stand can
"be upheld in the high courts. +"
What we need" he said. us
a wholesale repeal of numerous
laws and a fresh and realistic
approach to the problems"
Judge Hutchinson declined to
take action on a motion by Ma
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People
attorneys asking d time limit.
Instead, he said it was impera-
tive that additional time be al
lowed to integrate schools
and that in the present state
of unrest and racial tension in
the county 1t would be unwise
to force a change of the system
until the entire situation can
be considered and adjustments
gradually brought about.
Mr.Whitehead, considered the
leadefi of the anti-organization
wing Of Virginia's Democratic
I Parity said in his statement he
wanted to commend" this stand.
He said it utilizes to the maxi
mum the discretion vested in
the district courts by the de-
cision of the United States SUI
preme Court: 1t recognizes that
q district Judge should taKB dpto
account local conditions exist
ing in the community and recoe-
nizes the Supreme Court de-
cision as being the law Of the
land.
He said the Judges course is
directly contrary to the policy
advocated by Gov. Stanley
(which is that there should be
o fixed policy applied Statewide
without regard to local condi.
tons"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27
|MonfgOnlery's
School Budget
Cut S82S,OOO

The Montgomery County
Scholo Board yesterday loppec
an estimated 1928. 900 of schoo
Superintendent Forbes H. Norris
recommended $21.1 million op.
Grating budget.
The budget still is some 49,:
million above that appropriated
for school operations for tn,
current year.
AS the budget now stands
1t would require an increase o.
nearly % cents in the present
county tax rate Of $2.03 per $l0(
Of assessed valuation.
That is assuming the increase
would be financed entirely out O.
receipts from the real estate tai
on, a total assessable base o.
$3.50 million.
The operating budget cuts ART
estimates. with ofiicial figures
still to be calculated by Schoo.
Controller Brian Benson.
The board previously had cut
some $3.3 million from the Norris
$12.3 million recommendation
for classroom and Office con.
struction.
/ The total capital and operating
budget to be submitted to Coun.
ty Manager M. L. Reese will be
about $29.3 million.
The school board succeeded ir
pruning only about $4,000 oui
of the record breaking budget
during three open sessions last
week.
Closed Session Held
Yesterdays action came after
a closed session the board held
Thursday night with DR.. Norris
While proposed minor reduc.
tions were beaten down in the
earlier sessions by a majority
of the board. yesterdays deeper
slices went through with little
opposition.
Leading the way for a string
of cuts in Institutional services
was Mrs. John G. Scharf, former
board president.
Mrs. Scharf introduced a mo-
ton that would hold all pay in
creases for teachers. principals
and supervisors to a maximum
$500. With the passage Of this
motion. Mrs. Scharf also won
approval of restoration Of one
half the present dependency
payments of 5000 a person.
Reverses Earlier Action
Previously the board had
agreed TO abandon the depend
lency allotments while requesting
funds for pay increases UP tc
$500 per teacher.
The, action taken yesterday
resulted in an estimated saving:
of $25S.000.
| Mrs. Scharf also led the way
for these further reductions:
/. Some $l43.0 900 by cutting Sc
per cent of the 81 new special
area teachers requested.
2. Some $4,000 in textbook
costs, still allowing for a SOL. 900
increase over this year.
3. Some $4,000 by a so pei
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27
OYSTER WAR RUMBLE s.
Leasing Of River Beds
Held Possible Solution

,self-interest in regard to the
beds. 81.
Public, grounds-natural beds
Iset aside in. Virginia by a survey
in the late 10Th century and in
Maryland by administrative de-
lcision. as to their natural produc-
Ition--are dependent on State aid
for. development and growth
Virginia plants only shell,
about $125.000 worth a year,
while Maryland spends twice that
much on planting both shell and
seeds.
Neither program, officials of
botn States admit. is extensive
enough.
If they want to increase oys-
ter production" said enc biolo-
gist. "the States must make a
choice between further subsidi-
cation Of public grounds and
turning the industry over 10 pri-
vate. growers. Either action could
kill the dredging laws and, per-
haps. the oyster war"
Call Restrictions Necessary
Is either alternative possible?
Said a pamphlet published by
the Virginia Fisheries Laboratory
at Gloucester Point: $50 lone
as our society prefers to spread
the yield Of a small natural
production among many people
these restrictions dredging laws
and similar measureS) are nee
essary to prevent complete de-
pletion."
Virginia and Maryland legis-
latorS seem to agree. Under pres
sure from individual oystermen
who fear large growers will take
over natural bars, both General
Assemblies have consistently re-
sisted moves toward leasing pri-
vate grounds.
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Third in q Series


Simply, they recommend leas.
Ing the border rivers oyster bed!
to private growers.
Dating from Colonial days. the
oyster war" has for the last 2f
years been essentially a battle
between enforcement officials Of
both States and oystermen--
mostly Virginians - who con.
tinually violate laws against
dredging on the Maryland-ownec
river.
Dredging involves dragging 9
heavy steel scraper and mel
across the oyster beds, a prac-
tice banned in both States ii
1930-31 because of conservation
lists arguments. They commended
the dredge tears up the beds ano
halts further oyster growing
Several fruitless attempts to re-
peal the law have been made
since that time.
longing Slow Operation
Oysters are, instead, legally
taken from the Potomac by
longing. longs used by one man
are long wooden handles with
in-turned forks at each end
With them, Potomac watermen
can pluck a few oysters at a
time from the river bottom. The
tongs work only in depths up to
Is feet and the method of har-
vesting is much slower than
dredging
Marine biologists said private
ownership of oyster beds would
end any possible need for the
dredging ban and step up the
oyster production of both States.
It is one of a half-dozen argu-
ments against the anti-dredging
law.
The scientists. who backed up
their theory with statistics, de-
clined to be quoted directly be-
cause they feared involvement in
inter- State politics. But David
Wallace. secretary-treasurer of
the Oyster Institute of Amer
lea. summed up the argument:
The dredging law. he said, is
social legislation and not con-
servation.
UpholdS Power Dredging
Power dredging is a standard
method of harvesting among
most of the larger. private grow
ers in Virginia and Maryland"
said the nationally recognized
oyster biologist. Those people
invest large amounts of money in
their oyster crops and they don't
use methods that will result in
a ioSs."
Leased grounds in Maryland.
where power dredging is the
practice. make up less than 4
per cent of the States oyster
grounds. Yet the private grounds
produce 20 per cent of the States
4 harvest. s4p .,,r .vf ,
Federal Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice figures show annual produce
ton in Virginia on private
grounds. where power dredging
is permitted. has jumped about
is million bushels a year since
1920. In the same period. from
public rocks that compose almost
twice the area of the private
beds. the yield has decreased
more than "A million bushels.
Stresses Self Interest
Mr.. Wallace explained that
while dredges can tear up the
oyster beds, their use on private
grounds is possible because pri-
vate growers plant new shell beds
and seed oysters, observe Gull
and other conservation laws and
generally follow program of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27
BY JOHN CONNORS.
Richmond News Leader stan writel

RICHMOND, Jan. rs GA
possible solution to the "oyster
war" between Maryland and
Virginia on the Potomac River
involving revolutionary changes
in the policies OF both States
has been suggested by experts
polled by the News Leader.