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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-09-05
Land Cress Is A
Winter Vegetable

Land cress is gaining popularity
as 4 WinteF green.
AT VIoi Agricultural Experiment
Station, Mfere the first known re-
search s being conducted on Land
cress scientists say the crop IS
being crown con1mercially both for
canning. IS il PAGE and Norfolk
cena.ies, ard foE market Ill othas
arees.
Comm eseiai production has been
seriously limited by weed troubles
and BY failure 70 get good stands.
However through preparation Of
ting soil. seeding about one-half inch
deep seafiina Al the proper time.
and the use Of certain herbicides to
control weeds. are practices which
have given imp owed stands and
higher Yields. Land cress. which
is Variously known as upland cress,
dry land cress, winter cress, and
Greasy green's. will grow and can
he harvested III late fall and winter
when other greens are not avail
able. Cool temperatures improve
the quality and il Will stand tenn
peratures as low as degrees.
The land cress is much sWeetrr
and more popular than Barbarea
vulgaris. which is bitter and gen
orally regarded as weed.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-09-05
Fall Fertilization
Termed Beneficial

Farmers who icrtllze their grass
lands and lcEumcs now. rather
than wait until spring. can increase
their net profits from forage as
much as 20n per cent. Dr. Russell
Coleman executive vice president
3i the National Plant Food Insti-
Lutte said today
Ila increased profits from fall
applications oi fertilizer oil grasses
ana le&unNs result from utilization
IF labor durng The slack slime t0l
LOWING harvest and thc extension
3i the RraziHH PERIOD ior livestock
Coleman explained
He sud there are other economic
ADVANTAGES from fall fertilization
mon as sAviles on feed bllls. more
luscious crown Of sraaS III tha fill.
loving spring. a, least three weeks
allier and greater conservation Of
HON structure by avoiding conpac
non caused ny heavy farm mAchin-
NY.
Coleman urged farmers N follow
hf recommendations NJ thcn rx
pertinent stations III To rates ana
trades Of fertilizers 10 USE IN ilie
fan
Gancrally across thc United
States f,rnars Should haYc I'D
fears OF. nitrogen losses ON grass
lands due 10 teaching resulting
rom fall and winter rains win the
possible exception on sandy soils
There Is economy in maintain
ing established pastures and hay
lands rather than undergo re-
iupenation program every spring
ae 4 4 q q 4 Fail fertilization IS
another way farmers can beat the
paencas. squeeze ANA reduce the
pef tmi caat ~ production
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-09-05

Turkeys
Turkey prices are poinR I'D shnN
some STRENGTHENING This WIN Do I'LL
The form Of gradual increase
which Will stretch from hrM ialp
hc latter pari NJ October
~ snll your hHEeys dnina
finish ana AIM ready iof lhe mars
ken.
Total supply Of turkeys is down
II Der cent from last veal aad
supply Win continue l0W t0t 'An
next inv months
n,anapd II o1ad nsw ana n4.re.
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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-09-05
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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-09-05

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TN catt hssoclation WIN TIVE ~
aaie oa f'lelay Ociopci 2. AZ IN
prl in Charlotte z II WA TN.
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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-09-05
Representatives From Seventeen Counties
Meet Here TO Map Final Referendum Plans
Combined Tobacco
4 l!otment Hinges
On Grower approval

County committeeman. offlc
laaHa and farm agents from
e COZ n which fne-cuoa and
sail-elH tobacco il crown net
her la LAY at tic court house 10
map aal plans for the forthcominn
ref9rs sa'nn. which VIII be held Fri
day seli ~
" Powers, staie ASC admin.
stratn officer. was chairman Of
the meeting here which was one of
Two Sch meetings slated for / he
stats q nrient officials responsible
for eaitiilctiag the erowcr referen
dun t''e purpose q the refcren-
dun itie program 10 be admin
sfsfes llaoll PASSAGE ~ tllc refSren
DUN II approved hy twa-shlilds Of
Tie growers. and the different types
q eia-l,,le voters were discussed
~ the referendum date rapidly
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eiaf.4- 10 accept The plan to com
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At farmers 7Ao we're eagaeed IN
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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-09-05

1859 contracts Will be SIG per acre
with county rates varying Up ami
down from this figure dependne
upon land talr, aMd productivity
Similarly individual farm rate
WI vary up and dqNa iMn thc
A uaAoaal 1850 Conservation 2e-
serve goal has been slt at
l2500 900 acres. For Virginia a
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-09-05
FARM PRICE
OUTLOOK

prospects
Virginia Department Agriculture Friday The
II with that prcd
price and bc D time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
Price of ReckIessness

Although this years Labor Day
weekend traffic toll fell below the 1857
figure for the similar period, the record
is tragic enough as it is. For the story
compiled by the Associated Press from
all parts of the Nation is one of crashing
cars and broken bodies, of holiday
shattered by sudden death or injury of
men, women and children wherever
there are public highways.
The number of dead rose to 400
today as late reports of traffic accidents
were received and casualties tabulated.
Last year 445 persons died in like 10
hour Labor Day period. And the traffic
death toll for summers three major
holiday week endS-Memorial Day, In
dependence Day and Labor Day-totaled
well over 100 persons. These grim
statistics were in addition, of course, to
thousands of injuries, some so grave as
to leave the victims crippled for life.
What a price to pay for one burst OF
speed or other recklessness at the wheel
Of an automobile
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
Nasty Kettle of Fish

The fishing war that is rolling the
North Atlantic waters around Iceland is
a nasty little mess that has been "over
the flame" for years. Unfortunately, 1t
has ingredients which may make it get
worse before it gets better. It is, Of
course, mu0h more than flshermen'S
feud. It is deep-Seated dispute over
territorial jurisdiction at sea, question
on which there is no real international
agreement. It is a major issue, both eco
nomically and politically, to Iceland and
economically, If not politically, to Brit
ain, the other party directly engaged.
It involves the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, to which both countries
! belong, and may jeopardize anew the
maintenance Of United StateS-NATO
! base in Iceland. 1t permits the Soviet
Union and its Moscow directed Commu-
! mist parties to FISH in troubled waters"
politically if not literally.
The current chapter in this war is
! not the first. In 1852, Iceland unilater-
: ally extended its territorial waters from
three miles to four miles offshore. The
reason given was for conservation of
fish-the one profitable export crop of
: the country. Britain, whose trawlerS
had been fishing the area, countered
by closing its ports to Icelandic fish
whereupon the Soviet bloc became ma
ior customers, at an economic and polit-
ical price. Britain and Iceland reached
a new agreement in late 1856, but failure
. of q United Nations conference early
this year to settle on a new territorial
sea limit prompted Iceland on June to
another unilateral extension to IL miles.
Refusing to accept the new limit, al
though announcing willingness to nego-:
tate further, Britain has sent gunboats
! to protect its trawlers within the IL
mile zone. A NATO effort to work out
"a solution failed last month, and the
Soviet Union extended new credits to
I iceland.
The Icelandic Communist Party has
noisy minority in the Reykiavik Parlia-
ment and partnership in the coalition
government. The Minister of Fisheries,
Ludwig JosephsSon, is Communist and
the party already is demanding that
diplomatic relations be broken with
Britain. Sentiment in all parties is
running high against the British show
of force. Meanwhile, proposals have
been advanced in Norway and Denmark
for extension of territorial sea limits
and chain reaction of retaliation is
threatened in other quarters
1t is easy to say that solution
should be found in compromise, but it
is also easy to see that finding the
compromise is difficult under the far
from simple circumstances. The United
States proposed at the U. N. meeting
that territorial sea limits be set at six
miles, with an additional six-mile zone
in which fishing would be restricted to
coastal states. The plan was narrowly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
Our Military Strength

If the delegates to the American
hegion convention in Chicago are bit
confused 1t is hardly their fault. For
they have just been exposed to sthe
opposite sides of what is becoming a
familiar debate-in terms of military
strength, are we holding our own with
the Russians or are we falling danger
ouSly behind?
The speakers were Harry Truman,
who thinks we are not doing enough,
and Defense Secretary McElroy, who
believes we are in pretty good shape. On
the surface, these men, each Of whom
is a competent spokesman, seem to be
far apart. Actually, however, their diff
ferences may not be as great as super
ficial appearances would indicate.
Mr.. Truman told the Legion that
we trail Russia in arms and missiles
and science. In this missile age, he said,
the United States faces very real
crisis" Urging more defense spending,
Mr.. Truman said it is wicked" to say
we cannot do this without bankrupting
our economy, and he also said he did
not think record of economy is the
most important thing in the world right
now"
Mr.. McElroy sharply disagreed. The
United States, he said, is not falling
dangerously behind the Russians. And
he added: eff thought such disaster
point were in the future as read it,
would consider It my duty to so inform
you and the whole country. I do not
read such future, and the President
does not. We both have the utmost
confidence that the United States has
the capability and the determination to
keep a gap in overall comparative mill
tary strength from opening-I say keep
it from opening, because it does not now
exist"
Mr.. McElroy, as Defense Secretary,
ought to know what he is talking about,
and perhaps he does. 1t is diff1cult, how
ever, to put out of mind similar assur-
ances which came from other Defense
Secretaries, and which, when the test
came, proved to be unreliable.
What this debate really comes down
to, we suppose, Is how much relGtive
strength it is necessary for this country
to maintain. 1t seems obvious that we
need not and probably cannot match
the Russians soldier for soldier, plane
for plane, missile for missile. But there
is a relative point below which we dare
not fall. We must maintain enough
military power, power which can be
brought to bear against an enemy, to
deter any attack, and we must have the
will and the resolution to use this power
If necessary. 1t is in this area that
most of the military debates break down
or wander of into irrelevancieS. We
wish some responsible spokesman would
address himself specifically and clearly
to this point,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
Britoin.s Teddy Boys

Britain's race riots have introduced
what will be new term to most Ameri-
cans 81 the Teddy boys. These tough
young hoodlumS, one gathers from the
news dispatches, are roughly equivalent
to the juvenile gangsters who infest and
terrorize New York and other American
cities.
The white Teddy boys cannot be
held exclusively responsible for the race
rioting. They generally are on hand
when trouble starts, and, If there is no
trouble, they are quite capable of start
ing 1t themselves One must look deeper,
however, for the basic explanation. For
the first time, really, Britons who have
prided themselves on their racial toler-
ance and who have not been noticeably
reluctant to denounce the United States
for its handling of the race question
have race problem of their own. Since
1s45 some 100000 colored people have
moved into the down-at-the-heel Sec
lions of London and other big cities.
They have come mostly from Africa
and the West Indies-and they are still
coming
One result has been unaccuStomed
pressure on housing facilities which at
best are shabby and inadequate. An
other has been real or fancied-
probably real-fear of competition for
scarce jobs. A rise in degeneracy and
crime also has been reported. What
ever the reason or reasons, the race
question, almost unheard Of in the past
In Britain, suddenly has f1ared up in
virulent form. Stern police measures,
including arrests and summary trials
and Jail sentences, have kept the prob
lem from getting out of hand, but the
latent pressure is there. And If the
flow of colored immigrants continues, as
1t viii unless restrictive measures are
adopted, the situation almost surely win
get worse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
Private School Problem

"A recent news item gives some
insight into the magnitude Of the prob
lens which would attend any serious
effort to shift over from public to private
education in Virginia.
There are, of course, some first class
private schools already functioning at
the elementary and secondary levels in
the State. But these schools already are
f1lled-at least to the extent that they
could not accommodate more than
handful of additional students should
there be any extensive closing of public
schools.
The answer, if there is an answer,
would have to be found in the establish
ment of new private schools. The State
Board of Education now has given some
indication of what this would mean. The
average State tuition grant per pupil
would be about $500 year, a small
fraction Of the actual cost of adequate
private education. Presumably, the indi-
vidual parents of children attending
private schools would have to make up
the difference.
This, however, is not the major
aspect of the problem. The State board
says that private schools would have to
meet minimum academic standards
comparable to those which now prevail
for public schools. Thus, for example,
private high schools would have to offer,
as a minimum, four years Of English,
one year of math, two years of history
and government, one year of science and
the requisite electives. From what source
will come the physical facilities, the
teachers and the money?
A footnote to the news release says the
State board would consider making
exceptions to it's minimum standards.
Our guess is that the board, given any
major shift to private schools, would
have to abandon all pretense Of main
tanning even the minimum standards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
THE POLITICAL MILL
Ten States Head for Primaries
By GOULD LINCOLN

Massachusetts Democratic
Governor Foster Furcolo also
will be renominated. and the
Republicans win name
Charles Gibbons. former
Speaker of the State House
of Representatives, to oppose
him. The decision to name
Mr.. Gibbons was made by
the Republican State Com
mittee after the sudden
death of Attorney General
George Fingold who had been
picked by a preprimary
State convention to run
against Gov. Furcolo.
G. o. p. Victory Seen
Another New England
State--Vermont-has a brisk
contest for the Republican
senatorial nomination. Vet.
eran Senator Flanders de-
clined to stand for re-elec-
ton, and Representative
Winston L. Prouty = the
States sole member Of the
House-and former Governor
Lee Emerson are seeking to
succeed him. The Democrats
have picked-in convention
Frederick Fayette, a Burling-
ton lawyer, as their candi-
date for the Senate. Four
prominent Republicans are
contesting for the nomina-
ton for the House seat which
Mr.. Prouty is relinquishing.
Not since the days of Abra-
ham Lincoln has Vermont
failed to send Republicans to
Congress, and notwithstand-
ing the fact that Democrats
this year say they have hopes
of breaking this G. o. p. rec
ord, it does not appear likely
that a Democrat will win
either for Senator or Repre-
sentative.
On the West Coast, Sena-
tor Henry M. jackson is as
sure of denomination by the
Democrats Of Washington as
that day will follow night.
The Republicans are putting
up William BantZ, who has
been U. S. District Attorney
at Spokane. Senator Jackson
has been very popular in his
home State. Mr.. Bantz, on
the other hand, is not widely
known. He is 40 years old
and willing to take the
chance of defeat, giving up
his job as district attorney to
make the race.
One contest in Tuesdays
primaries in which the Re-
publicans will figure practi-
cally not at all is for the
Senate seat now held by Sem
ator Spessard L. Holland,
Florida Democrat. Senator
Holland has been challenged
in his race for denomination
by former Senator Claude
Pepper, who is running as a
liberal. Mr.. Pepper, a hard
campaigner, has been out OF
the Senate for eight years.
The general belief is that
the nomination will be won
handily by Senator Holland,
And in Utah, Republican
Senator Watkins is expected
to win denomination and re-
election despite the fact for
mer Governor Bracken Lee is
threatening to run as an in
dependent in the general
election in November.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES {. TRACEWELL

1t is amazing how small q
bug" can be seen by the cat.
Those sharp eyes spot 1t
wherever it may be, on the
curtains, on the window
panes, or even on the rug.
If you see a houSe-bound
cat making apparently silly
motions at the rug or floor
in general, feel sure that it
is after an ant or other small
insect.
The careful housekeeper
will not fail to register inter-
est when the household cat
does.
Those eyes never fail.
They see what even the
most careful housewife will
not see.
A centipede, for instance,
creeping on its hundred" legs
(actually 40 legs) across the
rug.
If left to its own devices,
the pet usually catches the
creature and eats it.
Just how much nouriSh-
ment there is in q centipede
is unknown. An ant prob
ably has less nutrition, but
this makes no difference to
a cat. The cat is a hunting
animal, and if he cannot
find bigger game, an ant will
do.
1t is hoped that fire ants
will be headed of before they
get to this neighborhood.
This hope is twofold. First,
that they will not get here.
Second, that they will not get
here because otherwise de-
structive chemical agents
must be used against them.
While modern chemistry
has given US some wonderful
things, other contributions
have side effects, as they are
called.
The use of chemicals to
kill noxiouS insects is almost
always mixed with the de-
struction of bird life. There
is here, of course, a difference
of opinion, as in all things.
One group is against the use
of sprays, and another holds
for them.
In the main, it is appar-
ent that this section will be
better of, in most ways, II
the fire ants never get here,
and here's hoping!
The insect that bit our cor
respondents boy was q mos
quito. And mosquitoes are
bad enough.