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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07
Agency Help, Reserve Fund Rebuilding
Give Community Chest Double Appeal
Special Gift Campaign Begins
Tomorrow; General Drive Oct. Is

a Successful Prince Edward
County Community Chest campaign
this month VIII not only meet the
budactea needs Of the \ participant
Ing agencies, but will restore the
depleted Chest reserve fund
The 1858 campaign funds have
been allocated to provide Sl5 900 for
the agencies and 81 900 to reconsti-
tute the important reserve.
The campaign goal Of Sis 900 viii
BE sought during d Today special
gift effort October to /. and a
county wide general solicitation, o.
tober 10 10 81
Reserve Exhausted
The reserve fund. accumulated in
earlier years when Chest drives ex-
ceeded annual goals. was used up
two years ago to fulfill obligations
70 participating members when the
drive fell short Of the quota.
Last year with the reserve ex-
hausted, the Chest board Of drec-
tors had to order a Il per cent cut
IN the funds provided the agencies
when the campaign again ended
short Of the goal
As approved BY the Chest Budget
and Admissions c b m mite and
adopted by the board of directors,
the funds allotted the II agencies
from the SIG 900 goal this year are:
Agency Allotments
SouthSide Community Hospital,
$500; FarnaVille Memorial Recrea-
ton Association, 81 800; Boy Scouts
Of America. $500. Salvation Army
81 900; r. r. Motion Recreation
Council. $3.50; southside Hospital
Auxiliary, $500; F'armville Public
Library Association, SITS;
Also, Chlldren's Home Society Of
Virginia, $3.50 Farmville Reading
Room, $525; United Defense Fund
Of Virginia, $500, and Girl Scouts
Of Prospect, Slo0
That total is SIS 900 with the ad-
ditlonal $1,000 allotted to the res
toFation Of the reserve and cam
paign expenses.
Division Quotas
TO meet the 1858 goal. the Chest
has spread the effort through its
five major fund-receWing divisions,
special gifts, employees, Farmville
residential, county districts and
colored.
The quotas for each are: special
gifts. Slo.500. or IS per cent of the
total employees, 50, $50: residen-
tial, s575, county districts, sl,975,
and colored. s700
The county district division is
further broken down to magisterial
districts as follows. Lockett. $500
Prospect $500; Buffalo. $3.50; Farm
VILE $500; Leigh, s275, and Hamp-
den, $3.50
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07
Business Women
Start Full Week
Public Invited TO
Program Sunday

Members Of the Farmvillc Bust
ness and Professional Womcn's Club
have a busy schedule this week
Sunday marked the beginning Of
National Business Women's Week
which is being observed BY business
women, nationwide
Local activities for National Busl-
ness Women's Week began with a
tea held Sunday at the home Of
Mrs Annie v Putney A special
Emblem program was presented by
Miss H Frances Calvert. director
Of District Five Of the Virginia
Federation Of Business and Pro
fessional Womens Club. Inc. The
Farmville club is included In Dis
trict Five, along with clubs from
Petersburg, Richmond, Hopewell
and Seven Hills. Richmond.
On Thursday. a Seminar Tor
Women VINO Work VIII De neld IN
the Miller and Rhoads tearoom in
Richmond, with two evening ses-
sions. Several of the local Business
and Professional Women's club
members are scheduled to attend
The weeks activities will close
Sunday. Oct. II. when the Farm
vile Club plays host to the District
Five Clubs at joint meeting to
be held at the Farmyille Women S
Club House at 2:30 pm. The guest
speaker VIII be Mrs. Sylvia Pollow
Howard, field representative Of the
Womens Bureau. United States De
2artment Of Labor, who VIII speak
N The Mature Woman i'll Today
Economy
The Farmville Business and Pro
fessional Womens Club extends an
invitation to other local women S
clubs 70 hear tins outstanding
speaker.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07
Old Belt average
Jumps Sl.27 To Set
Season High, $3.50

Demand strengthened for Old
Belt flue-cured tobacco during the
third week Of sales report the
United States. North Carolina and
Virginia Departments of Agricul-
ttre Quality Of offerings con
tlnued to improve when compared
with the week before. Volume of
sales was a little heavier but de-
llveries were not as. heavy as ex-
pected bee aus e Of mclement
weather.
Gross sales for the week ending
October 3 totaled 25.347 49, pounds
tor the season high average of
s59.63 per hundred. The average
vas ~ over last week and S2.77
above opening week. Season sales
amounted TO 60695 .264 pounds
averaging S58,5l. For the compar
able period last year 1854 .O62
pounds brought and average of
SIS. Sc.
Increases in average prices were
mostly 81 90 to $500 per hundred
Approximately s. per cent of the
grades were higher. Only a few
scattered declines occurred and
they were chiefly for lower quality
leaf.
More low and fair leaf was mar
keted this week with correspond.
ing decrease in nondescript. Also,
the percentage Of leaf was greater
and less prnnings. Principal mar
keungs were low to good leaf. low
and fair lugs and primings, nom
desclpt and low cutters.
Growers turned over around 1912
per cent OF gross sales of the Flue-
cured Sterilization Corporation I'M
der the Government loan program.
Deliveries for the season were ap-
oroAlmately 10 per cent.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07
Hi Last October
Hit Lost October
Asian Flu Epidemic Not Expected,
But Use OF Vaccine Is Recommended

Remember the Asian Flu? There
arc a lot Of folks that can remcm-
ber it first hand from last year.
and even more who can remember
the preventative vaccines they took
as a precaution.
Unfortunately the Asian influenza
variety, is still lurking about, wait
ina for some unWary breadWinner
OF housewife to lower their guard
before attacking.
Or. +. J Clements. Southside
Health Director, said thre arc no
indications that there will be wide
spread attacks Of influenza this fall
and winter. however there IN
donbtedly will be some cases"
His advice is that everyone plan
to be vacclnated against influenza
as soon as possible, especially
those who wish to avoid absence
from work and those to whom the
disease might be an added health
risk
Supply Plentiful
There is ample supply of vaccine
available this year. the are a
health director stated, "and those
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07
October 10 Deadline
For Conservation
Reserve Applicants

Farmers interested iii signing
1883 Soil Bank conservation re-
serve contracts must request the
County Committee 70 establish an
nual rental rates for their farms
before they may file applications
for contracts. Thomas Chist, chair
man Of the Prince Edward County
Committee, said today. Such tel
quests for rates must be made By
no later than October ~. Unless a
farm rate IL requested by that
date, 1t viii hot be possible to OBJ
tain a conservation reserve con
tract for 1859.
After the County Committee es-
tahshes rate for a farm. h e
farmer Will be notified of this rate
He can decide then whether or not
no wishes to sign a conservation re-
serve contract If he wishes to sign
such contract. he must file APP
plication Id the County ASC office
by no later than October "a.
Under the Conservation Reserve
Program, farmers contract with
the government to retire all or a
part Of their cropland for three.
five, o. ten years This land is put
into such conservation uses as
grass and legume, tree, or wild
life cover Annual rental payments
arc made each Year Of the con
tract period. Hlx said While these
rates vary from farm to farm de
pending upon the productivity and
value Of the land. the average for
the Prince Edward is $3.50.
Hlx said that the conservation re-
serve Will be the only part Of the
Soil Bank III operation for 1859. The
Acreage Reserve Program, under
which farmers received payments
for reducing their tobacco. cotton.
corn. and wheat acreages in 1858.
will not be continued in 1859.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07
100 FomIy Units Shown
Report Shows Average Household
Here Has SO Persons; Number Rising

Families in Farmville are run
ming larger these days Second
births are becoming more common
place. The proportion of couples
having third and fourth children is
going up rapidly also.
These changes, of great econo-
mic importance. are indicated in
Census Bureau reports and in
population estimates made by other
agencies
The size of Farmville families Is
brought out in figures showing that
there are now 1872 persons. on the
average, in each 100 households To-
cally.
Reasons Given
This is large, compared with the
ratio found elsewhere In t h c
United States as a whole there are
34l people per 100 households In
the South Atlantic States it amounts
to 377 per 100.
The bigger birth rate, together
with the reduction In infant and
child mortality due to advances
made by medical science, have
combined to add to the natural
population growth.
This medical progress has also
had a great effect at the upper
end of the age scale. increasing the
proportion of elders in the popula-
ton. Nationally, there are now
some Is million people over age
IS.
It has become an important sec
ond factor. contributing to til e
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07
MAYOR ENTERS
PLEA FOR
HANDICAPPED

Farnvillc MAYOR " ! watkins
Jr., today called for employer CO.
operation II campaign TO find
s'nlapie loos iof 'hc physlcaily
prorlanaiIoa a~t,sa'.t'n 'a H.. , ~ !
ais Hire thc physIcaIlv bandi.
capped Week" il conjunction with
the national celebration
70 assist inc handicapped IN their
~, T"' a.''n, N'a' 'lr community
zens has ha.n annoirtna i \, q ,,' I II, !,
The DAYS ahead WITH M vireinia
State Employment Service Mem
oefs afe;
= " ffetwell. Lions club. L q
cook' Rotary Cub; NJ ! Dagger
junior = m per Of Commerce.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07
BY JOHN STICK

AT Is Gerald Overbee learned
what 1t is like to be turned over
night from a normal. active youth
to a partial paraplegic. paralyzed
from the knees down.
At q he has learned that physical
handlcaps and employment can be
perfectly reconciled, and that there
are employers who aren't frightened
by crutches.
Gerald had Just completed the
freshman year at Farmvllle High
School back in 1853 when an auto
mobile accident left him with three
crushed vertebrae, broken ankle
and cuts
Back Injury
The ankle and the cuts healed
but the crushing Of the vital back
area deadened the responses of his
legs below the knees. For Gerald
Overbae. there would henccforth be
no movement without braces, which
mechanically translated stimuli gen
Grated by the knees to the lower
legs and feet.
Even with that. Gerald doesn't
venture walking without crutches
unless the surface over which he
is passing is smooth and without
obstacles.
Yet from the knees UP, Gerald is
as normal as any other youth Of u.
and that fact was the key to his
rehabilitation which now finds him
a going young executive. filling the
need OF bookkeeper at the new
Falr-Acre Certified Egg Marketing
Service plant at Farmville.
Returns TO FHS
After original treatment at South
side Hospital and additional therapy
treatment at Medical College Of Vir-
ginia, Gerald. back home with his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Over
bee here, set to work at rehabili-
tatlon. He started at vital point.
education, and returned on crutches
to Farmville High He graduated
in 1857
He had his disability and de-
gree. but as handicapped person
he wasn't properly job related A
nine-months course in accounting at
the States Woodrow Wilson Re.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07

who wish to take the vaccine
S b ould contact their family
physician for details He empha-
sized that the family's doctor
should decide whether Of not to
Vaccinate particular individual.
Dr.. Clements said special groups
which should be considered for vac
cinatlon, include hospital staffs.
whose services are necessary for
the care of sick; groups of person
living in close proximity where in
fluenza could spread rapidly. in
dustrlal OF service groups, in oc-
equations where the sudden alb
sence Of stable part OF the
force could create serious dis
ruption of work, and individual pa
tlents or groups who have a special
risk. such as the aged, the chroni-
cally i'll, or pregnant women The
opinion Of the private physician
should be Of particular Importance
to these special groups, Dr.. Glenn
ents pointed out
Epidemic Not Likely
Accurate forecastlng Of epidemic
Continued on page y
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07

growing size Of today's house
holds.
1900 Households
As Of the beginning Of this year
according to latest unofficial fig
ures. Farmville was a community
of l,200 household units This com
pares with Lis units in 1850 and
1896 in 1870
The strengthening Of the house
hold, which is the nations basic
economic unit results from the
most part from the new self-suf-
ficiency Of the older people. What
made il possible was the big ex-
pansion in public and private re-
tIrement programs.
This. combined with larger say
lngs and insurance protection than
IN former years. have enabled
them to remain financially indepen-
dent as never before. Because of
this they figure Importantly in the
current economy.
lhey represent a steadily in
creasing market with need for
all kinds Of goods and services. In
dustry must reckon with it. Mer-
chants. too. will have to set their
sights higher to provide bigger
households with more Of the neces-
sites of modern living.
The figures Of 200 households
multiplied by the 1892 persons per
household indicate population for
Inc town OF 4,704. The 1850 census,
st taken, gave the Farmville
population as 1851.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07

complishcd
There's 10 reason that holds Up
San be put forward to deny such
opportunities Gerald has been do
Inn a good JOB for lis, and We are
well pleased with his work" Deller
reports
Looking At Gerald at Ms desk
checking a column Of figures YOU d
never know that that overturned car
N 1928 snuffed out the nerves con
trolling his lower legs When YOU do
know IL, it doesn't make bit Of
difference 70 young accounting
executive anyway.
It's the column Of figures and
exact entries that count in book
keepers lob
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07
Wilton Jenkins
Injured ~ Stone

Wilton jenkins, a. Of Bsu-keville.
Was serlonsl9 il lure d Monday
morning about 9l5 while operating
his crane at the Bm-kevile Stone
Corporation. He was working in the
stone quarry and was hit by 4 flying
stone Knocked loose by four ton
mall
The stone struck him in the fore
head After preliminary treatment
at Southside Community Hospital,
h" "as rushed TO Medical College
Of Virginia at Richmond to deter
mine possible brain injury.
Jenkins is married to the former
Brette Overton Of Farmville.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07

aaoilitation Center NJ Flsher4viIlc
did that
Gerald returned from the Center
three and 2 half months aeo high
N praise Of Woodrow Wilson and
ready to prove that where a book
keeper meets his big challenge
at the desk and accounts file hc
was as prepared TO serve AZ TIC
next, whole guy
Gets Chance
Lawrence +. Dellcr- Fair-Acrc
plant manager here, fills in the rest
Of Gerald's story. He did the hiring
and he did IL because he himself.
and his firm. feel that where the
handicapped worker and Job can
be properly related it should be ac-
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07
HID Safety Meeting

County. publicity and program
chairmen Of District 10 Home Dem
onstration clubs are invited to at
tend special safety training pro
gram IN FarmVille October Is. In
terested persons are urged TO at
tend the meeting with registration
opening in the Weyanoke Hotel at
10 m.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07
Emanuel Church
Discusses Plans
For Parish House

4 congregational supper is be-
ing held by the Emanuel Episcopal
Church Tuesday evening, October ?
The supper is being held in the
school house near the church.
Rev R. E. Withers, church pas
tor, will show pictures of his re-
cent trip to Europe.
Plans for a new parish house viii
also be discussed at the meeting
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07
We Thank You!

We thank all of the subscribers
who have called to say they
missed The Herald al the APP
pointed time this week. Our teIe-
phones were busy Monday eve
ming and Tuesday morning.
1t indicates the value our sub
scribers place on the regular
visits of The Herald to their
homes.
T he first-Of- the-Week edition
was delayed from Tuesday morn
ing to Tuesday afternoon in CO.
operation with the Retail Merch-
ants Town wide FARMVLLE
DAY, so as to bring YOU the
latest on this event which takes
place Thursday for one day only.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-10-07
Clean Chimneys,
Fill Extinguishers
10 Prevent Fires

Reducing fire losses Is the biz
problem facing local flrcmen as
National Fire Prevention week rolls
around once again Losses in the
area last year were approximately
$3.50 900, with almost one million
dollars in property being involved
There were 81 emergency calls last
year
As We move into the winter sea
son, flue on chimney fires become
our main headache Farmvlllc
Fire Chief Philip f Gay said To-
day If area residents would take
time off to clean their chimney,
A special program on fire pre-
vcntion IS being presented 10
Farmville High School students
Tuesday morning at 9:i5 by p. F..
Gay, fire chief: f. L. Quisenberry
town manager; and r. @. Lynn.
fire inspector.
Local fire inspectors r. G.. Lynn
/ anu Dhhc QUICK are also planning
routine inspections of local business
places to start during fire proven
ton week and continue throughout
the month
and have qualified repairman
check their furnaces on oil heaters.
It would save us Al least one-half
Of the calls We will answer i'll the
next six months, Chief Gay ex-
planned
When cold snap comes and
heaters are pushed past their maxi
mum, they become ovetheated
When furnaces become overheated
Gay said the only thing To do is
cut off the flow Of oil feeding the
furnace and call the fire depart
ment
Gay said the soda and acid fire
extingdishers that are in many
business and public places should b
checked al least once a year He
said the fire department Will re-
FIJI these The extinguishers may
be taken to the fire house Oh Sat-
urday, and they will BE- fill Satur-
day afternoon. and can be picked
up at that time.
COZ type exhnguLshcrs should also
be checked. They may be weighed
to see if the COZ is still good. If
the weight is less than that recon-
mended on the extinguisher. it
should be taken to the fire house
and the extinguishcr will be re-
filled. Gay said it will take about a
week TO refill the COZ cxtlnguishers.
because each one has to be hydro
statically tested before it is re-
filled
This refilling service Is another
OF the services rendered to the
community BY the local fire depart
ment A permanent record Of the
refilllne date is kept at the fire
house and notices are sent out each
year. when it is time to have the
extinguishers checked H. e. Bar
Continued on page u
Arkansas State press., 1958-10-17
State Press

Pulaski street was one Of 100
students registered for the Ma
tional School for Teacher Salary
Scheduling when it opened at
the Statler hotel in Washing
ton D. c., October 8, Mrs. Heg-
wood is Chairman of English at
the Horace Mann school and is
President of the Arkansas Teach
ers Association.
Sponsored by the National Ed
ucation Association to stimulate
improvement in teachers sal ries
through training of leaders in
the principles of school financ-
ing, the school features lectures
and class sessions by outstand-
ing personnel in the field. The
three-day school closed with an
examination and an award
ing of certificates, October IL.
Arkansas State press., 1958-10-17
Statement of Ownership

STATEMENT REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF AUGUST
a. 1912, AS AMENDED BY THE ACTS OF MARCH 3,
1888 AND JULY 1916 little 49, United States Code
Section 233) SHOWING THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGE
MENT, AND CIRCULATION OF
State Press published Weekly Little Rock Arkansas
for October 1, 1858
l. The and addresses of the publisher, editor
managing editor, and business managers
Publisher STATE PRESS, Little Rock, Arkansas
Editor L. c. Bates Little Rock, Arkansas
Managing editor L. c. Bates Little Rock Arkansas
Business manager Mrs. L. c. Bates Little Rock,
Arkansas
g. The owners are: L. C. Bates Little Rock Ark
and Mrs. L. c. Bates, Little Rock Arkansas
3. The known bondholders, mortgages, and other
security holders owning holding percent of
total of bonds mortgages, other securities
None
s. The average number of copies of each issue OF
this publication sold distributed, through the mails
otherwise, to paid subscribers during the II months
preceding the date shown above was: 5,768
L. c. Bates, Editor
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9Th day of Oc
tober, 1858
Mrs N L. Stephens Kilingsworth
my commission expires 20, 1862
Arkansas State press., 1958-10-17
Pope Plus XII
Adhered RaCisnl
Tobias Asserts

Pope Plus XII "abhorred racism
and rebuked the advocates of ra-
cial discrimination and segrega-
ton in any country" DR..
Charming H. Tobias, chairman
of the board of directors of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People,
said in a statement mourning
the passing of the Pope.
The full text of DR.. Tobias
statement follows:
When was a member of the
United States delegation to the
United Nations in 1851, my wife
and l went to Rome for the
Christmas holidays. We were re-
ceived by Pope Plus XII in a
private herring. We found him
most gracious aRd pleasing in
manner, recognizing that we were
Prostestants, thus showing his
breadth of spirit. Our confer
ence was facilitated by his easy
command of the English Jan.
guage. His understanding Of our
racial problem in this country
Arkansas State press., 1958-10-17

was remarkable. He was sympa
thetic with our struggle for
equality of citizenship. His pub
lie utterances indicated that he
recognized no color line in hui
manity. He abhorred racism and
rebuked the advocates of racial
discrimination and segregation
in any country. Non-Catholics,
as well as Catholics have sus-
tanned a grievous loss and join
in mourning his passing. We
pray that his successor may be
possessed Of similar qualities.
Arkansas State press., 1958-10-17

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The u. S. Government
does not pay for this
ADVERTISING. The Treasury
Department thanks, for
their patriotic donation,
The Advertising
Council and
Arkansas State press., 1958-10-17
Local instructor
Attends NSTSS

Mrs. vivian T. Hegwood of 1919
Arkansas State press., 1958-10-17

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Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1958-09-24
Yam Market Opens Today;
No Selling Charge This Year

Stockholders in the Tabor City
Marketing Company corporation
met Friday afternoon at their
auction market building in Tab
or City and voted to sell local
growers, sweet potatoes this year
without charge. IL the past
there has been a fee of sever
contS per basket charged to the
seller and three cents a basket
to the buyer.
In addition To this major
change in tile Sctup Of the Tabor
City sweet potato auction. the
stockholders set Wednesday, to-
day September -, as opening
day The market will open a;
100 p. NJ. today and operate
until 800 p. NJ.
Thursday and Friday of this
week. the same hours will be in
effect, 100 to 800 p. NJ. Satur-
day of this week and every Sat
.urday for the remainder of the
season. the market will operate
from 900 A. NJ. until 1900 noon.
Monday, September %, the
market will open at 1000 A. NJ