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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-05-19
lib Association Grants
For Nursing, Teacher
Training Given Eight
Aid Worth 1851
Strikes At Two
State Shortages

Five nursing aid scholarships and
three grants to pu b C school
teachers for attendance at summer
health education workshops have
been awarded by the Southside Tu-
berculosls Association, Mrs. Emma
G. Anthony, executive director, an
nounced today.
The nursing aid scholarships to
assist with the first year of nurses
training are for SIS each. The
health education workshop grants
are for $50 Recipients are:
Betty Ann GRAHAM, Farmville
High School, to Mary Washington
College; Nancy Gryle Simonton.
Blackstone High School, to Univer-
sity Of Virginia; Sara Elizabeth
Davis, PoWhatan High School, to
Medical College of Virginia School
Of Nursing;
Also. Vernelle Elaine Robinson.
Russell Grove High School, Amelia
county, to Piedmont Sanatorium,
and Marian Lucille Fitzgerald. Lu-
Their Foster High School, Nottoway
county, to st. Phillips School of
Nursing
Teacher Grants
Awarded teacher workshop grants
were Mrs. Geneva A. Hamilton.
Mercy Seat School. Prince Edward
county Mrs. Ellie H. Williams.
Carver Price High School, Apo
mattox county, and Mrs. Rosa
Harris, New Grove School, Lunen-
burg county. They will attend the
summer health education Workshop
at Virginia State College at Peters
burg
The scholarships are made avail
able through funds raised by the
nine-county association during its
annual Seal Sale campaign Under
the Associations rules, any one of
the nine affiliated counties is linn
tied each year to two scholarships.
one for white and one for Negro
applicants.
The grants aren't made available
until the Association is notified by
the applicants school that the first
grade reporting period of the school
has been completed successfully
Must Stand High
Nursing aid applicants must have
graduated in the upper third of
Of their high school class.
The financial aid program is only
one phase of the health education
program conducted by the Associa-
ton. with headquarters at Farm
vile The Health Education Com
mittee administers the program.
and consists of E. Armstrong Smith,
chairman. Supt T. J. McIlwaine,
of the Prince Edward Cumberland
school division. and Mrs. Dorothy
Faulconer, Buckingham county
school supervisor.
The Association has initiated the
program in recognition of two high
priority public health needs in Vir-
glnla .. nurses and teachers
Continued on page y
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-05-19
Cumbe rIand's County
Wide I lower Show
May 20 1t Sunny Side

The Cumberland County Flower
Show, Sprlngtime III Cumberland. ;"
viii be held Wednesday, May 20 Al
the American Legion Hall at Sunny
Side IN Cumberland.
The home demonstration clubs
are sponsoring the show. but all
men. women and children in the
county are urged to enter.
The entries must be in place be-
tween 900 and 100 O'Clock. The
Judging viii be from 1900 to 100
O'Clock and the show VIII be open
to the public from 20o-5:0o and
from 100000 pm. All citizens of
the county are invited
On the flower show committc arc
Mrs. E. L. Seay, Jr., chairman.
Mrs. j. A. Hazlegrove. Mrs Edith
Carpenter. Mrs Frank Baber Mrs
Lewis Dawson and Mrs Walter
Simpson
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-05-19
USDA Ends Acreage Reserve
Tobacco Growers Who Got SCI ,O99 Last
Year For Idling Land Back In Business
VOLUME So

Elimination OF the Bank this
will 5 Of darkred acres Of ,c
cured land channels with the Prince Ed
County Agricultural Sterilization shows
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-05-19
Benefit Game Nets
$3.50 For Boys League

The fund to finance the inaugu-
ration Of Little Boys Baseball at
Farmville this summer has been
supplemented by approximately
$50 from the benefit baseball game
here Thursday night, according to
Richard G. Nelson.
The contest between F'armvIle
oldtimers and the Worsham COM
munity squad ended in a four-all
tie after a good. bristling contest
The league for the towns young
est baseball enthusiasts will be
conducted in the new park now
rapidly nearing completion at the
Longwood Hills recreation develop
mont
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-05-19

effect il farmers choose to use
them.
For last years final acreage re-
serve agreements. 1873 fne-cured
farmers received s28. 1913 for not
producing tobacco Another 68, with
fluc cured agreements. received
81, 1897 The 48 growers with sun
cured agreements were paid $500.
1859 AIIotments
If all 20 back TO production. the
county will have total Of 800 "a
acres Of tire-cmed allotncnts, dis
tributed among 763 farms. That is
an average farm allotment Of 1.3
acres.
1t viii also have 1892 acres Of
flue-cured aIlotments among 463
growers, averaging l.3 acres per
fam. The county has 80 sun
cured producers with 1927 acres,
less than one acre per farm.
The county has TOO hurley pro-
ducers with total OF 1918 acres.
or an average farm allotment of
Just under half-acre.
S23,995 Received
f0r nlaciuo I7fS acres IN the
long time conservation reserve pro
gram this wear, county farmers will
receive $685.. according to ASC
office records.
There are Al farms under such
contracts, and among acreage taken
out of productive use are 24l.3 acres
Of wheat ,i0.8 acres Of flue-cured
tobacco, 34.4 acres Of dark fired
land and one acre Of hurley to-
bacco
OF The .5a5 acres withdrawn from
production, 500 acres were planted
TO pines. the balance planted III
grass and cover legulnes.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-05-19
ON eClian Will
Entertain Lions
At Ladies Night

Jan Berkshire 2e-yea'told
comedian magician, VIII enter
tam the Farmwlle Lions club hand
Their guests Wednesday for then
annual Ladies Night banquet.
The Ladies Night banquet VIII be-
held in the dl1Me hall at Ling
wood College at 6.45. Wedne~uay
May 20
Appearing Oh thc program With
Berkshire viii be Ills vife Martha
Bork hire has becn IN bow 3
ness since he WAS 10 years oldl He
did OVER 20 performances ol
American troops i'll Europe and
was III the fNSt American SHOW
after Berlin va occupied
Berkshire recently performed 1T
FarmYille High School and Amelia
High School and has given ovei
300 performances AT high schools
all oyer thc country one VII Hill
favorite dishes IL eating ra Z y
blades.
New York night clubs theatre
and telev.sion are all familiar ID
Berkshire. who was born in Indiana
This Summer ne VIII appear al
Pleasure Island. an entertainment
spot near Boston, Mass,
Members Of the Lions Ladies'
night committee are Robert B
Burger J. H. Wamsley. and It. L
Quisenberly
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-05-19
Rice, p respect
Schools Plan May Day
Events This Week

May Day programs VIM b held
this weeE. at Rice ana Prospect
Elementary Schools
Rice School viii present its out
door program today TUESDAY
commencing at ? pm. MISS Jackie
Waller, student teacher from Long
wood College, has prepared a color
full pageant, Candyland. according
to the announcement Of Mrs. Grace
Bradshaw principal.
The Prospect program viii be
presented Friday morning at 1870
m. according to Mrs. John Shan
non. principal.
Patrons and friends are invited
to both programs.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-05-19

WO llttle girls OF 1919, asleep at
the edge of the forest, were found
by a pixie. who came their way
perhaps to dip his magic wand in
the pond nearby Anyway, upo h
finding that they fell asleep after
reading from modern-day literature
t0r children. the ellsh one told
them he knew a much better story
than theirs.
Pixies Tale
LET me really show you some
thing" pixie exclaimed, and with a
clap Of his hands there began to
unfold "A Pixies Tale Of Virginia \
Heritage.
That was really something, sure
enough The Indians. older even
than the OAR. were first. as BELTS
the first nhabitants Of our State.
and they danced, backs arched,
heads alternating up and down,
Just like Sitting Bull or Leaping
Deer once did where cities now
stand.
The Introduction OF m c 5 C
a m a $ from Europe to a
land where only buffalo and coyote
roamed Wa told by Kindergarten
younester in an appropriate dance
Baa-Baa Back Sheep.
Iiardships Eased
How the early English settlers
oTercame hardships by singing as
they worked; how the colonists
We're masters Of handicraft and
made the necessities Of life. such
as shoes, how the arduous tasks Of
carving out new life were eased
BY dances like the graceful mlnuet
and the rolllcking Virginia Reel, all
these were brought on IN success
ion by the Pike 5 handclaps.
The waves Of Immigration and
how people from different countries
Of the old world interchanged ideas
in the new world, also was de-
scribed. The Germans who came to
the Valley danced to "Ach ia, y
while these sturdy folk were shown
how they used to do it in Merrie
England to the tune of Turn the
Glasses Over.
Finally came the climax as the
settlers became Virglnlans and
started their journey to present
fame as leaders General George
Washington having shown how to
organize a ragged band OF colon
lists into a Continental Army. il
was only natural to show this phase
/ by a military drill, performed BY
nth grade boys.
In Worthy Hands
Take this cOurag eOus story WraI
it in PAPER mache, add mother &
ingenuity with homemade period
costumes and let the children acl
il out with all the earnestness. the
exuberance and when appropriate
the gay abandonment of childhood,
and you have placed Virginia S ira
dl.ion in worthy hands.
The Old Dominion didn't suffer
/ one bit. there in the spectator
rlnged May Day performance in its
pretty LongWood campus setting
From the professional when Betty
Booker Smith. queen of the May
and her court entered. to the fianle.
May pole dance bv the court
1889 re-enacted 1607-1775 with COM
plete success.
Even the Pixie had to admit it,!
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-05-19
National News Summary
Russia Rejects
Western Package
Plans For Peace
BY H. v. LANCASTER, JR.

Dy II. VI. LA.NShSl EN-, Jh.
Russian Premier Khrushchev re-
peated his rejection of the Western
p e c G plan as he accepted the
Lenin Peace Prize in Moscow Sat
urday. The Western proposal is
put forward only for one purpose,
to put the blame on u.s." he said
toward the end of an hour-long
speech. 1.-The real author of these
plans is not in Geneva" he de-
clared referring to Germany's
Chancellor Adenauer. He said some
OF the proposals in the Vests
package plan were worth discuss
ing but that each problem should
be considered separately.
In Geneva, the Western powers
were reported Saturday to be willing
to discuss Berlin apart from their
package plan in an effort to break
the deadlock with the Russians. For
nal talks were recessed for the
week end after a week Of delay
and Illustration marked by Rus
sia's attempts to seat several Of
her communist satellites and her
outright rejection Of the Vests
package plan. This plan calls for
the eventual identification Of East
and West Germany, an idea to
which Khrushchev seems fatty OPP
posed.
President Eisenhower flew to
Colorado Saturday to tour the new
Air Force Academy and visit his
aillng mother-in-law. He was sche-
duled to spend two hours at the
Academy getting his first on-the
ground view of the school and
greeting its first graduating class
American Bar Association Presi-
dent Ross u. Malone said Saturday
the legal profession lis in danger Of
losing it's share Of the best quail
fled students Of this and succeed
ing generation" to science and in
dustry He called for a six-polnt
plan Of action, including more law
scholarships and student loan funds.
to get more young people interested
in becoming lawyers. Malone spoke
at meeting Of the Virginia Bar
Association in Richmond
John Foster Dulles condition was
reported worse Saturday. Cancer
has spread throughout his body
and his pneumonia has not COM
pletely resolved. Dulles. H. former
Secretary of State. entered Walter
Reed Army Hospital Feb. r.
A strike of contractors and car
penters idled more than 5000 work
ers at the nations missile test
center at Cape Canaveral. Fla, and
nearby Patrick Air Force Base A
federal mediator was scheduled to
meet with union officials again
Saturday to try to work out a set
tlement.
More government support to
build giant demonstrating ma
chimes was requested by group Of
scientists in Washington Saturday
The scientists said the govern
ment should double its present sup
port from 50 to 1875 million dollars
year. BY 1868 for devices to ex-
plore the subatomic universe. One
recommendation, that the govern
ment pay for the building Of 100
mllliond dollar. two nile-long atom
smasher at Stanford University,
was strongly backed by President
Eisenhower in a New York speech
last week. 1t would be the most
powerful of its kind in the world,
capable Of generating up to as bill
lion electron volts.
Prosperity may avert deficit in
the federal budget for the fiscal
year starting July l. The rise in
Continued on page u
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-05-19

FARMVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MAY DAY Queen Betty
Booker Smith her they
court Patsy Norton maid of prince
Jamerson
Ann Wears Bruce Cecilia Carter
Nancy Druen
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-05-19
sbyterian Men
TO Meet Tuesday

Clifford W. Coleman, head of the
division of mems work officer
training. PRESBYTERIAN Church, U. S.
viii be tie guest speaaer tonight
Tuesday during the monthly sup
per meeting Of Farmvllle Presby-
tclIan Church men.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-05-19
Johns Memorial To
Observe Anniversary

Johns Memorial Episcopal Church
will observe its 80th anniversary
Tuesday evening with a family sup
per at the Parish House.
The Rev. J. A. Vache, rector, will
review the highlights Of the church
since its founding on May 10, 1879.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-05-19
Fire Drills Each
Monday Night

Tle iaa alarm Viii sound each
Monday n4ht at 6;:45 for tie next
SAN weeEs m HI CAV, Farmville
f.re chief said the local depart
mant wil Hold Informative drills
each Monday night
Ihc first dH.ll II planned inside,
ana ldter dllllS VIII include various
problems, situations and instruction
1t handing the different types Of
equipment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
Identical Bids
Received by IVA

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July %
(AP). The Tennessee Valley
Authority said today seven
firms submitted identical bids
on its offer to purchase $4,000
power line insulators.
The Authority said it mar
rowed the bidding to two firms
situated in labor surplus areas
and on that basis awarded the
contracts to Lapp Insulator Co.,
Leroy. N. Y, and General Elec-
trio Co., Baltimore, Md.
The Government agency said
it purchased $4,000 inSulators
from each firm for $51 900, and
an additional 5000 insulators
from Lapp for $4,000.
Besides Lapp and GE, the
firms listed by iva as submit
ting identical bids were A. B.
Chance, JoSlyn Manufacturing,
Ohio Brass, H. K. Porter and
Victor Insulator.
The Justice Department has
ordered a Federal grand jury
at Philadelphia to look into in
stances of identical bidding on
Government contract awards
to see if antitrust laws we're
violated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
Cites Public OpinlOn

Fur reasons Of prOprIety and
because Of The public attitude
on the problem ,Ee said re
tired o5csrS should not De in
direct selling work With the
PentsgOn- But qualified OIL
GERS. because Of their special
training and experience. are
desirable N private industry
They can make Z great contrl-
button By giving proper and
valuable guidance IN private in
dusty II such fields In opera
ton requirements and many
other areas N the defense ef-
fort ThEy could properly save
manufacturers much time and
prevent them from going down
blind alleys N ths defense
Effort
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
$4,000 Veterans
Get Insurance
Dividend Split
BY the Associated Press

About $4,000 veterans are
going to split a special 81 mil
lion insurance dividend. The
payments, starting this month,
will average about $50 each.
The Veterans Administra-
ton, announcing this today,
said the payments will go to
holders of National Service
Life Insurance policies which
had a IS total disability income
provision in force December 81,
1858. Those whose policies
were in a state of lapse during
December will receive the div
idend only if their policies
we're reinstated before June /,
1859.
The amount of the individual
dividend will depend on the
age group, plan and number of
months the insurance was in
force, VA said.
Excluded are those veterans
who were issued total disability
riders prior to January /, 1850,
under waiver of good health
requirements due to service
incurred disability.
The rider provides the in
sured veteran a monthly in
come of SIS per month for each
81 900 of insurance in the event
he becomes totally disabled.
He pays an extra premium for
this protection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22

The witnesses. Comdr. Henry
L Porter and 1t. Comdr. Ron
aid Anthony. both retired, said
they we're employed by beer dis
trlbuting companies several
years after their retirement
from the Navy. They said that
they never sought to use their
former Navy connections by
selling beer 10 officers clubs and
similar naval establishments.
They declared that they merely
tried to promote good will" for
their products by assisting Navy
recreation officers in arrang-
ing parties for visiting service
men
When they said they neither
sold nor took orders for beer,
they were asked whether they
gave advice on the quantity of
beer that might be desirable in
any particular instance.
We have a rule of thumb
on that" Comdr. Porter said.
We figured that every Is sail
ors would consume one keg of
beer. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
Army Seen Reudyine
First Nike-Zeus Test

LOS ANGELES, July %
(AP.-The Army repeatedly
plans the FIRST full-stage test
of its Nike-zeus anti-missile
missile within the next two
months at White Sands Prov
ing Ground. N. Mex.
The Los Angeles Times said
If the initial test is satisfac-
tory the Zeus will be hurled in
future tests from mid-Pacific
island launchers against long
range balhstic missiles from
Vandenberg Air Force Base.
The Zeus is the only missile
of its type now in an advanced
stage of development in this
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
Representative Dig9s
Files Suit for Divorce

DETROIT. July % (AP).-
Representative Charles C.
Diggs, jr., Democrat of Michi-
gan, has filed suit for divorce.
He has been married IL years.
The Circuit Court case was
suppressed, preventing dis
closure of charges pending a
hearing Friday on a property
settlement.
Mr.. Diggs and his wife,
Juanita. have three children.
Mr.. Diggs, first elected in
1854, was Michigan's first
Negro Congressman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
JUVENILE
House Unit to Hear
OF Crime Increase

cases during the 1853 fiscal
year. compared with 1913 cases
during the previous fiscal year,
for a 26.s per cent increase.
Move to Court
The Youth Aid Division sent
319l cases to court, involving
l.64S boys during the past ifs
cal year. compared with 2,797
cases involving 1851 boys dur
ing the previous fiscal year.
This represented a IA per cent
increase in cases and a 6 per
cent increase in boys.
The only bright spot in the
dark picture Of juvenile. crime
was a decrease in girl offenders.
The Women's Bureau. which
handles girl delinquency cases,
reported to Inspector Winters
that the number Of girls sent
to court decreased from 206
in fiscal 1858 to l72 in fiscal
1859 or 1914 per cent. The
number of complaints de-
creased from 257 to 233 or 8
per cent.
Since complaints against
girls were decreasing while
crimes charged to boys were
increasing. the overall increase
in the number Of children sent
to court BY police was 312 per
cent and the number Of COM
plants fled by police against
children increased by IL per
cent.
Juvenile complaints reaching
the court from police, schools,
parents and others during the
past fiscal year totalled Also.
compared with 3.454 COM
plants the previous fiscal year
for a 20 per cent increase. The
complaints involved 2,757 chill
dren. compared to 1850 the
previous fiscal year, or an in
crease Of 8 per cent.
As for homeless children,
protective agencies, the We'll
fare Department and others
referred 434 children to court
as dependent during the past
fiscal year. compared with 329
in the previous fiscal year. for
a 80 per cent increase.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
Boy Rescued,
Badly Hurt,
After Pit Fall

NASHVILLE, Tenn. July %
(AP) A young cave explorer
who tumbled 10 feet into a
subterranean pit was rescued
last night. seriously injured
and delirious, after being
trapped more than two hours.
The explorer, Tom Wainman,
is, OF Nashville, was hoisted
from the pit by Jerry Allen, IT..
a friend who Joined scores Of
rescue workers at the scene.
Young Wainman lapsed into
Inconsistencies before arriv-
ing at q hospital in an ambu-
lance. Attendants said he suf-
fered a brain conclusion,
broken leg and cuts and bruises.
His condition was termed salts
factory.
Don Tavalin, l6, one Of three
teen-age boys who we're explor-
ing the cave west of here with
young Wainman, said the
youths were on a ledge over
looking a room in the cave and
the pit was sunk into the room.
The Wainman boy. he said,
lost his grip on a rope, tumbled
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about 40 feet TO the room and
then into the 3O-foot pit.
Rescuers lowered young Allen
on a rope sling. He tied the
Wainman boy to a stretcher.
The injured youth was then
hoisted by ropes up the cliff
inside the cave and lowered
down a sheer bluff outside the
cave to the waiting ambulance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-22
Honor for Prince

LONDON, July % (AP).-
Promoter Alfred ESdaile plans
to name a new 450-seat theater
after Prince Charles, heir to
the British throne. Mr.. Esdaile
said he will build the theater
near Leicester Square. center
of the London stage district.
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Oonun4c0 rTom HhsA H@ke
cusnt boys has shown a sub
Stantial increase since the diyi-
son vas ORGANIZED IN 1885
There has been a definite
increase in juvenile crime IN
this city h acknowledged
Delay n Faet0r
He attributed the increase in
juvenile arrests partially to the
increase In child population
and to the larger number Of
police on the street. but he also
said q factor Was the delay be-
tween the arrest Of . juvenile
and his appearance before the
Juvenile Court Judge
A total Of 3lS boys. charged
with i.O4l OrenSsS. vent TO
court more than once during
the year. OF these 255 boys
went 10 court twice. 81 boys
went three times. seven went
four tunes and four went five
times.
1t is logical 10 assume. he
said. that some Of these boys
committed additional offenSeS
between then first arrest and
Their appearance before the
court several months later
Serious crimes charged to
BOYS increased from 1854 IN
fiscal 1858 10 3-4S3 cases In
fiscal 1859 for q 35-6 per cent
increase Inspector Winters
noted however. that some Of
the BOYS accused Of these
crimes were involved In many
orenSeS He cited one boy sc-
cused Of 50 hOusebreaklngS. one
accused Of 5 hOuSehreakingS
and one accused Of - house
breskinES-
In rOhoer5eS- however. the
percentage increase In the
number Of boys arrested ex-
ceede6 the percentage increase
II oHenses- A total Of 3O2 boys
were arrested on robbery
charges during the past year.
compared 10 157 boys IN the
previous fiscal year for a 3S-7
per cent increase RO6derIes
charged 10 boys Cotsled Isl
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The subcommittee today also
questioned tEO retired Navy Of
fcers whose retirement paw was
-6ocked- for several months by
the Navy because Of their &C
Invites N promoting beer sales
at parties for Navy personnel
visiting TIE Norfolk va area
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PIRAkFFT- Erss- and ysZLGW. .eG hand
C9a-@.l- GR--s11 Park reward