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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-02-26
Buckingham Schools To Help In
Goodwill Clothing Collections

The schools of Buckingham
County are helping the blind.
crippled and disabled workers
at Goodwill Industries again this
year" Rev. Lewis Ovenshire
exc cutive director of the
Goodwill, reports.
Pupils in the schools will take
home paper Good Willy bags
on March l. They are asked to
fill the bags with all kinds of
old clothing and shoes, clean or
dirty. and in any condition. They
are asked to take the bags
back to scholl on. or before
March s. Goodwill trucks will
pick up the bags at the schools.
Ovenshire said
The old clothing and shoes
will be cleaned and repaired by
our blind. crippled and disabled
workers. The repired I articles
will be sold at low prices in
Goodwill stores. The store re-
ceiptS will be used to pay regu-
lar wages to the physically handi-
capped workers. Goodwill is a
charitable, nonprofit agency.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-02-26

BUCKINGHAM. Feb. . -
Two fires were reported in
Buckingham county during the
week end.
Fire left Mrs. Stafford TAYLOR
a widow with five children,
homeless Sunda y when her
frame house burned to the
ground. The house. located on
Route 20. caught fire about II
am. while Mrs. Taylor and
children were at church.
A neighbor. who happened to
be passing by. discovered the
fire and promptly notified the
family at church. The Dillwyn
Fire Department arrived too
late to save the house, but was
able to protect some of h c
outbuildings
The cause Of the fire has not
been determined No estimate Of
damage was made.
Saturday morning. a beauty
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-02-26
Art Festival
Prizes Awarded

SCOTTSVILLE, Feb. Is -
Judges at the Junior Art Festi-
val on display at the Scottsville
branch Of the Mcintyre Library
Thursday were: Mrs. Lindsay
Pitts, of Scottsvle, Professor
c har e Smith and Professor
Theodore Turner, both of the
Art Department at the Uni
versity of Virginia.
Entrants were from various
schools and in three divisions.
Prizes were awarded to all first
winners; VISION l-pre-school
through third grade = painting
Matthew Ewoldt; drawing, Beth
Goodwin: and sculpture, Mary
Stuart johnson.
Winners in division 2-grades
four through seven were:
painting. Eric Ewoldt; drawing,
Karen Johnson; graphic arts,
Karen johnson; and sculpture.
Eric Ewoldt.
Winners in division 3-hi G h
school, were: painting, Suzy
Forstbauer; drawing, Suzy
Forstbauer; graphic arts, Gale
Palmer; and sculpture, Suzy
ForStbauer.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-02-26
Sunday Blaze Destroys Home OF
Buckingham Widow And 5 Children

salon operated by Mrs. w. G..
LeWellyn near Buckingham was
damaged by fire about 10 a m.
A wood heater overheated a
pipe leading to the roof, and
started the fire in the ceiling
Mrs. Llewellyn called her nus
band, who was nearby at the
time, and he managed to put
out the fire before the Dillwyb
Fire Department arrived.
Damage by fire was Slight.
but heat and smoke scorched
the ceiling and walls. Three
customers were in the shop
when the fire started.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-02-26
Fox Trapping Demonstrations Held

ham residents the proper
method Of using traps. Animal
scent, which is used for bait
traps was demonstrated.
The demonstrations were
planned in connection with the
fox trapping contest being spon-
sored by the Buckingham Game
Conservation Club. The fox
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-02-26

BUCKINGHAM, Feb. % -
Fox trapping demonstrations
were held throughout Bucking
ham county on Thursday. Feb
Is. Gerald Blanks, a trapper
with the Virginia Commission
on Game and Insland Fisheries
conducted the demonstrations.
Blanks showed the Bucking-
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Pie in the Sky

Having filled the countryside with
signboards, someone, we suppose, was
bound to think of challenging the old
airplane skywriters for heavenly adver-
tising space sooner or later. So with us
now is "Skyjector," a Swiss-invented
magic lantern Of such magnitude, or so
its sponsors claim, that it can enlarge a
four-inch by six-inch slide 72 million
times and project it as far as five miles
on cloud, mountain, a skyscraper-
or anything else big enough to hold it.
If enough clients are interested,
"Skyjector's" promoters are thinking of
taking the gadget on nationwide tour,
and lighting up the skies of fifty cities
or so with your favorite brand of ciga-
retteS and mouth wash. So if you like
the idea, you may soon be able to desert
your 21-inch TV screen for 1,OOO-yard-
long picture outside. And if you don't
like the idea, you can stay in the house
or hope 1t rains.
Evening star., 1960-02-05

nue. resulting from the lower sales tax,
the administration eliminated proposed
BENEFITS for income taxpayers through
increased exemptions. And to further
make up the deficit, 10 per cent tax
on liquor and an increase in the bottled
beer tax from 2 to 8 cents was recon-
mended. The overall tax "take" under
the compromise plan would be only 81
million less than that Of the original
program.
Thus, as Governor Almond has
pointed out, the only compromise has
been with methods of raising revenue,
not with essential needs" The legis-
lators will want to make sure, of course,
that the needs outlined in the budget
are, indeed, really essential. If they find
that they are as vital as the Governor
and his aides contend, we do not see
how adoption of an adequate sales tax
plan can be avoided.
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Macmillan on Africa

Now that he has ended his month
long tour Of the so-called Dark CONT
nent, British Prime Minister Macmillan
is returning to London profoundly con-
vinced that it is imperative for the free
world to cooperate in every way possible
with the steadily growing forces Of Afri-
can nationaliSm.
Thus, as he has declared in his
address to members of the white South
African Parliament, there is a porten-
touS wind of change blowing through
the continent" with a strength that
cannot be denied or diminished or
wished away. AS he has put it, "the
growth Of national consciousness in
Africa Is a political fact and we must
accept 1t as such. sincerely believe that
II we cannot do so, we may imperil the
precarious balance of East and West on
which the peace of the world depends"
This is so, according to the Prime
Minister, because "the great issue" Of
the second half Of the goth century is
whether the uncommitted peoples of
Asia and Africa-the young new nations
or those that are in the process of for
mation-will be drawn into the Com
muniSt camp or become firmly a part
OF the camp of freedom. That is why
the West, in Mr.. Macmillan's Judgment,
must do whatever it can to help all such
peoples mot only to raise the material
standards Of life but to create a society
which respects the rights of individuals
"a society in which men are given the
opportunity to grow to their full stature,
and to have an increasing share
IN political power and responsibility"
1t is not surprising, therefore, that
Mr.. Macmillan has frankly told South
AfricaS white parliamentarian that
some aspects Of their country's policies
meaning particularly apartheid, the
program Of racial separation or segrega-
tion-are opposed by the British as
something that runs counter to "our own
deep convictions about the destinies of
free men, to which in our own territories
we are trying to give effect" These are
rather blunt words, and they may cause
additional strains in relations between
Britain and the Union of South Africa,
but they have been spoken from the
heart
Certainly there can be little doubt
about the power Of Africa's nationalistic
pressure for independence, even in lands
still poorly equipped to govern them
selves. Nor can there be much doubt
that the British Prime Minister is right
in warning the free world against
reacting negatively to it.
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Victory in KeroIu

The defeat Of the Communists in
Kerala, the tiny state near the southern
tip of India, effectively reverses a pre-
vious Communist victory at the polls,
and brings an element Of reinsurance
to Western world which has a vital
concern with the political development
of India.
Only last July control of Kerala
was taken from the Communists after
they failed to quell an outbreak of law
lesSness and disorder. In 1857, however,
they had taken over the government in
a free election-the first victory the
Communists ever had achieved through
democratic processes. This weeks elec-
tion, therefore, assumed a special i'm
portance. The Communist defeat was
brought about largely by Prime Minister
Nehru'S Congress Party, which for the
first time Joined others in a solid front
of opposition. Hopefully, Western OBJ
servers also view it as the reflection Of
a growing distrust of communism
throughout India since the atrocities by
the Chinese Communists in Tibet and
since the fiareups of violence on the
India-Red China border last fall
The election results, nonetheless,
leave no room for complacency about
the future activities of the Communists
in Kerala. Their candidates polled a
higher number of votes this week than
they did in 1857; the non-C Communist
opposition simply obtained an even
larger increase. The hope for the future
is that this immediate advantage will
be solidified and strengthened, for the
defeated Communists certainly will not
lick their wounds and stink away.
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Big Man for Bio Job

The time is approaching
when our presidential candi-
dates will be elected or
drafted. A President for our
country should be selected
with great care. He should
be strong and firm, men,
tally conservative, and of
an age to make him capable
for the job before him-big
in thought, word and deed,
too big for mudslinging and
harsh criticism of his prede-
ceSSors. Such attacks on a
past President always reflect
on the candidate.
The man who will ear
nestly promise what he will
do himself. and what he
sees for the future with
out attempting to crush
some fellow man who has
either tried to run the job
before him, or is striving to
push forward, will win the
nomination.
Let's have a whole-heart-
ed, honest and clean cam
paign for a change, and de-
light the listeners, who will
all be for the man big
enough to do this. He will
be considered the man fit to
run our country.
Sarah A, Richardson.
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Books for Europe

On the radio I heard a
plea from the United States
Information Agency for books
to be sent to Europe. The
books, preferably American
classics" Zone wonders if
Dresser, Lewis, London are
invited, too, the announce
ment stipulated, should be
hard-backs only.
Probably in the interest of
durability. Or handling ease,
1t would seem that the tre-
mendous range of literature
available in almost every
drugstore and bus station,
etc.-in most cases for so
cents or less-is a testimonial
to the free exchange of ideas
as well as to the intellectual
hunger and vitality rampant
in America.
This surge of paper-back
publishing, ranging from
Plato to Kerouac, is perhaps
unique to the Goth century
and to America.
Is this, then, not excellent
grist for Mr.. Aliens mill?
Jay Anthony.
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Disappointing Delay

Failure of the Senate Public Works
Committee to approve five new Office
buildings for Washington is both sur
prise and disappointment. It is graf
flying that committee members regard
this only as temporary delay, however,
and we hope that hearings will be held
at the earliest possible date to clear up
apparent misunderstanding about the
projects.
Designs for two of the new build
ings, both to be located in the Southwest
redevelopment area, are complete, and
their construction has been expected to
begin this year under the Presidents
request for omnibus construction funds
In the current budget. ANY delay in
this schedule will play havoc with the
commendable program worked out by
the General Services Administration to
raze dozens of eyesore tempos and to
provide decent new Office space for
thousands Of Federal employees.
Actually, each of the five buildings
already had been approved by Congress
in previous years. Their routine resub-
mission, however, was required by new
law enacted in 1859. The only reason
for the holdup cited by Senator Chavez,
the committee chairman, concerns one
OF the Southwest projectS-a large two
building complex to be located south Of
Independence avenue between Sixth and
Ninth streets S.W. Senator Chavez dis
closed that the proposed occupants of
these buildings are the Federal Aviation
Agency and the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, and he said
committee members were disturbed an
to whether these agencies should locate
downtown or in the suburbs.
ANY dispute over this question, how.
ever, should not delay the Independence
avenue project at all. It's occupancy by
the aviation and space agencies has not
yet been officially resolved. And If Con-
gress decides that they should locate
elsewhere, there are many other agen-
cies, now scattered haphazardly in sub
standard quarters around the city, which
could be substituted readily. The i'm
portant thing is to get moving on the
building, which would provide space
roughly equivalent in size to the Com
merce Department building, and cost
about $50 million to build.
If this seems like a lot of money.
the Senate committee also should note
that cost estimates Of the five projects
have increased some $50 million since
they first were proposed by GSA in 1855.
This increase is nothing less than the
cost Of delay, and further procrastina-
ton will only intensity the problem.
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Slug 1t Out With Ticket-Puncher

Before coming to the United
States IL years ago, we had
lived in and Travelled through
many countries and cities.
Although we thankfully ap-
preciate and enjoy countless
progressive features in our
new home country over here,
we have to admit that in no
other town, city or country
abroad did we find such poor
(and expensive) means of
public transportation.
You cross the channel from
Calais to Dover in about the
time we wasted last Friday to
get from Cabin John to Con-
stitution Hall for the Geo.
graphic Society program. 1t
was not "a trip downtown;
1t was a journey of 214 hours
in four buses. If my neighbor
and 1 were not picked up by
car in the evening, we would
drop these outstanding lee
lures. No Geographic Society
subscription next winter! In
the time of horse-carriages it
must have been easier. We
seem to have moved to an
isolated area. Or someone
turned the clock back by 100
years.
You ride from Brussels to
Antwerp in 80 minutes in a
comfortable electric train. In
80 minutes you go from Mu-
mich to Garmisch-Partenkir-
chen, without any transfer,
sitting comfortably. You cross
Denmark in about 2 hours.
In Paris, Milano or Madrid
you are "cross-town" in either
metro Subway or quick
streetcar, bus or electric train
in a fourth or sixth of the
time you have to spend here
on q similar trip. That was
Evening star., 1960-02-05

than to set up a cumbersome
State sales tax system which
would put more tax collec-
tors on the payroll and on
the backs of the overbur-
dened taxpayers.
An increase in the State
income tax would accomplish
the same purpose and would
not require additional State
employees.
X. d. VasS.
"No Adequate Alternative"
to the Virginia 3 per cent
sales tax, you say editorially,
while in a letter on the same
page H. A. DAILY gives it to
you, and good for him. Please
remember there are thou
sands of Days to be consid-
cred this election year.
We want to know who are
the VirginianS who expect to
get from the State the kind
of services and. public works
they are demanding" You
innocently identify them as
especially school, hospital
and welfare authorities" i.e.,
the same who are the spend
ers of the proposed tax
money, not the thousands of
taxpayers who are or should
be demanding reduction in
public service employment" /"
Charles c. Plummef
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Against Sales Tax

am dlSmayed that most
newspapers in the Washing
ton area support the proposed
Virginia sales tax. 1t seems to
me your editorial writers
haven't really explored the
problem.
Your emphasis on the need
for the money is correct.
However, your assertion that
the sales tax is the only way
to raise the money is wrong.
Every Virginian I've talked
to opposes the Governors
sales tax plan because it's the
most unfair method Of taxa
ton that could have been
dreamed up. The imposition
Of a 80 sales tax on every
thing-food, medicines, cloth
ing included-and the reduc-
tion Of corporate and per-
sonal income taxes, is a plan
to penalize the poor and
reward the well-off. Person.
ally, our family might bene-
f1t under this plan. But what
about the little people" g.
who spend every cent worked
for on the basic staples? To
them, the tax means an
actual 80 cut in the amount
Of food, clothing and medi-
cines their families may
desperately need.
I can't imagine why Gov.
Almond insists the sales tax
Is the only way to raise the
money that the State so
obviously and urgently needs.
For example: State Senator
Charles Moses D-Appomat-
tox) proposed that new taxes
be raised from q 5-cents-a-
pack tax on cigarettes, a 10
per cent tax on liquor, a so
per cent increase in beer
taxes, a 2-cents-a-bot tax
on soft drinks and a lO%
markup in income taxes.
This is a sound, sensible
and fair plan for raising tax
money. I don't want to pay
higher taxes who does?
But a hundred dollars more
added to our State tax bill
won't take food from our
family's mouths, while a 80
tax on food, medicines, cloth
ing might very easily have
that effect on some Virginia
families.
Juanita Summers
We are deeply concerned
at this time with Gov.
Almonds proposed State
sales tax. We have a State
income tax. A State sales
tax would be merely an
additional tax on our income
as we spend 1t.
We feel that we in
Virginia are already over
taxed, but If we must pay
more taxes, 1t would be far
better to increase the State
income tax, which we al
ready have in operation,
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Jay Anthony.

cars which do not need re-
placement at this time.
What is the rush to get
rid of the remaining street.
cars in the District? The
track is in good condition;
the streetcars also are in
good condition, many of them
less than 10 years old. (The
life of a streetcar is from
Is to 80 years; that of a bus
seven years. To purchase
additional buses now seems
to be a waste Of money for
both D. c. Transit and the
public who must pay the fare
raise all to ride in a smelly
bus.
If the physical property of
the tracks and streetcars
were in poor condition I
could see some logic in con-
vertlng to buses. However,
this is not the case. Do bus
and tire companies have in
f1uence in D. c.? We are
losing our efficient streetcars
by clever propaganda and I,
for one, do not like it.
AS to the argument of the
transit firm that parts for
street cars are no longer
made, D. C. Transit is scrap
ping enough Streetcars at
Benning road to get from
them all the parts they would
need for so years. Moreover
track and special switches
and croSSovers, which they
say cannot be purchased any
more, are plentiful in the
abandoned Rhode Island ave-
nue., Cabin John, Georgia and
Alaska avenue, and Friend
ship Heights lines to last
them for many years. Again
I ask, what is the rush?
P.D.G.
Evening star., 1960-02-05

even before the war; they ad-
vanced in the meantime. It
costs considerably less, too.
When we bought our place
in countrywide Cabin John,
we had a good bus on Mac
Arthur boulevard, two min
utes from our home. To our
amazement, we read q little
later that the Cabin John bus
"had to be" dropped. Reason:
The "owner" Cd did not
make enough profit on this
line. Such a statement would
be a laughing stock in any
West European press. It
would sound like a first-of-
April joke. 1t would be like
being informed that a village
or suburb would be without
postal service from next
month on, because not enough
stamps were bought in this
area. 1t doesn't pay. Not
enough dividends at the end
of the year. Are we living in
the dark Middle Ages when
a few princes decided what
their subjects needed and
what not?
For us new citizens and for
many exchange persons from
all parts of the world, Amer
lea sets a fine example in the
ways of life. But in public
transportation we are far be-
hind the small and poorer
countries. Why not finally
make public service" public?
DR.. Erich Buchanan.
= y =
1t is not difficult to see why
D. C. Transit is asking for a
fare increase to Is cents.
Look at all the buses they
will have to buy, amounting
to nearly a million dollars,
all to, replace our fine street.
Evening star., 1960-02-05

How beautiful, how aris-
tocratic she is surely my
bed is hardly soft and ele-
CANT enough for her!
II tremble at the thought
OF owning a white Persian. I
fear that while the family ate
hamburger, I should buy
tenderloin steak for her.
And instead of just hold
ing the door open while she
decided whether or not to
exit, I should probably leave
1t permanently ajar for her
convenience.
1T is a fearsome thing to
be owned by a cat, and I
hope nobody ever gives me a
white Persian for Christmas.
Sincerely yours, J. K. S.
"P.S.-Thank you for your
wonderful column. Its gen.
tie wisdom and humor are
like an oasis in the desert Of
ugliness and evil that assails
US from the rest Of the
paper"
The evil that men do lives
after them in the news
papers.
1t is necessary for WE'LL
informed people to know
what is going on around
them.
Much Of the news, whether
we hear it or read it or see
1t, is bound to be of disaster,
crime or trouble, Of one sort
or another.
This cannot be helped,
human people being what
they are. 1t is one Of the
reasons why some people
turn to the animals, just as
Walt Whitman did before
them. He said he could turn
and live with the animals,
they were so contented. so
happy, all over the face Of
the earth.
This wisdom of natural
living is found in our friends,
the dogs and cats, and today
even in parakeets. Some
people have found a bit Of
happiness in contemplating
goldfish in a small tank.
Usually too small0
In looking back over the
years, a goldfish no longer
than an index finger looms
quite as large as a beautiful
cat or, oOg.
Old Whitley, we called him.
He was creamy white, with
wonderful fms and tail, and
large expressive eyes. at least
for a fish.
Poor fish," the universal
epithet, never applied to him.
He lived beloved, and died
mourned. That's how soft
one can get and be glad of it.
Ugliness and the evil are the
result Of hardness. Let's he
soft and proud. Let's die
decent,