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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-08
Mechanical Headache

4 giant brain, in other words, an cleo
trio computing machine - can work
wonders, but the answers aren't neces-
sarily so.
The Daily Telegraph of London tells
this story: A firm experimenting with
an electronic brain designed to trans
late English into Russian fed it the
words: "The spirit is willing but the
flesh is weak"
The machine responded with a
sentence in Russian which meant, a
linguist reported, "The whiskey is agree
able but the meat has gone bad.''
White County (Ind.) Times
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-08
Safe Drivers
May Get Break
On Insurance

Safe drivers are in line for
lower automobile insurance
rates in the future, according to
Changing Times, the Kiplinger
Magazine.
The magazine points out that
competition for business is grow
ing feverish, and the insurance
companies are coming out with
one new plan after another for
lowering premiums.
There's something in the bag
for everyone, according to the
article, but the biggest prizes OF
all are being reserved for the
safest drivers. The darker side
of these new plans, the editors Of
the magazine note, is that tc
make room for rate cuts. poorer
drivers face higher costs fol-
protection against auto acci
dents and damages. Even the
motorist with just a few blacl
marks on his record may have
to pay more.
For years, some companies
have sold insurance at cut rate.
to people who passed stiff eligi
bility tests. Now the idea i
spreading. The criteria used viii
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-08
Double Check

l don't know where we are 60
ing or who is taking us but we
are on our way The State Legi-
Stature after considerable dis
cussion and in the midst of hot
differences of opinions passed
and the Governor duly placed
his signature to what is gen
orally known as the Sunday Blue
Law Number 1899 and
went into effect on the 9th
inst that's regular. Now we
are being told that any viola
tons will not be prosecuted by
commemorative and enforce
ment officers, thereby operating
to give a disregard for law and
order here in Virginia. Any law
50 made can be set aside by
the Supreme Court but until
that happens it is the law Of the
land like 1t or not. This
is dangerous precedent by the
members Of the Bar
America is at a standstill with
all foreign relations until after
the next President takes office
:. F.. goofing and golfing holds
the spotlight. Nor is this a good
sign that the party in power will
be able to repeat itself. Much
of the discomfort is being kept
under cover to aid in that di-
rection. Not only did the Presi-
dents popularity hit a new low
but the whole COP took a dive.
They have nothing to offer at
this time.
Making like every thing is
fixed hasn't helped the Demo-
Gratis. Get set for the 18th Of
this month there amt moth
ing beats your TV from that to
the end of Convention.
Thanks for reading.
Yours,
j. Marvin Brown
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-08
John Temple Graves
A New Nation Is Born

the centuries of accumulated
treasures Of mind. heart and
story. the soul for carrying on.
the dream in an Image.
Let us call them brothers as
they Join the ranks of freedom
while we celebrate our own. But
much younger brothers. not iden-
teal twins or in anywise con-
temporaries. Let us get word to
them how far more than being
free freedom is. how much of
character. sensibllity. history,
and dream and discipline and
God are required.
I'VE shall know as we are
NevermOre to walk alone =
In the daWning Of the morning of
that bright and happy day
We shall know each other better
when the mists-have-rolled-
away"
WHAT CRUEL ENEMY of
Senator John Kennedy's selected
that sketch of him for the front
cover of last week S Newsweek?
It's hard to make so handsome
man an ogre but Newsweek
came near.
With television and news pho
tos everywhere and the camera
more important in some areas
now than the pen or typewriter.
the convention against comment
on personal appearance is disap-
pearing
Perhaps this mean we are 90
ing to know each other better al
though looks can be as often de-
ceiving as revealing Let's hope
it means we are going to be bet
ter judges of looks. have more
elevated standard, be aware of
more fine points. reject more the
ruthless, selfish. Willful face that
happens merely to have the regu-
larities that go with a type of
beauty or good looks. :
BOB TAFT. THIS column S po-
litical hero, was no beauty Fine
things in his face were too fine
for Photographic catching. Some
of the pictures that turned up in
| the 1852 campaign were SO aW-
| full that using them would have
amounted to a Vindictiye per-
sonal editorial attack, it seems
| to me. Our Managing Editor Bill
Lmdley, knowing my weakness
| for the Ohioan. showed me what
must have been the worst pic
ture yet and pretended he was
going to print it. He didn't, of
| course, because he's an honest
man and an objective journalist
and modern enough to know pic
lures can lie even when chenli-
cally correct.
What a new field for contumely
this age Of cameras offers.
You can ruin a man without a
word
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-08

Bible Material: Amos 2:6 S; 8:4-6.
Devotional Reading: Romans
15.l-6.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-08
The Rugged Individual"

IT seems a young man lived with his
parents in public housing develop
ment. He attended public school, rode
the free school bus, and participated in
the free lunch program He entered the
Army and upon discharge kept his
national life insurance. He then enroll
ed in the State University, working part
time in the State capital to supplement
his CT check.
Upon graduation, he married public
health nurse and bought farm with an
FILA loan and then obtained a Small
Business Administration loan to go into
business. A baby was born in the county
hospital. He bought ranch with the
aid of CT loan and obtained emergency
feed from the Government.
Later he put part of his land in the
soil bank and the payments helped pay
off his debt. His parents lived comfort
ably on the ranch with their social
security and old-age assistance checks.
REA lines supplied electricity. The
Government helped clear the land. The
county agent showed him how to ter
race it, then the Government paid part
of the cost of pond and stocked it with
fish. The Government guaranteed him
sale for his products.
Books from the public library were
delivered to his door. He banked money
which Government agency insured.
His children grew up, entered public
schools, ate free lunches, rode free
busses, played in public parks and swan
in public pools. The man owned an auto
mobile SO he favored the Federal-aid
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-08

Land where my fathers died,
Land Of the Pilgrims pride.
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring y
There is no Pilgrim pride in
the Congo nor any sense Of
fathers gone after lives of re
sponsibility. devotion and things
achieved. Through the centuries
those Africans have lived amid
such mineral wealth and plenti-
tudes of soil coursed by a great
two-mile-wide Congo River 5000
miles long that visitor from an
other planet might have picked
them to lead the pace on this
planet but no such thing.
They have been backward
among the backwards even as
the wealth and geography Of
their land have richly paid en-
terprisers from outside.
THROUGH THE CENTURIES,
through the milleniums, they
have existed alongside their natu-
raj wealth as Marion Ruston puts
it without writing a book. without
painting a picture or launching
a boat or inventing a machine,
productive only as outsiders
have made them be-
Now in the spirit and way Of
a freedom whose talk has over
flowed on them but whose rules
and regulations have not reached
them. they find themselves sud
denly a self-governing nation. all
dressed UP with a prime mini
ter. chief of state. legiSla-
ture, a bureaucracy. They find
themselves not only a nation but
an important one. kin to the po-
litical and economic destinies of
all Africa. straddling its heart
from west to east, born in good
will not war. What's more, they
find themselves "heirs of all the
ages in the foremost files of
time" with benefit of a crack
military Establishment and Bel
gian general, Of continuing sub
sides from the white man, Of
every art and utility civilization
knows.
WILL THEY FAIL with their
freedom. nevertheless What IS
more. if they do fail will it be
because Of ~ lack Of time for
practice, t2> quarreling incompe-
| tence and natural inferiority. and
I t3> a disease the white man will
have left them
i i j.
The disease is there. All the
reports and circumstances sug
gest its presence. 1t is the dis
ease of socialism.
TOO MANY OF THE newly
free men have picked up from
so-called civilized lands the ide;
that democracy means handouts
pamperments. subsidized idle
ness, with the government max
ing all things easy and right. To
many have the idea which goe
with socialism as well as wit
their own long status, that onl.
material things count.
And too many - indeed all =
are without benefit of what w
in the United States sing, extc
and remember on the day of gu
own independence the Pi
grim's pride or its counterpart
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-08
CoNsoLlNG

Policeman Why didn't you
stop when l blew my whistler
Lady Driver - I'm a little
deaf
Policeman Don't WORN
you'll get your hearing to-
morrow.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-08

JUST THE OPPOSITE.
Long hair makes a guy look
intelligent.
Il saw wife pick one off
her husbands coat and he look
ed foolish"
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-08
ENJOYS STOLEN BEER

Buffalo = When Hillary Szkot-
nicki entered his apartment he
found John Dominiak at the pi-
ano drinking beer, and playing
How Dry l Am" Police charged
Dominiak with burglary.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-08

TO CONVENTION IN BUGGY
Bay Minette, Ala. - A delegate
to the Democratic National Con-
vention July II in Los Angeles.
Calf, G. E. Garrett, plans to
make the trip from his home in
Bay Minette in a horsedrawn
buggy.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-08

highway program.
He signed petition seeking Federal
assistance in developing an industrial
project to help the economy Of his area.
He was a leader in obtaining the new
Federal building and new post office
and went to Washington with a group
to ask Congress to build a great dam
costing millions so that the area could
get cheap electricity"
Then, one day, he wrote to his Con-
gresham:
Il wish to protest excessive Govern
ment spending and high taxes believe
in rugged individualism l think people
should stand on their own two feet
without expecting Government hand
outs. ! am opposed to all socialistic
trends and | demand return to the
principles of our Constitution"
-Reprinted from Rotary Magazine
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-08
When Juniors .::G0ing Steady"

When Junior gets himself girl,
His mind becomes q hectic whirI
He's in q fonnent and q fig
And doesn't know what time it is.
Preoccuped with romance Coy,
He bolts his food and flies away.
When home, like dog upon bone,
He pounces on the telephone.
Filled with the dictates Of romance,
His homework doesn't have chance
If not already on the moon,
He acts as if he'll be there soon
| know not what young love involves,
But this know, the boy revoIves
II high degree Of ogtotion
His head owirI with loves qyrotion.
This is the stote that Juniors in
When romance sets his head ospn
Like chip caught in On eddy
Yet, he coils it, "going steody"
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-08

IL electors pledged to Virginia Demo-
crat; that the State of Texas. i. elects
"a electors pledged to a presidential
candidate nominated by the State De-
mocratic Convention = being some can
didate other than the one nominated by
either of the two major political parties
on the national level - who may or may
not be the same presidential candidate
as the one to whom the Virginia cleo
tors may be pledged and, that the
States Of Florida, North Carolina and
Tennessee, in accordance with their re-
spective laws, elect 35 electors pledged
to vote for some presidential candidate
Or candidates other than those nomi-
mated by the two national parties who
may or may not be the same candidate
or candidates as the one or ones to
whom Virginia and Texas electors may
be pledged.
Under such circumstances all
presidential candidates fail to re-
ceive the requisite 269 electoral votes
needed for election, but one or more of
said candidates needs 81 or fewer cleo
toral votes for election, 81 free and UNI
pledged electors from Alabama,
Arkansas, Georgia, Louisian, Mississippi
and South Carolina would represent the
balance of power and could determine
the next president. This would put ire
mendous bargaining power in the hands
of these free electors. :"
1t is conceivable that another COM
bination Of the free electors from these
Southern States could prevent the cleo
ton Of candidate by the electoral
college, in which case the selection Of
president would be made by the House
of Representatives, voting by states
under the unit rule Thus the eleven
Southern States mentioned, if acting in
unison, would WELD an impressive
balance of power
Election of president has been made
by the House of Representatives under
the Constitution twice, in 1901 and 1925.
These are hard facts that politicians
understand we'll. However, politicians
being politicians, we doubt gravely that
the eleven Southern States would stand
together, but it is an interesting POSSIBLE
ity, and so much SO that the National
Democratic party would like nothing
more than to tie the Southern delegates
to loyalty oath to the candidates
nominated at Los Angeles.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-08
Loyalty Oath

EVERY way has been considered by
National Democratic officers to NOM
mate and elect a president without the
support of the Southern States. So far
no one has been able to to be sure The
fact is: there is Southern Democratic
party with conservative program and
thinking, and northern and western
Democratic party of liberals The
pity it is that the liberal Democrats are
more numerous and more powerful. For
some years the Southern Democrats
have been on the defensive to keep
from being pushed around. We do not
doubt that if the Democratic party
could elect a president without the aid
OF the South, the conservatives in the
South would be pushed right out of the
National Democratic party.
The political maneuvering now going
on in the pre-convention sessions in Los
Angeles point up the problem of how
to keep the South in the fold, and if
possible to hog-tie the delegates. Much
that has been said in regard to the
loyalty oath might we'll have been left
unsald, because it is an outside chance
that the Southern politicians will fail
to support the candidate nominated at
the convention.
However, the possibility is there. A
prominent Houston, Texas, lawyer, Hall
r. Timanus, writing in the U. S. News
X nr1 ir+-
Constitution of the United States pro-
vldes that the person elected President
OF the United States must receive a
majority Of the whole number of cleo
tors chosen by voters in the general
election. The total number of electors
OF the so states to be chosen in No
vember elections is 537 To be elected a
candidate must receive minimum of
269 electoral votes. The Southern States,
have electoral votes as follows: Ala
bama IL, Arkansas 8, Florida 10, Georg-
la II, Louisiana 10, Mississippi 8, North
Carolina IA, South Carolina 8, Tenn
esee IL, Texas "a and Virginia IL, a
total Of 1913 electored votes
Let us suppose, for the sake of argu-
ment'', suggests Mr.. Timanus, "that this
Noverember the States of Alabama, Ar
kansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi
and South Carolina elect 81 free cleo
tors, unpledged to any presidential can
didate, as their laws apparently now
permit; that the State of Virginia, as
its laws apparently now permit, elect
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Wheatley
spent Tuesday at Prime Hook
Beach
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Brown of
Bridgeton, n. ]. spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. White and
daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Weischedel
of Milford visited Mr.. and Mrs. B.
J. Shockley last week.
Mrs Harry Banning of Green
wood spent several days last week
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Wheatley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dallas Workman
and daughter Is Laurel and Mrs.
Pearl Thompson and Mrs. Hattie
Sylvia of Bridgeville spent Sunday
afternoon with the Samuel War;
ington family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Warrington
and family and Miss Cathy Willin
of Seaford were supper guests for
a picnic supper at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Bean SeeIy on Sunday
for Mr.. Seeley's birthday
The annual picnic for Trinity
Methodist Church will be held on
Saturday, August 90. at Trap Pond.
The picnic supper will be at $50.
Preaching Services at Trinity
on Sunday, July oath at 10 AN.
Sunday School at II AM.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-22
TRINITY

Mr.. Shlomo Peles of Israel an
international Farm Youth Exchange
is spending this week at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Nelson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl White and
niece Miss Judy Welker attended
the Soil Conservation picnic on
Monday. A group of about fifty
took the boat at Chesapeake City
to Fort Delaware
A number from this community
attended the Dedication Exercises
of the Bridgeville Fire Hall on
Sunday.
Mrs. Harry Taylor and family of
Tampa, Florida. Mrs. NJ. H. Beiber
and children of Radcliff, KY. and
Mrs. Ernest Brown and daughter
of Denton, Nd were visitors at the
AT. White hcme last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. ]. Shockley en-
tertained at their annual hot-dog
roast and picnic supper on Friday
in honor CT their son Linden's
birthday. About thirty friends and
relatives we're present from Mil
ford, Middleford and the home
community.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Walston spent
Sunday afternoon and evening at
Rehoboth.
Miss Charlotte. White accom-
panied by Miss Neva Dickerson
and Mrs. Ella Dimes of Bridge
vile spent Saturday visiting Fort
Delaware.
Elmer Nelson is on the sick list
at this time.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hastings and
Mrs. Franklin Nelson attended a
All Leaders Meeting at Georgetown
on Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wheatley and
family of Bridgeville were supper
guests of their parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Wheatley on Wednes-
day.
Miss Grace E. Hastings and niece
Miss Judy Welker spent Sunday
afternoon at Riverdale, Oak Orch
ard and Trap Pond.
Misses Sharon Wheatley and
Laura Ann Ray spent Thursday
night with Sharon's grandparents
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Wheatley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Nelson
and family were dinner guests of
their parents Mr. and Mrs. Orland
Closson at SmithVille, Md. on Sun
day.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-22

Dr. Farrin will then assume du-
ties with the Boyertown, Pa, school
system.
Since DR.. Farrin came to Lewes
in 1853, the school plants have been
enlarged and improved at a cost
of more than a million dollars.
DR.. Farrin entered into many
Lewes civic projects. He is a past
president of the Lewes Rotary
Club; is president of the Lewes
Library Commission; was co-ch2ir-
man of the 325th anniversary Of
the founding of Lewes, IN 1856; CO.
chairman Of the local muscular
dystrophy drive and fund cam
paign chairman of the Lewes Red
Cross drive in 1857,
In statewide educational circles
he has served as president of the
Delaware School Study Council; on
the executive committee of the
Delaware Association of School Ad-
ministrators; on the board of di-
rectors of the Delaware State Edu-
cation Association and on the ad-
visory committee Of state superin-
tendents.
He is Legislative chairman of the
Chief School Officers and the Della
ware Association of School Admin
istrators.
DR.. Farrin will continue his Office
hours at the school until August
is, he says, to receive any appli-
cants for the post who may apply
to him or to the president of the
board. w. Glenwood Harrington.
Chief Warrant officer and Mrs.
John Madewell of 10 Washington
Avenue, Lewes, announce the en-
gagement OF Mrs. Madewell's
daughter, Miss Barbara Gertrude
Hayes, to Captain Arthur T. Dry
den, of Lebanon, Miss.
Chief Warrant officer Madewell
was the former Executive officer at
Fort Miles He is now the Assist
ant Electronics officer on board the
u. S. S. Little Rock which is the
second Navy Guided Missile Light
Cruiser stationed at the Philadel-
phia Navy Yard awaiting orders for
further duty.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-22
LEWES

Almost every crack and crannie
OF this oldest settlement of Della
ware showed some evidence Of the
three-day Lewes Antique Show in
attracting hundreds of antique low
ers from far and wide.
The main show in the Bethel Fell
lowship Hall had registrations of
approximately 400 viewers Thurs
day and Friday. This second annual
show of Bethel Methodist Church
closed Saturday night.
AS visitors entered the town, re-
minders of the big show were seen
in shop windows in the main bus.
mess section. A rare concertina'
type game table. and two Phila-
delphia Sheraton chairs were fea-
tured in the Evadne Shop window.
An old table. two ladder-back
chairs and a hand-knit bedspread,
circa 1860, were seen IN Vessels
store window. The bedspread was
OF the type known as the mouse
pattern" on which groups of four
needle-women had worked stimuli
taneOusly. These window exhibits
were provided by Mrs. Vincent
White and Mrs. w. Allen Vessels.
Another popular exhibit display
ed ancient firearms and cunning
accessories of long ago including
ivory tusk powder horns, old mus
kets and rifles. One Kentucky
fiintlock rife of an overall length
of 79 3/8 inches, is believed the
longest in existence. 1t was used
for long-range shots in the Indian
Wars of Pennsylvania. The maker
was Christian Stahl
The operator Of this booth, Sew
ell P. Moore, said there are approx
imately 10000 serious collectors of
antique guns today Another rare
item was tiny brass powder horn
of dolphin design.
DR.. Leon II. Farrin, who has re-
signed his post as superintendent
OF the Lewes Special School Dis
trict, will stay on until August IA,
and assist in finding his success
or.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-22
Square Dance
Time

The second in the summer ser
les of square dances planned by
the Diamond State Twirlers was
held at the Bowling Lanes this
past Saturday. With visitors from
Dover, Chester. Valley Forge and
Riva added to the regular club
members, a goodly crowd enjoyed
the variety of Hash and Singing
calls offered by Herb Keyes, Our
visiting caller from the Philadel~
phia and Chester area. We were
all very happy to have our regular
club caller and his "taw'', Lee and
Kate Billow over to dance with us; !;
and for the last tip. he and Herb
passed the mike" to end up the
night with real killer-diller.
Before the crowd broke up. plans
were already being made for this
weekend. Friday. July %. is club
night at the Y-Knots in Chester.
Some are planning to go there.
Saturday, July %, is club night
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-22

for the Country Squares in Riva-
Others are planning to go over
there. Quite a few couples are con-
sidering the square dance week
end at Camp Kaufman over Labor
Day Anyone wishing further in
formation about this three day
affair may secure fliers from the
Burlingames giving all the par
ticulars.
A business meeting of TIE Dia-
mond State Twirlers has been
called for Thursday. July q, at
300 P. NJ. at the Bowling Lanes
Several matters of Importance are
to be considered. including the
election of delegates and alter
mates to the Washington Area
Square Dance Coop Association
of which our club is a member.
Our next visiting caller is Bill
Damn on August 20: and don't for
get the workshops on the second
and fourth Tuesdays of each month.
Next workshop is July 26. See you
there.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-22

According to statement by Sec
retary of Agriculture Ezra Taft
Benson the injury and death rates
from accidents continue to be high
er among farm people than for the
rest of the population, and we may
expect that one farm family in four
will suffer a serious injury to one
of its members this year.