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The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-06

PASCO'S WEEKLY
SPECIAL
ATTENTION VETERANS
EAST MOSS POINT - loo%
financing. no down payment.
No closing costs. This attract
i've 8 bedroom. inside utility
room. framed and brick veneer
house is ready for immediate
occupancy. Sales price Sl0.-
10000 with monthly payments
Of 5000 plus taxes & insur-
ance. Maximum FILA financ-
ing available.
KINGS PARK SUBDIVISION
Designed with you in mind.
This framed & brick veneer
house contains 8 bedrooms.
Ia bath. paneled kitchen and
family room. G. E. oven and
surface unit. Venta-hood. In
tercom radio system. House
fully insulated and prepared
for air conditioning. Sales
price Sls.200.00. Maximum
FfIA & VA financing available.
Call for appointment.
WIGGINS BAYOU ACRES -
Waterfront properly. ais
strikinglY new designed brick
veneer home contains all of the
required & expected features
in the higher value and quality
homes. Priced TO sell. Call for
details and appointment.
EQUITY VALUES - Eastlawn
Subdivision: Loan assumption.
Close to churches. schools &
shopping center. Three bed
rooms. living room-studY COM
bination and attached carport.
Monthly payment lower than
rent. Call for appointment.
ASSUME CT LOAN - Three
bedrooms. lh baths. and at
tached carport. This is an ex-
tra-nice home with fenced
back yard and the monthly
payments of $500. including
taxes and insurance.
EXCELLENT DESIGN -
Brick veneer house containing
3 bedrooms. 3 ceramic-tiled
baths. kitchen with built-ins.
central air conditioning. double
carport attached. The owner is
anxious to sell & will make a
concession in price to qualified
buyer.
Better Living Begins
When You Own A Home
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1961-10-06

SEVERAL FLOOR MODELS g. Used
Refrigerators priced from $50 up. Can
be bought on terms. Baber's Firestone
Dealer Store. Deep South Shopping
Mart. 20 IF be 0-lS
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-31

tests to authorities have been
ignored.
A government : controlled
Havana radio station has
singled out the Franciscan
magazine La Quincena as the
"mouthpiece for the enemies
of the revolution" The maya
zine has. recently resumed
publication after an interval
during which its plant was
occupied by Cuban militia
during an invasion scare.
In Miami, Florida, a Span
ish language daily newspaper,
Diario Las Americas, has re-
ported that a Passionist, Bro
Their Ambrosio, has been brut-
ally beaten by Castro forces
in Havana.
ANOTHER SPANISH lang
uage daily published in Mi
ami, Advance, says that the
Castro government executed
sos persons after trial, 275
without trial. Adding these
to those whose deaths were
attributed by the Castro gov
eminent to falls, suicides, ETC.,
the newspaper arrived at a
total of 1853 victims.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-31
ATTACK MAGAZINE. UNIVERSITY:
Report Priest Executed
In Cuba, Raids Continue

Cuban secret police conduct
ed a dawn raid on a Catho-
lie university organization Az
rupacion Catolica Universita-
ria connected with the Ma
tional University of Havana.
Several persons, including a
priest, were arrested but re-
leased a few hours later.
THE ORGANIZATION, di-
rected by the Jesuits, is a
leader in Catholic Action in
Latin America, publishing
pamphlets, organizing courses
and works of social influence.
This marked the second time
that secret police broke into
the organizations building
and arrested several of its
members.
Also in Havana, Cuban
communist leader Jesus Soto
demanded at a public meet
ing that priests and counter
revolutionaries be executed.
AT the same meeting Educa-
ton Minister Armando Hart
blamed the Church for the
recent bombing of the Nobel
Academy in La Vibora which
injured nine girls.
THERE ARE REPORTS in
Havana province of Castro
militiamen threatening to
burn the homes of poor farm
ers if they continue to attend
catechism classes. The report
says that the farmers pro-
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-31

A Catholic priest, ar
rested recently by the
Cuban government as an
anti-C Castro rebel in the
Escambray mountains, is
reported to have been exc
cuted.
The report of the execution
of Father Francisco Lopez
Blasquez comes from a Hon.
duras radio broadcast on the
basis of unconfirmed Havana
reports.
GOVERNMENT controlled
newspapers charged Father
Lopez Blasquez, a 45-year-old
native of Granada, Spain, with
being a "direct a~ccomplice"
of the rebel leader Evelio
Duque.
The Catholic hierarchy has
maintained official silence,
but Catholic spokesman de-
scribed the newspaper
charges against the priest as
"outrageously ri di C u GUS"
They said that his superiors
had granted him permission
to take care of the spiritual
needs of the rebels, just as
permission had been granted
to priests to care for men,
bers of Prime Minister Fidel
Castro's forces when they
were seeking to overthrow
the previous regime of Full
gencio Batista.
MEANWHILE, in Havana,
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-31
Heroine Receives Bravery Medal

water and had him repeat the Act OF
Contrition after her. KogIer died two
hours later. Donald {. McGregor
second from left Of Brunswick, Ca,
received a similar medal for helping
rescue of jacksonville, Fla, family
from the Atlantic in July 1852. At
torney General Robert Kennedy is at
right. INC Phofosl
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-31
NUNS LETTER SAYS:
Youth are PrO-CastrO

shout "Fidel, hit the priests
hard; Fidel, if the priests
don't want to cut cane, send
them back to Spain.
DO YOU REALIZE that
classes beyond the sixth grade
must close by April girls of
IL and up) because they want
them to go into the interior
and teach the peasants how to
read and write. This is only a
camoufiage, for the real pur-
pose behind it all is to have
them indoctrinated in COM
munism. ..
You tell me what can hap
pen to these little girls, away
from their homes and par
ents, have TO teach older men.
Poor girls! CThey say that
they will not give them their
grades card if they do not
gO.)
Every Sunday every one
has to go to the fields and
cut the cane. You should see
this horrible sight! Men and
women travelling in trucks,
spending the previous night
together. They return like
sardines in a can in those
trucks and BUSES. Their
morals are gone.
IF YOU COULD SEE girls
of Ii, IA and Is doing guard
duty in precincts, on corners
or everywhere that interven-
ton has taken place, dressed
in pants and with a rifle or
machinegun, all looking bag
gard and with weapons that
weigh more than they do.
Many joined the militia in
1859 never thinking that it
would lead TO this and if they
should want to quit they are
placed before a firing squad.
In all working centers they
are forced TO join the militia
as well as cutting the cane.
You can imagine what can
happen to these girls spend
ing weeks with militiamen in
The fields. IL is so sad to see
this youth going astray.
In public schools they only
teach the words OF Fidel
Castro.
Just imagine, school start
ed in January and is closing
in April. What could they
have learned? Only commu-
mist doctrines. -.
THEY ARE LAUNCHING
a terrible battle against prl-
waite schools, some of them
have already fallen in their
hands -Electromechanics of
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-31

Belen, Trelles, Baldor, Edison,
st. George, La Luz. More
will follow.
The latest project is to form
groups of young rebels who
will be alert to what the
teachers and pupils say and
denounce them to the authori-
ties as counterrevolutionlsts
These young rebels have oc-
cupied the schools mentioned
above and the authorities al
low them 10 do it. ..
IN THE CHURCHES there
is trouble all the time. The
national anthem is sung. They
applaud. They interrupt the
preacher and the Mass. The
authorities do not try to pre-
vent these acts and claim that
it is "the people.
Unemployment, hunger and
poverty is reaching its eli
max. But most of all the
lack Of morals. Many essential
products are scarce like salt,
soap, lard and an endless list.
There are no spare parts for
trucks and busses so | don't
know what this will be like
before long.
FAMILIES HAVE BEEN
broken up, those that could,
have left the country. Here
the death penalty is enforced
just for saying that things are
not going we'll. Everybody is
under surveillance and the
saddest part is that they fo-
ment hate and division III the
families. =.
The sad part of this whole
thing is to watch how youth
is deteriorating and how they
are losing faith in God as
/ hesew icked communists
preach every day against God
and the Church"
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-31

Cuba's government is
encouraging students in
Catholic schools to spy on
teachers and fellow stu
dents and to denounce
them for "counterrevolution-
ary'' remarks. It has even al
lowed pros Castro teenagers to
take over some schools
These and other recent de-
tails OF the persecution of the
Church in Cuba by the regime
OF Premier Fidel Castro have
been revealed in a letter writ
ten by a Cuban Sister.
The Sister, whose name can
not be revealed for fear of
reprisal, said:
UNFORTUNATELY MAT.
TIERS here are getting worse.
Every minute things are get
ting more and more Red and
hardly believe that we can
endure another month of this.
The insults to priests are
an everyday occurrence The
Church and the Catholic re-
ligion has become something
that anyone can insult. AS a
matter of fact one is consider
ed a good revolutionist If one
exceeds himself in epithets
and daring. The priests have
been forced TO wear civilian
clothes when they are out in
the streets to avoid scenes.
Everyone seems to have the
right TO insult them but they
have no right TO defend them
selves.
| will tell you an event
which viii make you under.
stand the truth:
FIFTEEN DAYS AGO the
chaplain ran across some
workers who we're headed for
the sugar fields and they be-
gan screaming at him, but he
went on unperturbed. Ii was
early in the morning and
when moments later he step
ped off the bus, another
group began shouting at him
"dirty priest" until they de-
manded %"paredon' Ito the
wall), surrounding him to fin
ish him off.
The priest did not lose his
courage and seeing himself
surrounded he stood in the
center and shouted: every
well, IL you want to finish me
off you can start right now"
When those towards saw such
serenity. and feeling that he
was superior to them, they
began TO laugh and made way
for him to 60 on.
Radio and TV are consoli-
dated in one network and one
sees and hears only insults
and bad manners toward any
thing that represents the
Catholic religion.
They are beginning to at
tack the Sisters through the
schools, which they want to
close, for they know that as
long as they remain open they
will 20 on teaching the
Christian Faith and the
morals which are not in ac-
cord with communism.
In large gatherings they
Evening star., 1961-03-05

round. found out that you can learn from
experience - including a bad experience.
learned it's not much fun to lose. And
began to appreciate how much the title
meant.
In learning from experience, you've got
to store up facts about your opponent.
When you play checkers every day against
the same people the way do in training
camp you get to know how they play. The
same thing is true in boxing or anything
else. The real winner is the fellow who
can profit from experience, good or bad.
It's too bad that when | first fought
Johansson didn't know thing about him.
He was unknown in this country, and you
really couldn't tell anything from the papers
about his training camp in the Catskills.
All you read about was his good.looking
6ancee and his terrible right-hand punch,
which nobody had ever seen.
Well, l found out his right hand was
terrible, but | also picked up few bits of
knowledge in the first fight which used to
advantage in the second. can use all these
facts now in our third match.
The second of nay little rules is: Be
confident, but GrOid orercOntidence.
Evening star., 1961-03-05

THIS WEEK Mose1ins / Moreh S. 1851
Evening star., 1961-03-05
It'll win this tiI10e,'

| suppose | don't need TO tell anyone
that | was overcOn6dent - way overcon6-
dent - for that first fight. My downfall
began with my thinking that couldn't
lose. In the first round of the fight, was
unimpressed. made up my mind to go for
him in the third round.
Trudins h0Fd punches
When you're overconfident you start
gambling, not thinking of the odds. My
gamble was to think that could stand toe
to toe with him and trade punches. After
all, couldn't hit harder and faster than
lngemar?
Next thing, heard the referee say
something about going to a neutral corner.
| honestly thought | had knocked him
down. Then realized was sitting on the
canvas!
You've got to watch overcon6dence. It's
wrecked plenty of good fighters - and l
guess some other people too. One trouble
with overconhdence is it can close your
mind to learning new things. Another
trouble with being overcon6dent is that
you're not ready for the unexpected. The
confident guy may be little surprised by
the unexpected, but he ought to be able to
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-10-31
New Library
Dedicated During
HIS Homecoming
Darden Praises
Former President;
Awards Presented
BY JOHN STICK

Hampden-Sydney Colleges new
library is a monument to three
imperishable ideas becau'se it
is named for a man who recogni-
zed them, Colgate w. Darden
said in his dedicatory address
Saturday morning.
DR.. Joseph Dupuy Eggleston.
for whom the $4O0.0OO building is
named. organized his life around
the sure knowledge that the
Improvement of mankind is in
dissoluably bound up with inn
provement of the human mind
the former governor of Virginia
declared.
Completing his three-pointed
eulogy Of the Observation-Disclosures
who served as president of the
Hampden-Sydney College for 20
years from 1919 to 1899, DR.. Dar-
den said:
DR.. Eggleston knew full we'll
"the terrible burden illtearcy
and mental impoverishment i'm
poses on mankind" and he Gre
ated for many generations of
young people an understanding of
"the exacting demands made of
free society if it is to remain
free"
The dedicatory address by the
former president of the Univer-
sity of Virginia was a highlight
of the colleges annual homecom-
ing celebration. The 50,0OO-vol-
ume library was open for inspec-
ton throughout the day,
Alumni Officers
Richard E. Lewis, Dinwiddie
attorney and member Of the
Class Of 1885. was elected presi-
dent Of the Hampdcn Sydney
Alumni Association during the
groups business session Satur-
day.
Association honors for partici-
patton in the annual Alumni
Fund appeal also were awarded.
The Class Cup for the greatest
percentage Of participation went
to the Class of 1885. The Alumni
Chapter Cup, awarded on the
same basis, went to the Eastern
North Carolina Chapter in the
Raleigh area.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-10-31
From 20 70 81 Cents
From 20 To 81 Gents
Dark Tobacco Support Price Pegs
Tipped Average OF 2.2 Cents Pound

Virginia darkred and suncured obaccos this will have
support prices respectively 22 and 6
pound higher than the u Department Agriculture
has announced
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-10-31
Chest Within
$4,000 Of Goal

Another $1,000 has been re-
ported by workers since last
Thursday raising the Prince Ed
ward County Community Chest
total to within $4,000 of its $l9,-
573 goal. The present total is
SIT ,494.
Special Gifts reached $10,-
233 total and the Employees 49,
IT'S to push this combined divi-
sion closer to its $15,823 quota
The division is fartherest away
of any of the Chests four major
divisions, with $1,000 needed for
quota-catching.
A pleasant week and develop
ment for Chest who work
was the inching forward of the
County Districts Division. The
six county regions combined are
now just $8l shy of their quota
of ST 1926 and workers expect to
put out the over-the-top sign
shortly, Three subdiviors, Farm
vile. Prospect and Lockett are
already ahead Of their quotas
Both the remaining divisions
Farmville residential with 1901
against a quota Of $3.50, and the
Colored group with $728.63
against a quota S875, are ex-
Continued on page s.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-10-31

U. S. AND RUSSIAN TANKS
withdrew from the east-west
sector border in Berlin Saturday
after facing each other at gun
point range for more than l6
hours. The 10 Russian tanks pull
led back from the Friedrichstrass
checkpoint first; then about rs
minutes later the four American
tanks withdrew. There was a
considerable relaxation of ten
sion at the border after the tanks
left. East German police waved
traffic through with smile. But
the U. S. is still insisting on its
rights under the four-power
agreement; an air force plane
clrcled the area where the Sow
let tanks were parked in de-
fiance of Soviet protests against
flights by U. S. helcopters over
East Berlin.
TWO PROTEST NOTES were
exhanged by the U. S. and the
Soviet Union Friday. The U. S.
note outlined American rights
in Berlin and protested Soviet
interference with these rights,
The Russian note warned against
provocative" acts by Ameri-
cans in Berlin.
THE SATURN, the worlds
largest known rocket. was sue
essfully test fired from Cape Can
averal Friday. The eight-nlinute
flight of the 162-foot giant with
l-3 million pounds of thrust down
range over the Atlantic gave
boost to the "orbital rendezvous"
plan for sending a man to the
moon. Under this plan. Saturn
rocket and spaceship would
be put in orbit separately 300
miles high; the two would join
IN space and the spaceship to
the moon. Because a direct moon
light would require the larger
initial thrust 0! The Nova. :
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-10-31

about the county among the
group prior to the departure by
bus to industrial sites.
Tour Sites
w. L. Blair, Jr.. local work
unit soil conservationist, served
as the commentator aboard the
bus which first visited a poten-
tial plant site just west of the
village on Route so.
The second stop for the group
was at Bear Greek Lake and the
Cumberland State Forest. Here,
the recreational area and forest
management program were COM
mented upon by Blair. Blair
noted that $1,000 acres of county
forest land is owned by the state,
adding that the county treasurer
gets Is per cent of all lumber
sales from the forest.
Another site for potential in
dustry. undeveloped acreag
near the village on Route 60
visited was the area where a
CCC Camp and prison camp was
located in World War II. The
next site visited was east of
Cumberland on Route co.
Lakeside Village, pictured as
recreational and residential de-
velopment in the county, was the
final stop before barbecue time
at the farm of State Senator
Charles Fenwick.
The village development on
Trice's Lake is the only section
OF the county that has a public
water supply. Blair told the
group. in emphasizing the area
as good one for recreational
use as well as being adaptable
to certain types of industry. .
Officials Present
Among the officials present for
the tour were Congressman Wat
kins M. Abbitt and Delegate
Charles T. Moses, representa-
tives of the county.
State officials on hand were
Parke G. Brinkley, commissioner
tcoettwued a paso n
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-10-31
In Tour Saturday
In Tour Saturday
Cumberland losses ZndustryLure

CUMBERLAND, Oct. Cum
berland made its biggest pitch in
history for industry Saturday
with special tour Of the county
for 80 state. federal, local and
private industrial officials.
Optimism reigned among local
development leaders at the end
of the grand showing of the
county's potential.
The interest Of county citizens,
demonstrated by the crowd of
some $50 persons attending the
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-10-31
John Powell Will
Discuss 'Rhapsodie'
At H-SC Concert

John Powell, Virginia S most
distinguished musician and emf
nent American composer, will be
in the audience when the Hamp-
den-Sydney College Glee Club
presents Florence Robertson and
Hilton Rufty, Richmond pianists,
in a Johns Auditorium concert
Thursday, Nov. 2.
The concert will feature Pow
ellis "Rhapsodie Negre," per-
formed by Mrs. Robertson with
Mr.. Rufty at the second piano.
In a now rare public appear
ance. Powell. nearing 80. will dis
cuss the "Rhapsodie" for the
audience before it is performed.
Mrs. Robertson. who is making
her third appearance for the
Glee Club. will play the Powell
work with the Richmond Sym,
phony Orchestra next January.
The Thursday concert will be
held in the college auditorium at
8 pm. Mrs. Robertson will play
a Mozart sonata and Powell S
From In The South in addition
to the duo number. Mr.. Rufty
will play several of his own COM
positions. including a minuet and
numbers with English folk must
cal settings.
MIR. Rufty is former Hamp-
den-Sydney College student. Mrs.
Robertson is sister of Mrs. C..
F. McRae, of the Hill.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-10-31
Turner Memorial
Dedicated At
Sayler's Greek
Over 600 From
Tri-County Area
Witness Ceremony

| Blackstone Lions Club unveiled
a ten-foot shaft at the junction OF
Routes SIT ard 618 near Sayler's
Creek Battlefield Park Sunday
afternoon. More than 600 from
Amelia, Nottoway and Prince Ed
ward counties attended the ex-
erciSeS.
The monument honored the late
Wilmer Read Turner. Of Black
stone, the guiding spirit in the
establishment of Sayler's Creek
Battlefield as a state park. His
interest stemmed from a tri-
county picnic held in 1884, under
auspices of the Genito Home
Demonstration Club of which
Mrs. c. w. Phelps was president.
The late DR.. Joseph D. Eggleston
became general chairman of an
association, composed of mem
bers from each of the tri-coun-
ties But it was Wilmer r. Turn
err. who spanked the establish
ment of this park.
Turner. an authority on Civil
War history. traced in detail the
route of General Lee from Peters
burg to Appomattox, and. based
on his research, historical mark
ers were placed along the route
and a map issued by the State
Highway Department.
Turner Trek
In 1857. Scout Executive Rob-
ert Chappelle. Of the Piedmont
Council of Boy Scouts, organized
trek beginning at jamestown
bridge and ending at Appomat-
tox. Each year so or more scouts
from this area make the trek.
Mr.. Turner accompanied the
scouts on the first trek, which
has become an annual feature
each April.
! The inscription on the shaft
reads: w. R. Turner Memorial
Trek. erected in memory of w.
R. Turner. historian. of Black
stone, Virginia, for his work to
preserve the historic Battlefields
and Routes of General Robert E.
Lees Retreat, Centennial Year
1861. Piedmont Area Explorer
Scouts. Erected by Blackstone
Virginia, Lions Club.
Delegations of scouts from the
tri-county area participated in
the program.
The monument was unveiled by
Miss Virginia Read Yelverton.
granddaughter of Mr.. Turner, and
a wreath was placed by the w.
R. Turner Historical Society of
Blackstone High School. Music
for the occasion was furnished by
the Blackstone High School Band,
with Taps by the Trumpeteers.
Dedication Address
j. Barrye Wall, editor of the
Farmville Herald. traced the
work Of Mr.. Turner in the estab-
lishment of Sayler's Creek park,
and urged the present generation
I Continued on page ~