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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-06
Undefented Teams Cut
As District Play Opens

bumped from the top Tuesday
night when Victoria walked over
CreWe SO 40 Everett Gee led the
Partners with 10 points. while
Wellons, Mattox and Terry each
hit the double figures.
With Victoria established as one
of the teams to beat, Kenbridge
will be cunning for them Friday
night Kenbridge has lost only
one game that to Bluestone) so
the Friday night battle will be
very interesting.
Bluestone is the only other team
in the district that has an unde-
feated record. The BarOnS enter
tain Crewe Friday in another in
tereSting contest. If CreWe is de-
feated again. they will slip way
down the district ladder. To win
they have to bounce Bluestone
from unbeaten ranks.
/ Garland SWartZ broke the BUCK
ingham Central scoring record
Tuesday night with a IS point
scoring spree against Beaumont
in nondistrict game. The BUGS
completely out played the visitors
from PoWhatan, more than doub-
ling the score.
Emporia made a good showing
Tuesday night by d e e t i n g
Brunswick $3.50. The Eagles have
lost only to Victoria and Prince
Edward Academy in a nOndistrict
scrap. They now have a 81 rec
ord in the, district, which is not
Ia he SneaZed at.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-06

Christmas for Alice Putney,
13-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Putney of Cumber-
land, was doubly exciting when
on December 26 she shot six
point deer weighing approx
mately $50 pounds.
Alice was hunting near her
home with her father and a
large group of other men and
was on a stand alone when she
got her shot at the deer. AL
though she has killed squirrels
and quail and has been deer
hunting many times, it was the
first time she had ever shot at
a deer.
When asked if she was excited
Alice replied. Il wasn't excited
until 1 found that 1 had shot the
deer, and then my knees wob-
bled so that l could hardly
stand"
Alice started her hunting ca
reer early. When she was two
years old her father would take
her with him into the fields
when he was shooting quail.
Alice carried a gun, too-one
that shot a ping pong ball and
made quite bang" She would
shoot when her father did. and
because the dog would bring the
fallen bird to her, Alice was sure
she had killed it.
When she was six years old,
Santa Claus brought Alice a BIB
gun; at the age of ten she owned
her first real gun, a small 4lO.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-06
Mems Ten Pins
Bowling Result
Tuesday Night League

Tuesday Night League
RESULTS = Martin the JeWe
lers 3. Leggett's 0: The Hub 2,
Jenkins Atlantic |.
SUMMARY = Individual high
game. c. Leese. of Leggett's
with Oil pins. Individual high
three game set. D. Sequin. Of
Jenkins Atlantic, with $50 pins.
High team set. Martin the
JeWeler with 1922 pins.
STANDINGS Martin the
Jeweler, 3O-l2; The Hub 22-20;
Jenkins Atlantic 2l-24 and Leg
gets l43l.
The Monday night league did
not bowl this week.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-06
&ds&ne Neu,
BY BILL WALL

The Church League basketball Farmyle Mon
day evening with approximately the
Organizationa
One made that caused confusion at the time but
it will off in the long boys league reorganzed
the players distributed the This will provide
better matched league all This is
the well used by Baseball the
past two The fixed with 10 boys
team These the boys who really ball in the league
and this is the that the been designed to help
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-06

individual high for the season,
and promises, to provide the
Tigers with a much needed source
of rebound powell. With Bill Hard
in averaging 27.4 points per game,
the Tiger promise an exciting
brand of basketball.
On Monday the Tigers will play
at Washington and Lee. They
meet -RPI at Cannon gym on
Wednesday for their second home
appearance within a week.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-06
Results

Results
Kenbridge 20. Blackstone &C
Randolph Henry 62.
Park View AZ
Buckingham 67. Beaumont e
Victoria 60. Crewe 40
Emporia So. Brunswick so
Colonial Hts. IS. PoWhatan 50
Games Friday
Buckingham at Amelia
Brunswick at Blackstone
Crewe at Bluestone
Park View at Emporia
Victoria at KenbIidge
Randolph Henry at
p. E. Academy
Louisa at PoWhatan
Fur has already started flynn
in District 3. with the Christina
holidays gone. One of the thre
undefeated teams was rudel
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-06
Chain Letters For Safety

London The chain letter
craze is sweeping Britain again,
but for a good cause-reducing
accidents.
The British Safety Council
has sent out 5000 letters urging
drivers to be careful and asking
them to write five similar let
tiers to friends. The letters pro-
duced SO far is estimated at
about 10000.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-06
After Killing Her First Deer
NY Knees Wobbled So That I Could
Hardly Stand," Alice Pufney Said

At the beginning of the present
hunting season Alice was pre-
sented with the 20 gauge gun
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-06

Church League basketball. spon-
sored by the Farmville Memorial
Recreation Association. got UNI
derway Wednesday night with the
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-06

first games of the season. The
girls teams play on Wednesday
night and the Methodist girls de-
feated the defending champion
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-01-06

with which she bagged her deer.
And here's a secret: Alice's
father has not yet shot his deer.
Evening star., 1961-08-07
Manly Crusade

If the origin of shaving is a bit
obscure, the nuisance of it is not. At
the least, 1t takes time. At the most, it
is blood-letting. For many, it is twice.
a-day chore-the less pleasant because
it brings one face-to-face with ones
self No man, to our knowledge, sings
while Shaving-as in the shower-or
whistles while he works over the
whiskerS. An effort to do either probably
would lead to a throat-cutting, unless
subsidized by television commercial
So, we salute one Harris Elmore of
West ISlip, New York, who has urged
upon Congress the approval of $1-bil-
lion "crash program" in search of ways
to eliminate mems whiskers, perma-
nently. Those who want them may keep
them, of course. For ourselves, we agree
with Lord Byron's bitter judgment that
Men for their sins Have shaving, too,
entailed upon their chins,-/A daily
plague" Away with it!
Evening star., 1961-08-07
'E0gIe's' Historic FIioht

A1Ouuu GL1e WOrlQ seventeen times
in day! Even Jules verne's vivid
Imagination would have difficulty in
comprehending the magnitude of the
orbital space flight Of Russian Astro-
naut GheYman Stepanovich Titov. Major
T1tov, who exultantly and justifiably
called himself "The Eagle" during his
historic circling of the globe, has earned
the plauditS and admiration of people
everywhere outside Of as well as behind
the Iron Curtain. For he has become
another pioneer in mans probing of the
'firmament-a central figure of the
latest scientific achievement of the
space age.
Verne thought he was stretching
things a bit by envisioning the circling
Of the earth in eighty days. BY contrast,
Major Titov orbited the earth every 88
minutes and1 according to his radioed
reports while whirling in orbit over
435,O00 miles more than 100 miles up,
enjoyed leiSurely trip that carried him
over all continents (and over Washing
ton) at $4,000 miles an hour. Moscow
said he returned to predetermined
landing place" safely and in good
physical condition. Details of the take
off and landing were not diSclosed-as
was the case with the prior orbital
flight of Yuri Gagarin.
In addition to its scientific import
ance, Major Titov's flight has, of course,
great propagandistic value-a fact of
which Premier Khrushchev may be ex-
pected to take full advantage at this
critical stage of the cold war. Western
diplomats point out that the launching
was timed for the grave Berlin crisis
virtually on the eve of Mr.. Khrushchev's
scheduled and possibly fateful pro-
nouncement on the issue of divided
Berlin. The premier is not apt to over
look-nor will the West-the military
potentialities of the newest Soviet
space feat.
The flight shows more than ever the
need for some international guarantee
against the horrors Of space warfare
for an understanding that astronautics
will be reserved for peaceful uses in the
interest of scientific exploration, inter-
continental communications and other
benefits to mankind. Our own space
efforts, tagging though they may be in
comparison with the Russian space ad-
vances, will be aimed at such peaceful
objectiveS. We are making good, if be-
lated, progress in the manned-satellite
field, with prospects of an orbital at
tempt within few rnonths-possi
before the end Of this year. Meanwhile
we must push ever forward in our space
research and development program, not
only to keep abreast Of science in thrust
ing toward the stars but for the sake of
national survival in this nuclear- threat
ened world,
Evening star., 1961-08-07
Hoqwosh Powwow

Hats off to John r. Bowler
for his letter on Mrs. Cyrus
Eaton's recent Hogwash Con-
ference. I was intrigued by
the fact that the ladies from
the Bulgarian, Czech, Hun
garian and Polish diplomatic
missions in Washington took
part in the lectures on, of
all things, democracy!
Even more intriguing, how
ever, was the absence of the
wife Of the Soviet Ambas-
sador. Could it be that some
one may have considered that
the Soviet Union has not yet
reached the state of democ-
racy practiced these days in
Bulgaria Czechoslovakia,
Hungary and Poland, and,
therefore, decided that Mrs.
Mensh1kov would not have
had as much to contribute as
the other ladies? And, what
ever happened to the wife of
the r u m a nian Minister?
Surely, current Rumanian de-
mocracy Is every bit as good
as the others mentioned here.
Lastly, I could not help
but wonder what these ladies
were served to eat. In view Of
the fact that the Eastern
European ladies' leader, Mr..
Khrushchev, recently pro-
nounced on the deliciousness
Of horsemeat. Mrs. Eaton
could have barbecued the
Evening star., 1961-08-07

No law or code requires us
as q Nation to share with
others what we have. But a
love for man and mankind
can inspire us as individuals
to seek to help others; more
important, to help them to
overcome handicaps which
limit their progress.
Our greatest possession is
personal freedom; yet we
have virtually ignored that in
our propaganda and contacts
with others. With a false cry
against imposing" our ideas
upon others, we have not
only failed to stress the bles-
sings of freedom, but we have
with few exceptions followed
the Communist line by en-
phasizing materialisrn.
Our officials have declared
that failure to supply the
needy would lead these to
embrace communism. Isn't it
time to change our tune? Are
men knowingly willing to &C
cept tyranny and slavery in
return for food (even If the
Communists could provide
the food? Would they, or
we, rather be Red than
dead? If not, let us spread
abroad our reasons, our faith
in freedom.
Even our so-called cultural
exchanges have been on the
Communists terms. We ex-
change musicians, dancers,
actors, scientists, athletes,
and others; the Communists
have these. Do we insist on a
voting booth exhibit, and are
we prepared to exploit the
certain refusal to permit it?
Let us emphasize to others
our freedom Of expression
and freedom of choice, and
the fact that neither Of these
could have any meaning but
for free access to informa-
tion.
We need not maintain that
our present form of limited
capitalism makes this the
best Of all possible worlds.
We should seek to improve.
But it is one thing to admit
our own imperfection; quite
another to fail to recognize
and point out the inherent
evil in a system which can
at best (and contrary to ex-
perience) promise that ma
terial needs will be provided
according to the decisions Of
q few, itself the condition
and definition of slavery.
Our greatest export should
be the concept Of freedom.
It may not be as readily ap-
preciated at the moment by
those who do not compre-
hend it. But granting to
others the right to accept
what they want to accept, it
is our right to give and to
stress what we want to give.
Along with the ideas of free
dom can go a measure of ma
terial aid. But we should
make it clear where our en-
phasis lies.
The greatest Opportunity"
for communism is not, pow
Evening star., 1961-08-07
Cost of ObsoIescence

Senator Proxmire, Wisconsin Dem
ocrat, made sound, even though
losing, argument in his fight to elinni-
nate from the $468-billion defense
appropriation bill the $525-million item
for production of an additional So B-52
bomberS.
The B-52, while uniformly described
as the best bomber in the Air Force
arsenal, went into production ten years
ago. Although improvements have been
made (current output is in the H series),
it is a subsonic plane already considered
to be obsolescent. AS of now, production
of both the B-52 and the B-58 is
scheduled to continue until late 1862
and on this basis Secretary of Defense
Mcnamara informed Senator ProXmire
that more than TOO of the two bombers
will still be "in operational inventory"
at the end of fiscal 1866. Mr.. Mcnamara
opposed the added appropriation and
production as unneeded in what the
Defense Department considers mainte-
nance of the most effective "mix Of
strategic weapons" Even so, he made
the further point that B-52 production
lines could be reinstituted, if required,
in mid-1963 with delivery during the
period of 1965-67.
In his argument on the Senate floor,
Mr.. Proxmire stressed these two points
made by the Secretary-that the bomber
fleet in relation to balanced assort-
ment of weapons would be adequate and
that, in the remote possibility of greater
need for an aircraft already ten years
old, production could be resumed
promptly. Meanwhile, the Senator
added, the extra $525 million would
not buy research . :. new design &.
additional speed or protection"
There is no magic formula, of
Evening star., 1961-08-07
PARIS

PARIS
Asked his advice on how
best. to cover this conference
of foreign ministers, one sem
ior diplomat here replied
promptly:
Relax. Go out and en-
joy Paris. Then sit down and
write anything you want,
and you won't be any wrong
er than anyone else"
We wouldn't want to give
the impression that every
one is following this emf
nently sound recommended
ton. This city is full of
eager and serious journalists
wasting the midsummer
week end rushing from one
briefing to another, button
holing sources and generally
behaving as If momentous
news was in the making. But
the result, so far as we have
been able to detect, hardly
justifieS the effort.
The ministers, to be sure,
are doing their part. We are
assured that they are hard
at work meeting morning and
evening-Sundays Included
amid the gilt and crystal
splendor of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. Last night
it was sonorously announced
that they had wound up their
discussions of the approach
ing Berlin crisis by repeating
virtually every platitude
about the Western position"
The ministers, it was SOL
emnly affirmed, had once
again formed a united front
on a policy of firmness and
developing strength as well
as willingness to negotiate If
negotiations are rendered
possible by the other side"
Details Are Vague
It also is said officially that
there was agreement here on
certain preparatory meas
ures" that will be taken in
the military, political and
economic fields Gin order to
face up to a critical situation
should it arise" But what
these steps may be apart from
some relatively insignificant
increases of military forces
on the central European front
is still, quite understandab bly,,
extremely vague.
In short, nothing seems to
have happened that couldn't
have been written and indeed
was written several days ago.
The continuing business Of
planning for Berlin has now
been showed back to the
four-power working group in
in Washington. and the
ministers have turned their
attention to other troubled
areas of the world, including
Laos, Wet Nam and Tunisia.
The major decision Of the
Paris conference, If it can
realistically be called that,
was purely negative. The
British delegation came here
Evening star., 1961-08-07

course, by which the precise dollar needs
for defense can be calculated. This is
matter of judgment, but it is the
Judgment of the Secretary of Defense
and his associates in this instance that
an extended production schedule for a
bomber already ten years old is not a
security requirement. This judgment
has not been disproved by any evidence
introduced in the Senate or by the vote
to disregard it.
Evening star., 1961-08-07
Misspent Relief Funds

There is nationwide dis
content. over the manner in
which public relief is being
administered in such manner
as to SubSidize the breeding
of illegitimate children. The
difficulty in handling the
situation arises from the fact
that no one wants to penalize
helpless little children.
When the public assistance
system was set up, the hand
ling out Of checks to parents
for the support Of children
was based upon the theory
that the person receiving the
check was the head of q
household" It is suggested
that woman giving birth to
q second illegitimate child
should be declared unfit to be
considered the head OF q
household, and that her chill
dren be placed in a Govern
ment supervised institution
where they could be properly
cared for. The woman herself
should be separated from the
public assistance rolls.
The theory upon which ir-
responsible individuals are
handed Government checks
for the support of children, is
that the money allowed for
the children viii be expended
for their benefit. Since it is
well known that many Of the
relief checks are cashed In
saloons, it is probable that
the children themselves get
only the barest subsistence,
and that much Of the rest
goes for liquor.
Frank g. Campbell.
Evening star., 1961-08-07
WATCHING THE WORLD
Initiotive Is LeftlUnseized
By CROSBY S. NOY
Foreign Correspondent Of The Stor

hopeful Of persuading the
allies to seize the diplomatic
Initiative" in calling for an
immediate negotiation with
Russia over Berlin. This
proposition quite evidently
was rejected, the feeling Of
the others being that the
latest Russian notes on Ber-
lin offered no reasonable
basis for new talks.
Fleeing Germans Act
The implication is that
some new Russian move is
beir, awaited before the
OF tf0l Of negotiations is
opt Iy raised. This could
come but is not expected in
the speech scheduled to be
given by Soviet Premier
Khrushchev tonight in Mos
COW. Far more probably, ac-
cording to diplomats here, an
opening for talks will be
delayed some weeks, possibly
until the opening Of the
United Nations General As
sembly session in September.
Which leaves the West ap-
proximately in the same
unhappy firmly fearful pos
ture that it was in before.
Instead of seizing the diplo-
matte initiative, most Of the
concentration here has been
on purely defensive measures
which cannot be. calculated
to weigh very heavily in
Mr.. Khrushchev's balance.
The simple fact, of which
the assembled ministers were
acutely aware during the last
two days, is that Mr..
Khrushchev's plans and the
ultimate fate of Berlin are
likely to be less affected by
what is going on here than
by the course of events in
Germany itself.
The really effective action
that has been taken recent
ly-and for many weeks
past-is the decision by
thousands of individual East
Germans to defy their
Communist government and
flee to the West. This act
in itself threatens to precip-
itate for Communists a real,
full-fledged Berlin crisis in
a very short time. The mass
flight has now reached pro-
portions that directly men
ace the stability of the East
German puppet regime.
The time is approaching
when Khrushchev and Co.
must either face UP to this
menace by a breakdown at
the risk of provoking open
rebellion or by backing down
himself on his plans for Ber-
lin and a separate German
peace treaty. AS between
these choices, diplomats here
are not inclined to much op-
timism. But at the same time
there is feeling that the fate
of Berlin may well be decided
by factors completely beyond
their control.
Evening star., 1961-08-07
LETTERS TO THE STAR

troika which Mr.. Khrushchev
presented to the Eatons some
time ago. For the ladies from
the East this gesture would
have destroyed once and for
all the fable that you can't
have your foreign policy and
eat 1t tool p. j.
Evening star., 1961-08-07

erty. but ignorance. Given
the facts, men will not know
ingly enslave themselves.
We oppose slavery and
totalitarianisrn for ourselves;
we trust that others will do
likewise for themselves. We
shall not be frightened by the
threat Of others to commit
national suicide; we will help
those who oppose tyranny.
This is what we must deter
mine for ourselves. This is
what we must tell the world.
Lloyd Buchanan
Evening star., 1961-08-07

Pen names may be used II
letters carry iDrtteTs' correct
names and addresses. All let
ters are subject to condensd-
tton. Those not used SUiu be
returned only trhen accom-
painted by self : addressed.
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1961-08-07
Education Plot?

There hangs over Ameri-
can education today a DAM
oclean sword that will not
too long remain suspended.
Reposing in the UNESCO
division of the State Depart
ment is a United Nations
resolution titled ''UNESCO
Convention and Recommen-
dation on Discrimination in
Education" which will be in
troduced in the Senate one
propitious day when public
attention is centered else
where. It will require rati-
fication by the Senate only,
being within that happy
realm Of treaty status which
does not descend to the House
but does take precedence over
the United States Constitu-
ton.
While the resolution has
been around since December,
it, remained for James Fran
els Cardinal Mcintyre, Arch
bishop Of Los Angeles, (Star
July I'D to give it publicity.
If approved by the SEN
ate, the Cardinal said, "the
resolution will substantially
eliminate all local control of
public education at State or
local level" place all Amer
ican education under Federal
control, override this Federal
control and make it subsi-
diary to UNESCo as a world
court and final international
arbiter of education" and
rigidly restrict private non
unsupported schools and
colleges.
This is not all, however.
It would make unlawful all
separation except by sex and
it shall not be deemed to
constitute discrimination" to
establish private educational
institutions if the purpose is
not to secure the exclusion of
any group. In short, this
resolution is intended to force
integration of private as well
as public educational insti-
tutions.
Since religious schools re-
ceive the same treatment as
private schools, it becomes
apparent that UNESCO in
tends. If its scheme works,
to assume control over all
education in the United
States.
Charles w. Carter.