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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-12

Of damages sustained in the fire.
A week long revival was to
come to close that evening
The lightning bolt struck about
a half hour before the service
was due to start. Several fami-
hes arrived and discovered the
flames coming out from around
the roof Of the church.
The Rev. Towards Edwards.
pastor of the church, said, "the
fire department did a wonderful
job OF extinguishing the fire"
The lightning is believed tn
nave come into the building on
an electrical wire to the fur
mace. setting the thermostat
afire. The wall near the Their
mastat was almost completely
destroyed.
Lightning visited the church.
yard on several occasions in re-.
cent years, doing extensive dam.
age to trees.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-12

The petition. presented the
Court by S. w. Tucker, counsel
for the petitioners, names the
board of supervisors as re
spondent, or body to which the
court is requested to give the
order sought. The petition asks
for:
Appropriations to the county
school board of sufficient funds
for the operation and mainte-
nance of public free schools for
the 1882 school term forthwith
and for subsequent school terms
at the time required by law"
The younger Griffin, l4-year-
old former elementary student
here, is, according to the petition
brought on his behalf. "a citizen
of the Commonwealth of Virginia
and is domiciled in and a resi-
dent Of the County of Prince Ed
ward. He is within the age limits
of eligibility to attend public
schools and possesses all qualifi-
cations and satisfies all require
mentS for admission to public
school"
The next step in the new action
at law probably will come next
month. That would be an answer
to the petition by counsel for the
respondent board of supervisors.
After the presentation of the pc
tition Friday. j. Segar Gravatt,
special counsel for the board,
and Commonwealth Attorney
Frank Nat Watkins announced
that an answer will be filed with
the Supreme Court of Appeals on
the opening day of its October
term when it will sit at Rich
mond.
No interim moves by the Fed
eral Court for the Eastern Dis
trict of Virginia. which has the
county's suit under advisement
for its federal constitutional ele-
ments, is expected meanwhile.
Judge Oren R. Lewis, the fed
eral jurist presiding over the
District Court. has now gotten
what he said should be the next
step the testing in the Vir-
ginia courts Of what public school
obligations are implicit in the
Virginia Constitution Article on
Education and Public Instruc-
ton.
Last month during his hearings
on the Negro plaintiffs amended
supplemental complaint, Judge
Continued on page y
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-12
Longwood Again
Offers, Evening
Work For Adults

The progr of graduate
studies at Longwood College will
again provide area teachers and
other qualified persons an oppor-
tunity to attend evening classes
Six courses will be taught in
the evenings during the school
term, three the first semester
and three the second semester.
Literature of the South" Eng
fish 1922 will be taught by DR..
Richard K. Meeker, associate
professor of English, on Thursday
evenings from 7 to $50. The first
class for the three semester hour
course will be held September %.
DR.. Marvin w. Schlegel, pro-
lessor of history and social
sciences. will teach American
Historical Biography" History
652) on Tuesday evenings from 7
to $50 pm. The first class for
the three semester hour course
will be held September 26.
A course in psychology, The
cries of Personality and Adjust
ment." Psychology 523) will be
taught on Monday evenings from
z to $3.50 by DR.. c. H. Patterson.
Jr.. associate professor Of educa-
ton. A three semester hour
course. the first class will be held
September Is.
Courses to be offered the Sec
ond semester include the follow
ing: Advanced Linguistices"
English 5O5) by DR.. R. C. Sim
onini. Jr.; Civil War and the Re-
construction riod" History
53D by DR.. F.. B. Simkins; and
"VectOr Analysis Mathematics
$500 by an instructor to be an
nomced.
Details of the program may be
obtained by writing DR.. C. G.
Gordon Moss, dean of the college.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-12
Walking Club
Prospects Called

Interested persons. are invited
to attend a meeting here Thurs
day night when an effort to or
GAME walking club will be
made.
Guy Lancaster, who has sug-
gested the idea of a recreational
hiking club for this area. says
the meeting will be held in the
Town Council chamber at 8 pm.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-12
freshman Arriving
145 Freshman Arriving
H-SC Opens Door For l86th Y ear

men, 1923 strong, will return to
campus Thursday to give the
college an enrolment of 1863.
A number of additions to col
lege facilities will greet the re-
turning students. The Joseph
upuy Eggleston Library,
across the street from the old
library. is open to students for
the first time. Construction of
the building was completed dur
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-12

Hampden Sydney College
opened its doors today Monday
to welcome a freshman class of
AS students. who were selected
from $50 completed applications.
The opening marks the begin
ing of the colleges l86th year.
An orientation program for the
new students will get underway
tonight and continue through
most of the week. Upperclass-
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-12

and this area in general. In
Prince Edward there are 446
farms that have a total flue
cured allotment of 836 .08 acres.
There are 768 farms in the county
that have dark fired allotments
OF 1862 acres. just slightly
higher than flue cured variety.
The bright yellow leaves are
rolling to markets in Brook
neal, Chase City, GAINESVILLE,
DanNlle, ksuhridse, Lawrence.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-12

meet growing enrolment needs.
The College anticipates student
body of 1,136 when the 1861 80
session opens September 18 with
an orientation program for 800
freshmen.
Four firms presented bids on
the projects. Completion of the
buildings is anticipated midsum-
mer. 1862.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-12

vile, Martinsville, Petersburg,
Rocky Mount, South Boston and
South Hill in Virginia, and to
nine markets in North Carolina.
Hopes are high on the part of
tobacco growers that the flue
cured prices will continue at the
present high level. And there is
no reason that prices won't con
tinue at their present record
breaking levels.
Continued on Pare y
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-12
Pairets Purchase
Main Street Stores

L. NJ and E. M. Pairet pur-
chased three business properties
en- Main Street this week from
Jack Pearlove, a former resident
of Farmville. The transaction in
volved the Farmville Electric APP
pliance Company building, the
Mpttley Hardware Co. (store no.
q building. and E. Louis Dahl
store building. covering 136-140
North Main Street.
Pairet said this morning that
there would be no change in the
operation of the stores involved
in the near future.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-12
Rabies Clinic,
Wednesday,, Gil

There will be rabies vaccina-
ton clinic for dogs Wednesday,
September 10, from gil am.
behind the Fire House at Farm
vile.
Those who have not had their
dogs vaccinated are urged to
attend this clinic. In clinics held
throughout the county during the
past month 1927 dogs have re-
cejved their rabies shots.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-12
Fair CrOOmed For 7:3OP. VI.
Grand OpeningHere Tonight
Harvest, Advance
Ticket Sale Has
Officials Enthused
BY JOHN STICK

If the enthusiasm of officials is
an indication. the oath annual
Five County Fair opening to-
night Monday at 7:30 will be
smashing success.
John n Warner. Farmville
banker and president of the Five
County Fair Associa ton. had the
quality of agricultural exhibits
uppermost in his mind.
Tobacco crops are outstand-
ing, the corn crop is the best in
my memory. and the harvest
generally is Of first quality. How
can we miss having top notch
displays and competition for the
thousands Of fair premiums"
Warner declared today.
J. G. Brickert. general mana
ger of the fair and this year
serving as president of the Vir-
GINA Association Of Fairs, ex-
pressed delight with the results
of the advance ticket sale.
Advance Sale
From many sides I've had
reports that our sales contest
workers have exceeded their eff
forts of recent years. There just
seems to be good fair attitude
in the public mind this year, =
the manager declared.
. Tonight's Monday grand
opening will find every exhibit
in the Fairs six divisions in
place. Tuesday morning begins
the long and tough task by Eek
tension Service agents and adult
specialist volunteers to deter
mine the rankings of exhibits.
More than $4,000 in premium
prizes awaits their verdicts.
superintendent for the yari-
Gus divisions are: Farm crops,
Dudley Peery, Prince Edward
county agent: Livestock, R. S.
Ellis. Buckingham county agent;
All Clubs, ]. A. Smith, Apo
mattox county agent; poultry
r. l.. Seay, Cumberland county
agent; home products, Mrs. Eu-
nice Motley, Prince Edward
coun ty home demonstration
agent; home economics, Mrs.
+ Y they. Cumberland High
School home economics teacher:
agricultural high schools, G. L.
Baldwin, vocational agricul-
ture teacher at Buckingham :
Central High School, and tractor
contest, Kermit Barbour
Charlotte county agent.
Beauty Contest
v. v. GOrdOn. OF F'armVllle.
and Miss BERTHE Yates. home
agent in Charlotte county, are
arrangements for
Thursday nights beauty contest.
On that occasion the successor
to Miss Faye Martin, who was
Miss Five County Fair of 1860.
will be selected. Miss Martin is
assisting with arrangements.
Judges for the beauty contest
will be Delegate John H. Daniel,
OF Charlotte c. H.. T. B. Hall, of
Buckingham. and Mrs. Emily
Landrum. of the Longwood Col
lege faculty. Alden Aaroe. OF
R d 10 Station WRVA Rich
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-12
Bright Leaf Sales Start Sept. II
Good Prices Seen On Old Belt Market

The bright tobacco leaf comes
under the chant of the auctioneer
today Tuesday in the Old Belt
Markets in Virginia. Flue cured
tobacco is the largest single cash
crop in Virginia. The Old Belt
Dark Fired markets will open
later in the year, as it custo-
mary.
Dark fired tobacco allotments
exceed that Of flue cured allot-
ments n Prince Edward county,
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-12
Boards Attorneys
Preparing Answers
To School Petition

Prince Edward countys lOyear school litigation
went down legal road Friday when
Vrgnas compelling the county to
make funds available for public
Sitting at Stanton the States highest writ Of
mandamus petition from plaintiff Hgants Leslie
fin Jr and his father. the Rev L.
and Negro leader
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-05-16

Constance Mullinix; Arkansas,
by Mrs. Raymond Kemp; Ari.
iona, Mrs. Brandon Duvall. Mr..
Kincaid of Hagerstown showed
slides on conservation which
were interesting and instructive.
Delicious refreshments were
served. The final plans were
made for the third annual plant
sale to be held May 20 at the
Damascus fire house. There will
be annual, perennial and shrub
berry, including azaleas, for sale.
1t is planned to have some of
the ANIMALS in bloom to assist
the gardener in making selec-'
tons. The proceeds of the sale
will be used by the club for
community projects.
The following members of the
school patrol of Cedar Grove
Elementary School are attend
ing the annual county wide
school safety patrol picnic to-
day: Gary Wallen, captain of
patrol; Stephen Gray, Miss Fay
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-05-16

Frenzel, Stephen Johnson, and
Wayne Shaw; Third year, Har-
old Anamosa; Webelos badges,
Michael Isaacs, Gordon Hanson,
John Carey, Richard Hessler,
Steven Hawkins, and Harold
Anamosa. Den One was the win
ner of the attendance banner.
The theme for the meeting was
American Indians. Mrs. Bernard
Frenzel was presented with a
plaque for her faithful services
as secretary and den mother.
Mrs. Emory Mullinix and her
daughters entertained Rev. and
Mrs. A. Dean Kesler and Mr..
and Mrs Roy Chesney at dinner
Wednesday evening, May 10.
The Damascus Family Com
munity Club met at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Emerson Slacum
Friday evening, May 5. The fol-
lowing reports on pertinent
facts about different states were
presented: California, by Miss
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-05-16
Damascus
Continued from Page Z,

Continued from Page y
service. The annual fried chick
en- and country ham dinner and
a bake sale will be held at the
church May 81 from 2 to 8 pm.
Cub Scout Pack TIT met at
the American Legion Home
Tuesday night May 8, for their
regular pack meeting. The fol.
lowing boys received awards:
Bobcat, Stanley Jones; Wolf
Badge, Robert Fry, Michael Nc.
Carthy and Bobby Senseney;
Gold Arrow, John Shelton and
Michael Hughes; Silver Arrow,
Billy McKinnon, John Shelton,
Michael Hughes ~, Timothy
Sleeth, Wayne Shaw, Stephen
Johnson, Jackie Purdum, and
Michael Isaacs; First Year Pin,
Michael Hughes, James Auth,
and Paul Kellogg; Second Year
Pin, Kenneth Shock, Bernie
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-05-16
IS ENTINEI S S6SsTs. MD,
tuesday, May Is. 1851 Ill

Holsinger, Miss JoycA Hackey,
James Fetrow, Miss Benite
Brown. Clayton Brown, Miss
Barbara Howes, and Paul Err
Itch. Reporters from a Washing
ton newspaper visited CEDAR
Grove last week. They are pre-
pairing a feature article on the
Cedar Grove school and commu-
nifty which will be published
soon.
Congratulations are extended
to Mr.. and Mrs. Maynard Wat
kins, jr., who are the happy
parents of a baby boy born May
A at Montgomery General Hos
pital. Weight lbs, l OF. Name,
Craig Stephen.
Mrs. Raymond Wilson's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Hewitt, are
visiting the Wilson's after
spending the winter in Florida. /
Evening star., 1961-05-07
FOUND

DOG. German. vonhindburge, answers
to name Of Mac" lame right foot;
At s.w. Call Di. 7-2i49 or KE.
Evening star., 1961-05-07
BrozzoviIIe's Airport
Closed to u. n. Planes

Youlou charged the central
governments arrest of Katanga
President Noise Tshombe was
"banditry" that shattered hopes
of peace in the Congo.
Mr.. Youlou is a good friend
of Mr.. Tshombe, who walked
out of the unity conference of
Congolese political leaders in
Coquilhatville last week. Mr..
Tshombe charged Mr.. Kasa-
vubu was bowling to what he
called U. N. interference In
the Congo's affairs.
Mr.. Tshombe and six of his
top Belgian advisers were ar
rested 10 days ago after the
Presidents walkout.
The United Nations has kept
the advisers in custody in Leo
poldville since them. Today
it flew them out of the Congo
at the request of Mr.. Kasavubu.
Mr.. TShombe still is held at
Coquilhatville.
Belgium agreed to take the
advisers, a u. N. spokesman
said, and they decided to go.
Il think you may safely as
sumo that they will not be
coming back" the spokesman
said.
Evening star., 1961-05-07
Illness Cancels Tour
OF Tunision President

Tunisian President Habib
Bourguiba remained in some
discomfort as he rested all day
yesterday at the Presidents
Guest House after canceling
scheduled visits to Tennessee
and Texas because Of an at
tack of bronchitis.
The Tunisian leaders illness
was announced yesterday by
his son, Ambassador Habib
Bourguiba, jr., just an hour be-
fore he was scheduled to fly to
Knoxville, Tenn. Last night, a
spokesman for the Tunisian
Embassy said there was mo
change" In Mr.. Bourguiba's
condition:
He was resting. as ordered
by his physician. His condition.
however, was not serious.
State Department officials
noted Friday that President
Bourguiba was troubled by a
scratchy throat. He conversed
socially at his white-tie dinner
for President and Mrs. Ken
nedy Friday night but left the
official toasting to his son, they
said.
He retired to the Guest House
after the dinner and remained
in bed yesterday morning.
Mr.. Bourguiba had concluded
talks with. President Kennedy
and was scheduled to begin a
two-day tour of the Tennessee
Valley Authority Area today
Evening star., 1961-05-07
LEoPo1Dv1LLE, The Congo

LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo,
May 6 (AP).-The Congo re-
public, the former French Con-
60, has closed its important
Brazzaville airport to United
Nations planes, the U. N. COM
mand in this former Belgian
colony reported today.
A u. N. spokesman said Pres
ident Able Fulbert Youlou of
the neighboring Congo repub-
lie charged U. N. planes have
been buzzing his capital, Braz-
zaville.
The spokesman denied the
charge and termed the airport
closure a nuisance action. A
number of U. N. planes are
stationed in Brazzaville and use
the airport for supply missions
to the Congo.
Tension has been building up
for several days between the
Brazzaville regime and the GEN.
tral government of the Congo
headed by President Joseph
KaSavubu.
Mr.. Kasavubu's officials
halted Congo River ferry traffic
between Leopoldville and Braz-
zaville yesterday after Mr..
Evening star., 1961-05-07

Mr.. Stain told the Western
chiefs he was rejecting peace
feelers from Japan and would
soon Join that war.
Mr.. Truman was a newcomer
to the select group. having only
recently become President fol-
lowing the death of Franklin
D. Roosevelt. He got word of
the first successful United
States atomic test and passed
it on to Mr.. Churchill and Mr..
Stain. Mr.. Churchill. losing
a British election during the
conference, was succeeded at
Potsdam July % by Clement
r. Attlee.
The State Department issued
the Potsdam papers as part of
its continuing program Of re-
leasing state documents Of his
torical value a number Of years
after the event.
The papers show that Mr..
Stain, at one Of the 13 Pots
dam meetings Of the chiefs, op-
posed Mr.. Truman's wish to
list all Of the decisions in the
final public communique.
Evening star., 1961-05-07

The Big Three summit meet
ing delt mainly with postwar
treatment of Germany and
Eastern Europe. But the docu-
mentS indicate existing control
Of territory, rather than accord
among the allies, shaped Eu-
rope in the East-West division
that is a dominant feature to-
day.
Dispatches from United
States diplomats throughout
Eastern Europe told Of Soviet
obstruction Of Western repre-
sentatives and Communist
moves to grab political power
in the areas newly liberated
from Germany. Mr.. Truman
and Mr.. Churchill protested in
vain. Military occupation lines
were hardening into long term
boundaries. The cold war was
on.
The conference at PotSdam,
Just outside Of Berlin, was the
last of the three World War II
summit parleys among the
three major powers. 1t took
place July 17-August 2, 1945,
amid a changing International
scene.
The German war was over.
Evening star., 1961-05-07

He was to have flown then to
Dallas, Texas.
The Tunisian leader hopes
to resume his United States
tour in New York on Wednes-
day. The younger Bourguiba,
in announcing his fathers ILL
ness, said the situation is very
embarrassing"
Evening star., 1961-05-07
Potsdom Papers Show
Cold Wars Beginning
By the Associated Press

The State Department yesterday finally made public its
papers the 195 Posdam Conference The two
volume 2733page compilation contained few surprises.
The state papers show President Harry Truman and
Britains Prime Minister Winston Churchill argued with
Soviet Premier Josef v. Stain than they agreed.
Evening star., 1961-08-03
THE GOLDEN YEARS
Loaf or Work ViewSpurs LetterWriting

through. I think, also, that
it's not easy to do anything
else, what with all the road
blocks they set up to stymie
any worthwhile work by old
folks past IS. I guess the
thing to do is to try. and try
again. Heaven will under
stand. :" H. w. j. Annis-
ton, Ala.
"It seems that the Texas
Evening star., 1961-08-03

named Mcpherson said In
this column that a retired
person could not loaf it
through. Here are some of
the messages the stamps
brought:
Something like Mr.. Nc
Pherson comes along occa-
sionally and your faith in
mankind gets a shot of tonic.
A person turned out to idle
Evening star., 1961-08-03

ness on a pension has no
more right to waste away
on it than he has to waste
any other resource of nature.
Pleasure and permanent ease
were never promised to us
in any book I ever read. :"
R. H. B., Tacoma. Wash.
"I think the fellow is right
when he says we have no IL
cense to loaf a retirement
Evening star., 1961-08-03
THE GOLDEN YEARS
By THOMAS COLLINS

Does a person have the
moral right to loaf through
retirement? Or, does he or
she have an obligation to
work at whatever can be had
in order to contribute to his
fellow man until the end2
Uncle SIN has sold a lot
of Accent stamps on this
proposition since a man
Evening star., 1961-08-03

you. :" K. r. B., st. Louis,
Mo.
My husband and I also
believed we had no moral
right to sit down and do
nothing when he retired. But
my husband knew how to be
productive in only one small
area, which was running an
assembly line in a plant. And
it is this kind Of productivity
they don't let you do after
IS. We tried things, like the
Welfare Society, the Com
munity Chest and such other
places that ask for volun-
Evening star., 1961-08-03

teers. It's difficult to scratch
an itch this way. -.
Since we are religious
people who tithe for our
church we decided that the
thing we should do with re-
tirement was to tithe our
time. We figured our waking
time from 8 in the morning
to 10 at night. A 10th of it
was about an hour and a
half a day. This we gave to
visiting people who needed
Evening star., 1961-08-03

sun has got to your friend
Mcpherson. Why doesn't he
shut up and 60 fishing? :"
w. C. B., Hartford, Conn.
How wrong can people
be? You work all your life,
save your pennies, cling to
your job because it's got a
pension at the end of it, and
you take your hat off every
time you pass the Social Sc
Gritty office. Then you reach
SIS and at long last you cash
in. It's freedom and rest from
here on. I don't owe nothing
to nobody I'm not about to
assume I do. I'll loaf, thank
Evening star., 1961-08-03

visitors, to writing letters, to
phoning the sick, to nursing
i'll neighbors. to whatever
showed up.
I'VE are now up to about
three hours a day. We are
quite happy. :" Mrs. L. s.
", Newark, N. J..
(Copyright 1851. General
Features Corp)
=.
The Golden Yeos oppeor Thurs
days.
Evening star., 1961-12-04

would hesitate to take part
in an anti-McC Cormack maneu-
yer that offered even fair-to-
good chances Of attaining its
goal. Rather than risk antag-
onizing Mr.. McCormack's
friends. who might retaliate for
his defeat by opposing key ad-
ministrations programs. Mr..
Kennedy would accept Mr.. Nc
Cormack as Speaker-for next
year at least.
The 1862 congressional ses-
sion looks like a series OF
rough. nasty" fights to the
President, these sources say.
It was removed from the cate
CORY of IAN almost certain dis
aster" only by the shift In
mood produced by last months s
elections.
The Kennedy hope is that the
victories Of Democrats in the
New Jersey governorship and
the San Antonio congressional
contest will make some DEM
ocratic lawmakers who were
wavering badly at the close OF
the last session "a little more
confident in being Democratic
and voting with a Democratic
President"
Evening star., 1961-12-04

advanced study at the National
Physical Laboratory in England.
The fellowships will be given
to a limited number of Ameri-
cans with recent doctorates who
are interested in the learning
process.
Evening star., 1961-12-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Herri-
man Of 1926 Alabama ave.
Sc, celebrated their 5Oth
wedding anniversary last
week. MIR. Herman Is a
retired employe Of L. p.
Steuart, Inc. The couple
has three children and
eight grandchildren
Photo by Richard Saka-
mOtO.
Evening star., 1961-12-04
Carnegie Corp. Gives
$4,000 for Studies

The Carnegie Corp. today an
nounced q $4,000 grant to the
Carnegie Institution Of Wash
ington to award fellowships for