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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29

The total allotted to the agen-
cies represents Is per cent re-
duction over the $22 $50 requested
by the IL organizations. The Chest
Budgets and Admission commit
tee annually reviews the fund re-
quests Of the agencies and studies
their projected needs.
Good Faith
1.-The total we will seek next
month is the lowest we feel we
can set the goal and still keep
good faith with our agencies"
Jack Lewis, this years campaign
leader, said today. "These organ
izations showed a genuine need
for the higher total, but we had
to keep the goal within limits set
by the experience Of past cam
paigns," he added.
Last years campaign fell ap-
proximately six per cent. or
1000, short of the goal of SIG, 875.
This year for the first time. the
Chest is exploring the potentiality
of payroll deductions for finding
a key to meet-the-goal success.
The budgeted funds for 1862 al
lotted the II Chest participants
are as follows:
Agency Quotas
Southside Community Hospital,
Sc, 500; American Red Cross
prince Edward Chapter, $3,673;
Farmville Memorial Recreation
Association, Inc. $3.50; Boy
Scouts Of America, $l.65O; Saliva
ton Army, $500; R. R. Motion
Recreation Council, $825: South
side Hospital Auxiliary, $500:
Also, Farmville Public Library
Association. $3.50: Farmvi e
Reading Room, $525; Children's
Home Society of Virginia, $500,
and United Fund Of Virginia
$500.
The 1862 budget also allots
$500 for administrative costs and
$500 for a contingency reserve
and for collection of pledges
through the year.
Some Groups Cut
| AS compared to the funds al
lotted last year when the Chest
fell short Of its $19.875 goal, the
allottments this year: have been
increased 1878 for the Red Cross;
are unchanged for the Children S
Home Society. the Farmville Pub
lie Library, the Farmville Read
ing Room, Southside Hospital and
the Hospital Auxiliary. Cuts were
made to the Boy Scouts Isl ,OOO)
the Salvation Army and the Unit
Continued on page y
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29
Dress Company Returns To Full
Production Schedule On Thursday

Farmville Dress Company re-
sumed its full production sched-
ule Thursday morning with As
employees. John Mitchell, plant
manater, announced.
The company has been in the
process of getting back into pro-
duction now for more than a
week, some time being consum-
ed in converting over to new
season model changes.
The plant, now union shop
again. is supplying dresses for
a different firm. not Abby Teens
for whom the company was
working at the time the plant
was struck by the local of In
ternational Garment Workers
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29

Union (AFL-CIOl.
Provisions of the new union
contact call for workers to
receive SIPS per hour to begin
with. with two other increases
of five cents per hour over a
period of IL months. The con-
tract, covering a 30 month
period, calls for six paid holi-
days compared to three in the
old contract and weeks paid
vacation, the same as in the old
contract.
The contract calls for a work
week Of 37l2 hours until Septem-
Der /, 1862 when it will drop
back to IS hours per week with
time and half for overtime.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29

by-step plan for complete dis
armament, asked for an immedi-
ate ban on nuclear tests, and
called for a successor to Secre-
tary General Hammarskjold. He
also reiterated Western determi-
nation to defend its access rights
to Berlin. The Soviet diplomat
rejected these proposals, but OBJ
servers said they detected note
Of willingness to negotiate. Gro
myko and Secretary of State
Rusk met again Wednesday to
discuss the Berlin situation in
formally.
CONGRESS adjourned early
Wednesday morning. The Senate
was angry because the House ap-
proved billion dollar appropri-
atoms bill and then adjourned
before the Senate could act. The
Senate had to take it or leave it
because there was no possibility
Of compromise with the House in
adjournment. The Senate finally
passed the measure which pro-
vides supplemental money for
various federal agencies.
ESTIMATES of the long nine
month session varied according
to the political persuasion of the
commentator. The Kennedy ad-
mlnistration got a lot more of
what it asked for than many had
expected. Congress appropriated
money for the Peace Corps, send
ing a man to the moon, and ex-
banded federal aid to the job
less; but it refused administra-
ton request to expand federal
aid to education and raise postal
rates. Republicans complain the
session was long on quantity and
short on quality.
ALLEN DULLES will retire
later this fall as director of the
Central Intelligence Agency. He
Continued on page n
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29
Instructor Miss jeanne Curnutt
LC Scores A Harpsichord First

family as the virginia. and Spinet,
was in prominent use from the
18th to the 18th century. 1t is best
known for its incisive tone of bril-
liancy, according to DR.. jeanne
Curnutt. a new assistant profess
sor Of music, who will teach the
instrument at LOngWOod.
Miss jeanne Curnutt
Miss Curnutt comes to Long
wood from Rochester, N. Y,
where she received her doctorate
in musical arts in August. A ma
tive of Missouri, she received her
bachelor of music from Cornell
College, Iowa, and her masters
at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio.
The harpsicord instructor taught
for a year at Mary Hardin Baylor
College in Texas. For four years
after that. she directed the Tenn
pie School of Music in Texas, an
institution she founded.
Miss Curnutt' S first harpsichord
training came in Copenhagen,
Denmark, where she spent three
years studying organ and harpsi-
chord on a Fulbright scholarship.
Obviously pleased to be associ-
ated with the start of a new
course at Longwood, Miss Cur
mutt has the full blessing of the
departments head, Dr. John w.
Molnar. The college is fortunate
to be able to offer this unique
study and to have such a capable
person to initiate it, he said.
Fits In Program
This will not be an exclusive
phase of the music instruction
here. The course will be availa-
Bile for any student working to-
ward an A. B. in music or music
education degree Miss Curnutt
said.
The harpsichord, purchased by
the college, is German make,
the two-keyboard size. It is small
enough to be moved relatively
easy for recitals, something Miss
Curnutt has liking for.
Interest in the harpsichord has
been renewed in the past decade,
she said. And, in addition to her
instruction, Miss Curnutt hopes to
have something to do with in
creaSing that interest on a COM
munity level and possibly in the
state with lecture-recitals should
she get the opportunity.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29
Parents Reminded
That School Forms
Must Be Turned In

Parents of children attending
schools of the Prince Edward
School Foundation must return
the forms distributed to them
for registration to be complete
Roy R. Pearson, administrator
issued the reminder today call
ing for prompt return of the
white form which has the names
of all children in a family listed
and the yellow form which con-
Germs agreement for payment OF
tuition.
The forms may be returned
to the headmaster or head.
mistress at any of the schools or
at the foundation office on
Third street.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29
Voter Registration
Deadline October Z

Three days. Saturday. Sept.
30, Monday, Oct. 2, and Satur-
day, Oct. 7 remain for voters
registration or transfer of reg
istration for eligibility in the
November general election.
The office of J. H. Allen,
general registrar for Prince Ed
ward county, is open all day
each Monday and a morning
halliday on Saturdays.
The election Of Virginia's
next governor and his chief
elective aides will highlight the
baIlOting in early November.
Registration b 90 k S every
where will be closed after Oc-
tOber 7 until the election is over.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29
Moses Will Help
Start Legion Drive

Charles T. Moses. Jr.. of APP
pomattox. vice commander for
the Fourth District of Virginia
American Legion. will address
members of Farmville's Jack
Garland Post 80 at the Post S
monthly session on Monday
Oct 2. at 8 pm.
The meeting next Monday will
be the kickoff session for the
drive. The meeting will be held
at the Post home on Route Acc
east.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29

attended the Natioanl Science
Foundation Conference on Astro-
Geophysics this summer at Geo
rgetown University at Washing
ton, D. c.
Questions Answered
The 50-minute demonstration,
which includes space science ex-
periments, answers six basic
questions: ID what is a satel-
lite? ~ how does it get up
Into orbit? (H what keeps 4
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29

in orbit? "a what does it do?
80 what good is it? and 60
what are the plans for future
space research and exploration
by the National Aeronautics and
Space Administrations?
The NASA is the federal gov
eminent agency with responsible
lily in space craft and explora-
ton development. The visiting
unit provides an educational in.
Continued On page u
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29
NASA Demonstration Unit Coming
To Ans,Uer Space Exploration Riddles

How does a satellite get up
into orbit? What keeps it in
orbit? What space craft will the
US. use for landings on the moon
and for interplanetary missions?
A National Aeronautics and
Space Administration space sci
ence demonstration unit will pro-
vide the answers to these and
other questions which puzzle the
average citizen during a visit
here on Thursday, Oct. 5.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29

The NASA demonstration unit
will stage 50-minute presenta-
tons in Jarman Hall of Long
wood College at 3 pm, and at
8 pm. next Thursday. The pres
entations are open to the public
and no admission charge is
made.
DR.. Elizabeth Burger. profess
sor of Natural Science at Long
wood College, has arranged for
the visit Of the unit. MISS Burger
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29
Nati0nuINe1ps Summary
BY H. v. LANCASTER, JR
. SOVIETS REPLY TO KENNEDYS PEACE PLAN
D CONGRESS ADJOURNED = DULLES TO RETIR

THE SOVIET REPLY to Presi.
dent Kennedy's UN speech was
delivered Tuesday by Foreign
Minister Gromyko. The President
had challenged the Russians to a
peace race" promising a STEP
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29

The offering of harpsichord
training by the Longwood College
department of music gives the in
stitution first in the state.
In fact, the inclusion of such
training in the departments pro-
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29
Still Operators
Get $1,000 Fines,
II Months Jail
Break-In Also
Bring Circuit
Court Sentences

The Circuit Court in Prince Ed
ward county has imposed SEN
fences during the current Sep
TENDER term in cases resulting
from last June's Whsikey still
raid, near Abilene. and the ar
rests the same month for a rash
of break-ins at Farmville.
The three men taken in the
Abilene still raid. Robert S.
Crutchfield. 43. white, and Gill
bert Hawthorne and Everette
Branch. Negroes, 80, all of Dun
das, pleaded guilty to indict-
ments for unlawfully manufac-
turing alcoholic beverages.
The pleas eliminated the ne
cesSity of a jury trial and Judge
Joel w. Flood, after hearing the
cases. imposed sentences of a
81 1000 fine and IL months in the
county jail here on all three.
$1,000 Fine
The sentences require the three
to serve the first six months of
the Jail term. The second six
months were suspended on con-
dition of good behavior for five
years and payment of the fines
by the October, 1861 term of the
Court.
All three were credited against
the Jail term with the 1O9 days
already spent in Jail awaiting
trial.
The case of Jesse Bates. in
volving similar charges from a
raid in LOckett District of Prince
Edward county, was continued
by the Court.
The sentences in the break-in
cases were made after guilty
findings on indictments for statu-
tory burglary involving the Main
Street Garage, where a cash
register. later recovered, was
carried away.
Break In Cases
Frank Moseley. 10. Farmville
Negro. received a fine Of $3.50
and two-months Jail sentence.
The latter portion of the SEN
tence was suspended for good be-
havor for five years.
James Allen Ross. %. Red
Bank, N. j., Negro. was given
five-year suspended penitenti-
airy sentence. He will be placed
under the charge of the proba-
ton officer, and the case trans
ferred to probation authorities in
New Jersey where Ross will be
returned.
Moseley had received 30-day
jail sentences in Prince Edward
County Court on charges of petit
larceny for the break-ins at
other places of the seven in
volved last June 81 and Is. The
County Court suspended 20 days
of the Jail sentence upon good
behavior for three years.
Juveniles Involved
The break-ins at LongwOod
Service Station, Longwood Golf
Course Club House, the swim
ming pool premises. Brickert Oil
Company. the Dairy Isle and
Chicken Shack, in addition to the
garage. also involved four juve-
niles.
Three were committed to the
State Industrial School for Boys,
while charges against the fourth
were drOnnad
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29

gram gives the institution claims
on a course of study offered by
only a half dozen schools of high
er learning in the nation.
The harpsichord, a keyboard
instrument belonging to the same
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-29
$l9,573 Community Chest
Budget Approved By Board
Fund Appeal Plans To Be Told
At October 5 Workers. Session

1862 budget Of $19573 the goal for the annual Prince Ed
Community Chest 1920
final approval by the Chests board of directors
Tuesday night
The budget allots s1873 "a the II
participating agencies in the Community Chest The
Of the total provides for
the collection Of pledges and small contingencies
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21
THE RIGHT CROWD

Professor - l am going to
speak on liars today. How many
of you have read the twenty
fifth chapter of the text?
Nearly every student raised
his hand.
Professor = Good. You are the
group to whom whish to speak.
There Is no twenty-iitth chapter.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21
News From Sprouses Corner
RozelIes Hare Out-0f-State Guests

SPROuSES CORNER. July 20
Mr.. and Mrs. J. j, Rozelle had
several of their children home
for the week end. Mr.. and Mrs.
o. j. Rozelle and children. of
Maplewood, w. Va, and Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Rose and children.
of Baltimore. Md, were here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rose and family
have left the RoZelle home for
a vacation trip through Tennes-
see and will return through
Maplewood, w. Va. for visit
with Mrs. Roses brother and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. o. J. Ro-
zelle.
Sunday visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. w. L. Terrill were his sis
ter and her family, Mrs. John
Jarvis, Mr.. Jarvis and children,
from Georgetown, KY Harriet
Apperson spent Sunday with
Mary Lou Terrill.
Recent week end guests of Mr..
and Mrs. R. /. Claiborne were
Mrs. Gladstone Sens and daugh-
ter, Barbara, Of Exmore, and
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21

One of the latest overseas ship
ments was to cover the cover
nors palace in Hawaii.
Uses OF Slate
Slate has beea used to cover
some Of the cOuntry'S finest
buildings. such as the governor S
palace, the inn, the College OF
William and Mary in Williams
burg.
More than three fourths OF
the buildings open to the public
during historic Garden Week in
Virginia are covered with it
Westover, home Of the Byrds Of
Virginia. Shirley and Berkeley
Plantations, Carter's Grove
Stratford Hall, Gunston Hall
Upper and Lower Bremo on the
James are all covered witt
slate.
The two Buckingham count,
markers on US Is at the South
ern and Northern boundaries are
made from the celebrated Buck
ingham slate.
The demand for Buckingham
slate has always been great, ane
with the unlimited deposits il
the area quarrying will continue
through the years as Bucking
ham county's major industry.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21

structure. It's floor space equals
to eight football fields. The main
entrance lob by is floored in
black slate.
Slate is also used for borders,
flooring. stairs. desk tops, table
tops, telephone shelves, benches,
and ashtrays. Huge ashtrays
weighing about 500 pounds were
made out of slate. The recep-
tionist's desk in the main lobby
is massive ten foot block, with
slate even used in the sides of
the desk as we'll.
How It All Started
1t is said about 200 years
ago two Englishmen notices the
out cropping of slate rock
along the beds of Hunts Creek
and Slate River, in the northern
part of the county.
Thus was born an industry
that literally has torn the face of
the earth to pieces in and around
Arvonia.
The community was settled by
English and Welsh, the Welsh
being by far the most predomi-
nate, from the slate producing
areas of those two countries.
The slate has been shipped to
almost every foreign country
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21

previewed a new era in church
architecture.
Quarrirg began here on a
commercial basis in 1880. Now
with expansions into new fields
about Is of the $50 employees
manufacture new slate products.
Approximately 1000 tons Of
finished products are sent out
each month to all parts of the
United States.
The most popular thickness
for the new products is an inch.
But widths vary from six inches
% four feet and length sarnge
from two to eight feet. They
come in four finishes natural
cleft, sand rubbed. honed and
polished.
Output On The Up
With up to 1900 tons of slate
used for this venture each year
the output Is increasing with
each succeeding year.
New veins are prospected that
the supply may more than ex-
coed the demand. The depth of
the quarries is about $50 feet.
In the quarry holes benches
are cut into the side walls to
depth of about 100 feet by
black-powder blasting, until the
sides look like great steps lead
ing to the bottom.
The huge chunks Of slate
blown from the walls by the
blast are futher broken in the
holes by laborers called "black
pullers' and pieces Of foot or
more thickness are lifted by
steam winches to the block yard
on the rim of the quarry.
A $1,000 automatic diamond
saw, which has only been on the
market several years, is used
in cutting the slate up in IL foot
long. eight inch thick slabs. It
is operated by push button con-
troll.
Use Of Waste Slate
Some of the waste slate is be-
ing utilized by the Southern
Lightweight Aggregate Corpora
ton near Arvonia which grinds
the slate into material suitable
for constructing lightweight
building blocks.
Dignity, texture and color in
Buckingham slate resulted in
tremendous quantity Of the slate
being used for the interior finish
of the IBM Research Center in
New York. largest in the world
for the study of com put e r
science. Some 5000 square feet
OF slate was used throughout the
1901 foot-long crescent shaped
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21

families. Mr.. and Mrs. w. B.
Price and Mr.. and Mrs. M. B.
Price. of Hampton. Mrs. Price
returned home Friday and left
Monday for a week at Eagle
Eyre, the Virginia Baptist AS
sembly near Lynchburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Rose and
family and Mrs. j. j. Rozelle
visited Mrs. Henry Rousch in
Cumberland last night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Nuckols
spent the week end with Mr.. and
Mrs. c. c. Dowdy. They are
spending the week at Eagle
Eyre.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Sprouse,
Jr.. and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
W. NJ. Sprouse and family, Mr..
and Mrs. r. G. Sprouse and
family, Mrs. R. E. Newton and
D. Apperson enjoyed a fishing
trip Sunday to Sunken Meadow
near Petersburg. It is reported
they caught a lot of fish, did a lot
Of water-skiing and got sun
burned, but Ill had Z tine Tina.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21

swimming team and his wife
Nancy Reams, gave a diving
exhibition. He on the one meter
diving board and she on the
three meter board.
The program was completed
by a show of fireworks. Larry
Fox, chief lifeguard, was an
nouncer of the. program. His as
sistant lifeguards are Lindsay
Dorrier and Mike Eyre.
The pool is open daily from
II am. to 9 pm. Swimming
lessons will be given from 10
a m. to II am.
The rool located on Route 20.
two and one-half miles from
SEQ. tsville on a IL and one
half acre piece of land donated
Nv Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas E.
Bruce from their farrn which
fronts on the highway. The set
ting is along side a large grove
Of trees which may be used for
picnic area.
The pavilion and dressing
rooms have not been completed.
The Wading pool for small child
rem is next to the big pool.
Memberships are still open and
members until the limit is reach
ed. For the present, member
ship is 100 dollars and annual
dues $35.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21

president and the Arvonia.
Buckingham Slate Company Of
which T. Aubrey Yancey of Ar
vonia is president.
Buckingham slate has won
many awards at national and
international exposition over
the years.
Recently the Buckingham
Virginia Slate Corporation won
an honorable mention award for
the best product dis play ex-
hibit at the annual architecture
conference on church architect
ure held in Pittsburgh. Pa.
New Uses
The exhibit was based on the
theme "Todav's Church For To-
morrow's Needs" The exhibit
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21
New Uses Found For Product
Permanent Buckingham, Slate Finds ITS
Place In Construction 4 Lasting One

perfectly suited to either formal
or informal architec yure.
In addition to such things as
roofing, flooring. flagstone ter
races and walks the new pro-
ducts being manufactured by
the Buckingham Virginia Slate
Products company are, fire
place facing. hearths, treads,
risers. wall spandrels. window
sills. lecturns. wall and floor tile,
and slate table tops in various
sizes.
Joint Venture
The company was organized
as a joint venture about six
years ago by the LeSueur Rich
mond Slate Corporation of which
M. F. LeSueur. of Arvonia. is
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21
500 attend Dedication
Of Pool In Sc0ffsuiILe

SCOTTSVILLE. july 2a-The
open house and dedication of the
Scottsville Recreation, In G.,
swimming pool, Saturday was
attended by over 500 people.
SUPPER was served to approx
nately $50. The dedication ser
nee was presided over by John
1eld, president of the organiza-
ton.
The Rev. John P. Elliott, Jr.,
pastor Of the Scottsyille Baptist
church, gave the invocation and
he Rev. Garry Shelton, pastor
of the SCOTS VILE Metho-
list Church. also had part on
he program.
For the water show. swim
ming matches and diving was
ore scented by local boys and
girls. and adults which included
the one who could and did get
creased watermelon out Of
he water.
The water ballet was present
I'd by Sandy Piel, Buttons Lang
horne, Jenifer EWcldt, Pam De
Groat. Peggy Johnson and San
dra Jarman, who also gave a
diving exhibition.
Swim suits worn BY the mem
bers of the water ballet were
acquired through the courtesy
of The Style Shop in Charlottes-
vile.
Billy Reams. one time star
on the University of Virginia
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21
BY GENEvIEVE AGEE

ARVONIA. July 20 - Bucking
ham slate the famous roofing
slate. quarried here has proven
its permanent nature by con-
tlnuouS use on roofs for over
$50 years without appreciable
signs of fading or decaying. The
color of the slate can be match
ed at any time.
The slate, a beautiful restful
blue-black sometimes called OK
ford grey, color is now being
used for many other objects of
ageless beauty inside and out
side Of the home.
1t comes in smooth or rustic
texture as desired, making it
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21
New Store Revival
Speaker Is Rev,
Cary Adams

BUCKINGHAM. July 20 : The
Rev. Cary Adams, pastor of
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
and Browns Chapel. will be the
guest preacher for revival serv-
ices at New Store Presbyterian
Church Sunday. July 1928.
Services will be held each eve
ming at 8.
The public is cordially invited.