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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-08-11

mond and Middlesex.
Miss Jane Lynch, of Middle
Town, Pa. is visiting her grand
mother. Mrs. R. L. Gillispie.
She is spending several days this
week with her cousins, Beth and
George Goodwin. Of Scottsville.
Harold Coleman continues i'll
at his home.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. B. Moring. of
Richmond, were Mrs. Carey
Payne's week end visitors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wendell and
Jones and sons, Of Huntington
w. Va, have been visiting Mr..
and Mrs. H. L. Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Words week
end guests were Mr.. and Mrs.
Rodney Weird of Richmond.
Mrs. Grace Peters and Miss
Pauline Peters returned home
with Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wyatt
Friday After visiting with them
in Hammond, Ind, they will visit
Mrs. Peters sons and families.
Carl and Burt Peters, of Dyer
and Highland, Ind.
While here Mr.. and Mrs. Wyatt
visited his relatives in Rich
mond. Mr.. and Mrs. J. j. Lin
gerfelter also spent a week end
on the river near Richmond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Murril Dune
want entertained Mr.. and Mrs.
John Ranson's house guests with
a dinner Tuesday evening. In
cluded were Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Wyatt and Mrs. Wayne
Oran.
The Rev. P. A. Watson is a
patient at Virginia Baptist hos
pital in Lynchburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. E. Dunevant.
Jr., of Woodbridge. were Sun
day visitors of Mrs. Jennie
Dunevant.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-08-11

KNOXVILLE, Aug. Mrs. R.
S. Gillispie' s family met at her
home for a reunion Sunday, July
80. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert ellis
pie and children. Peggy, Caro-
Ign and Bobby, came from Beau
mont. Texas, Miss Ruby Gillis-
pie, Mr.. and Mrs. James E.
Gillispie, Jean, Bob and Den, of
Richmond: Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Lynch, Jane and Judy. Mrs. A.
T. Goodwin. of Pennsylvania,
Bill and George. of Scottsville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Carwile and
Susan, of Harrisonburg. Mrs. w.
j. Shepherd, Mrs. Cary Payne,
Miss, Parkie Dunevant were also
present.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Ransom
and Chef visited Mr.. and Mr.
Henry Arlington Sunday after
noon in Lynchburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ransom en-
tertained their house guests, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Wyatt and Mrs.
Wayne Oran. of Hammond, Ind.
Wednesday. July 26. with a pic
mic on the lawn of Mr.. and Mrs.
B. G. Ransom. Friends and rela-
tlves present were Mrs. Grace
Peters, Miss Pauline Peters. Mr..
and Mrs. Warren Dunevant and
sons. of Farmville, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Word. Deborah Smith, Mr..
and Mrs. Ben Word. Mrs. R. L.
Gillispie, Jane Lynch. Mr.. and
Mrs. F. N. Word and children.
Mrs. Harold Coleman and Har-
old, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Dunevant. Mr.. and Mrs. John
Hansen and sons, Chef, and
Tommie and Mr.. and Mrs. B. G.
Ransom.
A. E. Rush. teacher of Young
Adult class of Enon Sunday
School; accompanied members
OF the class to Eagle Eyrie Sun
day for a picnic.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-08-11
New kindergarten Set In Buckingham

BUCKINGHAM. Aug. Mrs.
Claude Anderson and Mrs. Ed
ward Saxon. two young moth
ers, and former school teachers
are busy these days making
plans for their Mother Goose
Kindergarten" which they will
open October 30.
The kindergarten will be held
at "Clearview." home of Mrs.
Saxon near Buckingham.
Already. they are getting ap-
pljcants from mothers who are
happy over the idea of the kin
dergarten. as the Reynolds kim
dergarten. will not reopen this
year.
They will open their session
October 30, with schedules be-
ginning Monday. Tuesday and
Wednesday for children, ages
four to five years old. Mrs. Saxon
will hold nursery school for
three and four years olds on
Thursdays grom 9 till 1870 am.
Some of the activities they
hope to include in their schedule
are tunlbling and stunts and out
door activities. dancing. nature
trips, gardening, creative art.
manners. cooking, dramatics,
muse and study of simple
phrases of Spanish and French.
They also plan to take the stu
dents on various field trips.
The two young mothers, who
are well qualified. said "Once
we had the idea, we were all
for it, after talking with a num-
Der of mothers who seemed very
enthusiastic over the kinder
garten.
Mrs. Anderson. native of
Waynesboro, taught physical ed
ucation last year in the Prince
Edward Academy and taught
three years in the Henrico
schools. She holds a B. S. de-
gree in physical education and
holds a collegiate professional
certificate from Westhampton
College in Richmond.
Her husband is an attorney
at Buckingham. where they have
resided the past year. They have
one child.
Mrs. Saxon. a native of Wey-
ers Cave. is a raduate of
Bridgewater College. She also
attended Westhampton College.
and has a B. S. degree in biol
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-08-11
Williamses Return
To Warwick Home

ANTIOCH, Aug. THE Misses
Bette and Debbie Williams re-
turned to their home at War
wick last Monday afternoon aft
er visiting their grandmother,
Mrs. Ruby Brown for a week.
Mrs. Cecil Brown and Mrs. R.
L. Blanton visited their mother.
Mrs. EdmOnia Ransone. and sis
ter. Mrs. Dale Davis, and family
near Columbia July 80.
Mr. and Mrs Clyde Foster had
as recent week end guests, Miss
Minnie Jones. of Carysbrook,
and Miss Virginia Snead of Mid
lothian.
Mrs. c.. M. Noel and Mrs.
Mamie N. Ingle and Peggy spent
last Wednesday in Lvnchburg as
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Wiley
Martin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Timberlake
and children were dinner guests
of Mrs. C. M. Noel and family
last Thursday.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-08-11
M0ores Sunday
School Picnic
Held At Lake

cHULA. Aug. THE Moores
Sunday School picnic was held
at Chester Lake. Saturday. July
%. From all reports a good
time was enjoyed by those pre-
sent.
Mrs. B. M. Hudgins was a
guests of her sister. Mrs. T. E.
Winfree, Of Mannboro, last week
and attended revival services at
her sisters church during the
week.
Bruce Beasley and his sister,
Ann, are spending several days
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-08-11
GiIlispie Reunion Held In EnonuilIe

Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Omeara
Linda. Kathy, and Billy, of Roa-
noke, spent several DAYS recently
with Mr.. and Mrs. John Word
They went to Richmond for the
week end and visited Mr. and
Mrs. Preston Smith. Mrs. Katha-
rine Omeara, of Richmond, re-
turned with them to Roanoke
Sunday for a visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Price, Jr.,
and Jimmie and Sue spent Sum-
day. July 30. at Chickahominy
Haven near Williamsburg. Mr..
and Mrs. w. B. Pride joined
them there for day of boating
and skiing.
Miss Parkie Dunevant is
spending several weeks at her
home.
Mrs. Grace Garrett, of Ashe-
vile, N. c., recently visited her
daughter. Mrs. Joe Love, Jr.,
and Mr.. Love also. Miss Bar
bara Jean ArroWood of Asheville,
Mrs. Loves niece. visited her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Wood
son and Grover Lee, accom-
paied by Mrs. Woodson's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. At
walter, spent the week end in
Washington with Mrs. M. D. Via,
she returned home with them
for week S visit.
Mrs. Emma Wrights' week end
visitors were Mr.. and Mrs. w.
W. Falls. Mrs. Frances Falls.
Mrs. Sadie Wade, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Wright and Kathy.
Miss Barbara Dunevant. of
Johnston Willis school of nurs-
ing, spent several days with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Dunevant. Mrs. Irving Berry
man, of Richmond, also visited
her parents the same week.
Mrs. Katherine Allen left
Sunday to visit relatives in Rich
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-08-11

Mountain, N. c., to visit his sis
ter, Mrs. j. w. Denny, Sr.. and
Mr.. Denny. They also visited
several other relatives and at
tended Sunday School where the
Dennys are members and saw
several friends, some of whom
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-08-11

Mr.. Dodson hadn't seen in sew
eral years.
MIR. and Mrs. Elmer Felts Wis
tied the Aubrey Dodsons, Sun
day night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earnest Beasley
and son and Mr.. George New
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-08-11

with their grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Beasley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phillip Barnard
and son, of Warsaw, were week
end visitors in this community.
Mr.. and Mrs. Muncie Dodson
celebrated their 36th wedding an
niversary with a trip to Pilot
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-08-11

comb and daughter and Algia
NeWcomb enjoyed a day at Vir-
ginia Beach last week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Beasley,
and Bruce and Ann Beasley Wis
tied Mrs. Florence Doyle, Mon
day.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-08-11
begin in October.

ogy and physical education and
also holds a collegiate profess
sional certificate. She is at pres
ent taking a correspondence
course in Child in the Home"
from Florida State University.
Mrs. Saxon taught three years
before coming to Buckingham
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-08-11

county. She has taught the sixth
grade at Dillwyn Elementary
School.
Her husband is with the Rosco
Feed Company here. They have
been residents Of Buckingham
county for eight years and have
four children.
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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-26
Amelia Horse Show
May Day Sale,
Draw Large Crowd

Editor, The Herald:
have heard nothing but words
Of praise for our recent Horse
Show, Parade and the special
edition Of the Herald, which you
got out for us. Your staff worked
diligently. and your paper GER
tainly put Amelia in the spotlight
for us.
Thank you so much for cooper
ating with the Bride Club and
businessmen, and Of course you
share in the praise which seems
to have no end.
We have never before seen so
many people in Amelia, and at
least one thousand of them at
tended the horse show.
AS for the horses, they came
! from everywhere. and the num-
Der of entries in the parade, and
the show exceeded our fondest
expectations.
This truly was Anelia's BIG
DAY.
Very Sincerely,
j. Gordon Dickerson
General Manager,
Amelia Horse Show and
Parade
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-26
L. D. WHITAKER

vile Herald.
!, too, was a recent patient in
Southslde Community Hospital
and DR.. Whitaker voiced my
sentiments exactly. Hospitals are
always under a barage of com
plants and criticism and l think
if people have a word of praise
1t should be heard by those to
whom it means the most-the
doctors, nurses and the entire
staff who make our stay a bit
more comfortable, bit more
pleasant. have never been a
patient in a hospital other than
Southside but l don't believe
their skill and service can be
surpassed anywhere.
To DR.. Whitaker's thank YOU
| would like to add my own and
! hope there will be many more
of them coming.
Most sincerely,
Violet Basnight Smith
Mrs. Burwell S. Smith
Dillwyn, Va.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-26
Letters ToE dito,
Stand For True
Freedom Principles

Editor of Herald:
To me it would seem pre-
SumptiouS to try to add any
thing to the splendid editorials
and letters that have appeared
in The Herald since the costly
decision of the Supreme Court
in May 1854.
So much has been said and
written on the word equality"
that it might be wise to go
back to the root word for it's
true meaning. Perhaps the can
nibal in Equatorial Africa was
created equal to the Eskimo in
his snow hut-each was given
his Just rights according to his
needs.
The situation in Prince Ed
ward is not mere question of
sociology (Which is still in sWad-
ding clothes but our very ex-
istence as a nation depends on
whether we preserve our Con
stitution.
The atrocities revealed by the
Hungarian Freedom fighters and
the more recent Eichmann trial
IN Jerusalem, have been COM
mltted over and over again and
buried in the dust Of centuries
wherever people have become
too weak to govern themselvs.
Our colored neighbors have
as much to lose as the rest of
us and many are aware of it..
The MaSon-Dixon line will be as
nothing to the great conquering
armies that will invade our
shores. 1t is a challenge to the
free world.
Let us hope that this tide will
turn and that we may regain
our precious heritage before it
is too late.
Bessie T. Jackson
DillWyn, Va
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-26

Swept with confused alarms of
struggle and flight,
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-26

white people who could have
made truly modern and COM
prehensive case for us to take
part. They feared foul play. But
think his editing and cutting
show no sense of the Southern
case.
HOWARD X. SMITH didn't
even try to be fair, it seems to
me. His sympathies wet so to-
tally with the invaders who were
taking advantage of a believed
whole federal government behind
them to come here and be abused
while national thousands wept
and cheered that he gave all his
attention to the fools who were
beating them, none to the an
guish of a Southern people mis-
represented and debased by the
fools.
We made a great mistake in
cooperating. For my part l am
deeply ashamed.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-26

A friend of ours who has just return
ed from a business trip to South Amer
lea pointed out that the people below
the border believe citizens of the United
States use the all embracive word,
"American'', too loosely. We generally
speak of being an American The South
Americans point out that they too are
much longer residence than those of us
i'll the United States. SO. when YOU visit
South American countries you may re-
member that they are also Americans
We rarely every say we are an Amer
lean. We say we are Virginian. Some
times that bores people too, but let 'em
be bored.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-26
Double Check

Why do l write this? and
why does the publisher publish
this? Only you can answer.
There is so much to read these
days and so much to listen
to. You don't have to read any
more are we all having our
brains washed like the shampoo
they advertise? Are we not able
to think . much less intelligent
but just having to think like
others want us to think or
not at all. Many of us are seeing
what we never saw before
and some time through smoked
glasses Who is right is more
than / know is it the ones in
control?
Our State Department is afraid
to comment any way it re-
fuses to comment so what's the
Diff. The Canadian Hook up is
much to US gain we loose
so fast and we gain so slow.
From South Korea comes a
howl Red China scores a hit
=. we see Red all over be-
fore we get the news it's all over.
So we may be a lot better off
than we think. The President is
going to talk to the Big K
that will be good. We are trying
out a new rocket it's made
down here in Richmond it's
so small and does a lot and don't
cost nothin' and it's disable again
in fact nobdy will ever know
we used it some boy made
it if we ever learn to use our
jouvinel boy we got it
made.
Thanks for reading
Yours,
j. Marvin Brown
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-26
My Greed

To be as helpful as can
And always be an honest man;
To take my share Of good or i'll
And keep my foith and honor still.
To do what's right and let that stand
The record Of my head and hand;
And when some failures come to me,
Still hope and work for victory
To have no hidden place wherein
Unseen, ! stoop to shame and sin;
To be the same when I'm alone
As when to all, my deeds are known.
To live uncowed and unofroid
OF some mistakes may have made;
To not, through lies, deceit and sham,
Hide from the world just what am.
To leave some verse or mark behind
To keep my having lived, in mind.
To, no unfoirness ever show
Should deal With friend or foe:
To toke what comes and never whine
# greater honors are not mine.
| feel thot this is all need
In words to give to you my creed.
n M/LITALCD
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-26

After spending a week end in near
by city, and observing the apathy
among the young and old business men
toward conditions in this nation and
worldwide, good friend of ours opined
that khrushchev need not fire shot to
take the United States. "All he needs is
a fifth Of bourbon and a golf club,
he said.
1t is our hope that this observation
is erroneous, but it certainly depicts the
attitude of many an American.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-26
John Temple Groves
In Defense of Birmingham
Written For May 22, 1861


Swept with confused alarms of
struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by
night :"
BIRMINGHAM MUST HAVE
sounded like that to the nation
Thursday night on the "CBS Re-
ports" program.
The Negro presentation far ex-
celled the white in conference,
feeling. representative nature and
best foot, forward-except that it
didn't represent the huge number
of responsible colored people who
know the South was advancing
tremendously in race relations
under its own steam before the
Supreme Court decision and who
are certain that this other type of
advancement under outside pres
sure does not accelerate but
stops real advance.
You had sense of great cause
championed by a devoted. pas
sionate and patient people, all
literate, all enlightened.
The white presentation, cover
ing mostly the first half, sounded
like a lot of nice people making
random observations, some Of
them the sentimental. paterna-
listic, outworn or purely inciden-
tai kind the country laughs at in
this modern day, others taking
an in-betWeen position despised
by both white and colored, and
none of them-as cut and edited
making the powerful case to
which the South is entitled, none
of them sounding 1.-The voice that
rang through Shiloh's woods and
Chickamauga's solitudes." The
dire and tragic plight of the
South with the most delicate and
difficult race problem with which
any people anywhere ever had
to deal was not even limited.
Whether my own case is typical
l don't know, but CHS had taken
40 minutes of film which under
stood would have to be cut to
about three, but ! was heart
broken to have the real points
tried to make overlooked and to
be left merely calling Harrison
Salisbury a liar.
THE HERO OF THE piece was
permitted to be Agitator Shut
ellsworth.
THERE WAS INEXCUSABLE
failure to make it clear that all
Of the statements, many pointing
truly to a comparative lack of
violence here rather than the al
legged reign of terror" were
made before the recent bus sta
ton clash. And that in those at
fairs both parties were mainly
outsiders, equally unknown to
Birmingham. Those of us who
have damned the Salisbury lie
about a Climate of fear" here
were made to seem liars our.
selves. even though during and
after the bus rioting there was no
Climate of fear" among the
ordinary people of this city
There was none then. there is
none now, there never has been
any = in spite Of the Negro girl
from parts unknown who was
permitted to utter with such
sinister implications the one SEN
tence Don't live here"
This column has pointed out
many times that the situation is
too complicated and subtle for
television to cover it fairly. ]
think David Lowe did try and
know he was handicapped by the
unWilllngnesS of some of our
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-26
Declaration of Convictions

that they be respected, then we proclaim
our resort to that first American tenet OF
liberty: ~ that men should not be taxed
against their will and without their con-
sent for purpose to which they are deep
ly and conscientiously opposed. We ask our
Board of Supervisors as our legislative re-
representatives. to proceed at the appropriate
time to enact and adopt whatever ordin-
ances and resolutions may be required to
prohibit the levying of any tax or the ap-
preparation of any funds for the operation
of racially mixed schools within Prince
Edward County to the end that all public
schools of the County may be closed upon
the entry of a court order requiring the
mixing of the races in any school of this
County.
We further call upon our School Board
to make known to the District Court the
determination of the people of Prince Ed
ward County here expressed. The issues
are too profound and the consequences to
our people too grave to leave any doubt of
the impossibility of our compliance or of
the resolute mind of our people. An order
to mix the races in our schools can only
result in the destruction of the opportunity
for a public education for all children of
this County.
Call To Virginia
We also call upon the Governor of Vir-
GINA and all officials of the Common
wealth in control thereof to pay state re-
70 Dr;p ri
purposes in accordance with the policy
adopted by the Board of Supervisors for
the payment of local funds for school
purposes, thus and thereby giving effect
to the "Interposition Resolution" of the
General Assembly of Virginia, adopted on
February |. 1856, fixing the policy of this
Commonwealth, Ito take all appropriate
measures. honorably, legally and consti-
tutionally available to us. to resist this il
legal encroachment upon our sovereign
power
1t is with the most profound regret that
The history of the people of Prince Ed
ward County demonstrates their love and
appreciation of the value of educational op-
portunity. We act with no animus toward
any man or body of men. We do not act
in oppression of the negro people of this
County. We propose, in every way that we
can, to preserve every proper constitu-
tional right of all the people of Prince Ed
ward County However, deeply convinced
as we are of the Wrongness and impru-
dence of intimate racial integration, we
cannot and will not place merely supposed
rights, newly created by judicial mandate,
above the conscience of our people and
above rights and powers, which for gen.
erations have been exercised honorably
and constitutionally by the people of our
county
1t is our earnest hope that other counties
and the Commonwealth of Virginia will re-
pudiate the spurious allurements of ex-
pediency and strategem in order that
Virginia may stand as she has always
stood. dedicated to the protection of the
rights of a free people against tyranny
from any quarter. If we fail in this solemn
obligation now our rights will be ex-
tinguished one by one.
Upon these convictions Prince E
ard County people stand firm toda
) they did May 3, 1856.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-26
Adds Another
"Thank You" To
Southside Hospital

Editor, Farmville Herald:
would like to thank DR..
Whitaker for his letter to the
editor in last Fridays FARM
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-11-17
CLAUDE n. BROWN
MILL CITY RESIDENT
SO YEARS DIES

Services for Claude H. Brown
II, Of 14O7 8. Third St., who died
Unexpectedly at his home on Sun
day afternoon, November IL, will
be held at IL am. Friday at the
Neal Funeral Home. Rev. Cleve-
land Smalls, pastor of st. James
AME church, Minneapolis, will Of
ficiate.
The deceased was born in Cape
Girardeau, Mo-, and had resided in
Minneapolis for the past so years,
He was a veteran of World War I.
He is survived by one sister,
Mrs. Cynthia Lambert of Cape
Girardeau and one nephew, Theo-
dore PETIT of Minneapolis.
Burial will be in Fl. Smelling
National cemetery with arrange
ments in charge Of the Neal Fun
eral Home.