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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-19
John Temple Groves
Bondage To Freedom : Back Again

'"Theocracy Government of a
state by the immediate direction
Of God; hence, government by
priests or ministers as repre-
sentatives of God" Webster
VANDERBILT's VICE-CHAN-
CELLOR John H. Stambaugh
has been discussing interestingly
Historian C h amin G Pollock's
idea that democracies last about
200 years = which would mean
ours has about 16 to go. De-
mocracies, he says. ARE con-
ceived and developed by simple,
vigorous, idealistic, Woodworking
people who learn to live without
labor, depend more and more on
the largess of big government
and end by trading domestic ty-
rants for foreign tyrants." Or,
putting it another way. imam
progresses from bondage to
spiritual faith from spiritual
faith to courage, from courage to
freedom, from freedom to abun-
dance; and, then comes the warn
ing, from abundance to selfish
ness, from selfishness to- apathy,
from apathy to dependency, and
from dependency RICH: back into
bondage again . :"
The Vice Chancellor has
American democracy in mind,
of course. African democracy"
progresses only from bondage to
chaos to bondage again, senti-
mentalists Notwithstanding.
Would the Vice. Chancellor ven
ture to picture us when our 200
year term ends in 1876 as given
to dictatorship of the three
Remedies and their two broth
ers-in-laW with Congress, the
High Court and the sovereign
states operated by executive or
ders!
AFTER THE OLLAPSE
would come some sort of dictat-
orship, certainly, and cycle of
different forms of government
until men grew characterize and
tasteful enough for self-govern-
ment again.
An Italian whose name l forget
wrote book whose title l forget
with this idea of a cycle in forms
OF government. but he had the
collapse of democracy followed
by some sort of theocracy, then
a monarchy, then a dictatorship,
then a democracy again. If we
should have a theocratic or re-
llgious government after 1876,
where would the Remedies fit
into that? The switch of five
million Catholics to vote Demo
cratic for John Kennedy elected
him, many say, and now one of
the hottest issues of his admins
tration is his battle with the
bishops against federal aid to pa
rochlal schools. a battle winning
millions of Protestants to him
this time If he can hold the
ProtestantS and regain the Catho-
lies in course of the next 16
years, he II be sufficiently a re-
ligious hero to run the country
with executive orders from the
Lord which would be rea-
sonable likeness of a theocracy.
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL of
Churches would have a set-up
all ready for theocracy with flats
on everything and a little head
quarters group to take over the
state in the name of the church.
But how would they accommo-
date to the Catholics? Perhaps.
with church and state the same,
that would be easy.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-19
What Kind of Town

What kind Of town would my town be
If folks in it we're all like me2
Think Of yourself and how you live,
Then, to YOURSELF the answer give.
Do you have love within your heart
And for your town do your full part,
Are you friendly each time you meet
Fellow Townsnnen townsren on the street,
Do you, to neighbors, always do
As you would have them do to you2
Do you wish good for all you know
And never envy feel or show9
If you say ''Yes" and answer true,
Then l. my friends, here say to you
That town Of yours, it seems to me,
A darn good town is sure to be-
BY this mean it good will be
If you speak with verocty
And if your ives" is really true
And all its folks ore just like you.
WHITAKER
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-19

conference over Laos, the Communist
directed forces took over half the little
country, and will use it as a jump off
place to attack South Nietnam. We can
talk ourselves off the map. What we
need IS more straight talk backed by a
big stick
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-19

more, but they know we'll the strategy
which is being used.
1t would take many years to force
lntegration county by county. SO, the
Justice Department threatens to close
every Virginia school unless Prince Ed
ward opens public schools on an inte-
grated basis = which is the only way
public schools can be operated. This
move is designed to pit every county and
city IN Virginia against Prince Edward
and bring state and national pressures.
Well. it Just don't work that way in
Virginia.
Prince Edward is the only county in
the nation which has refused to lew
taxes for an integrated school system.
Prince Edward is the only county now
under NAACP attack Attack other Vir
Ginla counties and Prince Edward will
not have to stand alone.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-19

The accident toll in this country is
big enough to warrant serious attention
and SO. If YOU want to have your own
life, be careful
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-19

Bible Material: l Kings 4::29-34;
Proverbs $50; 22:29; 24:30-
"a; Ecclesiastes 1922; II Thes-
salonians 3:6-13.
Devotional Reading: II Thesso-
lOnianS 3:6-13.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-19
JFK To Meet Mr.. X

WHEN President John F. Kennedy
meets Premier Nikita khrushchev
in summit meeting it will be X to K
Rumors are that they will meet prob
ably in Vienna in June. The trouble is
that they cannot get together on the
ground rules for the conference. Mr..
Kennedy wants to have an informal con-
ference of four days duration with no
stated agenda and no commitments. Mr.
khrushchev wants to hold an unlimited
formal conference with stated agenda.
1t seems to us that enough talking has
been done already. United States of
ficials get nowhere talking with the
Communists. While we arranged peace
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-19

Getting rich-quick has broken more
people than any other system devolved
by the ingenuity of man.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-19

reading of the straight news, unslanted
and as objective as the news can be
given.
The American people must demand
straight news reporting in news re-
ports even if we do have other types
OF programs on current events, such as
lnterpretative programs or editorials
over the air, etc. The concept of our Re-
public is that the people should be given
the facts, the truth, and that they should
make up their minds on the issues.
Unless the people are given the news
straight uninterrupted so to speak.
they will not be able to make up their
minds impartially and take all fac
tors into consideration If they get their
news selected and interpreted for them
without the straight news first -
they are not really getting the news of
the day.
The best television news programs
are those which give the news and no
Interpretation. Televisiop, to begin with,
is failure in the news field because
there IS not the time to give ADEQUATE
news Only through the reading of news
papers can one really adequately follow
the news
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-19
Only County In The Nation

pRlNCE Edward County continues to
be billed as the only county Tin the
whole stretch of the nation that has no
public schools
The news media which continue to
harp on this. fail to say that Prince
Edward County is the only county in
the nation which is under attack by the
NAACP.
If the NAACP will attack MANY
another county in Virginia, we believe
more Virginia counties would withhold
local tax levies for integrated public
school. 1t is obvious that the NAACP
will not foment court forced Indignation
in places where opposition is formid-
able. Under present strategy all pres
sures can be concentrated on Prince Ed
ward.
The people of this county have en-
Gured some criticism, and will endure
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-19
Citizen Eisenhower

FORMER President Dwight D. Eisen-
hover has arrived in Gettysburg,
pennsylvania, after several months Of
golfing and rest in warmer climates, to
begin his life at home, on his farm with
Mrs. Eisenhower
A warm reception was accorded the
former President and World War II
hero when he arrived and Mr. Eisen-
hover said he looked forward to settl-
ing down to normal living and getting
to know his neighbors better.
The former President gave no hint
that his services might be employed by
the government at any time in the near
future. President Kennedy has said he
hoped to be able to use the talents Of
Mr.. Eisenhower in some capacity - if
the former President were willing and
able to serve. Yet neither Kennedy nor
Eisenhower have said much on this sub
Ject in recent days.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Eisenhower has said
little critical of the present Democratic
Administration. Publicly, he has remain
ed as silent as has the Vice President
under him for eight years, Richard
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-05-19
TV Out Of Its Field

THE Columbia, $50 Record stirred
something of hornets nest in lam
basting the David Brinkley- Chef Hunt
ley show. 1t is billed as news program
and after these two announcers won
prize for their reporting" the show has
become increasingly popular
1t is a legitimate practice for report
er-announcerS to give background with
news stories. But unless a so-calIed news
program is billed as, and admitted to
be an interpretative or editorial pre-
sentation, it should be as objective as is
humanity possible.
In our newspapers We have fair de-
gree of objectivity. We know we will
find news in the news columns. We know
we will find opinion in the editorial
columns. We do not have to agree with
the editorials; and when we read them
we know that they are opinion. That's
why they are run in the same place each
issue nm in the editorial columns.
News programs have no such obvious
distinctions. One news program, social
ed, might be slanted and opinionated
presentation, which should honestly be
labeled news Interpretation or editor
ializatlon. Another might be a genuine
Evening star., 1961-07-25

2 speeds. in each
direction, use as q
powerful 2-woy
window fon or 2
way circulation
cooler m owes
$500 cubic feet Of
air per minute.
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-10
Moody Says His Office Has No Power to Halt Prepaid Shipments

JUNEAU Mi = State Atty. Gen. Ralph Moody said today his of flee has no power, under present law, to halt prepaid shipments of liquor into dry areas of the state.
 Moody made the statement in commenting on a Fairbanks News Miner editorial which accused him of ignoring an opinion of Superior Court Judge Hubert Gil- bert that such shipments are il- legal.
 Moody said it was the states position that COD. shipments of liquor into dry areas were illegal, but not prepaid shipments.
 sThe law says only that liquor may not be sold in dry areas, it does not say that liquor cannot be shipped into such areas"
 Moody released the text of a letter he wrote to Gov. William A. Egan Tuesday, which the att torney general said covered the entire state position on the sub- iect.
 Atty. Gen. Moody's letter to the Governor concludes with: "The courts of this state have concurrent duty to describe wha' 1 the law is when a suit brings th' question before it, though they d not have the power to make rule l of legislative force such as dele
 gated to the Alcoholic Beverag
 Control Board. Although a cou
 has the power to decide only tn case actually before it, it is com mon practice of judges in theil opinions to comment on aspect! of the law not necessary to tht decision of the case before them Such remarks are known by law yers as sdictu1n.' They are valu. able indication to the lawyer o1 what he might expect in future situations of the kind covered by the dictum and are always treat ed with consideration. However, such remarks are the personal opinion of the judge and do not constitute law ;"
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-10
Two Anchorage
 Men are Prospects For GOvernOrship

ANCHORAGE M - Anchorage attorneys John Rader and Wen dell Kay, named by a Juneau broadcaster as candidates for governor against incumbent Wm. Egan, today said they weren't candidates-not yet.
 Radar said he has been ap- preached by many people who said they would support him if he entered the race.
 ssBut it's much too early yet for anyone to declare candidacy" he said. Keep in mind that the election is year away and the Democratic primary is still 10 months away. The final issues are not yet decided. I'd have to know all of the issues and who else might be running before I would decide"
 Kay declared that has was mot a candidate"
 ''I told the reporter from Ju- neau that was not candidate, :" he said T told him three or four times, but he kept trying to pin me down. I know I'm being men toned as a candidate and am flattered that I am even being considered, but that is as far as i, goes at this time."
 Kay said that the nearest he came to saying he was candi date was when he said he wouls run if the Democratic party asked him to.
 TT answered him correctly whel said I would run if chosen b, the party he said, adding tha "it would be silly to think tha1 any good Democrat would not dc that much if asked by his fellow men"
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-10
Revenue Collections $1.5 Million Over Last Year

JUNEAU W = Gov. Wm. Egan said today gross revenue collec- dons by the state during the four month period ending Oct. 31 were t10, ,Oo3, ,489 o2.
 The take represents an incretase of approximately 41.5 million from gross revenue collections during the same period last year.
 Egan said collections this year were conformin9 rather closely by the adnniniGtration to the lb62 Legislatlire.
 Net income ta1Eee accounted for $sz2,757 of the increase over Inst yeox, totalinG $4,4o3y yA41 d1rins ne four-mon1h period endino Int pet. n.
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-10
Rep. Bruce Alger Says LIS. Has Ample Stockpile Of Nuclear Weapons

DALLAS N = The United States has 35,O00 to 10000 nu- clear weapons in its stockpile, equivalent to 35 billion tons of TINT, Rep. Bruce Alger R-Tex.), said today.
 He told the Petroleum Engi- neers Club he could disclose the facts without jeonardizing se- cllrity.
 The equivalent of Is billion tons of TINT in this stockpile is avail able for immediate retaliation. This amounts to about 4,000 times all the conventional explosives fired in World War II, he said.
 To transport these, the US. has 5000 missiles and airplanes car rying one or more weapons of kiloton or megaton yields.
 About '1.5 per cent of these 5000 vehicles would need to sur- vive and penetrate Soviet defenses to inflict the damage suffered by Russia in World War II, he said
 About per cent would be need ed to cause serni-total destruc- tion of all sources of Soviet mili- tary and industrial power.
 'sCnce Khrushchev is convinced we will use our ability to strike back against the Soviet homeland the danger of war will be greatly lessened," he said.
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-10
News-Miner Says Moody Diversions Authority In Liquor Shipment Case

FAIRBANKS R = The Fair bank Daily News Miner ques- toned editorially today the right of Attorney General Ralph Moody to ignore or reject decisions of the State Superior Court.
 The editorial was referring to decision of the attorney generals office to delay or halt prosecu- tion of store owners who have been carrying on 1mail order liquor sales in the Second Judf- cial Division.
 Judge Hubert Gilbert of Nome in memorandum opinion last month said that liquor shipments to northern villages by mail order or COD. were forbidden by his interpretation of an Alaska stat ute.
 The liquor shipments were stop ped for time, but then word was received from Juneau by Nome District Attorney Robert Erwin and state police to halt prosecution of liquor store vits- lators until the Alcoholic Bever- age Control Board could hold hearings in the matter.
 The News-Miner in it's editor ial questioned the authority of the attorney general as a mem Der of the executive branch of the state government. 1 The editorial said in part: ssIt looks to us as if Attorney l General Ralph Moody is over l stepping his authority in telling
 his representatives in the Second
 Judicial Division to ssidestep thu issue in spite of Judge Gilbert
 interpretation of the existing law
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-10
Japan Records Highest Level of Radioactivity

TOKYO M - Japan's Central Meteorological Agency announced yesterday it has recorded the highest level of radioactivity in dust fallout caused by Soviet nu- clear blasts since Sept. 1. But said there was no immediate dam ger to human life.
 The agency said weathermen in Osaka, the industrial center in southwestern Japan, Wednesday recorded 28O mircromicrocuries of radioactivity per one cubic meter of dust samplings from the air.
 The previous high detected in dust was TIT micromicrocuries per one cubic meaer, the agency said, recorded on March 19, 1958.
 On Sunday the agency report ed detecting 1920 micromicro- curies of radioactivity per cubic centianeter per minute from rain samplings in Ealuolka. This re- portedly wns the highest recorded from rain Since the Soviet Union resumed nuclear testing.
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-10
Portuguese Plane H;jacked
 At Gunpoint

LISBON, Portugal R3 - Five men and girl hijacked a Portu- guese airliner at gunpoint today and droppe d anti-government leaflets on Lisbon in the name of Henrique Galvao, the hijacker of the liner Santa Maria.
 We are now at war" with the regime of Premier Antonio De Oliveira Salazar, the pamphlets said. After dropping them, the hijacked plane flew to Tangier, where Galvao was waiting to congratulate the highjackers.
 Two police cars took them to Tangier police headquarters and the pilot of the plane followed in another car to make an official statement.
 The six hijackers. informed sources said, boarded the plane in Casablanca, as tourists head- ing for vacations in Portugal.
 The flight was staged only two days before Sundays parliament ary election an election in which III exposition candidates have withdrawn, clharHing that Salazar had made [ Tree election irnpoe- sible. Salaxss government party, the National Union, replied that the expedition was Comnnunist-
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-10
$50 Fallout Shelter
 WithStandS Costly Fire

LOS ANGELES M = The Bel Air fire was a costly test for a $3O fallout shelter but it's builder, one of the worlds cnperts on nu- clear survival, is more sold than ever on it.
 Dr. Willard Libby, winner of the 1860 Nobel Prize for his dis covsry of the carbon-14 Atomic Cluck", has little else left at his home-or pile or rubble at 1016 N. Chantilly Rd.
 No street in Hiroshima could have looked worse than Chantilly' Rd. The UCL4A scientists's sand bag shelter-minus it's burned-up railroad tie beams did much bet ter than the house---or the rest of the neighboThood.
 q have more faith than ever in the shelter" Dr. Libby told this newsman yesterday. ''This shelter was designed against fallout-a radioactive powder--not fire. Had there been nuclear blast, have no doubt that it would have more than done it's job."
 He said that he will rebuild it with different supporting beams The fire, which came right over the shelter, burned up the rail- road ties but left the sandbags mostly intact.
 'tI'm thinking now about some new kind of beazns. Steel would be good but might make it too expensive. I'll come up with something" he said.
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-10
32 Russian Fishing
 Trawlers Sighted 21 Miles Off Cape Cod

CHATHAM, Mass. M A fleet of 32 Russian trawlers, with two mother ships, has been reported on fishing bank only 21 miles off Cape Cod.
 Five Chatham fishermen report ed the Russian fleet when they reported in port Wednesday night after a day at sea.
 Capt. Richard Chase, skipper of one of the Cape boats, said there were so many Russian ships on one shcAl "tssssy s!ssy were crowding us off the bank"
 He reported his day's catch lighter than usual.
 The Russian fleet of trawlers has been sen for many months off the Cape, hut this is the closest they have been to the mainland.
 The bank where the Chatham men reported seeing the Russians is less tss.s..>::s s.s..>::s 61 miles from Hyan- his Port, where President Ken- nedy spent many summer week ends at his summer White House this year.
 Chase said . Russian called ''good mi n6S5szsi1; z1: : 1;ss from one trawler, but the conversation want pur- a.zed.
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-10
Atlas Missile Veers And Is Destroyed Monkey Dies

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. R- A tiny squirrel monkey named Goliath gave his life to science today when he died in the blaz- ing explosion of an Atlas mis- sile high above Cape Canaveral
 Officials reported there was no chance the 113-pound animal sur- vived the holocaust which occur red 30 seconds after the Atlas lifted off on an intended 5000 mile flight to the South Atlantic Ocean
 The Air Force said the range safety officer destroyed the mis- sile when 1t becalne cratic.
 The blast spread a boiling ball of fire several thousand feet in the air and showered burning pieces of the shattered rocket back onto the Cape area and into the Atlantic just off shore.
 Goliath probably died at the instant of explosion. He was in well-padded capsule located near the base of the 12-foot-tall nose cone and just above one of the fuel tanks.
 There was no escape mechan- ism to pull the monkey capsule free in such an emergency. An escape device is provided on Project Mercury launchings.
 If all had gone right today, the Aatlas would have hurled the nose cone $50 miles into space before it plummeted back for a para chute landing near Ascension island. Two planes and one ship were to have attempted recovery of the cone and its passenger.
 Goliath, who had trained about six months for this mission, is not the first animal to perish in rocket flights aimed at finding means of keeping man alive in space. There have been 28 other recorded animal deaths.
 The latest were two Russian dogs, named Little Bee and Lit- tie Fly, and an alndisclosed num- Der of mice that burned Up in the atmosphere last December when their orbiting space capsule failed to return to earth properly.
 One other squirrel monkey, died in a US. rocket flight in December l958. Radio instruments showed Condo apparently survived the 600-mile-high sub-orbital mis- sion, but searchers were unable to find his nose cone.
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-10
55 to SO Megatons

WA ASHINGTON M The Atomic Energy Commission now estimates that the big Soviet bomb exploded in the atmosphere Oct. 30 was in the 55 to 50 mega ton range.
 The commissions preliminary estimates placed the bomb in the range of about 50 megatons. A megaton is the equivalent in an energy release sn the explosion of a million tons of TINT.
 The new estimate was given yesterday in response to an in quiry and was based on analysis of available data.
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-10

JUNEAU N = Gov. Wm. Eean Thursday proclaimed Nov. II ax Veterans Day" in the State of AIas1ca.
Evening star., 1961-11-19
LMwe~k's

shop early, shop I@Ee MOndSV aU stores
WsshinsNOn, 7th Sh end { SEs NW. $50 A.M 80 PM.
LsasIey Posk No. end ShsIinsson 10 A.M. 70 $50 PM.
Evening star., 1961-11-19

A true picture Of space travel based
on present scientific knowledge and pre-
dictable calculation has been formulated
by r. p. Haviland, top specialist in outer
space subjects for General Electric's Mis-
sile and Space Vehicle Department. His re-
port spells out in detail how three men will
be able to survive for several days in
cramped quarters under weightless cOndi-
tions. The problem and its solutions have
great application to the urgent man-to-the-
moon project.
When space travel becomes a reality, an
astronaut will have to combine the abilities
Oftest pilot, celestial navigator, electronics
technician and moving man. Why moving
man? Because he will have to move himself
and all equipment into empty fuel tanks to
get the living space necessary for survival
on prolonged flight. Later, everything will
have to be re-packed into the nose cone for
reentry into the earth's atmosphere. By
nose-cone standards, the fuel tanks will be