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MlDDLETowN PERSONALS

Mrs. Hugh Mckinney spent We'd
nesday night in Norfolk, Va. with
the Joe Medlins and Mrs. Inez
Cahoon. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Car
avian visited in Portsmouth with
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Caravan. Mrs.
Cahoon accompanied them.
Hoyt Whidbee of State College,
Raleigh, spent the week end with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Web
Whidbee.
Jack Harris spent the week end
with his family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Thomas Car
ter, Vann and Sallie Marie visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Carter and Mrs.
Sallie Spencer.
Jimmie Burrus visited his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Burrus.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burnell Gibbs and
family visited at Fairfield Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Young.
Miss Julia Cox was the Sunday
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Thad Selby.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Mckinney,
Inez Cahoon Wis teidinufiH
Mrs. Edward Caravan and Mrs.
Inez Cahoon visited in Plymouth
with Mr.. and Mrs. Shelton Nc
Kinney.
Mrs. Mae Swindell and Elizabeth
Edwards are visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Palmer Swindell and Wanda Wes-
ton.
Emmett Caravan and Mrs. Bob
by Sadler, Lorna and Greg visited
here Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Al Gibbs visited
at Belhaven with Mr.. and Mrs.
d. r. Lanier.
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LAKE LANDING PERSONALS

Max Fisher of East Carolina
College spent the week end at
home. Nathan Sears was his guest.
Walter Gray Creole of CASTOR
Technical Institute, Gastonia, spent
the week end with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Creole. Walter
Baum of East Carolina College,
Greenville, was his guest.
Nancy Baum of st. Mary's Jun
ior College, Raleigh, spent the
week end with Sandy Gibbs and
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. L.
Gibbs.
| Ira Jennette Of st. Mary's Jun
Tor College, Raleigh, spent the
week end with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. T. A. Jennette.
Mrs. Erna Mann has returned
to Washington, N. c., after visit
ing her sister, Mrs. J. D. Silver
thorne.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. R. Clarke, Sr.
went to Durham Monday.
Nathan Sears, Walter Baum and
Walter Gray Creole went to Wash
ington Saturday.
Kenneth Cook of Cherry Point
spent the week end with Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Pugh. He took his wife,
the former Miss Katie Pugh, home.
She had spent January with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Pugh,
while her husband was in school
at Myrtle Beach, s. c.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Fisher of
Newport News, Va. spent the week
end with their son, Max.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Jennette
went to Raleigh Sunday afternoon
to take their daughter, Ira, back
to st. Mary's Jr. College. They
also took to Raleigh Sandy Gibbs
and Mary Ann Marshall, to Peace
Jr. College and Nancy Baum to
st. Mary's Jr. College.
Aubrey Gibbs who graduated
last week frno CASTOR Technical
Institute, Gastonia, spent the
week end with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Charlie Gibbs.
Mrs. w. II. Cox went to Durham
Monday.
The M.Y.F. of Watson's Chapel
Church is sponsoring a prevail
entine turkey supper Saturday
night, Feb. IL at the Nebraska
Community Building beginning at
5 pm. to 9 pm. The public is
cordially invited.
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sLADEsvlLLE PERSONALS

Mrs. R. C. Midyette had the
misfortune to break her left wrist
Friday and was taken to Pungo
Hospital. She returned Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Spencer mot
ored to Elizabeth City Saturday
to take Mrs. S. S. Lanier who had
been visiting her sister, Mrs. Sam
Spencer.
Foy Midyette is a patient in a
Norfolk hospital. Mrs. Midyette re-
turned home Wednesday.
R. C. Midyette, Jr. of Goldsboro
spent the week end with his par
tents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Hodges Of
Tarboro were week end visitors OF
the Eugene Credles. Mr.. and Mrs,
Glover Carter visited them SUM-
lday.
Archie Caravan has returned to
the boat Carteret after few days
with his family.
Mrs. Willie O'Neal, Mr.. and Mrs.
Archie Caravan motored to Wash
ington Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arleigh Mobiles of
Belhaven were Sunday visitors
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. o. Howerin of
Norfolk visited relatives here this
week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Jennette of
Grifton were Wednesday visitors
of B. c. Jennette.
Mr.. and Mrs. Talmadge Cooper
of Pantego attended service at
Eunice Chapel where Rev. Thomas
Biggs of Holly Neck delivered the
sermon Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Spencer
were Saturday shoppers in Bel
haven.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. w. Sears and
Charles of Fairfield visited Mrs.
Ethel Gibbs Monday.
A small group of Methodist
women of Epworth Church met at
Mrs. Ray Spencer's Wednesday
night to organize a W.S.C.S. but
due to the weather only ground
work was laid. Present were Mes
danes Allen Creole, Gilbert Rich
ards, Aubrey Swindell, T. B. Gibbs,
Ray Spencer and Rev. and Mrs.
Robt. Bundy Of Swan Quarter.
The hostess served hot cocoa and
sweet meats.
Visitors from here to Belhaven
were Myron Garrish, Charlie Car
avian. Mrs. Fay Midyette, Mrs. r.
C. Midyette, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Creole who visited Gratz
Creole, who is now home from the
Belhaven hospital.
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WILKINSON GRADUATES
ON ECC HONOR LIST

James B. Roper, Belhaven, was
on the deans list for the fall quar-
ter at East Carolina College in
Greenville. The deans list, includ-
ing 191 students, is composed of
undergraduates who made at least
two and one-half quality points
per credit hour on all work taken.
The following Belhaven students
were among the 53S on the honor
roll: Washington E. Bateman, III,
Dolores F. Jordan (Mrs. Robert
Woodward, Lille Anne Midgette,
and Willie Keaton Stanley. To be
on the honor roll a student must
make at least two quality points
per credit hour on all work taken.
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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY J. 1851

Sabra Howard.
The regular monthly meeting Of
the WSCS Of the Methodist Church
met Wednesday.
The Assembly of God Church
has extended its revival services
another week due to the interest
shown. On Friday night, Rev. C. A.
Kelly of Columbia, S. C. showed
some interesting film of his evan
gelistic work in Puerto Rico.
Work has begun on the new road
which will replace the steel mating
on the Ocracoke side of the Halter
as Inlet ferry slip. The main work
crew is expected to arrive soon.
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OcRAcoKE PERSONALS

oCRACOKE February Q, Mrs
Powers Garrish suffered a broken
hand when she slipped on the ice
on her porch. She was treated at
the Cape Hatteras Health Clinic.
Mrs. Herman Spencer and Mrs.
Kenneth Tillett returned from Nor
folk Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Potter Garrish of
Portsmouth, N. H. announce the
Firth of a son, Michael James, on
January goth. Mr.. Garrish is the
son of Mrs. Ruby Garrish.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Willis visited
relatives in Portsmouth where Mrs
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Willis was hospitalized several
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Danny Garrish and
children returned Sunday from
Norfolk where they visited Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. F. 0verton.
Horace Gaskins was home for the
weekend. Also here during the week
was Samuel Jones, Sr. of Norfolk
John Gaskill is here for an indef-
mite stay from Delaware.
Charles Fuller, local Coast
Guardsman, finished his enlistment
and has returned to his home in
Thomaston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Wahab
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were in Frisco on SATURDAY.

were in Frisco on Saturday.
Mrs. Lillian Simpson is a patient
in Leigh Memorial Hospital, Nor
folk and viii undergo major sur
gerry. Her daughter and son-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. Elec Eley, are in Nor
folk staying with relatiyes.
James Garrish. Jr. who has been
stationed in Korea, returned home
last week.
Shirley O'Neal and Carole Mug
ford have returned from Philadel-
phia, Pa.
Mrs. Cynthia Robinson of Bux-
| ton recently visited her sister Mrs
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-23
Crossing Bridges

1T is surprising how time seems to take
care of most of life's problems, even
though some of them seem insoluble at
the moment.
Nevertheless, time is the greatest
healer of all, and even the most mel
ancholy turn of events can be softened,
and even erased, by the passage of time.
We mention this because life today
is great strain because of the fight for
the happy dollar, and the pace today
is one which has created tremendous
mental and psychological problems, as
we'll as nervous disorders, Illustrations
and establishment, in many cases.
1t is great consolation to realize that
time will solve about ninety per cent of
your worries and, if you can keep this
in mind, it will calm your emotions and
improve your philosophy Of life and
your dayto-day performance.
The psychiatrists say that the mind
is a wonderful instrument, which gradu-
ally blocks out unpleasant memories and
experiences and heals over wounds, in
a beautiful fashion, given adequate
time.
Therefore, we suggest that the wor-
riers and the fretters relax a bit and
outlive many of life's daily vexations
and irritations. A serene philosophy,
based on knowledge, faith, and other
encouraging thoughts, will do wonders
for you, your personality and your
health. Try it.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-23
That Guy Rubin!

THAT weatherman Louis Rubin in
Richmond doesn't worry with short
range predictions. He calls his shots
six months in advance. He predicted the
cool spell we are now enjoying.
Mr.. Rubins predictions are based on
his theory that cold weather is caused
by volcanic eruptions. He says that IS
per cent of his predictions have been
correct.
Carry his theory step further Mr..
Rubin, says that the sun is to blame for
bad weather, storm and even volcanic
eruptions.
He says that voanic eruptions are
caused by sunspots = violent eruptlons
on the surface of the sun.
For those who have failed to clip Mr..
Rubin's predictions for the next six
months, we are reprinting them here by
request. Looks like a cool July and
August.
He calls for cold snaps again on:
July 2, 9, Is, and 27;
August 7, Is, Is, and 27;
September 20 and "a;
October II and 16;
November and %;
December Is and Fl.
It should be remembered that he does
not predict precipitations as such are
due to conditions not foreseeable so far
ahead, but he has been uncanny in pre-
dieting cold spells.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-23
BY w. d. WORKMAN

Like the Supreme Court, the
Department of Justice should
stand above all as pillar of the
law. But it. too. is joining the
courts effort to undercut vital
principles of American jurispru-
dence.
The Supreme Court did its
most damaging work in 1854
when 1t virtually junked the doc
trine of stare decisis" in ar
irving at its school desegregation
decision. Now comes the Justice
Department with an onslaught
against the equally well-estab-
lished legal concept that civil
rights are individuals rights to be
asserted by the individuals con-
cerned.
Attorney General William P.
Rogers, armed with the authori-
ty of the 1860 Civil Rights Act
and motivated by the 1860 presi-
dental contest, is dispatching his
minions throughout the South in
rights are individual rights to be
fishing expeditions for voting law
violations. Registration records
in county after county are being
examined by agents of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation not
on complaints by aggrieved citi-
zenS. but on grounds of question
able data compiled and publ
cized by integrationist organiza-
tons.
Undoubtedly there have been
in the South, as elsewhere, in
stances of denial of the right to
register and to vote. Further
more, it should be acknowledged
that Negroes in some times and
places not all : have been
disseminated against in their eff
forts to participate in elections.
Such instances provide the basis
for proper legal action to correct
abuses and safeguard the right of
qualified persons to vote irrespec-
tive of race.
But at the same time, a great
deal of the lack of Negro voting
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-23
Letters TO Editor

there for their university train
ing, but Russians segregate
them to one university in Mos
COW where they only associate
with other foreign students.
One is therefore forced to con-
clude that the people of Prince
Edward County are only asking
for what is matter of course
in many Northern states and
communities and in foreign
countries Why can't they have
segregated schools if they want
them?
The reason. of course, is a
decision of the Supreme Court.
as presently constituted, that
segregated schools are illegal.
Previous courts have taken a
contrary view. 1t is possible that
future courts will too but there
seems no prospect of this in the
near future. In the meantime,
an unsatisfactory and uneco-
nomical system continues. What
should be done?
1t seems that the time has
come when we need a Racial
Rights amendment to clarity the
rights of the white race. A
proper Racial Rights Amend
ment should prevent. where de-
sired, mass Indignation and re-
sulting mass mongreliZation.
Who should sponsor such an
Amendment? Well, there are
l6 million white people in this
country and, in a secret ballot,
only a few would vote against
such an amendment. So. why
not set up a Committee of 100
million for the Racial Rights
Amendment?
Winston Dawson
Highland Park, Mich.
Editors Note: We have re-
ceived many letters from all
parts of the nation. Few of them
have had constructive thoughts.
This is one of the few.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-23
Racial Rights
Amendment

Editor of Herald:
The recent article in the Sat
urday Evening Post on the edu-
cational situation in Prince Ed
ward County brings several facts
TO national attention. First,
substantial political entity in the
South has definitely decided not
to have integrated c h 30 S,
token or otherwise Second, this
decision has resulted in lower
ing of the quality of educational
facilities available to both white
and Negro. Third. the facilities
Of the public school system are
being wasted.
Now the same decision has
been made by many people in
the North. They have sold their
homes in the cities where Neg
roes have migrated in large
numbers and moved into all
white suburbs. Here they can
have all-White public schools.
This runaway segregation is not
possible in the South because
farm land and residences are
not as amenable to segregation
as urban realty Then, too, there
is no mass Negro migration to
the South to provide a market
for abandoned homes.
The result is that large com
munities in the North can have
all white public schools while
Prince Edward County can't.
This does not seem fair. It
should also be noted that states
like Maine and Vermont with
negligible Negro populations can
have substantially all white pub
lie schools without conflict with
any Supreme Court decision.
Southern states cannot.
Going further afield countries
like Ireland. Italy and Russia
also have all white public
schools. These countries could
offer inducements to get Neg
roes to migrate there so their
students could enjoy the bene-
fits of Indignation. There seems
to be no mass demand in any of
them for such action. Russia
does encourage Negroes to come
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-23
Double Check

1t is almost always evident that
the United States faces some
crucial test. At no time in his
tory has this not been the case
unless it was in the past eight
years when things just slid along.
Today we are trying to make up
for lost time and so far the multi
plicity of compound situations
has astounded us. Within and
without demonstrations are con
fronting the President and it is
enough to break his back to
carry.
We don't have to have holidays
to have wrecks. The worst of the
year happened Sunday night.
Mob Rips Wisconsin Village. A
bowling mob Of young people,
youth organizing against the
peace and dignity of the Com
monwealth. something is wrong
somewhere along the line. We
evidently need more old time re-
ligion and discipline of the young
sterS of this day. Children. you
should realize that this World is
your World do not destroy it.
Quiet politics have become
noticeable. There is a primary
on July the 18th. 1t has to do with
selecting the Democrat who will
run against the Republican in the
general election and the Demo
crat you choose might just be-
come Governor. You voters bet
ter do little thinking on your
own. Don't let the machine, the
top controls do your thinking for
you. It's not always just right
what the other fellow says about
the other fellow. Special interests
are better sometimes than all the
interests under one control Il
look at the control.
Thanks for reading.
Yours,
J. Marvin Brown
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-23
W. D. Workman
Return To Legal Moorings

strength stems from vast in
difference to things political. Ne
gro students of the problem have
themselves admitted that.
Yet in the face of what often is
a monumental apathy, the At
torney Generals office seems de-
termined to develop data which
somehow can be made to make
the white Southerner liable for
Continued to page 2B)
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-23
School Construction

ALBERTIS S. Harrison, candidate for
governor, has proposed state lend
ing authority for construction of need
ed school buildings. His plan would
put to use the States credit and capital
from the Literary Fund, expanded so as
to meet demands for additional class
rooms. We are not conversant with high
finance but the plan has the approval of
bankers and investors who should know.
The suggestion seems logical and good
business to us.
Mr.. Harrison might go step further
and give the localities more RESPONSE
bility in designing and constructing
suitable classrooms. If the people who
have to pay for school facilities had
res pOnsible decision in construction of
school buildings, there would not be SO
many educational monuments but more
functional types of school buildings
through the use of newest designs and
modern materials. Until recent years
tight restrictions and requirements
were demanded by the State Board of
Education SO as to make school con-
struction costs almost prohibitive. Many
counties and cities are saddled today
with huge debt for palatial school
buildings.
Private enterprise might step into
the gap and furnish funds for local
school buildings and rent them to the
school authorities on a long term basis.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-23
Just Thoughts

Sometimes | like to muse alone
And in thought travel far,
From depths there are beneath the seq,
UP to the highest stor.
| think about this earth Of ours,
A ball thot spins in space;
And how, through evolution,
Man came upon its foce
! think Of how there came O time
When DER this old eorths sod,
The shadows broke and to man came
A strange vogue dream Of God
think how man, since thought began,
Has wondered how and why
The sun and moon and stars he saw,
Were placed up in the sky
As no one could explain to him
How oil things came to be-
Within his mind he then evolved
Some sort Of Deity
And then, it's claimed that Moses heard
While he, the mountain trod,
A voice within burning bush
That was the voice Of God
And this one God that Moses found
In oges far away,
Is still the one and only God
Some folks revere today
These are some thoughts that come to me,
And thinking them, see
How limited my knowledge is
About theology,
l. D. WHITAKER
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-23
USE RIGHT WORDS

There is a great difference be-
tween the right word and the
word that is almost right. For
instance, you can call woman
a kitten, but not a cat; mouse.
but not a rat. chicken, but not
a hen: a vision, but not a sight.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-23

Certainly if the buildings were con-
structed economically as we'll as func-
tionally some private capital would be
attracted to provide classroom facili-
ties. In this case economy of construc-
ton and operation would be in local
control. Local control of education GER
tainly increases local interest not only
in construction but in the education pro-
cesses.
For too long elementary and second
from the people. Interest dwindled be-
cause Of lack of responsibility by the
parents. Far spread criticism of schools
in recent years bears out this condition.
Successful education depends upon
the cooperation of the local school Of
ficials and the parents to provide ade-
quate facilities; the teachers and the
parents to provide efficient instruction.
No group can operate successfully
alone. A close cooperation brings the
best results. Therefore, education should
be kept as close to the people as posi-
BILE
And, we have the greatest respect
and appreciation for the unselfish, ser
vice Of the thousands of members of
local school boards. They perform a
difficult, tedious, exacting and often
thankless service to their community,
which could be lightened through CO.
operation of the patrons.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-23
Dictator Friend

QUITE howl is going up from the
Z self-styled liberals these days about
events in the Dominican Republic. The
republic, of course, has been a tightly
run dictatorship for decades.
Now that the dictator is dead of as
sassination, and son attempts to carry
on the family dynasty, outsiders every
where are offering solutions as to what
should be done by the United States, the
Organization of American States, etc,
etc
We Americans are great idealists. We
abhor a dictatorship like that Rafael
Truillo established and maintained in
his country. But he did not threaten the
peace of the Caribbean and he did not
threaten to spread his power all over
the hemisphere. And if the old regime
is forced out of power, what will re-
place it?
Are the people of the Dominican Re-
public stable enough and restrained
enough to meet the obligations and re-
sponsibilities of democracy? Are they
any different from so many of the
Latins in this part of the world, or the
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-23
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