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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-30

from Linthicum, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles B. Nc
Cutchen. of Altavista. visited the
T. c. Joneses and Mrs. Ruby
Redd Saturday before last.
The McCutcheons and Mrs.
Jones spent Fathers Day in
Richmond with their parents. Mr..
and Mrs. W. E. Chappell.
Dupuy Redd and daughter,
Peggy, Of Pikesville. KY. spent
recent week end with his
mother, Mrs. Ruby Redd, and
his uncle, Clyde Ransom. Peggy
remained with her grandmother
for an extended visit.
Mrs. Tom HALEY spent the
week end with her daughter,
Mrs. James Layne. and her
family. From here Mrs. HALEY
will 60 to Rice to visit another
daughter, Mrs. Helen EchOls'
and her family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas w.
Jones, of Keysville. spent Sunday
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
T. c. Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Hines and
baby will spend the week end at
Virginia Beach.
Otis Nelson, Jr.. of Richmond,
and James Nelson, OF Cumber-
land, spent the week end with
their parents here.
o. H. Nelson, ST., spent Sum
day with his daughter, Mrs
James Donaldson. and her family
in Chase City.
Miss Patsy Nelson spent part
of last week with her brother
James. and his family in Cum,
berland.
Mrs. Mary Shanks. Of Farm
Vile. and j. W. Eggleston, OF
this community, were married
June 10 in Farmville. We vel
come the new Mrs. Eggleston to
cur community.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin COvingtOn
had as their week end guest.
cousin of Mrs. Covington.
Mrs. Maria Ferguson expects
to visit her daughter, Mrs. Billy
Hammock. and her family in
Arlington during her vacation
next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Yahrling
and family, from New Jersey
spent last week as the guests Of
George E. Jones. Mr.. Yahrling
is the nephew Of Mrs. Jones.
The rainy season has really hit
this community, but SO far there
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-30
PURSUED

The handwriting of Nathaniel
Hawthorne was so illegible that
some of his manuscripts remain
ed unpublished because nobody
could read them. This was like
wise true of Carlyle.
The story is told of a type COM
positor who was employed by a
London printing office because Of
a strong recommendation which
he brought from Scotland. The
first piece of manuscript given
him to set was by Carlyle.
Great Scott" said the new
type-setter. Have you that man
here, too? I fled from Scotland
to avoid him!"
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-30
Rev. r. G.. Watson
Is Guest Minister

The Rev. Richard G. Watson
formerly of Farmville and now
pastor of Seminole Presbyter-
ian Church at Tampa. Fla, &C.
cupied the pulpit of Farmville
Presbyterian Church last Sun
day.
Rev. Mr.. Watson is the son
of Mrs. Epsie Vale, of Prince
Edward county, and the late
Mr.. Watson. He has just &C
cepted the call to the Tampa
church.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-06-30

has been little electrical or hail
damage. Lightning struck a
house belonging to Philip Early.
colored, near here about 10 days
ago and knocked out some cleo
trical wiring. but no serious dam
age was done, and no occupants
OF the house suffered injury.
Evening star., 1961-12-10
Our Smoggy City

Against Washington's smoggy back
ground, the news that the automotive
industry will equip all 1863 cars with
fume-control devices stands out with
reassuring brightness. We have known
for some time that the Capitals air
Is polluted with dust, bus and truck
exhaust vaporS and other obnoxious
and possibly dangerous contaminants,
but 1t is jolting to learn that the United
States Public Health Service has listed
the Nations Capital fourth among the
most Smog-infeSted cities of America.
Therefore, any news of measures to
reduce the pollution is good news.
Acting under pressure from the
Department Of Health, Education and
Welfare, the Automobile Manufactures
Association has recommended that all
1868 model cars be equipped with So
called blow-by devices, which prevent
the escape of partially-burned hydro
carbon gases from engine crankcaSeS.
While the blowby gadget will not con-
troll fumes from exhaust pipes, auto
motive experts say that crankcase fumes
account for as much as 40 per cent
Of the engine gases befouling the air
OF our cities. No inexpensive way has
yet been found to cope with exhaust
fumes However, a relatively simple and
cheap accessory will return to the
combustion chamber gases which blow
by" the pistons and normally are re-
leased to the air through a vent pipe.
The accessory already is standard equip
ment in California and will become
standard equipment everywhere under
the induStry's plan.
The fume abatement program is
Of special Importance in view of the
opinions of some health authorities
that all pollution may be factor, along
with cigarette smoke, in the incidence
Of lung cancer. Secretary Ribicoff and
officials of the Public Health Service
are to be commended, therefore, in con-
tinuing their efforts to make breathing
safer for all-eSpecially for those who
live in cities.
Evening star., 1961-12-10
No Smokestock Skyline

A bright economic future for North
ern Virginia Is foreSeen by a regional
without happily, an array
of industrial smokestacks on the skyline.
The rosy picture is presented in the
long awaited report of the Northern
Virginia Regional Planning and Eco
nomic Development Commission. Resi-
dents of the affected counties and cities
will welcome the assurance that a
thriving commercial economy can be
achieved in this largely residential area
without an influx of heavy industry.
The commission found that indus
trial development Of the lighter sort
already is proceeding with unexpected
speed and it predicted a Six-fold in
crease in commercial activity during the
next 40 years. A substantial amount of
this growth, 1t was stated, will be
spawned by the Capital Beltway, curving
through Fairfax County from the new
Cabin John bridge to the new Jones
Point bridge at Alexandria. The Dulles
International Airport and related high
way construction also were seen as
Stimulants to commercial operations in
adjacent spaces, especially Fairfax and
Loudoun Counties.
Regarding heavy industries, the
commission branded as undesirable"
the "smokestack type" of operations.
The report stressed that such activities
are not essential to healthful economic
growth of the Metropolitan Area and
pointed out that the application Of
proper planning measures, performance
controls though zoning and similar
procedures" can control effectively the
future development of the region. In
cluded in the survey were Arlington,
Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William
Counties and the cities Of Alexandria
and Falls Church.
The report should be helpful to
these jurisdictions in planning controls
that will guide the growth of Northern
Virginia along orderly, prosperous and
attractive lines in the challenging era
just ahead.
Evening star., 1961-12-10
The SinqIe Women

In your series. THE Single
Woman" the author seems
to feel that men are tryan-
nizing woman. She says "the
male is vexed by what he
calls invasion. What he
stubbornly refuses to admit
is a wondrous new dis
covery. by the women. that
women are equipped to play
a lot Of parts in life"
How does Miss Rosenteur
feel about women being
drafted to serve as line SOL
diers in the military services?
Women are equipped to play
that role too; many countries
have women serving in the
ranks as line soldiers. II Miss
Rosenteur is in favor of
equal privileges for women,
then surely she must be in
favor OF equal responsibility.
Or does she want privilege
without responsibility?
Surely, 1t is automatic that
people who refuse RESPONSE
bility deserve no privilege.
Isn't that true?
Merle McLane,
Evening star., 1961-12-10

slider. but a promise, as we'll,
Of closer association in pol
icymaking. a sphere of en-
deavor the twice defeated
presidential candidate finds
Of compelling interest to
himself.
The notion that Mr.. Ste
venson is indispensable in his
present post is. Of course,
pure fiction. Within a mat
ter Of months, leadership of
our delegation to the United
Nations has passed through
three pairs of hands those
of Lodge. Wadsworth and
Stevenson. That matters
have proceeded none the
less smoothly Is attributable
to the many gifted and
knowledgeable people on the
staff-the unsung individuals
who painstakingly do the de-
tail work which is the foun-
dation on which American
policy ultimately rests.
Thomas G. MOrgansen,
Jackson Heights. N. Y.
Evening star., 1961-12-10
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1861
Let's Test!

The latest authoritative speculation
from the Pentagon is that the Soviet
Union, in the course of its recent extra
ordinary and ominous series Of nuclear
tests, may we'll have achieved develop
mental breakthrough of massive mill
tary significance. AS first reported In
The Star, the breakthrough could mean
that we are now behind the Russians in
terms Of the efficiency and potency of
atomic c-hydrogen warheads, and Nikita
khrushchev'S newest remarks on the
subject certainly tend to support that
view.
This Is possibility, II not prob
ability, that ought to be taken most
seriously. Now that the men of the
Kremlin have wrecked the testing NOR
atorium Ia trap that our country
foolishly walked into three years ago)
and now that they have almost con-
temptuously indicated that they will
never accept an adequately policed ban
on such experimentation, it seems to us
that the time has come for the United
States to stop dealing with this deadly
issue in self abnegating fashion.
President Kennedy should not hesitate
to order experimental detonations Of
any and every type-under the ground,
beneath the sea, in outer space or in the
earth's mosphere-deemed necessary
for the security and survival of America.
Certainly it would be an act of
utmost folly, full of potentially mortal
consequences, if our country failed to do
what needs to be done to cope with the
threat implicit in the 50-plus detonations
Zone of them exceeding so million tons
Of exploding TNT) set off in recent
weeks by the Soviet Union. Not to over
state the case, the threat is a gigantic
one, and only enormously silly wishful
thinkers - apart from the Kremlin's
own agents in our midst t-can argue
otherwise
Evening star., 1961-12-10

two-week period, The punishment was
invoked on grounds that Pvt. Miller's
letter writing was In violation of an old
regulation that all military writing for
publication must be cleared through
proper channels.
Mr.. Stair has pointed out, however,
that Pvt. Miller's literary effort did not
involve any classified information or
have any bearing on national security
and that, anyway the regulation was
not intended to inhibit ordinary soldier
complaints For good measure, he di-
rected that the regulation be rewritten
to prevent future misunderstanding and
misapplication. Perhaps the next step
should be to keep Pvt. Miller busy in
whatever line he is especially qualified.
Evening star., 1961-12-10
Facts on UNICEF

I can not let Geraldine
Berryhill's attack on UNICEF
Dec. s. go unanswered, es-
pecially since most of the
statements contained in 1t
are untrue. For example, she
says. considerable of its
UNICEFs) funds are sent
to Communist nations. :"
I have seen and studied
many Of the annual UNICEF
reports. and have before me
now the compendium issued
in August, 1860. From 1851
through 1859 the only Com
munist countries benefiting
from UN1CEF-aided projects
were Poland and Yugoslavia.
and the total amount of
UNICEF's contribution to
both countries in that nine
year period was $4.526,500,
which is a little over go
of the total funds allocated
by the UNICEF Executive
Board in the same period.
For her to say that "A
1857 UNICEF report noted
that rs cents of each dollar
contributed by the United
States Government went to
Communist countries" is
completely unrealistic. since
the contributions of the 81
donor governments go into
a central fund and none is
allocated to q specific prof.
ect. 1t must be remembered,
also. that the United States
contribution ($12 million in
1960) is spent almost entirely
in the United States for
supplies and machinery, thus
providing both Jobs and prof.
its for Americans.
To say that these Com
munist) countries received
25 times more than they con-
tributed" leaves me COM
pletely dumfounded. The fact
is that. although each coun-
try receiving aid must agree
in a written contract to sup
ply an amount of goods and
services equivalent to the aid
received, in recent years the
receiving countries have ac-
tually contributed 2.5 times
as much as they have re-
ceived. I can only conclude
that the lady misread what
ever report it was.
On one point I agree
Fundamentally with Mrs.
Berryhill. I'VE must" in
deed, know for what pur-
pose our contributions are to
be used"
Margaret F. Stone.
Chairman, Citizens Com
mittee for UNICEF.
Evening star., 1961-12-10
Stevenson 'Shrewdr

In even considering run
ming for the Senate, A dlai
Stevenson once again has
demonstrated his shrewdness.
Contending against so proven
q vote-getter as Everett Dirk
sen would hardly be a picnic
and it is to be suspected that
the prompt intervention in
the matter was exactly what
our United Nations Delegate
anticipated would occur.
With the shift Of Chester
Bowles and others in the
State Department, Stevenson
doubtless sees a prime oppor-
tunity really to entrench
himself. BY the stratagem Of
showing interest in election
to political office, that am
bition now is in process Of
realization. Not only was
there the White House plea
that Mr.. Stevenson recon-
Evening star., 1961-12-10

for all marketable cotton.
They have gone into the
business with enthusi-
asm. :" A dispatch from
Charleston. S. c.. said
Planters on the seaboard
are daily applying the torch
to their crops. There is rep
resented to be one sheet of
flame and smoke all along
the coast. :" The South
had leaned heavily on cotton
as an ally. Dixie firebrands
had shouted that they would
trade cotton to England for
imports that would be
brought in duty-free. South
ern newspapers urged plant
ers to keep their cotton on
their plantations and cot
ton merchants, warehouse
owners and others dealing in
this vital staple were advised
to see that every puffball of
it stayed in the South. Eng
land and France would go
without cotton until they
recognized the Confederacy
and helped break the North
ern blockade! While Eng
land had a stockpile of cot
ton, 1t was not enough to
keep the wheels spinning for
long in the textile mills. Eng
land had been getting around
rs per cent of it's cotton
from the South Just prior to
the war. BY December. 1852,
nearly half a million mill
workers were out of work
and on relief in Britain's
Lancashire County. The
cotton famine" cost Britain
millions of dollars and re-
suited in considerable agita-
ton among the British for
support Of the South in the
Civil War. But while Brit
ain was losing money on
cotton, it was making money
selling and shipping other
things to the war-torn
United States. Also, most
of Britain's cotton spinners
hated slavery. and preferred
hardships to a more comfor-
table living on what they
considered the proceeds of
slavery - cotton. Britain's
mills were back in business
by the end Of the war, work.
ing with greatly increased
Evening star., 1961-12-10
Dilemma of Conscience

It Is with both embarrassment and
bitterness that Britain's House of Com
mons is nearing enactment of legislation
which would restrict immigration into
the United Kingdom from Common
wealth countries. In sense, both
emotions stem from troubled national
conscience that the gates to the mother
land should be even partly closed to
any members of its family. Exclusion,
on any grounds, is not in the British
tradition and the circumstances which
attend this particular proposal have
made its consideration a trying expert
ence for Commons members of all
parties.
In brief, the Conservative sponsored
measure would impose the requirements
Of special work skills or advance promise
OF employment as qualifications for
entry. The fact that these conditions
presumably will disqualify the majority
Of non-white applicants from the West
Indies, India, Pakistan and other Asian
and African members of the Common
wealth has prompted the charge that
basically it is an act of racial discrim-
ination. The government, while denying
the accusation, has attempted to counter
1t in part by leaving large amount
of administrative discretion to immi-
grafton officers. At the same time, It's
disclaimer Of racial prejudice has been
undercut somewhat by It's own ruling
that the controls would not apply to
citizens of the Republic of Ireland, from
which there is relatively large flow Of
white unskilled labor
Actually, the problem is a real one
even though the proposed solution may
not be the happieSt. immigration into
the U. K. has been running at a rate
of about 1000 per week, an influx which
Prime Minister Macmillan says "can
hardly continue uncontrolled . If
proper housing and social conditions
are to be maintained" For 1861, it is
estimated that about 10000 of these
arrivals will be from the West Indies
(moStly JamaicanS). There has been a
sharp increase also from India, Pakistan,
Hong Kong, Singapore and some Of the
newly independent African nations that
are associated with the Commonwealth,
leading to fears that the unemployed
and largely unskilled of these states are
about to become permanent residents,
and perhaps burdens on the mother
country.
With all this, Labor members of
Commons have been violent In their
denunciation Of the legislation but un-
successful in their efforts to vote 1t
down. Outside Of Commons, too, there
has been apprehension expressed about
the effect Of the controls on already
strained relations within the Common
wealth and even about the workability
Of the plan itself. The Economist, for
example, summed up lf-sympathetic,
half-critical discussion of the measure
as follows: "Once the government was
set on the course of this bill, it was
bound to make it either a thoroughly
reactionary measure or a ramshackle
monstrosity 1t has rightly chosen the
latter as the lesser Of two evils but
it Is likely to get little sympathy as 1t
spins around in circles trying to make
it operate"
Evening star., 1961-12-10
so Years AGO

convinced that the air
plane was here to stay, the
United States Government
opened a new aviation
school at Augusta, Ga, so
years ago to perfect the use
of the flying machine"
The Star of December 10,
said: strenuous expert
ments will be the order Of
the day. These will include
the tryout of many new ideas,
but the execution of some
of these will be exceedingly
dangerous. If successful,
however. they will vastly in
crease the value of the aero
plane to the Nation in case
OF war. Capt. Charles de
Forest Chandler will have
charge of the new school.
The experimental work will
include night flights. the use
of searchlights, the taking of
moving pictures from the air,
signal devices, both wireless
and visional, photography
and sketching. the painting
of an airship in such a man.
ner as to make it practically
invisible from the earth be-
low; long cross country
flights. dropping bombs,
carrying the United States
mail and the dropping of
mail bags on a given mark.
with, the idea of perfecting
the aefoplane as a messen-
ger of the Post Office De-
partment. y"
What were the bon mots
in fashionable circles here
so years ago? One, printed
in The Star of December 10, y
1911, was this: "'I hope our
dear old DR.. WI Ting-fang
is on the right side in these
Chinese troubles said a dip
lomat to his dinner partner.
DIR. WI used to tell me many
Illuminating anecdotes about
the Chinese character. I re-
member one about ingenuity.
A Chinese found his wife
lying dead in a killed
by a tiger. He went home,
procured some arsenic, and,
returning to the field, sprin-
killed. it over the corpse. The
next day the tigers dead
body lay beside the wom-
ans. The Chinese sold the
tigers skin to a mandarin,
and its body to a physician
to make fear-cure powders.
and with the proceeds he
was able to buy a younger
wife -"
Evening star., 1961-12-10

city. exclaimed, I'VE made
this gift to the city in order
to assure preservation Of this
very beautiful valley in its
natural state for the enjoy
ment Of the residents of the
District and visitors from all
parts of the Nation"
With unbelievable blindness
to the artistic, spiritual and
recreational values of this
priceless asset, it is being
urged that a four-lane high
way be built along the whole
length of the valley. Such
E. piece Of official vandalism
would put a crowded
thoroughfare through the en-
tire nave of the leafy temple
Leaving but a fringe, like
shattered windows and ruined
tranSepts. 1t is unthinkable
that such irreplaceable riches
should be used to funnel
multitudes of people in a
hurry into the heart of the
teeming city.
The proposition to take
this oasis of unspoiled ma
ture from the people to whom
1t was given in order that
it may be made into a mac
adam monstrosity is now be-
ing debated. Pressure for the
preservation of this verdant
valley has only postponed
the decision. This is the time
for those who feel deeply re-
garding the threatened mas
Sacre of the woodland to
throw the stubborn ounces
of their feeling into the scales.
This is the time for those who
resent this proposed bias
phemy to lift up their voices
in very effective way! When
this matter was aired before
in a "Spire," a United States
Senator was heard to say af-
ter that article appeared that
stacks Of protesting mail ar
rived to be read by those
who, at that time, were con-
sidering the matter. He added
approvingly that even the
feathered inhabitants Of the
Archbold Park had sent their
twittering thanks to those
who were for preserving this
sanctuary.
So may it be again at this
stage of the battle-for the
fight is still on! Let those in
whose hands the decision will
finally be, know without
doubt or peradventure, that
a great army here and across
the country are joining in
the spirit Of that verse in
the country school readers
of long ago
Woodmen spare that tree,
Touch not a single bough.
In youth it sheltered me
And III protect it notD!
AS early in our history
lanterns warning of danger
were flashed from a steeple
before Paul Revere started
on his famous ride so to-
day we light warning lamps
in Spires of the Spirit"
Evening star., 1961-12-10
UdoH 'Invodes West

Enough is enough! Wash
ington's own expert on foot
ball and statuary has invaded
the West. Secretary Udall in
terrupted the football draft
and his monument-moving
long enough to raise the ire
Of some Kansas cattle farm
ers. He is obviously expert
at the selection of Federal
park sites in addition to his
other specialties.
I wonder if it would not
be wise for the President to
keep this jack-of-all-trades
in his home ball park.
Kenneth M. Haggerty.