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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-07
Area Businessmen Invited To Open
House At New Employment Office

An open house" is slated for
Friday afternoon at the rcnovat-
ed and enlarged quarters Of the
Farnvlllc office Of the Virginia
Employment Commission.
Plans for tho "opcn house"
were revealed today by Charles
Il. Martin, manager Of tho local
office which serves seven South
side Virginia rountle
The office remains III lts old
location, but llas been expanded
TO take i'll the area formerly &C
cupled by Carriers Flower Shop
at Ilo West Third street.
All employers in the area.
large or small operators, are in
vited to the to 5 pm. event.
In addition to showing off the
modern office, Tic occasion viii
be used to acquant employers
with services offered, according
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-07

The all-masonry brick and
stone motel will occupy a 400
foot frontage on the south side
of the highway. A guest swim
ming pool will be included in
the 200-foot depth of the travel
ers' service facility.
The developer. 81, born and
raised in Cumberland county in
the SWope's Store area, has sew
eral business enterprises in the
Norfolk area and presently
makes his home in Princess
Anne County.
BUSINESS Interests
His businesses include the
Wayside Shopping Center, Prin-
cess Anne Mobile Homes a
$50 house trailer park and
TldeWater Linen Supply Com
pany. He also has an interest
IN a motel and recreation facil-
ity on the Outer Banks region
of North Carolina.
Faris estimated the invest
ment here will approximate
$3.50 900. He said the motel may
possibly have a double deck, or
two floor, arrangement at the
rear portion. 1T certainly will
be five years ahead Of anything
being built now That's the
safe way to invest in such an
enterprise, Faris said. The
architects are considering rear
patlos for all rooms overlooking
the j. H. Wick lake now under
construction. he said. The diner
VIII also offer curb service.
Open Labor Day
Tho developer said the motel
VIII be named the Dar-Linda
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-07
Observation-Disclosures School Budget
Submitted To Supervisors April 4
Road Hearing
Tuesday Nets
II Requests

A dozen requests, including
five for new roads and seven
asking improvements to I'M
paved Secondary System routes,
were heard by Prince Edward
supervisors during the annual
public hearing on roads Tues
day.
About so petitioners were pres
ent for the one hour hearing in
the Circuit Courtroom Resident
Engineer John l.. Parker and
C. o. Jones. assistant resident
engineer, participated and made
map rotations Of locations and
work requested.
Summarizing the h + n g
Parker spoke optimistically of
the possibility Of meeting the IS
mile total in Improvement re-
quests within available funds.
The new road requests, as al
ways, will have to be whitfield
down to that modest amount
Highway Department regula-
tons allot to this work annually.
A 1961-62 highway budget for
the county will be prepared in
the near f Il ture with the re-
quests made Tuesday in mind
Dog Vaccination
Supervisors also were request
ed by Dr.. F. j. Clements, county
health director, to consider the
feasibility of county ordin-
nance requiring compulsory vac
cination Of dogs against rabies
Dr. c i e m 9 n t $ strongly en-
dorSed such vaccination, and
told the board that county doc
tors, acting through the Prince
Edward Medical Society, also
endorse such an ordinance. 1t
would require vaccination every
three years, and presentation of
proof OF vaccination upon OBJ
tanning annual dog license tags.
Sanatarian Leaves
The resignation of John w.
Grafton, county sanitarian. was
also presented to supervisors
through Dr., Clements. The
health director, said Grafton had
received "a very nice promo
ton to rowing assistant milk
consultant working from the
State Health Department office
at Richmond.
Harry L. McKissick, now en-
ployed by Princess Anne county.
has been secured as Grafton s
replacement as county sana-
tartan. Dr. Clements said. Nc
klsslck, formerly of Blackstone.
Will begin work here as soon as
he can BE- released in Princess
Anne. Grafton, of AppomattoX
Continued on page Y
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-07
TB Association.
Amelia 'Ori0le'
Win State Awards

The Southside tuberculosis As
ISOLATION has been cited for "meri
torious' performance in the 1860
Christmas Seal Sale campaign.
The nine county association.
wit h Farmville headquarters.
was one of 26 cited during the re-
cent annual meeting of the Viz
ginia tuberculosis Association at
Roanoke.
Dr.. Charles w. Scott. of Burke
vile, a director and chairman of
the Southside Association S case
finding committee. received the
citation certificate at convention
ceremonies.
Amelia High Schools news
paper, The Oriole." received an
award for excellence of articles
on tuberculosis and health ca
reerS. The "Oriolc" was one of
five high schools in Virginia so
cited during the convention.
The Amelia neWspaper was the
winner of the So,Ithslde Assocla
ton s annual school press prof
ect. a section devoted to fubercu-
losls and public health lntor1na
ton. the past wear.
Dr. Scott, last years winner Of
the Douglas Southall Freeman
award for outstanding service to
the cause of combating tubercu-
losiS in Virginia. presented the
award to the new winner. Mrs.
Woodrow M Sherman. Of New
part News immediate past rres.-
dent Of the state association.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-07

to Martin. Members Of the staff
VIII explain the positive side of
the local operation as we'll as the
administering Of unemployment
benefits.
Tho positive side includes Slm,
functions Is testing, colnSellnc
selection and refcrral Of workers
to Jobs for which they arc best
suited
Martin said II y the hope Of
the local office staff the open
house on April 7 will create a
better understanding Of tho part
the Employment Service is play
ing in the local economy, and an
aWarcnesS Of the need for closer
cooperation Of the business com
n2unlty and the Employment Scr
VICE Ill the challenging years
ahead"
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-07

PRESIDENT KENNEDY open
ed a series of talks with British
Prime Minister Macmillan in
washington Wednesday. Both
men flew into the nations CAPT
tai Tuesday, the President from
an Easter vacation with his
family III Palm Beach, Fla. and
Macmillan from Jamaica. 1t was
announced over the week end
that Mr.. Kennedy. accompanied
by his wife, will go to Paris May
81 for three-day conference
with French President dc Gaullc.
+ >
THE LAOTIAN CRISIS, certain
to be an important topic on
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS agenda.
gave signs of cooling off a bit
Wednesday. The Russians told
the British late last week they
are willing TO work for a cease
fire III Laos. but wanted IA
nation conference, including Red
China, to meet first. The y. S. in
slsts there should be cease
fire before diplomatic negota-
tons begin. and further British
Russian talks indicate the Soviets
may go along with the idea. How
ever. the Communists dropped
paratroopers into Laos Tuesday
indicating they may try to grab
as much territory as possible be
fore the cease-flre begins.
OTHER ISSUES facing the two
statesmen are the Cuban and
Congo situations. the continuing
East West Stalemate IN Geneva
over banning nuclear tests. the
possibility Of anoth her Berlin
Crisis this year - perhaps as a
way OF drawing attention from
Rcd failures in the Congo and
Laos and Rcd China and The
growing nlove.cen. to ad.r. It
to the UH.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-07
Piedmont Area
Watershed Unit
Founded Here
To Seek Speed-Up
OF Project & Fair
Share OF Funds
BY BEN BOWERS

Representatives from IL Vir-
ginia counties met in Farmvllle
last night to discuss reasons for
delay in watershed projects, and
what might be done to help over
come the various problems.
The group consisting of arm
ers and other interested parties
in the Piedmont area also
sought to lay out plans that
would help make the area more
ready for its fair share of seven
and a half million dollars in
federal funds recently appropri-
ated for Public Law 566 pro-
jects.
Public Law 566 is the one con-
cerned with flood control efforts
between the farm pond and
the large dams such as the John
H. Kerr project.
Guthrie Appointed
The outcome of the meeting
was the formation of a Pied
mont Area Watershed Associa-
ton. Forest Guthrie, of Dillwyn,
was named temporary chair
man.
Guthrie, a dairyman, appoint
ed a committee to formulate the
aims, purpose and functions of
the organization to be presented
for adoption at a later general
membership meeting. The com
mittee was also charged with
the responsibility Of nominating
candidates for permanent off
GERS for consideration at that
meeting.
Number one on the list of
problems aired at the session
was that of OBJ tanning ease
ments. 1t was cited as big
reason for delay in many of the
W a e + S h d developments al
ready approved for construction
William Vaughan, chairman of
the Scuthside Soil Conservation
District, from Charlotte county.
noted that if the landowner could
be made to realize the various
upstream benefits. the major
part Of the problem in obtaining
easements would be eliminated.
Seek Better Understanding
Through a program of educa-
ton the new group hopes to
create a better understanding of
the future potentialities of a
watershed This was cited as
another reason for founding
such a group which will have a
membership of persons directly
affected-t the landowners.
Among other reasons cited in
delay of watershed construction
were that sites require surveys
and survey teams are already
Continued Cd page 2
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-07
Supervisors
Approve Funds
For Two Schools
80 New Negro
Classrooms Seen
In Building Plan
BY GENEVIEVE AGEE

BUCKINGHAM, April 6 - The
Buckingham county board of sup
ervlsOrS at special meeting
Wednesday night voted unani-
mously to approve a literary loan
application in the amount of
S787, $50 for the construction of
two Negro elementary schools in
Buckingham county.
The two elementary schools
will replace 10 small schools,
scattered through the county. The
larger of the new schools will &C
commodate approximately $50
pupils. 1t will consist of "a class
rooms and will require $458. $50.
1t will be built on 80 acre site
adjoining Carter G.. Woodson
high school.
The smaller school with IA
classrooms will accommodate
some $50 pupils. and will be built
on a Is acre site near Gold Hill.
in the Marshall district, some 10
miles north of Dillwyn.
The school board purchased the
two sites several years ago.
The cost of the two schools is
some $4,000 less than the origi-
nal cost estimates submitted to
the board of supervisors earlier.
A Joint committee composed of
two supervisors. two school board
members and school superinten-
dent Irving S. Driscoll worked on
the project of reducing the costs.
The reductions were made pos
slble in the following ways: Il re-
duction in the number of class
rooms, - reduction in the size
of other phases of the building.
and 81 deletlng certain items of
construction from the specifica-
tons that may be done locally by
the regular school maintenance
force.
Superintendent Driscoll stated
that in his opinion the two schools
can be constructed for this
Continued on page z
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-07
APVA Branch Plans
1861 "reminiscences
Meeting April 9

What were Farmvillc and
Prince Edward county like in
1861, when the first shots of the
Civil War rang out?
The answer will provide the
program material for the meet
ing of the Farmville Branch, Viz
einia Association for the PreScr-
walton of Virginia Antiquities. on
the afternoon of April 9 at His
toric Prince Edward Hotel.
Richard w. Dupuy. branch
president, says that the after
noon events. beginning at 3 o.
clock, will consist of brief bust
ness session, the featured pro-
gram on conditions and appear
anccs i'll the 1865 and a tea and
social hour.
The hotels historic surrender
note room will be open for in
specilon. and war period ma
teflals on loan TO the hotel for
the five year Centennial from
local owners, and others sent
from Washington by Scott Hart
national Centennial Commission
historian, will be displayed. A
collection of battlefield war rel
les gathered by Farmville youths
Will also be displayed.
The branch president invites
present and former members
and friends who wish to asso-
clate Ii the branch 5 endea CTS
TO attend.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-07

CN TROOPS from Ireland flew
INTO Ellsabethville. the capital of
katanga province in the Congo,
wednesday and Immediately oc-
cupled the airport. Katanga S
police and troops offered no re-
slstance- On Tuesday President
Tshombe had threatened to seize
the airport by force but then
Continued on page y
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-07

for his two daughters, Darlene
age s, and Linda Lee, u. He
said he expects to move with
his family to Farmville in June,
to establish permanent resi-
dcncc.
Occupancy Of the motel is
hoped for By August Is. Ger
talnly no later than Labor Dav I"
Faris said
He is the son Of the late sgd
ney Faris, Of Cumberland. and
Confined on oaaa n
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-07
3. Armstrong Smith Named
Cumberland Principal
Is Ne,U Superintendent
BY ETHEL FRANCK

CUMBERLAND. April 6 = E
Armstrong Smith, Cumberland
High S hool principal. was
named superintendent of schools
for Cumberland County effective
July /. The four-year appoint
ment came at a meeting Of the
c u m b land school board
Wednesday, with the popular adj
mlnlstrator being the only ap-
plicant considered by the local
board. Smith is in New York
accompanying the seniors on
their annual trip. and he was not
available for comment.
The newly created post COM
pletes the split with Prince Ed
ward county, with whom Cum
berland has shared superin-
tendent since 1888. Prince Ed
ward Superintendent, T. j.
McIlWaine will retire this year.
which is one of the factors in
volved in dissolving the two
county school division that has
existed for % years.
Smith received his BIS. degree
in business administration and
economics from the College of
William and Mary in 1929, and
his MA. degree from the same
school in 1888. While at William
and Mary he was a member of
ODK, honorary leadership frater-
nitv. He has completed further
graduate work at the University
Of Virginia.
He was born in Cumberland
county, attending elementary
school at Stoddart and high
school at Farmville.
He was appointed principal of
John Randolph high school in
1880 and came to Cumberland
High with the consolidation of
county high schools in 1914, where
he has served ever since.
Smith is an enthusiastic sports
fan. In 1929, while in college. he
managed a basketball team
and was a member of the foot
ball squad. He coached base
ball, both and John Randolph
and Cumberland, for something
more than 20 years, and with
much success She never had a
losing season.
Other activities include men,
bership in the Virginia Educa-
ton Association; chairman of the
Retirement Committee for the
YEA for the past 2 years: mem
bership in the Farmville Rotary
Club. and the Cumberland Ruri-
Tan Club, where he has served
as president of both. He is pres
ident of the Cumberland Educa-
ton Association which recently
installed lights on the Cumber-
land athletic field. He has acted
as county chairman for Cum
berland, of the National Foun-
dalton for the past Is years. He
has acted as Legislative Chair
man of the Farmville District,
Parents and Teachers Associa-
ton for the past seven years.
His wife is the former Miss
Lucille Burke, of Greensboro. XIV.
They have one daughter. Miss
Lynn Smith, l6, a student at
Prince Edward Academy.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-07
NatiOnaINe1Us Summary
BY H. v. LANCASTER, JR.

hENNEDfMACMiLLAN MEET AMID WORLD TURMOIL
. LAOS CEASE FIRE HOPED = RIOTS IN co>co
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-04-07
Fiscal Outline
For 1Soo-Pupil
System Prepared

The Prince Edward county
school board fulfilled its statute
required obligation Tuesday by
submitting two 1852 school
budgets to the board of super
Visors. One is tailored to fit
system for all the county's $500
school age children, the other out
lining financing for the 1900
pupils the school board estimates
would attend a public system. ,
The all-encompassing budget
totals 1916. 700 and is that one
publicly announced following the
school board S session on March
ID.
The newly-devised 1,80O-pupil
budget allots $4,000 to total
school operation, and is complet-
ed by the item of $4,000 for debt
service payable by the county re-
CARELESS of what the school situ-
alton may be.
Cite Uncertainty
Citing the school boards I'M
certainty of whether the statutes
require budgeting on the assump-
ton that all children of school
age will attend, or on a will
probably attend basis, Superin-
tendent T. J. McIlWaine. with the
concurrence of his board and
counsel for the school board, in
formed supervisors:
1T is clear to anyone familiar
with the situation that if public
schools are operated, a very
large number of the children of
school age will not attend them.
1t is estimated the number would
be approximately 800.
Hence, the realities of the
situation would seem to call for
an estimate for the support of
public schools attended by sub
stantially that number" $1,000.
The superintendent letter,
submitted with the budgets, re-
quested tax levy or fund ap-
preparations to provide for the
education of all children of school
age in the county. following the
S846,0 900 budget, or the alterna-
tive flat-sum appropriation bud
get, which requires the same
amount.
No Action Taken
Supervisors, now in the process
of receiving budgets from county
departments for inclusion in the
one-fund general revenue budget
for l96l62. took no formal action
on the school fund requests.
The school board budgets were
placed in the hands of the sup
ervisor-county officer committee
preparing the general revenue
budget for the IL months COM
mencing July |, 1861.
The newest budget, prepared
for that 1900 portion of the
county's 1881 students which the
school board assumes would not
attend existing private facilities,
has this breakdown:
Administration, $l3,5OO: in
struction costs. $343 600: trans
portation. $35 600; ltmchrooms,
$4,000: operating school plant,
$40 900. m n lining school
plant, SIS 900, and fixed charges,
insurance, etc. $lO.450. This
budget also allots 100000 for the
county's obligated annual debt
service for previously constructed
school buildings.
On the income side, the 1900
CONTINUED on page u
Evening star., 1961-08-03
NO MONEY DOWN At SEARS

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Evening star., 1961-08-03
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Evening star., 1961-08-03

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Evening star., 1961-01-07
New Highway Chief

In picking Rex M. Whitton to be
the new Federal highway administrator,
PreSident-elect Kennedy apparently has
reached into the very front rank Of non
political professionals in the road
building business. During 40 years with
the Missouri Highway Department, Mr..
Whitton worked his way up from land
survey party to the top administrative
job, and in the process he has won most
OF the national achievement awards
available in the field. Last year he was
selected as one of the 10 most out
standing public works officials in the
country.
His Jump from State to Federal
control could hardly come at a more
diflcult time. Early next year, Congress
will embark on thorough overhaul of
the massive highway programs fiscal
structure. In addition, investigations of
abuses and scandal in the program are
expected to pick up steam. The con-
SenSus among highway men, both in and
out Of government, is that Mr. Whitton,
who is known as soft-spoken but
tough-minded administrator, has the
attributes needed to move in on both
problems. He gained more than a passing
knoMedge of the national picture aS
Evening star., 1961-01-07
Barry Fitzgerald

It was some 80 years ago that Barry
Fitzgerald made his first American and
Washington visits as member Of
Ireland's famed Abbey Players. Since
then, no one who ever saw him on stage
or screen has ever been able quite to
diSbelieve in leprechauns, those imp
ishly fey spirits who really may be the
moulderS Of the Irish personality.
AS an actor, and a great one, Mr..
Fitzgerald leaves his deepest and most
delightful memories in his portraits of
Fluther Good and Captain Jack Boyle
in "The Plough and the Stars" and
Juno and the Paycock," respectively.
Yet in other roles considerably less
classic than these, as for example the
old priest in "Going My Way" he
touched life with an immortal kind
Of laughter.
That he did so earns not only our
forgiveness but Softens our sorrow that
he has turned out at the age Of 70 tc
have been mortal. Quite like, the rest
Of us. one regrets to say. A
Evening star., 1961-01-07
ScoIping Mr.. Stewart

The Southeast citizens now seeking
the scalp Of Capitol Architect J. George
Stewart have ample reason to be riled
by the secrecy and vagueness of Capitol
Hill expansion programs. In singing
out the architect, however, they are
throwing hatchets at the wrong target.
Mr.. Stewart, one civic leader is
quoted as saying, appears to have "prac-
tically autonomous authority to seize
large areas to the east of the Capitol"
without holding public hearings or sub
mitting "his plans" to Congress for
approval.
Well, the truth is that the authority
Of Mr.. Stewart to do more than draw
pictures on paper begins and ends with
the word he gets from one or another
Of the various commissions Of congress
sional leaders which are set up to handle
the projects. A group Of powerful Sen
ators calls the shots on their side Of
the Hill. A joint commission, with no
member below the rank of minority
leader, dictated the crucial decisions
on the east front extension. In the cur
rent controversy-the condemnation Of
two residential blocks south Of the LII
brary Of Congress- commission head
ed by House Speaker Rayburn and
Representative Carl VinSon of Georgia
decided to acquire the land, and pre-
sumably they, not Mr.. Stewart, will de-
eide what to do with it.
Obviously, this is high-handed
business. Funds for these projects
usually are acted upon with little public
participation or understanding, for the
simple reason that this is the easiest
way, and because the congressional
leaders involved have the political
strength to exercise what they obviously
consider their right to control the Cap
itol and its environS. That is the situa-
ton, no matter who objects, and as
practical matter no one Is very likely
to change it.
One thing which would help, how
ever, and which Congress or its leaders
could do without really changing the
present procedures, is to grant some
public recognition to long-range plan
that would indicate Just where Congress
future requirements for space are likely
to be. Its provisions, except for the
immediate future, need not be specific.
But property owners Of the area-who
now have no idea where the ak might
fall next-at least would have formal
notice Of the present intentions Of
Congress, and their shock when specifia
projects are pushed ahead at leas.
would be lessened.