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Evening star., 1961-07-20
STENO-TYPIST

Part time; hours can be arranged
to suit: 5-das week. Experienced
stenosrapher, gen. office duties;
perm. pos, in mod. air-cond. office
In Beltsvihe, Nd. Loc. 5 Minis
drive beyond college Park. Must
have own trans. Paid vac, free
disqualification and life insurance;
bonus and profit-sharing plan
Call MR.. SHAFTEL. OR. 4-7400
SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR, for
seeretarial board in apt. bldg. on
Conn. ave, Chevy Chase area.
Hours 1 PM. to 9 Pm, cne, hour
for dinner. 6-day week, Phone
Res. Mgr.. EN-. S-e432.
Evening star., 1961-07-20
BELP MEN
rECHNIcIAN TRAINEE

TECHNICIAN TRAINEE - career
oppty. In office machine service.
HIS. grad. 1921. Mech. aptitude
ABBEY PERSONNEL, 1888 Eye NV
TECHNICIAN: MASTER ANTENNA
Vs fon VA. stapt a ss SSte be9S er eSa norc
ABBEY PERSONNEL, 1888 Eye NV
TECH. WRITEHS-Exper. writing
about electronic equip. to $4,000
COLUMBIA EMPL., 1341 @ NV
Evening star., 1961-07-20
STENOGRAPHER

Ambitious intelligent, to ago
35. Association work. New
air-conditioned office, elec-
trio typewriter, paid group
hospitalization. 5 days.
Shorthand at least 100
w.p.m. Typing, rs w.p.m.
Start $50. Opportunity for
advancement in downtown
Washington. Call MISS
RETHWnL, fE. 7-1663.
Evening star., 1961-07-20

REAL ESTATE. EXPERIENCED.
seasoned real estate statesmen for
Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax and
Falls Church. AL BAKER & SON
will consider adding 2 more men
or women to their sales staff. Sal
ary and commission: Kindly give
full information Of background
experience and references. Write
to P. o. Box 613. Alexandria. Va.
REAL ESTATE sALESMAN-Col-
ored: one full time, license. exper.
preferred; will guarantee weekly
draw. Extremely active office;
plenty Of office-owned properties
and listingS. Open for one man or
woman. Call Mr.. Seymour.
MURRAY LEVINE IA. a-3144
REAL ESTATE statesmen : Will
train 3 new statesmen. II you
have q selling background OF five
years and you wish to enter the
most lucrative business in the
world contact DOROTHY K.
WINSTON ST. S-o5oo or HE
REAL ESTATE statesmen, full or
part time; no exper. necessary
free training program; get in on
the Bonanza. Mr.. Swicegood,
LANGLEY REALTY. 1904 Uniyer-
sity blvd, Langley PIX. HE. 10000
REAL ESTATE. full or part time:
exper. not necessary; free trainins
program.
RITE REALTY
Evening star., 1961-07-20
SERVICE STATION
ATTENDANTS

2 men over 80 to work night
shift in q company-operated
service station in Arl. Must
furnish good work history
and references. No wash
ing, tire repair or sreasing
required. Salary, paid vaca-
ton and other company BEN
efits offered. Apply In person.
1880 WILSON BLVD, ARL., VA.
Evening star., 1961-12-28

lion program for education and
training for the people of less
advanced countries. To him,
this is heady possibility re-
quiring effort of pioneer enthu-
SiaSm.
PriOrities Unchanged
when my ancestors went
from Kentucky to Missouri in
1889. they built a house. a
church, a schoolhouse and a
courthouse. That was their
order of priorities and it's the
same today. The thirst for
learning is intense all over the
world. We are hopefully aiming
not just for literacy. but for
pinnacles of excellence. These
people can't even chop out the
first step. We can help them
by developing their country and
extending their muscle power.
If I were in Russian foreign
aid. I certainly wouldn't be
looking forward to a happy
New Year. What can they do
against us? We have the organ
national genius. We understand
the land, the need for roads,
the Importance of the weather.
What can the Russians do in
Africa except stink it up? Look
what we can do. Look at the
huge standing armies in Russia
and China eating their heads
off.
What we have to do is con-
vince these people in the lands
that want to be free that, as
Santayana says. they cannot
expect to be saved by their
votes instead Of their efforts. "
Evening star., 1961-12-28

will be presented at the January
10 meeting Of the association at
the Chevy Chase Center, 5601
Connecticut avenue NV.
Judges for the contest were
Powell Lum, art director of the
Washington Star; Donald Hay,
a builder, and Max Barth. an
architect.
Evening star., 1961-12-28

effect" category went to Mr..
and Mrs. Edwin v. McKenney
Of 1905 Chestnut street NV.
The doorway display" prize
went to Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
G. Archer of 1929 Dogwood
street NV. The award for win
dow displays was won by Mr..
and Mrs. Harry E. Mercier of
3055 Beech street NV.
Prizes for the contest winners
Evening star., 1961-12-28
YuIe Decoration
Winners Listed

Three winners have been
named in the annual home
Christmas decoration contest
sponsored by the Hawthorne
Citizens Association.
First prize in the overall
Smyrna times., 1961-12-21
Short, Tall,
Plump, Thin,
Still Santa Claus

Santa Claus has undergone
quite a metamorphosis in his
time. Before DR.. Clement Moore,
Santa's appearance was a prob
lem left mostly to individual
discretion and personal taste.
He might be short or tall, plump
or thin, merry OF solemn.
The European St. Nicholas
was pictured as a tall, thin man
who rode a gray horse. In 1909,
Washington Irving described
Santa as a jolly fellow who
wore a wide-brimmed hat.
After DR.. Moore wrote Twas
the Night Before Christmas" in
1923, St. Nick acquired definite
external characteristics. Ever
after, children knew in a mom-
ent it must be st. Nick" by his
well-fed, merry appearance
twinkling eyes and a rosy face
and his sleigh and reindeers
for transportation.
The image of Santa was af-
firmed in 1869 when Thomas
Nast's cartoon was published,
picturing Santa in his now-fam-
iliar red garb, smoking a pipe,
Like all famous men, Santa to-
day finds it difficult to travel
anywhere incognito.
Smyrna times., 1961-12-21
Yule Riddle
Links Santa,
.Pawnshops

What is the connection be-
tween Santa Claus, the custom
of hanging up Christmas stock
ings, and a pawnbroker's sign
of three gold-colored balls?
! A Scrooge might say that the
answer to the Yuletide riddle
is that Santa Claus would need
help from a pawnbroker, to pay
| for filling all the stockings-but
Scrooge would be wrong.
! Both Christmas stockings and
pawnbrokers' signs are tradi-
tions that come from legends
about the first Santa Claus
St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra,
in Asia Minor-according to the
Encyclopedia Americana.
! This early Santa was known
! far and wide for his generosity.
And, so the story goes, he
wanted to help a merchant who
had lost all his money and had
no way to provide dowrieS for
/ the marriages of his three daugh-
terS.
Like Santa today, St. Nicho-
las wanted to be a generous
but secret giver. When the old
est daughter was old enough to
marry, he went at night to the
merchants house, with a bag
of gold.
Some legends say he threw
it through the window, and 9TH
ers that he threw it down the
chimney. At any rate, the old
est daughter had her dowry and
was able to marry.
ST. Nicholas repeated the pro-
cess for the second, and then
Smyrna times., 1961-12-21

the third, daughter. The third
time. the merchant watched to
see who brought the gold and
told the story of the good saints
generosity.
According to legend, one bag
of gold fell into a stocking hung
up by the chimney to dry, and
thus began the custom of hang
ing up stockings to be filled
with gifts.
Pictures of the saint show
him with the three bags of
gold.
Bankers in Northern Italy
took him as their patron and
used. the sign of three gold
balls. Because bankers lent
money, the sign later became
associated with pawnbrokers,
and today this custom still con-
tinues.
Smyrna times., 1961-12-21
Cards Express
Sentiments at
Holiday Season

Friendly, merry, reverent,
grateful-Christmas sentiments
find expression in greeting cards
at the holiday season.
Just when the sending of
greeting cards first began is a
question that may never be set
tied, especially since it is al
ways possible that early exam
pies of printed Christmas greet
ings are waiting to be found
among private books and pap
ers.
The Cole-Horsley card is con-
sidered by many to be the first
published Christmas card. II
was designed in Britain in l843
by John Calcott Horsley, a we'll
known artist of the period, fol
Sir Henry Cole, director of the
Victoria and Albert Museum.
The card bears the now-univers-
al greeting, "A Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year to You.
1t shows joyous family seated
at Christmas dinner.
A copy of the card, discover.
ed in England in recent years
by a representative of Hallmark
is now part of the Hallmark
Historic Collection, housed al
the greeting card company:
headquarters in Kansas City
/ Mo.
Louis Prang of Boston, ar
Smyrna times., 1961-12-21
Pinata Scramble
Latin Custom

In Mexico and other Latin
American countries, the break
ing of the pinata is a tradition
al Christmas custom. Earthen
Jars are filled with toys and
sweets, covered with colored
papier-mache figures and hung
in an open space.
Blindfolded children ia k e
turns at trying to break the
pinata with a stick. When it
is smashed, there's a merry
scramble for its contents.
Smyrna times., 1961-12-21

art-loving photographer, publish
ed the best known early Christ
mas greetings in the U. S. He
conducted art and literary COM
petitions for greeting card ma
terial, and published cards of
outstandingly high quality.
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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-05
County's School Brief Denies
Constitutional Obligation

Legal briefs filed with the Vir-
ginia Supreme Court last week
contend that there is. no conStitu-
tional obligation resting with the
Prince Edward board of sup
ervisors to appropriate funds for
public schools.
Separate written arguments
were filed with the court by
attorneys for the State and
Prince Edward county.
They were presented to the
Court as part of the litigation
begun by petition to the Court
for a ruling compelling supervi-
sors to finance public schooling
in the county. The petition was
initiated by the Rev. L. Francis
Griffin on behalf of his son.
Rev. Mr.. Griffin's counsel, S.
W. Tucker, of Emporia, has un-
til December "a to file an an
swering brief with the court.
Decision Due
The States Highest court has
scheduled arguments on the petit
ton for its January term. A deci-
pion is expected shortly there
after.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-05
Legislators Are
Briefed On LC
Development

The proposed six million dol
lar expansion program of Long
wood College was presented in
detail to freshmen members of
the General Assembly Friday.
The legislators were in Farm
vile to wind up a week-long
tour designed to faniliarize
them with state institutions.
DR.. Francis G. Landlord,
president Of Longwood, outlined
the institutions plan to increase
the enrolment to 1000 by 1870,
jump of 800 students. College
requests to the Capital Outlay
Commission of S6.079,267 were
compared with the recommen-
dations of $3.50, $50 by the com
mission for the next six years.
I'VE are filled to capacity this
year and since we have no
dormitory under construction,
we will not be able to increase
our enrolment in 1928" DR..
Landlord told the legislators.
The enrolment is LII, includ-
ing 424 new students.
DOrmitory Request
When the commission, a ~
man group appointed by the
governor to d e term inc who
should get what in the states
Continued on page s.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-05
Farmville's Spectacular
Christmas Parade FRIDAY
Jaycees TO Bring
Santa. To Town,
Talk And Parade

One of the largest parades
ever staged in Southside Vir-
GINA will take place in Farm
vile Friday, beginning at 6 pm.
Richard H. c. Taylor, presi-
lent Of the Virginia Junior
Chamber of Commerce. VIII be
grand marshal for the Farm
vile Jaycee sponsored event.
Participants in the parade al
ready total more than 700 per-
sons.
Features Of the event include
four bands and 5000 worth of
floats. Six Of the 13 floats en-
cred in the parade were rented
from Thalhimers and hauled
from Richmond by Jaycees for
rental to local merchants. Each
Of the professional floats, pow
cred by generators, have 46
lights on them.
The parade will move from
Osborne's store across the Cum
berland bridge along the entire
length of the Main street bust
ness section, past the shopping
center to Madison street.
Santa Claus will be the most
celebrated person in the parade.
and will be aboard the last
float in the parade. which al
ready has between 50 and 60
units.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-05
Classroom Saga
By JOHN STICK

Trying classroom teaching for
the first time in your life at 50,
and with a bunch of boys in a
shop crammed with tools and
machines at that, could be a
rough experience.
It's just another challenge,
and an exciting one at that. for
Loyal C. Benedict, new industrial
arts teacher at Prince Edward
Academy. He spent a working
lifetime meeting challenges, I'M
til he retired in 1857.
To a consulting engineer who
knows what it means to be
given 80 days to cut $780, 900
from the cost of a nlanufactur-
ing operation and to do
it devising a high school
shop course has been just a
modest-sized problem. The gray
ing. ramrod straight. six-foot
novice teacher has dealt with
them all in his life.
The Human Side
The human element was the
phase that took careful re-think-
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-05
3,7s9 Acres Diverted
3,78o Acres Diverted
5A County Wheat Growers Earn
100000 On Nop-Plant Agreements

Payments slightly in excess of
100000 win be earned by SIS
Prince Edward county farmers
to reduce wheat production
next year by a total of 1890
acres.
Those were the final tabula-
tons on Friday. Dec. !, the cut
off date for singning up for the
1862 wheat sterilization program.
The figures were provided by
Don c. Can't. manager of the
county Agricultural Sterilization
and Conservation Service office.
which administers the national
program locally.
40 Percent Now
Cooperating farmers have al
geady received SAC. 1856, or about
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-05

40 per cent Of their total pay
ment. The balance will be paid
after the ASCS checks on COM
pliance next spring.
Cooperators in the volunteer
program must agree to plant the
acreage to grass or legume COW
er. They also agreed not to
increase production Of other
grains to compensate for the
smaller acreage.
CAN'T said the $lO0, 900 plus
payment will exceed what the
farmers would have received for
sale of wheat from the idled
acres. 1t was the intent of the
program to make this so, the
ASCS manager said.
In addition to improving farm
income, the program aims at
stopping, or even reducing, the
national SURPRISES of wheat,
storage casts and interest pay
ments. There are somewhat sim
liar programs for barley and
corn. administered as the feed
grain reduction program.
Soil Builder
The grass and legume cover
on the idled land is considered
by the ASCS as a soil improving
plan. as against a depletion
operation required by the grow
ing Of crop.
The program began with a
mandatory 10 percent allotment
cut for all farms. After that
on.a voluntarily basis, growers
could put up TO 10 more acres
in the nonproduction program
Farmers may still plant a GER
tain allotted acreage for their
needs.
NoncooperatorS will not be
eligible for price supports on
their 1862 wheat
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-05
Lock Your Cars
BY BEN BOWERS

Are you missing a package?
You could be if you were in
town Saturday morning or at
least several people could be.
For Police Chief Otto S. Over
ton and Herald reporter found
tempting looking parcels stacked
away in a number Of cars on
Main street and in other park
ing lots. Most Of the cars were
locked, but there were some in
stances where dishonest people
could have made a Christmas
haul.
Notice: Saturday morning
shoppers, if you missed any
thing when you returned to your
car, the chief and l didn't take
it. But, We hope we may con-
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-05
The Next Time 1t May Be A Real Thief

tribute in small way toward
the safekeeping of your packages
because we had only one thing
i'll mind during our tour around
town That is. to make people
conscious of the fact that if they
don't lock their automobiles. they
arc easy prey for the thief. parti-
cularly during the busy Christ
mas season.
The tour revealed some things
almost as crazy as the People
Are Funny" show turns up at
times. One person had all doors
locked but one Another had all
doors locked. but also had the
window down. Still another had
the Car locked but the vent I'M
latched.
The trusting souls run from
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-05
Classroom Saga
ITS Handy Rule While
Starting Ne,U Work At 90

ing. but here again the prob
lens turned out to be the same
just a difference in ages
over against the plant foremen
of former days.
The new teacher boiled his
system down to these: get the
boys interested: keep them
working; challenge them to
progress. step by step. Whether
his boys are in the college
bound curriculum and taking a
one-year fling. or in the four
year shop curriculum headed
for a career in mechanics. he's
found no better training rule
than his ace from engineering
days:
He calls it his -four rs"
system think things through
thoroughly You can't put wood
back that's planed too deeply.
and mechanics had best learn
that early. A thought out blue
print has no tell-tale erasures
Of sloppy or hasty procedure,
either.
Another big classroom hurdle.
he found, was TO change the as
oldaS-man-himself complex:
can't. Here we cut off the
apostrophe t. and show them
that with time. work and pa
tience. what's left in that phrase
becomes true" the teacher
says.
Common Ground
Since being called out Of
Farmville retirement as a re-
placement for Robert Redd.
former shop teacher who be-
came assistant administrator in
the Prince Edward School Foun-
dalton system this year. Bene-
dict has found a great deal Of
Continued on page 81
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-05

the rich to the not-so rich. A
new Cadillac with the back seat
stuffed with packages was I'M
locked.
However. for the most part
Farmville shoppers seemed to
have taken previous warning
from the Police Department to
safeguard their parcels by lock-
ing their cars Not many unlock
ed vehicles with packages in
them could be found in town, but
there were enough to make a
thief mighty happy had he been
making the tour.
Play safe and lock up your
car loaded with PACKAGES SAYS
Chief Overton. He added, And
when YOU lock it, make sure you
lock. il all the way. not just one
door.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-05
Tobacco Market
Opening Week
Second Best Ever
S31,154 Pounds
Averaging $1,000
Bring S332,476

The greatest three-day pound
age, and only the second time
the general floor average has
exceeded $40 in modern times,
gave record proportions to open
ing week on the Farmville Tobac-
co Market which ended last
Thursday
The offerings totalled 831, 154
pounds. a figure exceeded only
three times in the past Is years
and then during four-day sales
weeks
The 1861 crop is the first
marketed in a three-day week,
the auctions this season atarting
last Tuesday after graders were
provided a day or study the
crop
The offerings consisted of
778,482 pou7ds of dark-fired to-
bacco bringing growers 1913, 761
for a $4,000 general average Sun
cured sales amounted to 50 ,672
pounds averaging S35 So.
$32,476 Earned
The combined total earnings
for the week gave growers $780,
476.
The dark-fired average was
down only So cents a hundred
weight over last years $4O.93
the highest opening week aver
age of the modern period.
The weeks sun-cured average
was $I8l higher than for the
marketings a year ago during
opening week.
The heaviest opening week of
recent years was in 1857 when
offerings totalled 9l3,8O6 pounds.
The highest weekly average for
dark-fired tobacco recorded here
since 1880 and start of govern
ment records was $41.63 for the
second week of the recOrd-set-
ting 1856 crop.
Peg Hike Helps
This years averages were
helped somewhat by an increase
in grade pegs. up either 81 or
So per hundred weight for all
leaf except wrappers. which are
unchanged at $50 top. The new
grade rates range from $40 to
$62. where as a year ago the
range was from $18 to $50.
Statewide Report
The Federal State Market
News Service reports gross sales
on the three days ending No
vember 80 totaled 1886 .318
pounds and averaged $4O.25 a
hundred. This average was a de-
crease of IS cents from the
first three days last season when
only 975.772 pounds sold for an
average of $40.91.
Gains over the first week in
1860 occurred for practically all
Continued on page 81
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-05
State Defenders
To Hear Address
By Sen. Thurman

Senator Strom Thurman, Of
South Carolina, will address the
annual business meeting of the
Defenders of State Sovereignty
and Individual Liberties in Rich
mond Saturday, December 8.
Senator Thurmond is to speak at
the dinner meeting lobe held
in the Empire Room of jefferson
Hotel scheduled at Z pm:
Reservations are being made
through the Defenders office,
Suite 596, Hotel Jefferson. Rich
mond, Va. Tickets are $40 for
men and IS for women or stud
entS. A number Of students from
nearby schools and colleges
viii he guests of Defender
members.
States Fighter
Senator Thurrnond is one Of the
nahons's leading advocates Of
states rights and constitutional
government. he was the cand-
date for president in 1913 of the
States Rights party and made
an outstanding record. Suisse
quently, he was elected U. S.
Senator from South Carolina
by a write-in vote an unpre-
cedented occurrence.
He is q severe critic Of COM
munism. and has defended the
right Of military leaders to in
torn troops under the,t ccn,
mand o. communism. HIS r.
Continued q paeo 81
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-05

THE DEBATE on the admis-
sion of Red China to the UN
began Friday in the General
Assembly. U. S. Ambassador
Adlai Stevenson warned that
1.-The whole futue Of the United
Nations is at stake" and Soviet
delegate Valerian Zorin called
u S. opposition to Red China's
admission dirty" and unreal
istic." The u S. has succeeded
in preventing the iSSle from
coming before the assembly for
10 years. The Russians are try
ing not only to seat Red China
but to unseat Nationalist China
which has permanent member
ship on the Security Council.
The debate. expected to last
about two weeks. will appar
entity be fight to the bitter
end, but the U. S. is confident
the majoity of the l03 member
nations will refuse seat to the
Peiping regime.
SURVEYS of buildings in Vir-
ginia which could be used as
public fallout shelters III the
event Of nuclear attack will be
discussed at meetings of govern
nlent representatives and Of
ficials of five SIX archltec-
tliral firms this week. Navy
Capt. Heny C. Shald Fifth
Naval district public works Off
Ger in Norfolk, said this week
negotiations would seek 10 dis
cover how much these people
want for this Job He indicated
no contracts have been signed
or will be signed imrnedi-
ately. Eventually the govern
ment hopes to locate. mark. and
stock with food and other neces-
sites enough public fallout shell
tiers throughout the U. s.. 10
hc11s 20 .n.ll,cn people.
TEE CONGO roe,,vAaA Airlc-
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-12-05
County Tax
Deadline Tuesday

Tuesday, December s, is the
last day without penalty for pay
ment OF county real estate. per
scnal property and captitation
taxes, j. w. Wilson, Jr., county
treasurer reminded this morning.
A penalty of five per cent
will be added if not paid by the
Tuesday deadline. The addition
Of the penalty does not give adj
diticnal time. as the law re-
qu.red the county treasurer 70
proceed Is soon Is possible to
collect the tx required.