The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-01-26

OF Vlrglnia's sovereignty in January of
1859 touched off by statements of Ex-
Governor j. Lindsay Almond, Jr., in
television broadcast in Roanoke last
Saturday, the best kept secret is what
transpired at the meeting which the
Governor attended at the Rotunda Club
only a couple Of weeks prior to his an
nouncement of capitulation.
Rumors persisted during those hectic
days about the private meeting, but no
news has ever been revealed about what
was said, or who attended, or who was
responsible for organizing the confer
ence. Newspapers carried no account
of the meeting at the time, not even a
mention that it was held Recently,
James Latimer Times Dispatch capitol
reporter in four year roundup feature
article about Governor Almond de-
scribed the meeting in some detail as
a group of the Estates top business,
banking, industrial and professional
leaders. They expressed to Almond
their concern that continued school
omy, deter industrial development and
In Space and
4 STRONAULT John H. Glenn, Jr
will go into orbit Saturday, if all
goes well with final tests. The count
down will be televised as will the land
ing following trip thrice around the
world planet. When this has been COM
to circle the world in space in view of
television cameras and possibly.th first
man to 60 into orbit Last year Russia
announce the feat of putting a man in
orbit but his ascension and descent were
in secret. Some tracking stations re-
ported objects in space coinciding with
the Russian announcement. The Ameri-
can success or failure will be beyond
question and known worldwide.
Science has made giant strides TO-
directly related to the space age battle
of the cold War
In astronomy which, incidentally, is
the grandfather of science, the United
States made outstanding progress dur
ing 1861. After a period of develop
<ment, the astronomers were delighted
to put to use a new set of instruments
for probing the universe.
The most important of these were
the radio telescopes. Radio telescopes
are used to study the radio waves COM
Solemn
lion. j. Edgar Hooter, chief Of the
- Federal Bureau of Investigation is
sued solemn warning nationwide
January in his acceptance speech of
the Criss Award for Safety presented
by the Mutual of Omaha. The program
was televised by NBC. We were i'm
pressed with Mr.. Hoover's sincerity and
sound logic. He is man who should
know what he is talking about. Those
are the people to whom we listen and
pay heed.
Mr.. Hoover began his address by
citing the facts that crime is on the in
crease and over the past decade has in
creased four times faster than the rate
of population growth At the present
time, we have a serious assault occurr-
ing every four minutes, somewhere in
the United States.
Other interesting facts related by Mr..
Hoover were that-a murder is conf
mitted somewhere in the United States
every fifty-eight minutes. And that
rape occurs somewhere in the United
States every thrity-eight minutes.
Organized crime came under severe
criticism, in that these criminals were
the parasites of six generations of
American heritage and responsibility.
That many times, these criminals were
protected by the better lawyers in the
country who put them behind mounds
of technicalities. These technicalities
were designed to insure the freedom Of
decent hard working individuals