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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-05-11

The copperhead is nocturnal
and secretive in habit and is able
to exist in well-populated regions.
He is inclined to lie quietly and
depend upon his protective color
alton for safety, rather than run
ming away. He will bite if trod
upon and will fight. if cornered,
but will slide away, to safety when
possible.
Question: Where do you gen.
orally find a copperhead?
Dr.. Jeffers: In dry woodlands
or under wood. In fact copper
heads are found almost every
where.
Dr.. Brumfield: 1 have run into
them twice with girls IN field
trips. In the fall they migrate
from place to place. A snake will
look Cor protection like a lizard
does. This is one reason they are
found SO often in wood piles.
Question: People say the cop
perhead is sluggish. Is this true?
DR.. LETTERS: All snakes are slug
gish to a certain extent, and the
c%opperhead is no exception, but
when he strikes, he moves swift
ly.
Dr.. Brumfield: My father final
ly got himself bitten by one. He'd
take the thing by its tail and
Wiggle it around a little. I think
he got bitten deliberately, to see
what it was like. 1t didn't hurt
him any.
Question: How dangerous is a
snake bite?
DR.. letters: The chances are a
copperhead wouldn't kill an adult
healthy person. but it would a
child. if no medical attention was
given quickly. But then you have
to think of when the snake last
bit. If you are the first one it hits
when it comes out of Information
you're going to be in a bad way
you wouldn't have as much ven.
ON on the second bite. ...."
tThis is the first in a series 0
articles concerning snakes, ant
other poisonous inhabitants of thu
woods. Next week we will lOOI
into what should be done if Vol
think You have been bitten by {
poisonous snake.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-05-11
Girls Soft ball
Deadline

The deadline for signing-up
for girls softball is May IS. B.
C. Balm, softball commissioner.
reminded this morning. Girls in
terested in playing in the sum
,mer league may obtain details
from Home Furniture Company.
The first general practice will
be held at 3 pm, Saturday,
May &c, Balm said. This will be
a practice for all teams at the
Little Boys League field.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-05-11
Little Boys Baseball Briefs

= Results
Fire Dept. 10. independents 4
Jaycees I, Rotary 0
Lions Ia. Moose 3
Rotary 25, Indepec dents 3
Schedule
Friday. May IL
Lions VS. Fire Dept 5000
Jaycees VS. Moose 5000
Saturday. May IL
Rotary VS. Fire Dept. t7:OW
independents VS. Moose 5000
John Farley paced the Fire
Department with four hits in
four trips to tho plate. Barry
Brandon was the winning pich-
er.
Marshall Cook and Bill Cant
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-05-11
Baseball Games
On Schedule

Friday, MAY II
Buckingham at Cumberland
(7:30)
Amelia at Kenbridge 1850
Saturday, May II
Randolph-Henry at Buckingham
t7:30)
W&L at H-SC ,2:30
Tuesday. May Is
Amelia VS.. Cumberland f1.30D
Powhatan at Louisa C7:30i
Randolph Henry at Farmyllle
600
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-05-11
Farmville- Crewe
Ladies League

RESULTS: Lucky Strikers O.,
Gerson and Gerson 2; ILG 8,
Fire Balls l.
SUMMARY: Individual high
game, Lucy Smith and Betty
Morris, 1902. Individual high
three game set Lucy Smith. 281.
Team high game ILG 437. Team
high set LG 1887.
STANDINGS: ILG 51-33; Fire
Balls 44-40; Lucky Strikers 40
A; Gerson and Gerson 1851.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-05-11

mt take first place for the sea-
son they were noted for their
outstanding bowling throughout
the year. Their team rolled the
highest three game set of 1905,
high team game of 496 and Lucy
Morrissett of that team rolled
the highest individual three
game set of 800. Lucy also tied
With Dolly Noble for high indi-
vidual game rolled for the sea-
son of 125.
Dolly Noble took the honor Of
having the highest average for
the year which was a total of
1912.
LirnI C@n-L-.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-05-11
Softhail Starts

The Jetersville softbal team
started its sofeball schedule this
week. as Jetersville PLAYED TruX-
lilo May 8. Jetersville viii meet
Mannboro at J~etersvlile. Tues
day, May Is at 8 PIN.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-05-11

are they? Are all snakes bad? etc
To get an answer to some of
these questions your Sideliner
went to a couple of experts to
find out. We went straight to DR..
George w. letters and DR.. Rob
ert T. Brumfield, both professors
of natural science at LongWood
College. DR.. Brumfield is a dou-
BILE expert on snakes, because he
has the distinction of having been
bitten by a RATHER. and he was
also raised among snakes.
Some of the older citizens re-
member DR.. Brumfield'S father,
who was public health doctor in
the county for many years. He
was one of the greatest natural
list ever to live in the area. This
Sideliner remembers going into
the late DR.. Brumfield's office
for a typhoid shot. and having
him pull a snake out of his peck
ct. Anytime we saw him after
that we would cautiously ask if
he had any more snakes in his
pocket. and he usually did.
We picked a good day to call
on the Longwood teachers, be-
cause that very afternoon one of
DR.. Jeffers' lab classes was
studying snakes. There on the
table were an assortment of jars,
each containing various species
of snakes and other reptiles. The
class was completely unconcerned
as they poked the dead snakes
fangs and examined the snakes
from a scientific standpoint.
Our first question was: ''How
many poisonous snakes do we
have in this area?'
DR.. LETTERS: In this area we
have only three. the copperhead
the rattle snake and the cotton
mouth. Actually the copperhead
is the only one in Prince Edward
County about which we Should
worry. In the swamp area there
is the cottonmouth. but it proba.
bly, doesn't come up this far.
DR.. Brumfield: There have beer
reports of cottonmouthS in this
area, but l have never seen one
and my father never found one
and he looked all over the county
for them. There is the rattle
snake that is in the mountain
area. and there may be some il
Buckingham county. especially ii
the Willis Mountain vicinity.
Both agree that the cotton
mouth and the rattle snake dl
not present any problem. Tha1
leaves the copperhead as the only
poisonous snake commonly founC
in the area.
Question: How do you identify
a poisonous snake?
Answer: The poisonous snake
has three easy characteristics t
distinguish. First. they have a pi
between the eye and the nostrii
second there is a single row o
scales on the tail end of the poi
Sonous snake. while the nOnpOi
SOnouS variety has a double ROY
of scales: and third. the pupil 0
the eye is oblong or elliptica
rather than round. Of course tn
poisonous snake has a set 0
fangs. where the nonpoisonou
snake has teeth. q.
Since we are primarily cor
cerned with the copperhead it i
well to know his markings. TIL
~copperhead is general light brow.
or pinkish gray with a series G
large dark brown or reddls
brown markings on each side G
the body. These markings resen
BILE inverted Us. or triangles Wit
their smaller side up. Frequent
the points meet at the center c
the back. so that when We've
from above some of the marking
resemble an hourglaSs in outline
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-05-11
Final Results OF Ladies Duckpins

Home Furniture's team cap
tured first place and broke the
tie for the season last Thursday
by taking two games from Bald
wins.
Although BaldWin's team did
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-05-11
&deAn 1kepw
By BILL WALL
Snake Talk - Part One

Elsewhere in tQdays Herald there is a story about a woman who
was bitten by a copperhead snake. This is not an unusual story in
the Herald, as several people i'll the Herald circulation area seem to
get bitten each year.
The story did cause your Sidelners mind to turn over and we
wondered just how serious a problem snakes are? how dangerous
are thauo Are IL snakes had2 etc
Evening star., 1962-05-20

Maryland consumers who
have joined forces to provide
the consumer, you and me,
with information of specific
interest to him as a buyer.
Do you feel that labels
should clearly indicate what
the package contains? Does
the great number of brand
sizes and shapes leave you
with a frustrated feeling
when shopping? When you
buy on the installment plan,
or when you borrow money,
do you find it difficult to ap-
praise the true price of
credit?
Do you feel higher prices
are no longer indicative of
good quality? Would you like
to obtain information help
full to you in spending your
money wisely? Are you in
tereSted in legislation de-
signed to protect the con-
sumner?
If any or all of these prob
lens concern you, if you
would like information on
membership in, or working
for the Maryland Consumers
Council. write to Mrs. Mary
Cooperman, 209 Adclare road,
Rockville, Md.
Evening star., 1962-05-20

lngS laCer, since J0e consumer
Council met for the first time
to discuss ways and means Of
starting an organization Of
consumers working for con-
sumner legislation and educa-
ton.
Thanks to the dedication
and hard work of a lot of
wonderful people, the Coun-
Gil has been incorporated.
It is now known as the
Maryland Consumers Coun-
Gil, Inc. What is the NJ. c. c.,
and what can it do for US?
It is an organization of
Evening star., 1962-05-20

Tussy Cream Deodorant RolOn or Stick All cosmetics
heart they give your underams facial Never offend norma
skn Never annoy destroy delicate fabrics Shop ant
get half off, Save just much you spend Or get tw
guardian angels for the price of one!.
Evening star., 1962-05-20
WRIN KLES
by Marie Dovonf

New York: - Chemical science
has found a white substance made
with quicksilver that works won-
ders on wrinkled, roughened face
and hands. Use it one time and it
is entirely possibly you will see
improvement next morning. In a
few days dry-skin wrinkles start
to vanish. Many of the small ones
around the eyes and mouth have
already disappeared. But that is
not all! "Old-Age" (weatheredJ
brown spots on hands and arms
brown "age" darkness on surface
of face and neck fades away! Rich
oils lubricate pores so blackheads
can slip out without squeezing.
Evening star., 1962-05-20

Surface pimples and blemishes
and scars, outwardly caused, dry
up or become less noticeable! But
don't take my word for it. Make a
6-day test without risking one
penny. Just get a jar of Peacock's
Imperial Creme at Drug Fair
Use this thrilling cream for 6
days-and if you are not de-
lighted with results, full price
will be refunded. No questions
asked. Peacock's Imperial Creme
can work wonders for wrinkles,
lines, brown spots and other
weathered blemishes. You may
obtain Imperial Creme at DRUG
FAIR. Clip this out.
Evening star., 1962-05-20
Here's How

Reoders' Clearing House Is con-
Quoted ENTIRELY THROUGH THE
MAIL as q pubIie-seriee exchange
Of ideos between oFeo readers. The
Stor connot accept phone coils per-
toinine to this column. All letters
must bear the writer's full nome ond
address. No advertising is printed.
Evening star., 1962-05-20
READERS CLEARING HOUSE
What's Happened to Quality
MIS-. H. H. c.. Clinton

I would like to thank all of you again for your
many letters, written to me last year concerning
consumer problems. The consumer committee was
delighted to find that so many homemakers would
take the time to voice their suggestions and COM
plants
1t has been almost year. and several meet
Evening star., 1962-05-20
AnnnoniOted
Deterrent

Mrs. T. L. w., Wheaton
Some time ago in RICH I
read that narrow-necked
cruets and decanters could
be cleaned by sloshing tea
leaves and vinegar around in
them. 1t helped, but 1 didn't
get the results I wanted.
This housekeeping season,
I found that by combining a
little ammoniated detergent
with the tea leaves and vine
gar, my decanters came clean
for the first time; all the
cloudy white deposit is gone
from the inside. Hope this
helps some of you with a
similar problem.
Evening star., 1962-05-20
WEE WOMEN

Of nursery school and kinder
garten classes, I would like
ideas for art and science
projects that would appeal
to the four and five year
old, especially those who
enjoy the planned programs
of the school year, and will
miss these activities during
the summer.
incidentally, I'm sorry that
no one ever came up with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04

Last May he told a gathering
that while he disagreed with some
Of the Democrats, I'm certainly
not in sympathy with certain
(Strongly conservative elements
in the Republican Party on a
Statewide basis"
And some time ago he told more
than 10000 employees at a meet
ing in a Milwaukee baseball park.
IF I worked In a plant, I would
join a union and be active in it,"
One of Mr.. Romney's favorite
topics is what he considers to-
days undue concentration Of en-
ployer, union and governmental
power. 1--WE need laws to prevent
the aggregation of excessive power
in any segment of our society,""
he says.
He suggests that union bargain
ing on an industry-wide basis be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04

Continued From Page CT
has not shared equitably in the
new prosperity. The people Of the
populous South want action.
Mr.. Fanfani, a man the Ken
nedy administration might want
to point to when discussing its
Alliance for Progress with Latin
American leaders, believes this is
the time to lift up the under
privileged in Italy and destroy the
false appeal of the Communists
What happens now to the Ital-
ian government? Mr.. Fanfani
will be asked by his President to
form a new regime. He will put
together a coalition cabinet, with
the Social Democrats and Repub-
licans. Nenni Socialists, who will
now feel pull toward the center,
will not be included.
The working arrangement be-
tween the Christian Democrats
(273 seats) and the Socialists (86
seats) will be informal. The two
will join on domestic issues, but
the Socialists may abstain on for
eign policy votes-at least for the
immediate future. This will assure
the Fanfani government a clear
working majority. There are a
total Of 500 seats in Parliament
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
Farm:
New Remedies

President Kennedy proposed to
Congress last week, a new pro-
gram on farm products controls,
the strictest yet devised.
1--WE must learn to live with an
agricultural economy of abundance
rather than scarcity"
With that summary of the ever
recurrent farm problem President
Kennedy sent his first message on
the subject to Congress last week.
It was a complex program for in
creased Government control over
an expanding number Of agricul-
tural products. It sought to do
three sometimes mutually exclu-
sive things: To increase farm in
come, to reduce SURPRISES and to
relieve the taxpayer Of ever
mounting Federal farm costs.
In brief the administration
asked:
/. Severe restrictions on wheat
and feed grain producers; any
farmer who refused to accept the
limitations would be cut off from
Federal price supports and other
aids.
2. Bringing dairy farmers under
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
The National Scene

Inevitably, the program slipped
into 1861, then all the way
through that year, and eventually
skidded uncertainty into 1862.
Eight days ago, when weather in
tervened, it slipped out of jan
uary and into February.
Then, last Tuesday, Mercury
took another slide. Astronaut
John H. Glenn was released from
splendid isolation in Cape Cana
veral's Hangers as Government
officials pondered the implications
of this latest tipped hurdle in
Americas running Of the space
race.
A launching scheduled for 1880
am. last Thursday was postponed
40 hours before shot time with
only the broad non descriptive
phrase technical difficulties" in
explanation. A new attempt was
scheduled for mot earlier than"
February Is.
The thing that caused the latest
postponement was almost Identical
to a difficulty that delayed
launching of the moon rocket
Ranger 3. The Atlas D missile
used in the Mercury and Ranger
program has a stainless steel
bulkhead inside, separating the
rockets liquid oxygen and kero-
sene tanks. To prevent undue
heat-loss across this bulkhead, it
is covered with a layer of light.
foamy insulation. This, in turn, is
covered with thin sheet Of alum
mum.
On both Atlas IBID, the moon
rocket, and Atlas l09-D the Mer-
curry rocket, this aluminium sheet
somehow ruptured, and the in
sulation became contaminated
with kerosene. Emergency mea-
sures saved the day for IBID,
although there were indications
that the payload's failure to hit
UAAC AIAOOAl may AldNC DCCll dooO-
ciated indirectly with damage
done to the rockets electrical sys-
tenn by kerosene leaks.
This week end, engineers at
THE Cape" professed confidence
that the trouble in 109-D was
fixed. But nine days remained be-
fore the February Is shot time,
and many checks will be made in
that period.
Each check is quite likely to re-
veal new flaws in the complex
Mercury system. AS Mercury boss
Walter c. Williams remarked after
the last postponement, These
birds, they get sick quick"
The Ranger shot mentioned
above was failure in the sense
of not getting its payload to the
moon, but scientists in charge Of
the Ranger program were heart
ened by the shot nevertheless. Thl
malfunction of Atlas IBID was
easily diagnosed and can be cor
rected, they said, and the per-
Torrance Of the payload itself as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
Quotation

The oldest voice in the world is
the wind. When it murmurs In
summers leaves, it seems an idle
trifler. When in the night 1t goes
wandering by, setting the old
house family to grooming, 1t
sounds like a pilgrim that has lost
the road. When you see it fitfully
turning the blades of a mill lazily
to draw water, you think Of it as
an unreliable servant Of man. But
in truth it is one Of our masters,
obedient only to the lord sun and
the whirling Of the great globe it
Self.-Donald Culross Peattie in
A Cup of Sky.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
REPORT FROM THE u. N.
Africans Hand USSR Setbocks

among other things, important air
bases in the Portuguese Azores.
1t did not work out that way.
The Africans refused to be taken
in. Some left-WingerS and extrem-
lists wanted to embrace sanctions
as their own proposal; but the
majority rejected this idea and
came up with much more
moderate Angola resolution which
most of NATO could support.
Watering Down
Some of the AfricanS-enough
for a majority of the U. N. As
Sembly-even went along when the
United States wanted to water
down the plan still further. The
net result was that the United
States could hope for Portugaps
gratitude, instead of its antagon-
ism, having successfully run In
reference for Lisbon.
The Africans, for their part,
were rewarded with a humping
99-2 endorsement including en-
dorsement by most Of NATO-
for their basic moral position
that Angola has right to self
determination.
Despite intense bitterness against
Portugal, Russia's sanctions plan
got only IA Communist votes
out of 90. (There are IL COM
munists, counting Cuba, in the
1O4-nation Assembly, The Soviet
plan was in effect routed.
Two such Soviet defeats will
not win the cold war. or make
the U. N. safe from Communist
Establishments in the future. But
they will help to restore conf
dence in the essential good sense
of many neutraliStS. And they
point to healthy sophistication
among an increasing number of
new African leaders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04
Strength in Unity

Assistant Secretary Of Defense
Arthur Sylvester, who handles
Pentagon public relations, gave
the committee an Interpretation
based on the idea that review
of the officers speeches elini-
mates the weakness of contra
dictory voices" and leads to the
strength of one" Defending
censorship practices, Mr.. Sylves-
ter pointed to an often over
looked angle: While guidelines are
issued to define defense and ma
tional policy, it is impossible to
cover every case that might
arise. There is no formula by
which a speech can be reviewed.
The review process must
depend upon the Judgment and
common sense of the men who
work with these problems every
day.
The kind of common sense Mr..
Sylvester was talking about was
defined in the sharpest way to
the committee in a remark by
Gen. Shoup. He said he had no
objection to the present system
of requiring clearance Of speeches
by generals, although, he added,
"they ought to have sense enough
to know what to say III public"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04

fringes. He weighs ITS ponds, has
gray eyes and grinS broadly and
often.
Mr.. Romney has promised a de-
cision by next Saturday on the
gubernatorial race, unless fellow
delegates at the constitutional
convention ask him to delay I'M
til they have redrafted Michigan's
1908 basic law.
Attitudes Are Flexible
His political attitudes are flex-
ible, and he believes in speaking
out.
tissues are more important
than candidates" he says. "A sim
pie illustration: there is no leader
who can provide sound leadership
on the basis of unsound principles.
Principles are more important
than men,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-04

barred. He would also require, in
effect, the breakup of any COM
pany engaged in any one basic
industry (autos, for instance) and
doing more than IS per cent Of
the total business Gas General
Motors and Ford.
Another problem that preoccu-
pies him is "the leap-frogging over
local and State governments to
Washington and the resultant
swollen Federal power.
"Old Constitutions"
Most States, 80 Of them, are
living with antique constitutions
that make a mockery out Of State
and city government and make
it virtually impossible for the peo-
pie to rely on the governmental
processes closest to them. Result:
People reach toward Washington.