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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-08-28

nitrogen. This helped some of
the crops and hurt others, de-
pending on the amount Of rain"
Continuing, he said, I'm the
heavier. clay-type soil. the fer
tilizer didn't wash away so east
ly, and the crops in the heavy
soil look very good. Most of the
late crops that | have seen look
good also"
Curing Important
"Of course. there is one thing
that can't be overlooked. 1t not
only takes a good crop of to-
bacco. but it takes a man who
knows his business when it
comes to curing the tobacco.
Many farmers can take an av-
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-08-28
FIrefIIeS
29, 900 Mailed Locally
During 2-MonM Season

through to Longwood College
and DR.. George w. letters, pro-
fessor of natural sciences, ap-
preached Mrs. Richard Wallace,
then Beatrice Gay and one of
his students, who wanted sum-
mer job. She took over the
work. ..-..
The season for fireflives lasts
from early June to early Au-
gust. This summer over $4,000
went from Farmville to the re-
search station. more than in the
previous summer.
Mrs. Wallace, a FREELY collec-
tor captain, has several people
under her who regularly gather
the insects which she packs in
pound coffee cans and ships in
dry ice after counting them by
hand. Each can holds between
Continued on Page u
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-08-28
Fir.eflies
By HELEN w. MASON

Wanted Lightning Bugs -
will pay 80 cents per 100, for in
formation for handling, call -.
How many times do people
read an ad ip paper and pass
over it, unnoticing? The above
ad has been no exception; it
was only a little more startling
than most. Why did anyone
want lightning bugs and want
them enough to offer to pay for
them?
The answer is - for cancer
research. Scientists believe the
chemical called ATP (short for
adenosine triphosphate), may be
involved in disease. Much of it
may be used by rapidly growing
cancer cells. and researchers
t h eorlze that perhaps the
amount of ATP in the body may
be an indication of an incipient
disease.
Scientists hope the fireflies
can throw light on some of the
biological events in mans body.
The same chemical that powers
mans muscles and sends i'm
pulses through his nerves and
brain produces the energy that
makes the glow in the tails of
fireflieS.
The fireflies are needed to
test the researchers theory of
the relationship of the amount
OF ATP in the body to the pres
ence OF an mcipient disease
The insect tails contain two
other substances which produce
the soft, mysterious glow, to-
gether with ATP. These SUBJ
stances are luciferase (anzymel
and luciferin a co-enzyme). It
takes all three to make the
light.
Back in July 1912, live fire
flies began to have a value in
the open market when someone
advertised in the New York
Times that they would paw one
cent apiece for them, plus post
age.
BY the spring of 1860. calls
were going out for fireflies in
the southern states where thew
are prolific. DR.. William Noel
roy. OF Johns Hopkins, Balti-
more, wanted to find Harnp-
den-Sydney student taking biolo-
gy who would undertake collect
ing them for the research in
Baltimore.
Not finding one. the call came
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lotments will not be eligible for
price support and will be sub
ject to marketing quota penal
ties if they have more than Is
acres of wheat for harvest.
However, growers will be able
to plant up to Is acres of wheat
without penalty.
Growers who sign applications
for exemption under the feed
wheat provision permitting 30
acres or less to be used exclu-
sively for feed on the farm will
not be subject to marketing
quota penalties.
The penalty rate on excess
wheat will be As per cent of the
parity price of wheat as of May
/, 1868. Excess bushels on which
the penalty will be determined
will be the normal production of
the acres in excess of the allot-
ment if the farm acreage ex-
ceeds the higher of Is acres or
the farm allotment.
If marketing quotas are not
approved, marketing quotas and
penalties will not be in effect
for the 1868 wheat crop. How
ever, acreage allotments will
remain in effect and will be
used to determine eligibility for
price support at the so per cent
of parity rate required by law
if quotas are disapproved.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-08-28
BY: JACKIE WALL

For the past decade criticism
and controversy has centered
on the American educational
system. Parents and educators
have been asking themselves
Are we developing our chill
dren to their best inherent po-
tential?"
OF course. in a system that
has tried to provide what APP
pears at times to be merely an
equal education for all. one may
concede that the schools have
done an adequate job. if this
has been the aim.
But undoubtedly nowadays the
buring question is, rs this
enough?".
Some Held Back?
AS pointed out by B. Frank
Brown. principal of the Mel
borne. Fla. high school in an
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-08-28
Five County Fair
Advance Ticket Sale VERY Good

All signs point toward a good
year for the Five County Fair
which opens here on Monday.
Sept. 10. with the George Clyde
Smith Shows on the midway.
and runs for five days. Each
day something special will be
featured.
The advance sale of tickets is
better than in any previous
years. according to John H.
Warner, association president. He
added that the exhibits should
be very good as this has been
a fine crop year, especially for
corn.
All we need is good weather.
we're expecting at least $4,000
people to attend during the
week
AS to the 25 acres of land re-
Gently purchased by the Fair
Association. nothing will be done
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erage crop and make it very
good and vice versa"
Joe Hines and his son. Ralph.
who raise flue-cured tobacco on
their farm near Meherrin. re-
port a fairly good crop. Ralph
Hines said that about three
fourths of their crop is already
harvested and it seems to be
slightly better than last year
but not as good as year before.
He also said that the quality is
improving each week and the
last tobacco harvested was of
much better quality than the
first.
Jim Nat Carter, of Bucking-
Continued On page
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-08-28
Education Series
Starts This Issue

The Farmville Herald to-
day starts a six-articIe Sc
ries on education. Of the
young, particularly with ref
erence to the teaching of
reading in the U. S., and
other English-speaking coun-
tries, the phonetic system of
reading, and the early edu-
cation Of children.
The author. Mrs. j. r.
Wall. Jr., a mother of three
children. is a graduate of
Westhampton who also spent
two years at LOngwoOd Col
lege. She has devoted con-
siderable time to study and
research on the subjects COW
cred in the series.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-08-28
Swimming Meet
At Pool Friday

A swimming meet will be held
at the Farmville swimming pool
Friday evening beginning at 7
pm, according to Raymond
Ransom, pool manager. Admis-
sion will be free to spectators
as well as participants.
A diving exhibition is also
planned. together with the swim
ming competition that will in
clude all ages.
Prizes will be awarded win
ners in every division.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-08-28
Lower School P-TA
To Meet Monday

The P-TA of Farmville Lower
School will meet tonight Mon
day. at 8 pm. in the Courthouse
to fill out various forms before
the opening of schools on Tues
day, September 4.
All private schools operated by
the Foundation will open at $50
am. on that date.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-08-28
BY GERALD DUNCAN

From all reports and from
area in this area will have fair
to good crop of tobacco this
year. reports Dudley Peery,
Prince Edward county agent, in
summing up the outlook for the
bright and dark-fired tobacco
peery. commenting on the
flue-cured tobacco crop, said.
ION the farms where the plants
were in light. sandy soil, the to-
bacco is sort of light in weight.
This is due, primarily, to the
fact that lots of the fertilizer
was washed away during the
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-08-28
Old Belt Sales
Start Sept. 10

An opening date Of Septem-
Der 10 was set Saturday for the
Old Belt flue cured tobacco
markets in Virginia and North
Carolina. Old Belt warehouse
men at the same time deplOred
the lack Of price supports on
tied tobacco for the first five
sale DAYS.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-08-28
NATIONAL
NEWS
SUMMARY
By
II. v. LANCASTER, JR.
. CHANGE OF COMMAND
. OFF TO VENUS
. CUBAN ATTACK

THE GUERRILLA COMMAND
controlling Algiers formally
banned the activity of Aimed
Ben Bella's political bureau Sun
day, accusing it of treason. The
junta Of guerrilla colonies fore
ed Ben Bellas bureau out OF
power FRIDAY and the country
appears headed for new crises.
The guerrillas called for an
emergency meeting of the old
revolutionary parliament.
SCIENTISTS. frustrated Sun
day by electrical problems,
launched the Mariner 2 space
craft Monday on a l82-million
mile journey to the vicinity of
the plaret Venus. A short cir
cult in the electrical section of
the second stage of the Atlas
Agena-B booster rocket forced
postponement of Sundays sched-
uled launching. The rookie
should pass within 10000 miles
of Venus on Dec. Is and make
the first closeup study of the
bright planet, whose secrets
have puzzled astronomers a n d
scientists for centuries.
A CUBAN STUDENT GROUP
boasted that it carried out sea
raid on the island of Cuba, Fri
day night. hitting a hotel head
quarters of Soviet bloc tech
nicians, who were in Cuba to
advise the Castro regime. Dam
age was slight but the foreign
hotel guests were in near panic
as they fled the bOmbardment.
The student group said their at
tack was made because of the
arrival of Communist bloc per-
sonnet in Cuba. The U. S. re-
jected Castro's charge of Ameri-
can involvement, but said it
had evidence the naval attack
came from a group of students
near Miami, Fla.
THE SENATE GAVE APPROX
al Saturday to spending nearly
six billion dollars for the ma
tons varied farm program in
the fiscal year which began July
l. They approved the bill and
sent it back to the House. In
cluded in the measure is novel
plan to slash the multi billion
dollar costs of mounting farm
SURPRISES by a special 25-mil-
llon-dollar research program for
developing new uses and mar
kets for farm products.
AT HIS ANNUAL APPLE Or
chard picnic, Senator Harry F..
Byrd said it would be irresponsi-
BILE for President Kennedy to
submit proposals for cutting tax
es without some effort at cut
ting federal spending. Byrd has
been constant foe of unneces-
Sary frederal spending.
GOVERNOR HARRISON and
COMEDIAN Danny Thomas shared
the banquet stage Saturday night
at the annual convention of the
Virginia Moose Association at
Continued on page y
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-08-28
Tuition Grant Court Test
Seen; VITA Proposes Plan
Negro Education
By Relocation
Of 200 Proposed

A plan to relocate and educate
Prince Edward county Negro
children elsewhere in Virginia
was described at Farmville to-
day by the Rev. L. Francis Grit
fin as "only an if necessary"
procedure.
Rev. Mr.. Griffin, president Of
the cooperating Prince Edward
County Christian Association and
county NAACP coordinator, said
about the proposed Virginia
Teachers Association plan:
We're not certain of the re-
spouse. We've found in our con
facts among parents that they're
hopeful schools will be opened
in September. It's chiefly step
we're preparing as way to
help if necessary.
The PECCA president added
that the organization office in
the Miller Building here was
preparing today to take the APP
plications and interview pro-
spective pupils for the program.
200 Proposed
Dr.. Rupert Picott proposed the
plan to relocate for educational
purposes about 200 Negro young
people during meeting of the
Virginia Teachers Association at
Richmond Saturday. 1t was re-
ported as unanimously accepted
by the membership of the or
ganization Of $500 Virginia
Negro teachers.
Under the plan, each local as
ISOLATION Of the state organiza-
ton, of which there are 1913,
would be asked to take one or
more of the pupils, find them. a
home and pay living and tuition
expenses.
The plan will not go into op-
Grafton until after the court acts
on September 4" DR.. Picott
told the VITA. He also said it
would be abandoned if public
schools are opened here.
He was referring to the Fed
eral District Court memorandum
opinion Of July 26 when Judge
Oren R. Lewis said if Prince
Edward schools aren't opened
by September 7. he would re-
ceive and consider orders Of
fered by counsel for all parties
in the county school suit then.
County Plan?
In. the same opinion. t h e
federal district Judge ordered
the Prince Edward school board
to complete plans for the ad
mission Of pupils in the ele-
mentary and high schools of
the county without regard to
race or color and to receive and
consider applications to this end
at the earliest practical date.
The plan was to be in his
court by September 7, he di-
rected.
DR.. W. Edward Smith, county
school board chairman. has in
dictated that the board would
respond to Judge Lewis order
in the time specified. He did
not state whether it would be
in the form of an actual plan
or a proposal to seek ON e
Qualification of the c h 0 o !
boards position in light Of cir
cun1stances in the county. His
board has no funds beyond those
required for simple maintenance
of facilities.
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there this year but. Were max
ing plans and hoping next year
to make use of the new land
purchased. We hope to begin a
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-08-28
Above Average Prices Predicted
Tobacco Crop Will Be Fair To Good

heavy rains in the late spring
and early summer. Many of the
farmers ga1nbled and used more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-06

gerry herself. Operations va
ried from removing bullets,
treating eye lids. sewing up
decorations and setting frac-
lures. The case load in both
hospitals ran as high as TO-
900 a year.
For her work in Arabia,
Miss Van Pelt received COM
mandatory letters from the
Governments of Iraq and Ku-
wait and the United States
Consular Service.
To these memories she may
now add a more recent one.
At a recent diner honoring
her and teachers for the
. deaf, Gallaudet officials cited
her not only for organizing
and extending the colleges
health service but for her
many kind acts for the stu
dents to whom she was a
combined counselor house
mother.
Miss Van Pelt plans to
leave Washington to make
her home in ASheville, N. c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-06
By EDDY GILMORE
Associated Press Staff Writer

LONDON. July 6.-Gossips
linked the names Of two of
the most eligible young peo-
pie in Britain-pretty Prin-
cess Alexandra and the
handsome Marques of Duff
ferin and Ava.
Should their growing
friendship ever result in an
engagement. it would, among
other things. provide a busy
time for the royal printers.
The full name and title of
Alex-aS she's called by her
friends-is: Her Royal High
ness Princess Alexandra
Helen Elizabeth Olga Chris
label.
The full name and title of
Duffy-as he's called by his
pals-is: Sheridan Frederick
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-06
She'll Retire
ToNeW Career

tion," she said, but none of
my orders were refused"
1t seemed unusual, she re-
called, for me to be the only
woman dressed in white, to
ride a donkey and always to
have servants in attendance,
and to sit on the floor and
deliver babies"
She said it also seemed I'M
usual to her to be enter
tanned by the Arabs, but that
it was pleasant to be &C
cepted by them and have
their friendship and loyalty
which is still shown in the
gifts and messages I receive
from Arab visitors who come
to Washington nowadays"
A heart-breaking expert
ence for Miss Van Pelt was
the time she returned to
Kuwait after an 18-month
furlough home and found
5000 new little graves of vic
Tins of smallpox and dysen-
terry epidemics.
"One of our hardest tasks
was public health education"
she said. The people had no
conception of the Importance
of vaccination against small
pox."
With the smallpox epidem-
ic still raging, Miss Van Pelt
arranged with the few air
planes that came into the
Kuwait airport to bring her
some vaccine from a firm in
London, transporting it in
thermos bottles. AS a special
favor the pilots arranged at
every stop to have ice re-
supplied in the thermoS bot
ties to keep the vaccine re-
frigerated.
When the vaccine arrived,
the Sheikh of Kuwait prom
ished to send e missarie S
through the bazaar to an
nounce that Miss Van Pelt
would vaccinate as long as
she had any vaccine.
II guess I must have vac
cinated about 200," she re-
called, adding that "the loss
of their children shocke d
them into realization"
Did Surgery
Miss Van Pelt many times
was "a second pair of hands"
in the operating room and
often had to do some sur
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-06
Princess Alexandra
Linked RonnunticuIIy

Terence Hamilton Temple
Blackwood, fifth Marques of
Dufferin and Ava and 10th
Baronet.
Wednesday for the third
time in less than a month,
Duffy squirrel Alex on a date.
He sat with her-making
jokes-in the royal box at
the Wimbledon tennis cham
pionShipS while the umpireS
crooned the word, love" all
over the place all afternoon.
At last months Royal
Ascot Race Week and Queen
Elizabeth us house party,
Duffy also squirrel Alex. On
the eve of Ascot, he took
her to a dance.
Alex. the Queens first
cousin. will be 26 on Christ
mas Day. Duffy will be "a
next week. He's a student at
Oxford.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-06
BY RUTH DEAN
Star Staff Write

Miss Mary Van Pelt who
has just retired as head of
Gallaudet Colleges he alth
services, will embark on the
third career of her lifetime
research on the causes of
deafness.
Many people who've
reached Miss Van Pelt'S three
score-and-ten years would be
content TO turn to a long
neglected hobby in their re-
tirement. But medicine is her
whole life.
After % years in the Mid
die East as a medical mis-
sionary and is years at Gal
laudet, the nurse feels that
helping the sick and handi-
capped doesn't stop with re-
tirement.
New Career
No doubt Miss Van Pelt
will face this new career with
the same sense of challenge
she brought to her previous
work.
When she went to Arabia
in 1917 she knew no Arabic
and still finds it a very diff
ficult language, but she be-
came converSant enough in
it to become director of the
Kuwait Hospital for Men and
the Olcott Memorial Hospital
for Women and Children,
also in Kuwait.
A language barrier faced
her again when she came to
Gallaudet is years ago, for
iH Arabia she had seen very
little deafness.
In addition to organizing
the first Health Department
in the colleges history, she
applied herself to learning
the language of the deaf.
When Miss Van Pelt looks
back on those % fascinating
years in the Middle East she
calls them "a challenging
and demanding period in my
life"
She admits that at first it
was pretty bleak" being di-
rector of a mems hospital in
a male-oriented country. 1T
took so much stamina and
control to assume your posi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-06

Junior Dresses in cottons and Blends, 5 to IS
Boulevard Dresses, 10 to 20 and I4I to 22h
All the cosy core fashions you want the cosy way
Why, you con get gloves and hose, or Hot Bar hal
with the savings on one dress alone! Sheoths Shirt
dresses Jackets High potency dark PIoid
Skinnybeon stripes Big and small checks . 1909
cottons, newly wiIt-resstont Dip and dry Docron1
and cotton Versatile royon weoves
The Hecht Co-Town Country Young Woshngonions Shops
Boulevard Shops-AH Stores
The Arizona post., 1962-08-24
KoUtenbvrger
In Race For
Supervisor

Lambert Kautenburger has
announced his candidacy for
supervisor of District No. 2.
Mr.. Kautenberger stands
on his experience in the of
flee of supervisor which con-
sists of IA years as a super
visor and eight years as
chairman. During this tenure
of office the average hourly
wage for county workers
was raised from 62 cents per
hour to So per hour. He also
instituted a retirement fund
for the workers.
The Kautenburger family
has resided in Tucson for the
last % years, during which
time they have been very ac-
tive in helping people in need
through charities and per
sonal endeavors.
The Arizona post., 1962-08-24
Nursing Home
Gets Addition

PHOENIX - (SpeciaD =
An addition to the Phoenix
Jewish Community Kivel
Nursing Home, representing
a 70-percent increase in pre-
vious accommodations, has
been completed this week at
an overall cost of $275,000.
The announcement was
made jointly by Samuel
Shapiro, President of the
Homes Board of Directors,
and Herman Chanen, PreSi-
dent, Chanen Construction
Company, contractors for the
project.
The addition, called The
Pavilion, is comprised of
14,400 square feet, linked to
the main buildings 10000
square feet by an airy flOor-
to-ceiling glassed promenade
corridor. Designed to accom-
modate an additional 80 beds,
the Pavilion also includes a
service kitchen and dining
room as well as nursing util-
ity rooms. A spacious assem-
bly, room has also been in
corporated in the new Sec
ton. The added facilities now
enables the Home to care for
a capacity of II patients and
residents.
The Arizona post., 1962-08-24

Samuel Kurn, Temple
educational director, has
announced changes in the
school curriculum to in
tensify and enhance the
study program. At the
same time greater flexibil-
ity will be introduced to
the class roster to more
easily accommodate the
large enrolment of new
students. Returning stu
dents will be able to obtain
books and materials in the
school office beginning
Sept. 2.
Regular class sessions
open Sept. IS for students
in Grade 6 to confirmation.
Students in the nursery
grade (age FOUR through
Grade 5 will open classes
Sept. 16. The weekday He
The Arizona post., 1962-08-24
BIB JUnioreffes

B'nai Birth JuniOretteS
have scheduled meetings
Sept. 10 and Sept. "a at 7:30
pm. at the Center.
Girls in the lib age
bracket are invited to attend
as guests. The group carries
out community service pro
grams and services in adj
herence to Judaism and
Americans. Further informa-
ton may be had by contact
ing Miss Jeri KaSen.
The Arizona post., 1962-08-24

Registration for the fall
re-opening of the religious
school of Temple Emanu-
Ell will be held Sept. 2 and
9 from 10 am. to noon.
With the completion of
outstanding new facilities
the Temple has the finest
Jewish educational facili-
ties in the southwest. An
enrolment of $50 students
is expected this fall.
The Arizona post., 1962-08-24
Temple Opening School
Registration On Sept. 2

brew classes begin early in
October.
DR.. Robert 1. Cults,
chairman of the religious
school board, welcomes in
quiries about the school
from new families.
A brochure on the school
is available at the Temple
and the new school build
ing is open to visits by the
public.
The Arizona post., 1962-08-24

Miedzybozh, a grandson of
Israel Baal Shem Tov, and
an eighteenth century hassi-
die leader in the Ukraine,
who engaged Ostropoler to
relieve his spells of melan-
chOly.
The Arizona post., 1962-08-24

Hershele Ostropoler, the
classic comic about whom
legendary anecdotes have
been related for a century
and a half, was actually the
court jester" for Baruch of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13

previous winners of the In
ternational and with semi
abstracts from John Schapi-
ro's own collection, was not
jam-packed. There was an
air, which turned race
watching into a leisurely af-
fair in this holy-of -holies.
Postmaster and Mrs. j. Ed
ward Day wandered in, also
Mrs. C. Oliver .Iselin, ST., own
err of the English entry, Par
dao; the Leslie Biffles, Lana
dupont, (Mrs, Richard du-
Points daughter) and the
Glenn Bealls. Also the Dam
lei Brewsters, who were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Nichols of New
York; the John McShains
and Walter Annenbergs,
down from Philadelphia.
Probably the happiest man
in the rarified area was
Michel, who sees that the