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Evening star., 1962-09-16
WibIe-Shoffer

Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond s.
While of Hollywood, Md, an
nounce the engagement of
their daughter Veronica Ann
to Mr.. George Warren Shat
fer, jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George w. Shaffer. A spring
wedding is planned.
Evening star., 1962-09-16
RuehI-

Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert H.
Suhr of Bethesda announce
Evening star., 1962-09-16
By FRANCES LIDE
Star staff Writer

ny II nfANOES LAOE
Star STAFF Writer
Ask Laura waters how
many countries she's visited
and she'll try to figure it this
way: well, I've never been
to South Africa, though I've
been to North and Central
Africa and the East and West
sections and when we
went to Australia, we didn't
do New Zealand. :"
But she's toured all Of the
continents, been around the
world four times and made
80 or more crossings to Eu-
rope. (She's not sure Of the
exact number).
AS for the mileage piled up
by the travelling Mrs. Wa
ters. she has promised her
self to sit down and add it
up when I get to the rock
ing chair stage"
Mrs. Waters was first ex-
posed to "travelitis" as q
youngster, when she left her
home in Duluth, Mimi, with
her mother to spend a year
in Alaska.
Her father, a manufactur-
er temporarily turned pros
pector, sent for his family to
join him at Skagway. Laura
and her younger brother
were the first white children
to be brought into the area
during the Yukon Gold Rush
of 1898, though q family with
several boys had preceded
them in '97. she remembers.
Laura, whose grandfather
was a captain on the Great
Lakes, embarked on her next
major voyage during World
War I when she donned the
uniform of a Red Cross vol
unteer nurses aide and set
sail for Europe. After the
Armistice she remained for a
year doing postwar relief
work.
Her marriage to John M.
Waters brought the former
Laura Lutes to Washington
in 1925, but before long she
had contracted a case of
wanderlust again.
"I thought If we were 60
ing to have a happy life to-
gether, John and his son
should see the places I talked
so much about" she recalled.
So in 1880 she got up q party
to tour Europe and attend
the Passion Play at Oberam-
mergau-and took her fami-
ly along.
In Business
On her return, she opened
a travel bureau in the old
Wardman Park Hotel, and
she's been in business ever
since.
Now-32 years later-Mrs.
Waters Is affectionately
known as the dean of Wash
ington's travel agents and is
sometimes simply called,
Mrs. Travel.
When she takes o holiday,
.t's q buSman's holiday, of
course. Even being hospital
lied for four months in Eur
ich. Switzerland, where she
underwent eye surgery for a
detached retina two years
ago, failed to dim her en-
thusiasm for travel.
Actually, she received so
much attention from Ameri-
can friends and Europeans
alike Cher staff totaled up
more than 5000 messagesJ
that she had to resort to q
mimeographed 'Thank-you"
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10
Virginia B0tkin, Mezzo Soprano,
To Appear At Jarman Hall, july 10

The Longwood College Summer
Artist Series will present Miss
Virginia Botkin, mezzo soprano,
in a voice recital. The concert
will be given in Jarman Hall,
Tuesday evening, July 10, at 7::3O
pm.
Miss Botkin will also partici-
pate in the Summer Seminar in
Church Music being held at
Longwood. July through IS. She
will teach daily master classes
for all who are enrolled in the
Seminar and will be available
for private lessons in voice.
Miss Botkin is an assistant
professor in the School of Music
at North Texas State University.
She received the bachelor of arts
degree from the University of
Louisville, the bach or Of
science from the Juilliard School
Of Music in New York. and the
master Of music from Indiana
University. She has studied at the
Mozarteum in Salzburg. Austria.
Miss Botkin has appeared with
the Dallas Symphony, the Cor
pus Christi Symphony Orchestra,
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10

gro children said they intended
to fight for Indignation of the
county schools even if it means
closing all the public schools in
the county.
Ernest L. Johnson said he was
one of the first to sign an apph-
cation for his 12-year-old son to
transfer to the white school.
Mrs. Otis Goodman, Mrs. Al
berta Harris, James E. Hobson,
Mrs. C. N. Brown and two
others, who asked not to be
idel titled. said thew would p"sh
fer the transfer Of their children.
Parents Of the other % children
were not reached for comment.
Court Case
A suit is now before the Rich
mond circuit court, instituted by
the Powhatan school board. to
determine whether the school
board must act on the transfer
applications or not. The school
board suit states that the appli-
cations were not submitted as
required and it is not the duty
of the school board to determine
whether the applications are real
or false. This is the reason the
applications we're not forwarded
to the State Pupil Placement
Board for action.
Each of the seven parents or
guardians interviewed criticized
the curriculum at Pocahontas
school as not sufficient to pre-
pare their children for college
work.
James E. Hobson, who said he
had made application to transfer
two of his children IAN eighth
grader and 10th-grader, said an
older son was turned down by
Virginia State College because
he was not equipped to come
there. Hobson said the youth was
forced to enroll in u m m e
school at the college to meet the
entrance requirements. 1T h e Y
don't want to take them if they
come from PoWhatan. People are
just waking up to it. We have
beeen S eep SO years." he
added.
CONTINUED on page y
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10
Cumberland Plans
Expenditures OF
S5S5,066 For Year

CUMBERLAND. July Gum
berland supervisors kept the
same tax rate and approved a
budget for international and fis-
cal planning purposes, following
public heaing at the court
house Friday at 10 am. There
were no comments from the pub
lie at the hearing. The budget is
not officially adopted, as Cum
berland additionally appropri-
ates money for all county func-
tons on a month to month basis.
The budget. approved as a fis-
cal guide, shows total expendi-
lures Of $685. ,066. Revenue from
local SQUIRE will provide
$214,045, with state funds of
S364.l21 and federal funds of
$1,000. The dog tax fund will
provide $500. The largest ex-
penditure, by far, is $466, 226 esti-
mated for educational purposes.
The welfare budget is the next
largest item, with the toal vel
fare expenditures almost $75. 900.
The county tax rate was raised
to $3.50 per 500 property evalu-
Continued on page y
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10
Supervisors Turn Over $39,36O
In State Funds To School Board

The Prince Edward board of
supervisors handy mostly rou-
tine items at their re gula r
monthly meeting Tuesday. The
supervisors directed the county
treasurer to turn over approx
mately $4,000 to the school
board, which the county receives
from the State of Virginia for
school purposes under section
1875 of the state constitution.
These funds were placed in the
school surplus fund and "the said
funds are hereby appropriated
for public school purposes in or
der to carry out the mandatory
provisions of the state constitu-
ton. This money can be ex-
pended by the school board in
their discretion for such pur-
poses as provided by law.
The school board has used
these funds in the past year for
such items as school mainte-
nance. to pay administrative
salaries, etc. 1t would be Just a
fraction Of the amount of money
needed to operate public schools.
even on an abbreviated basis.
In making the appropriation,
the supervisors noted that they
have mo discretionary power
over these funds and acts solely
in ministerial capacity with re-
spect to said constitutional
funds
A delegation from Prospect APP
peared before the board to ask
improvements for Route 693. A.
W. Lewis was spokesman for the
group and a petition bearing 43
names was presented. The re-
quest for improvements was filed
with the resident engineer A. P.
r. Lowell.
The highway department also
notified the board that Gillian
Drive, Lee Drive and Sanford
street, all in The Green's" had
been taken into the secondary
highway system of the county as
requested by the supervisors on
June 5. These streets added one
mile to the county system.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10
Five Injured In
Collision At
South, Second

A car with five teenagers was
hit broadside at Ills Friday
night at the corner of Second and
South streets. All five passengers
were taken to Southside Com
munity Hospital where they were
tre e d for minor cuts and
bruises and four of the five were
released.
According to V. T. Hickman,
town officer who investigated the
accident, a car driven by Robert
L. Lane. of Rt. 8, Farmville. was
headed north on South street and
collided with a 1859 Pontiac,
driven by Mrs. Leon Henderson,
going east on Second street.
The five teenagers were listed
as the driver, Robert L. Lane,
with passengers Dale Scruggs,
Joseph Wright. Shirley Waycas-
ter, and Harry Baldwin. who re-
manned in the hospital for treat
ment of cuts and bruises on his
face.
Six cars were involved in the
accident, four of which were
parked in the used car lot
of Newman Chevrolet Company
The Lane car ended up on the
used car lot and the sidewalk
and the other car on the north
east corner of the intersection.
According to George DECKER
son, of Newman Chevrolet, dam
Continued on page u
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10

said the State Health Depart
ment, using federal public health
funds, plans to add two nurses
to the four-county area to assist
present public health nurses in
visiting the chronically i'll.
DR.. Clements said the extra
nurses would be furnished at no
cost to the counties and would
serve in public health educa-
ton as they visited homes
where there were chemically i'll
patients.
The health director said the
additional nurses would admin
lister prescribed medicines, do
bandaging. and perform other
home nursing functions.
At the same time. he added,
they could report new cases of
diabetis, tuberculosis and other
diseases in homes they visited.
Dr.. Clements said that he had
obtained the approval of practic-
ing physicians in the area for
the addition Of the two nurses
and asked the supervisors to
add to their approval which was
unanimous. He stated that the
nursing project was an expert
ment and would be discontinued.
if found not effective.
The same program alread is
being tried in Greene, Orange
and Culpeper counties on a three
year basis
Highway Matters
Clerk John Spencer read a let
ter from the State Highway De
partment approving the addi-
ing the addition of State Rt.
$40, beginning "0.4 of a mile
west of the east intersection of
State Rt. 633 and running in a
northerly direction for a dis
lance of l 40 miles to the coun-
tvs primary road system.
Resident Highway Engineer
A. P. R. Lowell told the SUI
pervisors that IA new bridges
were in the future highway plans
for the county. He also called
attention to a new state law,
that requires that new bridges
be built to carry maximum load
Of 10000 pounds.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10
|Ruritan Club Has
Charter Night;
Blair President

Wakefield.
Luther Nash. lieutenant COVER
nor Of Zone 3, of Pamplin, out
lined the work of Ruritan Clubs
and Charles Celia, of PoWhatan.
zone secretary, explained the or
ganization of a club into a work.
ing group.
Prince Edward Club will be
part of Zone 3, which includes
three clubs in AppomattoX, one
each in Buckingham and Cum
berland. two in Charlotte, and
two in NottoWay.
Charter members of Prince
Edward Club in addition to the
officers named above are: j. F.
Glenn, E. R. Johnson. j. F. Cole
man, j. D. Hobgood. Dudley
Peery, R. T. Redd. j. H. Whit
field, j. B. Wall. Earl Carter,
Rev. Donald R. Ortner, Willie
Welchlin, Ronald Stockton, c. W.
Dickhoff, Leslie Hamilton. G. l..
Power, D. A. Gates. Sr., W. T.
Joyner and Farrar Shelton.
Prince Edward Ruritan Club
will meet at Hotel Weyanoke the
first Tuesday of each month.
I'VE expect Rrmitan to take it's
place among the civic and COM
munity organizations in Prince
Edward and to develop a worth
while program. Composed of
rural and urban residents, farm
ers, business and professional
men, Ruritan develops a better
understanding of the problems
within a community. We trust
that the Prince Edward Club will
go long ways toward accom-
plishing this OBJ jective. The
planned programs will be in
formative. interesting, and some
times technical in an effort to
furnish as much information as
possible for the betterment of
agriculture and general good of
the cOunt y," President Blair
said.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10
Wampler Named
New Manager OF
w. T. Grant Store

James w. Wampler. Jr.. has
been appointed manager of the
w. T. Grant Company store in
Farmville. He was transferred
from the company store in
Clifton Forge.
A native of Greenville, Tenn,
in the Smoky Mountains, Wamp-
Ter started with Grants in Knox
vile. Tenn, and has served in
Durham, N. c., as well as
Portsmouth and Clifton Forge
Before coming with Grants in
1858. he was a steel estimator
for Tri-State Steel Company in
Knoxville.
Wampler attended East Ten
nessee State College, where he
was an outstanding shortstop
He majored in engineering for
three years. with one year of
business administration. He al
SO attended the University of
Tennessee.
Passing up a career in pro-
feSslonal baseball. he entered the
sales field. working for sew
eral companies before joining
Grants large organization. His
wife. the former Norma Miller,
of johnson City, Tenn, and
Clifton Forge. is professional
studio photographer. She and
their tWO-year- old son will move
to Farnlville this week.
Wampler was active in the
Junior Chamber of Commerce
and the KiWanis Club in Clifton
Forge. and they are members of
the Baptist Church. He also SER
we'd for four years in the U. S.
Air Force.
B. 3 Carter who opened the
new Grants store in Farnlville
in MAJ CHI. has been transferred
to Goldsboro, N. C.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10

Farmville's National G uard
unit, with other members Of the
29th Division. participated in a
review parade and final salute to
Mai. Gen. William c. Purnell. of
Baltimore. Saturday at Camp A.
P. Hill. General Purnell, 29th In
fantry Commander for the past
five years, is retiring this fall.
On Friday Virginia Governor
Albertis S. Harrison. Jr.. in
spected the members of the
famed Blue And Gray Division.
which is composed Of guards
men from Virginia and Mary
land. Maryland Governor Mlllard
TaWes joined Gov Harrison to
inspect the 1000 troops in train
ing at Camps Pickett and Hill.
Along with other army digni-
taries. the governors were flown
by helicopter from A. P. Hill to
Pickett Saturday morning to re-
view the troops there and back
to Hill for the review parade.
Troops returned to their train
ing cycles Monday for the final
week Of the two-weeks summer
encampment featuring army
training programs tactical eNer-
cises at the basic unit level. at
the platoon level and 20 hours Of
leadership courses conducted by
each of the Divisions five battle
groups.
Division headquarters will BIZ
vouac for four days and counter
insurgency and counter1guerrilla
tactics will continue on the 5000
acre reservation.
Col. Lanier Burford, super
visor Of training, said the 18th
Division troops are much more
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10
Chamber To Hear
Park Commissioner

Ben H. Bolen. commissioner of
Virginia State Parks. will be
the speaker at the monthly
meeting of Chamber of Com
merce. Monday night. Bolen
will discuss present and future
plans for development of Say
ler's Greek Battlefield Park.
near Rice.
Valentine w. Southall. Steph-
en- l.. Farrar. Jr., of Amelia, and
A. B. Cummings of Nottoway,
are to be special guests of the
Chamber.
Sayler's Greek Park has as its
focal point the Hillsman House.
but the battlefield covers the en-
tire area. Some of the fierciest
fighting took place near the juno
ton of Amelia. Nottoway and
Prince Edward counties. This
being Virginia only State mil
itary park. plans are underway
to develop it as a visitors center
during the Civil War Centennial.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10
NATIONAL
NEWS y
SUMMARY
} ALGERIA IN TROUBLE
} DOCTORS SILL STRIKE
} MORE MONEY FOUND
By
H. v. LANCASTER, JR.

ALGERIA, which became in
dependent last week, is Keeling
from a series of foreign and in
ternal pressures. Moroccan
troops invaded the country last
week SEEING parts of the oil
rich Sahara desert in the west.
There were fears that Tunisia
might try to enforce its claims
and move in from the east. AS
moderate Premier Youdself Ben
Rhedda tried to put together a
government in Algiers, deputy
Premier Ahmed Ben Bella, a
radical leftist who split with Ben
Khedda on the eve of independ-
ence, kept up his attacks on
the new government from his
refuge in Cairo.
THE DOCTORS. STRIKE
against Saskatchewan provinces
compulsory medical care plan
was still in effect at the end of
the week Only skeleton force
OF physicians was providing en-
Urgency medical service IN the
central Canadian province. A
hearing was set for Tuesday on
move to suspend the rnedi-
care plan until its validity can
be tested in the courts. SaSkatch-
evans dentists, who are sup
pose 10 be covered by the plan
only in certain emergency cases,
have voted to join the protest.
Both the Socialist provincial
government and the doctors
have expressed a willingness to
negotiate. but thus far nothing
definite has come of it. ?
MORE MONEY has been
found stashed away in Jersey
City, N. j., in a garage a block
away from the first cache. The
second haul netted $l68 SIS 50 !;
the first found Tuesday in an
abandoned car totaled $2,42l $40.
Police think the loot is connect
ed with the gambling operations
of Joseph "Newsboy" Moriarty
now in prison.
TWO EMPLOYEES OF the
Agriculture Department told a
Senate investigating subcom-
mittee Friday they had accepted
81 ,640.80 from the Billie Sol Estes
enterprises in connection with
cotton allotments. Both men who
worked in Mcintosh county,
Okla, said they had lied prev
iously under oath and had not
reported the money on their in
come tax forms. They submitted
Continued on page y
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10

0. B. Blair was elected presi-
dent of Prince Edward Ruritan
club at the charter night held at
Hotel Weyanoke Friday evening
July 6. Other officers are w. L.
Dickinson, vice-president; W. G.
Whittier, secretary; and Ralph
Hines, treasurer. Board mem
bers elected were W. L. Dicken-
son, Charles B. Pickett and j.
A. Hines. Z
Edward A. Moseley. of Mid
lothian, governor Of AppomattoX
District. presented the charter to
newly elected President Blair,
after the club members had
been welcomed into Ruritan by
National ecutive Score
tary Marvin Red Gray. of
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10
School Transfer Bids
Will Be Pursued By
Parents In POWhatan

POWHATAN. July 8 ~ Dis
satisfaction with the curriculum
at Pocahontas school was cited
by Negro parents as a primary
reason for. requesting transfers
for their children to attend the
white Powhatan high and ele-
meHtary schools. This is what
the Negro parents told a reporter
and their application blank S
gave the reason as, Il want my
child to attend a desegregated
school as he is entitled to do
under the constitution.
Parents of at least seven Ne
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10
Declare Abbitt
Party Nominee

The lack of a Democratic OPP
ponent for Watkins NJ. Abbitt
makes unnecessary a primary
election in the fourth congress
slonal district Tuesday, July 10.
Abbitt will be declared the Dem
ocratic candidate and will face
the Republic or other candi-
dates in the general election
in November. Regardless of
whether Republican candi-
date turns up or not. Abbitts
name will be submitted to the
voters on November 6.
Abbitt, considered unbeatable
in the fourth district, has served
in the House of Representatives
since 1913.
Only two Democratic Primar-
les are being held in Virginia
Tuesday. One is in the conser-
Vatlve seventh district where
five candidates are seeking to
succeed Rep. Burr P. Harrison
OF Winchester, who decided not
to run for reelection after Is
years in the House.
The other is in the liberal
tenth, where three candidates
want the privilege of trying to
unseat Rep. Joel T. Broynill, of
Arlington, a Republican.
Both contests have been rela-
lively quiet and a light turnout
IS expected at the polls. In all
other districts candidates have
been nominated by conventions
or scheduled primaries have
been called off for lack of a
contest.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10
Farmville At A. P. Hill
Governors Review Guard Units

advance this year over last.
Farmville's Company B, First
Battle Group, 18th Infantry is
| operating at Pettigrew cam site
at A. P. Hill, under direction Of
company commander, Captain R.
Julian Bradshaw.
Company BIS riflemen, auto
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10

matte riflemen, e1-mm mortar
men, and l06 recoilless rifle
squads are firing individual and
team weapons during the train
ing program This is the 18th en-
campment since the 10Th Di-
vision was reactivated following
World War II.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10
Buckingham Board Approves New
District Public Nursing Program

BUCKINGHAM, July 9-The
Buckingham board Of super
visors last week heard an out
line of a new public home nurs-
ing program which will be car
ried out in Appomattox, Buck
lngham, Cumberland and Prince
Edward counties.
DR.. F. j. Clements, health di-
rector for the four-county area,
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10
District Meeting
Of IO0F Thursday

State deputy grand master
Stanley Armistead will be guest
of honor at the district IOOF
meeting Thursday evening July
y at the Farmville Lodge, No
300.
Kenneth Andrews. Of Brook
neal, district deputy grand mas
ter will also attend the district
meeting, according to R. R.
Ransom, noble grand Of the
Farmville lodge.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10
Cancer Canvass
Wednesday Night

The hOuse-tO- house cru
SADIE will begin Wednesday,
July II, as the Ameri-
can Cancer Crusade gets
underway this week.
Clubs In the Farmville
area will provide volunteers
to aid in the solicitation,
which is a part of the work
being done to attain the goal
of $500 this year.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10

Another section of road was
taken into the secondary system.
This was Is Of a mile from
Continued on page D
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10

VIRGINIA BOTKIN
and has made concert tours in
Texas and Mexico.
The program includes present
Continued on page y
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10

main things vet to be done by Hungerford. Inc,
of Richmond. low bidders on the project. For
those who plan to use the courtroom for sum-
mer and fall meeting, air conditioning is a
welcomed addition; and for those who have to
use the courtroom day-in and LAYOUT, it is even
more than welcomed. The unit has been install
ed on the north side Of the courthouse, with
ducts blowing the cool air into the courtroom.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-07-10

Air conditioning of the Prince Edward
courtroom has just about been completed. with
the installation of this 24-ton capacity system.
The unit is in use. and the supervisors
have authorized payment of $4,000 for work
completed. The remainder of the Sl9,973 con-
tract will be paid when the finishing touches
have been made on the installation Additional
painting and fence around the unit are the
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