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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-02-13
Fire Destroys
Ellington House
Friday Morning

Fire of undetermined origin
destroyed two-story frame
dwelling about one half mile
west of Farmville early Friday
morning. It was unoccupied at
the time.
The house, an old landmark
on Routes Is and 400, was owned
by Paul Ellington. The value Of
the building and its contents.
which were completely consun-
ed by the fire, has not been esti-
mated here. the owner being out
of town. Also, it has not been
learned whether or not the build
ing was insured.
W. H. Mckay. Jr., maintained
an office in the building. Also
stored there in addition to fur
nishings owned by Ellington was
some furniture belonging to
Billy LeSueur.
Fireinen, called to the scene
by a l2:40 a m. alarm called in
by LeSueur and town police. re-
manned on there until 1886 am
Fire Chief Phillip Gay said the
blaze was out Of control before
the fire was discovered.
Firemen managed to save a
nearby building, house trailer
and service station.
The fire. which was hot one
back two hundred OF more feet
away. attracted large crowd Of
spectators. the blaze being Wis
; ible from a long distance. Traf
fic. light at l2:40, was kept oper
on the highway during the peak
of the blaze.
EARLY Saturday morning, fire
men were routed out of bee
when c. o. Jores sounded ar
alarm because of furnace diff
ficIites. Fire Chief Gay report
ed today the difficulty wa.
cleared up almost immediately
and firemen did not have to e
to the Germantown road resi-
dence.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-02-13

LongWoOd College has conf
menced project creating a
central campus mall in the area
bounded by the library, Jarman
Auditorium. Wheeler Dormitory.
Stevens Science Hall and North
Cunningham Hall.
Plans to establish a handsome
interior campus con for extern
sive grading. sidewalk construc-
ton, and the elimination of the
present road running east and
west along the side of North
Cunningham Hall.
Costing approximately 5000.
the project will include more
than $50 paintings of II differ
ent kinds Of trees and shrubs.
Many Of the paintings will be Of
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-02-13
Work On New
Parish House
Starts March |

The vestry of John Memorial
Episcopal Church authorized
the demolition of the present par
ish house beginning March l. The
old structure. located at the
corner of High and St. George
streets, will be replaced by a
new brick-veneer parish house
The vestry was elected at a
congregational meeting Sunday
Feb. 4. Returning members Of
the vestry are DR.. c. L. Baird,
Dr.. J. A. Mcclellan. William p.
Hay. T. w. Bloomfield. E. P.
Lancaster. H. S. Whitaker, and
T. K. Baldwin. Newly elected
members, under a rotational
plan, are DR.. r. T. Brumfield,
B. B. Hamburg, George T. Ri
son. III and w. B. Wall.
T. Kyle Baldwin was reelected
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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-02-13
LC Relig ious
Emphasis Series
Begins Tonight

Religious emphasis week will
be observed at Longwood Col
lege, Monday through Friday.
The theme Of the YWCA pro-
gram is BE Still and Know"
Dr.. William Rhodenhiser. Jr..
assistant professor Of religion at
the University of Richmond.
will be the visiting speaker.
Services will be held in JAR
man Hall Monday throgh Thurs
days at Z pm. On the same
days, an informal discussion
period has been arranged for 10
pm. in the YWCA lounge on the
first floor Of the student build
ing.
Other services scheduled are
an assembly at pm. in Jarman
Hall on Tuesday and a 7:30 am.
service Friday in Johns Mem
orial Episcopal Church.
The visiting speaker has done
work dealing with the relation
ship between psychiatry and rel
iglon. in this field Dr.. Rhodenhi-
ser did the work leading to his
electorate in theology at the
Seminary in Louisville, KY,
where he also took his bachelor
ard masters degrees in divinity
The public is invited to attend
! the services.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-02-13

Dark-fired tobacco auctions
were 255.866 pounds greater
than a year ago. and sun-cued
sales exceeded those of the 1860
crop by 334.018 pounds. The to-
tai weight gain over the previ-
Gus year was 289.3 1884 pounds.
The gross receipts of growers
this season totalled 81 .588, 1875.
which exceeded their income
last year by $64.35l. In the last
decade only the 1856 crop. which
produced the highest general
average on record, 1898. ex-
ceeded this years in terms of
total grower receipts.
General Averages
The general floor average for
the season just ended was $37.87
for dark fired tobacco, and
1881 for sun-cured leaf. The
dark-fired average fell $1.17 a
'lundredweight over last year
the sun-cured average was off
Al cents hundredWeight.
This years general average
for dark-fired tobacco was high
enough. however. to rank the
,rop as the fourth highest on
record behind the crops of 1856
(39.38l, 1860 $4,000 and 1851
f$38.50).
The total weight Of dark-fired
tobacco sold this season was
3.947 .0l8 pounds. second only to
1859 since the last acreage cut
for total weight. The weight in
1859 was 3,989.30O pounds.
Sun-Cured Sales
This seasons total weight Of
sun cured leaf amounted to
274, 488 pounds. This was the
fourth consecutive year showing
a gain in sun-cued auctions
since the change in the law in
1857 required farmers to stop
! growing both dark fired and
sun-cured on the same farm.
That year most growers in
this section chose to grow dark
fired. That produced a decided
drop in Sun-cured auctions at
Farmville, and switched most OF
Continued "n paus
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-02-13
Scout Award
Presented Here
For First Time

The first part of the Scout
Promise reads. On my honor l
will do my best to do my duty
to God" The 18th point Of the
Scout Law states. "a Scout is
reverent.
A relatively new Boy Scout
award. the God and Country
Award provides a way for a
youth to fulfill those promises.
Danny Locklair, IA year old
Eagle Scout of Farmville. re-
ceived the award Sunday during
a highhght OF Boy Scout Week
the first time it has been
earned here.
Danny. a Prince Edward
Academy freshman, had to work
a year and a half while prov
ing that az Scout is serious about
his moral obligations. 1t took as
much energy and work as the
coveted Eagle Scout award, he
reports.
Requirements
Throughout the working out
OF the requirements. the youth
pastor serves as counselor and
guiding friend. To achieve the
award Danny had to be active
in five areas of study, expert
ence and service: Christian
faith. Christian witness. world
outreach. Christian citizenship
and fellowship. These areas are
repeated in three stages. each
one requiring a greater degree
| Continued on page n
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-02-13
John Randolph
P-TA To Meet
Thursday

The John Randolph P-TA will
meet at s pm. on Thursday,
Feb. Is, in the school auditorium
in Cumberland county.
A short play on Founders Day
will be the program highlight,
Mrs. Jack Moody. secretary, has
announced
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-02-13

Mrs. H. E. Southall and w.
Earl Willis have been named CO.
chairrnen of the Prince Edward
County Heart campaign which
is conducted annually during
February.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-02-13
Ouer 500 F1o,uering Trees, Shrubs
To Beautity Ne,U Longwood Mall

states that he feels the finished
mall will give Longwood College
one of the most beautiful cam
puses in the State of Virginia.
! He also says that the interior
Continued on Page n
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-02-13

the Towering varieties.
Work Underway
Grading has already started,
and most Of the paintings are
scheduled this month.
President F. G. Landlord. Jr.,
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-02-13
NATIONAL
NEWS
SUMMARY
W SPY TRADED
ROMNEY TO RUN
FRENCH RIOTS

FRANCIS GARY POWERS,
convicted " spy pilot, who was
sentenced to 10 years imprison-
ment in Russia in 1850. was re-
leased to American authorities
early Saturday morning in Ber-
Lin. In return the U. S. gave up
Soviet master spy Col. Rudolf
Able. Able has been described
rs Russia's chief spy in the
q. s. before his arrest in Man.
haitian in 1857. The deal also in
volved the release of an Ameri-
can student who was arrested
in East Berlin last August. The
exchange. which took place at
the middle of a bridge connect
ing West Berlin and East Ger
many. climaxed months of be-
hind the scenes negotiations.
Powers was flown from Berlin
to Wiesbaden. Germany, where
he boarded another plane for
the U. S.
GEORGE ROMNEY. presi-
dent Of American Motors, an
nounced Saturday he will seek
the Republican nomination for
governor Of Michigan. Ronmey
is now serving as delegate to
q state constitutional convention
which is expected to finish re-
drafting Michigan's basic law
by the end of March. The De-
troit industrialiSt has been men,
toned as a dark horse candi-
date for the COP presidential
nomination in 1854.
PRESIDENT DE GAULLE OF
France is under attack from
both the right and the left as
he seeks to bring peace to Al
geria. On the right. there is the
outlawed secret army. the GAS,
which has been responsible for
the deaths of about 1000 per-
sons in Algeria since the begin
ming Of the wear and whose acts
of violence have become in
creasingly bold in France itself
On the left are the Communists
who are seeking to capitalize Oh
popular disgust with the rightist
violence and the seeming ina
bility of the government to cope
with it. On Thursday night there
was a CommuniSt-inspired riot
in Paris in which eight persons
were killed and l4O policemen
and countless demonstrators in.
jured.
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME is
a subject OF controversy in the
General Assembly. Last week &
Senate committee handed Gov
Harrison his first defeat by kill
ing his proposal that the entire
state go on daylight saving time
from Memorial Day to Labor
Day. But two other bills propos
ing statewide fast" time have
been introduced one for thu
period of May | to Oct. 81 ant
another for April % to Oct. Is
Another proposal would keel
the state on standard time tn
entire year.
A STUDY COMMISSION o.
annexation was proposed las
week by Del. Edward M. Hud
gins Of Chesterfield. He sug
gested the commission shoul'
take a year TO look into tn
problems caused by the expan
sion of cities and try to COM
up with recommendations. II
the meantime all annexation
and merger proceedings woult
Continued on page "
Evening star., 1962-08-26

series Of TV appearances by Mr..
Nixon and the month of Octo-
ber's declining rate of employ
ment. Having witnessed the Re-
publican Congressional defeats in
1858 during a similar decline in
employment, he is convinced that
there is no more important factor
in an election.
Although it is decided under
dog in registration, Mr.. Bush does
not feel that the Republican Party
is a minority in political thought.
And he is careful to point out
that in recent voting on legisla-
ton. the Republicans are usually
"in the majority"
Mr.. Bush said the G. o. P.
suffers nationally from an ill
lusion" created by the Democrats
that their policies are more bene-
ficial, Asked why the Republicans
could not beat the illusion with
one of their own, he said that
the Democrats inflationary spend
ing programs were easier to sell
and harder to discredit. The re-
sulting rise in the cost of living
is not apparent, he feels.
Mr.. Bush chuckled when asked
to give some reason why the
Democrats and not the Repub-
licans seemed to attract the in
tellectuals. He replied firmly: Il
don't know-and I don't regret it,"
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FDR's Promise
THE NATIONAL SCENE

planned. Neither Senator Cannon
nor Senator Goldwater mentioned
the Polaris force.
When Mr.. Kennedy was asked
about the demand in the Senate
for a crash military space pro-
gram he told of the vast sums
we are now spending and pointed
out that there is a great inter-
relationship" between the NASA
and Pentagon space programs
implying, presumably. that the
gains of one are shared by the
other.
Then he indicated that there
would be no great shift in en-
phasis, at least at this time. when
he said:
But we're concentrating on the
peaceful use of space which will
also help us protect our security
if that becomes essential"
There is one important ad-
ditional factor to be considered
in weighing the scope Of the two
efforts. This is the limited size
of the pool of scientific man
power available. Any great in
crease in the military program
could only come from a telescop-
ing of NASA activities and a
transfer of substantial number of
personnel to the Pentagon pro-
grams.
Future Soviet developments and
successes may determine whether
this will be done.
Evening star., 1962-08-26
Pressure Denied

Mr.. Murphy issued a statement
Friday declaring that mo pres
sures or improper influences had
any effect on my decisions" in
the Estes case and urged that no
conclusions be drawn about his
role until he has had a chance
to testify before the committee.
His request, which is regarded
as reasonable, may have been in
reply to a statement made on
Wednesday by the Chairman as
well as to the testimony cited
above. Senator Mcclellan told an
Agriculture witness that his testi-
mony apparently confirms that
someone in the department was
trying to help Mr.. Estes" and that
"it couldn't be but two people
Secretary Orville L. Freeman or
Mr.. Murphy.
Earlier in the Estes hearings,
the Senator suggested that de-
partment officials had "deliber-
ately" withheld information from
Mr. Freeman.
On Friday, Mr.. Jacobs told the
committee that Thomas r. Hughes,
Mr.. Freeman's executive assistant,
had attended meetings ON the
Estes cotton deals as early as last
January. Earlier testimony had
indicated Mr.. Freeman was first
told of the Estes matter on
March %. Mr.. Hughes denied
being present at the January
meetings.
Evening star., 1962-08-26
Space: Where
We Stand

President Kennedy said on
Wednesday that we are "well
behind" the Russians in the
space race and may not forge
ahead till the end of the decade.
Senators Cannon and Gold
water on Monday made a BIZ
partisan plea for a greater
United States effort in devel-
oping military space vehicles
and weapons.
The Soviet double-orbi feat of
early this month, the basis for
new Kremlin taunts and threats
against the West, has triggered a
critical determination in the
United States as to the adequacy
and direction of this Nations
space efforts.
Generally, two questions are
being discussed and debated:
Q Are we doing all we can to
win the race to the moon against
the Soviet?
. Are we devoting enough atten-
ton to the military security as
poets or are we concentrating too
much of our scientific talent on
so-called peaceful purposes" of
space technology?
A week before, James E. Webb,
head of the National AeronauticS
and Space Administration, said he
believed we would land on the
moon and return before the Rus
slams did
Evening star., 1962-08-26
HOW DIDN'T BECOME GOVERNOR
Sinclair Recalls EPIC Race in "a

"OK Governor. I'll take you there"
So 1 rode the rest of the way
with a siren clearing the road
and made my date.
At home I provided the move
ment with a book called Il, Gov
ernor of California: and How 1
Ended Poverty" I gave that book
to the movement and 1t had a
great sale. Very soon we started
a weekly paper and wrote the
back page of that. All over the
State people were desperate and
they rushed to form EPIC Clubs"
There were several hundred Of
these clubs, and they circulated
the paper and developed thir own
speakers and held their own meet
ings.
Communist CotcolIs
I toured the whole State and
spoke in every city, sometimes
more than once. I would answer
the attacks of newspapers and the
arguments of our opponents.
These opponents were not only
the big business interests OF this
State, but also the Communists,
who denounced EPIC and some
times printed leaflets and shcw-
cred them down from the balcony
at our meetings. When that hap
pened, 1 would ask for one of
the leaflets and read it to the
audience and answer 1t.
CThe Communists. incidentally,
liked to call EPIC lone more
rotten egg from the blue buzz
yards nest"-the blue buzzard"
being their name for the New
Deals NRA emblem)
What were called "self-help"
organizations were formed all over
the State and these gave us ar
dent backing. The amazing thing
to me was the way groups and
organizations sprang up in every
part of the State. I had thought
that was enlisting for the pri-
mary campaign and would. of
course, be put out by some we'll
known Democratic politician.
To my CONSERVATION carried
the Democratic primary and be-
came the Democratic Party'S cam
didate. The vote for me was
436,000, more than the total for
all the other six candidates.
From that time on I lived as
If in a whirlwind; there was no
place to hide from 1t. All my
writing life I had been fighting
against the existence of poverty
in America. There was no possible
excuse for it and there still is
no excuse for we are able to
produce enough for everybody. and
the only trouble is that so many
people do not get enough money
to buy it.
Now I had an opportunity to
express that idea to more than
the people of California; the vic
tory of the EPIC movement in
California was something the
whole country wanted to know
about.
FDR's Promise
In the last month Of the cam
paign 1 made a trip to the East
and had the pleasure Of a couple
Evening star., 1962-08-26
As Senator Bush Leaves Office

was answered by the time he had
returned to his office.
Most of Mr.. BuSh's Senatorial
career was under the Eisenhower
administration and he considers
himself one of the former Presi-
dents most consistent supporters.
I'VE don't talk of failures in
the Eisenhower administration"
he said. For six Of the eight
years we had a hostile Congress
doing their Democratic damndest
to make his administration
failure"
But he also said that perhaps
there could have been more per-
suaSion from the top" in the pro-
motion of the Eisenhower pro-
grams. The Republican leaders
underestimated the value, of what
M. Bush refers to as a little
friendly conversation" in getting
things done.
The Nixon Roce
Recently Mr. Eisenhower pub
licly regretted not having done
more to help Richard Mr.. Nixon
in his 1860 presidential campaign.
Mr.. Bush doubts if he could have
done any more than he did.
Mr.. Nixon's defeat in Mr.. Bush's
opinion, was a combination of a
fierce and effective" campaign
by President Kennedy, a poor
Evening star., 1962-08-26

port that Estes might be subject
to prosecution for illegal dealings
in cotton acreage allotments.
Mr.. Murphy, early in July, asked
Chairman Mcclellan for an OPP
portunity to testify at the earliest
time. The Chairman, proceeding
along a methodical plan, has put
off Mr.. Murphy. But last weeks
testimony indicates that the Un-
dersecretary will be called this
week. perhaps on Tuesday.
He will be asked to comment
on testimony given on Wednes-
day by a lower-level Agriculture
employe that his immediate su-
perior asked him to write report
to justify Estes cotton deals and
that this superior left me with
the impression that Mr.. Murphy
concurred in that idea"
He also will be asked whether,
as Emery E. Jacobs, an ousted
department official has testified,
he agreed at a meeting in his
office last January 6 to rescind
orders issued on December %,
1861, canceling Estes allotments
and whether he concurred in the
suggestion made at the same
meeting that no fine be leveled
against the Texan for selling
cotton without valid allotments
in 1861.
Evening star., 1962-08-26
Worn With Pride

For every man who has no.
ton of deSertins the Legion, how
ever, there are still a hundred
who wear with pride the white
kept and the green tie of their
corps.
Corsica represents a tremendous
comedown today. And the men
don't like it. Their morale is
rock-bottom low. This may be
hard for a layman to understand.
but the explanation lies in the
Legion's war-pocked history
which covers campaigns in the
Swamps of ndo-China, in the Riff
Mountains of Morocco, on the
sands of the Sahara and in the
trenches of both World Wars.
Maybe you get a better feel"
of this in the Legion Museum.
Among other things, you can't
help being impressed by the wood
en- hand of one-armed Capt. Jean
Danjou. This tabled hero died in
the Battle of Camerone in 1864
while he and his 80 LegionnaireS
held off 1000 Mexicans for two
days.
To a career soldier this kind of
laSt-ditch bravery is the ne plus
ultra of sheer glory. But now it's
time to rightabout-face. for
France is ready to bring down
the curtain on the Foreign
Legion. So, Bugler. blow those
finiS notes softly-but blow them
right-for the Legion, as always,
is once again ready to face the
music.
Evening star., 1962-08-26
Military Effort

Presumably in reply to the
twin assault, Defense Secretary
Mcnamara said on Tuesday that
the double Russian orbit did not
call for any acceleration of our
military effort in this fiscal year.
But he promised a substantial
increase in spending next year
over the current $1.5 billion and
announced the letting of con-
tracts for the new Titan III mil
itary booster rocket-of an in
terim size between the Atlas and
the down-the-road super Saturn.
Mr.. Mcnamara could have
but did hotpoint out that the
United States has had spy-in-the-
sky satellites over the Soviet
Union for a year or more and
maintains a lead in this i'm
portant intelligence effort.
Nor did he reply to the Sem
ators' fears for our retaliatory
strength by pointing out that
Soviet missiles from outer space
would not be capable of wiping
out our growing force of Polaris
submarine-based rockets. There
are 96 Polarises at sea aboard
six nuclear- powered subs today;
a fleet of Al such craft. carrying
656 of the hydrogen rockets is
Evening star., 1962-08-26

periods when we're going to be
behind. Anybody who attempts to
suggest that we're not behind
misleads the American people
we're we'll behind -. :"
This does not sound like the
President is betting that we will
get to the moon first.
On the matter of our military
effort in space the President and
his administration were under fire
from both the Republican and
Democratic sides in Congress last
week.
The principal attackers were
Senators Cannon, Democrat, of Ne
vada. and Goldwater, Republican
of Arizona. Both are generals in
the Air Force Reserve and reflect
the position of that service, which
has been fighting for more money
and scientific talent for purely
military space programs.
Evening star., 1962-08-26
By NINO LO BELLO
Contributing Writer

BONIFACIO, Corsica. - Bugler.
stand at attention and keep that
upper lip stiff, because it's time
to play Taps for the Foreign
Legion.
Shed not a tear, for we're about
to close shop on the most elite
military organization on the face
of the earth as thousands of Le-
gionnaires. having fought THE
Dirty War" of Algeria, pour into
Corsica for what will probably be
the swan song of Beau GeSte."
After some 130 years of engag-
ing in tough battles for la belli-
cose France. the Foreign Legion
today doesn't have war on its
hands. The fighting is all over
in Algeria, and now the Legion
has moved its headquarters from
Sidi- i-bel-Abbes in the Sahara DeS-
ert to this small seaport, a hill
Rugged town on the southern
coast of Corsica.
II was paid to fight" came a
complaint from a sergeant of the
18th Demi-Brigade, a German
tough-guy in his early 30s. What
am I doing here in Corsica? Men
join the Legion for adventure and
to fight. What are We men do
ing here on this island?"
Now that Frances colonial en-
pire has been reduced to big
zero, there seems to be no more
need for the Legion Etrangere."
Relocating the worlds toughest
soldier corps to quiet and peaceful
Corsica is tantamount to calling
it quits. Let's say the Legion is
kaput-and now is the time for
all good men to come to the aid
of their own countries.
Gemons in Majority
Of the some $4,000 Legion
naires leaving North Africa, bet
ter than so per cent are Germans.
Another 80 per cent are Italians,
Spaniards and Greeks. The rest
are Iron Curtain escapees-mostly
Hungarians and Poles with
Sprinkling of British, Americans
and Scandinavians. These SOL
diers of fortune signed up Tor
a five-year hitch, and it appears
that when their terms are
up. France will not be accept