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smaller figure.
To collect and to expend the
money collected in Virginia from
the acreage tax. the General AS
sembly of Virginia passed laws
providing for this and setting up
a Flue-Cured Tobacco Commits
sion of seven members.
The present members of the
Commission are w. S. AdHsson,
Jr., Clover; c. l.. Barnes, Ken
bridge: J. P. Gillian, Church
Road; S. T. Moore. Jr., South
Hill; R. Reid Settle, Alberta; o
O. Smith, Java; and C. w.
Vaughan. Wylliesburg. Others
who have served on the COM
mission were H. G. Blalock, C..
L. Whitehead. j. B. Altman. and
Roby B. Davis ,Jr.
The T bacco Commission,
while it turns over most of the
money received to Tobacco AS
sociates. has always held back
enough money to be used on
pressing needs in Virginia for
which there are no other funds
available.
Some years ago the Tobacco
Commission supplemented tn 9
salary Of a person desiring to do
research work but who needed
help to support his family while
doing graduate work. An agree
ment was made that this person
work ir Virginia a year for each
year his salary was supplement-
ed. The results of research done
by this person are most encour-
aging.
Recently the Tobacco Commits
sion contributed money toward
hiring technician for the period
January, 1864, to July. 1864, to
aid in nematode work in Vir-
GINA. No funds were available
and had it been necessary to
wait until after this amount had
been included in the VPI budget
whole year of research and
service to the tobacco grower of
Virginia would be lost.
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Tobacco
Market News
VIRGINIA FIRE-CURED

The three Virginia F'ire-cured
tobacco markets. Blackstone.
Farmville and Lynchburg held
first sales of the 1868 season on
Tuesday, December 8. The Fed
eral-State Market News Service
reports a large majority Of the
grades averaged higher than on
opening day in 1862. Quality Of
offerings was considerably low
Ell as a result Of an extremely
dry growing season. Growers
placed around four per cent Of
gross sales with the Cooperative
compared to GA per cent on
initial auctions last year.
Gross sales Tuesday amounted
to 5l6,99i pounds and averaged
s37 -67 per hundred pounds -
down 1892 from the f4O.29 re-
turn for 643,73 gross pounds sold
on the first day last season.
During the entire 1862 season.
sales totaled 9.839,912 pounds
averaging $38.7l.
Average prices for practically
Ill marketlngs except green
grades showed increases over
1862 opening day levels. Many
Of the larger increases occurred
FOR good and fair medium brown
heavy and thin leaf. Green to-
bacco sold about like last
L. Substandard nordescript
dropped 81 80. Top bid was SIS
hundred pounds for a basket
Of fine thin leaf (C2L 49,.
Offerings were composed of
smaller percentages of good to
fair tobacco While nondescript
and low quality increased sharp
~. Less brown tobacco was sold
with much more green Also.
marketings were shorter in
length than last year.
OLD BELT FLUE-CURED
Demand for Old Belt flue-cur-
ed tobacco continued to weaken
during the eleventh week Of
sales, reports the Federal-State
Market News Service.
| Gross sales and averages for
the week ending December s,
totaled only l7,932,o68 pounds
averaging s4834 per hundred.
The average was $2.51 under the
previous low Of last week Sea
son sales were raised to 232, ST.
666 pounds at an average Of
$50 49, For the comparable
period last year 308 .03l. ITO
pounds sold for an average Of
S60.43.
| Sterilization Corporation re-
ceirts were about 68 per cent of
sales. Season deliveries were
around 42.5 per cent.
! Markets closing during the
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POnds Mean Money
Water Catcher's FOrethOught
Turned To Gold During Drought

head Of dairy cows and has 3.99
acres of flue-cured tobacco and
II acre allotment of dark fired
leaf:
On lo acres Of alfalfa and six
of clover and sudan grass they
were able to cut three hay crops
and Craze ar additional one. The
harvested total was about $500
bales after three separate ir-
rigations.
They remember that from one
ll-acre field of alfalfa they got
exactly "A bales of hay without
water. The three-inch applica-
ton of water from the ponds
produced 500 bales per cutting
for the three cuttings.
Tobacco Crop
The four acres of bright to-
bacco, with four waterings pro-
duced S,054 pounds or 1000
pounds per acre, and crossed
the farm Sl.l27 per acre after
warehouse charges. 1t was a
production, they agreed, pretty
far surprising that of waterless
producers around them.
With four inches of water on
sudan grass, they produced IS
tons Of silage They agree this
would have been nothing without
the water" Finally. they used
water to get their small grain,
chiefly barley, to come up, and
got "a fairly good stand under
natural conditions which de-
stroyed unWatered stands.
I'VE wouldn't have made any
hay and little or no tobacco"
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Ponds Me- an Money
BY JOHN sTECK

Save for a rainy day, goes the
advice for money management.
Save for dry day, goes the
advice for water management.
Either one Of these adages is
money in the bank. and t h e
whitening, drought bound sum
mer of 1868 brought home the
truth of the secord one anew.
We've just talked with OPP
orators of two Grade A dairy
farms who calculate that water
from their farm ponds wa S
worth thousands of dollars to
them this year.
They irrio ated. of course. but
this isn't story about irriga-
ton particularly. It's more about
the value Of catching water when
It's abundant and saving it for
when it isn't.
Frank Farm
On the 4OO-plus-acre w. E.
Frank & Sons farm. rear Rice,
Mr.. Frank and sons, William E.,
Jr.. and John. have two one
acre ponds. 'Irrigating ri h t
along since April" they estimate
the ponds and the branch pro-
vided them with 300 acre inches
Of water, or about eight million
gallons. 1t wasn't the same as a
good rainy year, and as William
F. Jr.. puts it, lit was lots Of
hard work to spread that much
around.
But here, in the following
paragraphs, is what it meant to
this farm which averages 100
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say these producers in the Loo
kett District section which miss
ed most of the few showers
which fell elsewhere.
William, Jr., estimates t h E
stored water saved them about
$4,000 in hay purchases which
would have been necessary to
keep the dairy herd the
chief money maker going
He believes the water added
something near $1,000 to tobac-
co gross income. and he placed
a $50 value on the sudan grass
silage.
Adding together the money
value Of extra tobacco and 81
lage production and the amount
of hay purchases saved which
would have had to be paid out
of-pocket, those little one-acre
ponds were worth about $7,70O to
the farm.
OF course, that's a gross fig
ure and from that would have to
be subtracted labor costs of
NOV ing irrigation equipment,
gasoline and equipment depreci-
alton. But the net would still be
a handsome figure for a
bone dry summer.
Schmidt Farm
Over near Sayler's cree k
Battlefield, Robert Schmidt had
similar story to relate. This
Grade A operator and tobacco
man has four ponds, two added
this year. II believe they will
help me more than anything
can do" he declares. Water
and timber may be the two chief
farm shortages We can substi-
tute for timber, but there's no
OA0ol4tOGC 1OI WdltI.
Schmidt used up all the water
from his two established ponds,
and wanted more so he
moved earth for two more in
July. They're filling up now.
He helped hay as much as
possible, but concentrated on to-
bacco. of which he has IL acres
of bright leaf on the two farms
he operates. He, too, produced
about 1000 pounds of tobacco
per acre, getting what he called
"a normal crop except for the
effects of the unbroken days of
hot SUM-
He's sold about half of his to-
bacco, and has been crossing
about $1,l00 per acre. He thinks
this might have been 1900 per
acre without water" Schmidt
also was able to irrigate to or
ueT MS TOBACCO plant beds, thus
getting a better and earlier
start.
Before he ran out of water
available for hay. he got 1000
bales Of alfalfa. What we got
in hay after using the water
solely for tobacco wasn't worth
running the machinery over" he
declared.
Money Value
He doubled and triple d"
stands Of soybeans, cane and
corn produced as silage by
watering, ne says. Everything
we could rake or scrape went
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TOBACCO
........
M. MARKET

When some years ago it be-
came apparent that flue-cured
tobacco growers were sins
some of their exports, it was de-
cided to form Tobacco Associ-
ates. whose purpose would be to
promote the export of tobacco.
The growers from the flue-cured
area decided to tax themselves
on an acre basis for this pur-
pose. The warehouses cooper
ated in collecting this from the
first sale of tobacco. Joining
with growers by contributing
money were kers. ferti-
lizer manufacturers, warehouse
men, and leaf exporters.
Tobacco Associates, under the
leadership of j. B. Hutson, has
constantly striven to remove
tariff on tobacco going to for
eign countries and to remove
other trade barriers that have
made it harder to sell tobacco
abroad Through the years To-
bacco Associates has been effec-
tive. Its market expansion pro-
gram in Japan has helped pro
mote the sale Of a brand Of
cigarettes known as Peace. in
which there is a large per cent
Of American flue-cured tobacco.
Money contributed BY Tobacco
Associates, the USDA, and the
Japanese Monopoly has b e II
spent in advertising the Peace
cigarette. Japanese consumption
Of our tobacco has increased to
"a million pounds from a much
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Herald arm Jews

year.
In Virginia, more birds are ex-
pected on the market than dur
ing the same periods last year.
The largest percentage increase
is expected during February and
March.
Last week in Virginia farm
prices were: fryer -roasters Is
cents, young hens "a cents and
young toms % cents.
In the Carolinas and Georgia,
delivered to plant prices were:
young hens PAP rs "a cents
and young toms Fl "a 22l2
cents.
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into silage," says this dairvman.
His fall oats, he relates, were
soWed in dust, but watering has
produced pretty good stand. :"
Schmidt also spoke frankly
about the money value Of water
from his ponds. He believes it
increased his tobacco gross in
excess Of $1,000. that it raised
up 81 900 worth of alfalfa which
wouldn't have matured other
wise, and his 20 tons Of silage
meant another $500.
Like most dairyman with valu-
able producing herds to keep
functioning, Schmidt has had to
purchase additional hay. To date
he has bought four carloads.
If Id had the water W. could
have saved that" he feels. And
it's costing about SIPS a bale.
too.
Howell E. Lacy, county conser-
vationst- was with US when we
visited these fine county farms
Water management is " h t
we've got to come to- he de-
clared. Usually we have enough
if we catch it and save it,"
After seeing what a couple OF
good catchers and savers
conservation managers did,
what else can you do but agree
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Burlington, Madison and

Burlington, olson and
Mebane. N. c. All markets have
announced official closing dates
: Petersburg, December II;
Chase City and GAINESVILLE, and
RoXboro, N. c.. December II:
Brookneal, Martinsville and
South Hill, ana Wlnston- Salem,
N. c.. December 10, Kenbridge
and Reidsville. N. c., December
II and South Boston, December
10
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-12-10
Farm Price
Outlook .

This is the way prospects for
Virginia farm prices looked to
the Virginia Department Of Az
riculture on Friday. The Depart
ment offers it to farmers with
the warning that no one can pre-
dict prices and be right all the
time
Hay prices in Virginia are ex-
pected to move up somewhat.
Two main reasons are seer
for the expected increase. Com
petition from other states for
hay will be strong. Rail rate re-
auctions of so per cent have
been in effect over several rail-
roads. There is a possibility
that ore or more of these rail-
roads will cut their rate reduc-
ton back to Is per cent after
December II.
Out-of- state supply of hay
available is expected to be ade-
quate throughout the winter, but
supply should become little
tighter as we move on into the
winter.
All hough prices will vary
throughout areas of the state,
dealer prices for first cutting al
falfa last week ranged from a
low OF S45 to a high of S49.
Prices on second or later cut
tings Of alfalfa ranged from a
low Of S51 to a high Of S56- Clio
yer timothy ranged from S44 to
S48.
These prices are quoted for
No. ? or better grades Of hay.
Turkeys
Not much change is expected
from present turkey prices in
Virginia. ard no drop i'll The
market is foreseen. The great
est strength should be in prices
for young hens.
Indications for the nation are
that fewer birds will be coming
to market. Slaughter. in pounds
during the first 4 days of No
vember was down six per cent
compared to the same period
last year. Storage holdings.
however. are larger than last
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get it in my back and I'd
forget the pain in my feet
and then I'd get one in my
hip and I'd forget the one
in my back.
Had Many Thoughts
What did I think about?
I thought of Gene Gibbons
(Mr. Fellin's partner in the
mine operation) and why
didn't he get us out? I
thought about my wife and
our twin girls and the guys
I hung around with at
"Ann's Cafe" in Hazleton. I
said many times I'd sure like
a beer. Most of all, I wanted
to see daylight and wanted
to get home.
And then suddenly on the
sixth day came the miracle.
We hadn't heard that first
drill coming down. First
was dropped down a hole
near us. We heard voices
yelling our names from
above.
We crawled as fast as we
could over the debris to the
mike hanging from this first
6-inch hole. We Kept yelling,
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Here we come, here we
come" as we crawled over to
that hole.
Up on the surface they
asked us what we needed and
soon we got clothes and
hamburgerS and soup and
coffee. We weren't cheering
yet. We were far from GER
tain of getting out then be-
cause so far only a 6-inch
hole had reached US.
We ate that first food too
fast and got stomach cramps.
Then I asked for and got
some chewing tobacco and
then we slept for a couple of
hours.
Work lights were lowered
on a cord. Later they sent
us flashlights.
That first hole was just for
food and communications.
The next day they started
drilling a 12-inch hole. We
could hear it above. But this
drill hit a sulphur ball
that's as hard as a diamond
- so they quit trying in this
spot.
The next day we could
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was the first and only time
we heard him. He yelled,
"Davey and Hank, where are
you? This is Louis. I got a
light. I'll drop it 5 feet in
front of you"
1t sounded like it was
coming from above. Now, this
was real. I'll admit other
things were imagined. But
this was real. I actually heard
Louis. But we couldn't find
him or his light. And we
never heard him again.
cat this writing, no one
has, but drilling continuesO
What kept us going down
there? I can only guess. 1t
must have been our will
power, our strong wish to get
out. We prayed two or three
times an hour. Dear Lord,
help us get out, help us get
out" I said aloud over and
over. For II days, till they
got that 12-inch hole down,
we couldn't stand. My feet
are still numb at the toes
because of the little circula-
ton. While we were down
there, I got this sharp needle
pain in my feet and then I'd
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Hunt Pressed
For Sd Miner

HAzLETON, Pa, Aug. %
(AP).-Workers, pressing their
search for Louis Bova, 81, to-
day drove a 12-inch escape
hole into a mine chamber 305
feet underground where 1t is
believed the miner may be
trapped.
Shortly before noon a small
speaker was lowered through
the hole in an effort to make
voice contact with Mr.. Bova.
At the same time, David
Fellin, So, who was rescued
yesterday along with Henry
Throne, %, from the mine after
nearly two weeks, told a news
conference that II know he
(Mr. Bova) is down there and
I am sure he is alive"
There's water down there
and he can live without food"
he said. He said Mr.. Bova is
his buddy and if someone else
will not go down to try to help,
he himself will do so.
The 12-inch drill that broke
through today was driven down
by the giant rig that bored, and
then enlarged to IS inches. the
rescue shaft by which Mr.. Fell
lin and Mr.. Throne were pulled
to the surface.
Meanwhile, drilling at two
other shafts continued.
A 3-inch probe reached 1872
feet at 7 am, officials said. A
6-inch shaft, started early to-
day. hit SO feet by 7 am.
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Congress Extends
U. S. Spending
z More Months
BY the Associated Press

Congress, with most of the
regular money bills to finance
Government operations still
awaiting passage, has voted
another emergency extension
of spending authority for Fed
eral agencies.
The new extension, the Sec
one in two months, received
House and Senate approval
yesterday. sending it to the
White House for signature. The
new extension will be good un-
til October 81. Congressional
leaders hope the regular ap-
preparation bills will have been
passed by that date.
The first extension provided
emergency financing until Au-
gust 81.
Only four of the 10 major
appropriation bills for the fis-
cal year that started July
have been enacted. Four others
are awaiting Senate passage
two are in Senate-Hous con-
ference committee, and four
have not emerged from the
House Appropriations Commit
tee.
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Pukistuni President
Delays British Visit

LONDON, Aug. % (AP).-
President Mohammed Ayub
Kahn of Pakistan has post
poned the visit to Britain he
was scheduled to make in
October. Buckinham Palace
announced yesterday.
lowing to the recent death
Of the speaker of the Pakistan
National Assembly, who would
have acted as head of state in
the Presidents absence, he has
regretfully been forced to sug-
gest a postponement in his
visit to Britain in October this
year." the announcement said.
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time we shook hands. Now
for the first time I was
beginning to feel optimistic.
And now 1t was Monday,
August 26. 1t was COL pm,
they told us and the big
reamer that was widening
the hole to 10 inches was
only six inches over us.
Twenty minutes later that
big gorgeous reamer broke
through! I yelled up, send
a line down. I'm coming up"
But it couldn't work that
fast. They lowered a light
slowly and every 80 feet down
"e told them what the hole
locked like. Then we got some
req food - chopped steak,
mashed potatoes and peas
and coffee and fig cakes in
plastic containers.
Finally, the coveralls and
harnesses came down and we
put them on. l creased
Davey's shoulders and arms
and hips and he did the
same for me.
And now 1t was around
2 am. and I was being
h a ule d up slowly. They
stopped me two or three
times and it seemed forever.
Then they started again and
I was spinning. Finally, there
it was-the surface, the air,
the people.
AS the air hit me, I felt
dizzy and fell into that
basket-type stretcher. I was
thinking, I'm out now, I'm
out now" And I cried for
the first time.
While 1 was down there
they asked me if I'd go back
to work in the mines. I said
I would. But I'm not, I guess
I'm afraid. I'll work any,
where except in a mine.
Until now, I never went to
church more than a couple
Of times in my life.
Now I'll go regular.
I want to keep thanking
God.
Copyright, 1858, by the Associated Press
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Miners Own Story We Saw People That Weren't There
Continued From Page Al

Continued From Page Al
they got. For example, I saw
this man, or the dark shape
of a man with a light on his
helmet. I yelled, "Show me
some light over here! Over
here!" Davey saw him too,
but the shape of the man
got smaller and smaller as
we crawled toward him and
then he was gone altogether.
The fifth day was the
worst. I think that was the
closest we came to death.
That's when 1t started rain
ing and we could hear 1t
coming down the drainage
pipes and we thought we'd
be drowned. Thank God it
rained only about 20 minutes.
door" Wasn't a Door
But in that time I started
running around wild. That's
when I saw a door, just like
a regular house door.
"Davey," I yelled, Lets go
there"
I crawled as fast as I
could toward 1t but suddenly
I found myself humping into
just another piece of timber.
That's when I got the bruise
under my eye.
] was so frightened, I just
went wild. I crawled like
mad away from Dave and fell
into some kind of hold. For
a while-maybe 20 or 80 min
utes-we lost contact. Then
I found myself yelling loud
as I could and the echo came
bouncing back at me:
"Davey, I'm going homel
I'm going alone If you don't
want to come"
And Davey said, Nov, wait
now wait, Hank. Well go
together"
He was trying to steady me
down. And as I got a little
calmer I said, "Davey, now
come they're not trying to
get us out? How come they're
not trying to get us out,
Davey?"
And Davey said, II don't
know, Hank. I don't know"
For the first two days. we
didn't touch the lousy sui
phur water. But then we
couldn't hold out. At first it
tasted bitter but 1t got better
or seemed better.
Didn't Think About Hunger
Hungry? That's the screwy
part of 1t. Although I had
only a glass of milk and two
cups of coffee before I went
into the mine August 10, for
some reason I didn't think
much about it for the first
five days. Maybe I was too
concerned about getting out
and Just concentrating on
that.
But suddenly early in the
sixth day, suddenly I got so
hungry I ate some bark from
an old timber. 1t tasted ter
rible. Other times we just
sucked the water out of the
bark.
On about 3:15 of probably
the sixth day-don't ask me
If 1t was am. or PM
heard Louis holler out. This
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hear them drilling again and
they got deep enough but
they missed us on direction
They dropped some radio
active cobalt in the hole that
went past US. In the small
6-inch hole, they dropped a
Geiger counter. I shouted up
the numbers the needle
reached but this strategy
didn't work. They lowered a
compass and Davey finally
gave them a better idea of
our position.
First Escape Hole
They moved the drill a few
feet and this time. thank
God, they reached us with the
first 12-inch hole, the first
escape hole. This was 10 days
and 612 hours after the cave
in that trapped us.
We could hear the drill
coming all the way down. 1t
felt like it was coming di-
rectly at my head. And sud-
denly there it was, busting
through, just two or three
feet away.
This time we cheered. This
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Liver Cancer Kills
4-Month-OId HipDo

ST. LOUIS, Aug. % (AP1.-
Carol, the hippopotamus, died
at the st. Louis Zoo yesterday
from cancer Of the liver. She
and her brother, Marlin, we're
the first twins ever born in
captivity.
Carol, who weighed about
200 pounds and was four
months old when she died, was
found i'll yesterday morning.
Marlin Perkins, zoo director,
said Marlin appears to be doing
well, but his condition will be
observed closely.
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Jukurtu Lifts Bon

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Aug.
% (AP).-Indonesia has lifted
the ban on shipment of oil
products to the Netherlands
and its territories. the Ministry
of Basic Industry and Mining
announced today. The ban was
imposed early last year during
the height of Indonesia's cam
paign to regain West New
Guinea from the Dutch.
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FOUND

COMPRESSED AIR TANK, found In
500 blk Taylor 81. NV. tn. 2-6S60,
after 0 weekdays.