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Samuel L. Jarrett, Postal Employee, Dies at Hospital A funeral service for Samuel I.ynn Jarrell. 29. was held at 3:3f litis afternoon (Thursday* ai Doyne Funeral Home. Imermen i took place in West view Cemetery Mr. Jarrett. an employee of tin Fannville Post Office and leteraii of W rid War 11. died Tuesday Jan. 13. at Southside Community Hospital. He was born March 19. 1923. at Reidsville, N. C He was married to the former Miss Cassie Murphy in Fannville, May 4. 1949 Mr. Jarrett was u member o! the Parmville Methodist Church Surviving. ;ue his wife and two children. Jennifer I ee and Samuel L Jr . of Parmville: a sister and brother. Mrs. Prank Birdsong and George H Jarrett. of Parmville: and his foster parents. Mr. and Mrs. 1. C Rector of Parmville, also. Mrs. Henry Thorp Dies at Riee Home A funeral service for Mrs. Sallie Maggie Thorp. 82. will be held at 2 this afternoon (Friday) at Doyne Funeral Home. Fannville. Burial will be in the family ceme tery at her home neat Rice. The widow of Henry Thorp, she died Wednesday. Jan 14. at her home Mrs. Thorp was born Doc 29. 1870. in Charlotte county. She was the daughter of Jim and Martha Scott She is survived by two daugh ters. Mrs. Maggie Duffer, of Ran dolph. and Mrs. Lama Newcomb, of Rice: four sons. G R. and W. W. Thorp, of Rice. L ving Thorp, of Williamsburg, and R. D Thorp, of Charlottesville: one sister. Mrs. Florence Newcomb, of Saxe: and one brother. Lee Scoti. of Drakes Branch.

Hiffh School Seniors Will Visi* Cammis This W"‘ek h>rl Senior girls from various high sch.ols throughout Virginia will arrive at Longwood this Friday and Saturday to spend the week end The high schools that will lx> represented are Thomas Jefferson Hampton. Oceana. Creeds. Rad ford Hermitage. Waverly and Deep Creek Others include High land Springs. Chukatuk. Dispa tanta Churchland. Smithfieid and Buchanan. Plans are being made to enter tain those girls who are consider ing entering the college next fall On Friday nieht. Dr. C L S Earley's Play Production Class will present three one act plays as part :i the entertainment for the visiting student;. These are the sanv- three plays that were re cently presented at assembly. After Hits presentation a hike box dance will be held in the rec sponsored by Freshman Commis sion. Saturday's activities include a tea. given by freshman orienta tion classes, and a tour of the campus and Longwood Estate. Tentative plan., have been made to divide the tour in half, so that one group may go in the morn ing. and ne at 2 p. m.. in the afternoon.

Drama Class Plans To Give Three Plays In Jarman Flail Dr. C. L. S. Earley s Longwood production class will present three one-act plays on Friday night at 7:30 in Jarman Hall. The plays were given before Christmas holidays at assembly. They are "The Blue Tie” by Beu lah Chamely with a cast of Margie Harris. Beih Kent, and Norma Croft: Tennessee Williams' play, "At Liberty”, with Flip Blake and Ellen Porter; and "The Boar" by Anton Cliekov with a cast of Nancy Tanley. Jim Parker and Woody Rice Also on the program are a choral reading "Tarantella ' pre sented bv Speech 101 and the poem. "Balled of the Hemp Weavers" read by Hilda Hartis.

Pamolin Fire Truck ■ Continued from Pa<ic It Farinville Fire Chief Claude Butcher and members of the de partment here were in Pamplin Sunday afternoon to assist volun teers there get acquainted with the apparatus and equip ent on the new truck.

The truck has a auu-ganon tank an da 600-gallon-per-minute pump. On it also are 300 feet of hose, suitable for tapping water from .'-Hearns, ponds and wells Also two super - fog nozzles, which break down the water into a Tine sprav as it leaves the hose The spray has ten times tire fire extinguishfng capacity as the nor mal stream from the hose. With the 500-gallon tank that represent 5,000 gallons of ef fectiveness if no other water is available. If a source of water is available, the noz.zzles make it go ten times further Due to arrive shortly for mount ing on the truck are ladders and more hose Suitor—I-er-want to ask for your daughter’s hand. sir. Auctioneer Father—It’s no use young man. she’s going in one lot or not at all.

1932 Defense Bond Totals $83096 Area ('ounties (Jet Higher Quotas Defense bond sales during 1952 in the six-county Herald area totaled a surprising $838,896.00. By counties. 1952 sales were: Amelia. $96,252: Buckingham. $57,999.75: Charlotte, $72,434.50: Cumberland. $3,418.75. Nottoway, $358,805: Powhatan. $31,727.50. and Prince Edward, $218,261.00. Throughout Virginia, sales for ilje year in all Series of defense bonds was $66,502,131, some five njillions more than the previous v (far Quotas for 1953. announced this week by the State Savings Bond Ajivisory Committee, headed by Colgate W. Darden Ji.. president of the University of Virginia, fol low : Amelia. $125,000: Buckingham. $75,000: Charlotte. $ 1 2 5,0 0 0: Cumberland, $40,000. Nottoway, $500,000: Powhatan. $75,000. and Prince Edward. $275,000. For Virginia the 1953 goal is $91,000,000. Quotas in the forthcoming year are. in each county as well as the State, higher than sales the past year. This is due to the ar lival of the maturity date of bonds sold during the heavy cam paigns of tlie World Wai II peri od. It will be true of 1954 and 1955. as well.

Tigers FMI 64-57 To Roanoke’s Late Rally Monday Night Roanoke College spurted from behind during the final period Monday night to down Hampden Sydney. 64-57, at Death Valley. The victory gave Roanoke the conference lead since Mt. St. Mary's the only other four-gam. winner was knocked off by Amer ican University. Until tlie final stanza, the Tigers had held the upper hand most of the yay. With five min utes to go. Center Walt Dierks lipped in two buckets and Bruce Kaupt connected on two jump shots from the foul circle to ice the contest. Hampden-Sydney jumped away to a 23-12 lead after 12 minutes of play, but when Dierks started connecting an grabbing re bounds. the Maroons quickly moved into contention, finally knotting the count at 32-32 at: halftime. Hampden-Sydney led by three points after three quarters, but was outscored 18-8 during the last period. Roanoke G F TP Gira f .339 Britfan f 113 Haupt f. 5 1 11 Druibick f . 2 2 6 Dierks c.7 4 18 Heinick c . 1 0 2 Foltz g 3 2 8 Oravec g . Oil Totals 25 15 64 Hampden-Sydney G F TP Adams f 5 7 17 B. Curtis f . 2 2 6 Rosenbaum f . 1 1 3 Hoffman c G 3 15 .lovce g 3 2 8 Motley g 4 0 8 Totals.21 15 57 Roanoke . 12 20 14 18—64 Il-S 15 17 17 8—57

14-H Club Formed I At Farmville Elementary School Officers of the newly formed 4-H Club in the Sixth and Sev ern ii grades of Pram wile Elemen ' iary School were elected during 1 a business meeting January 8. They are: Anne Swerlfeger. president: Joan Williams, vice president: Prank Watson, secretary-treasur er; Josephine Crowder, reporter: Sally Ann Clark and Barclay Woodward, song leaders. The club now has 20 members and more are being sought. Meet ing time has been set the first Thursday of each month from ’ 3:10 to 4 p. m. Adult leaders for the group are , Mrs. Marian Baldwin, county .ionic agent. Reginald Speir and Mrs. C. E. Crowder. The club was organized Deccm 1 ber 4. 1952. The current project will be selection of goals for 1953. Mrs. Harber

iContinued /row. Pave 11 Mr. and Mrs. David Stuart, who settled in the Spring Hill Com munity. iv'ar Brown s Church in Cumberland county, when they came to the United States from Perth. Scotland. The former Longwood resident has some im pressions of the trip from Scot land. She was about six years old at the time. One time when Alfred Barber i came to her father's farm to buy cattle. Miss Chrissie—Mrs. Bar ber's name to her friends and ; neighbors—met him. They were 1 married at her home in 1892. Now Alfred was the son of Wright Barber, to whom the heirs of Nathaniel E. Venable deeded Longwood for the price ®f $3000 ' April 1, The deed was recorded in 1911. Sold In 1920 Alfred Barber came to Virginia with his parents from Bradford. England, when he was four years | old. Tne Barber family was the last owner of Longwood House be fore the estate was purchased by , State Teachers' College in 1920 j lor $20,000. Miss Chrissie recalled that I ongwood House had 16 rooms, 1 including the attic arid basement, i when she lived theie. And. of course, it didn't have ' all of to- ' day's conveniences." she said. She remembered, also, when Long- ' wood Estate consisted of more than 200 acres, and it extended almost to the coin thouse site. ( This is small compared to the 1181 acres in the estate that Abram B. Venable purchased from Peter Johnston, Jr.. June 2. 1811. Today the oldest living member of the Barber Family, Miss Chris- j sie, lives with her daughter. Miss [ Geneva Barber. And from their bedroom wirdow, she views a sight of the past — Longwood House. She, the only living wom an who kept house in the old home, is a link between then and j now. ,

I. 0. 0. F. (Continued from Paae 1' New membership—M. G. Smith. T E. Harvey, J. E. Jamison, and R. T. Pore. Audit — W. A. Watson, G. F. Butcher, and J. C. Collins. The Farmville lodge has a membership of 138 and meets i every Thursday night at the club room.

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VIRGINIAN GIVEN TOP FEDERAL POST T. Coleman Andrews, of Rich mond. Va.. an independent Dem ocrat who supported General Eisenhower in the presidential election, has been named com missioner of the Bmeau of In ternal Revenue, by the president elect. Mr. Andrews is the senior partner of a certified public ac countant firm in the capital city which bears his name. Andrews, 54. was “highly rec ommended by Senator Byrd, ac cording to James C. Hagerty. Eisenhower's press secretary. He said, however. Andrews was con sidered even before the recom mendation. The past will give the Virginian cabinet rank.

FLU OUTBREAKS HIT SOUTHWEST Spreading influenza outbreaks have been rep »rtcd ovei tl.e Mid west and Southwest with Texas apparently the hardest hit. Schools in at least 18 Texas towns were closed and dozens ol other communities were consider ing closing their schools as 'he illness spread. None of the clos ings were in the major cities. Dr. George Cox. lexas state health officer, said it was too early to say there was a state wide epidemic, but he said the outbreaks had reached epidemic proportions at some places. POPE ‘HATS’ 24 NEW CARDINALS Twenty-four princes have been added to tlie College of Cardinals in the richly colorful traditions of the Roman Catholic church this week. The 24 new cardinals are from 13 nations and include 66 vear-old James Francis Cardinal

McIntyre of Los Angeies. a native New Yorker who left a Job in Wall Street to study for the priesthood. The College of Car dinals. the senate of the church, represents 27 countries and is- at its full strength of 70 for the first time in iwo centuries. CLARK BACKS JAPAN ON PLANE WARNING Gen. Mark Clark. U. S. com mander in the Far East, has backed up Japan s b»unt warning to Russia to keep its pianes from tiie air over Japan or they might be shit down. Clarks headquar ters said he had "issued instruc ts, ns to appropriate commanders t< take all measures necessary to prevent further violations of Japan's securtiy or acts which en danger U. S. forces. Japan's warning, made with full U. S. agreement, reflected a toughening policy. U. S. planes have not hitherto Iired on in truding Russian planes. 1 ____ i REDS SAY IT. S. SPYING LED TO DOCTOR’S DEATH Soviet newspapers demanded a swift trial and execution for nine doctors charged with killing two Russian leaders and trying to kill others. The government said most of the nine in the "terrorist group" were tied up with a Jew ish organization, and all were linked with U. S. and British spying. An official announcement— broadcast and discussed all over the Soviet Union—said the doc tors had confessed. The 33rd annual convention of the United States Junior Cham ber of Commerce will be held in Minneapolis. Minn.

Junior Chamber Founded 33 Years Ago This Week

! Farmville Junior Chamber of Commerce is one of 2000 clubs in the United Stabs celebrating Jaycce Week. Jail 14-21. A part of the week will "bo the observ ' a nee of the establishment of the organization, 33 years ago, in St. LoUis, Mo. There are f>2 chapters in the Virginia State Junioi Chamber of Commerce, which was formed in Alexendria in 1939. Farmville's chapter was chartered in July. 1940, with S. Anthony Martin as the first president Today the Farmviue club has 44 members, with Henry Hubbard

as president Other officers are R. c i’idte.Miii, vice-president: M. G. Runijli. Jr., .secretary; O VV Mc lutojh. treasurer: and \ V Gor don State director. Arjipng the activities of* the Fanpville club, last month, were Kabul Claus' visit to Farmville. t.alotidar and novelty show, anti a Now Year's Eve party for mem bers and guests. In November, the club promoted a get-out-the-vote campaign, and members set up and operated a food booth at the FivesCount v Fair in September with the Farmville Junior Wom an's {Club

Call From Komi Mr. ami Mrs. James M. Pat teson. of Manteo, were awaken ed about 3 a. m.. Monday, when their telephone rang They were delighted to receive a call from their son. I.t. Jack I’atteson. in Korea, who called to wish his mother a “Happy Birthday.” The reception was good, and both Mr. and Mrs. ratteson talked to him.

Phenix Serviceman Promoted In Korea Houston Randolph, son of Mr and | Mrs Arthur Randolph. Rt 1. Plitelux, Vi* . recently was pro moted to private first class while serving in Korea with the 3rd Infantry Division. A cannoneer in Battery A of the loth Field Artilleiy Battalion Randolph entered the Army last February, arriving in Korea in August, Hr'holds the Korean and UN Service Ribbon.

College Modern Dance (dub To Travel To Woman s College In North Carolina i

Orchesis. Longwood College modern dance group, is tentative ly planning to send representa tives to the annual Arts Forum being held at the Women's Col lege of the University of North Carolina this spring. Ann Murphy, president of the club, stated that the girls are waiting for Dr Lancaster's ap proval before making definite plans to attend the meeting which will be held March 19. 20, and 21 Dance events planned include a program of dances choreograph

1 ed afid performed by students, n ! class in techniques, and a dance concert given by the W. C. dance i grim#. A guest artist in the field of dance will highlight the forum. Besides dance the lorurn will have' sections for people inter ested in music, painting, sculp ture. |creative writing and drama The forum is an annual event end hirings together college stu dents and faculty members inter ested m the creative arts. Re presentatives from all the south ern ftntes will be present.

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(Victoria (iirls Edge FHS Squad 12-37 Monday ! Farmville High Schools girls' basketball team dropped a close 42-IS7 decision to tlte Victoria High girls Tuesday night at Vic toria. Phyllis Penrlove, FFS forward, scored 28 points, while Martha Jo Rex had 6 and Williams 3. Farm ville threatened throughout, but could never quite catch the home team. For Victoria tiie scoring went: Beator. 20: Kirby. 1?, and Brame. 12.

Conch Bob Gilmers Farmville High Wolverines continued tlu v nunpage against District :t op ponents Tuesday night with a 75 to 43 victory over Victoria H’.r.h School The win was the fifth The half-time score was 28-21 in Victoria's favor. Phyllis Pearloves 28 points brought her five game total to an amazing 135. By games she has collected 36 - 21 - 24 - 26 and 28 points.

Seollsville P-TA' Will Back Plans For High, Grade School Improvement'

P. K. Paulott. member of the school board, from Seottsville Magisterial District, spoke at the Seottsville School P-TA Monday night, urging Seottsville folks to work together for a better Scotts ville High School * Members of the P-TA voted to send a letter of appreciation to the School Board for considera tion shown in the decision render ed following the recent mail bal lot about the school situation. During the discussion of im provements. what is needed now and when work will start, the need of h play room and central heating plant for the primary ‘■chool was brought out. The first and second grades are taught in the primary building, which is a two-room frame building, heated by stoves. Mr. Paulett said two additional

teachers would be added to the faculty this fall due to the five year high school course. Asked if he could tell when improve ments would be made as promised he said it was impossible for him to tell, but he wished he could say it would be light away. The board ha.' promised improvements here when the county school cen tral school is completed and money is available. The central school is to be ready for occu pancy next September. The School P-TA is spom 'ring a Game-Card Party fo: benefit of the School Improvement Fund to be given in the high school auditorium Friday nicht. Feb fi at 8 p. m. There will be door prizes and refreshments E R Mayfield ls chairman of the ar ranging committee The public is invited.

Farmville Hi^li Downs Victoria fJ: Victory Is Fifth for (iilmer Squad

straight for FUR. The Wolverines jumped off tn n ;>4 10 7 first quartii lead and thereafter Conch Gilmer altci - nated tehnis to give his on i squad a hand in tin- proceedings Accuracy at the foul line en abled Victoria to keep within striking distance at half - time when the score was 35-22. The Wolverines went out of reach in the third ■quarter which ended with FHS ahead 57-30. Clyde Shelton collected 23 points, on 1! field goals and a foul to lead the scoring. Coach Gilmer's squad had too much height and experience f«»i the squad of Coach Flit, l.atirinitis Bovicon ‘ I lls FG F TF Shetlon. f tl 1 23 Newman, f 2 2 <« Cumbv. f 3 0 (i Duncan f 204 IDrumeller c 4 3 11 Vale, c 113 Dttrfee, c 10 2 Thornton, g . fi 1 13 Franklin. « l o 2 Htibard. g 113 Anderson g 10 2 Totals 9 75 Victoria * Dalton, f 10 2 Layne. f o 3 t Gallion. f 1 0 2 Seay, c 4 5 13 Widens, g 1 - 4 Clarke, g 1 * , Glover, 4 8 18 Totals 13 19 «

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