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The Farmville Herald _____ AND FARMER * LEADER _ UlLliME (')L> nVtt ^Vau,?11 P,c>tot_THK FAH.MVILLK (Va.) HERALD, TUESDAY, FEB. 3. 1953 "uubuZd 'iwo“ SO. M

Social Security Summary Shows $291,000 Given 860 Persons Benefit In :> Bocal Counties Some 860 persons in the Prints T riward. Buckingham and Char lotte county art a qualified for nearly $291,000 in Social Securi ty benefits dur.ng 1952 The information is contained in a summary prepared for The Herald by William B Wiley, Social Security field representative who serves tIris area. Mr Wiley's head quarters is in the Lynchburg So cial Security Field OSice. Mr. Wiley's summary discloses the following payments by divi sion of Social Security eligibility: Payment Breakdown Payments to retired, workers $123,300: payments to widows over 65. $31,700: payments to wives over 65. $29,800. apt! payments to young widows with children. $100 - 700. Mr. Wiley emphasized that the figures are approximate, since there is constant fluctuation in total amounts because of deaths among insured and because wid ows receiving benefits often re marry. Figures for other counties m the Herald area are not available since they are served through other area field headquarters.

New ( overage During tin year, tin- Social .Se curity Administration felt the tii.-t impact (if extended coverage pro vided by the amendment s of 1950. as well as from inert ased benefit provided in changes to u.< lav in 1952 Five new cla .-••->•■ of wm ■. ii. ers vv« covered for the t.rst :mv be-.-inmnt- ill June. 1951 They were domestic set v,.ms in pri vate homes, farm labor, employe*-. of state and local government-., employees of non-prol.f organiza tions and self employed persons By counties in this a.ea. total benefit recipients and pavm ne wer.: Prince Edward. 41b pet it.. leceiving $134,560; Bucko.- h m. 260 persons. $85,400. and char lotte, 195 persons and STl.oeo. A look at till national piclir.e revealed that over five million pi • pic arc receiving $2Cu million in insurance payments eacn nvn ... Tltr loyil paid »n 1953 > the: retir'd workers, their lan..'.: ..nil to dependent suivivois of dio eas ed worker.- who were msn ,:i will be more' than S2 . billion. Eighty per cent of all jobs m tl countiy ate covered by the piv giam and 62 million l r-jti- . ;. now insured for the bench's on ;h, basis of then employment m c.; cred work. 321,070 POi sl>$ LEM SOLD I AS I i\ I I K A total of 321.070 pounds of dark fired tobacco v. as sold hen last week, at an a vet age of $33.64. The seasons total 1,-j 3.935.264 pounds, at an average of $35.17. The market colscs Thursday.

Shuttling Shuttle Satisfies Shopping Spree

'.!rs Edward li. I’ollard. Buckingham county citizen busily works at weaving, a hobby in which she has found an opportunity to express her artistic creative desire She is working on a Whig Hose Coverlet, the first one that she has woven in her tour-harness loom from New England. Doing Things the Hard Way Delights Buckingham Lady

hil Dean Collins Home people want to do things tiit* hard way. For example m st of us like to take a look at the way citizens of Colonial Wilhanisbure lived, but few of . - would o’, or care to live that w.n without electricity, water, central heal.if. roads, ears or s.ipe markets And it's or: is.up ’,'.1. .. e.i .01' i.i CO to the departnitnt store and buy a piece ■•! wi Id: , : :c draperies, or bedspread That m. for most oi us. 11. v. !•>.. M Edward K Fcl lard. who lues about e ht miles north oi ' 15 in Buckingham county. ( . ■ tors to -:i down at one of her tin loom-and weave some material for herself and other peo Porch Vwnin^ Lost In Sunday Blaze On Virginia Street A front porch cama-s awnmc was de ’ oyed ill a fire at 104 Ns;'.; v r.iv.n Street Sunday rveiuru G p. m The apartment dweihnr :> r.ted bv Richard Cm lie. :• : rom the awning searched oo .a n of tiie frame work : ' n fit'men t tia klv sub dued • w .'ho if ad.:.' anal damn e On in ul the lire was undeter mined It is assuir.ti. a misdirect ed c. :.•• maj h. i e started the aw nine base... lr men stal e.i Firemen t re also summoned te the lot* . 1 ■ 'k on South street la : 'I i .U: la" at 7.30 p. m when t."> broke or* m household material stond in ait upstairs apartment bedroom The rental property ; v :- \ Ml rt ill.

pic Weaving is her hobby one Mat has developed into a means of helping out with the family budget in these days of stretch ing a fixed retirement income. Retires Ironi Work Mrs Pollard married .1 native of Buckingham county. They met in Kansas Cuy, Kan . and lived there most 1 their lives. Mr. Pollard worked with deeds and abstracts un»:l lie retired about three years as.o After retiring, they came to Buckingham county, bought an old home on Route 15. settled down to so some of those things that they had dreamed about d - :11c for years. They have fixed up their old 1: mo and opened a small antique shop, where they also sell some of Mrs Pollard's weaving and oth . locally-made items. We opened up the antique shop with things that we had collected during our married life.'' M Pollard remarked. "It was sure difficult to sell that first item let me tell y m " She look up weaving two yea is ago. this July It was an aeciden* One Lesson On time while she and Mr Pi 1 laid were looking for antique- n Lexington, she met the fornu r Miss Julia Graves, a weaving < u tnuhias! She took one lesson Itotn M: y. Griip- and decided to take up the craft a- a hobby. T -day. she has two loom 111 one if the front rooms of their home. One of them is a four harness loom, which she can use to make any piece of matt; al Rom the size of a necktie m 45 inches in width. Right now lie is ai ::ig a Whig Rose f eerie! in mu key 1 erj nattern which dates Continued on page 3

State Officers Attend Shite liill DAR Banquet

Mrs. II. V. Lancaster, left, rrgo.u <>t I .1 rmvill r's new Slate Hill Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, arranges the corsage ol Mrs Robert V. 11 Duncan, stale regent, Mexandria. at a pre-organizational banquet, held last Wednesday night at l.ongwood House To the right of Mrs. Duncan are. Mrs. Thurman 15. lowill state recording secretary, of Richmond, and Mrs. R. B. Crawford, regent of the Judith Randolph < hap ter of D VR. of Farnuillc. who were also guests at the banquet. Installation ol oflicers ol the new s mu chapter was conducted Saturday morn ing tjv Mrs. Join: ii Jolly, state registry: o’ Petersburg.

County Officers' Salary Increases Upheld by Board

The State Compensation Com mission upheld its ptevious deci sion approving salat y increases for Prince Edward county officers last week after a com'cience with a delegation from u.e board of supervisors. Chairman Edward Carter and W. W. Vaughan, of the board of supervisors, reviewed the salary and office expense situation in Prince Edward county, in confer Farmville Jayeees Toueh Off Debate Move To Divorce Issue Of Pol! Tax A. i ufrmille .1 ni : Che.uiber of Commerce delegation of 12 mem bers mtioluci ;l. Thursda' night, a resolution calling for tm Hate J I’rce organratmn to divorce it self from p litical matter;; and from the p< 11 tax issue, in parti cular. The re lOluhon was present ed fcv V F Watkins. Jr . at a regional meeting in the Virginian Hi tel. Lynchburg While the proposal w.i- unoffi cial and didn't come to a vote it touch'd off a lively discussion among Jayeees as to whether ad v eating abolishment of the poll tax was a partisan Question or whether it involved better gov ernment ' State Vice President Ed lane, of Richmond who pre sided at the meeting, ruled the proposal could not come to a vote because it was not on the agenda for the parley The Javcee state board f di rectors twice has unanimously passed rcs-lutions advocating throwing out the poll tax and has requested chapters throughout Virginia to state their opinions by ; a referendum vote

Mr Lane said 24 chanters had >■<■“11 rolled thus far and the vote was running two t > one in favor of the board's resolution. Accord ing to Jaycee by-laws, approval of only one-third of the 54 existing chapters is needed to carry the proposal Endorsement in the in dividual chapters involves only a maj i ity vote The Karmvlllc delegation said tlie Junior Chamber of Commerce was set ui) as a non-partisan or ganization. Stated in effect that by mvoh hr J.tveec m tlie poll tax ■ sue r was violating one of its principles The Farmville resolution was drawn up by Mr. Watkins, J B. Wall. Jr . and J. B C’iark. who attended the Lynchburg meeting, also. Other Farmville Jaycees at tending the meeting were V V Gordon. S. II. Ferguson. Jr W B Chapman. O. W McIntosh. M. G Smith. Jr. H C. Kay ton. Jr F M Pallet. W. A. Watson, III. and W H Hubbard About 50 members from Lynch burg. Bedford. Farmville. Rich mond. Altavista. Roanoke, and ( hesterfield attended the meet ing.

once with the Slate Commission last Monday, in Richmond. Total Cost Determines In the voting which followed, the Commission stood by its original decision for the increases. The decision was based on both salaries and the total expense of operating each oflice. The two combined were found to be closely in keeping with the money outlay scale of other counties in the Prince Edward area, some of which have lower salaries, but higher deputy pay rates. Ttie decision provides increases of $300 for the county treasurer and commissioner of revenue, raising their salaries to $4,800. Also an increase of $b00 for the Commonwealth's Attorney, bring ing his salary to $3,600. State-County Rates Under present state-county fi nancial arrangements, the salary of the Commonwealths Attorney is paid half by tiie Common wealth, half by tiie county. The treasurer and commissioner are paid two-thirds by the county and one-thhd by the state. Members of tiie boaid of super visors have expressed the opinion that a revision is needed in the state-county pay rates, since so much of the officers' time is de voted to state business. Body Discovered In Amelia County Persons I'nable To Identify Man

A man's body, clad only in socks and underwear, was found Sat urday morning at tlie edge of a field iust oir State Route 708. near Namozine in the southern part of Amelia county. Ii was discovered about 7 a m. b.v James Bates. Neero farmer who lives nearby. So far. police have been unable to identify t lie white victim. Amelia County Sheriff N, M. De Kraft described the dead man as being over m< d.um height, well built and about 40 years o>d. He said the man lias compound frac tures of the right leg and left wrifiht a broken right arm. bruises about the head and body and marks similar to scalds on tlie skin Wrapped m a brown blanket, ilie body was lying at the edge of a field, easily seen from either roadway at the intersection, the stv r ff said. Apparently no at tempt was made to hide the body. Mr. DeKraft said the man ap parently died during the night. The body was sent to Richmond, where an autopsy was performed by tiie state medical examiner, Saturday morning. There was no identification on Hit man. The body was clothed only m a pair of socks, underpants and two undershirts. The sheriff sa d several persons had viewed the body in Amelia, but they had not been able to identify it.

Employment Office Notes H,579 Visits In 1932; 404 Unemployed Wage Claims

Traffic in and out of the Farm ville office of t!ie Virginia Ern etovment Service was pretty th' during 1952. T' be exact. Man ager Charles H Martin’s record show these were 8 579 vis ts. That doesn't mean 8.000 differ ent people, the manager points out ;:i a year-end summary It does mean that many in-the-per son inquiries were made concern ing the various services available That averages out to about 90 visits per working day. There were 829 new applica tions taken from persons seeking employment and 689 applicants National (iuard Summer Camp Site, Dates Announced Olliers and men of Company G. Farmville's National Guard unit of the 116th Infantry Regiment, had a big question answered for ’hem last week—when and who. the summer encampment will be held. A 29th Division memorandum to all units, bas'd on Second Arm directives, disclosed that the two week training period has been set for June 27-July 11. at A. P Hill Military Res-natinn. The Division trained at the same sprawlin'.' maneuver and training area neat Fredericks burg. lai l. imilll 1 ll w f- the til".! post-war encampment there and Guardsmen agrnd that it was a good choice of location Training facilities wit c.u-*T. lent, and time-oil periods saw many Guardsmen taking it", the major league baseball in Wash ington or a few relaxing hour.-- at Colonial Beach, on the Ciiesa 1 If h W’

placed in employment. The num ber of new applications corres ponds closely to records for 1951. although applicants placed on i bs in 1951 totaled considerably wore—.] .(DO — due to the huge labor renuirements as Camp Pick ett pened the flood gate for workers. Compensation Claims ANo recorded during 1952 were 40-1 nc.v claims for unemployment insurance. Average period of com pensation claims was three to four weeks, with weekly payments ranging from $5 to the maximum allowed of $20. depending on the applicants wages. viewing the year in retr snect. Manager Martin said unemploy ment in the seven and a fraction counties served through the local office was very low" and pnnei callv among those who make their living m the highly seasonable trades. There are always periodic times of no work for such, he points out. At Dec. 31. 1952. the office had on file 110 applications for work. On thr same date in 1951 there were 158. At present the office has in dustry and employer requests for a number of tvpes of workers, particularly skilled rue. Help Available The office carries detailed in forniat.’on of job opportunities ihr without Virginia, since all of the offices like that here serve as i clearing house on iob informa tion AH offices exchange lists so that each rue has a state-wide record of opportunities. "In fart, one of our big tasks is to serve as a bureau of infor mation for workers. It's our iob and we welcome the opportunity to be of assistance in any way." VI - . .yf in -

Foresters Report Over 325,000 Trees Planted In District « Landowners Urged To Order Seedlings From Local Office More than 525.000 seedlings have been planted so far this year in the 10-county area of Farm ville District of the Virginia For est Service This figure has been released by R. P. Brierley. dis trict forester, and W. M. Carter, forester. However, this year's seedling planting season will end soon after March, and 525.000 seedlings represent about one-half of the tentative orita of 955.000 that the Virginia Forest Service has set up for this district. Seedling orders for this district will be accepted now Interested farmers and other citizens who want to put their idle land into production with forests should send their orders to R. P Brier ley District Forester. Box 386. Farimille. Forestry Help

Up n request, a Virginia Forest Service representative will exam ine a proposed planting site and recommend species of trees which shruld be planted. Mr. Brierley said. A forester'will also aid the owner in planting practices and techniques which will assure best results. Seedlings are inexpensive to landowners because they arc grown and sold by the Virginia Forest Service for the purpose of reforestation. F’or example, prices per 1000 F. O. B nursery are Loblollv Pine. Virginia Pine and Black Locust. $4; and Red Pine. White Pine. Yellow Poplar. Black Walnut, and Red Cedar. $6. A 50 cents charge for delivery made to the nearest Railway Ex press Office, or central point in county, will be made. "The Virginia Forest Service urges each landowner to take careful stock of all acres owned and submit an rider as soon as possible for the number of trees required to make idle acres profit able. Remember, a seedling plant ed today will be the timber of to morrow,’ 'Mr. Carter said Idle Acres Is each acre on the farm pro ductive. Mr. Brierley asks farm ers in tins area. Farm manage ment investigations show that on almost every farm a portion of the area is carried at a loss and a large percentage of. farms are un profitable. In many cases, it has been noted that an operator act ually paid some thing for the privilege of working, he pointed out. According to Mr. Carter, un complimentary things are said abaut an unprofitable dairy cow. tw-> ^oaMer supported from the profits of the remainder of the ' o-rH but on many farms the un profitable cow is not the only hoarder. Low yielding acres, like boarder cows, are fatal to success ful farming. Unprofitable acres can not al ways be disposed of as readily as boarder cows, but they can be improved until they become pro fitable. Often it is not profitable to cultivate such land in an agri cultural crop, but there is another type of crop which will assure a profit. This crop is trees. Too often farmers are inclined to take the timber cr^n for granted, but its place is high when one considers the necessity, price, and demand for it. End Of Season "Now is the time for landown ers to take stock of each acre and determine if it is producing its maximum amount of profit." Mr. Carter said. "The forest tree planting season for 1953 is now (Continued cn Pacje 7'

3,000 Expected Here Thursday For Tobacco Jubilee Celebration

Jubilee Speaker

PARKE ( BRINKLEY V irgil Fox Organ Recital Tuesday Artist Series Event at S I*. M.

Virgil Fox. recording and con cert. organist, will be heard in Jar man Hall of Lon wood College to night iTuesday in an Artists Ser ies Recital on the Jarman organ The concert will begin at 8 p. m. Tickets will be sold at the box of fice preceding the concert, or may be obtained tit the Office of the Secretary, at Ruilncr Hall. Mr Fox captivated his audi ence last year during his concert here in connection with dedica tion of the Jarman organ. The New York artist, acclaimed as one ol tiie most accomplished organists in America, will play numbers from the pens of the world's greatest composers, flan del. J. S. Bach, Brahms and Ros si. among others. His artistry and repertoire chos en for the Artist Series concert are equal to the great music pos sible with the magnificent new or gan in the college auditorium. Last year's concert left the au dience enthralled with the volume, range and musical effects h s ar. tistry drew from the instrument, which he commands supeibly. Alumnae Will (Jive Proceeds of Party For Scholarships The Mary White Memorial Scholarship Fund lot Longwood College students wnl receive a boost. Thursday evening. Proceeds from the benefit card party spon sored by the Longwood College Alutnnac Association, which will be held at 8 p m.. Thursday, in the Recreation Hall of the college, will go into the fund. Reservations for the party may be made by calling Mrs. W. A Watson. III. 8611, oi Mrs. G. H. Jarrett. 562-J. All guests are asKed to bring their tables and cards. Refresh ments and prizes donated by Farmville merchants will be pro vided by the alumnae association. Mrs. R. E. Withers. Jr., president, has announced. The scholarship fund is given to a high school senior of Prince Edward county

Abbitt Sends Sponsors Word He’ll Attend Chamber of Commerce officials expressed the view that more than 3.000 visitors may stream in to Farmville for die Tobacco Jubil e Thursday afternoon, for the annual event climaxing tire tobacco season. Parke C. Brinkley, Virginia Commissioner of Agnculture. will be the featured speaker during the official program which gets underway at 1:30 p in., from the steps of the Prince Edward county courthouse. Congressman Watkins M Ab out notified W. A Watson Jr., who heads the Chamber of Com merce planning committee for the event, that he win be here. Last year Congressman Abbitt gave the address during the first Jubilee. Jubilee Schedule 1:30 p in.—welcoming remarks —Mayor W. C. Fitzpatrick and S. W. Putney Jr., president, Chamber of Commerce. 1:45 p. m.—Farmer Recognition Program-public recognition of tobacco growers who have made production and sales records here this year. 2:00 p. m.—addr ss—Parke C. Brinkley.

2:40 p. m.—prize awards. The sponsors also announced today that the events from the courthouse plaza will be carried into Southside Virginia homes by radio, with both WFLO and WSVS channcli ig the event via on-the-spot broadcasts. The event falls on the final day of tobacco sales on the Farmville — market and climaxes market ac tivities this year, which have brought growers nearly $1,500,000 thus far. Sales Soar More than 4 000,000 pounds of dark-fired tobacco have been sold, despite reduced production in a bad crop growing year. Grow ers. with a mind to spotty field and the drought, have expressed unanimous approval of prices for a "common crop." Thus the .second annual Tobac co Jubilee comes as a celebration of the tremendous contribution of dark tobacco to the economy of Southside Virginia, and the prize award program—a Jubilee feature -provides the community an op portunity to pay respects to the men who use the market here. Prize Awards During the featured prize award program, w hen, nearly $1 000 in prizes w ill be given, out sponsors will use the sales cou pons iven with each r"'' during the season as the ba. of deter mining winners. Two if's have been laid down by the sponsors. The first prize of $250 and downward will be given to coupon holders if: < 1 > actually present and (2) the correct num bered coupon is presented. The Farmville Lions Club will again ecu.duct a sandwich and soft drink sale at the Star Clean ers establishment on Main street. For all growers, it is opened dur ing the Jubilee to help provide for | the large crowd expected. Claude E. Farrar Certified as CPA A recent announcement from the State Board of Accountancy, lists Claude K. Farrar, of Pros pect. as a successful candidate for certified public accountacy. Mr. Farrar is an accountant, for the State Taxation Department.

NEWS SUMMARY

CHINESE NATIONALISTS MAY BE ‘UNWRAPPED' President Eisenhower last week was reported to be about ready to take the wraps off the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa, thus freeing them to raid the Com munist mainland of China. The U. S. Seventh Fleet has been standing guard, under a mandate from former President Truman to prevent attacks on the mainland by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, or attacks on Formo sa by the Chinese Reds. RED NEGOTIATORS CHARGED WITH POW RIOTS The United Nations Command charged last week that a "Soviet army officer" an$ top Communist armistice negotiators "deliberate ly planned and masterminded" Red prisoner of war riots in Al lied camps as part of a "second front” of the Korean War. The charges, fully documented from captured papers and prison er admissions, presaged the pos sible final breakdown of the long recessed Keren:: truce tnlLs al

though no responsible authority would comment. AEC HEAD SAYS REDS HAVE A-BOMB Chairman Gordon Dean of the Atomic Energy Commission has said "there is no doubt" the Rus sians have "a supply of atomic weapons." Dean issued a brief statment in response, he said, to inquires from reporters. There have been many of these in quiries since fonnei President Truman expressed doubt last Monday that the Russians have a workable atomic bomb. Dean said: "The USSR has ex ploded three atomic bombs—one in the late summer of 1049 two pi the fall <>f 1991 On the basis of the aboic facts, and other scientific and technical cudencc. there is no doubt of the existence of a supply of atomic weapons in | the USSR - MORE MILLIONS ‘GIVEN I P’ BY/NEW DEFENSE HEADS The Senate Armed Services Cumuii t tee hui approved two

businessmen as secretaries of the Army and Air Foiee after they agreed to dispose of their multi million dollar holdings in defense industries. They are. Robert T. B. Stevens. 53. a New Jtisey textile man. for the Army job. and Harold E. Talbott. 64. for the post of Secretary of the Air Force. He is a New York industi ialist. ASK KNI) OF CONSERVATION GRANTS Virginia farm leaders last week called for an end to soil conserva tion payments to fanners. Joining in the demand were Parke C. Brinkley, commissioner of agri-; culture. M. A. Hubbaid. executive secretary of the Vnginia Farm Bureau Federation, and Karl Shiflet. deputy for the Virginia State Grange. Meanwhile, an announce iieni from the State PM A office said a recent survey disclosed that 71 her cent of Virginia fanners want the payments continued. Prince Edward county will get $29,861 this year lo- distribution under the PMA-admhm.terch program. 'i . &