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The Farmville Herald _ AND FARMER-lEADER _*__ VOLUME 66 P'~“ FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1057 H».*».»«■» NO. 53

Three Route 13 Projects Included in Road Funding $1,030,194 Total Budgeted 1957-58 Local ( an si nu t ion

Tentative highway allocations for 12 months beginning July 1 announced Friday by the Depart ment of Highways provide funds for three separate projects on Route 15 in Prince Edward. Buck ingham and Charlotte counties. The allocations also earmark funds, foi primary system work on Route FO in Cumberland; Route 360 ;n Prince Edward and Amelia counties. Route 47 in Charlotte, and Route 522 in Powhatan. The. e projects are included in Slate and federal funds totaling $105,112,997 for the 12 months on Virginia's interstate and pri mary highway- and town and city b< ginning July 1 for construction streets which are part oi a high way. The total includes $54 millions which Virginia »xpects to receive as its share of federal-aid money to be used in the next 12 months for the interstate highway system. Local Work The Route 15 project include one in Prince Edward county for which $70,000 is allotted to put asphaltic concrete surfacing from Kingsville southward Another Route 15 project In Buckingham has an allocation of $150,494 for reconstruction be tween Sprouses Corner and Shep pards. The third Route 15 project is designated for Charlotte coun ty. where $100,000 is allocated to reconstruct the highway between Barnes Junction and the Meck lenburg county line. The three Route 15 projects will require total of $320,494. rhe Route I e< C up berland county allocates $75,000 for improvements at Cumberland Court House. Work at Wcherrin Route 360 has two projects in the 1957-58 work. One. in Prince Edward county, has an allocation of $475,000 to continue recon struction from Mererrin westward. The other, for $180,160 provides a supplemental project for recon struction from West Richmond into Amelia. Charlotte county work on Route 47 has two separate projects, one is allocated $75,000 to continue reconstruction between Drakes Branch and Route 360. The other allots $50,000 for curb and gutter at Charlotte C. H. A single Powhatan county has an allocation of $35,000 to relo cate two reverse curves on Route J22 north of Route 60. The fund allocations for these Herald area projects total $1,030, 494. A project in Nottoway county will t econsti wet the prese*;. inter sections w tere Route 49 come.' into Routes 360 and 460. Tile sum of $200,000 ha- been marked for that work. Hearings first The allocation.- are tentative and will not be final until after hearin ■ Roai . Mb; 2 and Richmond May 3. Prince Edward. Btiekim hum. Cumberland and Charlotte counties are to be heard at Roanoke the others dur ing the Richmond hearing. For highway work in the year commencing Juiy 1. 1957. tin De partment anticipates $93 millions in state funds, plus $50 millions in federal-aid grants. Costs of the Secondary system, r ehts of way. administration and enamei1 ;n etc cut the tojul ,i\ allot J !• r e.-i s -: :s < :.;n to $103 millions.

Farm vi lie Methodists Plan for Week of Evangelism Services r.i;■ 11;'ll Mi ■'ll;.-! e.,r .i v, ill ■ !: phusis Man..; 24 :o 29. Sunday, th Rev. Charles L. Winfree. of Blnckstoi "ill be the guest preacher sai.e:nary service at 8 p m Monday and Tu sday nigifts, lay persons will visit prospective church mend). r> who have indi cated an interest in the chui'th. Dr. Herbert F. Hudgins, pastor of Farmv Vi M <xi:.st church "ill meet v. .tb th- lav v isitors Mon day and Tu-sday at 7 p. m. for a br:ef • -sion on visit:ns tefh nimie Preach’! sei v:c’s will be Held V. . : -o,:!its a' s. p in . n.is'tiif Reyer ent Winfree pieac: .mg Winfree :s a pastor of th? Hast Nottoway Methodist charge and a 1956 graduate o: Long wood Col lege. In January lie parlieipajted m tin :n eirerh^iai evangelistic crusad-* ‘o Ciftrn". pi caching in Fomento. Cuba V- director of e'.e.iuihsm the larmville dis trict of th. M Jodis: church he attended the National Council of F angel ism ahvh met ,u Purdue V r.L* / Ui U1 Usli

MISS MINNIE Y U GUN RICE’S PORTRAIT is among the items in the I.ongwood College Alumnae house parlor which will be dedi cated at 11:45 a. m. Saturday during the annual founder’s day pro gram. .Miss Ft ice taught at I.ongwood for 55 years. Founder’s l)av Highlights J r c 9:15 a m.—Coffee hour at Alumnae House 10:30 a. m.-^Founder’s Day program, Jarman auditorium Miss Mary Douglas Finch, '22. address 11:45 a. m.—Dedication of Minnie Rice parlor. Alumnae house 12:30 p. in. Alumnae luncheon, college dining hall 1:30 p. m. Association business meeting, college dining hall 4:00 p. m.—Open house. President and Mrs. Lankford 6 40 p. m.—Dinner, college dining hall 8:00 p. m.—Spring concert, Jarman auditorium

Drive Chairman Reports. Red Cross Fund Effort One-Fourth Toward Goal

Prince Edward's Rea Cross drive needs a biood trtmsf usion. The month-long campaign with a goal of $4 125. has reached slightly past the 25 per cent mark with the month 75 per cent gone. W. H. Burford, drive chairman, reported Thursday that donations to date totalled about SI.250. Of the total S1000 came from the special gift^ division. Throughout this area, donations to the Red Cross are behind last year's totals, a Red Cross repre sentative said last week. Locally, church and hospital drives arc cutting into the Red Cross. Burford is relying upon tlie roc

Sen. Byrd Says Virginia No. i NAA(T Target U. S. Senator Harry F. Byrd said this week Virginia has be come the number one target of forces seeking integration. Byrd, in an interview with a re porter for tlie Richmond News Leader, said the federal govern ment and the National Assn, for tlie Advancement of Colored Peo ple NAACPi mean to "try to brin;..' Virginia to her knees first." "I think it's time all the Vir gin a people knew if they don't already know it- -that they are going to try to break us down first in the South. Byrd said. The .interview preceded a talk" before a civic club. t ills Drastic Measures Byrd said that no where else in the South are forces favoring in tegration resorting to measures as drastic as those they are bringing to bear in Virginia. "They’re making the drive on us first." lie said. "They want to break us down first because of our prestige and leadership with the rest of the South." He urged Virginia to continue a course of "passive resistance" and commended Gov Thomas B Stanley and the supporters of the governor s "no integration" pro as 'll tlie General Assembly. Rcierscd Itself Byn! said the U, S. Supreme Court had reversed lt.srll once on 'tie segregation issue and "if we show ’.tie proper fortitude.-, then there is always the possibilty that if the court reverses itself once, it w dl reverse itself again." Five desegregation suits brought by tlie NAACP have reached fed eral courts in Virginia. Arlington County and Charlottesville have asked the U. S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal from district'court orders requiring desegregation by

ord of the Red Cross and his drive assistants to put the drive over the top. a top Si”2 higher than that of 1956. Choir To Present Concert Saturday Tire Department of Music of Lone wood College will present a Spring Concert on Saturday. March 23, at eight- p. m.. in Jar man Hall. The concert will be the last event in the Founders' Day celebration: and. although it will be primarily in honor of the vis iting alumnae, the public is invit ed to attend. A feature of the concert wall bo the performance of five sacred compositions by the choir, each conducted by a music major. These will be "Lo My Shepherd's Hand Divine." by Haydn, conduct ed by Rosalvn Epps: "Lamb of God." conducted by Ann Hart:; "Kvrie. (Mass VIIby Lotti. conduct/*! by Ela:ne Weddle; "Ave Maria. " by Luzzi. conducted by Gay Allen; and Cherubim Song." by Tschaikevsky. conducted by El sie Wells.

Supervisors Disagree With Consulting Engineers on Secondary Road Fund (nit

Pass Resolution Ur«inir Holding Of Present Share Emphatic wants of their con stituents who drive over rural roads don't jibe with a prominent voice being heard in Virginia just now recommending a change in the amount of highway funds ai

lotted the Secondary System, the Prince Edward county board of supervisors finds. To show without equivocation ! just where they stand in this is I sue facing Virginia, the supervis j ors late last week unanimously adopted a resolution which, in cf" feet, demands: no change in pres ent methods of dividing funds among the Primary Secondary and Urban icity, town streets' systems. Under the present Virginia law. that system guarantees a mini mum of 30 per cent of all highway ; money, state and federal, to the | Secondary System.

Grass Roots View S:nce it. is from that distribu j tion that counties are allotted ; their annual funds to improve the ' county roads, boards of sqpcrvis ! ors are opposed to any more that i might mean a cib in money. They i are too close to the audible de mands asked of them in their very own districts. The voice being heard in Vir ginia is that of technical engineers of the firm of Parsons. Brineker hoff. Hall and MacDonald. New York consulting firm, which was employed to study the Virginia highway system and make recom mendations. The engineers have reported their findings to the Virginia Ad visory Legislative Council, during public hearings, that existing methods of fund distribution are "completely inequitable with re spect to needs" and that . . . con tinuation of present laws and pol icies can only result in the devel opment of a Seriously unbalanced road plant." One of the inequities, they feel, is that the secondary road sys stems share is now bigger than needs justify, in relation to needs of the other major divisions. Prince Edward supervisors Fri day replied to that contention with this unanimous resolution: "That we are firmly of the opinion that in order to establish, construct and maintain a system of Secondary highways in this state, sufficient to carry the traf fic to which they are subject, there should be no reduction in the proportion of highway funds allotted to the Secondary Sys tem." The. resolution adds a second paragraph that the county's state senator and House of Delegates member "be and they are hereby urgently requested to oppose any legislation, the effect of which would be tO reduce the proportion of highway funds allotted to the Secondary System." The consulting firm's recom mendation Eire merely that at present, but even that early in tire game, the board of supervisors here believes it is time to strike. Supervisors W W Vaughan and C. W. Gates were present for the recent public hearing in Rich mond.

Construction Bids Due Hospital With U. S. Pattern In Using $44,600Ford Grant With its $44,600 Ford Foundation grant of which the second and final payment of $22,300 was made March 15, Southside Community -Hospital's board of managers will do what other grant recipients plan in the greatest proportion-— contract for new construction to provide beds for more pa tients

A Foundation statement, based on reports received from grantee hospitals, shows new building to be the most needed method of putting the money to work. Sec ond greatest use will be moderni zation of existing plants and the purchase of new equipment. Southside Hospital use*of the money provides contemplated ex penditures combining these two most popular usages, with the greater share here going toward new construction, or completition of the second floor of the Mettau er Wing. 54 Receive Funds The area hospital here is one of the 54 Virginia institutions re ceiving grants, which were com puted on the basis of patient days of service and the number of births in each hospital. The Virginia institutions shar ed $2,657,200 provided by the Foundation. The total throughout the U. S. amounts to $200 millions to improve and extend commun ity hospital services in the 48 states, Alaska. Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The necessity of adding to the Ford Grant and to Hill-Burton Act federal funds through local "matching" giving will accom plish here exactly what the Ford Foundation hopes Its contributions will do—strengthen basic Ameri can institutions and Encourage Wider Public Support of Them. Henry T Heald, president of the Ford Foundation, writes in the statement. "It is increasingly clear that the Job of providing adequate hospitaf care for our citizens is far too big for any one agency or organization Its accomplishment depends on how well these needs are understood by private citizens and organizations and on their willingness to contribute ideas, time and financial support to the joint community effort. Foundation’s Aim "If the Foundation grants help stimulate such local initiative, they will have accomplished their purpose.” The Foundation says that pop ulation increases and advances in medical science are training the facilities of community hospitals. Also that expenses of construction and operation have contributed to a climb of 132 per cent in the cost of hospital care from 1946 to 1956. At Southside Hospital the board of managers today i Thursday will receive bids on completion of tlie top floor of the new Mettauer wing, heretofore used on the first floor, but only roughed in in the second. By this construction and alter ations to older parts of the. hos pital. the institution will be en larged to a 100-bed functional unit and get a new obstetrical ser vice and patient section. Southside Hospital has been au thorized a maximum of $104,500

J. n. Wail,_Jr„ Klectod President Cut Allocations Or Dip Into Reserve Fund fssue Faces New Chest Officers

J. B. Wall. Jr.. Wednesday was named president of the Prince Edward County Community Chest, succeeding Rev. R E. Withers, Jr. Wall, who repreesnts the Jun ior Chamber of Commerce on the board, previously had served as vice-president. T. W. Brooks. Jr-, a former vice president and 1956 campaign di rector. was elected vice-president. Mis., Minnie E Rodgers, a re-elect ed secretary, and K E. Shuler was re-cicctcd treasurer. Plans were made for the solce Stimpson Defenders Head In Cumberland Edward Stimpson was elected president of the Cumberland County Group, Defenders of State Sovereignty, at the annual meet ing March 18. Reuben S. Jonhs was elected vice-president and Mrs. George Jenkins, secretary treasurer. Elected to tire board of direc tors were R H. Blanton. J. W Hazlegrove. Paul Stimpson. Wil lie Welchlin and George Whit -vJ - k ■

man at tlie next board meeting, tion of a budget arid admissions committee and a campaign chair

J. BARRYE WALL. JR. , Hc.id;> i ouuuuty C.htt.t

April 24. Mrs. L. E. Andrews was appointed chairman of the nom inating committee. *. Action is also to be taken at the April meeting on allocations to the 11-member agencies for the rest of the year. With the drive falling short of its $17,000 goal, the Community Chest board is fac ed with either dipping into its re serve fund to make up the differ ence between the amount on hand and the amount allocated to the agencies, or cutting back its allo cations. The new campaign chairman is to decide if member agencies will present their annual reports and appeals for funds at an open meeting next fall, just before the drive opens Consensus of the i board was that such a meeting | would be a good thing. In the 1956 drive, money was j raised for Farmville Public Libra ry. Farmville Memorial Recreation Association Southsidc Community Hospital, Hospital Auxiliary. Boy Siouts. Girl Scouts. R. R. Moton Recreation Association. Farmville Reading Room. Children's Home I Society. United Fund aaid Salva

Southside Hospital Accredited By Joint Hospital Commission Joseph H. James, administrator of Southside Community Hospital, announced today that the hospit al had received official notice from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals to ihe effect that the local hospital is fully accredited for the next three years, or until further no tice. Tlie Accreditation Commission is a joint commission sponsored by the American College of Physici ans. American College of Sur geons, American Hospital Associa tion American- Medical Associa tion, and the Canadian Medical Association. Tlie Commission has the re sponsibility of inspecting and re viewing the proceedures and re cords of hospitals in the United States and Canada to determine their acceptability. Their objctive is to( improve the medical service of the hospitals in the two coun tries.

in the Virginia share of Hill-Bur ton funds, which must be supple mented by local funds on a 60-40 matching basis. Matching Required The Ford grant will be used to make up part of the local match ing fund, but more will be requir ed for the Jvlcttauer completion project, and other alterations, ex pected to total in the vicinity of $200,000. The construction must be uir der contract by April 1 if the hos pital is to qualify for the Hill Burton share. A public subscrip tion drive for funds to augment the other two sources will be launheed this month or in early April, according to the plans of the board of managers. How much the local asking must be will depend on the contract bids received today. The managers will meet in special session to night to act on the bids. Veteran’s Widows Entitled To Pay Figures published this week by the Veterans Administration show that less than half of widows of veterans who died of service con nected causes before January 1, 1957 have applied for the new in creased compensation payments A new law went into effect on the first day of this year author izing greater compensation pay ments to'widows of men who died before January 1. 1957 of causes attributed to service in the armed forces. Payments are increased to a minimum of $122.00 monthly, the rate moyng upward with rank and years of service of the deceased veteran and all differ ences between wartime and peace time rates have been removed.

Town’s Support of Sky watchers Noted

MAYOR W. C. FITZPATRICK receives a Certificate of Recogni tion from the Air Defense Command Ground Observer Corps divi sion. for Farmville's •‘voluntary service in support of the air de fense of the I . S." I t. Richard J. Baker, of the Richmond Filter (enter, makes the presentation, with Al/Sgt. 1 . s. Fletcher observ ing. The certificate was signed by I.t. General .1. II. \tkinson. com mander of the Air Defense Command.

Administrative Cost $17,205 Public Assistance Grants of §65*280 In Welfare Costs for Next 12 Months

Prince Edward county's budge: to support public assistance for the 12 months beginning July 1 will be $82,435 with the following division of fund responsibility federal. $46,232: local. $18,436 and state. $17,817. The budget, submitted to the board of supervisors by Miss Car rie Bliss, superintendent; of the county's Welfare Department, is S485 higher than the to'al of a year ago, and requests $1,300 more in the local share of financ ing. It has tentative Virginia De partment of Welfare approval and also has been accepted tentative ly by the county supervisors for incorporation into the county's 1957-58 general fund budget of $895,270 for all purposes, schools, welfare and local government. Where Grants Get The welfare budget provides for $65,280 in actual assistance grants of all kinds and $17,205 in admisslstrative expenses for salaries, travel and office opera tion. By division of expenditure the S65.280 in actual assistance grant are earmarked as follows: Old age assistance $36,000: aid to dependent children $12 - 670: foster care $4,800: aid to the blind $4.8000, aid to dis abled $3,840: general relief for unemployed $2,670 and medi cal-burial costs for transients $500. Expense Sharing Of the assistance .rants the cost sharing will be federal. $41. 417 stab . $14,330 add local 533

Former Formville Principal C.M. Bussinger Named Loudon (cunty School Superintendent; Leaves July 1

Clarence Michael Bussinger. for mer Farmville High Scliool prin cipal and current superintendent of Amelia and Nottoway county schools, Tuesday was named Lou don county school superintendent. The 54-vear-old Charlottesville native will succeed O L. Emrick. who will retire July 1 after 40 years of service. Bussinger's ap pointment is effective July 1. when his term as Amelia and Not toway superintendent expires. At Loudon iris salary and trav el expenses will be $8,300 a year Both Amelia and Nottoway county boards have requested sep aration of their schools into single county districts. No action on a successor for Bussinger is expect ed to be taken until the state board of education rules on tlje division. Bussinger expects such a decision to be made at the board s March 28 meeting. Bussinger lias served as supenn

district for six years. From 10-57 to 1951 he was principal of the Wytheville High School, following a three-year term as Farmviile principal and two years as prin cipal of Abingdon High School. He taught in Wyth county schools for 11 years before he became a prin cipal. Bustinger served as president of District 1. Virginia Education As sociation. and as executive secre tary-treasurer of the State De partment of Secondary School Principals. He graduated from tlie College of William and Mary in 1930. took additional work at the University of Virginia, and received a masters degree from Columbia University m 1941. Bussinger is married t.o the for mer Elizabeth Womack, of Char lotte county, and is a member of the Methodist Church and a life member of flic National Educa tion A-nociatioi

The division of administratec expense, totaling $17,205. a! ■> n divided: federal. S4.816: state. S3.487 and local. S8.903. In addition to the welfare de partment budge: Of S82.485. I he county's 1957-38 general fund budget lists elsewhere in the i x penditure columns an additional $10,075 for "public welfare". There listings include, among others, $6,000 for indigent hos- » pitalitfation: a S2.600 grant, to Southsldn Community Hospital, and $600 for annual compensa tion of the county's three-mem ber board of public welfare.

i Skytrain XV-B i ; Tests GOC Mon.j > ; Skytrain XV-B will come down out of the blue Monday, when local Ground Observer Corps posts take part in a test to evalu ate GOC effectiveness. Posts in central and western Virginia will be rep >rtinn all air craft sighted in their areas be tween 8 a. m and 7 p. m. March 25. C’apt. Charles M F-n..uson, commander of Detachment 2. 4716th Ground Observer Squad ron in Richmond, has issued an order, to the post supervisors re questing that all posts be manned to th,e maximum of their capabil ities. Skymen XV-B is the • nly ■ x iicist planned for Man-h. I in i': n posts m this ar a will par ticipate. Participating posts and supervisors include: Fanmville, Joe A. Wembuig. supervisor; Andersonv;Ile J A. Coleman: Appomattox. R .■> \ Sears: Ashby. Eldndep Sander son: Buckingham C. 11 Robert F. Holmes; Curdsvill* Ernest 11 Bowing. Jr.; Cutittbeiland J T. Fleming: Mehetrin. .Macon Vaughan; North pan cl Marston Pamplirj i Prospect. J F Glenn, R:c< Rob ert M Bradshaw and Scottsvilie. Alvinj Smith.

Kappa Delta Leads In tirade Averages Kappa Delta with it 1 no mu r holds t!ie highest scholastic average among the sororities for the past fall semester. Theta Sigma Upsilon maintains the second place with a 1.88 average. Other sororitj . /. • , Tan Alpha. 1.H4; Alpha Sterna Tan 1:835': and Delta Zeta. 1.833. Sigma Sigma Sigma shows n 1.747; Alpha Sigma S>plia, 1.744. and I3. Id—p’fai Srgllla I 01