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American Legion Auxiliary Initiates

MEMORIAL I'ORRY liOl Ql I I s arc presented by Mrs Thelma Mottley, sergeant-at-arms. to Mrs. Marvin Wash, center, and Mrs. Douglas Agee, initiated „s members of the tuviliarys banquet hon oring Legionnaires on their 38th anniversary Tuesday night, in the Methodist Church Fellowship Room. Mrs. A. C. Brown anil Mrs. C. W. Dickhoff also new rfiemhers. eould not be present.

Throck News & Social Items Douglas Women to Attend District Women of the Church Meeting

The Women of the Church in Dis tiiei * will meet on March 28 at 10 am. at Victoria. Members; from Douglas are to attend. Mrs. Leonard Slayton has re turned home after spending a week in Richmond with her daughter and son-in-law. Mr and Mrs. Charlie Parker. Her son. Carl, accompanied her home for the weekend Mrs Holladay Scott r e t u v n e d home Saturday after spending two weeks at the bedside of her mother. Mrs. Henry Slayton. Her daughter and son-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Laddie Hughes, and children, of Roanoke, motored down to accompany her

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home Mr. and Mrs. Hermit Slayton, of Roanoke, spent the week end with h’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Slayton. Driskills Aiienc Funeral M>. and Mrs. M. B Drisklll at tend'd the funeral of their son-in law. Thomas A Wilkerson. in Rich mond Saturday Mrs. Driskill re mained to be with Mrs. Wilkerson. and another daughter. Mrs. Mildred Bureau, of Houston. Tex., who flew here Friday evening for the funeral. Mrs. Joyce DeLeo, of Richmond, spent the week end in the home of Mr and Mrs. Baudie Carter visiting her children. Peggy Joyce and Dickie DeLeo. Other visitors during the week were Mr. and Mrs. Horace Carter, and children, of Drakes Branch, and Major Richard Slator, oi Hampton. Mr. prut Mrs. Andrew Throckmor ton spent Sunday in Roanoke visit ing his father. E. J. Throckmorton. Mr Throckmorton celebrated his ‘* a birthday March 15. Mr and Mrs. Frank Kipp, and dura bter. of Richmond, recently •. isitod her parents. Mr. and Mrs. F/.v H'urhes.

l rwier spi-mis u <-*m j-.nu 15 FmwFi. of Williamsburg, .-Of u :!>.■ w (.■'•: i- 1 wuh his mother. ; OF F i.•; Billy Allen re ■ :;r; ; with luni ■■■ 1 a r-- lie has se Y.t . • i Lipscomb spent the 1 .a . i: and attended 3 • : ml ball Satur !. Temple Lips !. spent the week Mrs Florence !. •• • mb .mb lirctther. Watson. P:i -.a Hudson, of m»r Pamplin. ral days of this vei with in i raudparents. Mr. and Mrs. John Hudson. Mr and Mrs Robert Driskill. and • .of Richmond, spent, the week end i i;h her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lowery. Miss Kite Home Mr Virginia Rice, of Richmond. • r!!v -pent a week end with her p iei-t Mr and Mrs. Morton Rice. - Clark, and (kuii'l.ier. Pamela, of Richmond. spe.it Frida \ with her parents, Mr. '.i : Mt Dan Ateheley. Mr. and Mr. Fred Paulson, and children, v •: ed there Sunday. Mr ami Mrs. Dee Allen, and da': fiU'i and Mr and Mrs. James Alien, of Farmville, visited their p;>"< Jits. Mr and Mrs. Dallas Allen, Sunday. Throck Home Demonstration club will meet Tuesday at 7:45 p.m. in the In me of Mrs. Leonard Slayton. Fi nk Fowler is working at the S- uihern States cooperative store and is commuting daily from home. Fork of Willis Mr. and Mrs. Demarest. of Arling ton. and Babbie Demarest. of Roa noke College in Salem, visited the Babers at Amptliill during the week end. Oakwood MYF went skating at Farmville Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Glass, of Warwick, were week end guests of Mrs. Lucy Duncan. Trenton Home Demonstration club met in the home of Mrs P L. Dun can Wednesday Mrs. Wilkerson gave the demonstration on “U s e s of Spices and Herbs." A dish of baked fish with herb sauce was served for judging Mr and Mrs. Harold Duncan, and Judy, accompanied by Rev and Mrs. Murphy, were supper guests Su.'.'in'- i M>-. and Mrs. John Dun ear. in Richmond. They attended church set vice at the Fartmount Avenue Baptist church, of which Rev Letcher H. Reed is pastor. Oakwood MYF met in the home of Mr. and Mrs O. W. Bali Sunday.

Group 11 To Get ‘Kid* Of Old Foes Chester, Churehland Today

To Be Moved Up To Group I During State Meeting Group II high schools — the classification given middle-sized schools such as those in District 3 — will say goodby to several old associates '-today nt Charlottes ville, but there's not likely to be any tears shed. When the Virginia High School League meets today, the Group IT board will discharge Thomas Dale of Chester. Churchland. Pulaski and Groveton to Group 1. Their enrollments have reached or sur passed the GOO-student mark, which separates the two groups-. The four will increase to 40 the number of Virginia high schools competing in the Group I classification. Chester an ; Churchland, the former in foot ball and basketball and the latter in basketball, have been a thorn in the sid? of District 2 and 3, Group II schools in this area for some time. New Group II Schools But there is no respite for the weary, the four to leave will Ire replaced with others. The Group II board will admit Chuckatuk. Holland. Whaleyville and. Wind sor. which have outgrown Group III classification. G. O. McGhee, principal of Randolph-Henry High at Char lotte C. H.. and O. A. Norton. Amelia principal, will represent District 3 during the Group II board deliberations. McGhee is District 3 chairman this year and Norton is secretary. Other proposals expected to come before the Group II board are: the selection of annual bask etball tournament sites; permit ting earlier start for football prac tice. and changes in athletic elig ibility. Mixed Group Talks When the Group I representa tives meet, the matter of chang ing Uie state baskeball tourna ment procedure is expected to come. up. One of the proposals to be presented as a substitute to the unpopular five-team tourney now sanctioned will be a state wide open tourney competition eliminating the Group I. II and III classifications. Th? new Virginia Coaches As sociation is expected to be launch ed during the Charlottesville ses sion as a division of the Virginia High School League. It would pro vide a separate discussion code arid suggestion forum for the athletic coaches in Virginia High Schools. The Virginia High School League is composed of governing boards for the Group I. II and III organizations acting separately and a legislative council combin ing them into one policy making body. Decisions at- the League lev el are binding on member schools. Edward Morton, 53, Drowns Near Bristol Edward Morton, 53, brother of Mrs. C. T. Fleenor, of Farmville. drowned Wednesday afternoon in Holston Lake, near Bristol, Tenn. He went fishing alone warly in the afternoon, and during mid afternoon a motorist passing the lake reported that an unattended motor boat was spinning around m the lake. Investigation let to the recovery of the body in 300 feet of water later in the after-, noon. Mr. Morton, a native of Bristol was engaged in the grocery bus iness with his brother. He is sur vived by several brothers and sis ters. among whom is Mrs. Fleenor. Funeral arrangements had not been completed Thursday morn ing.

I)r. Molnar Serves As Festival Judge Dr. John W. Molnar. professor of music at Longwood College, of ficiated as judge of the choral festival for Districts I and 11 of the Virginia Music Educators As sociation held on Saturday. March 16. at Ashland. On Saturday. March 23, he will judge the band festival for the same districts at Manchester High School in Richmond. Dr. Molnar was recently ap pointed to a Music Educators Na tional Association committee for audio-visual equipment w h i c h makes studies of uses of audio-vi sual aid in music education.

Mrs. Sayde Ellis Dies at Buckingham Funeral services were held Wed nesday at Dillwyn for Mrs. Sayde Reynolds Ellis, w'idov; of Perkins Ellis, who died Tuesday after a long illness at Buckingham The Reverends Ernest J. Wrenn. Ern est F. Harns and Robert E. With ers officiated. Burial was in the family cemetery at Solitude. She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Bromley and Mrs. Jean Crutcher, both of Hunting ton. W. Va.. and a brother, Bar ney Reynolds, of Florida. Her first husband was the late Keene Laughorne, a brother of Lady Nancy Laughorne As tor. She was a native of Louisa, Kv.. but spent most of her life in Virginia.

Director to Launch State-Wide Move To Expand Babe Ruth Youth Baseball

Dr. John W. Devine, Jr., of Lynchburg. Virginia state director of the Babe Ruth League Youth baseball program, has revealed plans .for a concentrated drive during March and April to expand the organization within the state Dr. Devine, who served as presi dent of the Lynchburg Babe Ruth League for three seasons before assuming the state post, will be seeking to add to the present 14 leagues in the state, six of which were registered for the first time in 1956. ‘We will provide complete in formation for all persons interest* id in forming leagues" Dr. De vine revealed, "as well as arrange for the showing of the Babe Ruth World Series film " "Any community or area hav ing at least 60 boys in the 10. 14

and 15 yeaY-old age groups can form a league," Dr. Devine reports. "The costs of affiliation are low and the wide acceptance of the program is proof of its great val ue." he declared. In 1956. some 75.000 boys in close to 1.000 leagues in 47 states, and five Canadian provinces play ed Babe Ruth baseball, making it the largest program in the age bracket. The season climaxed with the World Series at. Portland. Ore gon. This year's Virginia State Tournament will be held in Lynch burg and World Series is schedul ed for Ann Arbor, Mich. One of State's outstanding sur geons. Dr. Devine was a standout scholastic and collegiate athlete. His address is 610 Church street, Lynchburg.

Pamplin Puritans Win Certificate For GOC Support A Certificate of Recognition for support of the Ground Observer Corps has been presented to tire Pamplin Ruritan Club. The cer tificate, from the Continental Air Defense Command, was presented by Master Sergeant Ernest S. Fletcher. Richmond Air Defense Filter Center, to Ruritan Presi dent Everett Tibbs. This presentation came to the Pamplin Ruritan Club for its sup port of the Pamplin Ground Ob server Corps post . Pamplin is one of a number of lookout posts scattered at strategic spots throughout the Nation, where ob servers help to fill in the blind spots of the Radar defense sys tem. Radar cannot pick up all planes at low altitudes or behind mountains so the observers fill in here. At the same meeting a movie “Scramble for Grandpa', was shown the group by Sergeant Fletcher. It portrayed some of the problems and values of the Ground Observer Corps. It-H High to Compete State Drama Finals Randolph-Hen; y High School was one of six winning the award of ‘distinguished’ for plays pre sented burin? tin recent District 3 dramatic compc i it ion at Char iottee C. H. With those from the other five schools, the Randolph-Henrv players will represent the district in the state Group II dramatic competition at the University of Virginia Saturday. The R-H play was “A Cup of Tea.” Other schools to compete at the state Group II finals are Black stone. Bluest one. Crewe, Park View and Victoria. Buckingham-C e n 11 a 1 a n d Greensville County plays won su perior ratings at the district com petition.

Mrs. Clyde W. Moss Rites March 8 At Liberty Church Funeral services for Mrs. Clyde Warren Moss, widow of the late .Joseph Henry Moss, who died on March 6. at Halifax Community Hospital. South Boston, were held at Liberty Christian Church, March 8. with interment in the church cemetery. Services were conducted by the Rev. Ernest Harris, of Bucking ham. and Rev. Mr. Andees. of \ Halifax. She was the daughter of the late j Pattie A. Thorpe and Samuel A.! Warren, and was reared in North ampton county, North Carolina. She was educated at Chawan Col lege. at Murfreesboro, and was a member of St. Andrews Methodist. Church in Greensville county. Mrs. Moss had made her home with five daughters, among whom was Mrs. James Dunnavant. of; Buckingham. Three other daugh ters also survive. Mrs. W. F.1 Thompson, of Norfolk. Mrs. L. H. Richardson, of Nathalie, and Mrs. J. H. Newsome, Jr., of Emporia; also eight grandchildren, and sev en great - grandchildren.

Ruritans Discuss New Industry At March Meeting1 The possibility of an industry coming to Buckingham county was discussed at the meeting of the Buckingham Ruritan Club at its March meeting. J H. Spessard and C. If. Moon led the discussion. They told of an interview with a representative of the Thornburg Manufacturing Company, a firm that makes a product from wood. He has a sim Uai business under operation in Bowling Green. He said that he would need a large building, a gang saw. and some operating capita! to start the enterprise in Buckingham. Dorothy May Will Hold Fashion Show Two fashion shows sponsored by the Dorothy May store will be held Wednseday and Thursday. March 27 and .28. The fashion show Wednesday will be held at the State Theatre following tire first show in the evening. The Thursday fashiorj fashion show will be held at the Dorothy May from 2 to 5 p m. Shenandoah Head To Speak at Tuggle Rev. James Comstock, president of Shenandoah. Christian College, will speak at Tuggle Community church Sunday at 11 a. m. Accompanying Mr. Comstock will be his wife, Mrs. Comstock, his two children, and his father and mother-in-law. Mi; and Mrs. L. O. Moser, of Lynchburg. A group of 18 will be coming with Rev. Comstock to visit Tug gle Community church, including Thomas Anderson, former pastor of Tuggle Church and now a stu dent at Shenandoah Christian College Other students from the College corning with the group will be Lonnie Richardson, who will tcacli tile morning Sunday school class and Robert Ware, who will bring tire Sunday even ing message. Herman Dowdy, pastor of Tug gle Community Church, lias in vited the public to attend these services Sunday.

Colored News Mrs. Coles Dies Funeral services were held March 12 at Rice Street Baptist church for Mrs. Rebecca Clark Coles, a life-long citizen of Farm ville. She is survived by three sons: Charlie Clark, of Farmville, Rob ert and James Clark, of Balti more, Md.: 16 grandchildren: 17 great-grandchildren and 6 great great-grandchildren. Grandchildren Here Five grandchildren of Mrs. Re becca Clark Coles attended her funeral March 12. They were Miss Dorothy E. Clark, of Montclair, N. J.: Mrs. Naomi C. Davis, of Philadelphia, Pa.: Mrs. Helen Short, of Greensboro, N. C., and Mrs. Marian C. Ware and §onny Clark, of Washington, D. C.

DL B ucLintjlcim County Worn cm .) cu Presents its Spring ^J^cince Friday, March 29 at 9 P. M . At The Dillwyn Elementary School Music by Harvey Ayres and His Orchestra $3.00 PER COUPLE $1.50 STAG

FarmvilleRedSox Organizational Session Set Friday FarmviUe Red Sox basball club supporters will meet tonight < Pi i day i at 7.10 o'clock at Cedar Btook to decide issues determining the team's summer competition, management and operation All interested baseball fans are! invited to be present by M. P. Far- j tier, club president. An invitation to compete in the Patrick Henry League, as in the 1956 season, is in tire hands of the club offcials awaiting a decision. The league has requested an an swer by next week. Tonight’s session also will con sider the questions of a manager and club officers to guide such summer-long activities as financ ing and transportation. Louis 'Weenie' Miller, Hampden - Sydney baseball coach, is expect ed to be available this summer and is under consideration for the field managerial post.

Athletic Federation For College Women To Meet at Longwood Representatives fro m approxi mately twenty-four colleges will visit Longwood March 2y-30 to at tend the annual conference of the Virginia Athletic Federation of Col lege Women. Registration for delegates will be held on Friday afternoon, and the group will attend the Longwood Players' production "The Crucible", Friday night. The group, which will be staying at Longwood House during their visit, will' center their thoughts around the theme, “On-the-Campus Recreation." Saturday morning the delegates will hear Miss Cynthia Mendenhall, Recreational Super visor. East Carolina College. Green ville. North Carolina. Following this will be a banquet at Longwood House. Three Longwood students are among the state officers of the Vir ginia Athletic Federation of College Women. Annie V. Weaver is the Conference President, while Jeannie Vestal and Jeanette Puckett serve as Treasurer and Corresponding Sec retary respectively. Powhatan Auxiliary Elects Mrs, Davis As First President Mrs. Clara Davis was elected president of the ladies auxiliary of the Powhatan County volun teer fire department, organized at a meeting in the Fire House March 19. Other officers elected were Mrs. Julia Anderson, vice-president: Mrs. Ann Timberlake. secretary: ■ Mrs. Frances Urbine. treasurer, and Mrs. Cecelia Snider, histor ian. A committee was appointed to ; draft the constitution and by laws. Mrs. Rachael Elam was i named chairman, with Mrs. Lucy Ann Bowles and Mrs. Arcell Col ; Her. The next meeting will be held April 30. at 8 p. m. in the fire house. This is also the date set for the close of charter members. There are already about 30 mem bers.

Movie Guide Prepared b.v Farmville Woman's Club motion picture committee. State Theater "The Secret Affair"—This is a farce-comedy in which the military mind is satirized along with radio and weekly news magazines. The General is played by Kirk Douglas and Susan Hayward is the adept comedienne as Dottie Peale. The picture is amusing for adults and sophisticated young people, but is not for children. "The Quiet Gun"—Forrest Tucker is sheriff of a small Western town who straggles to quiet the citizens aroused against a local rancher. No one knows, at first, that the man responsible for the trouble wants the rancher's land. The show is good of a kind for adults and-young people. "Written on the Wind"—is an adult film. A self-made millionaire turns from his spoiled son to de late to importance a poor boy of an employee. While th? film sticks to the theme, it has something valid to say, but it goes overboard by having the neglected son. as well as his sister, frustrated. Rock Hud son plays the favored employee's son and Lauren Bacall is compas sionate as the girl who marries the rich sop then falls in love with Hud son. I.ee Theater “Seven Men From Now"—A form e~ sheriff of Silver Springs tracks down seven outlaws responsible for a Wells-Fargo robbery in which his wife was killed, with Randolph Scott and Gail Russell. For adults and young people. "A Woman's Devotion"—w i t h Ralph Meeker and Janice Rule is good for adults and mature young people. A devoted young wife of a battle-shocked man tries to save him from a murder charge. The set ting is Acapulco, Mexico. The per formances have life and interest one might wish the plot were as well sustained as mood and atmos phere. "A Kiss Before Dying"—A G.I. college student kills his pregnant fiancee, fearing her disinheritance by her wealthy father, and plans to marry another girl. For adults only. Robert Wagner, who is always cast as an all-American boy. is chillingly convincing in the role.

SIDELINE VIEWS

By JOHN STF.C'K THE BUCCANEERS’ SHORT STAY AT VPI w;v no discredit to tlie lads on the squad toi to Coach bill IIupp A . events moved swift ly mnd ruthlessly, as always for District :rs representative! to Way nesboro’s claiming the Group II .tab- itle they proved that Buck ingham’s turn came in a bad year. W'e say ’ bad” advisedly, meaning a year in which the calibre of the state tournament teams was probably at an all-tune high. Almost all the existing records were written in a welter of fine individual and team scoring. Bob Sondej’s new record for a single game 34 points—in the Churchland win over Buckingham in the opening round lasted ex actly 24 hours until Clint wood’s 6'2" pivot man. Kelly Sutherland, bucketed 37 against Waynesboro. And so it went all through the tourney. It was only the second tintfe that a team other than a South western Virginia squad won in the 11 runnings of the big show The ether, like Waynesboro, a District 5 squad, was Harrisonburg in 1952. The result probably indicates that the Valley of Virginai is grow ing in basketball prowess as it grows in industry and population. The probable ranking in ability in schoolboy basketball area-wise in Vir ginia is. m order, the Southwest, the Valiev Tidewater. Central and Northern. It is too much to hope, except perhaps for some rare' future oc casion. that District 3 can compete qn an equal basis with the squads reaching the tournament The competing schools are too large, they have larger, more diversified coaching staffs and well established grade school, freshman, junior varsity and. of course, varsity pro grams working for them. Perhaps the best service performed for District 3 for the annual disappointment experienced by our lads at VPI consists of: «1 > re minding us that if we want to be a basketball power, we’ve got a lot of work and development ahead, and 12 > a nice, if rather disconcert ing reward for the District 3 team winning the district tournament. C hurch League Bound to Help

I hose who nave iiad a hand boys' and girls' Farmville Church League teams in action this bas ketball season are of one opinion: the early start is bound to strengthen basketball here. It is the extra years of exper ience that helps weld a boy and a ball into a coordinated passing and shooting mechanism. The Re creation Association's: program, backed up by the churches, will trigger that mechanism, for later when those youngsters report to the high school coaches. Grade Wallace, the University of South Carolina whiz who cap tured the American collegiate scoring race this year, came from a tiny hamlet in Kentucky. So tiny the mighty University up Lexington way entirely overlooked the youngster, who jumped to a neighboring stale to play. But you can bet a big dollar, if it's not against your conscience, that Grady Wallace had a lot of that early start just like the Farmville youngsters had this year. Basketball ability, like a bank account, takes time.

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OU ECH LEAGl'E ACORNS Mean High School Oaks

Side Line Shorts Here and There: Besides local, consumption on the sandlot, high school and col lege levels, baseball inns here will have two local heroes to watch in the big time diamond show: Paul Cave, of New Canton, in Triple A classification, and Appomattox's Crawford "Miff Davidson, who is now with San Diego "Padres" in) the Pacific Coast League. Last year with the Chattanooga "Lookouts." Davidson had one of his best, years, topping the Southern Association in RBI's with 119 and swatting at a .282 pace, including 23 home runs. Out at Hampden-Sydnev. where the expectation is for a stand out squad in the college race, two FHS products, George Rickman and Gerald Duncan, will add zest to the sideline season for local fans. WEENIE MILLER'S contention that Mt. St. Mary's, the king pin in the Mason-Dixon basketball conference, could hold its own in the Southern Conference, seemed to be verified when the Mounts whipped Villanova <86-70’ the other day—a team which took Rich mond by several points just before the Southern Conference tourna ment. The Mounts have whipped City College of New York and North Carolina College <106-88’ while steadily advancing in the current NCAA Small College Tournament. COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHING CHANGES continue to be announced, the last two concerning Hampden-Sydney opponents, Emory and Henry and Western Maryland. Robert J. Waldorf, of Falls Church and formerly a success at Washington-Lee High School at Arlington, takes over for the resign ed Charles W. Havens at Western Maryland. Waldorf played at Missouri under the coaching of Don Farout. William H Bailey, formerly head coach at Alcoa. Tenn., High School, takes over at E. & H. He is a graduate of East Tennessee State College, with a M. E. degree in pnysical education at Mississip pi. Both have outstanding reputations as high school coaches.

AUCTION —OF— VALUABLE REAL ESTATE On Rt. till at Powhatan, Ya. THE LEWIS GARAGE PROPERTY FISH PONI) and approximately 25 acres ?/ SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1957 AT 2:30 P.M. BUILDERS' DEPOSIT 5500 MAY BE REQUIRED. SAM W. PARKER, TRUSTEE