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AND FARMER-LEADER VOLUME 66 Honor trn »Mpf *£*« *«*“* FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1957 T _N<)'

* A A /A faster 'eSSa 15y THE HI V .1 A. \ \( HI Hector, Johns, Memorial Church “Ik Is Risen" I St. Matt. 28:6) It was Bishop Stridcr who wrote Without Easter there is no understanding of Good Friday, and apart from Good Friday Easter is only a dream. On Good Friday we see the utter hopelessness and de spair of the disciples as they stand about the Cros and realize what is talon-1 place. Surelv they must have thought that evil

was great'* titan good. That man was mightier than God. Per haps. as of old. someone in the crowd cried “Where is now thy God?" Here the One they had looked upon for leadership, for strength in their struggle to establish the kingdom, was suffering the agony of crucifixion. Tritely it was a dark hour to those who had for saken all to follow Him. Pilate, the Roman Governour. the High Priest and tilt1 Phari.se s. the Church of the hour, were tri umphant over the Son' of God. Vindicated! On Easter the profound truth was revealed and confirmed, they, the disciples experienced the vindication of God's Word. Now they knew that goodness was greater than evil: that God was mightier than man. In the dawn .of that Easter morning the little band of disciples and the few faithful women came to rcaliz-1 the true meaning of the Cross, and. the death of Jesus. Now* God is vindicated and His Word stands forth in new power! Now tin disciples call answer the i:;■:;• c gi: \ g lixuplc-. k' -a that God is in the Risen Chris' carry n out IBs Covenant and bringing. Lmht and Life and Im mortality to all mankind! In the Cross goodness and i‘H• and righteousness w ere not di - feated. they had triumph d Nru in the Cross was drat viet eg, c Man w ;s made for life- and not death. Tim grave is not the true destiny of man. Cltri -t Our Pass over" is not dead but. alive for evermore and. because He lives we shall live also. Never Forget Let us never forget that there could be no Easter in the life of Oui Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ without Good Friday. And remember, neither you or I could find the joy and blessed as surance of the Ri.-en Christ in our hearts without our Good Fri day Our death unto the old man and old being through Baptism, made us new creatures in Christ Jesus. "We being buried with Chris: ;n His death, may also be

I partaken of His resurrection. Be ing dead unto sin and alive unto righteousness.” This is the paradox which for ever lies at the heart of the life of the Church, the paradox of the Cross. Thus, by the love and mercy of our Heavenly ratio r. we today paw- from the dorkivss of the Cross into tic glorious light of this Faster mornin c Therefore, let us go forte well humble and contrite hearts, yet rejoicin'• and full of courageous faith, unto the daily toils of life proclaiming that HE US RISEN ' Evil men canin'! rule the destiny ol m >n or n on—"God t Union Holy Week Services Will Be Observed

The I'., nr. '!• Ministerial Asso ciation will ftvain sponsor tlv an imal Union Cl arch S'-mces to be held each m .lit. Monday through Fv; : y • P . W. . Api.l la through April 19. jtl 8 o'clock Services th.is year will be it; the Farmville Methodist Churcn. with a dii i'erc-nt minister speaking e ic:: nigh'. *>n "The Seven Words from the evosr " The participat ing churches include, besides the host Methodist Church, the Farm v’lle Presbyterian Church. Farm wile Baptist Church, and Joints Memoital Episcopal Church. Ministers who will speak are lie Rev. Philip W. Thomas, of the Prospect Methodist Charge the Rev. L. P. Brown, pastor of Ba] Cl ... Dr C Lloyd Ar hart.. of the local Presbyterian Church: the R-v. ,1. A tVache. of Johns Memorial Episcopal Church: and Dr Her bert K. Hudgins, host pas: u‘ Special music numbers will be Moll choir director of the Methodist Church and head of Long wood music department Walter F. Ur ben. church organist and associate in the mat a- department at Long will b ' *01

Dislriet P-TA i ndorses Separate Sehoois: \otes *No* to Federal Aid

B> SAI.l.V RYAN Fa "Divine district Parent • Teacher's Association represent a-3 Eves Thursday reiterated their stand on school segregation and passed r e s o hi t i o n s commend ing Governor Stanley and the Gen rial Assembly and urging opposition to federal aid to education As the fi’-.st of eight objectives, even of last year, the group voted without dts«ent "to lend our every effort to maintaining segregation in our schools and to work toward having ties objective included in the ob jve'M es of our state organ va Eon " Also approved wev objectives cnll’ne for p-vrnl edueat'on and curne-d-m improvements. The only new obi -dive requested an attempt to stimo'ate greater hi'cvst in indi vil’t il P-~ \ ni-.'-in*'ati'o'-: W’lt‘am M Gravatt, chairman of the d st’ irt legislative commttce. p.rsented two district r ’.solutions d awn ip by his conumttee. which incl ded 1 1 f Combe-land, and Shelton Hillsman. of Bu’kev’lle tn- ft-st commended Governor Stanley and tin Le lslatece for "their patriotic devotion to the 1'borEes ef their people and fu the leadership they have given the I.., I'plo 'of V" g>: -a at th " * rut".al time." and pledged suppoit of the policy implicit m the measures adopt- d by th- c in • , | A i-mbly tit' Virgin:.i at its special session in j'O'tfi. The second irsoiinn urged Vir ginia Congressmen to oppose all legislation designed directly, or m direc’lv to rep -i cunt!'.-! ■ -i th( educational system m the federal government. State r TA Endorsed The proposed legislative program ef the Virginia Congress a Parents and Teachers was adopted without

rhssent. It calls for a strengthened program of special education for ex ceptional children, a state-wide minimum teachers salary schedule of $.'1,600 to $6,000 for those who hold bachelor's degrees, and ap propriation of additional state funds for school construction. In other business during the day long session, a nominating commit tee was elected to report next year. Named to tin- committee were O. A. Norton. Amelia: Mrs Cleveland Jones, Buckingham: Mrs. Ruth L. (Continued on page 7>

‘More Hopeful Than Ever’ Delegation Heads For Dark 'Tobacco Bill Hearing In Washington /

Requests Exceed Sen Road . Euiuls Hoard Huddles Over New Budget With aiar • reqiii st* than funds will mi '.. Print---' Edward CounU's B >ard of Supervisors will now seek to fit a $272,952 secondary high way allocation a- .-quarel.v .. i »s s:ble with public nq.iv-'t.- fin new arid improved roads. With the public's wishes known following Tlnir.sti::y> li.oc. iy hearing the board will .- -k to complete its selections between now and July 1 when the highway year commences. A chief difficulty s the one e >r cent limitation placed by law on the portion of toe annual^, ali-k in lit wh ch can be used for new roads. The law is specific in re-, quirmg tlie preponderant portion' going into maintaining existing roads. Even within that rigid frame work. tlie county has achieved above-average n suits, according to Resident Engineer J. L Parker's summary at tlie board hearing last week. Of the county's 318.66 miles of secondary roads, 44.3 per cent is surfaced, and bv the end of the year this should be increased to 47.9 per cent. Parker said. Of tlie county's roads having a traffic count of as much as 50 vehicles a day. only 10.12 miles are not surface-treated. Parkei that percentage of improved roads is "well above the average for counties in this section.” Citizens were present last Thursday requesting work in each of the county's magisterial dis trict.-. Among roads on which iin ’ provemen: - were asked are Routes 049 in Prospect district; 617. 612 and 605 in Lockett; 632. 613. 623 and 624 ::i Leigh: 632 in Hamp den. and 639 in Buffalo. Among new road requests were: Bulfu.•> di'-trict from near Rout*' 460 at intersection of Route 658 Farm villi district—from Route 15 aboil! two miles south of Farm ville to land of W D Chapman, also from Route 15 east just south of Farmville near Burger property and Leigh district from a point on Route 360 near Route 662 northward.

.. — I NT. i :ii: MTOMYTTOX RIVER—Le t photo shows Explorer Scouts struggling across the Ypp matt \ cn a swaying rope bridge. This is at t u* location of the old Jamestown bridge which v .• ' l i* i - Ecc ' r« treating army. Right p loto shows the Scouts marching across the Appo n att finer at the surrender grounds. Note the 1 lies flag followed by. the ( onfederate States flag. S:n ler’s ( reek To Yppomattox liope Bridge, damping In Bain, did To rixcilemenl Of Scouts On 3-Day March

u> bii i, wu i, I?am. wind and cold weather Friday ami Saturday served only to t iihence the warm. ideal spring wa: 1 . suiulfn. . 59 Explorer Sc ut- and iidnli leaders hiked p r o u d 1 y onto the surrender grunt.-; a* Appomattox after fol lowin l ■ s roll cat route for three days. T: .Scouts begun iheir 38-rnile trek Friday afternoon after a day of m. idy rn n. The skies were clearing and sea '.'eyed clouds scur ried o? blown by a moderate wcs* wind. It was not raining and i'v: ry.me hopefully predicted no more rain. Aft; r leaving FannviUe the r Hoa.'u a ml mm (’aik to am into the historical spirit of the march. The starting point of tlu* actual hike was Jam mown. This little village in Prince Edward County was once a chartered town, but now is nothing but an overgrown wilderness. Several large oak turns mark the location, and the Scouts explored a little and found the ruins oi the old Jamestown church, a graveyard, and several reminders that this was once a thriving stopping point on the Appomattox River. The explorers follow ed the gully washed route about one mile from dowms.'!; .1 m town to the Appomattox River. Monkey Hope Bridge The first big hurdle was cross ing the Appomattox The old bridge wa«h <1 away in the 1920's so Robert Chappell*-, field Scout i xeeulive of Farmville. and sev eral of thf local Scouts, built a rope "monkey" bridge across the, river earlier in the week The bridge was butit in the shape of a V The bottom rope was one inch thick, and the two hand rails were half an inch thick. Quarter-inch rope was laced between the handrails and the foot top > to keep the person era; .ing from falling into the Ap pomattox River, which flowed

l’H 1 -R} G1STRATION school financing, teacher certification and school beard policies were the .1 pects of public schools explained by a pane! at the I arm,die district Rarent-Teacher \s ■ n ait a n meeting Ihursday at Cumberland High S-hoot. Panelists were Irvin S. Driscoll, W illiam M. t.rasatt Joe A Hazelgrove, moderatoiV M. I Lecte and Dr Ed^ar Johnson. *

swiftly some 16 feet beneath the swaying bridge. The rope bridge was spliced in the middle and the total length was approximately 125 feet, prob ably tin- longest "nionkev" .br:dg< ever built in this area. With the bridge behind then: the Scouts split up into groups of eight and set out for their <amp Yates Boosted For Game Post j E. Floyd Yates, of Powhatan, was recommended for the position of 'xecutive secretary of the State Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries by the Buckingham county board of supervisors at its April meeting. The resolution, moved by Dr. W A Pennington, noted that these is in expected vacancy In the position if executive secretary. It. further states that Yates is “a man well qualified in all respects lor this po sition and one who had done much for the game conservation program in the State." A copy of the resolution was or dered sent to Governor Thomas B Stanley and Beverly Strass, chair man of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries. Yales, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, is president of the Virginia Federation ui Wildlife Clubs.

Pre-School Clinic Times Changed Time of the pre-school clinic for children who will be entering Dar lington Heights and Green Bay schools next fall has been changed. . instead of from 30 a.m. to 12 noon Tuesday, th° clinic will be conducted at the health depart ment in the courthouse from 9 to 10 a.m. No chungo has been made in scheduling of the Worsham and Prospect clinic. The clinic in Epps. Mt, Leigh. Pampl'.n No. 10 and Five porks originally scheduled for April 22. will be held April 23 instead. Tornado Warnings Received F a r m vill e and Cumberland ■ -honls w re dismissed at 1:30 p. m. Monday afternoon because of reports of tornado conditions in the Lynchburg-Roanoke area.

ing ground on Monroe .Johns' farm, in Buckingham County and about half way between Raines Tavern and Sheppards on Route 636 ( amp In Rain About R p.m it : acted to rain ■lowly, so the explorers w r- pick ed up by their truck and taken to hetr camp site. .Just as They got there and started .looking for a place to pitch their tents the ■«.!{••> opt :u d up at id a deluge of ain poured down Many sought shelter in re: abandoned house nearby and others were .-.hi ad with the tusk of pitching their tents. As soon .as the rain subsided to a steady downpour the rest of the Ben.it left the house and began erecting their shelter for the night. By 11 p.m. the camp was set up and in os' of the groins hid fires going with supper underway. They used dehydrated trail ra tions foi the entire trip Saturday broke early on the drenched camn and a n.-wk, cold wind dried while it cooled. The second day of the hike i Saturday i was long but interest ing as the explorers trudged down the old stage "toll gate" road now Route 638 Thev missed Sheppards. Clifton, the site of Judge Anthony Winston's house. New S'ore. Gov. P. W McKinney ‘Continued on page 7>

FIFers From IB Counties to Compete Here April 27 County 4-H winners from in ■. r>ti> t’es will compete in the 4-H art t contests at Longwood College April 27. District winners will compete for state honors at Blacksburg June 24. Club in c m b e r s from Amelia. Buckingham, Cumberland. P o w hatan. Prince Edward. Albemarle. vmhers'T. Appomattox. Charlotte. Fluvanna. Goochland. Louisa. Lun enburg. Mecklenburg. Nelson and Nottoway counties will be entered D’strict awards will be presented for bread making, meal prepara tion, canning, freezing foods, lam d’y. home improvement, dress ie view. public sneaking, dairy judg ing, poultry judging, forestry, land judgnig. tractor operation, p nit y prod'Kftion, egg grading and live stock judging. Opening exercises will be held at Ja'man) auditorium at 10 am.

$10,000 Buckingham Lighted Athletic Field C ampaign Will Open Tomorrow

A campaign to raise $10.000 for a lighted, all-purpose athletic and recreation field at Buckingham-Cen tral High School will be launched tomorrow > Wednesday The recently organized "Bucking ham County Athletic Association" will conduct the drive throughout the county with a county-wide re PC'(-progress meeting set for April 16 at 7:30 p in . a( the school. The private subscription campaign will provide funds to construct the field on land owned by the school board which adjoins the high school on the east side, just off Route 6(1. Work has already commenced on grading the site. John c Spencer is president of

the new Association and John C Morgan is secretary-treasurer. Vice presidents, who will organic fund drives in each magisterial district, arc: M F. LcSucur. Marshall district: B D LeSueur. Dillwyn; Cleveland Jones. F'anciseo district: Herbert Maxcy. Slate River district Dr W A. Pennington. James River de trict, and T B. Hall. Maysvillc cli trict. An association announcement to day states that present plans call for a modern type recreation lay out adapted to football, baseball and tennis L'ghts will be provided for night contests and activities.

Norton Named Superintendent New Principal To lie Appointed Amelia School Board Monday approved the appointment of O A Norton. Amelia Hml-. School prin cipal, a., superintendent of :h newly created Amelia school dis trict. Action on appointments of N 1 t-on's sued.' or as principal via not expected to be taken Monday

O. X NORTON New Amelia school superintendent Presumably a special board tmet .ng will be calied xvtMiin a week :> fill vacancies and consider uac-hcr;-' uppmntnu ms fo: the next school year. Norton ha- been principal since 1940. with tin!' exception of a four year toi.tr ot duty with the Air Force dunn : World War II. He lias a master's degree from the University of Virginia and has done graudate work at Duke Uni versity. Taught West Point He taught at West Point for six years before I lie went to Amelia An amateur weather forecaster, hi- occasionally substitut s for iu.s science teachers A pat i matter of Amelia Ma sonic Ledge. Nor en is also past •in - deni of Amelia Ruritan Club. He t ache-, the young married eoupl s' class at Amelia Methodist Church, and was one of the lead t . b hurl the move to build the Amelia Wat Memorial Building, .re is married and the father of hr e children.

Peoples Bank Jumps 20r> Places in Rank Trade Paper Reports American Beaker newspaper re ports P cpi National Bank of Fafmville rained 205 places in its standing empng the 4,400 la. .' .-t banks in the United States during 1956 Clm'on B Axford. editor, said th honk s r|<po its of $5 126 report'd (ii Dec 31. 1956. rank the bank a: the 4.352nd largest in si;-r. -ompaijed with the 4557th p f« -• •» i th. end of 19.35 The information is revealed m the 1957 annual roll call of the U i rei banks m the V. S. published April 5 by the daily American Bunker New York. It is Hie daily trade patter of the banking burns r Editor Axford says there are 14,000 banks to the U. £

Determined Croup Feels Fairness On Virginia Side Chances of winning separation >t Tj pi- 21 Virginia dark-fiifd to jac. •) from Kentucky. Tennessee e'jp.s 22 and 22 are better now han at any time previously, ac cording to the view of two im portant industry spokesmen. J. W. Dunnington. president of Tunning ton Tobacco Company, and T. B Hall, general manager jf the Virginia Dark-Fired To bacco Growers Marketing Associa tion. who will be present for the Washington hearings this week, xpre.e ed that view just before .caving for the capital. Newe.: eruption in the 12-y -ai ::ig fight of Virginia growers to lave their crop receive the sepa au: type treatment they believe ts distinction merits, is Congress nan W .tkins M. Abbitt's bill iiich would effect the separation. The fair Way ••if reasonableness, honesty and .urn .-s prevail there should be 10-question of the bill's passage." according to the president of the Dunnington Tobacco Company. "At. th i way to look at the bill . ti;..' it would give Virginia "ower-i the acreage the demand for their porduct warrants," Dun i :gui.i said The tact ihat Type .1 had a 1926 crop of 10-million plus pounds and the industry sold ■ j-mnhon-plus pounds ought to icar considerable weight before he sub-committee." Half whose association ware houses serve a large proportion of Virginia growers, is going to Washington with “much more iopr than any previous time," he said. I ''DA Approval -This is the first time the move ia i d V S Dt p irtnit nt of - AgridqJtun support, even of a ten tative nature," he added Both fti,-’ii disclosed that Con gressman Abbitt is also more ■ soul : the outcome this time Back in 1948 a bill was offered .' Kuhi the same end of separ.i . support then, nor was Congress nan Abbitt guiding it through the legislative process at that time. It did not g.-t beyond the sub committee.

Immediate aim is to get th. bill reported out of committe favor ibly. That, however will not end the long legislative path to f rod pa; UK" of Abbitfs bill - H R. 5002. as it has been numbered. I '>ns I’ii11 Ahead Once out of the Tobacco sub committee it must pass the full House Agriculture Commit:, e. then. if favorably ; n ed th it must be approved on the floor of the House. After that, the same jroccss take; place in the Senate, first in committee, then on the Senate floor. ff the long 12-year struggle succeeds, the climax could come with the signature of President Eisenhowt r converting legislation into law Joining Dannlngton and Hall in Washington will be representa tives of Virginia dark-fired belt buying, warehouse and grower in terests. Among them will be J. A. Hazelgrove and R. W. Gannawav. growers; E P. Lancaster, manager of Dark Tobecca Sales Coopera tive. Mott Robertson, of Lynch burg. representing independent warehousemen, and John H Beach, of Black tone. Gus Stall ings. and R A Lindsey, of Lynch burg, representing buying in terests.

Budapest Quartet Concert Tonieht The Budapest String Quart i will present the last in a r ex of five Community-College Artists Senes concerts tonight <Monday* it 8 p. m. in Jarman auditorium. On the program will be "String Onm-tet jn C Minor. Opus 18. No. 4," by Boothoven: '‘String Qu;r ' t in G Mino .is 10 by De busy. and String Quartet in I- ■ • M 1 Opus 51.” by 1 >v Quartet members are Joseph Ros man. first violin: Alexande Schneider, second violin: Bins Kroyt. viola, and Misclu Scneidc. . vrilincello. Concert season tickets will h honored, and single admission tickets will be mailable at th door. Buy A IJ!y! l ilies — artificial ones — will be sold on if! tin street Sale! day . s' \ tren r.irmville High School Kiris-selected by the SC \ will '■•'ll the arfificial flowers from S-.'iO a m to 12 noon to raise money for llie Virginia Society for Crippled Children.