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1 AND FARMER-LEADER___ VOLUME 66 i,OQOr ,or Pre"m FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1957 ^bSSd’iSC* NO. 61

TL*asler ll]e5Sii(je The RieurreciloA By st. Matthew. One of the Twelve

’ 1 Iii the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Mag ..dalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. 2. And. b. hold, there w.-.s a gieat earthquake: f ir ’he angel of the Lord descended from heav en. and came and rolled back tin stone from the door, and sat upon it. 3 His countenance wv like lightning, and Hi.s raiment white as snow:

4 And for fear of Him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. ft. And the angel answered and said unto the women. Fear not ye: for I know tliai ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. 6. He is not here: for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. 7. And go quickly, and tell His disciples that he is risen from the dead: and behold. He garth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see Him: lo. I have told you. 8. And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy: and did run to bring His disciples word. 9 And as they went to tell His disciples, behold. Jesus met them saying. All hail. And they came and held Him by the feel, and worshipped Him. (,\ portion of (be 28(h ( hapter.) General Anderson To Address Lions Genera! James A Anderson, chaiiman of the Virginia Depart ment of Highways, will be guest speaker during the F. rmville Lions Club luncheon meeting to day (Friday 1. The veteran director of the State road system will speak on "Futun Planning For and Use of Highways 15. 480 and 45 Leading Through and Out of FarmVillc."

Stores To ('U se; No Paper Monday Department and most retail stores will be closed on 1.aster Monday. It. I McGahej. chair man of the retail trade commit tee of the Farmville Chamber of ( ommerec. made the announce ment affecting most of the stores in Farmville. The Herald staff will also par ticipate in the Faster holiday and no paper will be published Tues day.

III) Club Pennies Add I p To $1,658 Virginia's Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs contributed over $1,658 to "Pennies for Friendship” last year, according to a report from Mrs. J Blame Gwin. Fairfax county president. Tire fund helps finance The As soc’at d Country Women of the World, an international associa tion of organizations which in cludes home demonstration clubs. Tire central office of the organi zation is in London. England. Final Time Set For Pre-Sehool Clinic The last in a series of pre school clinics will be held Tues day April 33. in the Prince Ed ward county health department offices in the basement of the courthouse. Scheduled for students who will enter Epps. Mount Leight. Pamp lin 10 and Five Forks Schools in the fall, clinic hours will be from 9 to 10:30 a. m.

Sunrise \\ orship Sen ices To ()[ ten Faster Observance Youth Council’s 7 A. M,, Service On Library Steps Tnd if"- and outdoor sunrise serv ’p''s and regular church services 'v"!i suecial muse have bepn planned lyy local churches for Eas ter Sinda v. Farmville’s Youth Council is spon s >ring an into"-denom national sun r'se sprviee. to be held on the Long- j wood College lib-ary steps at 7 a m. M'ss L'llian Minkel. Farmville High School teacher, will be the speaker. Goodwyn Lake w'H be the site of another sun-iso service, sponsored bv the" Burkeville churches. The Rev. W D. Gravatt.- pastor of Burkeville Baptist church, will be the speaker.

( hurch Services Farmville Easter services sched uled include: Farmville Baptist church. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m . church at 11 a.m. with the sermon topic, "Jesus Is Alive." with special music by the church choirs at each service. Farmville Methodist church, a film. "The Resurrection," at Mc Craw Sunday school class at 9:45 a.m., church at 11 a.m. with the sermon topic. "Christ Lives Today.” and special music by the church choir, John Molnar and Walter Ur bcn. Farmville Presbyterian church, special music by the senior, junior and carol choirs at the It a.m. service Johns Memorial Episcopal church, sunrise service at 6:30 a.m.. in the church in place of the regular 8 a.m. service; 9:30 a.m.. presenta tion of the children's missionary of ferings and the flower cross, and at 11 a.m.. regular service. Children of the. church will have an Easter egg hunt at 3:30 p.m.. Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Phelps on Rice road. County Services Buckingham county services: Mt. Zion Baptist. 5:30 a.m : Bethlehem. Cedar and Enon at Dillwyn First Baptist at 6 a.m., and White Hall Methodist at 9 a.m. Cumberland county services: Cen ter Presbyterian at 8:30 a.m.. and Antioch and Fitzgerald Baptist, both at 11:15 a.m. Powhatan county services: com* munity service near Methodist church, conducted by the Rev. Wil son M. Stitt at 5:25 a.m. Prince Edward county services: (Continued on page 5)

1!1J ! \ I ! I . renter, receives the congratulations of Buckingham FFA President Frazier Fair as Itt'Iv wins the Chapter t -.rtner Award. Looking on are Gordon L. Baldwin, vocational agriculture in structor. and Harry Bryan who won an award for Farm Mechanics. Lev Gvts Thrvv Awards At FFA Banquet

Billy- Lee captured three awards Wednesday night at the annual Buckingham FFA father-son ban quet Lee took the Star Chapter Farmer award, livestock farming medal and public speaking award Hairy R'-yan was awarded the farm mechanics medal The meeting was held at the Pdlwyn Elementary School rafe Writ) I'1 Bjliev vire-pr*' idem of the Virginia FFA Association, was guest speaker Bailey traced the history of the t FA eveaivzat-ion and pointed out that the Futiue Farmers of America grew out of an organization called the Future Farmers of Virginia He said it is an organization to promote comradeship as well as leadership In explaining the various require ' merits for the f a r m e r decrees. Bailey emphasized the importance of haring a good program of farm projects.

Hr Informed the group of several changes that would be made in the program at the State Convention in Blacksburg this summer. The changes will include a new way to conduct the public speaking contest, new method of nominating state offi cers and he expressed the hope of having the entire convention filmed The opening ceremony was con ducted by chapter president Frarier Fair Invocation was. spoken by the Per D >H Br>an entertainment >ia: provided by several of the chapter members. Jimmy Hall and Kenneth Bryant -ang several selections while play ing on the guitar. Pete Gowin also piesented several renditions on his -net-tar George Taylor. Pete Mills. Dennis Childress, and Gene Land sane some harmony numbers as "The Quartet" Hanv Brv m and Bcerlv Davis Hid dr rep-'-Cli '-•*» ' Jt CUdpt.tr I* • 1

ties. Bryan reported that chapter mem bers are conducting 261 farm enter prises which include 360 acres of crops. 125 head of livestock and 18.000 birds in poultry enterprises. The members are carrying out 355 improvement projects, and sup plementary jobs Last year the chapter planted more pine seedlings than any other FFA rhapter in the State This year they have planted even more <85.000 seedlings' The Buckingham member s en tered 124 exhibits at the F i v e County Fair and other shows, and won $308.50 in prize money. Other exhibitions included safety displays which won first prize at the Five County Fair and Lynchburg Farm show. A safety exhibit was also shown last month at the Virginia Rural Safety Conference in Rich mond V- f '7 kJ 0!^ 1

DON SEQHN and LESTI’R ION IS handle one of the hose as Farmville firemen poured water on the destroyed home and store of Basil Atkins Tuesday morning about 3:30 a. m. Notice the smouldering timbers in the background between the two firemen. Smoke clouded chimney at right is about all that was left standing.

Dr. Charles Baird To Direct One-Day Cancer C rusade Dr. Charles L Baird, of Hamp den-Sydney. will direct, a one night Cancer Crusade in Farm ville and Prince Edward county communities on Tuesday, April 30. Goal for the intensified effort has been set at $1,600 to provide funds for the local, stale and na tional cancer cure and prevention programs. Dr. Baird, who directs the x ray program at Southside Com munity Hospital, is expected to name division leaders for special gifts, a business area solicitation and in each of the county's six magisterial districts. After the fund Crusade, a local unit of the Virginia Cancer So ciety will be re-established here to make the state organization - procrams 'effective on the com munity level. Representatives of the si at-' of fice have been here .'. il-u: . n behalf of the local organization the past two weeks The $1,600 fund appeal this month represents a 10-cent per capita request Last, year, the county experienced a mortality total of 16 persons from cancer, the Virginia society reports. Tie number of cases is estimated by professional workers to be four times the mortality rate.

Cumberland C a n e e r Workers Will Meet A meeting of Cancer Ci u.sacie workers m Cumberland countv has been called Tuesday. April 28. at 8 p. m.. at the County H altli office in Cumberland. The Rev. T P Reynolds, chan - man of the count\ cancer un has requested the presence of all volunteers who will participa'e in the fund-raising Crusade. Handel’s ‘Messiah’ To Be Broadcast A performance of Handel's “Messiah" in its entirety will be broadcast by radio station WSVS AM PM. in Crewe. Easter dun day at 4:80 p, m The production, which will run approximately two hours is pre sented by the Handel and Hat tin Society of Boston and features Adelc Addison, soprano. Loina Sydney, contralto. David Lloyd, tenor, and Donald Gramm, bass. The Cantata is conducted by Thompson Stone, and accompani ment is provided by file Z.mbler Sinfonietta

Early Morning Fire Destroys Home-Store Of Basil Atkins A fire that broke out Tuesday morning about 3 a. in. completely destroyed the store and residence of Basil Atkins. The building was located about two miles past the Lockett House on State route619. approximately four miles north of Rice. Atkins said he was awakened by the smell of smoke. When lie. got up he discovered the house was full of smoke, and lie just had time to escape with his wife and two children before the house be came untenable. He saved nothing from the building. The building was in sured. he reported but none of the store stock carried insurance. Firemen could not determine the cause of the fire

Atkins works at Farmviiie Mo tor Company as well as running ; the small store. He bought the store in December from S V. Lyon who lives nearby. County fire units answered the call but. were unable to save the building. A second fire Tuesday was quickly extinguished on the YV. J. Bloomfield storage lot just east of their office on East Third Street. The small fire was report edly started by juveniles playing with matches No damage was done. Farmviiie P-TA Dr. Charles F. Lane. Long wood College professor of geography and geology, w 11 discuss •'Geo graphy in the Elementary School" at the Thursday. April 25 meet ing of the Farmviiie Elementary Pa rent -Teacher Association

L( "s Institute To Be Southern Regional ‘First' The Institute of Southern Cul'ure established this year at Longwood College is the first, institute in the United States to be devoted specifi cally to the study of Southern regionalism. A 1 e c tur e series scheduled for April 2t> will cover topics of Virginia history and litera ture in observance of the James town Festival year. , The morning lecture b be held at 11 o’clock will be on ‘'The Edu cation that Doesn't Educate: The Persistence of Virginia Folkways" by Dr. Francis I! Simkins. profes sor of history at Longwood College An afternoon lecture at 4 o'clock by Dr. Louis D. Rubin. Jr . associ

ate editor of the Richmond News Leader, will be mi "The Image of an Army: The Confederate War in Southern Literature " The evening lecture at 8 will be on "Critical Essays in the Southern Literary Messeni , B Taplin associati professor of Eng lish at Long wood. All lectures will be held in the lounge of the Student Activities Building and are open to the public The Institute of Southern Culture was established to promote the study of traditional aspects of South ern civilization through academic ; course work, special lectures, and through the publication of research in the field. In addition to two lecture series . ktitute this year is sponsoring a program of graduate ant^ under graduate course hi Virginia history. Southern history. Southern litera ture, Virginia geography, and South ern geography and folk culture.

Saturday Delivery To Be Resumed As Postal Authorities Get Money

Dogwood Buttons On Sale Saturday The ladies of the Farmville Fire Department Auxiliary will conduct their annual Dogwood Button Sale Saturday from 9 a. ni to 1 p m. Proceeds from the sale will so for the relief of firemen, both lo cally and statewide, Mrs. C I. Spurlock, Jr. said that one-h ilf of the funds were used on the slate level and the other half re mains for local use. Four tables will be set up on Main Street. One each in front of Baldwin's Feggett’s, Home Furni ture and the Court House Two Sentenced In Buckingham Tiie wheels of justice ground swiftly in Buckingham last week. •John Thomas Scott broke into Mathias Store in Dillwyn Sunday; va; arrested Monday; indicted Tuesday; convicted and sent to •in S;.ih Penitentiary Wednts Judee Joel W. Flood, of the Buckingham Circuit Court, revok ed a previous suspension of a five vear sentence against Scott, and sentenced him to two additional years in the penitentiary. The two years will run concurrently with he five year sentence. The court sentenced Grover Hollbrook to four years in the penitentiary for aiding and abet ; iir; the breaking and enterin'.; of iht1 P M. Jon s Store and post 'fl:ee ,! Sheppards. He pleaded guilty Others involved in > the crime have not been tried

H-SC Will Share !n SI2 000 Crant By Steel Foundation Hampden-Sydney is one of 12 . privately supported Virginia col dricted giant from the United leges sharing in a $12,000 unre States Steel Foundation. Inc. The 12 institutions are members of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges. While the grant is unrestricted, it was pre sented with a desire that "the funds be usefully applied toward the growing problems of faculty and staff recruitment, develop . men. and incentives." Dr. Joseph C. Robert. H-SC president, was one of the VFIC's representatives present at Roa noke Monday to receive the grant from Boyce D. Northcutt. repre senting the trustees of the Steel Foundation.

Foresters Birds Fye Vigilance Will «✓ ' Mulch Spring Fire Dangers hi District

The Farmvillc District of the Virginia Forestry Division will match thr spring fire potential with increased vigilance including an air-, plane bird’s eye view of the forest iand in the district’s 10 counties. Fin C h i e f Maynard Stoddard made his first weekly flight over the district Friday in a Piper Cub piloted by Roy Frankie, proprietor ; of University Airfort at Charlottes- > ville. Frapkie has contracted to pro vide the flight service in several forestry districts. During the aerial rcconnaisance over the district of the Southside to the North Carolina border. Stoddard will cheek on violations of burning laws; hunt out ‘‘escape’' fires which have broken out from legitimate i burning operations, and check in by

7:30 to 10 P. M. April 25 Public Invited to View Mew Facilities At Farmville Bank Formal Opening

The First National Bank of Farm ville has issued invitations to a formal opening of its new banking quarters on Thursday evening. April 2.'i. from 7.BO to 10 o'clock. The banking quarters will be com plete for the formal opening For the past fourteen months const ruc tion has been under way, while "business as usual" has been con ducted The former banking quar ters and building at flic corner of Mam and Third streets have been entirely removed as the new bank building was constructed around them. “We appreciate the spirit of our customers and their patience during the construction period." Waller Sanford, executive vice-president, said. "We are sure that the ease and comfort of transacting bu : e • — ur }ua.acuidwOriifc./

repay us all for those inconveni ences of construction.” The new banking quarters contain i over 4.00(1 square feet of floor spare. The spacious lobby, the new offices for the bank's executives and the arrangement of teller facilities make transaction of business easy and pleasurable in the new quarters The bookrepitic department, while easily accessible, is located in a department of its own Modern machinery for handling the large volume of business has been in stalled. and will be installed, for the convenience of the customers. Murals, depicting the economic life of Southside Virginia, decorate the walls. “We are proud of our new quar ters ami invite the public to inspect our facilities on next, Thursday, Aprtl 25 from 7 JO to 10 p m " Mr said

wardens and forestry service handie-talkie radio wnh county for vchicles Stoddard won't find the flights planned once a week durinR the in flammable spring fire season too much of an innovation. He was an Air Force mechanic during World War If service.

The spring of 1957. with abundant rams, has been relatively free of fire troubles, according to Stoddard. He reports a total of 20 fires, burn ing over about 85 acres, since the first of the year. A few days of spring wind and no rain, however, can change things. That's why he's taking to the air.

CALLING ALL WARDENS—Such might be the message For ester Maynard Stoddard uses to test out his handy-talkie radio telephone before taking off on a reconnaissance flight over the 10 counties of FarniviUe Forestry District. lto\ Frankie contract pilot troia Liwlottfertniile. u, read to take to the ‘‘stick. '

Sh orte n ed W i n d <)w Hours Remain As Reminder of Cut A.s President Eisenhower signed a 41-million-dollar appropriation hill Tuesday. Postmaster General Summerfield issued a promise that most of the cuts in postal service would be restored within 24 hours. I). \V. Paulette Farmvtlle post master. received a communication Wednesday restoring most of the service ruts locally. The only change here will be in the time of opening and closing of the stamp, general delivery, and parcel post window It will now open at 8:30 a. m. and close at 5pm The reg istered mail and money order window w ill he lhe same as it na^ in the past: opening at 9 a m. and closing at 5 p. m. All other functions will he placed on a normal basis Summerfield ordered the cuts in mail service last week, when operating funds for the fourth quarter ran short. He asked for 47 million dollars additional, and re ceived 41 million

Summerfield said the depart ment is still faced with a difficult job to maintain service within the funds available. However he said some savings had already accum ulated as a result of last week ends close down and the service limitations the first of this week. The total amount of mone - in the bill signed by Eisenhower was for 523 million dollars, but only the 41 million dollars for the pos: offic* department was in dispute Other items in the bill included $800,000 for senate investigation 200 million dollars for rural elec trification loans, 250 million in federal grants to the states for .highway construction. 241 ^ mil : lion extra for the Social Security Administration and 6'a million for fighting forest fires in the west. 45 Per Cent State Income Tax Filers Facing Deadline t 1.400 Edward County's 3.000 State in come tax tilers fill out returns soon, the May 1 deadline may catch up with them. Commissioner of Revenue V. C. Womack said Thursday morning that about 55 per cent of those required to file, or 1.600 persons, have filed returns. The accelerated program, ef

fective this spring for tiic first time, requires payment of the 1956 State income tax with the return Peisonal property returns are also due May 1 but payment of those will follow the previous require ment—due next Dec. 5. togethei with real estate taxes. Commissioner Womack made two words of caution about the income tax form: '1* filers with sizeable deductions should itemize them to see whether they account for more than the automatic de duction of five per eent. and '2' husband and wife teams should take sufficient time to see whe ther a joint return or separate returns for each is most advan tageous. His office in the County Court House is open at the regular liours with assistance available to help fliers with any questions con cerning their tax obligation. There is in the accelerated program, which establishes for subsequent years a new paying date for State income tax. a provision for di vided payments, one with tire re turn. another later.

First Annual Meeting 9-('ounty TB Group Set Here April 29 The first annual meeting of the Southside Tuberculosis Associa tion of nine counties will be held in the Circuit Court Room. Prince Edward Court. House, at Farm ville on Monday, April 29. at 7 ;:o p m. W. W. Wendt. executive direc tor. the Virginia Tuberculosis A - sociation at Richmond will be the guest speaker. Persons who supported the Seal Sale are mem bers of the nine-county associa tion. and are invited to attend the April 29 session here. Twenty-four new members of the 52-member board of direc tors will be welcomed during the meeting. Reports of te associa tion s first year's fund and pro gram activities will be presented The program of action for the n- -car v .11 aLo lie considered.