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The Tarm ville Herald _ i AND FARMER-LEADER_ VOLUME 66 "'‘“O' P,tiem I FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1957 s,g.*b£Z’Aw" *0.62

Two Centuries’ Dust ( ominT Off Ilitsorie Shrines Prince I 'd ward County Day dour Planned May I Prom Accomac to Wythe, all of Virginia is glorying in its past this year Prince Edward county will have its day Saturday. M'>y -i And from all around vsitors are expected, to tour such landmarks as Old Briery church, the debtor's prison and Hampden-Sydney Col lege Other highlight places of the Prince Edward day tour are to be tlie Lockett house. Saylor's Creek. Old Sandy River church, Randolph house and Lonewood College Old lirierr : 202 Years Design, as well as age. makes Old Briery unusual. The present building was constructed in 1755, or 100 years after Old Briery was es

WANTED: RELICS OF THE CONFEDERACY Hostesses who will serve at the Randolph House in Earmville during Priori; Edward County Day May 4 are in need of Con federate relies for display there. Mrs Anne-Atkinson ( ham her layne reports that they wi'l be safeguarded and kept under lock. The Herald will relay information called in suggesting loans of rel ies to the hostesses. tablished One of the oldest Presby terian churches in eastern Virginia, it was the church of early Prince Edward planters and the mother of four colony churches Presbyterians, too, had a part in establishment of Hatnpden-Sydney College the same year in which the Declaration of Independence was adopted. During the Revolutionary War. the entire student body formed a company. The building in which the college was founded stands near the administration building today. Guides will iPad campus tours from the administration building. On dis play form 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the college libra v wTl be old books, manuscripts and portraits of notable men connected with the history of the college. Highlight of the Prince Edward tour will be the old debtor's .prison at Worsham, from 1754 to 1872 the county seat. Colonial architecture experts have described the hewn log building as one of the few origi nal debtor's prisons still in exis tence. Prince Edward branch. As sociation for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, has restored the building, and Worsham High School students have built stocks to be placed in front of it.

Lockett Hospital. ( emeterv The Lockett House, usually more frequently associated with Confed erate history, has been the Lockett home since the Eighteenth century. Fed< .c eked < wagon trains along the lowlands there Lqckett house was used as a hospital, the plantation grounds as a cemetery Confederate troops fired on the house to dislodge Fed eral troops. Three miles away is Say lev's Creek battlefield park, site of the last important engagement of the War Between the States The park is now state maintained, and there are markers describing the events and Htllsimn house which was. used as a field hospital Near Rice is Old Sandy River church, established l() years after Old Briery, in 1765 It was built as an established church, and lias been Sharon Baptist church since 1822. Grant Followed Lee In Farmvil (self, at £ Main streets, is Randolph house, where Gen Robert E. Lee rested April 7. 1865. and where Gen. U. S. Grant spent the night, leaving April 8. 1865. It was on the Randolph porch that Grant held a council of war and dispatched notes of negotia tion to Lee Lonuwoorf College, also m Farm iContinued (')i in,ye 7

(iineral Anderson Invites Study Highway Chairman Gives Proposals For Pontes 15, 460 and to In Address Here

Highway Chaiiman James A. An ■ son had a word to say to f Jks who complain about Virginia’s hand ling of the ever-present highway o instruction program in a Farm ville address last Friday. The hard-hitting “general”, whose voice m a t c h e s his commanding manner of speaking, told Farmville Lions in a guest address that “motor transport which includes the high way network1 has added more wealth than anything else that's ever happened.”

The Old Dorn moil's No 1 ngh wav executive also pointed out that highway records show that "within a month or two the sum sport on Prince Edward county high ways since state control was inaugurated will reach $10,000,000 " His answer to the perennial Ques tion of apportionment of funds to the Primary, Secondary and ijiban systems was this: The Right Approach “We glibly talk of four systems Interstate, Primary, Secondary' and

GEN KRAI. JAMES ANDERSON, left, chairman of the Vir ginia Highway Department, explains a traffic flow map to Edward \ < arter, chairman of the Prince Edward County Board of Super visors. General \nderson addressed the Lions Club Friday, and Carter was a guest.

One Life: Place Three In Hospital

Two accidents occurred in this ■■ea this week to transients who .vero eiliter going to or returning Tom funerals. Tuesday morning Lloyd Brook - dure. 47 year old resident of injured in a single car crash on Route 400 about a mile east of Prospect. His car swerved off the highway, hit an embankment and overturned two or three times. He was taken to the Medical College of Virginia. A passenger in the car. William Badlev. 19. a hitchhiking sailor stationed at Virginia Beach, es caped with minor injuries Brookshire was reportedly on his way home after attending his in whr-rT funeral in South Caro lina. His brother had been killed in an automobile accident. Clyde T Jurney of New Castle, Del. and his sister. Mrs Jettie M. Martin were admitted to South side Community Hospital Thurs day morning following a head-on collission of their car with a truck about four miles north of Keys ville on Route 360, Mrs. Jurney and son. Jerry Jurney. 9 years of age. were treat ed at the hospital but did not re quire hospitalization. They were reportedly returning home because of death in the family. A third accident in the area re sulted In the death of an eight year-old Buckingham youth. Dav id Wray Merchant died Tuesdc night after he was struck by an automobile Monday night, near Ins home at Mt. Vineo. Bucking ham county. IH;iry Ladies Niuht T o Rarmi lie Rotary club will I bid if- annual Ladies Night ban a • T msday evening at 6:30 p. m. at the Hotel Weyanoke.

Hollises, H-SC Singers To Combine In Hill Concert At Col lege Church

A joint concert by the Hollins Col lege Chapel Choir and the Hamp den-Sydney Glee Club vv.il bo given in College Church at Hampden Sydney tonight > Friday at .'I o'clock The public is invited to the no-admission charge concert The two vocal groups will present the same program Wednesday May 1. at Hollins Art Inti S. Talmadce d roots the Hollins singers, who will perform alone in three groups of numbers a'nd then v nibme with the H S singers in a final rendition of four r h o r u s < s from Mendelssohn's "Elijah ' Ned Crawley will direct the Hampden-Sydiu y voices ;n a o of numbers prior to the combined singing Talmadge. the visiting di rector. w 11 conduct for the final number. Sandra Shaw is accompan ist for the H o 11 i ii s Choir, whilt

Ronald Davis. of Hopewell, accom t ar.ies the H-SC singers The Hampdi n Sydney Glee Club's performance alone will be Randall Thompson's "Testament of Free dom." it s a musical setting of four passages from the w riling s of Thomas Jefferson. Opening the concert, the Hollins sing n will gr.n a Bach Chorale Now Ml tno Woof’s are Sleeping" They will round out the first group wuh Palestrina's O Bone Jesu" Salvation Belonged) to Thee", b\ Mozart-Garabedian: Geer's arrange ment of a 12th Century Easter carol: Virgil Tomson’s arrange of "My Shepherd Will Supply My Need", and close with Diercks "Psalm 150." After the H-SC singers perform the Testament, the Hollins Chon will return for "Missa Lulcis Doniina" 11*35 • by J Samson, and then sing six long soc^s by Brahms. V

P|£ Memory Hook To He Turned Back With May 1 Tour Southside Virginia will gf out its memory book and fanciest, dress May 4. when visitors from other areas are expected to make ;i fes tival tour of historic Prince) Ed ward county. Prince Edward branch. Associ ation for the Preservation oi Vir ginia Antiquities, and Lon-j wood Garden club art sponsorin') the tour in conjunction with thelfour day tour, May 1 through 5, being held in adjoining Southside Coun ties. The informal tour includes Old Briery church, Hampden-Sjdney College, tire old debtor’s prison at Worsham, Lockett house. Savior's Creek battlefield. Old Sandy Riv er church Randolph hqusc, Longwood College and Longwood estate. No formal car caravan is plan ned. and each of the places will be Open throughout the day. hunch may be obtained in Venable hall at Hampden-Sydney Collegia be tween 12:30 and 1:30 p. m A cof fee hour will be held from 10.30 a m to 12 noon at Middkcourt, the home of the college president. May 1 and 2 Charlotte dounty APVA will hold a tour of old homes, and May 3 Halifax county will hold its thirteenth ijnnual pilg image to old Halifax houses. May 5. Appomattox countl- will be in the historical spotlight.

Workers Kick-Off Five-Day ( aneer Crusade Thursday A five-day campaign and! $1600 those are the aims df Dr. Charles L Bail'd, of Hfmiipden Sydnsy. Cancer Crusade I chair man The intensified campaign will be held April 25 through 30. Crusadt ( hail m< n a id - iliciton will meet at Lor.-wood College Thursday at 7:30 pun to outline plans for the drive. Magisterial district chairmen are Nelson Hix. Prospect Mrs W A. Odom. Lockett; William Dick orson. Buffalo: Miss Mary Dupuy. and Mrs Tucker Doyne. Farm vilie. William P Hay. Jr , will| be in charge of special gifts, and Mrs. Mabel' Jones will handle residen tial solicitations. R a Wilmoth is heading the employee d vision, and D: Francis Glngo lias Hamp den-Sydnev Mrs June Ellington is acting as assistant campaign chairman The S1600 will go toward local, state and national cancer cure and prevention programs. La.stj year, cancer claimed 16 lives in Prince Edward County Four timejs that number of county residents are believed to have cancer

U:ban. In reality we have but one system and it is an over-all system. We cannot ga n by tak ng from one to give to the other, ‘rob Peter to pay Paul’. We must see that each highway g e t s the attention it should.’’ To thus ■ who contend that imp ov 'ng Secondary systems, the one that :s aptly described ajs Virginia’s farm-to-market net. •- too slow, General Anderson pointed out that in 1922, one per cent of such roads were hard-surfaced. "Now 45 per cent a*e ha d-surfaced and that is progress in anyone’s language”, lie declared. In support of funds going into the big. inter-state roads, the visiting execut ve endorsed a Department of the Army opinion that three factors must be c nsidored in improving highways: moving large numbe s cf pe< ole from one area to another as a evil defense measure. d;s pers no defensr-essenltal industry and ir.ciefls'ng highway transport Une cf communication to s e r v e them, and moving la ;e volumes of heavy mTitrrv vehicle" mpu’v by highway fn m one • -u-:: to uftAllier

Local Roads “Most ca 'oful study Isis shown shown that the highway needed in times of emergency are th - qme highways th t insure a s ■ I and continuing ee n■■my wli eh is th ft ition on the General said. On the Primary roads se vine the Farmville area the ' imui:j ex.cu five said: “Route 15, we th i.k bud m i . d ern two-lane standa-ds. will carry its traffic for quite a while”: "Route 460 west to Lynchburg will be made into four-lane divided read as soon as we can find the money A two-lane road will ceric the traf fic on Route 460 cast : Route 15 Bridge “What has been said of Route 15. applies to Route 45 Wi hope to net a very substantial allocation on the bridge over the Appomattox soon, maybe in the fiscal year. 1958-59." In a filial remark to those “in a community such as yours whvh has profited so much from an adequate highway tr.ii. t system. may I urge you to investigate the broad highway program that is unfolding before you the Interstate and re lated plan now under study by Gov ernor Stanley and his advisors . Your keen analysis of what is pro posed will help your community, our State and our Nation. We ask for your enlightened and active sup port."

"HERE'S THE STORY,” says W. ("■ Fitzpatrick, over-all rhairman of the Hospital Fund Drive, as he turns part of the work over to the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Monroe Evans, left, and W. F. Watkins, Jr., accept the solicitation material on behalf of the Jayeees, whi'e V. C. Womack, hospital president, watches. T he kick-off banquet w is held Wednesday night, and the Jayeees have set a $5,000 goal for their efforts.

Town Mgr. Here Resigns; Accepts Falls Church Post Farmville Town Manager Lewis Z. Johnston. Jr., has tendered his resignation after six and one-half years litre, effective May 30. to accept the po.it of city manager at Falls Church Mayor W C. Fitzpatrick said today the town council had ac cepted Johnston's action with “re grets and best, wishes” during a special called session Wednesday morning. He said Councilman C J Cox S. C Newman and A. O. Lafoon and himself had been selected a committee to secure interviews with prospective replacements and to follow through with a recom mendation to the full council at the nrop r firm JOhnston. 36. had been city en gineer and director of public works at. Buena Vista for four years prior ; a accepting the post here in Oc tober. 1950. He was assistant man ager there for four years under his father and earlier had served with the Army engineers at Nor folk for two years.

Spring Institute At Southside Hospital

The Fourth District Medical Society ot Virginia will hold - Annual Spring Institute at t!;e Southside Community Hospital, Wednesday. May 1 at 2 p. m. The yearly meethr, ■ 1 tiadi t.ionally held at Souths.de Com munity Hospital, since the local medical staff originated the Spring Institute some years aco. Tlie staff will be the official hosts and will conduct the meeting in conjunction with the Fourth Dis trict Medical Society. The Socie ty encompasses most of the Southside Virginia area. In addition to several scholar ly lectures, there will be an t x hibit of items placed by several of the drug and surgical appli ance outlets in the State The ex

hibit will be seen during the aft ernoon interm isioh. Dr. H. C. Alexander chairman of the staff, will make the wel coming address. Dr. James A. Tlnveatt. president of the Fourth District Medical Society will in troduce the speakers. Dr. Stuart Ragland. Jr., depart ment of medicine of the Medical College of Virginia will speak on "The Medical Management of Patients with Cirrhosis of the Liver with Associated Bleeding Varices of the Esophagus.” His talk is scheduled for 3 p. m. At 4 p. m. Dr. David Hume, chairman of* the Department of Surgery of the Medical College of Virginia will address the group.

Banker's Pre-View of Thursday Open House

FIRST NATIONAL BANK PRESIDENT. R. E. GARLAND, inspects the murals which are evpectcd to attract attention to night (Thursday during the formal opening of the hank’s new facilities, i'iie public is invited from 7:30 to 10 p.m.

Nine-County Session Monday Stale Director. Sanitorium Head to t ddress lit Meeting

W W Wendt, executive secretary of the Virginia Tuberculosis Associa tion at Richmond, and Dr. Charles W Scott, superintendent of Pied mont Samtorium at Burkeville. will speak here during the first annual meeting of the Southside Tubercu losis Association next Monday night, at 7:30 o'clock. The Southside Association, organ ized about a year ago. combined the work of nine formerly indepen di at county groups in Amelia. Ap , >h matt ox. Buckingham. Charlotte. ! Cumberland, Lunenburg. Nottoway, Powhatan and Prince Edward. The work headquartered at , FaoQUHlle,. with an executive secre tary's office and staff

Ncv Board Members A highlight of the annual riveting ■n the Circuit Court Room of the Court House will be the reception of 2.5 new board members, complet ing a 54-member board which di rects the p oftrams in the nine county area. Mrs. Matthew Lyle, of Keysville. president of the new association, will report on activities during the first year of organization. Wendt w'll brief members on state level activities, while Dr Scott will discuss the Southside Virginia situa tion as regards tuberculosis Success First Year In its first Sea! Sale campaign, the Southside Association raised $15,030 to support its program and its share of funds for the state or ganization. The drive goal was $15,000. For its seal sale work- first major project undertaken the As Brenda Wells Wins Statewide Contest On C onservation Brenda Wells daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wells, of Fanrs ville. won a grand prize in the tenth annual wildlife essay con test sponsored by the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries and the Virginia divi sion of the Izaak Walton League of America. A $400 scholarship was awarded for the best essay written by a high school senior, and eight $50 prizes were awarded for the best essays written by fifth through twelfth graders. Mi> - Wells' en try won in the seventh grade classification Friday she will be the guest of the commission in Richmond at presentation exercises in the Capitol building senate chamber. I. T. Quinn, commission executive director, will speak, and the con test winners woll be honored at a luncheon. More than 10.000 essays from all over Virginia were submitted this year on the topic. "Wildlife Resource—-Its Value and Wise Use."

Dr. Thompson lOlcctcd Association Officer Dr. Graves H Thompson, pro fessor of Latin at Hampden-Syd ney College, has been elected vice president of the Classical Associ ation of the Mid-West and South. His elevation in office came during the Association's meeting April 13-20 at Columbus. Ohio. He formerly served as president of the Association's Southern Section

U \V Wendt sociatioD was awarded a Virginia certificate for outstanding > effort. The Buckingham county Negro sale group, headed by George Harris, was also awarded a trophy for r aising the lamest amount of money per capita in the Negro Seal Sale. The Buckingham group raised $.'>83.2!!. a per capita giving of 11.5 cents. Coffee Too Hot Firemen Called An overheated coffee pot b-oncht Farmville firemen to 104 N. Virginia Street Wednesday af teinojn. Joseph Lonskey, who works at Craddock-Terry Shoe Company, left a coffee pot on the stove when he went to work Wed nesday. The pot melted and the grounds burned, causing a lot of smoke. Since the door to his room was lock; d. firemen were called. Chief Butcher was the first on the scene and he knocked the door in and quickly had the fire under control—too late for a cup of coffee, however. The building belongs to R F Cralle.

hospital Fund Effort Broadens To Three Fronts Jayeees Begin Town, County Appeal Today The off." f to ra'se tiV‘ last SlaOO't •f tieq son rerun red to complete •Smith's ■ 1 sty H 'oo.heu functional 11n’t is \v e 1 1 launched on three fron's. Wednesday n'"ht. the hospital haa*-d of m a no vert comnrsioned members of the Farmville Jivv — Chamber of Cnmmpro to conduct a cptortod so!*ettatien in Farmvtlle and Prince Edward countv Today, a 4,000-letter solicitation w;n s*a-t through the mails des 'ined to reach prospective sup porters in the wide area of nine eeunMe% sewed bv the hospital in the letters (s a brechti'p < \ nlaip.'nc the const'-uc*ion nlans and "'pta lng the need behind the ao pen'- more bed space, enlarged services.

success seen Ea-lic, the sppcal t?irt drive was launched under the direct ton <4 a e?rr.m‘*‘pe headed bv j B Wall. Ho salt) today that that effort has her n gains successfully 'n its re ouest foe about (it) pe- cent of th" needed funds He said workers may “•vr-t a successful conclusion of the special appeal next Wednesday night. The $199,500 required to complete the second floor of the hospital's newest portion. Mettauer Wing, phis othpc alterations to finish the hos pital's functioning plan, is already in hand to the extent of $154,000. That much was assured through a $44,600 Ford Foundation grant; $104,500 made available through federal and state aid under the Hill Burton act to improve community hospital facilities: $5,000 given by the Prince Edward county tubercu losis association, and a $500 Lions Club gift. $1 Gets St In relation to funds on hand, the $45,000 appeal to provide the last sum needed for the total contract means that eve’y $1 given locally will be matched by $4 through tin other sources. The completion of the s* nd floor of Mettauer Wing will add 21 beds giving the hospital patient room -f 100 beds and 23 bassinets The sec ond floor will bo a new obstetric care section of IK beds, two delivery rooms. two labor rooms and a father's room, all. newly equipped. By completing this area, others relieved of such services will be de voted to genera] medical cate, thus provid'ng the needed space the board of managers says the hospital must have to serve properly the growing dumber of patients in the surrounding counties. Other Work. Too Simultaneous with the second floor obstetric section work, addi tional alterations will make the west wing, now the obstetrical section, into a general medical care section and the East wing will be provided for Negro patients Lobby and in formation desk areas will be im proved in functional design, also. Central core of the work is tHr completion of the Mettauer Wing's second floor. When that is done, and the other alterations completed, people in the hospital area will have seen the end made to a $600,000 addition to the hospital, begun in 1949. that keeps the hospital in the forefront as a leader in community hospitalization. (Tit PACK MEETING Tire seven Farmvilo Cub Srou' dens will unite for a Park meet ing tonight 1 Friday * in Hr- Fits auditorium at 7:30 o'clock.

Corn Planing Big Jj>b Now Easter’s 93-I)egree Reading Brought Suddenly-Its-Summer Brow Swipes

You were entitled to Sunday's suddenly-its-summer feeling, tlie Easter temperature rising to 93 degrees-to record the highest April reading since 1952. Weatherman Ft F. Sfriplin re cord'd a 93 on April 22 1952. just one day later than the real h°at Atkinson Addresses H-$C Alumni Group TV Tulane Atkinson, treasurer of Hampden-Sydney College spoke tn members of the Allegheny Moun tain Chapter of the H SC Alumni Association in Lewisburg, W Va., last week Present were more than 2.3 alumni and their wives. The chapter voted to raise a scholarship fund for the college. John H. McDonald. Clifton Forge business man, is president of the chapter. Allegheny Mountain alumni in clude former H-SC students from the Lewisburg - Ronceverte - White Sulphur Springs area of West Vir ginia and the Coving! o n-Clifton Forge are of Virginia ■N.

descended this time. Except for that reading. Strip lin calls the present high tempo: a tures "about normal." Usual to middle and late April are rpadnv from 80 to 90 degrees. When it goes over 90. it is "a little un usual." he admits. While Farmville's weather sta tion instruments had n >! regis tered more than a trace of rain through Wednesday night, no: ... > • othrr sections of the county The weatherman reports “nice' show ers at Rice. Pamplin and the r\tv lington Heights vicinity Farm work wise, the weathn man-turned-county agent report;, tobacco bed Plants rising splen didly under the impact of shower: and warm sunshine Farmers are in the midst of one of the yeai big jobs—corn planting. By the end of the week .tor agent estimates a good 70 per r< nt of the corn crop will be in the ground. They may be mopping brows in town, but the turn in the weather is just what the farmer ordered excepting the weeds that a fine spring tor growing produced f