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Survivor of Atomic Bomb Is Student at Lynchburg iRirljittcmi) News of Virginia Spotsylvania School Row Broadens 4-B Sunday October 1954 The Week in Virginia Bingo Gets Green Light In Two of Three Cities Hr and Mrs Malcolm Jamieson Stroll on Banks of James aft Berkeley Shad Fishermen Have Cast Nets Here for 300 Years Old Fish House at Right Thanksgiving Day Invention Claimed For Early Charles City Settlement nets off Berkeley's he declared "and they still obtain good Jamieson thinks that the bar jutting into the James River just upstream from the landing has probably been used for fishing since time immemorial for Indians usedlt before the settlers arrived in 1619 Built In 1726 Berkeley manor houe which will be one of eight Charles Gty plantations open during the Autumn pilgrimage sponsored by Westover Church October 13 and 16 was constructed in 1726 by the first Benjamin Harrison Eight Benjamin Harrisons occupied it in succession until it passed out of the family in 1823 Jamieson whose father obtained title to Berkeley in 1905 ha done extensive work in both rehabilitating the place and in digging up its history far from satisfied with either project Walking along the banks of the James near the vestiges of Landing for example he pointed to a shallow depression in the ground where a shipbuilding yard once he explained like to find out more about He probably will And it wouldn't be atrange if in so doing he turns up another historic for Berkeley that kind of place By Alt Goodykoontz B-I-N-G-O Is where you find it That charity bazaar carnival pastime admittedly a game of chance and not skill brought on controversies of varying degree in three Virginia cities And the number-letter pune came out the win- ner in two Asked about bingo the Petersburg Gty Council pointed to a city ordinance permitting bingo It merchandise and not money is given to winners That answer gave the green light for bingo activity at this week's Petersburg Fair Any further questions the council-men agreed should be directed to police officials Somehow bingo cropped up In the week's Williamsburg news although no one formally complained about its being played at the annual civic-charity jamboree sponsored by the Lions Club there "If outriders were to come Into Williamsburg and try to put on a bingo game I'd close them up in a Acting Police Chief Smith said But he added "no making any money at the jamboree everyone who goes has a good time and it's all for a worthy cause Williamsburg Mayor Stryker suggested that anyone with objections to bingo (the Mayor said he hadn't heard any) Is free to swear out a warrant Richmond bingo enthusiasts did without at the State Fair whose officials banned the game because of its conflict with State lottery laws JOB CHANGE Hopewell Gty Manager Thomas Hobbs surprised the Hopewell city Council just two months and one day after he had weathered an attempt to oust him and just three weeks after a new council had reappointed him Hobbs resigned his 7050 job effective October 13 to join a frozen food concern in Richmond Mayor Marvin CL Neal proposed an immediate search to pick a successor FALL ROMANCE Charlie Lee Dickerson 71 and Martha Slusher Shelton were married In Roanoke They planned a quiet wedding but news leaked out that the couple had been engaged in 1902 but drifted apart in face of her father's opposition ELECTRICAL CHARGE Buena Vista residents learned that a new industry to employ 275 persons and to manufacture electrical equipment will be located there Operations at the plant are expected to start early In 1953 The new firm Blue Ridge Electronics Corporation will be one of the largest in the city at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains OUT OF Delegate Nelson Payne representing Pittsylvania County submitted his resignation to Governor Stanley explaining that he had moved his residence from Pittsylvania to neighboring Franklin County CHANNEL Television Corporation received Federal Communications Cbm-missin (FCC) approval to operate a channel 8 television station in Petersburg The commission thus reversed an examiner who earlier had ruled in favor of the rival Southside Virginia Telecasting Corporation Louis Peterson president of Southside said he decide on an appeal until he has chance to talk with his attorney He has 30 days in which to appeal the FCC verdict SMOKING FIGURES Frank Beck principal of Churchland High School at Norfolk said 478 parents were against and 132 for students smoking at school At the same time Beck said smoking at the school will be outlawed as of Monday First offenders will be expelled for one week A second smoking offense the principal said will mean permanent expulsion IN BRIEF By a smashing 608-84 vote Alleghany County voters approved a $362000 bond issue to finance construction of four primary sewage treatment plants and improvements to existing county water and sewage facilities The $50000 personal library of Herbert Fitzpatrick Huntington Va attorney and former rector of Washington and Lee University was given to the university A Boydton woman Mrs Zadie Stuart Hundley paid 519273 at public auction for the original Ran-doJph-Macon College campus and buildings at Boydton The Charlottesville Gty Council set November 2 as the date for Charlottesville voters to decide whether a $1200000 bond issue should pay for the first phase of a two-part $2000000 sewer improvement program Hanover County supervisors adopted the county's first subdivision control ordinance Almond Will Address League of Counties LYNCHBURG OcL It was like heU on earth I think I could go on living1 Setsuko Nakamura spoke the words calmly at Lynchburg College where she is a senior majoring in sociology but her thought went back to Aug 6 1945 the day an atomic bomb fell on her home town of Hiroshima Japan The newcomer to the Lynchburg campus said she "felt when she wa buried beneath fallen timber and pulled to safety by a Japanese soldier she saw killed just a few hours later Her experience-rfihe calls it terrible left her with one physical remembrance a deep scar on her right arm But her memories include the office she and many friends were working in when the bomb fell about a mile away And the sight of her sister sister-in-law and 3-year-old nephew being burned to death a terrible thing to the Japanese student said adding that she believed her people had started to forget their hatred for the United State until the recent death of the Japanese fisherman who was near the scene of the hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific "Feel Angry" Miss Nakamura admitted that she hadn't been in her country since the death but "I feel A graduate of Hiroshima Joga-kuin College with a major in English literature she came to the United States largely through the efforts of Dr Joseph Hunter professor of religion at Lynchburg College Dr Hunter encouraged her to crane to this country after he met the Japanese student in the Hiroshima Gty Methodist Church Mis Nakamura's home church At the time Dr Hunter was on sabbatical leave from the college and attending the Asiatic 700 Attend Rally in 9th Continued from First Page Force said the GOP policy of cutting military expenditures has dangerously weakened the nation's ability to withstand Communist aggression "and yet we ourselves are getting more aggressive as we grow He said the United States has suffered "the two greatest diplomatic defeats in our history in the virtual loss of Indochina and the failure of the European Defense Community An intermittent rain that stopped before the rally began cut attendance considerably from previous estimates of 2000 but the audience interrupted frequently with enthusiastic applause Leaders of both parties are indicating privately that the Jennings Wampler race will be close and no one seems sure what effect a third candidate the Rev Mr John Sullivan of Richlands will have on the outcome Sullivan an evangelist filed as an independent but Is considered a Democrat $6283 Is Collected By Henrico Court Henrico Cbunty Trial Justice Court collected $6283 in fines and costs in September according to the monthly report of Frank Shomaker clerk There were 330 convictions from 413 criminal trials and eight cases were certified to the grand jury Shomaker aaid 1055 civil cases were tried during the month at Age 80 she admitted was a good one more going to have another when Tm 90 and a third when Tm 100 There ought to be another generation at Hibbles around by SPOTSYLVANIA OcL Two more parents' groups have entered a growing -dispute over how a Spotsylvania County school construction program should be carried ouL Previously both the board of supervisors and the county school board which are In disagreement over plana had drawn support from various Parent-Teacher Association groups The latest to get into the issue are groups from two elementary schools in the Livingston and Berkeley Districts which the supervisors have said should have first priority Resolutions favoring the supervisors' proposal were released this week by the Marye Elementary School P-TA and a citizens group at the Belmont Elementary School which has no affiliated P-TA Similar to Previous Ones The resolutions were similar to those passed previously by P-TA's of Good Hope and Margo Elementary Schools Both boards have gone on record for new schools in Livingston and Berkeley But they have split on what should be done at the Chancellor Elementary School in another district Supervisors say a four-room addition would take care of the needs there at least until the outcome of a pending annexation suit involving the county and Fredericksburg is known But the school board Chancellor patrons and some other residents of the county disagree They say Chancellor needs an eight-room addition to prevent overcrowding regardless of annexation Based on Study The school board which says its program is based on a study made by a group of outside schoolmen has won support from one organization This is a study group of the county P-TA council Members of the council said they are not opposing new schools for Livingston and Berkeley but want needs of all districts taken care of Supervisor Carr of the Livingston District has led the fight to give the districts in his section priority and has threatened to take legal action against the school board Carr charged this week that Chancellor and Courtland Districts have received all the construction money in the past 28 years and now have modem schools while conditions in the other two districts have out-dated facilities Laborer Charged In Death A 34-year-old laborer who walked into First Station yesterday and calmly told police he had just killed two people was charged with the murder of his wife and felonious assault on a man whose condition was later listed as critical Officers arrested Lewis Anderson Russell Negro after going to his home in the 1400 block Webster Ave and finding his wife Marian about 37 dead and Clarence Harrell Negro 30 of the 900 block Oak St unconscious Both had been beaten about the head with a steel wrecking bar police said The wife's body was found lying on a bed Police said Harrell was found on the floor beside her Robbery In Monroe Park A 38-year-old man was beaten and robbed of $5 yesterday afternoon in Monroe Park Paul Fitzgerald of 811 West Cary St told Officer A Holloway a Negro man struck him in the forehead and took the money Fitzgerald was treated for a head laceration at Medical College of Virginia Hospital and released Attend guests entertained with stories of her childhood recalling that she was horn in a log cabin in Gloucester County the oldest of nine children And this birthday party idea Cancer Society Re-elects Garnett Hall Garnett Hall has been reelected president of the Richmond Giapter of the American Cancer Society Other officers either elected or re-elected: Dr Benjamin Rawles Jr first vice-president John Daly second vice-president Dr William Hill medical director Mrs John Fhirly secretary and Marvin Presson secretary NAACP Official to Speak Lester Banks executivesecretary of the Virginia branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will speak on citizens responsibility in society at 8 Tuesday in Sixth Street Baptist Church Idlewood Avenue and Addison Street The program is sponsored by the West End Civic and Improvement League the Board of Supervisors of Mecklenburg County is president of the league Men from this area who hold office indude Wood of Earlys vUle member of the Albemarle Board of County Supervisors who is Eighth District member of the executive board Chan-ning Moon of Manteo member of the Buckingham Board of Supervisors who is recording secretary and A Utz of Bar-boursvillc member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors who is treasurer Registration will be held October 24 and a welcoming address will be given delegates the morning of October 25 by John Williams member of the Albemarle Board of Supervisors Topics to be discussed the afternoon of October 25 are recent legislation affecting public welfare of interest to counties and Federal legislation on planning a program for construction of nursing homes hospitals fof the chronically ill and diagnostic clinics Two Accused Here Of Drunk Driving Two persons were arrested yesterday on charges of driving while under the influence of intoxicants They were identified as Dave Craft 25 of the 300 block South Third St and Isaac Garnett 35 Negro of RFD 9 Garnett also was charged with driving without an permiL Four Generations By Fred Frechette Times-DispatcK Staff Writer CHARLES CITY Oct Yankee evidence notwithstanding Thanksgiving Day was a Virginia invention In the Fall of 1619 a year before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock a group of Englishmen came ashore at Harrison's Landing in Charles Gty Cbunty bearing instructions to celebrate their landing date 'yearly and perpetually as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty The fact that credit for Thanksgiving is generally attributed to the Puritans Is due probably to an Indian massacre which in 1622 completely wiped out the settlement at Landing Only one person a 12-year-old boy survived in captivity The present owner of Harrison's Landing better known as Berkeley Plantation (on which the landing site stands) is Malcolm Jamieson It is he who has restored the famous mansion to its Colonial appearance Uncovered Facts In his research into the history of Berkeley Jamieson has uncovered a number of interesting and little-known historical facts about his home That Thanksgiving was first celebrated at Berkeley is only one of them Another is that "taps" the poignant bugle call was first sounded and at Berkeley It happened In July 1862 during the War Between the States when McGelland's Union army occupied the Berkeley area following the disastrous (for the Yankees) Seven Days Battles General Daniel Butterfield histled the tune for his brigade bugler Norton who wrote it on the back of an envelope and used it the same night Subsequently It was adopted by other buglers in the Army of the Potomac who had heard and iked it and finally through official actiorV by the entire army Two President Born Two Presidents of the United States William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison were born at Berkeley Not quite as well known is the fact that another President Abraham Lincoln paid a wartime visit to Berkeley in 1862 to review McClelland's Army Another famous visitor to Berkeley at this time was a German Graf von Zeppelin who observed with a great deal of interest the use of balloons by the Yankees in keeping the Confederate forces under observation Zeppelin subsequently became a pioneer in the construction of dirigibles Jamieson seemed prouder however of a different sort of visitor: shad fishermen "Every year centuries men Dr Edgar Fisher Regional Director Setsuko Nakamura Memories Remain Conference or the World Federation in Hiroshima After two years of correspondence with Dr Hunter and the college administration she is continuing her education here And for the petite student who arrived in Lynchburg in mid-September thig area seems much like a home away from home with the mountains reminding her somewhat of the geography she was familiar with in Japan Temperature Hits 88 Here For New Mark Continued from First Page i should be ready for grazing In the Spring That is conditional on normal rainfall in the future though Jones emphasized as did others that not enough rain has yet fallen to restore wells and water tables Still a Water Shortage The fact is that the area still faces an acute water shortage One or two rains falling quickly and thus washing most of their benefits in runoff do much toward improving a water shortage Both Chesterfield and Henrico Counties were among those that applied for emergency drought aid Virginia fanners are showing an interest in water conservation loans now available through the Farmers Home Administration Waddell State director said yesterday Lightning Damages Chimney of Home Lightning knocked the top if the chimney of a house at 6406 Three Chopt Rd yesterday afternoon Fire Captain Childress of Company No 19 said about two feet of the top of the brick chimney at the home of John Purcell was torn off by the bolL Some damage was done the slate roof by the falling bricks Childress said Norfolk TV Station To Suspend Service NORFOLK OcL 2 (A7 WTOV-TV which has been telecasting on UHF Channel 27 here since last December will suspend operations tomorrow it was announced today Thomas Matthews public relations director for the station said the owners Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation will push their fight for assignment to VHP Channel 13 Matthews said the management had hoped to get sufficient network business to continue operating pending decision on the application for a VHF channel "However after an intensive effort we are now in the Fall season with disappointing he added Letter-Writing Week Dae to Begin Today National Letter-Writing Week sponsored by the Post Office Department begins today Purpose of the designated week is to encourage and cultivate the art of letter-writing Richmond Postmaster Fergus McRee observed and then quickly added that the campaign la not to be construed as a moneymaking scheme as the post office Is not operated for a profit "Make someone feel better by sending them a he said CHARLOTTESVILLE Oct 2 Lindsay Almond Attorney-General of Virginia will be banquet speaker at the twentieth annual convention of the League of Virginia Counties to he held at the Monticello Hotel October 24-26 It will be the first convention the league has held here since its organizational meeting was held here 20 years ago The banquet will he the final event the night of October 26 Election of officers will come the afternoon before the banquet Brankley chairman of 23 New Voters Here Register Twenty-three new persons were registered in Richmond yesterday to vote in the November 2 general election Several others also were registered yesterday in Chesterfield and Henrico Counties but totals were unavailable late last nighL Yesterday was the deadline for registration in' Virginia for the general election Vernon Davis Richmond general registrar aaid that in addition to the new registrations names of about six persons were transferred to Richmond books and about eight transferred out making a total of about 62480 registered for the election Armstrong High P-TA Schedules Civic Forum The Armstrong High School Parent-Teacher Association will sponsor a civic forum on freedom of the press at 8 Tuesday in the school Panel members will include Mayor Thomas Bryan Dr Rupert Picott executive secretary of the Virginia Association Ernest Moody sponsor of the John Marshall High School paper Don Vess WRVA radio commentator and Rufus Wells city editor of the Richmond Afro-American The program is planned to help the Armstrong school paper the participate in a Columbia University projecL State Educators Will Convene Here The forty-eighth annual convention of the Virginia Education Association will be held in Richmond October 27-29 with a theme of working together for children Balloting for president of the organization will be' completed 10 days before the opening session The candidates for president are Virginia Lewis head of the science department at Culpeper High School and Mary Robinson a general science teacher at George Wythe Junior High School Hampton The convention will run Wednesday through Friday Her First Birthday Party 46 Cases to Be Given Federal Grand Jury Forty-six cases involving 73 perosns will be presented to the Federal grand jury when it meets here Monday James Moore assistant United States district attorney said yesterday Cases to be presented range from transporting stolen cars across State lines and liquor violation charges to bank embezzlement and theft of letters In addition 24 criminal information petitions charging a like number of defendants with various misdemeanors will be filed next week Moore said StateKnights ofPythias Will Convene Here About 200 members of the Knights of Pythias will gather here in Hotel John Marshall on October 11 12 and 13 for the organization's eighty-sixth annual convention Governor Stanley will speak on "Pythianism and State at a public convention session at 8 October 11 in the hoteTa Virginia Room The Governor is a member of Patrick Henry lodge 82 of Martinsville British Lecturer Will Speak Here Mrs Beryl Fairfax Northcott British lecturer will address the Virginia branch of the English-Speaking Union at the Glasgow House at 8 Thursday Edwin Cbnquest president of the Virginia Branch announced that Mrs Northcott will speak on Role in the International Memorial Plates Given Near Leesburg LEESBURG OcL Two silver collection lflates given in memory of EL CX Russell will be dedicated at a 9 JO A service Sunday at the Church of- Our Saviour Outlands Mr Russell who died in February 1933 served the church as treasurer for 90 years and as senior warden 40 yean Dr Fisher IsNamed to Head AFME Office at Amherst By Christine Hall Special Correspondent CHRISTCHURCH OcL still going to get that new 80-year-old Mrs Sarah Hibble remarked last night as she sat in the living room of her home surrounded by friends and four generations of relatives It- that the guest of honor wasn't enjoying her first birthday party or that she excited over the stack of gifts she was opening She just didn't mean to miss out on that promised shopping trip to Richmond and a whole new outfiL Mrs HT le with her niece Mrs Lucille Clarke of New York had gone 20 miles toward Richmond where she supposedly would celebrate her birthday by getting some new clothes when the niece suddenly exclaimed that she have her purse and would have to return to Christchurch When they arrived home the stage was all set and Mrs Hibble was greet'd by about 75 friends her two children five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren She then realized she was being given her first birthday party Mrs Hibble was never at a loss for words She kept her AMHERST OcL Dr Edgar Fisher director of student affairs for the American Friends of the Middle East (AFME) for the past year has been named head of the new southern regional office here The organization promotes better understanding of the religious cultural and social aspirations of people in the Middle EasL His appointment was announced by Garland Evans Hopkins AFME executive vice-presidenL in New York who said "due to Dr Fisher's long residence (21 years) in the Middle East and Intimacy with its problems bnly he had been considered" for the regional post Before joining AFME Dr Fisher was Carter Glass professor of government at Sweet Briar College From 1933-1948 he was assistant director of the Institute of International Education in New York Gty Mrs Sarah Hibble and Twi of Her Great-Grandchildren James Cary and Linda Shackleford Help Her Celebrate.