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In this issue: Presenting Francis A. Davis, Virginia's State Highway Commissioner
A Tribute to the Pioneer Spirit of Clinch Valley College J AVIKS M( )\R( )!•: Virginia Business Review
Know Your Virginians-Part I of a two-part editorial on the occasion of James Monroe's Bicentennial
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MARCH 1958 PAGE THREE Look of the future on newest highways calls for new-type concrete. Shown, interchange in Los Angeles.
Whafs all this talk about NEW-TYPE, SOUND-CONDITIONED CONCRETE FOR THE INTERSTATE SYSTEM?
It's timely talk—In a new, informative for contraction control. The "thump" series of PCA magazine messages to sound is gone—a dramatic advance! HERE TODAY! MORE COMING! create fuller appreciation by the public Drivers enjoy a quieter ride. The public is enjoying new-type, for the finer, smoother-riding concrete There's air-entrainment, too—and the granular subbase: both solved tech• sound-conditioned concrete on: highways being built today. nical problems. But by insuring a last• Ohio Turnpike Significant advances mark today's ingly smooth, level surface, they add Atlanta Expressway newest concrete pavement. Highway new pleasure to driving. These and Hollywood Freeway engineers know about them. (Actually other advances today give people a New York Thruway you may have helped develop them.) pavement that is truly new-type. and more than 3,500 miles of other But—the public? Too few know of these All this needs telling. PCA's new modern highways. advances . . . now so vital on the new nationwide campaign will do that—in Interstate System. non-technical talk the public can un• Take sound-conditioning. Admittedly, derstand. An informed public means an not a highway engineer's term! But it appreciative public. This can simplify lEW-TYPE literally defines what has been done to your job ... it can help speed construc• concrete by use of narrow sawed joints tion of the new Interstate System.
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\ ()LL'ME LXXX MARCH 1958 NUMBER IHREE
Know Your Virginians in the Nation^s History
HE NATION IS HONORING the two hundredth anniversaiy of Monroe'.s birth Tthis year with the issuance of a three-cent stamp, and for a centur\'-and-a- half world politics in relation to the Western Hemisphere have been detemiined by the doctrine bearing his name. Yet, curiously little is known about the former Virginia governor who became the couniiy's Hfth jjresident. and that little is dis• torted by those generalities which label a.spects of history for convenient pigeon• A pnrtrail painted from life by Benja• holing. min West of Airs. James Monroe, A "plain man," he was called in a neat epitome of his background, and "dull" wife of the fifth president. To the summarized the personality of this last leader of die Virginia Dynasty. Yet, how left be
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PAGE SIX VIRGINIA RECORD Founded 1878 F. A. Davis (right), Virginia's new highway commissioner, discusses a road problem with his executive assistant, R. P. Ellison.
Vlrgim's State Highway Commissioner... FRANCIS A. DAVIS
NE DAY IN 1936, WHILE HE WAS RESIDENT ENGINEER at in the Department's histon,-. The federal highway act which O Franklin, Francis A. Davis recei\'ed an urgent message became effective on July 1, 1956, has brought many new from the Central Highway Office at Richmond. and complex problems to the Department. It said: "Come to the Richmond office immediately." Davis described the past year as "one of the most chal• Without taking time to change from his work clothes, lenging in the Department's history. The start of construc• Davis hurried to Richmond to the office of C. S. Mullen, tion on the new interstate system brought problems that chief engineer. we had never faced before." "We no longer need you as a resident engineer," he was Regarding the future, Davis indicated he thinks the told. After these ominous words had time to sink in, the problems connected with the interstate system probably chief engineer added with a smile, "We're making you a won't be increased. "We're getting the problem rolling now district engineer at Salem." and. although we are not on schedule. I think we will have This was an important move up the ladder that has t aught up by the end of 1958." brought Davis to the top position in the Slate Highway Davis continued by .saying he is pleased with public ac• Department. On December 31, he was named to fill the ceptance of the interstate program. "Highway officials." unexpired term of General Anderson who retired on that he said, "expected much more difficulty in obtaining public day as highway commissioner. understanding and acceptance of controlled access." Davis is a calm, conservative man who goes about his daily tasks without becoming visibly upset by the many What are the qualities that have brought Davis through problems connected with the job that many consider to be the ranks from a rodman on a survey party, the first job one of the toughest in the state. he held with the Department in January, 1919, to the job as Highway Commissioner? Davis was named to the highway commissioner's post for a term ending next June 30 at a particularly busy time {Please turn the pas^e)
to tell the Virginia Story MARCH 1958 PAGE SEVEN Here's the answer supplied by a flics or making his own lures. rapidly and became a resident engineer working associate since the early On the walls of the highway official's at 2.5. In that capacity, he served 12 1920's: south Richmond home you will find \ears at Amherst, Warren ton and "He is thoroughly familiar with the products of another past-time— Franklin. After the assignment as dis• every phase of highway work. During painting. trict engineer at Salem, Davis was his 39 years with the Department, •'1 never took any lessons," Davis brought into the Richmond office in every job that has been assigned to him said. "I read an article about 10 years 1944 and promoted to safety and per• has been handled in a most satisfactory ago titled 'Anybody Can Paint,' and sonnel engineer. In 1948, he was named manner. He doesn't make snap judg• decided to try it and find out." This purchasing agent and. on July 1, 19.55, ments. Instead, he thinks things hobby, Davis admits, has been neg• he succeeded the late Burton Marye, through and usually comes up with the lected during the past three or lour Jr., as chief engineer—the Number 2 right answer." years but, he says, he hopes to return job in the Department. Davis' calmness and patience are to it when he retires. Some gardening Early to ri.se seems to be a maxim (liaracteristics that are important to and reading just about completes the for Virginia Highway commissioners. him in pursuing his favorite hobby— conmiissioner's spare-time activiiio. l).i\is is no exccplion. lie likes to tjel a good start in the morning and usually fishing. When he has time off from the Davis was born near Cartersville in can be found at his desk by 7:30 or 7:45 office and is not fishing—he's a mem• Cumberland County on September 6, a.m. (The regular work daN- b«'gins at ber of the Providence Forge Hunting 1899, the last of 10 children—five boys 8:1.5 a.m.) and Fishing Club—he can usually be and five girls. .After his mother died, found at his home in Richmond tying his father gave up the family farm and The five-foot. 10 inch, 175-pound went into the real estate business. Davis highway official is not a joiner. He be• received most of his elementary and longs to no clubs except the Central Slow Down, Live and Let Live high school education in Pennsylvania. Virginia Engineers Club and several highway organizations. During 1956- He attended the College of William 57, Davis served as president of the Boniiey Motor and Mary but did not graduate. In• Southeastern .Association of State stead, he joined the Students' .Army Highway Officials. Express, Inc. Training Corps during his third year. On January 19, 1919, after a year of Davis' wife is the former Mary 2:.I.") i:. IMinccss Anne Rd. military service, Davis joined tht- State Taylor DuPuy of Lynchburg. 'The\ NORFOLK, V A. Highway Department and has been hav<' three sons, Francis Guy. William with the agency ever since. Jackson and Joseph Taylor Davis and i Phone Kimball 5-4637 daughter, Sarah Ford Davis. He started as a rodman on a survey party in the Burkeville area, moved up
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PAGE EIGHT \ IRG1N1A RECORD Founded 1878 OUR BUSINESS is building highways Y and bridges. Our business is plan• ning and designing these highways and VIRGINIA'S bridges, placing them under contract for construction, and maintaining them following construction. HIGHWAY PROGRAM The existence of the construction industry and the highway department is vitally dependent each upon the other. We are both dependent upon and obligated to the taxpaying motorist As outlined in an address to the who desei-ves the most for his gas tax dollar. I 'ir^iuia Road Builders Association Now let's take a few minutes to see what has been accomplished since June at Old Point Comfort in November of 1956 when the Federal Aid Highway .\ct was passed by Congress. Before proceeding with any studies and plans, it was necessary to establish By H. H. HARRIS uniform standards to work from. Imme• diate action was taken in this respect. Assislanl Chief Engineer. Va. Dept. of Highways •Special meetings were called to bring together engineers who are experts in this field. From the results of these dis• cussions, the design standards were ap• Bertram D. Tallamy, Federal High• be the only roads in this category to be proved by the ,\ASHO and the Bureau way Administrator, has stated that the considered in Virginia. of Public Roads on July 17, 1956. funds Congress authorized cannot pos• Congress has also asked the Bureau sibly be matched by revenues antici• of Public Roads to estimate how much One of the first steps in getting the pated during the 13-year period, and it will cost to reimburse the Toll Au• big highway program under way, and that it would take 16 years. thorities and the States for the con• complying with the requirements of the It is logical to a.ssume that Congress struction of these facilities. Act, was to determine the approximate would consider extending the time, It has been indicated that approxi• location of the roads on the Interstate rather than increasing motor vehicle mately 5,000 miles will be involved. System. This information was com• taxes, or lowering the design standards. The initial cost of these roads will no pleted and sent to the Bureau of Public Therefore, if the new estimates exceed doubt create quite an issue in the next Roads in January of this year. the amout authorized by Congress, the Congress. The second step was a requirement time may be extended even beyond 16 Last month the Department of Com• of the Act that Congress be furnished wars. merce announced the approval of a in January of 1958 a detailed estimate Two other studies n-quired by the 2.102 mile addition to the present of the cost to build the Interstate Sys• 1956 Act are now being made by 41,000 mile Interstate System. As pro• tem to the approved standards. In order highway personnel in looperation with vided in the 1956 Act, 1,000 miles to provide for uniform estimates, and the Bureau of Public Roads: (1) A were added and, in addition to this, to meet the deadline set by Congress, study to determine what action the 1,102 miles were added through savings the Bureau of Public Roads requested Federal Government should take to in relocating the original 41,000 miles. that these estimates be in their hands increase highway safety, and (2) A Virginia's share of this additional no later than July 1. 1957. study regarding the maximum sizes and mileage will be approximately 80 miles Both steps required detailed studies, weights of vehicles to be operated on of a North-South route between Can- and time was limited. The Highway the Interstate System. ion. Ohio and Charlotte, North Caro• Department realized that to undertake The latter study will be tied in closely lina, also, a short connection of 1.0 such a task on 1.012 miles of roads with the AASHO Test Road now under mile near Washington in Arlington within this time, would (ripple and constniction in the State of Illinois. County. delay the program on the other three Congress last year requested the These additions will bring the total systems. This work, therefore, was given Bureau of Public Roads to designate Interstate mileage in Virginia to 1,093 to consultants and the studies were the toll roads and freeways that meet miles. It will add approximately 60 completed on time, and at what we million dollars to our future construc• 'he design standards and fall within consider a reasonable cost of $383 per tion program. thi- 41 .OOn mile network of the National mile. Interstate System. Recommendations It might be of interest to you to take These estimates will determine the have been made to include 2.105 miles a look at a sample of the Interstate future programs of the Interstate Sys- of toll roads within 15 States. In this route marker approved by the AASHO and the Bureau of Public Roads. These teuL How they compare with the mileage is the 60 million dollar Hamp• red, white and blue markers wall carry original will probably not be divulged ton Roads Bridge-Tunnel project, and even numbers running East and West; until Congress convenes in January. the 65 million dollar Richmond- odd numbers will run North and South, Petersburg Turnpike. It is widely conceded that the new with numbering sequences starting in estimates will be much higher, because Selection of the freeway mileage has the South and West, respectively. of the approval of additional mileage not been announced. The Shirley Hia;h- and the adoption of higher standards way. sections of Route 60 east of Now a word about what your high• since the submission of the original Bottoms Bridge, and sections of Route way department has been doing in the estimates. 301 south of Petersburg, will probably (Continued on page 19)
to tell the Virginia Story M.\RCH 1958 PAGE NINE A Tribute to PIONEER SPIRIT
CLINCH VALLEY COLLEGE
HEN, LONG AGO, Thomas JclTcrson, from hi^ "Liitlr WMountain," gazed through spy glasses across the rolling hills to watch a longtime dream becoming a reality, perhaps his vision extended even beyond the Albemarle reality to the ultimate fulfillment of the dream: "A N\^tcm of general instruction, which shall reach every description ERWIN SUPPLY & of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest." This was "the earliest (and) . . . the laU'st of all public HARDWARE CO., concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an intercut.'" Many, many years later, another Virginia governor. J. Lindsay Almond, Jr.. on a gubernatorial campaign in Wise INC. County, was so vastly impressed by Clinch Valley College of "Mr. Jefferson's University" that he m: de a personal McClure, Virginia contribution of $500 on the proviso it would be kept secret so as not to be misconstrued during the campaign. Between Jefferson and Governor Almond, another recent MINE, MILL, ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES Virginia governor, as president of the University, had re• ceived the idea of a branch college with such enthusiasm that WELDING SUPPLIES he said. "No institution in Virginia would give a greater HERCULES EXPLOSIVES return for every dollar spent than Clinch Valley College." The saga is one of determined and dedicated Virginians— also with a dream which has been realized. — Wholesale Only — In December. 1953. two public-spirited women took the idea of a branch college to Sam Crockett, then teaching PHONE CLINCHO 2311 cxtensitm classes in Wise. They were Mrs. W. A. Thompson and Mrs. Lois B. Tracy. The next step was organization of a committee of men (W. A. Thomjjson. Fred Greear. K. P. Asbury and State Senator M. M. Long) to meet with Mr. Crockett and investigate the possibilities of having a branch of the University of Virginia.
PAGE TEN \'IRGINIA RECORD Founded 1878 With the pcrniission of Dr. George B. Zehmer, Dean of property worth $125,000 officially deeded to the college by Extension, and President Darden, this committee met with the Wise County Board of Supervisors then compo.sed of the General Assembly and. in January 1954—pledging com• E. E. Brooks, R. C. Sikes, E. D. Mullins and John Mc- munity interest and support—obtained approval as well as Kilgore), the Univ<>rsity proceeded to purchase adjoining an appropriation of $10,000 to carry out an experimental land. Thus was created a campus of about 250 acres, and the program during the next biennium. On the basis of such college cea.sed to be experimental in character. favorable action, the University's Board of Visitors author• This, the financial and developmental skeleton of a pio• ized the president to proceed. neer project, tells nothing of thi- laughs and struggles and At the same time, the General .Assembly had instructed the makeshifts of the early days, when students, listening to Virginia Advisory Legislative Council to study the whole orientation lectures in a barnyard, were joned by an equally question of "the crisis in higher education in Virginia" and enthusiastic litter of pigs. Crowded, without facilities, in• lo recommend what steps should be taken to mi'et anticipated credibly inventive, the students managed to build a wonder• increases in enrollment in institutions ol higher learning. ful e.iprit to hand down as "old-timers" to the .second enter• Supplementing this study. President Darden requested Dr. ing class. Francis G. Lankl'ord, Jr., to study high school enrollment From nine counties including Wise, Lee, Scott, Dickenson, in .secondary schools of Southwest Virginia, particularly with Tazewell, Buchanan and Russell they came—the first year regard to graduates who continued study after high school. more than 100 students commuting a total of 1,800 miles a The study revealed that an unusually large percentage of day. Then, the next year, 177 fulltimc students traveled 3,700 high school graduates in this particular area did not continue miles a day! Thirst for knowledge? Yes, but also very .soon studies, and the VALC advi.sed, in general, development of an honor system was developed, also the first ".social club" branch institutions as a feasible step to meet enrollment known as the "dirt daubers" as frozen young men pushed problems. The University next set out to ascertain if enough cars over the dirt roads and padis to the .school. students would enroll at the proposed Southwest Virginia The first clean. Dr. Campbell, with his wife set an energedc college to justify its undertaking. pattern. He taught all the education clas.ses, in addition to All members of 1954 graduating classes in the area re• fulltimc duties as dean, and she .set up and headed the ceived letters outlining the possibilities of a local college and Business College, teaching commerical subjects both day and the proposed curricula, along with an application-for-ad- night. mission form. By July 1, 65 students had applied, and the (Continued on poiie 25) University announced that the college would open in September, 1954. Meanwhile, in April of that year, the Wise County Board of Supervisors (composed of B. H. Body, G. Maddox, G. Home and W. B. Lay) offered the facilities of Wise and a building then serving as County Poor Farm. When its inmates were transferred, there began the remodeling and furnishing necessary to condition it for a school program. Under the administration of the University's Extension Division. Clinch Valley College was about to open, with Dr. Olen Kenneth Campbell as acting dean, assisted by Mr. Crockett, area director of the Exten.sion Division. A faculty of eight had been assembled. And still there was the cautious question: was the need real? had the prospective students acted in good faith? The faith of the founders was borne out when, for the first regular ses.sion, 135 fulltimc and 184 part-time students enrolled. (An additional 197 in the 1955 summer session brought the first year's total enrollment to 516). - Individuals and organizations in the community had con• tributed time and labor and $5,000 toward readying "the college." Fred Greear, University of Virginia alumnus, headed a group of Wise County alumni in support. Joining with him from the beginning were public spirited firms, such as Piggly Wiggly, and individuals including Earl and Fayne Jackson of Pound: George Wharton of Wise: Dick Suit of the First National Bank of Norton: officers, stockholders and board of directors of the First National Bank of Wi.se: Harold Jackson, Orby Cantrell of Pound, and Herb Thompson. Remodelling was directed by Charles B. McElroy, a local architect, who started the engineering program at CVC. .And, during the summer of 1955, with a .special grant of $5,000 from the G. Bascom Slemp Foundation and an appropriation from the Universiiy, j modern chemistry laboratory was set up. By late fall of that year, the operation was so obviously succes.sful that the people joined President Darden in requesting the General Assembly for funds to make the institution permanent.
The 1956 session appropriated an operating budget of Students travel an average of 24 miles each to and from the col• $110,000 for 1956-58 and $500,000 for new buildings." With lege or a total of 3700 miles daily.
to tell the Virginia Story MARCH 1958 PAGE ELEVEN VIRGINIA BUSINE REVIEW
by
ROSEWELL P.\(;E, JR.
HE GRAY PRODUCTS CO. INC., of TWaverly, now has in operation the JosErii H. LAVKKY ROBERT K. DUEY nation's largest capaeit\ flakeboard plant. Its product is Grayeo Flakecore, I lu- pkiiu. ii(u\ cniploying 50 people, Southern Lightweight Aggregate an extremely versatile nuinufaeturing c-xpc-c ts to employ 75 including sales• manulactures Solite for use in light• and building board. The plant material men when in full production. weight structural concrete and litjht- weight masonry units. Plants are lo• for which the first ground was broken A. Cabell Ford, director of sales for in November, 1956, represents a one cated in Brenio Blull" and Leaksville Southern Lightweight .Xggregate Corp. and a half million dollar investment junction, and in Aquadale, North of Richmond, has announced that and at present is flowing a .^^.fiOO Carolina, with offices in Ric hmond and Robert K. Duey, formerly chief engi• weekly payroll into the eomrnunity. in Charlotte. North Carolina. neer ol Southern Lightweight Aggre• Elmon T. Gray, president, is quoted gate Corp.. has been appointed Wash• B. L. .\unnally. public- relations as saying he is highly pleased with the ington. Maryland and Pennsylvania original reception of his project. The chairman. Virginia Department of structural engineering representative. product is essentially pine logs pro• Highways, reports on the winter meet• He will make his headquarters at cessed into sheets of tightly compressed ing of the Old Dominion Purc hasing Gaithersburg. Maryland. Mr. Dues. wood chips capable of producing 25 .Agents Association, Inc., held at Hotel Solite's first representative in the cap• million square feet of ^ inch thick Roanoke January 24 and 25. flakeboard a year. The plant uses .1 ital area, i^ a graduate of Carnegi'- This as.soc iation is composc-d of more process known as the multiple platen Institute of Technology, has served on than 100 executives of purchasing de• process developed in Germany some 20 c ommittees of the American Soc iety for partments in various commercial enter• years ago. It involves utilization of alu• Testing Materials and the .American prises and governmental agencies. minum sheets, the platens, to carry Conc rete Institute. He is a member of the Prestres.sed Concrete Institute and Acc-ording to Mr. Nunnally, the chips into a heated press to form the highlight of the program was an ad• basic flakeboard. current treasurer of the Virginia sec• tion of the American Society of Civil dress by O. M. Mills, office- engineer. The logs are first debarked and cut Engineers. He served four years as an Norfolk and Western Railway. into appropriate lengths for feeding offic er in the Civil Engineer Corps of Douglas W. Laird, of the Virginia- into the flaking machinery which re• the Navy in the South Pacific-. Carolina Chemical Company, was duces the wood billets to chips. These moderator at a meeting for a discus• are flaked and further reduced by ham• The appointment of Joseph H. sion of as.sociation business. 7'he forum mer mills, then dried in rotar\- drum Lavery as South Carolina sales repre- subjec t was "Standardization." equipment. Later they are screened .sentative was also announced at the and sprayed with an area formalde• Robert E. Misfeldt, of Narrows, pur- same time. He will work out of the chasing agent for the Cclanese Corp. hyde binder glue and a wax emulsion Charlotte office of the Carolina Solit-' mi.xed and laid in an even blanket ()\ cr of America, is president of the Old Do• Corporation. Well known among archi• minion Purchasing .Agents .Association. the aluminum plates. These platens tects and in the building trade, Lavery then go to a press that compresses the Inc. comes to Carolina Solite from the .Ash'' treated wood chips to tough durable Brick Company of South Carolina, j. Rhodes Mitchell, vice-president of .sheets under pressure of 300 poimds where he held the position of North the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone per .square inch and temperatures of Carolina Sales Manager. A native of Company of Virginia, reports that the 290-310 degrees Fahrenheit. Sheets are then trinuned, sanded and cut to size. Charlotte he attended Charlotte public- board of directors of the company, at The finished product is used wherever schools and Oak Ridge Military .Acad• its January 31st meeting, authorized a high pres.sured underlaminate is emy. During World War II he served an expenditure of $5,378,000 for the needed. in the Army as a first Lieutenant in improvement and expansion of tele• the European Theatre of Operations. phone service in exchanges throughout
P.\GE TWELVE VIRGINIA RECORD Founded 1878 the company's operating area. More Miss Jean (airtis Old, formerly man• System of Growing Timber as a crop than 50 per cent of the subscribers ager of Wyllie and Thornhill, an invest• on tax payers' land. . . . in the C & P territory will benefit ment brokerage organization, has Norvil T. Dowdy, manager of the through the introduction of this wide joined the Norfolk offiee of J. C. Wheat Charlottesville District of the Peoples range of calling. & Co. This announcement comes from Life Insurance Co. of Washington, Over $2,000,000 was allocated for Laurence B. Wales, vice president and D. C, announces the promotion of the Richmond-Petersburg area. Of this general manager. . . . B. Cowling, for• Frank R. Lain, of Trevilians in Louisa amount. $1,916,000 will be spent for mer promotion agent for the Miss Uni• County, to a.ssistant manager of that loll free calling facilities. Over $854,- verse programs in Virginia and North distric t. . . . C. Monroe Mills has been 000 will be used to install central office Carolina, and Harrv B. Milner are promoted to assistant vice president ecjuipment and cable in Richmond. president and vice president respec• and Louisa office manager of the Chesterfield will receive for toll free tively of the Tidewater Promotional Peoples National Bank in Charlottes- calling $173,000: Midlothian, $99,000; .\u;rn(y. Inc., a new firm serving as \ illc. . . . S. B. Campbell has been re• Manakin, $77,000; Bethia, $33,500; promotional consultants to business and elected president of the First National Mec.hanicsville, $5,000 and Varina, industry in Norfolk. . . . Pretlow Dar- Farmers Bank of Wytheville. Directors $3,000. Ashland comes in for an ex• inc luded S. B. Campbell, P. F. Camp• penditure of some $368,000, which sum den, president of Colonial Chevrolet Corp. in Norfolk, announces the elec• bell, Albert Carpenter, J. N. Crockett, includes money for a new building, |. v. Feltv, H. N. Grubb, J. A. Lester, central office equipment and cable. tion of J. H. Hubbard as vice-president and Douglas M. Joyner as treasurer of A. B. Newberry, F. S. Otey, W. P. Par• Some of the other major appropria• the- corporation. . . . Carl A. Olsson of sons, R. L. Peirce, N. W. Pendleton, tions made by the board were $1,- Chesapeake Corporation of Virginia M. S. Sanders, and H. L. Turpin, Jr. 145,000 for the Norfolk area, $1,080,- at West PoirU has been appointed 1958 . . . Edward F. fiec, vice-president and 000 for the Culpeper area. $364,000 chairman of the Virginia Conunittee of secretary of the State Planters Bank for the Roanoke area and $271,000 for .'American Forest Products Industries. of Commerce and Trusts, has been the Staunton area. The appointment was announced by i lec ted to the board of directors of the John B. \'each, president of A.F.P.I.. B. T. Crump Company. NAMES IN THE NEWS . . . W. H. sponsor of the American Tree Farm Wrenn, of Hig Stone Gap, is the new president of the Powell River Industrial Development Corporation. . . . Dave Isaac, of Appalachia, has purchased Teppers Department Store in Norton. It will be known now as Dave's Depart• R. B. GAY & COMPANY ment Store. Robert Isaac will manage the Norton store, and the Appalachia RATLRO.VD AND HIGHWAY store will also remain in business. . . . C.ONTRACTORS Gov. J. Lindsay Almond has reap• pointed Creed Kelly, of Big Stone Gap, 3437 Courtland Ave., N.W. as Virginia's Chief Mine Inspector, a position he has held for 23 years, be• RO.\N()KI.. MR(.1NIA ing first appointed by the late Gov. John Garland Pollard. . . . Clay Pen• dleton, native Roanoker, is the new manager of the Kroger store in I^ig Stone Gap. . . . In Clarksville. Morgan-Rudd Ford Sales, Inc., has announced that Marvin Thomas.son and Morton Phillips u ill be ADAMS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY associated with the company as of Feb• ruary 15. ... S. Doyle Arant, former specializing in paper mill superintendent with the Scott Paper Company. Mobile. Ala., has joined the Camp Division of Union MACADAM AND ASPHALT SURFACING Bag-Camp Paper Corp. in Franklin as ESTIMATES GLADLY FURNISHED UPON REQUEST superintendent of its paper mill depart- inciit. Sidney Milling has taken over as Camp Division industrial engineer. His duties will be to determine safe, eco• FOR PRIVATE ROADS • DRIVEWAYS nomical and easy methods of carrying PARKING LOTS • AIRPORTS • ETC. out various job processes, particularly the design layout, method and organi• zation of the paper sheet and rolled op• erations. . . . D. Robley Wood, presi• P. O. Box 60 Telephone Diamond 3-2409 dent of the Bank of Salem, has been new president of the Salem Chamber 2725 ROANOKE AVENUE ROANOKE, VA. of Commerce. He succeeds Arthur Neuhofif, general manager of Valley- dale Packers, in this post. . . .
to tell the Virginia Story M.\RCH 19.58 PAGE THIRTEEN each promoted a partisan faction, to Know Your Virginian.s—Cof/innnd from page 5 which each contributed some ven,- jx)w- dull man could have been .selected by Yet, e\en in the accomplishments of erful propaganda. The result was that fate and his fellows for leadership at his career, there was one element that, their political descendants have kept every stage of his life, beginning when, in a curious way, further explains the alive the legend of tho.se men for pur• as an 18-year-old student at William labels hung on Monroe. When he was poses of advancing their own causes, and Mary, he was appointed lieutenant president. peae«- came to the bitter and phrases of those partisan leaders in a company of the Continental line— laetions that had struggled ior power in ha\e been removed from context to be and, hence, became the only president the new nation and his administration passed from generation to generation of the U. S. who served as a line-offic er was called "the era of good feeling." like the wisdom of the ages. in the Revolution. But Jefferson, Jack.von and Lincoln Probably no line in history has been so misquoted and misused as Jefferson's catch-phrase about all men being cre• ated equal: no American ever believed AMES AND WEBB, INC. le.ss in the equality of individuals than Jefferson, and the harm that has re• CONCRETE AND ASPHALT PAVING CONTRACTORS sulted from distortions of this line is incalculable and <'ndless. Andrew Jack• Phone Madison 2-2667 son's bully-boy nn-thods of resolving the differences between the sections re• 3145 \ irginia Beach Blvd. moved the South's legitimate griev• ances froni the realm of principle and NORFOLK. MR(;INIA set the pattern of meeting sectional protest vvith force. His heroics sound OUR 25th YEAR OF ROAD BUILDING stirring in the telling, but from him derived the ultimate resolution by force of arms when democratic processes failed. Lincoln contradicted himself constantly to suit the occasion, but Best Wishes to Virginia Highway Department parti.san words of his, spoken in expedi• ency, have been applied to the con• fusion of American problems for one KENTUCKY VIRGINIA hundred years. While the facts about these men are STONE COMPANY glossed over, their myths go marching on, and as individuals these "cham- Crushed Stone |)ions" of partisan factions possessed that element of personal color that lends itself to legend. The many-sided GIBSON STATION, VIRGINIA Jefferson had his inventions; earthy Lincoln had his folksy anecdotes and
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PAGE FOURTEEN MRGINIA RECORD Founded 1878 aggressive Jackson his violent episodes. a top executive, in business or industry In comparison with these "characters," or (hopefully) in government. Monroe would not be a colorful per• In this context, for Washington and sonality. But not to be ranked among Hamilton to recommend a twenty- the characters, around whonx legends year-old as a "sensible" man was to have been spun, surely need not imply them just about the highest compli- that Monroe (or any one else) would be the opposite of colorful. In compari• son with these characters, George Felicitations to Virginia Washington also was not a colorful Department of Highways man, nor were many of the leaders whose considerable contributions did not happen to .serve the purpose of Safety is Our Motto partisan factions. Belmont There was, however, an adjective Trap Rock applied to James Monroe when he was SAFETY quite young that carries a connotation that could make him appear, what Company, Inc. might be called at best, unexciting. MOTOR TRANSIT That was "sensible." Both Washington and Alexander Hamilton, in recom• COMPANY, INC. PRODUCERS OF mending the ambitious twenty-year-old Revolutionary major as "brave and ac• CRUSHED STONE tive," specifically called attention to ROANOKE, VIRGINIA him as a "sensible" man. This word does not come across to us as the high STAl NTON, V IRGINIA compliment it was in the 18th Century. The Best In Transportation That was the Age of Reason, when Since 1887 men suspected the romantic and senti• mental, the quixotic, and the turn of mind most admired was clear-thinking realism. In its practical application in a revolutionary movement, a cold- headed leader such as Washington needed most of all men of good sense— men whose minds were unclouded by impractical theories, unswayed by pass• ing winds of doctrine, untroubled by ASPHALT PAVING SERVICE, INC. personal compulsions, and, most of all, unfrightened by making decisions. A man of good sense had courage with Paving Contractors discretion, initiative with sound judg• ment. He could be trusted with an im• portant assignment in the assurance Darbytown Road and C&O Underpass that his intelligence would be applied with self-confident energy, and nothing would divert him from the main objec• RICHMOND, VIRGINIA tive. A man of good sense had the qualities that would be sought today in
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to tell the Virginia Story MARCH 1958 PAGE FIFTEEN ment they could pay. Considering that extravagant gesture-. He has no par• they were recommending what today ticular gift for words and no flare for would be a youth for responsible as• dramatic moments. He was very self- signments in a revolutionary movement contained, a quiet sort of person, forth• (and that Jefferson gave him an as• right in his .speech and in his actions, signment). Monroe's older contem• with an unyielding sen.se of personal CASE poraries obviously recognized in him honor. When Alexander Hamilton, his the qualities of real stature. early supporter, later bec:ame his Placing the adjective "sensible" in its enemy, Monroe challenged him to a CONSTRUCTION background, and completing the com• duel. Since the duel did not come off, mendatory phrase with "brave and there is no aura of romantic violence CO. ac tive" (or, as we would say, "courage about him. But you can read his letter and initiative"), we can see James to Hamilton and encounter a very res• Monroe as his fellows on earth saw olute character, of whom "sensible" him, and, as they said in the Old West, \^ould mean there was no foolishness General Contractors "//;i.v was a man." about him. This is not a man who.se eccentri• However, the very inwardness of cities make amusing stories, who will be Monroe's strengths do not lend them• remembered for a sudden phrase or selves to legend. They were strengths that inspired c:onfidence in others and BRIDGES . DAMS attracted powerful leaders to him, and they were the strengths that the na• AND E. W. MULLER tion necrded for solid accomplishments COXTRACTOR during its fumbling, formative stages. .As history is seen by a series of pin• Fhont- 3-1258 7008 Park Drive nacles. Monroe's were the quiet NEWPORT NEWS. VA. strengths that could be cast in the DIFFICULT FOUNDATIONS shadows by Jefferson's rare brilliance W.\TER SUPPLY and remain unheard under the tmnult brought into the American stream by SEWER.AGE SYSTEMS .\ndrew Jackson's mob. When history SEW.'\GE DISPOS.XL is properly regarded in its continuity MX. AIRY, MARYLAND as a .stream, it is manifestly inaccurate
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PAGE SIXTEEN VIRGINIA RECORD Founded 1878 to label a highly ofTcctual patriot as those who did not make a big splash dull by contrasting him with the spec• or, emigrating to the Colonies later, tacular. There is no reason to label him were later in winning these privileged as the opposite of what he was not. positions. But the fact that one wave In no field of life does the absence of emigrants had succeeded in estab• of one condition indicate the presence lishing their families in conditions of STUART of the opposite. For a thing not to be impressive style, while the succeeding whiti- it needn't be black; it can be mauve or puce. Not to be rich does not MOTOR mean poverty, not to be scholarly does not mean ignorant, not to be athletic does not mean puny. In our century, FABRICATED COMPANY no one is called poor because he is not a Rockefeller. But in Monroe's back• STEEL ground, as in his career, he was also labeled for the opposite of what he was for STl ART, VIRGINIA not. Since his immediate family did not belong in the ruling powers of the day, Buildings the handy designation was "plain." and Non-Virginia writers on the state have acccjited the myth by which Vir• ginians interpret their past and have Bridges perpetuated a mythical social structure whii h was supposed to consist entirely ''Tour of "patricians" and "plebeans." Curi• ously, there is nothing whatsoever in C hevrolet-OldsmobUe the recorded history of the state to sup• Roanoke Iron & port such a nonsensical theory. Bridge Works, Inc. Dealer" The men whose ambition, energy and resourcefulness had won positions of Colonial power for their families by Roanoke, Va. the mid-18th century- came by and large from the same British strata of
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1o tell the Virginia Story MARCH 1958 PAGE SEVENTEEN waves wen- on iheir way up. should not in;ply any aura of the patrician to the Hrst Rockefellers while stamping as VIRGINIA TELEPHONE & ••jjlain" thosr families of suhstance. ed• ucation and good manners who had not then made a killing out of land TELEGRAPH CO. speculation and slave-labor. Many families of fine backgroun.i never produced a single member with CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. the greed to acquire a large fortune, and surely, with centuries of perpetuity in England and Virginia, such unspec• SERVING 23 OF VIRGINIA'S FASTEST GROWING COUNTIES tacular gentle folk could scanely be designated as plain. Yet, they were IN THE HEART OF THE PIEDMONT never among the powers; they never desired to be. any more than segments of gentle people today aspire to gie.ii wealth and political control. Thus, it was no traditional status of aristocrat that set apart the grandees of the Northern Neck from the families who lived more modestly, and when James MARKS-WICKER CO., INC. Monroe was born in Westmoreland County it is also most unlikely that his Buggs Island Quarries people considered themselves "plain"' in comparison to the owners of the big estates. TALBOTT-MARKS CO., INC. Historians of varying degree make their obeisance to the plantations with General Contractors fabled names, and assume that every• body else in the neighborhood lived, like the pca.sants around the old Rhine TALBOTT-MARKS-R UNIONS, INC. castles, in humble subjugation to the baron—or. here, "old Massa." Letter-- of the times do not bear this out at all. Structural Contractors Countless inhabitants of those places of "conspicuous consumption" were re• ferred to as bores and ignoranmses, and CLARKSVILLE, VIRGINIA (Acn less deference was accorded to stupid oafs because of their family con• nections than it is today. The times were dynamic when men of dynamism
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PAGE EIGHTEEN VIRGINI.\ RECORD Founded 1878 were needed, and fat livers off an early pirate's gains were too flabby to be of any use. The big man of action, Washington, LANFORD & SLATER, Inc. and the big man of ideas, Jefferson, were lean people, hard and supple. General Contractors Washington began life as a surveyor, as did the younger Jefferson's father, but this should not imply that they BOX 5127 ROANOKE, VIRGINIA were "plain" in comparison to .some elegant nothing who was content to J. C. LANFORD, President PHONE 6-2579 gamble away the money earned by an S. F. LANFORD, JR., Vice-President earlier Indian trader. The times were T. R. SLATER, Vice-President in flux, with nothing of the static qual• ity—the rigid division of classes—that MRS. HKTTY C. LANFORD, Sec'y. & Treas. has been palmed off as history. In point of fact, James Monroe came of a back• ground of interesting people and, at least on one side, of very substantial people, and no recorded line of Mon• roe's nor any recorded fact about him indicate any awareness of any struggle with a social handicap. Felicitations to Virginias New Highway Commissioner
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PAGE NINETEEN lo tell the Virgiina Story MARCH 1958 year allocations would be based on relative need, as determined by the estimated cost of completing the Inter• Salutations to our state System in each State. .\eiv Commissioner Allocations on the Primary, Second• ary and Urban Systems would be made as heretofore on the basis of popula• C. H. Lawson, Inc. tion, road mileage, and area. All of the States have now reeeived General Hiiihway Construction W. W. SANDERS the first three years of Federal funds. The third apjjortionment covering the \\ O. Box 186 Phone C.apital 9-3232 fiscal year 1958-59 was made avail• \Mi.i,i \Msm;R(;. \ IRGINIA able by the Secretary of Commerce Quarry & General on August 2. 1957. This appropriation Excavating amounted to $2,875,000,000, making the total for the three years $6,550,- 000,000. Commendations to the Virginia's share for the third year Virfiinia Hi ROBERT M. RADER, President S. Vance Wilkins Spcciali,st.s in Curb.s, Gutters. Sidcwalk.s General Contractor and General Highw ay Construction AMHERST, VA. LEE-COMPTON LINES 1502 Walnut Hill Salutes NORFOLK 8, VA. Virginia's New Highivay Commissioner 524 Rorer Ave, S.W. ROANOKE, VIRGINIA P.\GE TWENTY MRGINIA RECORD Founder! 1878 More than 20 public road hearings have been held involving over 125 miles of the Interstate System. Felicitations to the State Highway Department At your Annual Meeting last year in Roanoke. I told you that it would be the early part of 1958 before you would sec much dirt flying on the Interstate System. A schedule of work to be advertised in the first six months of BANK OF BUCHANAN 1957 was given you at that time. In June of this year another schedule for the last six months of 1957 was pre• BUCHANAN, VA. pared and sent to you by the Construc• tion Division. The schedule for the first six months of the current year was followed \rr\ closely. It is evident, as you have no BURTON P. SHORT & SON doubt found out. that we were sorae- whiit ovcr-optiniisiii in the preparations GENERAL CONTRACTORS of the schedule for the last of this year. Many of these projects, especially on We Specialize in All Types of Asphalt Roads the Interstate System, will be carried over into the first half of 1958. P. O. Box 1107 Phone REgent 2-8412 We have jjrepared a schedule of ad- N'crlisements for the lirsi six months ol PKTERSBl lUi, MRGINIA 1958 that we feel we can live with, ^'ou will observe that this schedule is exclusive of plant mix and surface treatment work. Copies of this schedule can be obtained from the Highway Felicitations to Virginia Department of Highways Oflice. li is estimated that the work in this schedule, exclusive of rights of way, TAYLOR CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. will amount to 73 million dollars. AND A schedule for the last half of 1958 will be available for you in June. It is SUMMERS-TAYLOR PAVING CO. estimated that the value of work to be advertised for contract in 1958 will L. R. T.\YLOR, President total approximately 142 million dollars including plant mix and surface treat• General Highway Construction ment. ELIZABETHTON, TENN. Some of the producers are no doubt wondering what this means in material Felicitations and Best Wishes to the Virginia Department of Highways Virginia Stone & Construction Corp. Toms Creek, Virginia Roanoke, Virginia HIGHWAY AND ROAD CONSTRUCTION EXCAVATING. GRADING AND CRUSHED STONE Crushing Plants Located in Powhatan, Wythe Russell and Fauquier County P. O. Box 1232 Phone: Diamond 5-8124—Diamond 5-8125 ROANOKK. MRGINIA to tell the Virninia Story MARCH 1958 PAGE TWENTY-ONE needs. A rough estimate would he: 6.000.000 tons Aggregate. 2r)0.000 bbls. Cement. 50.000.000 gal. Bituminous Material. C. S. MUNDY QUARRIES, INC. 1.000.000 lin. ft. Pipe. 1').(I00 tons Sodium and Calcium D. C. MuNDY, General Manager Chloride. 50,000.000 lbs. Reinforcing and Structural Steel. CRUSHED STOJSE It is only through proper long-range planning that we can spend every dollar wi.scly, keep on schedule, and at the same time stay within the funds avail• BROADWAY and TIMBERVILLE, VA. able. Wc intend to keep our highway records in good order at all times .so that we will not find ourselves in the position that we do not have sufficient funds to pay our contractors, suppliers, and employees, for their services. We will strive to maintain as nearly as possible a balanced program throughout the year. W. E. Graham & Son I would like to take this opportunity to state that we are continuously bring• GENERAL CONTRACTORS ing our methods and procedures up to dale to meet today's problems and to• morrow's deadline. D»-spite the shortage of engineers and the many complex problems, we have completed approximately 7.') miles of CONCRETE BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION surveys and plans on the Interstate ROAD BUILDING System, of which !>! miles are now under contract. GRADING AND MACADAM PAVING Wc well realize the futility of at- tenjpting to secure sufficient manpower to meet the rec|uin-d schedules with old-fashioned methods of surveying, preparing plans, calculating cpiantities. etc. We are therefore turning to CLE\ ELAND, NORTH CAROLINA more modern methods. .A,mong the equipment secured or ordered to ex- pediu- this work. are. (1) an airplane Thompson - Arthur Paving Company Salutations to Virginia's New Municipal & Highway Construcrion Highway Commissioner 300 Benbow Road E. L. DANIELS P O. Box 1197 General Contracting Greensboro, North Carolina 813 N.Taylor .St. Branch Offices .\RLINGTON. VIRGINIA High Point, N. C. • Danville, Va. PAGE TWENTY-TWO VIRGINIA REt.ORl) Founded 1878 !I7o cxjiXEii. oat ajijix&ciatLon joz tlie. ojijioxiuniiij to texuE . . . AN OUTSTANDING STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT PENNIMAN & BROWNE, INC. CHEMISTS - ENGINEERS - INSPECTORS EngincrrinK Div.—6252 Falls Road. Baltimore- 9. Md. for aerial photography, surveying and mapping: (2) a KcUh plotter for di irruiining and plotting topographic features and contours from aerial photographs: and (31 an IBM 6.')0 E. P. ELLIS QUARRY AND Electronic Computer lor the calculation of grades, earthwork C|uantities. and HOLSTON RIVER QUARRY many other engineering computations. To speed up your operations, wc have discontinued the use of selective grad• ing on future projects, and we are JOE ELLIS and L. STUART ELLIS, Partners revising our road and bridge specifica• tions to utilize up to date methods, procedures and equipment. As I men• P. O. BOX 124 MARION, VA. tioned in the beginning, we are in this highway business together and neither can afford to. nor wants to, neglect the |)roblems of the other. As a highway official from one of our neighboring States recently said. "If wc are performing an operation the I enjoyed talking with you . . . the PRESTON MINING CO., INC. other night, and appreciate your inter• est in our Clinch Valley College. . . . VAN SANT, VIRGINIA We appreciate your coverage of our Dickenson County Diamond Jubilee, and Mrs. Ault worked with our people is proud of the progress of Clinch Valley College. in a fine way. I also had the pleasure of working with Mrs. Ault on a kick-ofT story for Bedford County Bicentennial in your magazine. Your group is doing a wonderful joh for Virginia and its counties. . . . Keep up the fine work. Cordially. BOWERS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY |. Hoge T. Sutherland, Supt., l)i( kcnson County Schools General Contractors Mr. Clifford Dowdey, Editor: Thank you for that copy of your BUILDERS OF BRIDGES February 1958 issue which we re( cived from you yesterday. ^'our magazine presents a pleasing RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA appc-arance. It is well edited and well designed. All photos are splendid. You have cause to be proud of your publi• cation. "^'ours truly. W. O. THOMAS COMPANY P. M. Barger. President, P. M. Barger Lumber Company Heating and Air Conditioning MAdi.soii 2-3982 1810 Bramblctoii Avenue NORFOLK, VIRGINIA THE BETTS QUARRY ALL LIMESTONE PRODUCTS READY-MIXED CONCRETE ACKICLLTURAl, flkOlM) LIMKSIONE •'Belts Better Products" Dial 4-7472 P. O. Box 454 D. D. Joiie.s Transfer HARRISONIU R(.. \ IRC INI A & Warehouse Co. .Available for Quotations on Stone 209 V\«M Mdin .Street Throughout Virginia NORFOLK, VIRGI.M.\ l'.\GE TWENTY-FOUR \TRGINI.\ RECORD Founded 1878 Clinch Valley College {Continued from page 11) POWERS CHEVROLET, INC. The men and women studied hard, but they also started a glee club, a Veterans Club, basketball and baseball, Sales Service the Highland Players, a chapter of the Future Teachers of America, a school paper (The Highland Cavalier), a (iuaranteed Work • 24-Hour Wrecker Service SI hool band, an annual (The Outpost). In 1956. 54 students received two- PHONE 2241 year certificates and became the pioneer graduating class. Also, at the end of the HAYSI, VIRGINIA first two years. Pn-sident Darden said. "Clinch Valley is the most refreshing experiment in education that I've ever seen, barring none." S O L I T E Autoclave High Pressure Blot ks LUMbKR • MILLWORK • BUILDING SUPPLIES VALLEY BLOX, INC. n ARRISONBlRf; • STAl.\T().\ WAYNESBORO VIRGINIA GARRETT, MOON & POOL, INC. General Contractors Grady Dalton, an active supporter of the READY MIX SEPTIC FANKS collefie in General Assembly. CONCRETE J. Hoge Tyler Sutherland, Superin• tendent Dickenson County Schools, PiioNK 884 Box 112 says: BLACK-STONK, ViRlJI.NIA "The opening of Clinch Valley Col• lege at Wise has made the biggest educational impact on Southwest Vir• ginia of any .single event during the third of a century I have served. A few of our citizens have taken graduate or Coastal Tank Lines^ Inc. professional courses at Charlottesville. Until now the University of Virginia has been a little-known name in our section, some (three hundred) miles away. Dickenson County high school ^ ()RK. PENNSYLVANIA graduates can now, for the first time, stay at home and drive to college each day. More and more of them are doing just that." "Dickenson County has the largest percentage of sub-standard teaching c ertificates in Virginia. Clinch Valley College is giving two years of college training to many of our prospective tcaehi'rs. It provides Saturday and Somebody summer courses for teachers, within driving distance of their homes. Its stimulation has been such that large groups of teachers are regularly taking gamhied..'. college extension courses from the BEASLEY'S MOTOR LINES University of Virginia. From every Milfortl. \'ire;inia viewpoint. Clinch Valley College has PAGE TWENTY-FIVE to tell the Virginia Story M/\RCH 1958 given Dickenson and all surrounding counties a real shot in its educational arm." Southwest Virginia Is Proud To Have Clinch Valley College "Clinch Valley College serves an area largely populated by sons and daughters of pioneer .^nglo-Saxon stock. Our young j)eople crave the benefits of edu• ANK OF RUSSELL cational opportunity. They will produce our share of the leaders of tomorrow. I have no doubt whatsoever that the CLEVELAND, VIRGINIA results will be good. Virginia has made no better investment than in Clinch Valley College." Now in its fourth year of operation, k''niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ iiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii mil iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii;iiiiiiiniiiiiiiii'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii»^ Clinc h Valley College faces the prob• lems of any vital, necessary institution bursting at its seams. It requires in• WE ARE PROUD OF CLINCH VALLEY COLLI (,I creased financial support to realize its full potential service, for beyond doubt the community's need for it has been I THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK | demonstrably established. Some increa.ses in operating funds in were propo.sed in the new state budget, but friends of the college, in a large HONAKER, \ IRGINIA deU-gation, drove nearly 400 miles the first week in February to plead with the House Appropriations Conimitirc for additional funds. They asked .$350,- 000 for building a combined auditorium and gymnasium, .some $50,000 more in operating funds, and $7.'),000 for road RICHLANDS NATIONAL BANK and campus improvements. The fact that the legislature ap- RICHLANDS, VA. jjroved the grant of $3.')0,000 for the building and appropriated $78,000 for Urges Financial and Legislative Support for Southwest Virginia's operation and maintenance attests to Commendable Clinch Valley College the sincerity and effectiveness of the unique delegation. CRADY W. DALTON, Executive Vice President and M. M. Long, senator from Wise Member of Viri^inia House of Delegates County, introduced members of the delegation. Most eloqutmt and touching was the appeal from Don R. Pippin, a We are proud of Clinch Valley College We are proud of Clinch Valley College, its contributions and its aspiratiotis. Bank of Wise Coal & Coke Co. Pocahontas xXORTON, VA. POCAHONTAS, VA PAGE TWENTY-SIX VIRGINIA RECORD Founded 1878 sludcnt. who said: They sent me 300 miles to in three minutes convince you of our needs. This would be the job for a Daniel Webster." He told of 62 THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK talented musicians who cannot form a band because of lack of space to prac• OF tice and how gym classes must be held in the last period of the day because there are no showers. RICHLANDS, VIRGINIA Dean J. C. Smiddy, told the com• mittee. "The only recreational activity Urges Tour Support of Clinch Valley College we've got now is sleigh riding- there are plenty of hills." General Assembly members speaking for the college included, in addition to Senator Long. Senator Harry C. Stuart of Russell County; the two Wi.se County dek'gates. James L. Camblos of Big One of Southwest Virginia's Greatest Assets Is Stone Gap and Orby L. Cantrell of Poimd: Delegate Garnett S. Moore of CLINCH VALLEY COLLEGE Pulaski County and Delegate William C. Fugate of Lee County. Another moving speech was made by Tommy Peake, a Norton high school THE FARMERS EXCHANGE BANK senior who was president of Boys Na• tion. To illustrate how his community COEBURN, VIRGINIA is losing native talent, he gave as an example his own three brothers and sisters who went away to college, got jobs elsewhere and did not return. Other speakers included Dr. J. J. Kelly, superintendent of Wise County PEOPLES BANK OF POUND schools; Lundy Wright, Dieken.son County school supervisor: Herman MEMBER FDIC We are proud to be a supporter of Clinch Valley College. There is no Wise Concrete better investment. Corporation PHONE 2341 POUND, VA. READY MIXED CONCRETE PET PASTEURIZED MILK At Its Best Delivered When You Wish It BRIXMENT DRAIN TILE CEMENT SAND & STONE Ice Cream, Homogenized Milk CALL: BIG STONE GAP, VA. and 27 OR Other Dairy Products NORTON. VA. 328 BIG STONE GAP, VIRGINIA 13fh St. Big Stone Gap, Va. to tell the Virginia Story MARCH 1958 PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN Hufl". executive secretary. Norton an a Chamber of Commerce; Thomas Bowen, a Norton lawyer among others. We are proud to salute the progress and contributions Tazewell County banker, Grady Dalton, of Clinch Valley College. as a first-term member, was constantly proving his ability as a campaigner in the interests of knowledge-hungry stu• dents of the southwest. Cumberlaiid Bank & Trust Company Inability to finance a four-year col• lege education is the case in many in• GRUNDY, VIRGINIA stances in the area, it was pointed out, and Mr. HufT stressed the fact that far .Southwestern Virginia counties have 11.2 per cent more children under the age of 19 and 50 per cent less per capita income than state averages. A long editorial, appearing in the Coalfield Progress at the time of the We are pleased to support Clinch Valley College. delegation from Wise to Richmond, ends: ''Just more of the most con• vincing evidence that Southwest Vir• ginia, the Mountain Empire, if you ST. PAUL NATIONAL BANK please, is absolutely solid, in request for this appropriation, n^ardlcss of ]jolitics, or any other civic activities. ST. PAI L, VA. Never saw anything in Wise county to compare with the unanimous effort in support of the amendments, and bet the old appropriations committee will be glad when the issue is settled! Clinch Valley College has two pro• grams to ofTer: a transfer program and "There Is No Better Investment Than a terminal program. The transfer pro• gram provides the first two years of Clinch Valley College" regular college work and of professional work in the fields of commerce, educa• tion and engineering for students who wish to transfer for further study to FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF WISE another institution. The terminal pro• gram provides one and two year courses WISE, VIRGINIA of study in general and special fields for students who do not expec t to work Greer-EUison Coal We Pledge Continued Interest in Clinch Valley College, Sales Company, the Bulwark of Future Progress Inc. in Southwest Vironia Shippers of HIGH GRADE STEAM AND Caledonia Coal Company MET ALLURGICAL COALS 205 Progress Building NORTON, VIRGINIA Phone Norton 623 NORTON. VIRGEMA PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT VIRGINE'K RECORD Founded 1878 We Are A Booster of Clinch Valley College Tilu Inn at Wise Gourt hiouse For Excellent Accommodations and the Best Food in Southwest Virginia WISE, MRfilNIA "On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine" Robert E. Coyle, Sr., a member of the Howse of Delegates from Haysi, says that No Support is too great for Clinch Valley College Clinch Valley College is "a godsend to LEE BANK AND TRUST COMPANY toward degrees. "Serving Your Every Banking Need" Work in the Transfer Program cor• MONEY FOR MANY PL RPOSES responds to similar work at the Uni• versity of Virginia and Mary Washing• PENNINGTON GAP~ST. CHARLES, VIRGINIA ton College, where credits are accepted Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 1 xccpt in the ca.se of consistently low grades. Three types of financial aid— scholarships, loans and student employ• ment—are available to needy students. St. Paul National Bank this year is giving a $289 scholarship. McCorkle Lumber Company The Terminal Program combines general college degree-credit courses Retail Lumber & Building Supplies with technical and professional non- credit c ourses. These one and two-year courses lead to certificates in the fields Phone 600 of accounting, business, general edu• cation and secretarial science as well as Big Stone Gap, Va. to such vocational objectives as general, office, correspondence and file clerks, Booster of Clinch Valley College The First National Banlc Royal Laundry of Company of Norton, Virginia Norton, Inc. Norton, Viipnia Is Proud of Big Stone Gap, V irginia Grundy, Virginia Clinch Valley College to tell the Virginia Story MARCH 1958 PAGE TWENTY-NINE office machine operator, secretary, ste• nographer, typist, sales clerk, manager, accounting clerk and junior executive. In addition to the work given at the Felicitations to Clinch Valley College College, the University offers, through the Extension Division, a program of afternoon and evening extension classes both at the College and in surrounding HAMER LUMBER CORPORATION areas. This program includes both formal degree courses and informal APPALACHIA, VA. courses, with a curriculum adapted to the interests of applicants at any given time. The infant college, approximately a mile from the center of the town of Wise on Route 646, is about 320 miles from the parent university where Jeffer• son pioneered in the field of education. Best Wishes for the Continued Progress of Fittingly the first yearbook of Clinch Clinch Valley College Valley College is dedicated "To the Pioneer Spirit." "To the spirit of the people of Southwest Virginia, who blazed the PEOPLES BANK OF EWING trails for an educational opportunity as their ancestors had tamed this mountain EWING, VA. empire "To the .spirit of Mr. Jefferson, whose university provided means and assurance for an exciting and refreshing experience in exploring die potentiali• ties of an unlimited frontier. We are proud to he among the hackers "To the spirit of the first dean and faculty, who shared with the students of our Clinch Valley College. I hose hardships accompanying the es• tablishment of a community college. "To the spirit of an earnest student body, which had faith in the per• WOODWAY STONE COMPANY manence and thrilled to the newness of a valid experiment in education. "To all these we attribute the good• WOODWAY, VA. ness and prosperity of Clinch Vallev College." Clinch Haven Farms Heartiest Felicitations to Clinch Valley College ''Breeders of Registered Holstein Cattle" SALUTES CLINCH VALLEY COLLEGE Interstate Railroad Clinch Haven Company Farms Big Stone Gap, Va. ANDOVER, VA. PAGE THIRTY VIRGINIA RECORD Founded 1878 REST HAVEN For the A<^ed The MRS. ETHEL GILLKSPIE, Utcm i BKAUTIFUL 24-Hour Nursing Care l!.')-B<-d Clapacity Kintlnes-s and Consideration CUMBERLANDS Always Care of Own Physician Any Time liispecled By State Departnieni in the heart of the ol Health NO AGE LIMIT SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA Refined—Quiet—Homelike HIGHLANDS. Country .Atmosphere Dial :i4(lli Coeburn, Vireinia Fun and Recreation at We Wholeheartedly Support the Continued Growth of Clinch Valley College Hiiih Knob recreation area (Elevation 4162) Corder Bottom fishing lake Lone.some Pine Country Clul) Cilinch Valley College 1 he Breaks Interstate Park Natural Tunnel Lincoln Memorial L'niversity Cumberland Nat'l Historical Park WE ARE PROUD OF CLINCH VALLEY COLLEGE Yoli promise to come . . . once! Wf promise yt)u'll tome again! 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