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Hospitality was the word for Old Virginia, and in honor of this year's celebration of the 350th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown, the Old Dominion decided to put out the welcome mat for Old Virginians living outside the state. Down the lists of distinguished ex-Virginians went the official hosts; out to some 600 notables went engraved invitations to a reception May 17, arranged by the State Chamber of Commerce...
...Governor Thomas B. Stanley dolled himself up in a plumed Elizabethan helmet, brandished a replica of an ancient musket, appeared ready to defend the ramparts against all attackers. Actually, he was merely lending his gubernatorial presence to ceremonies opening a historical festival in the 350-year-old settlement of Jamestown...
RALPH BOHMER Jamestown...
Jefferson & Jackson. The first slave to be sold on what was to become U.S. soil, Furnas says, landed at Jamestown in 1619, a full year before the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth. The early settlers saw nothing immoral in slavery, since many a white was himself an indentured servant and little better off. Economically, slave labor was on the way out when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and made it profitable to keep huge tracts of land in cultivation. Even so, a rich planter might clear no more than a 1% profit annually. A representative weekly food ration...
...California School of Fine Arts to $5,000,000 for New York University. The list includes names as famed as Harvard ($4,510,000), but there are others scarcely anyone has ever heard of. Pennsylvania has the largest number of beneficiaries (57). North Dakota has only one (Jamestown College), and five states-Arizona, Delaware, New Mexico, Nevada and Wyoming-have none...