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Head of Virginia Bankers Likes Work in Country By JAMES BIBCHFIELD Star Stall Correipoodent ROUND HILL, Vs.. Feb. 84.—r The president of the Virginia; Bankers Association enjoys be ing at the head of a country bank. Herbert H. Cooley, vice presi-i dent and cashier of the Round Hill National Bank, likes to look out over the Northern Virginia countryside and watch it bloom. He likes to watch, as he puts it, the efforts of his labor come back to him. Mr. Cooley has been with the! Round Hill bank for nearly 29 years, and has seen its resources grow from $377,000 to more than $3 million. Visits Customers He likes to visit with the people he has helped, and he Shop At The Heeht Suburban Stores Late Tonight! Washington Store Open 9:30 to BHW; Silver Spring A PARKington Open 12:30 to 9:30 luWiThiTWkA Downstairs Store MBUMM B , Washington, Silrvr Spring anil V.XHKington M v new an ■ .'priced so T jyR that we can actually sell them for less than their wholesale S " l . . ... ... .. mm* • Showroom Samples! Salatmen's Samples! Washington, saver spring. ’^B Rainbow of Colors. Navy! fP|k^ v jvb -i ' ' m ® n * Sizas. ; f. * y ',’ “* A. * .y;[ ** Fashion Dresses, Downstairs Store Sorry, Mo Mail or Phone Orders. .gets as much pleasure out of [telling about the success of some .[of his customers as he does about the success of his bank. I For, after all. it is one and the same thing. Successful customers make a successful bank. “There was the time,” Mr. Cqpley said, “when a man in the community came in for help. 1 “Tht was back in the early ’3os, and times were pretty hard. “This man was a tenant farmer who wanted to buy his own place. I knew his background, and we 'here at the bank went along with him. "He had hardly any cash, so we let him have the money to purchase the farm, and then we advanced the cash for a dairy barn and a herd. “It wasn’t a mistake, either. That man today owns several farms, and I expect he’s worth * close to half a million." Pays Off Debt la i Tears And there was another stors— time of a farmer who had a chance to buy for a good price the farm on which be had beep f working, j ? The bank let him have the 1 money, advised him on his financing, and in five years the e whole /debt was paid off., 5 Mr. Cooley feels that a man has to have a touch of the land '-.about him to be a good country a banker. “When a man comes in for a Moan on a farm or on cattle,” he l- said, “you’ve got to know farms r and you’ve got to know cattle." *•1 “And, what is more, you’ve got B.to like the country and like to 1 see it prosper.” 3 Started la Valley 3 Mr. Cooley started his bank e ing. career in a country bank— r the Middletown State Bank. down in the Valley of Virginia. '. With the exception of several 1; years with a Pittsburgh bank, he has been a country banker ever since. • After returning to Virginia from Pennsylvania, Mr. Cooley became associated with the Mar shall National Bank as assistant [cashier, and in June, 1927. he came to Round Hill. | He has risen through the ranks at the Round Hill bank,; as he has in the Virginia Bank ers Association. Before becoming president of the Btate organization last June, he had served as a member of the organization’s board of di rectors and as chairman of several of its committees. At present be is a member of the American Bankers Asso ciation subcommittee on taxa tion, which is making a study of taxation affecting banks. Headed Committees He has served as chairman of the State association’s commit tees on agriculture and Federal legislation, and of Group 3 of the association, which comprises the Northern Virginia counties. He also has served as need of ' the Bankers Conference Com mittee, which conducts a bank i ing seminar for students at the ’ University of Virginia. In his home town, Mr. Cooley ’ has served on the Round Hill 1 Town Council, and as'a member of the Board of Stewards of the 1 Round Hill Methodist Church. He is a past master of the Thompson Masonic Lodge. Mr. and Mrs. Cooley, who is the former Muriel Hinkle of Ste ; phens City, Va., live in a com fortable white, house on Round ; Hill’s main street. The Cooleys have three daugh ters. Mrs. William D. Pomeroy, whose husband is a Marine Corps major at Camp Lejeune, N. C.; Miss Nancy L. Cooley, employed with a Washington law firm’, and Mrs. Robert B. Potts of State College. Pa. Taa can’t vote in the Dis | triet if you don’t register. New ; is the time U qualify. Regis tration headquarters on ground f floor of the District Building. [California Firm Finds I ! Oil Well in Costa Rica - f LOS ANGELES. Feb. 24. (ff). 1 —Union Oil of California has.l r after three inconclusive tests,) 5 finally struck oil in its 3-million-[ j acre exploratory concession ln| ' Cost Rica, it announced yester- 1 i day. . Its fourth test well in the Cen tral American country has found 1 substantial thickness of oil-sat urated limestone at about 5,400 ’ feet, the firm said. 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