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PAG PAGE TWO the JOHNSTONTAN-SUN, SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY—SEPTEMBER 8, 1949. MICRO NEWS Mrs. Valeria Edgerton is spend ing a few days in Kinston with Mr. and Mrs. Herman Weilons and family. Travis Sasser of Wilson is the guest of his grandmother, Mrs. Mae Batten this week. Mrs. Ophelia Bagley is spending a few days with Mrs. Zilphia Ald ridge in Spindale. Dr. M. Hinnant, Turner Wei lons, Carl Bagley and Hubert Smith made a business trip to Sea Bevel last week. Carl Gaddy is spending his vacation with relatives near Wil mington. Miss Jean Flowers of Raleigh spent a few days this week nere with friends. L. C. Davis, Jr., who holds a position with the Navy Depart ment at the University of Mary land was the guests of his parents, last week. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Pearce, Jr., and son of Greenville were the week end guests of Mrs. R. C. Pearce and family. Wiley Wall of Charlotte spent Jhe week end with his parents. Mrs. Leland Boswell and chil dren of Kenly spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Batten. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Humbert and son of Columbia, Pa., Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hatcher and baby of Oxford, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Woodard of Prmceton, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Wall and family of near Kenly, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Ellis and family of Clarkton visit ed their narenls, Mr. and Mrs. Ner Hatcher during the week. Mr. and Mrs. Rudglph Langston of Chapel Hill visited relatives here last week. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Pittman at tended the Young-Holland wedd ing in Raleigh Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Spears and daughter, Barbara of Cherry Point were guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Ay cock during the week end. Pvt. Ray Creech of Fort Bragg, visited his mother during the week end. Earl Fitzgerald and family and Aaron Fitzgerald of Kinston spent Sunday with their mother. Miss Claudia La Vergne of Washington, D. C.. spent the week end with Mrs. L. C. Davis and family. Making Right Decisions R-. S. Dearstyne, head of ths Poultry Department at State Col lege, says North Carolina poultry men could save thousands of dol lars each year if they would do a careful and consistent job of cull ing their laying flocks. Alcohol is a quicker pain-killerl than even morphine, research in dicates. Dulwich College, near London I was founded by Edward AlleynJ an actor, in 1619. BRICK HOUSE PLAN NO. 406—Designed by John Floy Wicker, Architect, Greensboro. N. C*. This is ^ one of 37 homes designed by leadiTSg Carolina Architects and featured in “Carolina Homes,” a plan book published by Brick & Tile Service, Inc., Greensboro, N. C. ...*y.XL FOUNDATION PLAN FIRST FLOOR PLAN Homecoming Scheduled for Local Church TO COLLEGE Students who havg gone to Col lege from here are Misses Mary Weilons to Hardbargers Business College in Raleigh. Frances Jean Davis, Gay Bat ten and Dorothy Fitzgerald to E. C. T. C. Greenville. Others will be leaving for various Colleges m a few days. BRICK HOUSE PLAN ) No. 406 Let’s Talk it over WOULD YOU be able to replace your home if fire ruined it? Have you really enough Eire Insurance to cover its present value, as well as all the contents? If you have any doubts ask our advice , . . there’s no charge or lobligation what ever. J. C. Avery SELMA, N. C. By REV. JESSE C. TAYLOR ] On Sunday, September 18, a grand homecoming celebratio i will take pla-'e at St. John A. M. E. Church m Selma. Fes iv.tie- wiU begin at 11 a. m. with a mes sage by the pastor. Rev. Jesse C, Taylor on the subject, “Having Gdd in fhe Home.” An all day program has been planned, invi tations have been sent ta the Mayor and other distinguish cele braties ot thp town of Selma. The public is cordially invited to share with us the joys of horn coming. Dinners will be served on the grounds. All things will be provided for the comfort and the convenience of our guest. At 3:30 p. m.. .a special program dresses will be heard from the other churches of Selma. Prof. M. L. Wiison, principal of Richard B.! Harrison High School, faculty a id is planned of local and visiing talent. Solo, readings and ad- student body have been invited to participate in the exercises. Eric Coley, Scoutmaster of the Selma colored troop will bring greetings for the Scouts. Amos Cox, former Scout official, now teaching at the local colored high school has also been invited to speak. For a grand time on Sunday, September 18. from 11 a. m. to 9 p. m., join your friends at St. John A.M.E. Church on the cor ner of South Sumner and West Watson streets in Selma. This design answers the de mand for economical yet durable construction in a home. The re sult is a home that will be wel comed in any community. Free use of windows furnishes plenty of light without doing away with the feeling of privacy. The entrance is put on the porch in order to maintain the splen did balance created by the uni que window treatment. This house maintains a touch of older American architecture in its general appearance and room ar rangement, yet does so without sacrifu^g its appearance as a modem house. The living room is located in the front of the house so that its occuoants will not feel isolated from he flow of outside events The bedrooms are located on the side of the house away from the kitchen so that household noises will not be audible in them. For the small family there is am pie room for full and easy living. Smail-Town Editor African Mithodist Must Build New Church Here Btl§ LINE Scliedule Smithfield-Selma Leave Lc3ve Smithf eld Selma 7:00 A.M, 6 :30 A.M. 8:00 AM. 7 :30 A.M. 9:30 A.M. 8 :30 A.M, 11:00 A.M. 10 :00 A.M. 12:30 P.M. 11 :30 AM. 2:00 P.M. 1 :00 P.M. 3:30 PM. 2 :30 P.M. 5:00 P.M. 4 :00 P.M, 5:45 P.M. 5 :30 P.M. 6:30 P.M. 6 :15 P.M. For Charter Trips See EARL RADFORD PHONE 2-W By REV. JESSE C. TAY..OR (Pastor St. John A.M.E,. Chu'ch) Since 1883 the property at the corner of South Sumner and West Watson street has been the home of a loyal band of colored people Here they have leeward B. J. Holloman had heard the same words from the Presid ing Elder, Dr. G. D, Carnes. Rev, William Stokes, a Deacon m the local church immediately stated. For a task like this we are ? "“0 "“rtocys help,- God in spirit and in tfuth year,in a church after year. Among the inhabUants ;r.hts"later^ — — rii„nts later the members present city streets to Selma^ N. C. of Selma are approximately 150 persons who hold membership in this Christian fellowship. At this time, this congregation is faced with the problem of building a new edifice in which to worship. The present structure, in which the congregation wor ships is beyond repairs, at a rea sonable cost. If repaired, no satis faction would result. The time is here when the souls of this people long foj something new. A place they can come to with pride and joy, a place to invite their friends that will not reflect on the good will and dignity of the Christians of the town of Selma. As their fathers and mothers struggled un der hardshins that the present edifice might be erected, so this generation must strive to build a new St. John A. M. E. Church. Visiting the consecrated spot on which a delaoidated' old structure stands, the Bishop of the District gave the pasor this advice. Look ing up at the old structure and shaking his head. Bishop L. H. Hemingway commented: “It’s too far gone to save. The only thing left to do is tear it down and start from the ground up.” Just a few months ago' the pastor. Rev. Jesse C. Taylor and did not cast a descending vote. The pastor and the congregation have not been idle, throughout the year they have been rallying and racing against time. The church membership has grown, all assess ments have been met to the best of a their respective abilities, and a new spirit of fellowship has been born in the hearts'of the en tire membership. If such a fellow ship continues, their hopes will certainly crystalize and a new structure will stand in place of the old.' ALL SERVICES CANCELLED All services, including Sunday School and worship periods are discontinued for the time being at Sanders Chapel Methodist Church on the Brogden Road because of an extensive renovation program now under way. Services //ill be resumed September 18. We Fill Any Doctor’s PRESCRIPTION SELMA DRUG CO. Open At Ni^ht Selma, N. C—Phon^5 By GEORGE PECK In this editorial I would like to pay tribute to the watch-dogs o the nation—the editors of the na tion’s small-town newspapers— those men and women whose journals may be small in size but which bulk large in influence and irestige. . The editor of the big metropo litan daily, sitting in his comfort able swivel chair.behind his ex pensive and expansive mahogany- desk (perhaps walnut), may ima gine that he is a molder of pub lic opinion. Backing him ilp he h's the marvelous facilities of the various Press Services; assis’ins him a staff of highly-paid assist ants, feature writers, foreign and domestic correspondents, photo graphers and reporters. In hi' press room, he has a modern, up- to-tha minute press capable of Printing thousands of copies per hour. His paper goes out onto the be sold by the hundreds of thousands. It is small wonder, then, that he kids himself into belie'Ving that he is one of a small and select group which is directing the thought anf^j is responsible for the subsequent action of the American peop’e. But, he is wrong. The people he reaches through his publication are not the typical Americans — not the backbone of the nation. The real Americans are to be found in the smaller communitie' and in the rural districts of the nation. In the hinterland are to be found the ^ hard-headed, clear thinking citizens, the people who can not be fooled by false doc trines, deluded by quack panaceas, who do not subscribe to some- thing-for-nothing ideologies, and who steadfastly adhere to sound American principles as laid down by the Founding Fathers. It is only occasionally that most of these, people see the metropolitan newspapers. Thev rely almost entirely for their news and editorial comment upon the local paper which serves their particular community.. The editors of the small-town newspaper, therefore, have a ren dezvous with destiny—to them has By DR. NORMAN V. PEALE Author of “A Guide to Cdnfident Living” There is a great text in the 73rd Psalm. Everybody should commit this text to memory and write it on his brain and in his heart. “Thou shalt guide me by Thy counsel.” And it goes on to say, “And afterward receive me to Glory.” It has been said that history turns on small hinges. That which at first blush seems to be a min or event, is later seen to be a major turning point. For example, during the days leading up to the Civil War the student of con temporary history might have re garded the greatest events as the speeches of Calhoun or Webster, or the decisions handed down by the Supreme Court on the slavery question, or the great speeches of Wendell Philips and Henry Ward Beecher Undoubtedly they were impor tant but a long time before these took place something happened in a humble cabin an a rude wilder ness one night. The following day at the Log Store somebody raised the question, “Anything happen around here lately,?” “Nope,” was the reply, “No thing ever happens around here. A baby was born last night up at Tom Lincoln’s cabin, but that’s no exciting happening.” It was not marked, it was not noted, but the great decision had been made. The turn had been taken, the little hinge had creak ed, and the destiny of sixty years later had been sealed. In a much lesser way the same truth ap plies to human life. A decision we have to make today, may in retro spect, be seen to be one of the major decisions of our lives. You receive a letter, you compose an answer. You are called on the | telephone, and you give your de cision. A telegram comes, you dis patch one in return, and on that may rest your future. It is strange about these small decisions. They are never to be minimized and that is why it is so desperately important for a person to have a spiritual point of view toward life. It is so easy to make mis takes and to get off on the wrong foot. By way of illustration, a young man t®ld me that on one occasion he was asked to go to Chicago to consider two positions that had been offered to him. He did not know which one of these posi tions he would take. He had nev er been to Chicago, so he went to both the Pennsylvania and the Grand Central Stations in New/ York City, obtained time tables and read them to determine which would be the most interest'ng route to Chicago. Both railroads made the trip in relatively the same length of time and charged the same fare. He finally decided on one of these railroads. Which one it was does not matter. On his trip he went into the diner and there was a choice of several empty seats. He selected one opposite a man and they got to talking. They be came acquainted and before they got to Chicago the older man had become much interested and told the younger man “to go slow” on either of those offers in Chicago To shorten the story, his life’s career was determined by his choice of railroad, his choice of dinner companion and his meeting SLASH FUEL COSTS H 2i% with the new iMiERM SHERATON Fuel Oil Heater - witK POWER-AIR Pi: Now you eon hove the beauty of fine traditional furniture in an upright heater. Fluted col umns . . . recessed panels . . . lustrous wood-grain effect, ma hogany finish. You’re never seen anything like this new Duo-Therm! Yet for all its graceful beauty and dis tinction—its working heart is •11 Duo-Therm. That means— I. Up to 25% savings on oH with Power-Air! By actual tests in a cold northern cli mate Duo-Therm’s exclusive Power-Air Blower saves as much as one gallon of oil in every 4 . . . keeps the heat moving house. throughout your 2. More heat from every drop of oil. 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With Quality CIIANING serving sound government, en couraging industry, saving free enterprise and maintain the Re public. It is a tough assignment for anv grouo of men and women, but praises be, they are measming up to it. It is my privilege and plea sure each week to look over the editorial pages of many hundreds of these local weeklies. Wheneve'/ a serious doubt flashes through my mind as to where this nation is heading, it is quickly dispelled when T realize that the twelve thousand editors of our small town newspaper are on the job, cool, quietly, without fanfare, but consistently fighting for the bet ferment of their communities and for the welfare of the nation as a whole. The editor of the newspaper in which you are reading this article doesn’t sit in a handsome swive’ chair before an elegant desk (if he does, please don’t begrudge ■ it to him.) He doesn’t have 'a corp of expensive assistants, but in .spite of these lacks, he does give you a newspaper replete with the friendly news of your community" and abounding with wisdom and good, old-fashioned horse-sense on his editorial page. My hat, even as yours should be, is doffed to him. Why not drop in on him seme day soon and express your gra titude for the service he is render- CLEANED AND PRESSED FOR NEW BEAUTY EXTRA WEAR You 11 save buying- many new items for school wear by ary cleaning old wearables to new freshness. Johnson’s dry cleaning methods add new sparkle . and beauty to worn garments. Johnson’s Laundry & Dry Cleaners ing? A pat on the back never has fallen the Herculean task of pre-hurt anyone; editors especially. Phone 267 i — Smithfield, N. C.
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