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☆ THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY NEWS — Established 1926
Volume LXXIV. No.
Rich Square and Jackson, N. C., Thursday, May 13,
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Jaycees Install Officers And
Celebrate Annual Ladies Night
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RICH SQUARE — Northamp
ton County’s only chapter of Jay
cees held its eighth annual La
dies Night and installation of of
ficers at a dinner meeting in the
Community Building here Tues
day night.
John L. Kennedy of Fayette
ville, past president of the North
Carolina Jaycees, was the guest
speaker. Kennedy, a man who has
served his local Jaycees in ev
ery capacity, and active on the
state and national levels, gave
an inspiring and challenging ad
dress to the local group and
their visitors.
Kennedy said, “Honesty, integ
rity, devotion and hard work are
characteristics of the man who is
inspired and who wants to become
involved. Service to humanity
is the greatest service of all.”
He challenged the incoming of
ficers and other members to
“become involved and to pledge
anew tomakeRichSquareabetter
town in which to live, better than
it has ever been,” ,
He pointed out that the officers
to be installed were men who
wanted to become involved and
urged the members to work with
them and back them up in every
undertaking.
Elwood Mixon, past regional
director of Northeastern Region
of Jaycees, installed the new
officers and said, “Success of the
club was dependent upon the of
ficers.” He challenged the men,
as they were taking the oath of
office, to carry out their duties
with dedication “according to the
philosophy and beliefs of the or
ganization.”
The new officers are: Lonnie
Skinner, president; Joe Flythe,
first vice president; Buck Fu-
trell, second vice president;
Howard Norville, secretary; J.
M. Chappell, treasurer. Board
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of directors members are Bill
Cooke, chairman; Lonnie Best,
Billy Ivey, Graham Dempsey
and Pete Clark,
Outgoing officers are: Bill
Cooke, president; Raeford Fu-
trell, first vice president; Joe
Harrington, second vice presi
dent; Clayton Autrey, secretary
and Graham Dempsey, treasurer,
Mixon presented Joe Harring
ton with an Exhausted Rooster
Pin as he is an aged-out mem
ber. The club expressed its re
gret in losing Harrington for he
had been a valuable member.
. Pete Clark, master of cere
monies for the evening, introduc
ed the visiting dignitaries among
whom were Mayor and Mrs.
Charles Myers.
Myers, speaking briefly, said,
“I am in love with Rich Square
and have always been. I want to
pledge my support to this group
and I, together with the town
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commissioners, will do what I
can as we live in this town and
work in this town together.”
Attending the celebration were
Mr. and Mrs, Joe Harrington,
Mr, and Mrs. Lonnie Skinner,
Mr, and Mrs, Billy Ivey, Mr, and
Mrs. Carlson Elliott, Clayton
Autrey, Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie
Best, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Clark,
Mr. and Mrs. Graham Dempsey,
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Leggett,
Mr. and Mrs. Raeford Futrell,
Mr. and Mrs, J. M. Chappell,
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cooke, Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Flythe, Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Norville; and other
•guests, Mr. and Mrs. John L,
Kennedy of Fayetteville, Mr. and
Mrs, Elwood Mixon of Rocky
Mount, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.
Myers
NCHS Glee Club
Concert, May 20
CONWAY - The NCHS Glee
Club will present its spring
concert on Thursday, May 20,
at 8:00 p.m. in the school
cafeteria.
The program will consist of
religious and secular music.
The Glee Club is under the
direction of Mrs. J. A. Horne.
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SENIOR CITIZENS—By presidential proclamation May is Senior
Citizens Month, and the United States is pausing to honor our
senior citizens who have reached the age of 65. Of the more than
18 million men and women in the country today who are 65 years
or older, more than 385,000 of them live in North Carolina, and of
that number approximately 2,135 of them live in Northampton
County. Governor Dan Moore set aside the week of May 2-8 for
honoring the Senior Citizens of North Carolina. A special program
was held at Pine Forest Rest Home in Potecasi for a group who
make their home there. Above are some of th«^ men and women
who live there. Thy are: sitting from left to right, Miss Mamie
Rose of George; Mrs. Maude Wynn Copson, Murfreesboro; Miss
Florrie Ferguson, Como; Mrs. Gulia Winslow, Rich Square; Mark
Outland, Rich Square; Mrs. Maudie J. Long, Severn; Miss Mary
Johnson, Pendleton. Standing, from left to right, are: Walter
Fergerson, Murfreesboro; Miss Ethel Basnight, Ahoskie; Mrs.
Fannie Forbes, Murfreesboro, and Mrs. Mary Newsome, Au-
lander.
NCHS To Have Open House 57 Percent Increase
And Field Night Saturday SfilfiCtGd
Grossed
CONWAY — Track and Field President James Everett Brown,
Night and Open House is planned “by error it was announced earl-
for Saturday night, April 15, at ier to conflict with another func-
: Northampton County HighSchool, tion at the high school.”
sponsored by the Boosters Club. A barbecue supper will be
“Please note the correction in served by the Boosters Club be-
the date,” says Booster Club ginning at 5:30 p.m. and contin
uing until 7:30 p.m. Hot dogs and
Service Businesses
$867,000 In County
Boosters Set
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NEW OFFICERS, NEW CHALLENGE — Cele
brating the annual ladies night and installation
of officers. Rich Square Jaycees, the only or
ganization of its kind in Northampton County,
met at the community buOding for a dinner
meeting and the above officers were given a
new challenge by Elwood Mixon, past regional
director of the northeastern region of Jaycees,
of Rocky Mount, and installed. They are: (front
row, 1 to r) Bill Cooke, chairman, board of di
rectors: Pete Clark, director; Lonnie Skinner,
president; Graham Dempsey, director; Lonnie
Best, Jr., director; back row (1 to r) Howard
Norville, secretary; Billy Ivey, director; Joe
Flythe, first vice president; J. M. Chappell,
treasurer.
Two People Killed^ 5 Hurt
In Two Single Car Accidents
drinks will also be on sale.
Weather permitting, supper
will be served down near the
‘.."dCk‘ field. Othetwije, i- :. Ui be
ready for everyone In the school
cafeteria.
An Intramural track meet will
A _„*l IC pit NCHS tracksters against each
other, and entrants from the sev-
enth and eighth grades from the
CONWAY _ Boosters Club will elementary schools have been
have a business meeting at the invited to participate. Demon-
Northampton County High School strations of track techniques will
gymnasium at 4:45 p.m. Satur- also be given,
day, April 15, for the purpose of The track events will begin
electing a new board of directors under the lights at 7:00 p.m.
for the 1965-66 school year. At “Open House” will be held
a later meeting the directors will throughout the the school build-
have an election of officers. ing from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m..
Coaches of each of the sports where visitors will be met by
at NCHS will be called on to give teachers and pupils. Interested
prospects for next year’s ath- patrons are invited to visit all
letic events. areas of the building.
Come and support the Boosters Students, parents andinterest-
Club and hear what our coaches ed friends are invited to attend,
have to say about the teams of
next year, invites President J. E.
Brown. i
The meeting will be adjourned
so that members can participate ^
in the barbecue supper and Field
Night at NCHS.
JACKSON-Northampton Coun- proprietors) and hadapayroUfor Bureau of Census of the United
ty was richer by $867,000inl963 the year of $141,000, States Department ofCommerce.
through the county’s 81 selected ^he Bureau of the Census re-
service establishments, accord- port on selected services in
ing to an electronic computer re- North Carolina for the 1963 Cea-
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of ^he United SJates Department these data are taken, may be
purchased from the Superintend
ent of Documents, Washington,
D. C,, and at U.S. Department of JACKSON — Charlie Thomas
Commerce field offices for forty-
five cents.
The 57 per cent Increase gain
ed over the past seven years rep
resents more than half of the
gross receipts in selected serv
ice businesses during 1963. This
gain has added substantially to
the economic level of Northamp
ton County.
With the positive approach
apparent in the county toward
development and the great poten
tial within Its boundaries, the
next seven years will mean an
even greater gain in this field for
the area. The citizens of the
county can watch with interest
the next report coming from the
of Commerce. The last previous
census of business covered op
erations during 1958.
Northampton’s gross receipts
was a part of the $597,700,000
received from 23,677 such es
tablishments in the state of North
Carolina. It represents a 57 per
cent increase over the last census
of business.
Weather Wuz
Let’s Bake A Sunshine Cake
The service trades in the cen
sus of business included those
providing personal services to
individuals, miscellaneous busi
ness services, auto repair and
other auto services, and other re
pair services. Also included were
motion picture production and
distribution businesses, motion
picture theaters, other amuse
ment and recreation services,
and hotels and motels.
The selected service trade eS'
tablishments in the county em^
ployed 83 persons (exclusive of
GARYSBURG - Two persons
were killed In a single car wreck
and five persons were hospital
ized from another one-car acci
dent that occurred in the county
during the past week.
The two fatalities brought the
county’s total for the year to
seven.
The single car wreck occurred
on Interstate 95 early Sunday
morning. The victims, both from
Baltimore, Md., were Mrs. Flor
ence Britt, about 42, who died
at the scene of the accident, and
Lemuel Britt, 45, who died in
Greensville County Hospital in
Emporia, Va., a few hours after
the accident.
According to State Highway
Patrolman Raymond Worley, who
investigated the wreck, Mrs.
Britt’s husband, Hoyt Britt, 45,
was allegedly driving the car at
Bloodmobile
Visit, May 17
CONWAY — Northampton will
have ItslastBloodmobilevisitfor
the current year in Conway Mon
day, May 17, to be held in the
Conway School gymnasium from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Northampton’s blood program
is set up on the basis of the de
mand for blood by its residents,
and the current year has had five
visits scheduled. The basicquota
was for 100 pints per visit. How
ever, on several of these draw
ings the quota was not met and
the county is behind more than
200 pints.
The county needs the 200 plus
pints to avoid being placed on
a credit system basis.
The credit system allows
only the donor or members of his
family, and rejected callers to
be given blood through the Tide
water Bloodmobile in the case
of need.
The urgency of the comingvis-
it is great. Northampton needs
every donor possible to call at the
drawing in Conway Monday. Reg
ulations for a persongivingblood
requires 60 days between each
donation, and not more than five
donations per year.
Every person who qualifies un
der the given regulations, is urg
ed to come and support the blood
program for the county.
The Conway Fire Department
is sponsoring the visit. Joe Frank
Draper is fire chief. For further
information about the visit, con
tact him.
the time of the accident. Britt
was driving a 1963 Chevorlet
south on the Interstate and al
legedly ran off the roadway on
the right side, crossed the south
bound lane, turned over several
times and came to a stop on the
median strip near the northbound
lane of traffic.
Both Britt and Mrs. Retha
Britt, passenger in the car and
wife of Lemuel Britt, were ad
mitted to Greensville County
Hospital where they were re
ported In fair condition.
All of the occupants, except
Lemuel Britt, were thrown from
the vehicle according to Worley,
who said the vehicle was ap
parently traveling at a high rate
of speed when the car left the
road.
Monday’s one-car accident oc
curred near Jackson and sent five
Negroes, including a two-year-
old child, to Roanoke Rapids
Hospital.
The five injured were riding
in a 1961 Ford, which failed to
negotiate a curve near Boone’s
Mill Pond and went off the right
side down an embankment and hit
a tree.
The injured were two-year-old
Emma Jean Askew, Bonnie Dra
per Barnes, 33; Emma Draper
Askew, 18; Penny Ann Barnes,
10; and Penny Lassiter Draper,
57. All are residents of Star
Route, Jackson.
State Trooper Bob W. Corey,
who investigated the accident,
said the accident occurred at 8:45
See ACCIDENT, Page 7
Three County
From Wilson
Boys To
Technical
Graduate
Institute
tute from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
The public is invited to inspect
the new instructional aids and
machinery used to teach the
hool’s various technologies,
WILSON - Three Northampton son of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Which-
County boys will be among 49 ard of Rich Square, also in trans
students who will be graduated portation and maintenance tech-
from Wilson County Technical nology.
Institute during commencement The Honorable Robert W. Scott,
exercises at 7;30 p.m., May 23, Lieutenant Governor, State of the new technical library, con-
at Fleming Memorial Stadium. North Carolina will be the speak- taining 5,000 volumes and the
They are Ronnie Francis, son er. Learning Laboratory for students
of Mr. and Mrs. George Francis At commencement, Mrs. Ruth and adults.
Ward, president of the Wilson Baccalaureate exercises will
Pilot Club, will present the Pilot be held at First Presbyterian
Club award to the outstanding Church at 11 a.m. The Rev.
:: ABC Petition
Is Held For
More Names
JACKSON - In a note to J.
Guy Revelle, chairman of the
Northampton County Board of
Commissioners. B. R. Burgwyn,
self-styled ABC petitioner, said
that since the board has been un
willing to request by letter a ref
erendum on beer and wine sales
until an ABC petition had been
presented and request made for
referendum, it has been decided
to hold up the Citizens Commit
tee petition.
of Conway, graduating in elec
tronics technology; Joseph Bar
rett, son of Mrs. Elizabeth Bar-
Davis T rial
Set, May 19
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JACKSON - Charlie Tho!
Davis of Conway will appear in
Recorder’s Court May 19 for trial
on charges of possession of tax-
paid liquor for the purpose of
sale and for the selling of tax-
paid liquor.
The case was continued from
March 24 to April 28, and again
to May 19 on motion for a trial
by jury.
Jurors drawn for the trial are;
GASTON - Robert G. Baird,
E. B. Burnett, W. W. Grant.
KIRBY - Garland Barnes, G.
E. Woodard, Adlla Tyman Par
ker, and William R. Joyner.
SEABOARD — S. T. Massey.
ROANOKE - Garland G. Brld-
gers, R. A. Chappell.
RICH SQUARE - W. R. Love-
grove.
WICCACANEE - M. T. Rev
elle, Thomas Lee Davis, 0. C.
Joyner, Albert G. Davis, Wil
liam Earl Hasty.
JACKSON - Otis Allen, Wil
liam H. Cox.
Pony Races
Sunday At
Saddle Club
CONWAY - Vlrginla-Carollna
Trotting Pony Association will
have pony races Sunday, May 16,
at the Northampton Saddle Club,
beginning at 2:00 p.m. with total
On Tuesday, Burgwyn stated in prize money $525.
rett ofConway, finishingintrans- senior.
portation and maintenance tech
nology; and Garland Whichard,
Lawrence W. Avent is host pas-
Activities prior to graduation tor, will deliver the Baccalau-
include open house at the Insti- gee GRADUATES. Page 7
RONNIE FRANCIS
JOSEPH BARRETT
GARLAND WHICHARD
his letter to Revelle they had
“decided not to present the peti
tion at this time for an ABC ref
erendum but to continue to solicit
additional signatures for the pe
tition and obtain such and when
this has been accomplished, pre
sent the petition to proper au
thorities with a request for a ref
erendum on establishing ABC
.stores and legal sale of beer and
v;lne.”
Burgwyn suggested to Revelle
that the board make provision in
the budget to defray the cost of
the proposed referendum, and
added “It will be had.”
The present action of the Cit
izens Committee was taken also
because Rep. J. Raynor Woodard
had not confirmed in writing his
position on the requested en
abling act for vote on one ballot
made by the board as he had stated
he would to Burgwyn by telephone
last week.
Burgwyn told “Your Home
Newspaper” Wednesday night,
that “the people are ready to
vote and more are signing peti
tions and asking for copies for
circulation.”
Northampton Saddle Club, a
member of the association, is lo
cated between Conway and Jack-
son on highway 258.
There will be seven races and
a children’s race. The ponies
times will run from 2:20 to 1:32
for a half-mile.
Ponies will be brought from
eastern North Carolina and Vir
ginia. From Virginia, Chesa
peake, Petersburg, lyor, Capron
and Waverly will be represented.
Entries from the countywillbe
John Pope of Jackson, driving
Silver Queen; W. M. Flythe,
Conway, driving Red Ranger;
Kelly Davis, Conway, driving
Silver King; Dallas Edwards,
Seaboard, driving Smokey; W. N.
Taylor, Jr., Seaboard, driving
Coconut; Quinton Jenkins, Con
way, driving Master Star.
The only lady driver will be
Miss Christie Deloatch from
Conway.
The next pony race for the
Vlrginla-Carollna Trotting Pony
Association will be held In Gates-
ville May 30.
Refreshments will be avail
able at all races.
County-'
Bloodmobile Visit—Conway—Monday