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Zl i:::c!ils - Tvo Sections 12 Pages t This Week aw ' 1 I '"f ' t t j' t M -to 1 II 1 " Tt ... j VOL.20 ; Duplin High School Selling Marijuana; Parents Take ilotice By J.R. GRADY V - - Some newspaper reporters would .classify this ; .as a screaming deadline story, but to me it is much . too serious to sensationalize; In fact. I wish we ucould just overlook it from a publicity standpoint and forget it hapened. But when the moral phar- acter of our youth is beginning to be tainted with corruption and vice it is time fof everyone? ia Duplin, regardless of race, color or'-creed,',1x) sit up - and take notice. When the vile face of vice andlm-, moral corruption, smeared with the taint of filthy i money, begins to take held of one of our youths it , ' is time for Duplin parents '.'beTtaldnginven ' tory. Wordsworth aid "the child is father of the -. man'f V i . and 1 could wish my day3 to be bound eacn to eacn in natural - , ' man is first a child and maybe as manhood takes , its form.' and moves aloiig the man begins to Wish " that he had beeri pious from the begiruiing! It's . never too lat lor 'correction,? it is said, 'but ;pre i .vention triainiiig is much better. ; . ' Reports came from the B. F. Grady school that '' one of ts seniors, vDulan Powell, age 20, last week was arrested by Federal 'pf f ifiers at -the school and : carried away to a jail in Fayetteville "where, his r father,, Walter Powell, later went and bonded him out. The boy was caught red handed. ' The of i ficers quoted a telephone conversation and pro . duced his own letter, in his handwriting involv ing liim in selling onarijuana, one of man's werst -dopes or drugs. It is charged that Powell was re- j reiving the dope cigarettes 'through a; young Dai! I boy, son, Earl Dail tjf Mt. Olive, who Is" In school at ' ' "E." M. I. It i$ further reported that .Diil. was re- 1 ceiving the i cigarettes' from a cousin JimiParker, of Jiear JMt Olive, a graduate of B; F. G.-ady and now stationed in the Navy in Oklahoma. -! he story . ,oes that Parker -was securing me stuftlrom Mex ico. It is said he 'would secur the weed, send it ' to "Dial imif Kail wbuldopac1' PcelL Poll, wouId: then secure ther ported that he never sold them in students at B.J F. Grady; He contended he "did not iuse jthem, r 'however reports say his parents said something ' ' About the boy has -not been exactly normal, lately. -It is reported that in connection 'with the ar- ' jests the story was told "f a sex ring operating among young teen-agers in three white schools. . Some brought out that tiiis was not happening in Duplin County. Unconfirmed reports say the mar ijauna was being sold in other Duplin communi ties. ..; , - : , v . .These reports are not yet all verified nor will lhey.be probably- until , the boys are hailed into court and tried. But the mere fact that there are -reports bl this . nature is sufficient . warning to charge every: parent px this county into some im mediate action. We believe in giving young folks " reasonable freedom of . activity but too. much free--dom always leads to some kind of trouble and ev . entually may lead to' severe incidents such as - , these. Superintendent 0..-P-. Johnson, sensing the ' threat to the youths of this county, called, togeth er all the principals; many teachers and represen tative: parents- from every school district in the "county here Wednesday and told them of. the in- ; . cidenf. The group discussed the whole matter ' vi j opemy ana seemea to realize the danger thar is facing Duplin county. ( One parent stated that : she had heard reports that marijuana was being " flagrantly sold on the boardwalks of a certain pop ular beach resort not so far from Dupliiu ; V Folks What we have just learned may be a small part of what is going on. Parents should not blame -' the youth, the age or ' the wars for our children falling prey to such corruption. The true"respon- ibility lies with the parents in the home. - ; I i The schools cannot rear Jhe child, nor can the church pour religious teaching down their throats, If the child does not get the proper home training: ' If the community atmosphere is not wholesome; if the child is not taught true life values in contrast to . pleasures then what can be expected of the child? ' ; ' When young teen-agers find time' On their hands on I "week-ends, during the summer, and ho directional : leading, what may b expected of them? The child J has an active body- and f brain; " We wouldn't stand by and "see a child jump over a precipice , and I mean 18, or 20 year old child as well as a 10 " or 12 year old one-f-but we might, or are standing by, watching them- throw their life,; their future, their very souls, over a precipice much more dan- ' cerous than a 100 foot cliff. ! Li : :'' ? -' - We parents of teen-agers today are not too far 'jj '". semoved from that age and maybe life hasn't slow '. I "d ta.?wn..'et!?v',i to fcke .-the necessary timej: ttrith fiiir r.!' " ' l if tint. thr "nur V T Iripn: Tnore " v tHan'cs tr ' - t? 1 " be 1 ii t!: 1 2 : "r.s cf tl.- faC.srs will :td vpea t!:a ci:i:.:trx. Hsm- ::cr the old : "lr?3i vp a c! ;1 '1 ii th3 v:zy he shbud U ill! ' . rr i . Lcm. Let a care Section 1 SkhrA Arrested piety meanmg tnat the cigarettes and carry them r f rr the dr.r- wiet are KENANSVILLE, NOSTil CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1953 District 11, Class A Basket Ball Tourney Is On District 11, Class A. Basket Ball Tournament opened in Kenan Auditorium- here Wednesday ' evening when Snow Hill, Newport, Acme Delco, Walstonburg, Jones Central, Beaulavilie, Beaufart and Chadbum began the play oft contests. On opening night Newport dropped Snow Hill 65 to 40 and Walston burg topped Acme-Delco 98 to 39. Thursday night saw Jones Central pitted against Beulaville for the second time; in less than a week and Beaufort against Chadborn. Winners in this group play winners in the Wednesday night plays here on Friday night and the finals to be played Saturday night Jones Central )r Takes Sect. 11 Disti 11 Tourney Jone Central high school of Trenton ' took the final game cf Section 11, District 11, basket ball tottmameat here last Saturday night in Kenan Memorial Audi torium when theydefeated Beula ville 43 to 42. Ray Taylor fired the! winning sgoal : tor ' Jones Central with 7 seconds to go. For the win ners B. Sasser was high scorer with 14 points and D. Brown second with 11. Defense leaders were A Mal lard and A. Taylor with six points each. For Beulaville L. Dobson was high with 14 points. Defense lead ers were D. Simpson with 8 points nd R. McDoweU with 7. -- The tournament opened Feb. 25th with BeulavUle defeating Camp Le" Jeune 75 ta 66 and Jones Central taking Rose Hill-Magnolia 68 to 34. On tha 36th Wallace defeated Calypson 62 to M and ' Riehlands dropped Kenantville 54 to 40. Feb. 27th the tourney ' went into the Mini-finals with Jones ' Central stopping Wallace 49 to 39 and Ben-' la Villa 40 to 89. . Attendance was- reported vi good throughout the tournament JT3 . lames At a 'recent meetta of the men t the cnareav Wilmington Pres bytery in Wllmliigton, Dallas Her ring of Bote Hill was elected presl dent .succeeding L, B. Huie ol War. saw. J. A. Scott of Wilmington was elected . viee-president and Hugh Johnson of Rose Hill Sec retary-treasurer. L. C Kerr, Jr., of Clinton -was named chairman of the Warsaw Clinton division. Charlie Grady In Critical Condition ' Charlie Grady of the Wesley, neighborhood is in a Kisnton hos pital with little hope held tor his recovery, according to late reports here. Charlie was seriously injur ed in a wreck last Saturday night about 3 miles north of Kenansvllle when his car went out of control on a dirt road and turned oven Char lie was thrown from the car and lay oesiua we rutiu ekjuhs .uuis uuw before he was discovered. He was riding alone. Reports say two ver terbrae in his back were crushed and several ribs pulled loose. i Millie Burch Wins 2nd Place Miss Millie Burch, Kenansvllle high school Junior, won second place Tuesday night in the dist rict elimination contest at Eliza- hethtown. ' The annual contest Is sponsored by the American Legion. Miss Burch was winner or district 0, including ttatUm 'end Pender counties. She was defeated by a one point margin, It was reported at Elizabeth town by Miss Trances Beman from Laurinburg. The con test at Elizabeth town involved dis tricts 7. 9, 10 It U and 13. Schools represented there were Kenans vllle, Jacksonville, WhitevilUe, Laurinburg and Aberdeen. The winner will go on to com pete in the state-wide contest, eevLaur WC; - j--44 . Church I lose Hill Men God. Helps . H Who Help t r By Rev. h. a PRATER God hems-' .',;.'.'-" . ."God helps them who help eth ers." This challenging truth comes to as with a new power of mean ing as we "Answer the Call" ef tie American Pe4 Cross for 11 Cod can help those people whe help e uerj, it fa dlMeaH for V to do t -e maximum good for euiiiis. ..Hi Red Cross em lis en as to "C.ve". JM tLls cs"! st"" s t r y r t sori ice. k - Ii 1 ; r t f lis are t v it DUPLIN 4-H JUDGING CONTEST ' Pictured above are the Duplin. County 4-H club 'members who! competed in the Southeastern Jun ior Dairy Cattle show in Wilming-. ton last faU. .Left to right Terry Cording, Wallace; prize-grand ch ampion in showmanship and blue ribbon; Remus Creel, B. F. Grady prize- blue ribbon; Stanley Har- TerryCirding" of Wallace "was winner, of the grand championship in showmanship for the third str aight ear ;ai the Jual6r Dairy Duplin Counjy Board William K Craft of Kennansville Attorney, has been named Special Delinquent Tax Attorney for Dup lin County. G. E. Alphin, Jr, Dup lin County Tax Collector, announ ced that Mr. Craft was employed to start legal proceedings against all delinquent taxpapers. Alphin says, 'Tor several years there has been-1' a tendency on the part of some taxpayers who list only per sonal property to disregard all tax notices. The Tax Office has Y.ten giving th m ample warning of he Sheriff's Cars and Police Chiefs To Be Equipped With Two-Vay Sheriff Ralph Miller's car and cars of two deputies with-two-way radio communication. The base commun ication center will be : located in the Jail here. It is reported that BttvAfal mm rhlpffi in the coun ty will have their cars equipped with similar -type radis so they will be in constant touch with the sher Psychological School Kenansville School has another first. -On March 11th, and . 12th, psychologist, ' Miss Marion Stan- land, from the State Department of Public Welfare will be in the school for a Psychology School Clinic. This is another service of fered by the Duplin Canty De partment of Public welfare. It purpose is to help pupil parents, and teachersjn their understanding feach-others 'problenw.. Only theree pupils. can be seen at one clinic and lucky are those chosen. wtfw Muf4uuvi . wcjpccra . to see sacrifice for people whom we may sever see and know. So often,' we will give freely It we can see wfcre r r'JTt is going. I ear serv ee I rv, S the Red Cro- we can see e our g" t is go g. . a f -n see f tov d and one ! ' s r' 1 li ta spirit of s j-.t i-.e a.. i uierr.y tt Clurs ' ifiewed en tie battlefictt 1 r t s ted Cross Is a nlv 1 e;re , I o of .that minllry wi..ia relL Bose- Hill, prize- red ribbon; and Bill .Quinn, Kenansvllle, prize- red twbon.,, ,;-Tbis show will be held again thiAell. Any Junior who is inter ested In-showing a dairy animal in this .show, sheuld contact your Co unty. Agricultural Agent Cattle Show In Wilmington, his past fall. Terry is shown with his purebread Jersey calf which won a blue ribbon in' the competition. Commissioners action that must "be taken, if their taxes a:e not paid. - "Levying on personal ptjperty and tirt isheeing rents and calai lei are xptnslve to th: Coun'y well as to the delinqmit t:-x- payn, and have been aviiVi as much as possible, bat the time has coma when it seems to be a.o"ut ely necessary in order to keep the delinquent taxpayer from being a burden on those who haje paid their taxes. . Radio iffs office here. The local station will be tuned with, the highway patrel . station in Elizabeth town which will, give a connection with all fitate patrol cars. A remote con- trot unit will be installed in the sheriffs office in the court house also. The , equipment will cost the county about $85,00 It is reported. Clinic to Be Held the' three lucky children on Thurs. day mornsag Much 12th, and th)r parents ; on the afternoon of the same-asy.';:'; Ceba o The Public Welfare Department of Dublin as been instrumental in having clinics in its office from time to time and bow has a wait ing list which It is hope dean be cleared witnin tne next six montns. ;A school clinio is new to Dup lin county but not in many of the other counties to the extent that it is continued from year to year and In more than one school. Jeans eommened so highly in the story of the Good Samaritan. People cwhov- belong, to - every ehoTcsi r to ne church at aH have world's largest tnmanK&rUn or ganlia" in. It Is 'r- dnty ie beeente menbera of t" e 1 1 Cress title and every year. It is an boner of the highest' order tiuai b anrs when we' 'Answer The Call" and "Join The Red Cress" during the drive this and next week. iem .. Others. SUBSCRIPTION HATE: i sma County Basket Ball ToiimeyUhder Way Funeral Services Held For The Late H.D Williams Here; By J. R. GRADY Funeral services were held Tues day afternoon at 2:00 o'clock in the local Methodist church for Hampton Durant Williams who died in Rex hospital, Raleigh Sat urday night. Rev. C. D. Barcli't, pastor of Trinity Methodist church, Durham and former superinten dent of the Wilmington dist. had charge, assisted by Rev. T. W. Lee, retired methodistm inister of Dur ham. Active pallbearers were O. P. Johnson, D. S. Williamson, Gilbert Alphin, Ralph Miller, R. V. Wells and L. H. Qulnn, Honary pallbear ers were members .of the Duplin County Bar. Mr, Barclift paid high tribute to Mr. Williams as a man of great ability, simple and humble in life and a lover of his fellov man. Following services in the church the funeral transferred to the family cemetery on his farm in Smith Township where last rites were in charge of St. John's Lodge No. 13, A F. A. M. of which he was a Past Master. Mr. Williams was born on his father's plantation in Smith Town ship, July 23, 1878, the son of the late Durant and Elizabeth Newkirk Williams. He was the last of eleven children. He "received his elemen tary education under the late Clay Stanford in Smith Township, who exerted great influence on Mr. Wil liams. In 1898 he attended Thomp son's School and Business College in Selar City. Following this he entered the University of North Carolina where he studied law and received his license to practice in this state. In 1900 he came to Ken ansvllle and entered law practice where he remained the rest of his life. On June 28th 1001 be married the former Erma I. Williams, daughter of the late. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Williams of Martin Coun ty, -who 'survives him, along with one daughter, Mrs. Erma W. Gto-ver-ot -Durham -andV b adopt! draghter, Mrs. Susie Tit -'CflS. bolt, of Ralehjh. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Williams first lived in the house now occupied by Mrs. William Pickett which at that time belonged to the late Herbert Smith of Smith Township. He and Mr. Smith were close friends and worked together in many business ventures. In 1912 he bought the old Farrior home where he lived until his death. In addition to being a Mason he was a member of Smith Town- WotrfcOn Line In County Work for the extension of tele phone lines into the Rones Chapel community has begun. Acording to E. C. Casey, one of the leaders in trying to get the lines into the community, the tele phone company has started its sur vey for the staking of poles into the Rones Chapel area. At the same time, Casey said that the signed contracts granting the telephone company right of way across his farm had been received here from Dr. L. L. Jones and his associates. Jones had demanded and re- B. F. Grady PTA Meets March 10th The B. F. -Grady P. T. A. Meet ing for March of Dimes has been postponed until Tuesday, March 10 at 7:30 P. M. due to a conflict with The ) County Basket Ball Tourney now vir progess. All in terested persons are urged to at tend as'thls promises to be the best meeting of the year. Mr. Morrison Agricultural Teacher and his group will present a program and wil have some of their shop work on display. Mr. Dallas Herring, chair man of the county board of edu cation will be present and make a talk. Mr. D. B. Teachey, Jr, and and Mrs. Susie Teachey, , Supervi sors in the Duplin School will show film strips made. in Duplin Schools. Come and tee the Kind of work being done in our Agri cultural Department and see and hear what progress is being made in your county school system. Your time will be well spent Negro Farm Bureau MemhersToMeet Here Holiday light , A meeting for Colored farm bur eau members of Duplin County has been 'called for .'Monday night, March 9 at 7:30, at the Colored high school in Kenansville according to the county organization's president, Mr; Leroy Simmons. This meeting has been called to make plans for the state convention at A and T College Greensboro, Friday, March 18. It is honed all Farm - Bureau members will attend. . MM area m f.e ut Buried in Smith's H. D. WILLIAMS ship Methodist Church, the Duplin County and -North Carolina Bar Associations. In 1935 he retired from active practice of law and devoted the remainder of hs years to look ing after his farm in Smith's Mr. Williams lead an active pub lic life. HiS law practice was lucra tive for years. In 1912, when the Dres vm cov t houwy ;as nuut at was count attorney, He represen ted Duplin1 County in the. Sate legislature, in 1905, 1907. and again in 1933. He was actively interested in better roads for Duplin Coun ty and North Carolina in the first quarter of this century and with the lrte Frank Page of Aberdeen, the State's first highway commis sioner and W. A. McGuirt of Wil mington who were his close friends, aided. Jn crystalizing thought and latent, movemenT better rosdi throughout the state" Mr. Williams became alarmed wtoen the move ment began to . take shape and re tired from the program because he feared too much money was going to be spent recklessly, he liked to recall in his later days. One of bis crowning glories, he felt, was mak ing available the site for the Du plin General Hospital for which lie made great sacrifices by selling his home site and expecting to live to Continued on Back Section 1 poivxoH ino ner note for each of the seven poles that are to be placed on his property. His demand, in, con trast with the usual one dollar paid for permission to install such poles, had brought the drive to get tele phone lines into the section to a lag. Telephone officials had left it to the citizens of the community to secure the right of ways, and when Jones, an absentee land, owner, of Portsmouth, Va:, had presented his demands, the (residente held a mass meeting to ' determine what f'"y j 1 1 Rural Telephone Mt. Olive Minister to Preach During Revival Services Hallsville Church i 'The Rev. B., D. "Buddy" Dotson. minister of the Presbyterian church of Mt. Olive, will be the guest speaker at a series of Revival ser vices to be held at the Hallsville Presbyterian church. The services will begin on Monday evening, March 9, and , will be held each Judge Harris To Preside Over Two Weeks Civil Court Beginning Monday . A two week term 'of criminal superior court for the trial of civil cases wHI convene here Monday, March 9th. Judge W. C. Harris of Raleigh is scheduled to be here. Jurors chosen are as follows. . R9ecourtcourtlc ' Week March 9. B. B. Fussell, Jr., Amos Jones, Clinton Campbell, R. S. Basden. Harry M. Teachey, Harvey H. Har per, James O. Carr, J. L. Wallace, Jesse Sullivan, Clyde Stroui, J. W, Evans, Harold Precythe. c4 Ush er. William James Miller. R. O. Quinn, Joel B Whaley, George K. Mozlngo, J. E. Blanchard, D. D. Norris, J. J. Matthews, O'Neal Britt, Johnnie Dixon, Pen' Sutton, C. E. Brewer, Roscoe B. Dail, J. gi0 Negro high school students' of Du plin County are now preparing for the school elimination of th Mar keting' speaking contest The con ests Is sponsored by the North Caro lina Bankers Association. OLast, year in Duplin, the Waccamaw Banks of Kenansville, .Rose Hill and Beula ville sponsored the ' contest in PRICE TEN CENTS , Duplin County's 1953 High School Basket Ball Tournament far boys and girls got under way here Mon day night as near capacity crowds piled into Kenan Memorial Audi torium. The first two rounds of play were held Monday and Tues day nights and play wHl resume next Monday night. On opening night in the boys di vision Chinquapin defeated Faison boy a score of 61 to 51. For the win ners Halso was high scorer with 26 points and defense leaders were Sanderson and R. Cottle. For the losers, Lee scored high with 18 points and Cottle and Hollingsworth were defense leaders. In the second boys game B. F. Grady toppled Calypso by a 52 to 44 score. For Grady, Sutton was high scerer with 19 points and Tyn dall and Wells lead the defense. For Calypso . Harris was high with 23 and G. Sloa nand H. Swinson were defense leaders. -In the girls division on Monday night Kenansville outscored War saw, dropping them 56 to 44. Ttt. Summerlin was high with 29 and J. Teachey was second with 25. F. Brock and L. Parker were defense leaders. For Warsaw, Gore scored high with 25 and Blanchard and Allen lead the defense. The Wallace girls dropped Caly pso in the second game by a 51 to 41 score. Fpr the winners Currie scored high with 25 points and Sheffield and Sykes lead in de fense. For Calypso Grubbs was high with 23 points and J. Roberts and F. Roberts lead in defense. In the Tuesday night boys rounds Kenansville toppled Warsaw 36 to 28 T. Outlaw lead for the winners with 15 points and D. Murphy and J. Alphin lead the defense. For Warsaw F. Carlton was high with 12 points. D. Lanier and T. Rogers lead the defense. Wallace dropped Rose Hill-Magnolia 60 to 58. High scorer for Wal lace was ,Joe Wallace with 24. B. Salmo nand W. Carlton lead the de fense. T. Fussell was high with 19 points for the losers with J. Par- t ker and Lanier leading in defense.' " In the girls .division B. F. Crady drpppePaiaJt. 04 to 43. S. Herring JJ wa high scorer with 32 points' for Gra"ay and L. Smith and J, Miller leaders in defense. For Faison A. Bowden scored 20 points and J. 1 ' Taylor and McCullin lead the de fense. Beulavil'.j droy.ped Chinquip'n in a close one by 2o to 24 scori. For the winners B. Quinn lead with 1) points and K. Boggs and S. Griffin lead in defense. For Chinquapin L. Futrei was high with 12 points and ?. Judge and N. Norris lead the defense. Started action to take. When it was agreed to pay the doctor his price, donations were solicited from the residents of the community to be served. A count last week showed the drive was short of the needed goal, but the Bank of Mount Olive and the Tyn dall Funeral Home chipped in to make up the difference. , A delegation met with Dr. Jones Saturday night and he agreed., to take the contracts with him . to Portsmouth for him and his as sociates to sign. 4 evening. Mr. Dotson is a young man of exceptional ability and appeal, and his mesages will be looked for ward to with a great deal of ex pectancy. The public is cordially invited to attend these services. J. Kennedy, Allen Stroud, T. W. Aycock. J. H. Jones, Steadman Brown. March 16 E. F. Hall Kenneth G. Grady, D. J. Simmons, L. C. Sholar, E. ft. Pope, J. E. Ezzelle, Murphy Simp, son, B. F. Maready, S. H. Quinn, J. E. Bonham, Daniel L. Pate, L. F. Jones, Marion Bradshaw, ' J. H Sheffield, W. L. Floyd. James R. Carr, Gibson James, Jr., Ellis Maready, J. S. Sellars. R. C Gresham, Chauncey Carlton, J. F. Whaley, James Whitfield, L. H. Southerland, Geo. R. Kornegay, . J. H. Wallace, J. T. Knowles, A W. Carter, Homer Winstead, H. C Brogden. which one of the participants Miss -Rebecca Henry won the District event and too k third place in state ' Competition at Greensboro, Four high schools are participa ting fat the enrrent. contest, Kemrn; vflle. Warsaw; Magnolia and Char- : ity. School eliminations rwill ,- be held March 12th, county elimina tion March IS at 1:00 p. m. at Mag nolia and the district elimination March 18 at 1:00 P. M. at Kinston.
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