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FARMVILLE
EVERY DAY!
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Victory Park Takes
Shape As Many New
GI Homes Erected
Housing Development On Pine Street
Is Bee-Hive Of Activity As
Veterans And Wives
Anxious To Move In
Farmville citizens who have mar
veled at the rapid growth of Vietorj
Park, the name designated for the
new veterans' housing development
on Pine street, share the amasement
of Jack the Beanstalk's mother when
she looked out of her window one
morning and saw a huge bean stalk,
reaching all the way to the sky, root
ed on a spot where nothing had been
the night before.
The pre-fabricated homes, four
room units purchased from the
government's- Alexander Park hous
ing development in Portsmouth, Va.,
are being erected faster than one can
fit together the pieces of a jig-saw
puzzle. For instance, last Thursday
at dark, the foundation for John
Turner Walston's home had been
completed but sections Of the home
were strewn all over the lot and not
a single piece of the house had been
put into place. By noon of the fol
lowing day, the house was completely
erected and colored workmen were
carying plumbing fixtures into the
building.
Victory Park is just about the busi
est spot in town. Veterans and their
wives are doing much of the work in
an attempt to speed up the comple
tion. Ingenious schemes for "dolling
up" the homes are planned. J. T. and
Doris Windham are adding a sun
parlor. Chester (Jutland others
are planning additions. Some of the
others will add rf dinette. The fin
ished product will look far different
from the ptereotyped, mass-produc
tion appearance of the units as they
stood in Alexander Park.
There's quite a story behind , the
development. The housing shortage
had produced conditions out of the
ordinary; but the veterans arent
ordinary fellows. They ?ot busy,
formed a corporation and purchased
15 of the houses. Two others joined
in; later, four more placed their ord
ers. The result: Victory Park:
Since most of these veterans are
are now living with their families or
doubled up in cramped quarters with
other families, the new hordes will
not go .far toward easing Farmvilie's
housing shortage but they will take
cart of the crisis as far as the own
ers are concerned.
The veterans have received moral
encouragement and financial assist
ance, where needed, from local: citi
zens who realize that the whole com
munity will benefit in many'ways if
these families have homes of their
own, homes in which they and the
rest of the town could take pride.
These men will be property-owners,
tax-paying citizens with every incen
tive to work for, and build, Partn
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D. A. R.
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A comprehensive outline of Boy
Scout work was given by Scoutmast
er Ed Nash Warren, Joseph D. Joy
Mr, assistant, and the following
Boy Scoots: Robert Pollard, Albert
Cannon, Bob Smith, Roy Moore,
Charlie PKsgeiMd and John Rnsssll
Joyner at the meeting of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution,
The needs and
WiilMrxmp were prseeot
a donation toward
the erection pf a Scout hut, i
they wiafa to have a ]
H to be ?e fu
ca in character
cated service.
Mrs. A. C. Monk, Sr.
the house committee,
of the
me gift of a
by Mrs. P. 1
EBsabeth Davis,
was made by Mrs.
that two pairs
given by
A. ?''?-'?rf
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SPEAKS HERE SUNDAY
MRS. GURNHYp. HOOD
Who will speak on "Stewardship'
Sunday morning at the Ffcrmville
Methodist church.
Mrs. Gurney Hood
Speaks Here Sunday
Outstanding Methodist Worker Will
Make Talk At Regular 11
O'clock Sorrice
Mrs. Gurney P. Hood of Raleigh,
an outstanding leader in home mis
sion work and president of the North
Carolina Conference of the Woman's
Society of Christian Service, will de
liver an address Sunday morning at
11 o'clock in the Farmville Methodist
Church.
Rev. E. R. Clegg, pastor of the
church in whose pulpit Mrs. Hood
will speak, says that he had a two
fold purpose in extending her an in
tation to visit Farmville. Not "only
is she an excellent speaker but she is
vitally interested in missions spon
sored by individual churches or
groups of churches and Rev. Clegg is
anxious for her to-get a first-hand^
view of the work Mrs. A. Q. Roebuck
is doing in the Lang, Wesley, Arthur
and Bethel communities.
Mrs. Hood has more than usual in
terest in this project since the State
conference which she heads donates
part of the money required. The lo
cal church contributes $700 and the
Walstonburg church, 1300.
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Pitt County Leads
Nation In Tob^col;
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Pitt county is the ranking tobac
co-growing county in the United
'
State*, according to figures-from the
Department of Agriculture which
H that 37,630 acre* of tobacco
I grown her* in 1944. The coun
ty-also led the nation in 1939 with
wy ? msu tea uic ubuwi in ivo? wiui
43,365 acres in tobacco.
The second highest county waa 1
Johnston, with '82,079 acre* in 1944 \
as compared with 41,584 in 1989,
hen it was also ranked errors!
Of the 10 leading tobaceo-growinK
counties in the country swan are in
North Carolina, with cne each in
Pennsylvania, South Carolina and
Virginia. In 1944, the 10 leading
nation's total for that year.
The remaining eight counties in
the first 10 follow: Bobeaem, 81,778
LUCAS WARNS ROTS USING |
RIFLES IN LOCAL CEMETERY
Chief, of Police L. T.
ceived several complaints that boys
have been shooting rifles in the local
cemetery and h?ve done minor
damage to shrubbery and grave
markers.
Such practices must stop, saga
flhjftf T jinfla who ivddft that Danish
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meat vdll be meted out to those who
are caught.
Commerce Board Of
Directors Raw Ftast
Organizational Meet
The needy elected Board of Direc
tors of the Esnaville Chamber of
Commerce met in its regular month
1 y meeting l^ussd&y sfterooo^i in the I
Chamber of Mjommerce office.
The financial report and commit
tee eet-up for the coming year
approved. John G. Parker was named
as director from the Farmville unit
on the North Carolina Merchants
Association Boasd of Directors.
The board also approved the policy
of not requesting stores to close for
any funeral, but instead allow mer
chants to make the decision en an
individual basis. This means that
say store or place of business may
[dose for any funeral but no future
request or recommendation will be
Forthcoming from the Merchants'
Association.
A motion to close at 6 o'clock en
Saturdays was discussed but no
action will be taken until merchants
ire polled.
The beard approved the fint
sad in June as "Sales Promotion
Days" ha which all stores are
guested to offer bargains and- trade
attractions. Bull publicity will be
riven through newspapers and
sisculam. Thia event will tie in
dm annual meeting of the Pitt-Greene
R. E. A. to be held here on Satur
day, June 7.
Quarterly
Local
?
?The Ffcrmville Primitive Baptist
:hurch th host Sander to the
luarteciy meeting, which wee attend
i by members Iran Edgecombe,
artin, Beaufort, Jones, Wilson,
reene and Pitt counties. The occa
?n nuihnil the fifteenth
aiy of the gift of the local
milding by the fake Robert L. Davis
it fMae vummaanih, ? ?
vne iamuy was represeniea oj
toTXw" D*Tl*'
?Visiting elders who spoke at the
norning hoar included E. P. Pollard
V>n A.
-a ' ...
Beaufort, and J. 8. MejrW^'&oir
is elder of the leanl
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80^111 In
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County Next Week
*f*#l?? Will Be Given At FaratvUr
White School Thursday Mornings
At 11 O'deck, Oh Tuesday* At
FvmriOe Masonk
According to Dr. J. M. Barrett, the
county's acting health offHNftk the
annual free typhoid clinics will begin
Monday monijng. Nursing person
nel of the Pitt Health department
will hare charge of the program.
The vaccination program will extend
over a period of four weelca, with the
nurses visiting each place -four
times, one wepk apart Three doeee
are necessary, except'for those who
have been vaccinated'within the past
three years, in which case only one
"shot" is necessary.
Both white and colored will be
vaccinated at all clinics except only
the colored will be treated at colored
schools.
Vaccinations are also given at the
health department offices in Green
ville everygJVednesday afternoon and
Saturday morning.
The schedule follows:
Monday?M?y 19, M; June 2, 9
8:30, Hanrahan; 9:00, Grifton high
school; 9:30, (^ilnerly's store; 10:15,
Gardnersville ctpss roads; 11:90, Kil
patrick's service station, Clay Root
section; 12.-90, Helen's cross roads.
9:00, Stokes white school; 9:46, Coy
Forbes fartoi; 10:80,' Clark's Neck
store; 11:45, Pfcctolus school.
9:00, St Peter's colored school;
9:45, Jones colored school; 10:30,
Cherry Lane colored school; 11:15,
Pactplus colored school.
9:00, Rock faring; 9:45, Bruce;
9:16, Seven Pines; 11:00, King's
roes roads.
Tuesday?May 20, 27; June 3, 10
8:30, Winterville school; 9:15 Ay
:n; 10:00 Haddock's cross roads;
1:30, Cox cross roads; 11:00, Simp
m, Porter's store; 11:30, Galloways
?oss roads.
9:00, Bethel white school; 10:30,
eel's store, Big Oak community.
9:15, Warren chapel colored school;
rlSiday-May 21, 28; Jm
8:80, Whitehurst station;
. .tarhitehurst's farm; 10:1
ore; 11:00, Mrs. Lydia
trm.
9:00, Sally Br
p.jj oiJ
FEATURED SPEAKERS OF
DR. H. S. HILLEY REV. JAMBS ML
Rev. JJcChesney will preach the baccalaureate *enpon Sunday night and
,Dr. Hilley will deliver the address Monday night at closing exercises ei tha
Farmville higl^ school. Both programs will begin at 8 o'clock.
Turn to page three, which has been dedicated to the senior*, for a de
tailed program and the names of the graduates.
Board Concerned
Over Vacancies In
Town's Departments
1 JMMMHI
amiaaioners Study Application?
For Positions In Cleii's Office,
Police Department
Instead of convening Tuesday
night for their regular monthly
meeting, Farm villa's Commissioners
allowed the election to have top-bill
ing that day and met three nights
later, Friday, to dispatch matters re
lating to the municipal government
Much of the time was spent dis
cussing the problem of obtaining
competent personnel for vacancies
which exist in at
ments. Town
lor has a vacancy in his
fppes the
the tax scrolls
spartment has a
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David T. Harris, superintendent of
Farm villa's Rural EleSS Ad
ministration, is
employ after 11 joan* service. Har
ris tendered his resign*
night to the Beard of
en, all members' of which
luctantly" to accept it after stating
they hatev to lose the services of the
superintendent but at the same time
Were glad that he had the oppoi
ity to obtain
Gerhait
is chairman of th
pwi
Ky.; AyPMH
Vs., and J. Cofa
Biggest obstacle to the plan is
the difficulty of Aiding means of
enabling foreign users of American
Wbacco to pay for it in dollars. Dol
lar exchange credits are difficult for
most European countries to obtain
Both the flue-cured and hurley ta
bacco was to be included in whatever
proposal is drafted by the committee.
-Germany reportedly has machinery
for tobacco blending left over from
pre-war days. Several American to
bacco manufacturing companies have
indicated willingnys to nod experts
to Europe to coach workers there on
the best methods of tobacco blend
ing, Lanier stated.
The proposal for sending unmanu
factured American tobacco to Ger
many for blending there is also be
ing considered at the It&smatianal
Trade Conference now in progress
under United Nation auspices at Ge
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