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I VOLUME THIRTT'NIN* ? r . -•- ...•• -• : • - i I The reckless, driver of * i automobile m killed and the Uvea of four riding with him waa* ed Wednesday evening at 6:40 when Clinton Bass, 28-year-old Negro of Fannville, Route 2, lost control of his 1987 Pontiac sedan one mile east bt FarmviUe on highway 264. The automobile, headed eastward, turned over several times and finally e*me to a stop in the yard of Thurston Lloyd, who lived on the north side of the highway. Luckily, no automobile was meetng the wildly-driven Bass car or more than one fatality might have result ed. Riding with Bass were Ed Baker, Joe Walter May and John Faison. May and Faison received cuts and bruises, none of them serious, anl Baker emerged from the wreck badly shaken up but uninjured. ^ State Highway Patrolman Ernest Guthrie, who investigated the acci * dent, reported that the Negroes had been drinking. He stated that May told him Bass had been drinking and driving in such a reckless manner that the others had pleaded In vain with him to drive more careful. Guthrie reported there was no li quor in the car when he arrived on Hie scene several mxtuutes after the ' accident occurred. The fatal addent was the second to occur within a short -distance of FarmviUe within the past two weeks, tit* Snow Hill highway two weeks i rillie Thomas Eason, Jr., \ Put presidents of the Fannvfl||j Parent Teacher association wore 1m ored at a Founders day prrfjcag Thursday afternoon in Perkins hsW Past presidents in attendaafl were Mrs. B. A. Fields, lbs. J. *99 Wheless, Sr., lbs. Llpyd Smith, D. B. Morgan, Mis. 1. &. WlflH Mrs. LeBoy Rollins, Mis. J. M. Osr| raway, Mrs. Ted Albritton, Mrs. Hen-f rietta M. Williamson, Mrs. M. 1 Pollard and - Mrs. B. T. WilliMfli These were recognised and the greiqi stood for a moment in memory of those not present Sam D. Bandy, superintendent of schools hnd chairman of the ip March of Dimes in Farmville, an nounced that approximately $1,560 had been raised locally. Mis. J. W. Miller, president, pre sented Min Annie Perkins, jrigA taught under all of the presifMR until her retirement in 1946. Mpl Peridns gave an interesting sumM*-* ry of the association’s work in ville. Min Hardy’s third grade wojCfpt room roll call conducted by IQgp! Antoinette Darden and Lula ITajHir, The singing of “Holy, Holy, Holy,” with Miss Alma Whitley dirrffng, was followed by the devotionaL .Haw. Z. B. T. Cox tied the first and MKk verses of the 19th Pkalm' toafc and brought out how effecttveiy^M and women da well as the hcMMa may declare the dory of God. j After the meeting was adjoMMj members were Invited to the |pH Economics cottage to a tea. Japfe1 Sitting flowers decorated th4fu|* Onex Beaman ef Memphis, Ten®-, and Mias Katie Beaman of Washing ton, D. C., have returned to homes. They we called here week on account of the death of father, Fred Beaman. Mrs. Clarence Jones and children, Carol, Janice and Jimmy, Mm W. L. Mann and Mias Katie Beaman were Wiison visitors Monday. Mrs. C. T. Hicks and daughter, Betty Sue, and Mrs. Susie Minchew of Eureka spent the week epd te Portsmouth, Va., with relatives. Mr. and Mm Floyd Sutton and daughters, Neta Marie and Faye, of Portsmouth, Va., were the w* end guests of Mra. W.I. Shackleford. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Vinson and daughters of Clayton vipited in the home of Mr. and Mm R. D. & Dixon Sunday. Mr. and Mm W. V. Redick were Raleigh visitors Monday* Friends will he glad to know that Mrs. Frank Shirley has returned to her home from the Carolina General hospital in Wilson and is getting a long nicely. Mm W. I. Shackleford, Mr.A and Mm Floyd Sutton, Neta Marie and faye Sutton were the dinner guests Sunday of Mm W., P. Ellis in Wil son. A -V \ Mr. and'Mm Paul Craft and Mm Albert Bundy attended the funeral of pasiaa Eason near Farmville Fri r. mud Mrs. Paul Graft and sons, I and William, spent Sunday with and Mrs. Rudolph Joyner Mar v Hill. * ' - m. L J. Rouse, Evelyn .Fields and HtekS have returned to their re*1 live home* after a visit with rel ss and friends in Greesneboro. ick Thomas of Littleton was the night guSst in the home of Mr. . Chacey Walston in Firavffih lay afternoon. r. and Mrs. H. C. Burch were nville visitors Friday ias Catherine Campbell of Bute's sk, Miss Sudie Mae Kirkman of ceboro, Miss Floribel Gamer of rport, Miss Page Davis of Mil* kee and Miss Elma Chambliss of Tenceville, Va., spent the week at theic respective homes, r. and Mrs. J. R. Peeler visited tivee in Noriina Sunday, iss Mary Ellen Jones was a guest day in the home of Mr. and Mm. . Gardner. umette-Rouse Post; Prepares To Elect New Set of Officers a solo, “Lord, I Want to®e a Chris tian." Sixteen members of the Junior Glee club will compose fee choir, which will assist wife fee congrega tional hymns. Mrs. C. P. Baucom and Mrs. F. G. Dupree, Jr., will greet worshippers and distribute programs. Mrs. G. E. Beckman, Jr., Mrs. Harry ' Harper, Mrs. J. T. Nolen and Mrs. Jack Yel verton will receive the offering. Prepared under the direction of Mrs. Henry Johnson, an exhibit has been placed in fee window of fee Farmville Slower ifeop. Eight Christian colleges for women in India, Japan and China are sup ported, Christian literature is provid COMMUNITY pOKdHO* GROUP UNROLLS 23 Twenty-three members to the, Wil son Community concerts for - next season have been sold in Parmvillc, according to Mrs. Charles E. Fitz gerald, chairman. Those who joined are as follows: Misses Ruth and Jean Moore, Ann Bynum, „ Ann Pollard,. Pollard, Owe. Fitzgerald, John Rus sell Joyner, Airs. J. O. Pollard, Mrs. W. A. Pollard, Jr., Mrs. Curtis Flan agan, Mrs. Haywood Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Rasberry, Mr. and Mia. J. B. Hockaday and Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Fitzgerald. Mona'Panlee, contralto, will give a concert in Wilson at the Charles L. Coon hitfh schol, March 7 at 8:30 in the evening. All new members may present their ticket stubs at the door for complimentary admittance. tk* tW^Mt t mni^jQvtm l$~W' > • 1 chum er jtno, .. jthechnrch mm B. S. Smith te door; Rev. i«m to thair Wednesday, service week. . ■ A cordial iiwitati the community to I PERSON, City is Charles ng treat hospital, Mrs. Eli Garner visiting her daoghl E. Fitzgerald, after ment in Carolina < Wilson, for the pas< they are making their home at 500 Grimmersburg street Mr.. Boykin ip associated with Melton Motor sendee. Their daughter, Miss Anne, a senior nt Meredith college, spent the week end here. . Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt C. Tucker, Jr., returned from their wedding trip Wednesday night. - '* Recruit William Jones and Cpl. Bill Boyd of Fort .Eustis, Va., spent the week end with Mrs. I*’E. Jones. Mrs. Tom 'Herring, formerly of Kinston, wlfifrhae been recuperating from an operation at the home of her mother, Mrs. Fred Smith, went to her home in Wilson Wednesday afternoon. She is improving bat will have to remain in bed for several weeks. ; Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Moore and family of Route 1, Mr. and Mrs.' Carlton Moore of Marlboro, Miss Ta hiti* DeViSconti, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Craft and Mi;, mid Mrs. Curtis Mas sey attended the funeral of Messrs. Moore sifter, Mrs. Lena Mae Domin gues, at the home of thS&r brother, Arthur Lee Moore of Snoiy Hill Sun day afternoon. Mrs. DomJngues was drowned Thursday, night in an acci dent near Charleston, S. ,C. Stud in His way, were named by the speaker as examples. Calling the attention of >e chap ter to times nearer today, die men tioned Florence Nightingale, who laid the foundations for modern, scientific. nursing and who wrote minister of war during the Crimean war that "I give my life itself if necessary.” Madame Curie, who con tinued her search for radium even after her husbdhd, Pierre, wanted to quit, and after nearly four years of work, in which she boiled down eight tons of pitchblend to get a piece of radium half as huge as « small pea, -was another Christian woman she cited. Mrs. Moye recalled the wo* of Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, of whom one of the people she not one religion; her all pt jple, her' all religion.” the person who |s started on the drink road 'dan drink moderately. She told the etory^of the father who was going: to teach hia son to-drinklike s gentleman. He told the boy that yon now/see two candles on the table. When you see four, it is time to quit. The Boy replied to his parent, “Father there is only one cantHe.” Statistics, which she had studied, were presented. Among the startling facts revealed was that one out of every five persons arrested in 1947 in connection whit a fatal accident was drunk. Mrs. Moye called upon the women present to keep informed as to what is going on in the legislature and in Congress hi regard to liquor laws. She $ok! of the bills fliat had been and killed by a 17-yaai* did not know how to ban Prior to the program, Suggs of Hookerton, res on hymns which told s Friends o£ little Bobby Crawford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Crawford, will be glad to know that he has re turned home from Pitt General hos pital and is recuperating nicely from an appendicitis operation. Miss Jo Ann Tyson spent the week end with her sister, Mrs. W» $. Tripp, J$, at Bel voir. „ Mrs. Boy Smith is visiting friends ,at E. C T. C. this week Mr. and Mrs. L A. Joyner were Fahnville visitors Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Norris Hall of Bal timore, Md., ware- guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. £» fyson last week Henry Flake has accepted * posi tion, at the Fltt Hardware company M* rad Mrs. Jesse J. Wainwright «ad family attended a ..birthday din ner in hoiv>r of Henry G. Wain wright’s 63rd birthday. The dinner ra* Md Sraday near Pactolus. Miss Lillian Harris, assistant home Misees Ann and Jean Cranford re turned to Louisburg college Sunday afternoon after spending the week end at home. They M m their At The Rotary Club Ladies of-the missionary society of the Bethlehem Methodist church at Bell Arthur nerved the Rotarians sup per Tuesday night at the recreation building of the church. Spring flow ers store used as a centerpiece on the long'tilde. Irvin Morgan made a short talk. The attention of the dub was called to the fact that there had not been much publicity on the Rotary-Kiwan is basketball game the previoul week, Rotarians wan 13-7, as has been the way the game has gone, for several years, The club went on re cord to let the second team play next year and the older boys stay on the rooting bench. Hats were off to the band director for bringing the band to the doubleheader ht uniforms. ■ 1 Special gueets of the club, all of whom are residents of the Bdl Ar thur compmnity, were W. W. Young, Hugh Rasberry, Alvin McArthur, John Erwin Wilkerson. and W. L. "V. NOTE OF APPRECIATION I wish to express my sincere ap preciation for the many flowers and cards sent me and the visits made daring my stay in the hospital Miss Lena Conaway. Prior to the meeting, a luncheon was served. Mrs. L. E. Walston pass ed tomato' juice as the guests assem bled. They were invited into the dining zoom where the table held, at end, Mrs. >11. ^5. joluisos - served tur—: key. Guests helped themselves to ■toesiiaOTange^^."be^curamber and watermelon rind pickles, scal loped oysters, celery and carrot In the contest Tuesday night be tween Jfenpville and Chlcod boys, it was Parmville aU the -war as the Bed Devils coasted to a 42-20 victory. The hoys had a 11-3 lead at the end of the first quarter, and had a 17-T ad vantage at the half. Dupree, who led Farmvflle scoring with lB points, opened the scoring' with a onehander from the side. Lew is' connected for Chicod and tied the Bcore. Farmville then shoveled on the coal and gathered such a head of steam that Chicod was completely out of the running as the Red and White pushed on to win in the second round of the five-day dribble derby which ends tomorrow night The scoring: Farmville (42)—Can non (4), Morris (4), Dupree (IS), Smith (4), Morgan (8), Windham, Allen, Albritton (12). Chicod (»)— Edwards, W. Mills (8), K. Mills (8), Gaskins (6), Lewis (8), Hudson and Farmville girls edged Belvoir In • tight contest. The lineups: Farmville (19)—For wards—D. Hathaway if), R. Hath away (7), Morgan (6); Corbett; guards—Pippin, Brock, Murphy . end Rouse. Belvoir (16) — Forwards— Brown (2), CL Pollard , (fl), Dupree, Tyson (2), M. Pollard (i), Jones-(2); guards—Nelson, Randolph, I. Jones, Marjorie Pollard. —ii fcilniifTiifeTffii ; Elizabeth City Tourney Members of the Bell Arthur girts’ basketball teams are the toast of their community.' They walked away with the intra-county basketball tourna ment in Elisabeth City Saturday night, defeating the Hertford team from Perquimans- county, 8615. On Friday night Arthur won by a 25JJ1 score against Weeksville. It was the first low for Weeksville in two years. Only the week previous to the tournament, Weeksville had won the Pasquotank county cham pionship. x i The Arthur team was presented a cup for its feat, : Each of the players on the Arthur team received a miniature gold bas ketball as individual awards. Frances Crawford, Barbara Jews Mosingo and Virginia Crawford were selected as members of the all-tour ney team. The following from the community x attended-the games: Mr. and Mrs. Alton McGlohon, Fred * McGlohon, Mrs. Pittman Wayne, Shelby and Shirley Wayne, Mrs. Luke Mosingo, Edith, Verrta and Rob Joins, Jr. MEASLES PHOTOS FATAL FOE ,» FARMVILLE MAN’S GRANDSON . f"1 ' - -&' - Billie Andrews, fear years old, son. of Mr. And Mrs. Andrew Matthews of Newport News, V*., died Friday morning in A Newport Sews hospital. Funeral services ware conducted from a Tarboro funeral home Sunday afternoon at 8:80. Burial woe in the Tarboro cemetay. •„ , * 4- •. Those from SWmvillo who attend ed die funeral were Jim Matthews, Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Matthews and family, Mr. and Mrs. George Harris, Mr: and Mrs. Floyd Ring and family and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Allen and famfly. " . net.,. rshif «wn
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