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Members of the Burnette-gop*.
post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and
of the ladies auxiliary are making
preparations for the Second District
meeting to he held in the VFWeWb
Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Distinguished guests expeted to at
tend indude Charles Myers of Char
lotte, state department senior Vice
commander; Mrs. Ann Couch of Hen
dersonville, ladies auxiliary state de
“ partment junior vice' president; Mr,
and Mrs. Ed Hyman of Roanoke Rap
ids, representing the Third District;
Jasper D. Tyndall of Pink Hill, Sec
ond District commander; Mrs. Mary
Stubbs of Kinston, Second District
auxiliary president; and delegates
from posts and auxiliaries in the dis
trict.
1116 Second District is imposed of
posts and auxiliaries in Greenville;
Washington, Kinston, Pink Hill, Mt.
Olive, Goldsboro, LaGrange and
., . FarmviUe.
p.1 ‘ The men will meet at the clubhouse
and the ladies in the high school lunch
room, after which dinner will be
served in the lunch room.
It is expected that 125 visitors will
attend the meetings.
All VFW and auxiliary members
visiting in FarmviUe Sunday are in
vited to attend the meeting.
C. B. Mashbum is commander .of
the local V&W and Mrs. Lois Tyson
is president of the auxiliary.
R. R. Newton, Jr., currently serv
ing as senior vice commander of the
district, has been elected to sarve as
commander in the new year.
POWER QUESTION
TO BE DISCUSSED
AT MEETING HERE
F->-m vine’s Board of Commission
ers will moot next Tuesday morning
with officials of tfiie Carolina Power
and Light company for. a discussion
of pronosa's. made by the power com
pany, for tv'""-'" the local lines with
tl>o»e of the CP&L.
MRS. MARIE GATUNG
ROBERT STROUD
RECEIVES EVE INJURIES
Robert Stroud received ipjuriea „*o
both eyes last Thursday wlienhe was
using brake fluid at Eaaon Motors,1
where he’works. He has received
treatment daily from a Greenville
eye specialist, who feels that the in
•F-trmville has no shortage of power
at rwesent but town officials want to
avert any prospects of going through
a crisis such as was experienced' a
few years back. Whether to connect
with CP&L on a stand-by basis, get
ting power when neededi or to await
the development of Bugg Island, or
hist let the future take care of itself
is the decision the town must make.
Mrs. Marie Alien Gatling, 35, die^
in Riverside hospital in Newport
News, Va.„ Monday after an extend
ed illness. She was born in Parm
vilie, the dteirhter of the late 'Paul
Allen and aeora Bailey Allen. Sur
viving are her husband, "Q. H. Gatling;
four children, Betty, Danny, Curtis
and Linda, ail of the home; two sis
ters, Mrs. Alan Smith and Mrs, Jack
Marshburn of
brothers, Paul,
ard, all of '
ston, Va., and
sonvHle. L
Funeral
conducted .. .
Hampton, Va., Jahere she
making her residence,
conducted Wednesday
Hollywood cemetery, Farjnville.
was a bridJwaaaM in the wedding and
Bill was a page.
Mrs. Herbert E. Hart andchildren
accompanied Mrs. Hart’spareqts, Mr.
and Mts.'C. E. McKinney, afDnbHrir
G»„ home yesterday to spend two
weeks. Tte McKinneys had been vis
iting here. . '
IntfWwSfan ^Ker^iSi
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Holston spent
Sunday and Monday in Norfolk, Va.
Mrs.. Augustus Rogers of Late Al
fred. Fla., arid Mrs. W. H. Whitmorp
oi Wilson have arrived from Florida
to spendthe summer with relatives,
i Ste. arid Mrs. M. E. Dixon spent
several days last week at Atlantic
Beach with Mrs. Carroll Oglesby.
Mrs. John C. Farter and daughter,
Whit, of Wilmington, Del;, are spend
Miss Janet Stansill left Tuesday
to spend a few days in Jackson with
ing a month here with relatives.
Mrs. Arthur B. Martin. -
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Mozingo and
children and Thomas Ray Allen will
leave during the week end for.f visit
to Mrs. Alice Shilling in Hagerstown,
Md.
Mr. and an. urn* uuiara spent
the -week end in Charlotte and at
tended the wedding of Miss Betty
Hillard and Bill Wilson, Miss Anna
Grace Hillard pf Oxford acoonmanie<l
**>«“» l
brother. *
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Smith and chil
dren spent Wednesday at Bayview !
with relatives. v
Mr. and Mrs. Haryey^AfMnta i
and children, Harvey and Cheryl, of
Edwards,
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. WiUifoid and
spend the week end at the University
of North Osmlina with John Bussell
TOek and bt Plymouth. $1
Mi»a Mary Thorne
rnondt y».; will spend the
milk ^,1*. .. «
Va., Mira Margaret I
Marvin Horton.'attidentad
irersity of North tu«M
H, V. Horton spent the 'i
ffajfs Head and attended^
uase of /The Lost Colon;
PLANS FOR LADIES’
BUSINESS GROUP
DISCUSSED HER
Farmville were diacusi
light when a delegation -
rfficials conferred here
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t&lsil
of m tenfor
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but ft t. qoitennlikely that ai, major
changes will be made—certainly noth
ing so drastic that the tax rate win
be altered or the charges for water
and lights changed.
legal training at
North Carolina to
Increased Valuation of
'* ;:■:'■ WjrWmw WmWmm mUww.^WFp
enables Town to Rai
is assured a
that the
employ
-ompany and their families
in all.day fishing pas*y i
August, the town of Farmville added
about 1700,000 In taxable property to
its tax scrolls and thereby picked up
enough additional revenue to grant
pay. increases to all municipal 7 em
ployees, including toe mayor and
thembers e £U» Board of Commission
era^ without boosting the tax rate be
yond the $1.35-level that has been in
efisct for the part three yean. -
Figures presorted the Board of
Commismbnew by Town Clerk Cleve
land M. Phylor show the 1951-S2 as
sessed valuation of taxable projperty
tsasrjsas-i:
increase comes from property in the
Sections taken into the corporate lim
its hurt year. The town widened ite
bounds on the mrtth to include anares
elpoding from the Foutain highway
to North Main street, and on the east
took in sections of the Davis subdiv
were adopted at a recent meeting of
: the board sad provision for the;. in
creases are incorporated in the tenta
tive budget, approved Monday in one
of the first official acts of the new
board. Hie budget appears elsewhere
‘ Tuesday, August 21, has been set
as the date for the Eastern Carolina
tobacco markets to hold their open
ing sales for the 1961 season.
The market opens with a five-hour
selling day and this schedule will be
followed until Sept. 4, when the sell
ing time wiB be cut to four and one
half hours. On Monday, Sept. 17, an
ur Jwill he sliced from
no. Beginning Monday,
' sales day will be upped
^bestyaarh
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