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use the $70,000 now on hmd and to
supplement it with any fond* that
might come tnm bond issues or mon
ies authorised by the next legislature.
There is considerable speculation that
the 1968 General Assembly will take
some steps to provide additional
monies for physical plants.
It is the hope of local authorities
that od the new site a building can be
erected sufficient to care lor the first
six grades, removing these classes
entirely from the high school. «o
vision will be made, it to hoped, for .a
lunchroom and small auditorium.
Principal Sam D. Bundy states that
12 classrooms will be required to
make the complete abift In these
grades are about 360 students, one
half of the entire student body. Aver
age daily attendance of the school fat
the session' reticently ended was 737.
Due to the site of the contemplated
building project, which will require
substantially more money than the
school board has at present, it to ex
pected to start on a much smaller
scale wi^ the additions to be made
as the money becomes available.
Fountain Woman
Dies In Greenville
Mrs. Lanie Parker Newton, highly
respected and admired by all who
knew her, passed away Tuesday
morning at 8:30 in Pitt Memorial hos
pital, following an extended illness.
Mrs. Newton, whose home was in
Fountain, was 78 yean of age. She
was the wife of W. S. Newton and a
daughter of the late Richard and
Delphia Tyson Parker of Pitt county.
Mrs. Newton received her educa
tion at the Gilelapie Academy of
Tarboro and taught school in Pitt
county for several yean following
her graduation. She was very active
in the religions works of her church
of which she was a charter member.
One of her sons, Walter Richard New
ton, succumbed in January, 1348.
Funeral services were held from
vue ruuuMuu cmw/wiMu vwuuif
Wednesday afternoon at S o’clock,
conducted by the Rev. E. S. Coatee of
Farmville, assisted by the Rev. R. L.
West at Fountain. Interment follow
ed in the Fountain cemetery.
The Choir composed of Mils Mar
tha Hardy Johnson, Mrs, Garter
Smith, Mrs. Clarence Everett, Miss
a student none at Bex Hospital,
Raleigh, retained to her home here
the poet week end to vend the earn
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Daria and atm,
Lee, of Uncolnton spent the week end
with Mr. Daria’ parents, Mr. and
Mr* George W. Davis.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bandy had aa
their gooote Sunday, for dinner and
slipper,. Mr. and Mm. W. J. Bandy,
Mrs. J. A. Harper and children, Mi*
add Mrs. 8am D. Bandy and eons.
Mrs. J. T; Rida of Conway was the
supper gaoet «f the Buadys.
Mrs. E. j. Trafton and daughter,
Kay, of Btnaingham, Aig., visited
Mrs. Traf ton’s sister, Mrs. i. C. Cor
bitt, last Week. They were an rente
.w . • . •' fc. «m asate._e_.
parents, Mr. and Mrs, J. G. Etheridge.
They will continue their trip to Mew
York to attend the graduation of
Cadet Earl Traftoa from the Mer
chant Marine Academy on July S.
Mrs. T. T. Moon awl Wallace Bar
rett motored to Washington, D. C.,
Saturday to meet their sister, Mis. F.
S. Wood and daughters, FEHe, Bob
bett, and Con Lee, of Burlington,
Vermont Ail retained to Fhitavtlto
Sunday. Mrs. Wood and family are
on a two-week Stott wt^f
Mr. and Mis. Alfred Lewis and
Mn. J. B. Lewis spent several days
this week with Mrs. Seward Darden,
daughter of Mrs. Lewis, at Smith
field, Va. f
Dr. and Mrs. W. H. C. White and
son, Bill, Mrs. S. G. Etheridge and
Mias Nettie White of Elisabeth City
▼kited relative* and friend* hen
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Seale and daugh
ters, Diane and Theodora, of George
town, S. C* «ent several days this
wadi with Mrs. Seale's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. G. Barrett
Mr. and Mrs. Bund! Mfafdto, Mrs.
G. E. Thompaon and Mrs. T. M.
Micelle spent Sunday in Ahodde with
Mr. Middle’s sister, Mrs. Q. E. Bar
ley. Mrs. Micelle, Sr., ronataed for
a visit of' several, meotha with rda
tives hi Ahodde, Wlnton and Cole
rain. \ ,■ ,
Mis. G. E. Thompson and Mr. and
Mrs. T. K. Micelle wen called to Fort
Mitchell, Va^ on Tuesday,-to attend
the funeral of Mrs. Thompson's nep
Va. Paula Lorraine' remained for w
hm^er viait with her winL --
Dr. and Mn. S, H. Ayeock, Jr,
■pent the week end with Mn. Ay
eock't father, F. B. Player, at Myrtle
Mr. and Mn. L B. Ward of Sun
buy apent the week end with dafr
Lee Wain*
»r guests of
Mr* and Mrs
irir»M£jy* kV A ’ "S;
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Chairman Claude Joyner of Farm
due's sanitation committee and Dr.
John N. Newborn, chairman of the
town's sorting board, met with, a
rroup of interested citizen* Tuesday
afternoon and considered the com
Duteome of the meeting was the
appointment of a committee com
poeed of George Allen, J. B. Taylor
and R. L. Joyner. These will meet
idth County Sanitarian Willie Pate,
oho also wee present for the aeaaion,
and draft recommendations that will
ke presented to the Commissioners at
their meeting on Tuesday, July 1.
these, recommendations, it is under
itood, will be based on prevailing
taws and rules of good, sound sani
Among those attending the session
were John D. Dixon, Lewis Allen, R,
I. Wainright, Oliver Murphrey, Hu
bert Jojmer^W. C. Gamer and Lynn
Basoit ft addition to those picked on
the eonmittee and to officials at
Negro Wounded In
fllBlI Shooting Affray
Chariey Pitt, Greene county Negro,
baence of Port
isa who was out
Commander R.
Greene Maxi Faces
Check For?ixi&€ounts
Jasper Warren, Greene county
Negro who had been, leading officers
a merry chase with his check forging,
was arrested several days ago when
the check he gave a taxi driver for a
Wilaon-to-Snow Hill trip hack-fired.
Warren, a SQn-of the man who was
involved in a shooting scrap here last
August when Policeman j, A, Gre
gory shot jam after a knife had been
drawn on him, is charged with forg
ing Guy Sugg’s name to a check for
$26.00 that waa given to Glenn New
ton at the Farmers Exchange and for
m
Polisa Chief I^P.fiuasi _
Warren faces tom similar charges in
Greene county, wSpre he is being held
in Jal! awaiting trial. • ' -j
ANNUAL METHODIST
CHURCH SCHOOL PICNIC
The Methodist Church School’s.an
nual picnic will be held at the Muni
cipal Park Friday afternoon of next
week. There will be free swimming
for members of the school from 6
o’clock to 6. Supper will be served
at 6:80. Everyone is asked to bring
a basket of food. .
STUDENT NURSES HONOR
* ORA LEE FLANAGAN
Mias Ora Lee Flanagan, student
nurse at the Medical College of Vir
ginia, in Richmond, Kr* beep Selected
by her classmates as one of thair two
representatives at a national conven
tion of nursea in Atlantic City, N. J.
ter of Ur. and Mrs. Sam Flanagan.
An outstanding student,, and the re
cipient of several honors at the
Medical School, she will complete her
courses in February,.
RETURN FROM ROTARY
CONVENTION AND |
" TOUR OF MEXICO
Mr. and Mrs, W. Jesse Moye re
turned last week mid from Mexico
City, where they attended the annual
convention of Rotary International,
and a tour of Mexico and other parts
of Central America. The Moyes, who
the nation itself,” so stated Henry
Want Beecher, Mrs. Patton says
this is true today, when we see our
flag. We know it is the symbol of
liberty and freedom to all who live
beneath ft. The Flag, having been
bore amid the fust flames of Ameri
ca* fight for freedom, is now the
symbol of a country which has grown
from a small group of thirteen polon
ies to a united nation of forty-eight
sovereign states. v\ V V
She HU that each citizen assume
hie or her responsibility in preserv
ing our country and ideals as civen
to us by bur Founding Forefathers.
Mrs. G. Alex Bouse gave an
article "This Is Our Flag;” depicting
incidents representing some of the
.proudest moments bur flag has
known. 'During the third year of the,
American Revolution news reached
Fort Schuyler in 17177 that the Con
tinental Congress had adopted a flag.
On August 8,1777 the Banner of Jn
dependence was haigted there. Twenty
days later a relief column strived and
Fort Sehuyler and the American Flag
was saved. . „ £j|
On June 18,1777 tho Continental
Congress authorised the nhftr flag.
John Paul Jones and the flag were
bom the same hour; • u j
.Th*1St*r flW^d.B*Mer Jooh ito,
plape in history as our National An
them when it was written in 1814 at
Fort McHenry, by Francis .Scott Key,
in a burst of exaltation when he saw
■the flag, still flying, prow) and
defiant. '• •
In 1849 Old Glory was lasted to
the tower of Chapsltepec Castle and
the Mexicans laid down their anna.
The Yankees had taken Mexico City.
Then Fort Sumter in 1881 was the
first Union fortress to be fired on by
the Confederates. On April 14, IMS
the flag was raised again to the top
of the flagpole mid the Civil War was
over.
In 1887 our flag went up over
Alaska. "Seaward’s Folly” has prov
ed his foresight in the purchase of
Alaska. From San Juan Hill the
sight of the flag inspired the Ameri
cana to victory against the Spanish
rifle fire and thatnight the American
flag fieW Over 'the key city to Santi
ago. .
wne oi tqe prouacts moments oi me
flag was when it was lowered over
Havana in 1902. We had gone to
war, ottupied a territory and put ft
back^on its feet—stamped out pover
ty, fear and yellow fever, built
schools and improved roads in threw
years. Many times Old Glory had
been raised in victory. Now it was
being: lowered Jnft it had never known
a prouder moment.
On April 6, 1917 Woodrow Wilton
had solemnly asked for war with
Germany and for the first time in
history .English-speaking democracies
were allied in a common cause, that
evening high above the Victory-tower
of Westminster Palace, where only
the n>yal colors and the- Union Jack
had ever flown before, the Stars and
Stripes wore unfurled in the breeze.
When they were hauled down, it tm
in token of the triumph of a great and:
noble cause. . . .--K ,
Then on Iwe Jims, February 19,
1945 U. ^- Marines dashed up Mount
Suribaehi and plunged the flag into
Bfll Fulford; and poultry, Hiy. Octa
vius Gay, It wm announced that the
annual picnic would be held at the
Farmville Municipal Park, June 19.
Mrs. Gay pave a review of an ap-~
proved hook.
; The clubhouse was attractively
decorated for the meeting with «*
rangements of hemerocalis. . Mrs.
Lulu Forbes and Mrs. Richard Tug
wen, nonesses, servea sanawjicnes,
cookies, candy and drinks Hr the
pleasant socisl hour that followed the
meeting.' ' „ c
The, program speakers and Miss
tive committee of tfce Fitt Uounty
American Legion Fair, attended a
meeting in Greenville last week at
which phuaa were made to increase
the amount offered in premiums at
the exposition as well aa to authorize
other improvements.
A 60-foot extension to the animal
exhibit building will be conatrpeted
before the Fair,opens in Oetober and -
three new departments have been
added to the premium Hat " These
include beef cattle, dairy cstta» and
artificial insemination. SeteralzdH- vil
dents of the immediate Farmvipe
community are intensely interested in
beef and dairy cattle, ahd toe recog
nition of these departments by fair
officials will, iio doubt serve as a
stimulus for others to use livestock as
a means of supplementing income
from cash crops;
The amount offered in premiums
Jms been increased to 13,600, $600
'tnore than was offered last year. |n
this connection, it should be noted
that of the $8,000 made available to
exhibitors in 1061, $2813 of it was
awarded. This fact is an indication
of the increased interest manifest in
the exhibits, and the eagerness with
which Pitt countians display their
preduets.
Officials also called attention to
the fact that the premium list for the *
county fair .is on the same basis aa
toe lists for the State Fair.
(hie of the regulations governing
1962 exhibits is that exhibitors must
keep their wares on. display .until
Saturday afternoon at.4 o'clock in
order to be eligible for the prise
money. Fair-goers noted that last
fall most of the exhibits had been re
inoved from the grounds by Friday.
Lights on the fair-grounds will be
imnroved. making toe plant one of