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1983 Veteran's Day
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Theme Announced
Remember the Big Apple?
And "I'm Dreaming of a
White Christmas"? How
about the jitterbug and
_ bobby socks, root suits and
p'Pepsi Cola hits the spot, 12
tull ounces, that's a lot. .
Can you call up those vocal
harmonies and brassy
sounds of the big-band era?
And do the names Tommy
Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Duke
Ellington, Artie Shaw, Cy
Oliver and Les Brown call to
your mind's eyes and ears a
wonderful era of entertain
ment ? in a time where
"entertainment" was the
only escape from the chaos
and pain and struggle of a
world at war?
The Wond War II years
from 1935-1945 have been
selected as the time period
which will be the theme of
this year's Veteran's Day
Parade. With s special
emphasis on each branch of
the armed services during
these years, participants in
the parade and festivities as
well as the Warsaw mer
chants are asked to use this
theme in their preparations
for the day.
The 1983 Veteran's Day
theme committee met re
cently to establish a theme
for this year's Nov. 12 cele
bration and parade in
Warsaw. The committee in
cludes Margueritte West,
Jean Smith, Sue Hix and
Merle Creech. Mary Taylor,
representing the Warsaw
Chamber of Commerce, also
assisted in the planning and
decision-making.
* Photographers Show
Planned For Fall |
Due to such good response
to our photography exhibi
tion this past spring, the
Duplin County Arts Council
is planning another compe
tition and show for the fall,
^according to Merle Creech,
director.
Entries will be judged and
cash prizes awarded prior to
the Duplin County Agribusi
ness Fair, and the show will
hang as an educational
exhibit during Fair Week.
Entries may be black and
white or color. All entries -
must be framed and able to
be hung. Details and entry
blanks will be available in
August. Early questions may
be registered at the Duplin
County Arts Council, P.O.
"box 36, Kenansville, NC
28349, or by, calling
296-1922.
Attention Duplin County Quilters
The Duplin County Arts
Council is working on plans
_ for the Agribusiness Fair in
) October.
A display of quilts or
quilted objects is being
planned. This would be an
educational exhibit with no
sales or competition with
antique and newly-made
quilts on display. Special
security Will be given the
display.
Quitters are also invited to
work in the exhibition room
on objects during the exhibi
tion hours. Call the DCAC
office to register your in
terest or let them know of
individuals whom they might
contact at 296-1922.
Creech Named State
Winner In Essay Contest
Laura Creech, 13, has
ft been named state winner in
the 1983 National Music
Week essay contest spon
sored by the National Fed
eration of Music Clubs. May
1-8 is National Music Week.
As Virginia's state winner,
she is eligible to be chosen as
one of fourteen district
winners from across the U.S.
Students in grades seven
through eleven entered the
contest with 500-word essays
on the topic, "Music, the
? Invisible Bond."
Laura, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Larry Creech, is on
the eighth grade at Garri
sonville Middle School. She
entered the contest at the
m
urging of her piano teacher.
Faith Rumph, with whom she
has studied piano for five
years. Mrs. Rumph is a
member of the Woodbridge
Music Gub, an affiliate of
the Virginia Federation of
Music Cluhs.
Laura is the grand
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Leon Creech and great
granddaughter of Mrs. Elen
T. Howard of Route 1, Pink
Hill.
Along
tho Way
liwlly Klllottt
Outdoor drama opens its '
eighth exciting season at the
William R. Kenan Amphi
theatre in Kenansville Friday
night. But. even before THE
LIBERTY CART previewed
in 197S, Duplin was familiar
with outdoor drama after
staging THE DUPLIN
STORY two consecutive
years. 1949 and 1950, in
Kenansville.
The two-act play was
ivritten by Sam Byrd and it
involved hundreds of local
:itizens in the cast. The first
act began in a London park
near the Houses of Parlia
ment and was followed by
scenes in a tobacco field near
Faison, the landing of a river
barge at Sarecta in 17SS, the
command post of Colonel
James Kenan at Rockfish in
1781. and open fields in
Duplin on a spring night in
1863. and Libery Hall in June
of 1865.
Act Two of THE DUPLIN
STORY opened at John W.
Gresham's General Mer
chandise Store in Beulaville
Friday, October 30, 1980,
and followed with scenes of
the park in London, Gradu
ation exercises on the
grounds of James Sprunt
Institute in 1910, outside the
Warsaw railroad station May
1917 waiting for the "shoo
fly" and ended with victory
Sunday morning in Duplin,
August 19, 1945.
County participation in the
outdoor production of THE
DUPLIN STORY was wide
soread The Kenansville
High School. Duplin County
Negro Schools, B.F. Grady
School, Wallace High School,
Company M, 119th Infantry,
North Carolina National
Guard in Warsaw, Beulaville
High School, Magnolia High <
School, Calypso High School,
Chinquapin High School,
Faison High School and the
Magnolia Civic Club spon
sored scenes in Act One of
THE DUPLIN STORY.
Scenes in Act Two were
sponsored by the Beulaville
Lions Club, Kenansville
High School, Warsaw Junior
Chamber of Commerce and
the Rose Hill Woman's Club.
The amphitheatre grounds
were donated for the period
if the production by Hamp
on D. Williams of Kenans
rille. The amphitheatre
ighting equipment was pro
vided by the Battery D, 150th
IAA Gun Battalion, N.C.
National Guard of Wallace,
rhe Goldsboro High School
provided the production with
i brass band.
The author of THE
DUPLIN STORY was a native
if Mount Olive. Sam Byrd
ivas schooled in Florida and
was awarded honors both as
i writer and lieutenant-com
nander in the U.S. Naval
Reserve.
As an actor Byrd portrayed
1,151 consecutive perfor
mances as Dude Lester, the
poor-white Georgia boy in
"Tobacco Road." He toured
two seasons in the Pulitzer
prize pla>. .Vreet Scene,"
and played the role of
rurlev in :|ie Critics' Prize
plav. "Of Mice and Men."
Byrd left the Broadway
stage and returned to the
South where he wrote his
first book, "Small Town
South," which won him a
Life-in-America prize. His
second book came after ser
vice with the Naval Reserve
and Combat at Normandy.
The book was entitled
"Hurry Home To My
Heart." The John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation awarded Sam
Byrd a fellowship in creative
writing in 1946 and renewed
that fellowship in 1948. Byrd
used the sponsorship of the
Guggenheim Foundation to
study the wartime disruption
of family - like which carried
him to England in 1946 and
to the Miditerrranean coun
tries in the summer of 1948.
After lecturing for the
American Information
Service in England. Byrd
returned to the United States
and accepted a position as a
sociology instructor at the
College of Charleston in
South Carolina.
While serving in the naval
reserve, Byrd was beach
master of a section of Omaha
Beach during battle on
D-Day. His performance of
duty under fire won him two
decorations of heroism. Byrd
also witnessed the battle for
Okinawa and the occupation
of Japan, where he accepted
the surrender of the seaplane
base at Sasebo. Kyushu.
Bvrd was a natural to write
and create the historic drama
Duplin citizens were wanting
to celebrate their 100th birth
day in 1949. After the end of
the 1949 production of THE
DUPLIN STORY. Sam Byrd
was 'made an honorary
citizen of both Duplin County
and Kenansville.
1 The earliest known members of the modern cat
family first appeared about 13 million years ago.
BUSINESS RUNS GRAND OPENING The Shoe Outlet,
located on Joe Sutton's Corner at the intersection of
Highways 24 and 50 in Warsaw, will be running its grand
opening through July. The store is owned by Allen Sutton
and Delbert Taylor and is managed by Faye Jackson,
pictured above. Store hours are Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The
Shoe Outlet offers men's, women's and children's shoes at
discount prices. First quality merchandise is featured.
Handbags, socks and hosiery are also available.
Choose and Grow V
DAYULUS
\ Peak blooming season now. Parannlal, multiplies
last, easy to grow and a versatile landscaping plant.
^ Stroll along display trails and select while Daylllies
are blooming from several hundred varieties In many
colors to plant now or order lor Fall delivery.
Some plants are now on sale at reduced prices. FREE
bonus plants with qualifying orders
Great Gifl Idea
Gardens are open all day Monday through Sunday.
Visitors are welcome.
Sheffields'
"Wildwood" Gardens
107 Meadowbrook. Lane Warsaw. N.C. 28398
Charles & Mary Sheffield Owners
(919) 293-4615
Watch for entrance tign on Hwy. 24E, turn off Hwy. 24E
onto Acacia Sreet. Travel one block to enter unpaved
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liberty
Cartrf
1983 Season
Jvly 8 - August 21
Wednesday thru Sunday
William R. Kenan, Jr.
Memorial Amphitheatre
Kenansville
THE LIBERTY CART plays July 8.9,10,14,15,
16,17,21,23,24,28,30,& 31, August 4,6,7,
11,13,14,18,20,421,
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opening at 8:15 p.m. each evening
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Phone 296-0721 lor ticket (information