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No. XXXII—No. 8
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Uilhif^ N. C.».;Tliund«y, Februovy 23, 19S0
“K It
Hmili. IPs la THE NEWS”
In and
Out of
Lillington
FOOR LITTLE PIGGIE!
Chances are that, if bad weather
does strike here in the next thirty
ti/ sixty days, most folks will want to
blame it on the Groundhog, regard
less of whether the little piggie saw
bis shadow or not on February 2.
But, then again, perhaps very few
folks hereabouts know anything at
all about the Groundhog—that’s its
nickname, what is its real naitae?
No less an authority than Rod
Amundsen, editor of ‘^Wildlife in
North Carolina,” says the Gronnd-
hog isn’t, as-bad as most folks are
inclined to believe. He says the lit
tle creature is a real friend to sports
men in that its burrows are used by
many species of game'to hide from
their enemies.
What’s its real name? Marmota
monax.
C'AITION WITH POISON!
On the farm page in this issue of
The News is an article of interest to
others than farmers. It is written by
a member of the staff of the State
Board of Health—one who knows
what he is talking about.
He points to the danger of using
certain poisons to kill Insects with
out taking proper precaution to see
that none of the deadly stuff gets too
close to the human skin.
The writer says there are instances
of deaths arising from lack of such
precaution in using the poisons.
It’s another one of those problems
with which the farmer is confronted
•—the insects must be destroyed be
fore they destroy the crops. But at
the same time it is well to see that
the insects’ are the only lives to go
out.
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HAL’B CX>MPANY REPORTS
It’s an interesting report which
l^al Bradley's company mal&s ht thlk
Issue of The News. Hal, you know,
is agent for the Jefferson Standard
Life Insurance Company, one of
North Carolina’s largest institutions'.
The report gives Harnett county
folks the benefit of figures showing
what it is doing.
Hal is mighty busy right now in
his coaching. He's-leading the local
basketball team toward some covet
ed honors. But if you will be per
sistent enough he’ll take time out
to write you a policy in the Jefferson
Standard.
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NOT WORRYINO
“I’m not worrying,” said George
Coble to The News last Thursday in
courthouse auditorium when (he was
ti’ying to give everybody a chance to
air their views on how and w'hen
Harnett county roads should be im
proved.
”Yes. we’re going ahead fine,”
continued the District Commisrioner,
who looks as if he never worried a
mpment in his whole lifetime.
Told that some Harnett folks were
doing a lot of worrying, he said:
“Well, they needn’t, -because we’re
going to build them every foot of
road tltot we have money to pay
for. They can rest assured of that.”
Both Mr. Coble and Mr. Poindex
ter, his engineer, consumed -the en
tire time of the “conference'” in pa
tiently listening to the petitioners
and looking on the map to see the
pieces of road they u'auted fixed up.
Note: The Highway representa
tives made many friends on their
visit here last Thursday.
* * *
ALWAYS INTERES’HNG
Principal Henry Hamilton proba
bly may have entertained the idea
that he was choosing a subject that
would -be rather “dry” to his audi
ence last Thursday evening when he
took op the pjeogram period with a
talk about the Lillington school.
He was agreeably surprised, how
ever, when he saw all Rotarlans’
'eyes focused on him and ears open
wide for every wofd he was saying..
Intensely interesting was his pre
diction that “we shall htive .to give
breakfast to some of onr students.”
Already the school furnishes lun
cheon for students who have no way
of providing it for themselves. Sut
when Principal -Hamilton told of the
students who come -to school with
out breakfast, he touched tlie heart
of everyone within the sound of his
voice.
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INCREASED PAdLinBi}
You’ve heerd of the man who told
about “bulidlng a condition onto hfa
honee and extending a rerenne out
to bis gate so he -could contain hto
company with mbre hostill|;r”T
Well, that isn’t mmeUy what Mal
colm Fowler has done; hut'he'haa
erected a repair shop'adeigiuate to
(Continued on page two)
TWO LO(]AL MEN
BEGIN Bl-ULDING
RESIDENCES HERE
Say Thciy Can Sell
For $7,S>00 to $8,00;
FumishtHl If Desired
'lillington is to have a decided
boost in its building program. In
fact the'boost has- already -started
with one residence under construc
tion and others to follow.
Lamar 'Simmons and- H. M. Tur
lington Inform The Ndws they are
embarking on a program of resi
dence construction . to extend to
whatever demand there may be for
homes in Lillington.
R. M. Turlington, Lillington con
tractor, who constructed Mr. Sim
mons’ new home, is building the
houses. One under construction now
I'i located next to the home of Mr.
Robert Wom-ble. ,
Mr. Simimons and Mr. Turlington
say tbey estimate they cap sell the
homes they eroH at prices ranging
.from $7,500 to $8,000, depending
largely upon the number of rooms
and type of construction, location,
(Continued on page two)
Poor Minn!
Superior Ctourt Judge Henry L.
Stevens of Warsaw, who has been
entertaining the idea of opposing
Senator ^rank'Gratiam in the May
primary, has issued a statement
ill which he is too jjioor to ran.
I-ietters, phone calls and tele
grams from friends, he said, bad
almbst demanded tliat he ran, and
lie felt sure he coaid he elected,
but he deplored conditions which
almost rendered It impossible for
lilm to make the race.
In hiis statement, Judge Stevens
said:
”I say it humbly but sincerely
that if I have even been able to
evaluate a situation I am sore
that I could have been elected
Senator at this time.”
John Winfield Moves
Up In Agr. Dept.
John Winfield, who was prinplpal
of Angler school till he took a Job!
with the State Department of Agri
culture, has been promoted with the
appolhtment of Harry T. Westcott
to the Utilities Commission by Gov
ernor Scott.
Winfield will on. March let take
Westcott’s place as chief pf the -Di
vision of Markets.
Mr. and Mrs. Willy Obenaus
Glad To Arrive In America
There are five new people in
North Carolina today -who are more
than glad to be in America. More
tlfaft'tfhM, they will eljpbrlence a.i-
other burst of joy when Uncle Sam
has became satisfied they will make
good citizens and allows thbm natur
alization.
They are: Mr. and Mrs. Willy
Obenaus, v^ho arrived in Chapel .Hill
last Friday. They sailed aboard the
Queen .Mary with their three chil
dren, a son, Norberta 15, and two
daughters, Barbell, 12, and Elke, 7.
The Obenaus iamily, happily, wire
in tile American zone of Germany.
But even then tbeir happiness could
not be considered complete because
food Is none too plentiful or cheap
anywhere in i-.he still war-torn
Hitlerland.
Paill Green, noted author and
playwright, was responsible for the
Obenaus' family' coming to i(bis
country. Before the war Frau Obe
naus (then Misii Er'na Lamprecht)
visited the Greens and lived with
them for a year and a half.
Daring the wur years It was im
possible to hear, from her. But in
IS'46 the Greens heard «from her,
and In her letter she told not only
of her marriage and her husband
of her marriage and of her
some of the extreme difficulties
they eitporiemied 3f«y after day In
making even the pathway of life.
Mr. Green arranged for their com
ing to America. As soon as they
reached North Carolina, Mrs. Obe
naus and children visited Mr.
Green’s relatives in Harnett county.
Last Sunday she came to see the
Greens, Longs and all tho other
family kin. She didn’t have -time, of
course, to tell them the whole story
ol! her struggles In Germany during
and since the war, and she promised
to come again and talk further.
The Obepaus family will llye in
Chapel Hill aqd the children will en
ter school there.
The family lived at Hattor In the
Harz Mountain section of Germany.
Miss -Buie -Long and some others of
the Green relatives had been send
ing boxes of gifts, and Mrs. Obe
naus reluctantly -tol-d them Sunday
that she was forced to exchange
some of the gifts (or food.
Now that they are safely located
in .4merica, the term -happiness has
an entirely new and a much broader
meaning for the Obenauses.
BaQ Tonmauiail Starts
la Local Gym Monday
The^ annual I!;arpett County Bas
ketball .-Tournament to determine
tbe county champions will get under
way Monday nlgbt of next week at
6:'3‘0 in Lillington’s' spacious gym
nasium. -
The tournament is sponsored by
the Harnett Ed aco Club ' and the
following schedule has been an
nounced:
Monday Night, IFeb. 27
' 6:'3fi: -Lillington vs LaFayette,
boyjB.
7:30: -Buie’s ftreek vs Coats, girls.
8:'S'0: Boone I'rMl vs Angler, hoys.
Tuesday Night, Feb. 22
8:3-0-: Angler vs Boone Trail, girls.
'7:i30: Ooats vs 'Benhaven, boys.'
8:30: Anderson Creek vs Sen-
haven, girls,
WodiMsday Night, March 1
Erwin vs .winner of -Ben-
haven-Cbato game, -boys.
7:30-: LaFayette vs Lillington,'
...
8.80: Anderson Creek Vs Bnte’d
Creek, boys.
Thursday Nlj^t, Marpb 2
.>6 :80: Erwin vs winner of Bump’s
Creek-Coats game,^ girls,
•7:t0i' Setni finals, boys.
8:40: Semi finals, girls.
Nighty Idanfii 8
' T:Z9i. Semi fiiuls, girls.
. 8:30: Semi finals, boys.
'teitimiair Night, March 4
7/>tG: $'lnals, girls.
’8:i80: Finals, boys.
Admission to the toniroament
games will be 2 Sc for school children
and 60 cents for svduts. -For tbe
finals on'March 4 admission will be
36 cents for school children and
76 cents for ad-hlts. -Proceeds from
the tournament will be divided
among the schools.
The Educo Glnb has'^announced
that each team will be given 34
passes for players, coaches and
cheer leaders.
Each b^s’ team participating in
tournament will ibo allowed 11 play
ers, and each girls’ team will be al
lowed 13 players. Referees who will
officiate at all 'of"the'games will be
furnlghed' by the Fort Bragg Offi
cials Training SchooL-
' iCoach 'Hal -Bradley 'of -the host
school has stated that ^tensive
preparations are being niade-;dpr the
tournament and that ^e'verVthlng.
will be in readlpesei game timp
next Monday nights -Mr. 'Bradley:
states that four dyesbing tooms, twp;
for the jboys .and two for the girls,
will, be -oomplete -with -Uhowers and
heating for the tonmiiament. He also
states tha^. the modern new tfexe
clock and-soore-^rd presented to
the school ’ by* the’ ^UUngtoh Seniors
has been Installed and wUl be used^
for the tournament.
New roU-away bleachers have re
cently been added to the local .gy-a
whteh vmr -'afford several hundred
additional aeata tor
if(^ T^ ASSUME
ms iUD€»:sHip
BY MARGII FIRST
Godvrin Says Many
Matters To Arrange
For Traiisfer
Hoping ttiat he -may bo able to re
linquish the Job'^'of Clerk ot Court
of Harnett county-by March 1st and
assume his new 'duties an a Special
Jiidge of tho Superior Court, Howard
Godwin told Tl^’e News yesterday
that there are many matters he
must arrange before the Clerk’s of
fice can be turned over to whoever
is appointed by )ndge Clawson 'Wil
liams of' Snnt'ord to -the unmipired
term of Clerk.
The unerplred term of .Judge God
win runs until li'efxt, December 1st.
Mr. Godwin has three funds in hla
charge: tho .Superior Court fund,
tho Recorder fund, and the trust
fund. IiP hddltlo^, there are many
legal matters regularly handled by
tbe Clerk’s office that must pass
from Mr. Godwin’s responsibility to
that of the appointee.
There is also an audit to be made
of alil the Clerk’s accounts so that
the incoming Clerk will, as the say
ing goes, “take H from -there.” The
sums In the hands of Clerk Godwin
must be totaled so that the new
Clerk will know exactly what his
responsibility will be from a finan
cial standpoint.
The Board of County Commission
ers lias appointed Thurman Ennis,
Certified Public Accountant of Dunn,
to audit the accounts in the Clerk’s
office. It Is estimated that the work
will require four or five days or pos
sibly a week.
CHAFFIN LR4EI4'’ APPOINTEE
Although Judge Williams has noi
announced bis decision In the kp*
pointment of Court Clerlt to succeed
Judge Godwin, it is generally ac
cepted that he will name Attorney
L. M. Chaffin of Lillington, who hcM
the Job for sixteen years up until
the time Clerk Godwin took over in
*^af«n I'irst enterlfid Mm huseVB
office as ddputy^under Arthur Mc
Donald, who retired broin -the office
after one term, and Chaffin suc
ceeded him as Court Clerk.
Campbell Elects
May King, Queen
Bob Lasater, local boy, and Mar-
shale Mood}’-of Siler City have been
elected King and Queen at Campbell
College.
They will be crowned at Campbell
May 6 by Archie Lynch, also local
iboy, and Ruth Harper of Ixiulsburg,
Kshief attendants.
Girls elected to - th^ . court are
“Pat” -Lamm of Spring Hope, Aante
Stuart -of Woodsdale, Diantha Min
ton of Fairbluff, and “Jackie” Pul
len of Castalia, sOphomore girls;
Barbara -Britt of Bamesville, Bonnie
Lyncb, local iidrl, and Sally Caddell
of Sanford, freshmen, a'Ud Marylln
Caolk of Bennett, high »;hool.
Men in tbe court follow: George
Graybill of Roanoke, 'ire.', S, G.
Flowers and Johnny -Alford of Zebn-
lon, and Clawson Ellis of Sanford,
sophomores; Bobby- Hays of -Raleigh,
BUI Biiggers of -Bahama, and “Bun
ny” Brake of Rowland, freshmen;
and Tom Watkins of B^mson, high
school.
Hatch l^kheduled For
March Crinmiai Term'
Judge William T. -Hatch of iRal-
eigh is scheduled to preMde at the
March criminal term of Harnett Su
perior-Court. The term I is lor ono
week and 'vill begin on Monday,
Marelli 20.
Asked by The News -who would
preside at the April civil term ot
two weeks. Clerk Howard Godwin,
newly appointed Special- Judge, re
plied; "MajrlM I wlU.” ,
Judge Godwin is soon to assume
hla duties as a Special Judim- to fill
out the unqxpired term -of the late'
Jnlge -Wilkins P. Horton.
Harnett Standing Hiiifh In List
Of Counties’ Highway Projects
With 6 Mails Incoming Daily
Lillington Has Better Service
COEiLE ASSURES
(3TIZENS A FULL
SHARE OF ROADS
It may not be that Lillington Is
now receiving more 'and better mall,
but since inauguration of the Hlgh-
'way Postoffice Mall, the service has
been more satisfactory.
Main reason is that shortly after
9 o’clock In the morning, all ot the
forenoon mail is placed' In tbe -boxes
at the -postoffice, thus allowing local
residents to proceed with the day's
work after “going through the
mail.”
^ First mail to arrive in the morn
ing Is the Highway Postoffke truck
which comes ait 3:30 a. m. The
track mailman has a key to the of
fice. He deposits the mall inside,
locks the door again. The office
opens at 8 when the star route mail
arrives from Sanford.
At 8:30 the LiUington-*ltenn star
route mail comes in. Then at 9 the
regular Raleigh - Fayetteville star
route carrier arrives.
This perked-up schedule allows
the postoffice force -to assort the
morning mail and rural carriers to
get out at least half an 'hour earlier.
The postoffice force then has a
breathing spell till 4:28 in the
afternoon—-p .spell, that Is, which
involves no handling of Incoming
mails. To be sure tliere is the usual
stamp, money order and other work
aday detail that goes on continuous
ly from opening until closing time.
There are only two afternoon
mails. Tbe first to arrive Is the
Highway -Postoffice track from Rteh-^*
mond, ,on Ha way back to its other
terminal. Sanford. It cMnes in to
LllUngton at 4:28.
Then there is the 'Raleigk-Fay-
etteviile star ronte mkll arriving
here at 4:30. This mall is scheduled
to get here about >i o’clock, hot re
pair work on the direct route to
Fayetteville forces the carrier to de
tour over the Fort Br^fg road
which takes about haK an hour
longer. '
Helping to make the rush hours
in the morning even “ruahier” is
the morning daily newspapon that
arrive sometime before daybreak.
The papers are processed along with
the other morning mail.
Another feature of the new High
way Mail service neted by local
people is the fact that praetiea|ly all
mail is now speeded in transit.
HtsariiiR Here Last
Tlkursday Develops
Into Harmony Meet
GIRL SCOUT
DAY CAMPS
ARE PLANNED
Mesdames Hal Bradley aad
W. B. Hunter Attend Girl
Scout Meetini: in Sanford
Mrs. Hal Bradley,and Mrs. W. B.
Hunter ot Lillington attended a
meet in Sanford last Friday at the
home of Mrs. J. N. McNair, to which
were invited representatives from
the Girl Scout Council in each ot the
participating towns in this Girl Scout
area.
At this meeting Mrs. Helen Hud
gins, Girl Smut Executive, presented
the plans for the Girl Scout Day
Camps that will be held this summer
in each of the -towns represented.
Further information relating- to
these Day Camps will be released
soon.
PreaciunR Sc^rvicet
At Ephesus Church
' There will he preaching serrices
at Ephesus Charcl^ neid: Sunday,
February 26, at 11:00’ o’clock in
the mcrnlng and again at 7:30 In
the evening. Rev. ClifUm of Boison
will preach at the morning senrtcf
and Rev. Young, a senior at the
Union Seniianry of JUirtunoud. will
preach at the evening service.
The pnblie is estended a most
cordial invitation to attend thass
services.
RETCRNB
Mias Ruth Sawyer of Llillngton
returned from WaMilagton, D. C.
last Sunday after spending a week
with her sister. Hiss Iris Sawyer ot
'Washington, who has been in the
hospital for a week aftmr having an
operation.
Schools Collect Total Of
m
$1,344.86 For ‘Dimes’ Fund
Harnett county schools went all-
out for success of the March of
Dimes campaign in -Harnett county,
and collected a toh^ ot $l,34i’JSd,
whic.. Supt. C. -Reid -Ross has turned
over to Chairman Ernest P. Rn'&sell
of Dunn.
Boone Trail led the list in the
white schools, and the 'Harnett
County Training School at Dunn led
all colored schools in the amount
collected.
For information not only of the
school forces but all others who are
interested in the part the county
.took in the polio fund drive. The
News is giving herewith the entire
list of funds turned in each school.
The list is as follows:
White Scfaols
Anderson Creek $100.M>i
Angler : 261.6h
Benhaven 1— 40.69
-Boone Trail
Buie’s Creek
Bunnlevel
Buckhorn
Coats
Dunn High
Dunn Elementary
Erwin
LaFi^ette —
XJllington
Mary Stewart
Negro
Ridgeway .
Angier
Coats
Shawtown
Norrington
Mt. Plsgah
H. C. Training School
^ith Grove
Jofansonvllle
Erwin
Bethlehem
Cedar Grove
10.01
2.10
4. 0
20.09
4.79
5. fl
42.29
6.09
lt.2f)
12.09
«.41
6.09
HeaUh Mobiles Have Bio
MethodUt Tu Have
a t ' -
Lasnuefi’s Day Sundlby
Ciewds el'PBienis'Heie
Larmen's Day will he obscurrad
SaudKY. February 26, at 2-1:00 a. m.
Two .'mobile -units being operant-
ed ,by the -Harnett County Health
Department for Chest X-ray and -Dia
betes mmminhtions lined up on Front
at the Ltlllaelon.Meaiodiat Church.' etreet in Lillington Tuesday morn-
;Mr.. John Spears, Ct^erge l4iy
Lerw.iU-candqct the eervtoe.
Yo^ VuJiiimt To Be
Heard at Canqibell
a special’ preedhfsiiton In ihl
of 1949-60 concerts, Uie^Gape
FWar Music Festival Asaoclatioa
-MU present Victor dhcdumis, 26-
3War-old Latvian vtotlnist,. on Mareh
7 at 6 p. -m.. in Caatpbiiei Gallege
a'j.Jit«riam. .. i.i ■- •
ing:
' The ’ ti
parked on the north side (tf the
Mreet, .one in front' ot Kelly’s drug
store, Gie other in front of the post-
bni}ding.- .
Ptoviiw tiie.pflipolari^ of the tree
ncnice rafforded' by the- units, the
long Unes whiting tarn for the tests
ektended from driveway -to driveway
WecRoeUy an imr-
The unite will be tttee tbrouiA
Saturday, Vehraary- 26. Tkay Will be
Ut Coato aeheol -on VabreMy 8^
for
lag completed the
Dun, Erwin, Angier aad
All peraems of Gie age of 16 years
and up are examtaKsd. No appolnt-
mehu are neceasary. AU one needs
to do is get in Ihie aad await tun
for entrance Into the units. Binmi-
aatioaa efe entirely free.
In the crowds hece at tim epsw^
Ing day, of the dve-day scheimie in
LBllngtoa the applIcaBto for esamin-
atioa were about evenly dtvidad be
tween -white and eelored.
Only a few miantea is leqaiied to
make the teats. YIm homrs fur epmr-
atiag the antis are 10 a. m. to 4
p. m.
'The namheraC parflone taking the
npb
X-iny-~6.6i8;
Whai, had been predicted in some
quarters as a “hot dtscussion’* turn
ed out to be more of a harmony
session last Thursday afternoon
when District Highway Commission
er Geoi*ge Coble came to LllUngton
for a conference with the Board of
County Commissioners on the topic
of -Harnett’s. share or improved ru
ral roads and when improvements
will -be made.
Commissioner Coble brought with
him Engineer T. G. Poindexter, and
together with the ‘various delega
tions seeking Improvements on links
of road, the map prepaid by En
gineer Poindexter 'was reviewed
showing each link that the Highway
€ommii«ion had marked for im
provement.
' As group after group went over
the map with the highway engineer,
Gonunifsioner Chairman Lofton Tart
repeatedly called on the conrtroom
full of interested citizens to come
forwarii and explain their particular
piece ot road in order to determine
whether it had been placed on the
map.
Storting off the meeting, Commis
sioner Coble read a pr^aied state
ment la -which it vras shown that
Harnett county stands to get even
more Improvements on Its rarni
roads t.han had been generally an
ticipated locally.
After the Commiationer read the
statement, there -was no noUcenble
tension in the gathering. Revelations
were g).*attfying to tiioae whoee roads
are laclnded In n contract letting
schednled for next Tuesday; also to
those vrho were aasured that in the
near fiitnre there will be consider
ably more improvemnt work going
on thr»ughout the county.
Following is COmmisMoner Coble’s
(Ccintinned on page eight)
Metliodut Men
Orgiinized Here
Tbe organisation Methootst Hen
of the Lillington Methodist Ctanreh
was perfected at a dinner meeting
in the social rooms ot the church
Wednesday night, Febraary 15 ’with
a memttership of around 20. Hr. Hal
Bradlej’ was elected president of the
newly "formed organisation.
The Woman’s Society of Christian
Service served the dinner.
Mrs. Bass Improving
From Auto Injuries
Mrs. Connie Earl Bass of Lilling
ton, who was badly injured last
week near Micro when another car
driven by -Boris Toaag of New Jer
sey crashed into the car in 'which she
was riding and was being driven by
her hnzhnnd, is improving.
Mr. Bass’s car was badly danmged.
Patrolman Kenly. who inveatignted
the craiih, held Yonng on n charge
ot reckless driving.
Vari^Ity Sliow At
Angier Hi|^ School
A Vaiiety Show sponaiwed by the
Junior tltoas of Angler fiDgh School
will he given in the school anditor-
inm FTfiday -February 24, at 2:00
o’clock. Admission cknrge 'wUl be 60
cento fer adnlts and 26 cento for
children
Music,, popular and hUlbtUy songs.
^UMce. recitations, comedy acts, ac-
rohaties and vnrions other forma ot
entertainment will be presented in
the ahovr. -
PTA Dale Changed
of
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