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Vol. X>:XII—No. 34
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Lillington, N. C.^ Thursday, August 31, 1950
*Tf It Coocoras Hamatt, IPs In THE NEWS *
In and
Out of
Lillington
PGELINa MIGHTY OLD
County Schools Start
HARNETT GETS
Off In 1950-51 Term
TEN SCHOOLS
OPEN THEIR
DOORS TUESDAY
Rest Will Open On
Second Date Sept. 6;
Impovenients Made
A man came into The News office
the other day to renew his subscrip-
lion which he had allowed to lapse.
“Been out in the fields lately and
just haven’t had a chance to get
here to renew before”, he told us.
“And besides, I'm getting too old
to be getting around too much any
way”, he continued. "You don’t look
very old to us”, we told him. How
old are you?”
"55”, he answered.
We took a step backward and ,,
said. "Why. you don’t think that 65
is old. do you?"
Ten schools in the county opened
Tuesday as the ] 950'-61 school year
got underway. I.arger enrollments,
school improvements and full com-
“WeH”, he said, “it sure feels old
to me when I’m plowing.”
* • *
ONE OP HER OWN
One day last v/eek a very nice
lady caiae Into the office to sub
scribe to The News. “You know”,
she said. ’Tve been reading my
neighbor’s Harnett County News
long enough now and I’ve decided
that 1 ought to take it myself.”
We agreed with her that that was
.a fine Idea. Everyone in the county
should take their countyseat paper
and read it regularly to keep up
with what 3 going on in their ow’n
county, it pays mtmy ways.
DIVERTED FUNDS
One of the neighbors tells us this
one:
The mother had given her very
young daughter a nickel to put in
the coll act ion in her first visit to
Sunday .school. Informing her that it
was for Jesus.
The little daughter returned from
Sunday school with a ^package of
chewing gum. The mother wanted to
know where it came from, and the
daughter told her;
"Well, mother, you said for me
to give the nickel to Jesus, but I
didn’t see Him anywhere.”
PAY'S TO LUG LUGS NOW
A not-so-old Harnett county farm-
tures of opening days.
AM the schools in the county chose
the August 29 opening date except
the Dunii-Erwin schools, the Negro
schools, and the Indian school. On
Monday afternoon teachers’ meetings
were held In all the schools which
began the year on Tuesday, at which
time principals and teachers made
final preparations for the new year.
As had been anticipated the enroll
ment in classes this year is higher
than it was last .year. In the schools
that opened Tuesday there were
three more teachera than there were
for the 1949-50 year. These teacher
allotment increases were one ele
mentary teacher added at Benhaven;
I one high school teacher added at
Angler; one high school teacher add
ed in the Coats district; one ele
mentary teacher added in the LiU-
ington district: and one high school
teacher added at Boone Trail. At
the same time, however, the 'Buie’s
Creek district lost one elementary
teacher and one high shcool teacher.
These allotment changes were bas
ed on enrollment last year, but there
is still some increase In enrollment
this year in most places over what it
was last year.
'During the summer months
has been a small scale program go
ing on in most of the schools to
touch up and repair where they were
needed in the v.irious schooils. This
was in addition to the large scale
building program that- is now un-
Boone Trail Ruritans
To Meet Thursday
■' The Boone Trail iRurltan CAub will
meet Thursday night, August 31.
The program committee has arrang
ed another entertaining and profit
able program. Members who were
thrilled by the special music toy the
Ralph Harrington Quartet and the
splendid report on the rehabilitation
of the hall-stricken area of Nash
county as given by John Winfield,
are looking forward to the meeting
Thursday night with enthusiasm.
22 LILLINGTON
GRADUATES WILL
GO TO COLLEGE
Campbell College To
Receive Five; State
Second With Three
er. returning from a tobacco market derway
lugs
the othsr day, reported that
brought from $52 to $6i9'.
"And to think." he said, "Not so
many years ago it dld’n’t pay to lug
lugs to market.”
ENLISTMENTS STEADY
Enlistments by Harnett County
youth in the Army and Air Corps
are remaining at about a steady
level, sccordlng to a recruiting
corporal from Payetteville. “Wo have
about 20 a month, or about 4> every
week to enlist from this county”,
the corporal said, “and that number
is staying about the same now,”
He said that the Korean war is
making a dent in the enllstjgients by
the 17 and 18 year age group because
with the fighting going on so many
mothers and fathers don’t want their
sons to enlist. “And then too,” he
coninued, “we make it a policy not
to try to encourage boys to enlist
when their parents are against it.”
When he spoke about the draft,
the corporal said right now there
is a very high oercent of men who
Some of the tofggest of these sum
mer repair jobs and doing over of
cla^.■^^’ooms and such took place at
tlie Lillington High School where
the cafeteria and a basement stor
age room got a going over. Principal
H. H. Hamilton said that the base
ment storage room, which was the
agriculture room before the agricul
ture building was erected, has been
made Into a clausroom for one sec
tion of the fith grade. Fluorescent
lights, a laboratory and a drinking
fountain have been Installed in the
room.
Also, in the cafeteria a new tile
floor is being put in with a mastipave
tile which HamUtbn thinks will last
for a long time. The cafeteria is also
receiving a new paint jo'b on the
walls and an electric water heater is
being installed. New plastic dishes,
which are light and do not break
when dropped, have been secured to
go in the cafeteria. Hamilton says
that this work should ibe completed
this week in time for the cafeteria
to start serving next Monday.
Around $600' has been spent for
aie registered with the ,\,ew books in the library, and Ham-
who are not being taken In. He said
it would be a different story though
when the draft boards begin calling
the age group from 19 to 21. “Those
boys are in better physical shape
and they are advtinced in education
too”, he said.
Getting back to enlistments, he
said that the higher the number of
enlistments that the services receive,
the lower the draft calls will be.
“But,” he.stated, "the trouble Is
hat everybody is waiting for the
other man to take the first step.’
(Coninued on page 10)
Twenty-two members of the thirty-
six seniors who graduated from the
Lillington High School last spring
are planning to attend a college or
are going into training of one type
or another. Five of this number
have chosen Campbell College here
in the county as their school of
higher learning.
Three out of the four colleges in
the “Big Four” schools will receive
Lillington graduates, with the 'Uni
versity at Chapel Hill the only one
left out. Three of the seniors will go
to State College in Raleigt), two will
attend Duke, and one will begin
classes at Wake Forest.
t
Two of the girls will begin nurse
training, and one will go out of the
state to take laboratory training at
St. Louis. V
The list of seniors who will begin
training this fall is given as follows;
Campbell College; Nina iRuth
Byrd and Vivian Byrd, both of Bunn-
level; Madge Spence Eugene Cooke,
and Marvin Murray, all of Idlling-
ton R-2.
State College; Dewey Adams and
David Blalock, tooth of Dunnlevel;
Dallas Pope of Lillington >R-1.
Duke: Veve Cavlness and Dorothy
Secrest, both of Lillington.
Queens’; Monteen iBethune of
Bunnlevel and Ruby Peede of Lill
ington.
Woman’s College (W.C.U.N.C.):
Grace Gastineau and Elizabeth Mur
chison, both of Lillington.
Meredith: Pat O’Qulnn of Lilling
ton.
Greensboro College; Jackie Mc
Leod of Lillington.
Wake Forest; Carol Hobbs of
Bunnlevel.
E. C. T. C.: Janie Parker of Er
win R-1.
Davidson:- Johnnie Smith of Lill
ington iR-3.
Highsmifh Hospital: Mable Butts
of Lillington iR-1.
Walker Memorial Hospital: Ka
thryn .Matthews of Bunnlevel.
Gradwohle Laboratory, St. Louis:
Dorothy Sutton of Lillington.
SECOND CALL
FOR EIGHTY MEN
Citizens of Dnnn To Vote
Number 20 Larger.
Than Last Call; 8
Delinquents Reply
Neill McK. Salmon Is Chosen
To Head Harnett County Bar
CIMMENT SKIN GAME
Neill McK. Salmon, local attorney,
was elected Monday morning as pre
sident of the Harnett County Bar
Association for the coming year.
Other officers elected by the lawyers
were Everette L. Doffermyre of Dunn
Talking to a friend the other day igg Vice-President and J. Shep Bryan
who knows a little toll about the Dunn as Secretary and Treasurer,
cement shortage that Is confronting
many contractors these days, we
I This action was taken when the
iiiaujr T*V Aiffu 'lawyers of the county met Monday In
were Informed that while Its dim-. , , , . t m rthov
. * j C erk of Superior Court L, M. Chaf-
ciilt to find any of that material tor
. . .ui at loaat fw’s offlcc to BBt the Calendar for
sale in this country, or at least
around here, it can be purchased
abroad.
That didn’t sound exactly right to
ns, but here’s the way our friend
explained It, This country has been
selling the stuff to foreign countries,
according to our friend, and now
taat It can’t be had for love nor
iitoney around here, the foreign
countries- are selling the ceanent
right back to us at an increased price
over whtft they paid for It.
if that is what Is really going on,
it sounds sort of like a little skin
game toeing pulled on 'Us. And the
people who are getting stuck are the
contractors who hare aHready Inkod
contracts. There is still a little ce-
(Contolnued on page 2)
the September term of Superior
Court. Retiring president I. R. Wil
liams of Dunn presided at the meet
ing. The newly elected officers will
start their terms as of September 1»
of this year.
Other business taken up by the
lawyers Monday, other than setting
h'e calendar for the court, was the
notification of the meeting on Sep-
ember lilt for the setting of the cal
endar for the 0!tober term of court.
The members of the B^r from Dunn
extended an invitation to the Harnett
County Bar Association to bold the
October calendar meeting on Seip-
temiber 11 in Dunn. The associatioh
readily accepted the invitation.
The lawyers attending the calen-
The second draft call tor Harnett
county has come through, this time
for 80 men to report for pre-induc
tion examinations, Miss 'Helen Hof
mann, clerk to the 'Iboard, reported.
This is 20 more than the first call
that the board received early this
month.
For the past few weeks Afiss Hof
mann said that they were expecting
to receive another order for draf
tees, and that this second order
would be about tlie same as the first,
she thought.
At the same time, figures at the
offices of the local draft board show
that out of the original |1’9 boys who
were classlfled as delincuerts as of
the first of August, 8 have checked
with the board and cleared them-'
l^lves. This leaves a total of 11 Har
nett men who are still considered as
delinquent and who are eligible for
the September 22 call.
After the first call was sent out,
of which this county’s quota was &0',
pre-induction notices were sent to a
few more than flO men In the county.
Tills figure over 60 was to take care
of the few who would not show, up
in Fayetteville for their pre-induc
tion expi-ms and the extra few wotfld
make up for that»aumtoer. However,
Miss Hofmann reported that a very
large percent of those called from
Harnett reported for their exams.
The local office was not at liberty to
say just how many did report for
their exams, though.
This time the pre-induction exams
will be held In Raleigh for the (Har
nett inductees. This second call that
the draft board has received speci
fies that the county send Rd men for
their pre-lndi^ctlOn exams in -Raleiglr
on September i2i2, which will toe on
a Friday. No redson was given as to
why the changer^front Fayetteville to
Raleigh was made for the pre-induc
tion center for Harnett men.
The local draft board la cutting
deeper and deeper into its eligible
men between the agra of !■& and 26.
Miss Hofmann reported that the
board Is now down to the group of
mtn who were born in 1928, or the
22"year-old3. The 25, 24, and 23-
year-old groups were not expected to
turn out any great number of draf
tees as the great majority of them
are either veterans or are married or
are men who were rejected for ser
vice in the last war.
Miss Hofmann said she still has
no idea when all the eligible men
down though the li9-year-olds will be
called up. She said that that all de
pends on the number and size of the
calls that the state office sends in,
but that from indications the later
calls may possibly- be larger and
more numerous.
Satiizday on Beer-Wine Sale
MISS JOSEPHINE
BRYAN IS MISS
FARMER’S DAY
Lillington Girl Wins
Beauty Contest At
Fuquay-Varina
Miss Josephine Bryan. 20 year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Bryan of Lillington, was chosen Miss
Farmer’s Day of 1950' last Wednes
day at the big Farmer’s Day cele-
Itration in Fuquay-Varina. Miss
Bryan, who was sponsored in the
contest by the Lillington Rotary
Club, won the contest over the com
petition of rSi other girls from sur
rounding communities.
This year the attractive Miss
Bryan will be a senior at the Wo
man’s College in Greensboro, where
she is a marshal. She was selected
by a committee appointed by the
Rotarians at their regular Thursday
night meeting on August 17, and
rode on a float in the big iparade
through Fuquay-Varina on Wednes
day, August 23.
The beauty contest was held at
noon time following the parade and
Miss Bryan, the queen, was crowned
that night at a dance. The merchants
of Fuquay-Varina presented Miss
Bryan with many beautiful gifts as
their part in helping to crown the
queen. *r
Chosen as the attendants to Miss
Parmer’s Day were Magdalene Gul
ley, .Miss Garner, and Alice Ann
.4darns, Miss Angier.
To Clean Flat Branch
Cemetery Saturday -
LIKE FATHER,
LIKE SON! THEY
FIGHT THE FOE
Sgt. John A. Smith, Son of
. Sgt. and Mrs. J. B. Smith,
Now Fighting In Korea
The cemetery at Fiat 'Branch
Church will be cleaned utp on Satur
day, September 2, beginning at 7:00i
o'clock.
All ihoro with friends and rela
tives burled there are urged to come
and help.
FEDERAL OFFICERS CAPTURE
FTILL IN HARNETT
Federal ATU and Cumberland ABC
officers captured a liquor still last
week in Johnsonvllle township and
arrested four men, among them Mar
vin Gilmore of Sanford R-6: others
were Christopher Cameron and Lynn
Knight of Cameron R-2 and Joseph
O. Johnson of Merry Oaks.
They were held for Federal court.
Miss Farmer’s Day
'ORGANIZATIONS
FIGHTING BOTH
FOR AND AGAINST
UnsS JOSEPHINE BRYAN
County Voted Out
Light Beverages
Last September
ROTARIANS HEAR
MARKETING HEAD
TALK THURDAY
John Winfield Telia
Of Agricultural Push
During Past 10 Years
John Winfield, chief of the Mar
keting Division of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture, addressed the
Lillington Rotary Club last Thursday
night at its regular weekly meeting.
Mr. Winfield, who was the guest of
D. B. Dean, spoke to the club on the
improvements in agriculture that
have been made in the last 10 years.
Mr. Winfield said that there is a
revolution going on in agriculture.
He used Lancaster County in Penn
sylvania as an example of the suc
cessful! results of this revolution. He
stated that they grow more feed
grain there than they can use them
selves, and that peir fine pastures
provide ample grazing land for their
livestock.
Harnett county came into Mr.
Winfield’s talk when be spoke of
the possibilities right here at home.
He said that by looking over Harnett
it was obvious that the revolution
has’started here too. He emphasized
the point that farmers in this county
ought to develop more pasturage and
raise more livestock.
Mr. Winfield’s presentation of the
development and future of agricul
ture was very well received by the
members present. Other guests at the
meeting were Dr. Charles W. Byrd
and Mr. R. W. Winston, both of the
nunn Club.
Group to Look Into Activities
In Behalf of County’s Children
Sg^. J. B. Smith, retired from the
Army after serving thirty years
which carried him through WoiHd
Wars I and H, lives in Lillington
\frith his family and will fight no
^ore—that is, in Uncle Sam’s Army
like be used to.
But his son, Sgt. John B. Smith,
is in the thick of it in Korea. In a
letter to his father, Sgt. John says
he is located in the Masan sector,
and adds that “It’s tough enough.”
The elder sergeant believes, too.
It is tough in Korea — probaibly
tougher than anything he’s been
through, and he has seen some tough
'going in his long and useful .service
to Uncle Sam’s Army,
j How tougher will the Korean
fighting get? That’s the sixty-four
dollar question.
Miss Kate Black
To Work For Chatham
ATTORNEY SAldIDN
Mias Kate" Black of .Reidsville, a
former teacher in the Coats School,
has taken a position in the office of
Rep. Thurmond Chatham. Miss Black
has already taken over her duties In
the Washington office.
The Coats School retfeived Miss
Black following her graduation from
the Woman’s College in Ifi&O*. From
there she went to work for Du’Pont
in Martinsville, Va. until 1M6.
While she was teaching in' Coats
Miss Black made many friends In
dar meeting Monday were Franklin
T. Dupree, J.'A. McLeod, D C. Wll- that section of the county who re-
son, J. O. West, W. ‘B. (Barefoot, member her well. Sh'e, has' another'
E. L. Doffermyre, .Neill MeK. Sal- connection with Harnett in that she
mon, Neill iMoK. iRoss, M. O. Lee, is the sister of Mrs. O. «. Keene of
and W. A. Johnson. Coats.
An impressive roster of Harnett
county citizens will take a searching
look at projects and activities under
way on behalf of the coupty’s chil
dren and youth at a meeting set for
August 31, at the Community Build
ing in Lillington, at 7:30 o’clock, it
has toeen announced here today.
In a grass-roots meeting prelimin
ary to the Midcentury White House
Conference on Children and Youth,
similar to many now toeing carried
on throughout the United States,
civic and public officials and many
interested individuals, under the
chairmanship of Mrs. Joel Layton,
Jr., will survey the facilities avail
able for strengthening the lives of
children and young people and dis
cuss the still-unmet needs of the
county in this field.
Mrs. Layton was named to head
the White House Conference Pro
gress Report (Meeting in this county
by the North Carolina /Conference
for Social Service, which was desig
nated by Governor Cherry in 194^
and has since been renamed by Gov
ernor Scott to co-ordinate the state’s
part in the nationwide Conference.
The White House Conference, slat
ed for Washinglton the week of Dec
ember 3, was called 'by President
Truman and will toe the fifth such
conference held at 10-year intervals
at the xequest of U. S. presidents
since Theodore Roosevelt asked for
the first one in 1909. It is planned
at the culmination of the two years
of work that have gone into the de
velopment since the call for the 'Mid-
century Conference was Issued in
1948.
- Local meetings, similar to the one
planned in Harnett' county, are being
organized by the North Carolina Con
ference for Social Service, under
local leadership, all over the state.
These meetings will feature reports
on the projects and activities under
way on behalf of children and youth
by community groups and in view of
these reports wiii decide on the fur
ther needs of the county in this re
gard and consider ways and means
of filling these needs.
Invited to attend Harnett county’s
White House Conference Progress
Report Meeting are all members of
the county government, all members
of the county boards of education,
recreation, welfare, and health, and
members of the boards of similar
private agencies, representatives of
both men’s and women’s civic and
professional and church groups,
youth organizations, farm organiza
tions and their youth divisions, and
interested individuals frdfh through
out the county. Other interested citi
zens will be welcomed.
Work has been underway for two
years on the White House Confer
ence. and’ the actual meeting to be
held' in Washington will in reality
be for the purpose of reviewing
what has been accomplished and
planning for following up on the
.existing needs of children and youth.
The meeting in this'county will help
to constitute the local report, which
will be Incorporated as a part of the
North Carolina report at the Wash
ington meeting.
'Dean Guy Phillips of the U.N.C.
School of Education is president of
the. North Carolina Conference for
Social Service, and 'Mrs. Tom Qrler
of Raleigh is executive secretary.
Dr. Ellen Winston, the state’s Com
missioner of Public Welfare, and'im
mediate past j^resldent of the North
Carolina Conference, is chairman of
the White House Conference steer
ing committee In this state.
year ago the voters of Harnett
county decided to outlaw the sale of
beer and wine, and the majority
against the beverages was over
whelming. On November 15 they
aagin went to the polls to decide
on hard liquors, whether the sale
should be made legal in the county
through the state ABC system. That
decision was also very one-sided
against the liquor stores.
Since that time there has been
quite a good deal oi sentiment in
Dunn for the re-establishment of
legal sale of beer and wine, and sev
eral times it has been hinted that,
sooner or later, there would toe a
petition from the citizens of Dunn
calling upon the Harnett County
Board of Elections for a special elec
tion solely for the town of Dunn to
decide upon the legal sale of beer
and wine.
The petition, having the required
15 per cent of the qualified voters’
signatures, was granted by the Elec
tions Board and Saturday, Septem
ber 2, was set as the date for the
special election.
Not so very much has been heard
about the election until recent^
weeks. Now there are two organiza
tions formed in the town—one
strongly opposing the sales, the oth
er Just as vigorously advocating re
turn to legal sale of the ligl(|er
strong-drink beverages.
Both camps have held meetings
and laid plans for diligently seeking
votes for their cause.
The outcome of the voting Satur
day is of course in doubt, though
there are some who point to the re
sults in other towns and predict that
beer and wine will meet the same
fate in Dunn as it has been meeting
in most other towns where special
elections have 'been held.
Encouraging to the advocates of
the sales, however, is the outcome of
the reecnt election in Wadesboro, In
Anson county, where the voters le
galized sale of the beverages by a
good majority.
Citizens of other sections of the
county are not so much concerned
about the election in Dunn next Sat
urday because no one can vote on
the question except bona fide resi
dents or qualified voters of that
town.
New Road Project
For Harnett County
A new road project will get un
derway shortly in Harnett County,
the State Highway Commission an
nounced today.
The project, to be let to contract
on August 31. calls for the paving
of 10.8 miles on US .101 and NC 55
from the Johnston County line to
the Curo'berland County line through
Dunn.
DAVID STEPHENSON ESCAPES
FROM SANFORD PRISON CAMP
David Stephenson, '32, serving a
term on the roads for numerous
crimes, escaped with five other pris
oners from the prison camp in San
ford last week. Stephenson was from
Dunn. He is reported to have broken
from the camp several times before.
No Court Or Board'
Meeting Monday
The first of the fall teims of
Superior CJourt and the First Mon
day meeting of the County Board
Commissioners will be held
over from next Monday, Septem
ber 4, to Tue.sday, September 6.
The reason for this is that next
Monday Is Labor Day. .411 county
offices will be closed that day.
At the last meeting of the Board
of Commissioners, it was voted
that the county offices be ckmed
for Labor Day and that next
meeting of the Board be on Tues
day instead of Monday-
Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn,
will preside at the one week tenn
of criminal court, scheduled to
start on Ntonday, notified Cl«rk of
the Court 1*. M. Chaffin that there
would be no court Monday becanse
the holiday, but that court
would even Tuesday.
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