North Carolina Newspapers

Vol.11 Kenansville, N. C. Friday July 30 1943 No. 30 119 Dead Several ilnjured llln Wreck In fine County Wrecks In the county over the week-end took one life and uv jured others. On Friday, July 23, at 5 'clock Garland B Turner of Jones County, near Hargetts Store was instantly killed when the car in which he was riding, driven by Ned Taylor,' soldier, of near Hargett's Store overturned and crashed into the road bank at Bowden. Taylor received min or injuries and is now being held in the Johnson Field hospital at Golds boro . Coroner Ralph Jones empaneled a jury who found that he died in accident and that -the accident was the result of care less and wreckless - driving at a high rate of speed - Sunday afternon," Arthur Ap ple of Warsaw, riding with : his girl friend, a Miss Hurwitzh of near Kenansville when, - it was reported, the car skidded on wet road. Local officers said that re ports coming to them were that Apple was,driving at a high rate of speed One hip was dislocated. The girl was not injured. Sunday afternoon a young Herring boy, reported to be the son of Walter Herring of near Warsaw, struck . a., telephone pole south of Warsaw, breaking the pole in two. The extent of injuries or damage to the car could not be learned It was re ported that he was driving alone. B. C. Sheffield Tells Rotarians Aboute . Changes In Drug Business LESTER S BRINSON r Mother Warsaw Man Dies In Sampson Mrs. Susan (Jennie) McCullert, 64, wife of Henry M. McCullen, died suddenly Sunday- night of of last week The funeral was Tuesday at 3 o'clock from the residence near Clinton Inter ment was In the Clinton ceme tery. Funeral services were in charge of Rev. Victor W. Calla han. RevM J Sutton and Rev H E. Oxendine. Survivinjr are four daughters. Mrs. I O Hollinesworth. of Clinton; Mrs. Harold Martin, of Newport News, va.; Mrs cairrle Hudson. Greensboro, and Marv McCullen. Clinton; four sons, H C. McCullen, Warsaw; Sam Mc Cullen, Mount Olive; Raymond and John -Paul McCullen of Clin ton.' " , . The last rites were attended by a large number of relatives. friends and neighbors, which in dicated the love and esteem held for her in the community where she resided ; , Mrs. McCullen . was a good i Christian woman and devoted her life to se.-ving the Lord The pall bears were as follows: Estel Royal, I. K. Weeks, Geo B.-adshaw, Atlas Carter, Houston Wilson and Ransom Jordan Prisoner B C. (Barney) Sheffield tells Wa'rsaw Rotarians about some of of the changes the drug business . hap "gone in the past 36 5heffield opened the df W)' in Wallace fii January 19t. .ie late Dr.'B R. Gra ham, .u came to - Warsaw Drug company in juiy iu , In those days drug business was much simpler, they only car ried three brands of talcum pow- der, one brand of face powder, java race powaer. Tnere were no shaving cream, cleansing tis sue irouge, lip stick, :any makeup and very few deordorants. Com mercial ice cream .was still a Irarity and they made ice cream for Saturday in the drug store, looth brushes were carried in mau quantities The only dentl fice was Rubifoam, a liquid prep aration. - Colgates tooth paste out In 1910, .and Lyons tooth paste came out about the same time v., The first safety razor Mr. Sheffield sold was In 190 and it was made by a. hardware firm. In those days the popular cig arettes were 'Old Mills. White uoua and Contentnea, the popu Jar cigars were "44's", Cinco, -remo, ana uia- Virginia Cner roots 3 for & cents Prior to th passing of the Har rison xNarTc Act in 1914, opi ates were sUd over the counter Rubbing alcohol was not knwn They sold pure green alcohol. During the last war we im ported 5,270 of our chemicals and drugs and today we import only 807 of the crude drugs crown. gathered and sold in the United States come from North Caro lina. The ; largest - storage and shipping place in the country is located in Statesville, N. C. K son of Mrs. Cora Brinson, of Ke- nunsvuie, nas Deen in uie army i for 16 months Hello Folks; Dear folks. Hope this finds all well and en joying life, it leaves me fine. Have not had time to write you but have been thinking of you all the tune, My A. P O. number has been changed from 302 to 3 Saw Al bert Morring and Dick Atkinson yejterday and they are getting a long fine, and said tell all hello for mem. NORMAN WHXIAMS , son of Mr and Mrs. Chesley Wil liams of near Beulaville has been reported a prisoner of war of the Japanese Government. Hs is im prisoned in the Phillipine Is lands. Private first class, Nor man was reported missing in ac tion on November 23, 1941. The family " was informed of his whereabouts through the Red Cross. Neg ro Woman Lives In Spite. Of Injuries Nettie Shaw Williams, Negro woman of near Williams Cross roas, is in a Goldsboro hospital suffering severe knife wounds to have split her right breast f i'?ering frm severe knife wunds obert Graham Best, Negro, is be- ( f " held in Jail here pending the outcome .-. - In a Saturday night fracas at Williams Crossroads, Best is said to have pUt her right breast wide open and stabbed deep into h left breast Investigating of- - aid v- she was actually ig. through the wound in JH t breast and not through ,uth or nose.. ;. mraes Wade, anther , Negro, was also cut by Best. I got thirty letters yesterday and three Duplin Times and I mean I had a good time reading them and getting all the home town news out of the lette.s and papers. It seems mighty good to hear from home. I save .my papers and give them to Albert and Dick also to a boy frm Beulaville and one from Wallace, they are not in the same batallian that I am and they come over after the papers wen, i nave been in battle, was in battle from March to May 5th. Will try to tell you a little about the battles hat we ht d ' We landed in Casablanca in November and stayed there until the first of Feb ruary and then moved to Rabat, then on to ConsUtine. Started the ngnung p.t MaKnassey ' and we went to Bizerte and from there to Matuer and Fairyville and. then Besaita and it was all over with. We took the places as we came to them. I drove from Rabat to Con statine, which is about a thousand mile drive, had a fine time going. You can imagine what I went thru with in the battles that I was in During the battles I hauled the meals .up to the lines and water and gasoline fof the . kitchen trucks and it kept me busy. Now that the battles hf-e ni-p mer with I still haul rating, water and gasoline to the . kitchen trucks. Have to stay on the road most of the time but you know me: I like to ride anyway, and it does not bother me. ' , Got a pass yesterday and went into town, but didn't have such a good time, but still it was right fair for over here Oh, Yes! I got my head .washed while in town and a real pretty girl washed it-for me, guess I will have to soon go back for another "head-wash". I am not able to talk "to the girls over here but still I can look at them. . ,. , OUR COYS Ifi SttTulCE Letters .nd Hews Africa, June 10 1943 Dearest Folks, Reaped two lettel s from you today arra boy were they welcome I am feeling as fine as a pig in a peanut patch and Mum, . don't worry about no- Malaria for they feed me preventive Pills (Atro dine) I sleep under a net and wear a veil if walking around at night. I went to town today and Funeral For R. G. iGradyHeldln Wilmington Tuesday Last rites for Robert Gibson Grady were conducted from the late residence at 108 Nun street at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning by Dr. William Crowe, paster of the First Presbyterian church. Inter ment followed in Oakdale cemete ry. Active pallbearers were neph ews and cousins, as follows: Rob ert Grady Johnson Henry L. Jo hnson, J. Robert Grady, W F King, Norwood Grady, Dr. W. Houston Mod e. Clifton Moore, and De Masco Carr. Honorary pallbearers wern Now Hanover county officers, and members or the bar of New Han over, Pender and Columbus coun ties. The prominent 72-yea' .-old at torney died at his home at mid night Saturday following a sudden illness. Mr. Gradv was born Mav a. 1871 in Duplin county, the son of the late Stephen Miller Gradv and Mrs Margaret Ann Carr Grady Urt J J. . . X . I , . . b -ouuaieu irom ine university ! of North Carolina in 1894. In 1!i ne married Bessie Mai Cowan of coiiiersvUle, Tenn. Surviving are the widow and three children: the Rev. Robert Cowan Grady, pastor of the West minster Presbyter lan church of Grady of Smithfield: nnri Mrs irnuip cory of Wilmington. Four sisters survive: Mrs Myrtle John iosn and Mrs Alsa Carr of Bur- gaw; Mrs. J. N. Carroll of Mag- i nuiia,: ana airs, ma urady of Se ven oprings. Mr. Grady was a member of the Duplin Farmers Vote For Tobacco Control Warehouseman . 1 f I . : l I Dear Sir, of local boys in the Service. I KJMZ W thought you would be interested in some information about my brother (A C) William - E. Spen cer who will graduate July 25. from Selman Field, Monroe, , La. Btry. B. 15th as a lieut. in- tne axc corps He entered Nov. 13th and spent six weeks at Nashville, Tenn. i i!. , Since then he has been studvinB- uuus.ii my ursi ice-cream since . t . TV . ,,7 " M dv. .. ui oeuiiun rieia. ne wm spena w oraay- cairor a ten day leave here in San Diego, ! Tne Duplin Herald with ' us' .and ' our sister-in-la wr Kenansville. ' W C " t - mingtoa Judge E K Bryan, pre. siaent or the New Hanover Bar association requested members to attend the funeral in a body. F A. Obsn. Bn Ft. Dix, N. J June 20th 1943 Sunday " In New York Mrs. A. Brooks is In New York ' s week buying new; merchan- e. The merchandise is expect J to begin . arriving In a few Tthool Opening Dates' V; ' ir 'nal J. P, Harmon an l this week that the War 's will open on Thurs t 19. The Falson j J to be opening I bet Graham is having a good time staying with you this sum mer, but I know that he will "miss the beach and will not be able to go swimming anytime - that he wants too. Tell him to work hard and help Grandma look after the chickens v , ' , . r How are my hogs, cow and dog getting alone? Just bet that Jack is having a time trying- to work my mule as he never did like to untlr hftvt " - " Hope you have a good crop this year and hope that they will sell good. We . are getting paid in francs now. . It surely ' does not seem very good not to have any money irom our good old state So be good and don't work too hard Tell everybody hello and to write to me and I will answer all letters , as sopn as possible, it seems mighty good to hear from fllk at home. Will write soon. , , : Love always,' , LESTER. t Mrs. Clifford T. JanZ after his graduation. He was a Corporal in pre'flicht rclrv)!, and has stud led Navigation We lived In Warsaw for ove!.' a year when my husbad was em balmer for Quinn-McGowan, an,d so have many friends there. My 1 .1..- -A 1 . . . . " uruuier siayea wim us quite a bit so has many friends in that vicinity My other brother, Lieut Cliff ord T. Janz, U. S. N.. who was leaving the U. S. A. , It- was six dollars a qt The reason it Is so high is, the! e is so much money over here and so little ice-cream. also bought a pk of onions to fry up with my food for the next three months also some fresh to matoes. Have seen some tobacco a foot high. Wonder if dad's that big. I will now try to tell you under new censorship' regulations what I took part in while over nere, We left for front lines all keyed up wim expectations, Jan. 30. We arrived and had our Vt taste of being under fire. The dangers of course were greater but the hardships were no great er than the Manuevft-s of Caro lina with a few exceptions. , Our best friend became the "the slit trench " We complained no more about digging them. We had canned "chow" which was in three "delleous' flavors, meat and beans, meat and vege table stew and meat and hash. You may have your choice. vuc buuh ueuunea usea to Th tv. f j... noise of the shells and you pay , , ' . Wtl attention to them, but thX 1 Lhave b11 receiving :the Duplin is one thing one never gets used tT resuiariy ana 1 must say to and that is dive bSnl th&1 en,Joy,tlt lnely. hole is never too deep fora G L isn much of interest soldier. - taking place here in Florida. We Things ran nd.mal till th ith awaken each day aware of the of Feb. "Faid Pass' then the odds routine we must accept and were too great for us. We had endure but even with the dull . .Charlie. Herring of. Goldsboro, native of Glisson townahht In Tlnn. lln county,, has. purchased, the 9s'897 voted In Saturday's ref em Farmers warehouse in. Claskton. I dum This compares with the 142 -Last year Mr Herring, operated 243 wno voted In 1940 when the the house as. part, owner.. .He .uta8 which expire this yeai- was Along with other tobacco farm ers of the State and Nation Dup lin county tobacco ' farmers cast a vote overwhelminfflv In favnr nf the continuance of tobacco quotas for the coming three wars Tha vote for tlf.ee-year control was 2595, for 1-year cont'd. 99; and against 393. A total of 2694 votes for control were cast Th tntni vote for the country was 2987. North Carolina tobacco voted 94 ner cent in fnvr . nf tinuing in effect the three-year tc tobacco marketing quota plan first Instituted in the state's largest money crop in 1934.. In the referendum held last Sat urday returns from 6V of the 72 counties pa ticipatUng. in the vot ing gave this vote; For three-year quotas 80,984. For one-year quotas, 2,065. Against any quotas 5,848. Out of an eligi'biiitv list of an. J?r.imate,y 170,000 farmers, only Dear Sir; in tne copies of the Duplin iimes inai i nave received re cently, I noticed several lottpra from boys of Duplin County that are now In Africa, England and other parts of the wd Id as a w. suit of this war. Here comes one from me and somewhere in tne south west Pacific. I too want to tell you and vonr lost Inaction TW 7th 1Mi 7. " 1 "u .v.. . iiiim(7 uritn l i '. . .. ' 9 .... .in. uuac, IIUII JUBt announces that he has bought his partner's Interest and Is now sole owner. . . . .Mr. Herring Is. the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Herring. He has been In the warehouse bum. Iness for seven years He has been on the Clarkton market for tne past six years. .He was raised on m tobacco farm and Is nam. Ized as aja outstanding tobacconist Oherlle In. particularly interested In Duplin fanners and will do his best to see that they are satisfied. . .narue also operates a grocery store at Adamsvllle, m suburb of lAokbboro, and buys chickens and ggs hi season, and all .country produce. Mr. Her r In s- exnecta th RohIa. Belt market will. open. with, all grades oi tobacco bringing around umro per nunared pounds than l yr- .An average of around wo per nunared Is cxrecie;!. adopted With Duplin Boys In Service PVT. JACK BARBOUR Pvt. Jack Barbour is somewhe .-e overseas, exact station unknown He married Miss Rhodn and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L H. Barbour of Fou.- Oaks aboard the "Arizona" been awared the Purple Heart for MUitary Merit ; Thank you so much I would appreciate a copy -of the Issue that carries this information Sincerely, Olive Spencei- Dreker. (Mrs. Charles A. Dreker.) I always OPL. ARTHUR BLIZZARD A -.4.1 m- , read it with intPrpSt h,,t i-"Jr ,-ivin"r.?"zzart. sn or the u i i ' i iate m ana Mrs. Jessie Bli77rri tMe?.taieS,Or,this?art0f tne'.of BIi2zarl's Cross Roads hal' .k .cony ,s a vreal io re. oeen in Honolulu for 16 months -vc a tupy oi u ana to be able to read of the news back in Du plin. I can't say that it means more to me than my gun because, as a result of my being in the med ical corps and a cook. I h?.v.m't one. lean put it this way though r ,V'iy. Times, and say it means more to . me Kenansville, N. C. man my can opener,' b. knhe 325th M P.E.G.Co., C.M.I C, Camp McCain, Miss. July 19, 1943 Shipbuilders. - In Other States Secure Workers in Wilmington In an effovt to employ all per sons whose essential Jobs have terminated in Wilmington, the U. S Employment Service, has brought to- Wilmington represen tatives from three" shipbuilding corporations on the East coast to interview and hire them, Felix A Scroggs, manager of the Wilming ton employment office announced Tuesay. Scroggs pointed out that the shipya'.d interviewers are only In terested in those whose jobs have terminated and will not employ anyone who is still working in Wilmington. Approximately' 150 men have al ready been hired to work at the out-of-state shipyards as machine operators, shipfitters riveters, drillers, erectors, and other ship- uuuuuig occupations. . It was emphasized by Scroees that persons leaving tTie Wilming ton area must have a statement of availability from Hie U. ii. Em ployment Service befo they can be employed at any other occuna. tion in any .other area i'he shipyard employment inter viewers will be located at the m. ployment office 111 Grace st-eet Tobacco Leaf Grows' -''' - Y 'ror; Victory ' Engene Carlton of -1 saw this week displayed twin tobacco leafs grown froVn 1 stem In the shape of a V. . Both leave were perfectly ' formed, he said and the let ter "V" was as perfect M If , Gar ton said a number of siu'h leaves were found In his V t some losses, ooth - in men and equipment. We loft thon n. . Camp . We soon rested suff iently .tu. iw auuiner cracK at jerry me tiermens. Our uiiunce soon came and we went In for a second time at "iri-o,,- Tunisia. This was a short battle due to the fact that officers, and men were better trained, due to actual experience fyom 0ur for mat uauie. Jerry Is a good and dirty fight er as long as he Is advancing, but we soon learned that he could run as fast a anyone when he Is fri ghtened As I said it was a short battle so we left for "Matour" now ''Bigeste.", Jerry waa , get ting desperate he counter-attacked again and arain hut ho not stop his retheat toward Tu nisia. I never did see Tunis al- 1..UUK.1 we were within sight of It practically at the finish f . , campaign. .. . , KoBether,i iP"1 ta four batUes. I did not as I know of ,any BWV deed nor any cow- 7..-riii A Pt&yea at times just like everyone did and clung closer to the gfround.' It can never be said that there wW?!LthAt nds " Mr. censor . nu, uiru, 1 f w neavy meat clea.or (i will try to keep any of the fellows In my outfit from seeing this.) This could be fair warning though to any half stai-ved Japs that might try to invade my kitchen. Laying all jokes aside, your paper real ly helps a lot and here is hoping you will be able to keep it coming ; I can't tell you much of this ice out Dy the time I get back I will know quite a bit ahnut uneventful life we lead, we are very fortunate compared to mil lions of other American Soldiers and Sailors stationed on distant lands ' fitrUHn. n seWe the righu of free men At P 1 hfe ,ncluJing coconuts it "?at you sen me while I was at Dear Mr. Grady; I want to thank you for the ser vice you have been rendering me in sending me your paper. It is lust like a weekly letter from home and y6u know all we service rr.en appreciate it At present I am receiving three papers a we ek, where one answers the pur pose." I am receiving the one enu me nere and the two times, I wish. I could do more, i hanks again for. sending me your paper. I look forward to re ceiving it ech week. , . . H. Daulton West-AM3C ' AAR-Box 15 Banana River, Fla. Pfc James Doris Brinson, son of Mr. andMrs. William J Brinson of Chinquapin, N. C waa recently presented a good conduct medal oy general Baehr, while on ma Rev. D. L. Woodward Dies Suddenly In Salisbury . The Rev David Leon Wood ward, a native of Warsaw, died suddenly of heart attack, at his afternoon of last week. I Mr. Woodward's death was a great shock to his relatives and , friends. He was born at Warsaw, tne son ox Mrs Margaret stev ena Woodward and the late Da vid Leon Wodward, Sr He was graduated from Wake Forest College and the northern, Baptist Seminary. He held a Ph.D., and a D.D He help pas- Lota of love Frank Letters From The Boys :.' ' ) ' 122 Penn Ave. San Diego, California. - July 8, 1943. Duplin Times, . Kenansville. North Ca.'rollna. usually for suon-r t " - --' 'U vviiuc on ma-i-, . sei a neuvers with the Second Ar t'iew 'resh vegetables and Tennesee. Pfc. Brinson is a mem-C!Ve. S! the sacrifices ber of the 15th. F A .Observation f0? b,ack hom making aren't Battalion, . He wag formerly -at Jt in,t Ue over here Js really tached to the 105th. Medical Bat-1 t from- that back in the wuon, dt. Jackson. S. C as n ulQn t fealize the nn. . - 1 PI 1MB ... W 1 . ' may resemble just a litti ti, eorl ragg. as thev fnn.i picai scenes you see on the screen (lnem, w me I am enclosing the 2. ,t? tiiZ hL n the movies back .home. But' twP Ifbels from the two that you ' S to SabuTseTyer, .. T vl' - " tuUK A can tell , "'7 "eun on my churcn, you a little of the food we get py " ""bwipUon coming to Mr uecomes a little tf.esome from'u p JWCUaln. Miss., How this eating out of the can. Th ,n- I happened was; I subscribed for ows call us "Can openers" Instead 'J?ur ,ast January, through of cooks It isn't bad and lately I Warsaw! .mv aa one meal a day that Woodward was' twice mar- ambulance driver. Brinson has been in the service since Jaa 18, 1941. He has made many friends both in his nresent outfit and his old outfit. His friends wish him loads of luck. , Duplin Times Kenansville. NC , Gentlemen: eliges we had till I saw this ' You don t see many cars and the na tives go barefooted, v . k We" nearly chow time so I S.M telu'be cl08l"8. I wish to teke this chance to teU the folks taDupli nd jhe boy, that have left for other parts "hello" and here is, hoping for us a victorious return soon. Thanks again to you and your fd.ee in letting us know what is .happening . back home through your paper. 2l in "me i was stationed at ort Bracg. N.. C. and on June 1st, I was transfered down he!.e and I wrote and askf send the paper here and I guessJ marmng it off the Pt Brags list I am getting the one you send here OK Thanking you again .Very truly yours, 'V Pfc. J! L. Page Wm. R. Carroll Visits It gives me great ' pleasure to send you this Item as Brinson is a eood friend of mlna WmiM . .. ? . . , . , , . ciaie-n very mucn IT you. would TV ' J. P. Johnson run the above In an early Issue of ! P. S. It seems that someone has your paper. ...... v - i sent In two subscriptions for m . Yours truly, as sometimes I receive jpi. is. l McDuffie, copies that are alike. As Home William R.,Carrll, son of Mr. and Mrs W. A, Carroll , of Beu laville was home recently on fur lough. He is with the Engineers at Camp Cooke, Cal . He was guest at a chicken so per. Monday nieht efvtm rtv tKa Your Friend Baptist Young People's Unioh' of nausviue cnurcn. w ' . - :. change this to one, prease chance several ! my P O. number to (932) tune you three two; ' Thanks agam. ried Of the first union he has one son, Walter F Woodward Also surviving are his wife, rMs. June Woodward, and two small daughters; his mother, Mrs. D. L. Woodward, of Warsaw: two brothers, Eddie and JImmie Woodward, of Warsaw;- and these sisters. Misses Margaret and Fannie woodward of War saw, and Miss Sallie Woodward Albritton, and Mrs. Mary Wood ward Shaw He was a nephew of Mrs H. L . Stevens, Sr. Funeral rites were held In Sal isbury Friday Interment follow ed Saturday In 'the Woodward family plot In Pinecres't ceme tery in Warsaw Active pallbearers were dea cons of his church in Salisbury Honary pallbearers . were from Warsaw. . . .f Jr. School Bus Drivers TO Have School - There will be a bus drivers school held In Kenansville the first two weeks in August All school bus drivers are expected to attend this school.