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i!:d Curch Lcaguo Organized;
Rcv.SfepIicas Is
Executive Committee
Willeet Here
Monday Night
The Duplin County unit of th
Allied Church League was organ
ized, last Sunday afternoon, .at
the Court House in Kenansville,
at a metting presided over by Rev.
J.. W. Lineberger of Faison. Mr.
L A. Martin, Executive Director
of the State Organization made a
brief address, after which the fol
lowing officers were elected:
President, G. Van Stephens, of
Warsaw; Vice President, William
Dallds Herring, of Rose Hill;
Secretary, James Rackley, of War
saw. An Executive Committee
composed of the following were
elected: C. E. Quinn, D. L Jones,
J. A. Powers, M B. Holt, and
S. A. Smith. This Executive
Committee was 1 authorized to
name an "Advisory Committee,
which will be selected in a meet-
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ing canea o meei in ivenoiiovmc,
Mrf.v noopmhPrfS. at 7:30
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Col Archer, Native I
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Ot Kenansville, Oe
To Nation's Capitol
(SPECIAL TO THE TIMES)
.. Washington, D. C, Dec 1 -r
Colonel. Waine Archer, former
Oklahoma City and Fart Worth
newspaperman, has been assigned
to headquarters, Army Ground
Forces, commanded by Lt. Gen.
Lesley J. McNair, it was announ
ced here this week. Col. Archer
will be assigned to public relations
wnrk. ..'
, Colonel Archer is a native of
Kenansville, N. C, and attended
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, before entering
newspaper work. He entered
the Army in 1917 when he was
commissioned a rirst ueuienam.
He was promoted to captain in
1929, major in 1938, lieutenant
colonel in 1940 and colonel In 1942.
His military education includes
ttendance at the Infantry School,
Dmpany officers' course ana aa
sancMl course. Fort Benning, Ga.;
the Command and General Staff
School, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.;
and the Army War College in
Washington. Besides serving in
various infantry camps in the U.S.
he has seen service in .the Philip
pines, Hawaii and North Africa.
Col. Archer comes to Washing
ton from Fort Benning where he
was assigned to the staff and
acultv of the Infantry School.
His wife, the lormer luuzaDein
Smith of Chickasha, Oklahoma, is
residing with him in Alexandria,
Virginia. .
Capt.
Maxwell Is
Visiting Home -
Capt. H D. Maxwell, Jx, Dup
lin hero in the North African
fiffhtins. returned home this
week for a brief visit. He will
leave on the 20th. for Cloverst
N. M. where he will probably
train future flyers.
Last nlEht Capt. Maxwell at-
tended St John's Lodge, of which
he is a member, and related many
of his experiences since going over
including the time he was forced
down in a desert on his trip over.
The most interesting account he
gave was of his shooting down one
German Fockewulfe plane and
- probably destroying another while
protecting a convoy. His plane
happened to be leading the. others
when he was attacked and his
crew, - without aid from another
vlane, shot down one and injured
the other to the extent that it
later crashed. Maxwell's plane
' was also forced to crash into the
water and two of his men killed
In the crash.
.. Another time he encountered
a German plane, and damaged it
so badly that it crashed on the
shores of Spain.
He returned to the U. S. via
South America, landing in Florida
' The same route, he says, he took
going over, and he flew the same
plane back. His was the first to
reacn the u. s. enroute nome.
"Don't let folks tell you that
when you see the world you will
not want to settle down at home.
Maybe some won't, but not me.
When this war is over I am com
ing right ; back here to Duplin
county and spend the rest of my
Ufa, . To me, this is the garden
. spot of the world."
' Pink Hill Man
A Returns From Sea
, r J j Warren G. Butts, son of Mrs.
... J. Mack Smith and the late Mr.
Joe Butts of Pink Hill, enlisted
in the Navy October 18, 1942 and
received training at Norfolk, Va.,
and Bainbridge. Md.
He has been at sea since June
1943, and now has returned . to
Philadelphia, Pa.
His ship was torpedoed three
timea They sank seven subma
rines. He was not injured, at
any time while in action. Before
cMoring service, Butts was: en
i ' "d at the Mnrine hns.
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PFC. HAROLD HALEA, Son OI
.Mr. and Mrs. is. H. Hales, entered
'the Army Air Corps in Feb. 1943.
He trained at G,ensboro and New
Jersey and is now at Seymour
Johnson, Field, Goldsboro.
STOCKINGS FOR X-MAS
Mrs. Caroline Strang, of Duplin
County Red - Cross, Kenansville,
tells us that the local chapter is
planning to send Christmas Stock
ings to the service men in Camp
Davis Hospital,
-Quite a number of stockings
have been issued, but, said she,
"there is still some left" so what
are we waiting for? Let's get
the rest of the stockings and 'fill-
em up' else Santa might not visit
all the boys at the hospital.
Each stocking should contain
enough articles that the whole
approximately amounts to $1.00.
Below is a list of items that
most any soldier boy might use
Comb . and finger nail sets;
Pencils: Stationary; Pocket-size
picture frames (cases without
glass); Chewing gum; Mints;
in pkgs. Blitz cloth; Shoe cloth;
Pocket size calendars; Address
books; Memorandum books; Small
steeL Interlocking puzzles; Oran
ges and apples; or Pocket editions
(current stones).
All stockings should be in by
Saturday before Christmas; and
care should be taken of stockings
containing perishables, so as to
have them reach the boys in an
A-l condition,,
ACTIVITIES AT
OUTLAW'S BRIDGE
It has been announced that
there will be a work spell at the
Outlaw's Bridge and School next
Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 8th.
People are bringing hoes, cakes,
scoop and hand shovels, carta and
axes. Barbecue will be served to
all helping.
There will be a panel discus
sion at the next meeting of the
Outlaw's Bridge P. T. A. meeting
Tuesday night Dec. 7th. Subject:
"School Attendance vs Farm
Labor"..
Rev. G. H. Ulrich will lead the
panel and Supt. of schools, O P.
Johnson, Mr. Edgerton, principal
of the B. F, Grady school and
others will take part in the dis
cussion. ' - Sunday Dec. 12th will bring an
outstanding professor at the Uni
versity of North Carolina to Out
law's Bridge church. Dr. Lee M.
Brooks of the Sociology Depart
ment at u. in. j. will aeuver a
lecture in the afternoon at 2 o'
clock. In the morning at eleven,
nev. u.-ti uincn wiu preacn.
Following warship period, dinner
will be served on the grounds, .
MORE SIMPUFICATION
O P A RULES ON
POINrFREE HOME
PRODUCED MEATS ; i
RALEIGH; Dec. 1, With hog-
jumng time at nana in Eastern
North Carolina, Theodore S.
Johnson today announced new
simplification of OPA rules on
how a person may obtain the
meat, which he owns, after it is
siaugnierea, point-tree. . ,
jonnson saia that If a person
owns or operates a farm, but does
not uve on it, he may still receive
uie meat lor the consumption of
his household, point free, if:
(1) He actually supervised the
raising of this meat by visiting
the farm at least one-third of the
day during tha time the meat
was being raised, or if -
(2) He purchased the animal
at least, 60 days befqre .slaughter
and visited the farm one-third of
the days during this period for the
purpose of supervision.
Johnson added that the super
vision of a hog does not require
the party to spend one-third of
the days at the farm but only re
quires that he VISIT his farm
one-third of the days - the visit
mny be of very short duration
ni"' t cf V,.o e.-ys. .
Kenansville, N. C.
IT WAS NOT AS PEACEFUL AS THIS LOOKS
f!fi
The flgbthic was heavy near Fueitom, Italy, when this Ameri
can landing barge was dlsgorginr its men and material, and those
Liberty ships in the background bad brought men and supplies from
Africa f of the invssioiw
float Ai saierno,
Nads ml m a denermta irbi ia
U M C RULES ON
FARMWORKERS
RALEIGH, Nov. 30 Farm
workers, subject to military duty
and deferred because they en
gaged in essential agriculture,
under certain conditions, are per
mitted to engage in other essen
tial activities during the off-seasons
in farm operations, it is an
nounced by Dr, J. S. Dorton,
State director for the War Man
power Commissipn.
Agreement has been reached by
Brigadier General J. Van B. Metts
State director, Selective Service;
G. Tom Scott, State chairman,
USDA War Board; Dr. I. O.
Schaub, State director, Agricul
tural Extension Service, and Dr.
Dorton, by which farm workers,
in II-C and III-C classes, when
not needed on the farms, may do
essential work elsewhere.
Such farm worker may apply
for and, if eligible, receive a
statement from the county farm
agent, as secretary of the county
USDA War Board, that he Is not
needed for farm work for a speci
fied period, have the return date
recorded with his local Selective
Service Board and then he may be
referred by his United States Em
ployment Service office to a job
in essential industry for that
period.
The local war board and the
USES have combined responsibil
ity for confining this practice to
tnose i arm worKers wno can De
spared from agriculture' without
interferring with agricultural pro-
auction, ot placing suci worKers
in essential activities and return
ing them to the farms at the des
ignated times. A worker failing
to report at the specified time is
subject to immediate reclassifi
cation and induction by the local
draft board.
DUPLIN COTTON
GINNING REPORT
Census report shows that 4644
bales of cotton were ginned in
Duplin County from the crop of
1943 nrirtr to Nov 14th, as com-
nared with 5175 bales for the
crop oi
; Superior Court :.
Here Next Week
Judge Henry L. Stevens of War
saw will preside over a two-week
term of superior court here be
ginning Monday. The two weeks
will be devoted to trial of civil
cases onlyi -
County court will convene Mon
day Dec. 20th, It was announced.
Faison Is Second
Town In County To
Receive "V" Award
it was announced yesterday
t tha tnm of Faison has been
awarded the "V" award for their
unit efforts The banner was
mailed to the town, yesterday by
IP W MWTownn. - .
Rose Hill was not only the first
town in the county but first in the
state to receive the awara.
Still Is Raided
In Kenansville
One day. last week Deputy
- vnurall raided a still in
Grove Swamp, back of Albert
Williams place in the town ot
Kenansvile. The- still was destroy
ed as well as . some mash. It had
rmt hwn in operation.-"'Is any
Friday December 3rd. 1943
nearoy, ana ai wis oeaen w
drive m men bi
COUNTY BRIEFS
IN HOSPITAL
A. Brooks, prominent Warsaw
Merchant, suffered an acute at
tack of appendicitis last Sunday
and was rushed to the Goldsboro
hospital where he underwent an
operation the same night. He is
reported to be getting along nicely.
IMPROVING
I. J. Sandlin, prominent Beula
ville Merchant and former county
commissioner, is reported to have
passed the crisis and is now re
cuperating from an attack of
double pneumonia.
STORE ROBBED
Last Friday- night the Warsaw
Drug Company store was entered
by thieves after closing hours.
The glass In a front door was
broken out. A few watches and
some cigarettes, and a little
change left in the cash register
was missing. Seven years ago
the store was entered the same
way at the same doo.
TANK ROBBED
Thursday night of last week
someone broke the pump handle
to the gas tank of G. H. West at
West Siding and drew out all the
gasoline.
NEW MAIL SCHEDULES
The mail truck running between
Warsaw and New River went on
a new schedule Wednesday. The
truck now leaves New River in
the morning at 10:00, arrives in
Warsaw at 12.00. Stays in War
saw until train No. 49, south, runs
and then returns to New River.
The change means that post of
fices on the route, Kenansville,
Beulaville, Richlands and Jackson-
villo will receive mail coming
down on 49 the day the train runs. ,
Heretofore the trucn nas Deen
making its return trip before the
train arrivea.
Local P T A To Meet
The Parent - Teachers Asocia
tion will .meet Monday Dec. 6th
at 3:30. All Parents and Teach
ers are urged to be present.
. Secret
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This Is tt Bad Army's Mr tad foeftl ISA tarttbd In ,
aotion lor tha n that la Ca Ar&Faramoimf 4wramntrf(
Tb tar Cirt C5rJ XZaN-To!a OaHrA X't Sorltl
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Duplin Goes Over The
War Fund, DrivejScout
Old Ago Workers
Notify S. S. Board
When Job Ends
RECIPIENTS OF BENEFITS
MUST NOTIFY SOCIAL
SECURITY BOARD IF
THEY RETURN TO
REGULAR JOBS IN
BUSINESS OR INDUSTRY
Retired workers who were draw
ing Federal old-age insurance
benefits before they took jobs in
war plants or in some other occu
pations covered by the Social Se
curity Act will again be entitled
to their monthly benefits when
they quit these wartime jobs. N.
A. Avera, manager of the Social
Security Board office at Wilming
ton, N. C, who made this state
ment, explained that, under the
Social Security Act, monthly pay
ments of old-age and survivors
insurance are discontinued during
the time that the wage earner has
a job in covered employment at $15
or moj per month. A worker
past 6J who has retired and has
begun receiving his monthly bene
fits may go back to work, if he
chooses, but he must notify the
Social Security Board if he holds
a job in a factory, a shop, mill,
mine, store, or in other employ
ment that is covered by the law.
He is not required to send in this
notice as soon as he takes the Job,
but after he has earned wages
amounting to $15 or more in one
calendar month, he should let the
Social Security Board know that
he has gone back to work. How
ever, when he gives up this job
again quits work he should notify
the Social Security Board at once;
and his monthly retirement bene
fits will begin again.
According to Mr. Avera, the re
tired worker taking a job is re
quired to notify the Social Secur
ity Board "only" when the new
job is one of those covered by the
Social .Security Act. tie may
work In other types of employment-such
as farming, domestic
service, odd jobs . not connected
with his employer's business; or
he may work for the Government
or for a public school, a church or
charitable institution, or ne may
have a business of his own and
continue to receive his monthly
payments of old-age insurance;
but if his job is in business or in
dustry and pays him as much as
$15 per month he is not entitled
to benefits when so employed.
The same rule applies to the
widow or other survivor of a de
ceased wage earned. Under the
law, no one has a right to old
age and survivors insurance pay
ments during the time that he or
she is" receiving wages in a job
covered by the Social Security
Act, if the wages amount to more
than $14.99 per month.
The Wilmington,- North Caro
lina, office serves workers, em
ployers, and the general public in
the counties of Bladen, Brunswick,
Carteret. coiumDus, craven,
Duplin, Jones, New Hanover,
Onslow, Pamlico and Pender.
Information of assistance in
making out papers which pertain
to old-age and Survivors insur
ance may be obtained by anyone,
free of charge. The office is lo
cated at 129 Custom House, Wil
mington, North Carolina.
in Action
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PROTECT YOUR SWINE
We are well aware of the crit
ical condition of hog prices Pro
ducers realize that the price re
ceived for swine on foot is not in
line with feed prices, nor are they
in nne witn consumer prices ot
pork at the retailers counter. This '
condition has been brought about.
t iKiT, due to the fact that North
Carolina is normally a feed de
ficient area - a great distance
from grain surplus areas; SEC
OND, because of the ceiling on
corn and the floor on hogs; corn
belt farmers cannot afford to
sell corn at $1.07 3-4 on the St.
Louis basis price when they can
realize $1.50 per bushell by feed
ing it to hogs; THIRD, "tied up"
condition of seed meal and other
protein supplements such as meat
meal, fish scrap and tankage.
Since this condition DOES ex
ist our problem is, what to do
about it. You are already begin
ning to solve that problem by
doing the only sensible thing
cutting down on pork production.
The farmer should not be asked
to operate at a loss any more than
the labor unions. He cannot buy
bonds with the profit he makes
from hogs at the present unbal
anced prices of hogs and grain.
fast mal price adjustments bring
ing about this situation are the
''hitlers'' in the wood pile. The
farmer cannot adjust his farm
business overnight , by closing
down his farm factory or by de
claring a strike. To serve his needs
a great deal of intelligent forcas
ting must be honestly preformed
at least a year in advance. Spec
ulators realize that this is normal
ly the low priced hog season and
that due to the bottle necked
feed situation causing high prices
that farmers MUST sell regard
less of price returns. They ask
themselves, "why should we pay
more when we can buy for less"?
We have therefore arrived at
sne conclusion on the subject
PROTECT YOUR SWINE which
is to market your surplus hogs
that you do not have home grown
grains to feed. Cull out the low
producing sows and retain your
well crossed or pure bred breed
ing stock. Further precautions
should be taken by immunizing
your breeding, stock against swine
cholera. Temporary treatments
have proven disastrous in several
cases. The so caleld "life treat
ment" is safest. Many cases oi
pneumonia exist due to poor
housing conditions. An 8' X 8'
portable box type house construc
ted on skids will in most cases
pay for itself in one year. Let us
remember that a hog does not
wear a fur coat and that the cli
matic conditions of the Coastal
Plains are subject to acute dras
tic changes. These changes cause
pneumonia. Most swine have one
or more kinds of worms in their
bodies. Lung worms irritate the
lining of the lung and when hogs
are subjected to draughts caused
by poor housing conditions, fall
easy prey to pneumonia. A good
policy is to eliminate this worm
trouble by rarrowtng tne pigs on
new ground and then if necessary
administer a reliable worm meai-
cine following weaning. Avoid a
dusty situation by changing often.
Dust may lead to swine tm ana
pneumonia. Kememoer tne nog is
much lower to tne ground tnan
is man and is subjected to a con
stant dusty environment if per-
mitted by his keeper.
Give plenty of water and provide
pastures. . These are the two
cheapest and most neglected items
in swine production. Tokyo beans
seeded in 20 inch rows and pas
tured g een make an excellent
summer pasture. A permanent
pasture for breeding stock may
be prepared as follows: flat b eak
your land, broadcast 2,000 lbs of
ground limestone, 400 lbs; or zu
percent superphosphate, ana 4U
ma ef Rfl nalVAnt Ulnridt nf.nnt-
ash (K20) per acre. Work inti
the soil with a harrow. Use the
following seed mixture and" S6w
from Feb. 1st!, to March 1st: ;
15 "lbs. lespedeza, 10 lbs. dallas
grass, 5 lbs." carpet grass, 2 lbs.
red top, and 1 lb. white dutch
clover per acre. Cover lightly and
pack if possible. Do not pasture
until vegetation is 6 inches tall.
and then sparingly for the first
year. You . will bo compensated
for' these practices through the
AAA in earning your units. ; r .
. By B. F. Grady Vocational
Agriculture Department. ,
No. 48
TopIn
Quota Over
$8,068.82 Is Raised;
Goal Was $8,000;
Scout Goal $500;
Cairhman Herring
Expresses Thanks
County Chairman, Dallas
ring of Rose Hill, releases
Her-
final
figures in the Duplin United War
Fund Drive.. The quota of $8,000
was exceeded by $68.82. Of the
$8,000 quota $7,500 goes to the
United War Fund and $500 to
Tuscarora Council of the Boy
Scouts. This drive was a drive
to end drives in 1943. The funds
raised will be distributed amone
the several organizations aidine
in the War effort such as the USO,
Y. M. C, A.., etc.
Mr. Herring wrote the Times
as follows:
Duplin is over the top with
$8,068.82, having reached both the
War Fund quota and the Boy
Scout quota. We attribute the
success of the campaign to the un
tiring efforts of the newspapers,
the School system, the unselfish
work of the local canvassers and,
finally, to the generosity of a large
number of our people.
Treasurer M. F. Allen, Jr.,
announces that the following is a
table of local contributions:
Kenansville, 606.54; Beulaville,
830.64; B. F. Grady, 507.90; Chin
quapin, 553.93; Warsaw, 1,179.75;
Teachey, 75.00; Outlaw's Bridge
123.80; Wallace, 1,598.96; Rose
Hill, 845.00; Magnolia, 344.18:
Faison, 689.00; Calypso, 604.12;
Potter's
10.00.
Hill
100.00; at large
Dallas Herring,
. County-Chairman.
INJUNCTION STOPS
CHANGE IN TRAINS
Substitution of 'Mixed Train
on Wilmlngton-Fayettevllle
Run Halted
An injunction restraining the
ACL Railroad from installing
"mixed train" service as a sub
stitute for its passenger-train
service between Wilmington and
Fayttteville was Issued Saturday
by Judge Henry L. Stevens of
Warsaw, upon the presentation of
a petition by Abel Warren, repre
sentative of the towns served by
the Wilmington-Fayttteville train
The order is returnable before
Judge Stevens on or before Dec
ember 13.
The Utilities Commission on
Novembtr 15 issued an order al
lowing ACL to discontinue passen
ger trains Nos. 57 and 56 between v
Wilmington and Fayetteville, and
to substitute "mixed train service"
therefor.
Originally. ACL petitioned to
discontinue all passenger service
between Wilmington and Fayette
ville, but the Utilities Commission
denied the petition. "Mixed train"
service later was authorized by
the commission. Both the original
petition and the ' "mixed train"
order were opposed by residents'
of the afected area. . -
According to the commission's
order, the equipment thus -released
was to be used to provide
an additional train between Wil
mington and Rocky Mount via -Goldsboro.
The attempted pro
vision of additional train service
between Wilmington and Rocky
Mount was undertaken by the
commission at the request of the
Army and ODT authorities In an
effort to relieve severe congestion
in travel to and from military
points in Eastern North Carolina.
The inauguration of the new
Wilmington-Rocky Mount service
was begun on Sunday but was
stopped Tuesday.
in an action rued with the
Utilities Commission, the two
counties ,and ten municipalities in
the area served by the Wilming
ton to Fayetteville train "entered
an "application' to intervene" a
request that they formally be
made parties of record to th
commission proceedings involving
the Wlmington-Fayetteville train
The counties . are . Sampson and
Cumberland; the municipalities,
are Fayetteville, Autryvllle, Rose-
boro, Salemburg, ParJkelrsburg
Garland, .Tpmahawk, Kerr, Ivan-
hoe, and AtKinsin.
J. A. Turner v 1
Now Taking
Naval Training
A new recruit at the U. S Nav
al Training Station, Great Lakes.
Illinois, is Guy J. Turner, is, son
of J. A. Turner, Rt 1, Magnolia. -After
being instructed in Sea
manship, military drill, and naval
procedure, : he will be selected to
attend one of the Navy's Bervlce
schools or will be assigned to
active duty at sea.
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