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fKW Mil fUl.lf OT Sill ft 4fefr4&& V t .t. - ar 'i i. VOLUME NUMBER FOURTEEN uplin County Farmers Looking Forward Towards Good Year BY L. P. WEEKS Duplin Farm Agent Duplin County fanners are go . ing ahead with their 1946 plans regardless of the uncertainty of . receiving many essential farm sup plies needed to meet their pro duction goals. They realize that throughout the world there are many millions of hungry people, many of them starving. The far mers will go on producing the . food and other arm commodities which are so important to a last ing peace, There will be many problems that the farmers will face during 1946, rfh as labor , shortage, farm to market trans portation difficulties, madelate farm machinery,' and many otheVs, but they won't be concerned with whether their sons will be killed In tattle. They will not experience anxiety regarding the out-come of the war. Approximately a year ago, we. were all worried about the "Belgium Bulge" which length--ewd the European war consider aly and caused the U. S. approxi mately 60,000 casualties of which a large percentage were farm boys,' , " Virus LaKam ii . - am Miramr Tfi enm wwn T no in rvip 1 . a . . . . , shortage, Duplin County farmers arc Diastms stumr irom their soil with dynamite so that they y'- may use more farm machinery In '. thekiy farm operations when this machinery is available. A large number are planning to mechanize their farms with tractors to do 4 Kt all f the farm work. 31,- 0 "0 pounds of dynamite lias bean ' iivered to farmers throughout the county through cooperative shipments this winter. Most all of this material will be used for blas ting ditches and removing stumps from cultivated fields. Not until ' the war was over did the farm families seek releases of their boys from the Armed Services. Since VJ Day a large number of these families have made efforts to get ' their boy home as soon as poss ible in order that they may help carry on the farming operations. It has been and still Is practically Impossible to hire a person to do a day's work on the farm. Tekaeeot Tea, there is a bright side to farming too. 22,000 acres of tobac- eo grown in Duplin County yeilded approximately 1000 pounds per acre, sold for an average of ap proximately 44 cents per pound in 1945. The 10 percent increase granted to all tobacc producers will give growers a total of ap proximately 24,200 acres to be grown in 1946. Hopes are high that the leaf crop will sell for a good average for another year. Granville Wilt, a deadly tobacco disease, has been spreading throughout the county during re :. cent year.. The tobacco experi - ment station at Oxford released a new variety, Oxford 26 in 1945 which has given new hope to far mers who .have had experience with this disease. In order that this new variety of tobacco could be Introduced to these growers, 812 ounces of Oxford 26 tobacco seed were ordered and placed - ' with the growers throughout the county. 19 farmers reported an av erage yield of 1124 pounds per acre , which averaged $43.29 peri hundred. As these farmers come to the office to report their exper- noes with' this new variety of jH . ibacco they expressed their grat ,tude to the Agricultural Leaders who' made It possible for them to continue to produce tobacco. They Realized that they would have been forced out of tobacco produc tion by this deadly disease had it not been for the development of ' this new Wllf Resistant Variety. , Cotton acreage has decreased . from approximately 16,000 acres " in 1940 to 7,000 acres In 1945, With the low income per acre and the shortage of labor it is expect (CONTINUED ON BACK? KENANSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8th., 1946 RESUMES PRACTICE 5 "-M MAJOR ROBERT 0. WELLS Major Robert C. Wells, recent ly discharged from the U. S. Ar my Air Forces, has resumed the practice of law in Kenansville. He is occupying his old former offices over G. R. Dail Grocery, better known as the Rationing office. Major Wells was well known throughout the county as an at- J torney here before he volunteered ( in uw Army in juiy iwz. tie was commisioned a 2nd Lieutenant and was stationed at Miami Beach for six weeks and then transferr red to Wichita Falls, Texas where he was stationed until being ship ped overseas a year and a day before he received his discharge. Overseas he was with the Air Transport Command of the China-Butma-India'sectlen stationed in Calcutta, India. Hevas with the force that flew the THump" over the Hymilayan mountains. Major Wells was in the legal and claims section. COUNTY BRIEFS Miss Antanette Beaslev. dist rict chairman of the Junior Red Cross, was in Warsaw on Wednes day and Thursday of last week. and held a meeting of the Negro teachers and Jr. Red Cross work ers of the schools at 4 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. At 6 o'clock the same evening Mrs. G. D. Ben nett held a dinner in her home for the white Jr. Red Cross work ers of the County. Two members from each of the white schools in the county attended the dinner and were given Instructions con cerning the Jr. Red Cross drive by Miss Beasley. Dr. Gustav Ulrich visited the Red Cross office in Kenansville on Friday and checked the Red Cross campaign literature for the 1946 drive. Mrs. Gordon Kornegay of the Welfare Department 'attended an institute in Raleigh for case aides on January 30-31. On Monday she took some chil dren to Duke Hospital. PROMOTED Roy Houston, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Houston of Pink Hill has been nromoted to Corporal in the Eighth Army in Japan. His wife and two children live In Pink Hill. He entered the Army in Novem ber, 1944. Two Local School -; Children Suffer Injuries At Plav Little "Bobby" Wells, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C Wells, and "Tim my" Outlaw, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Outlaw, suffered Injuries while playing at school this week. Bobby fell and suffered a broken collar bone and Tlmmy fell and suffered a severe cut on his left leg. It required about 12 aUtches to close the wound. They are both getting along nicely. Doctor: "Nonsense, I removed your wife's appendix three years ago. How can anyone have a sec- FROM SORATA By Jake Headline; In our favorite county paper last week we read the fol lowing three-column headline: "Accident Deaths Reach Seven In County Since Christmas." The story continued about a child being struck by a car on the highway in Calypso and being instantly kill ed. That fatality was the seventh in our county In the period of one month. The accident rate has increased in this county 30 per cent since VJ day. This is a challenging sit uation facing our" county. Safety should become our motto. Efforts to drive, work, and walk safely at all times should be put forth by every individual. No greater ser vice to a community can come from local organizations than that of making the community safety conscious. One' statistician has said that an accident happens every S and 1-2 seconds. Many of them are fatal. We can read any daily paper on any day and count many, reports of fatal accidents In this state. The lives of our people should be worth more effort to preserve. We are, on the average, killing more people now than were killed dur ing the war. As prominent as high, way accidents are we should be re minded that more serious injuries occur in the home than any other place. In 1944 the National Safe ty Council reported falls as the most costly type of accident. A lit JJe' time spent in removing the cause ofa possible accident is paid for with-great interest. Remember the old adage: "Better be safe than sorry." And we may add too that we had better arrive late at an appointed destination than not arrive at all. Uncle Dick Says: "Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend his time putting on the brakes." Elbert Hub bard. A Goal Might Be Set. We have read recently interesting accounts of some of our neighboring coun ties becoming the location of new Industries. A large meat packing plant in Kinston, a textile factory in Benson, and others. It is believed that Duplin peo ple will agree that we need more industrial establishments in our county. We have the assets to war rant such basiness. It is gratify ing to see accounts of planned ex pansion in some of our present firms, but we can use others and an organized effort on the part of some county agency or organiza tion might be a good way to get something started. Better schools, better roads, increased population, increased property values, and a finer more progresive county In all details could result by new busi ness establishments. Did You Know That it has been estimated that the population of the United States will increase fourteen million people between 1940 and 1950? ond appendix?" Husband: "Listen, haven't you heard of anyone having a second wife?" More Housing Questions: Mr. L. W. Outlaw, prominent Duplin far mer and chairman of the Duplin AAA County Committee, stated recently that in his travels over the county he had noticed that many houses on the farms are va cant He, like many other Duplin farmers, is looking for farmers to live in those houses and begin work on a crop for 1946. The farm labor situation Is not improving satisfactorily and farmers axe facing the problem of their crops production this year possibly with more apprehension than in any recent year. All this leads one to wonder whether or not the farm worker! who left the farms for military service and war work ire not returning to the farms, but Attackers Of Deputy Sheriff Major Sutton Convicted Churchill in U.S;A. StTw A ,4 . 4 NJ ' 1 v MIAMI. FT. V ? .!. ' to Miami Daily News I hoto by Ted Lucas Former Prime Minister Winston Chun-hill 1 Great Britain, who is vacationing- on Miami Beach, poses in his piip' .-.w '- v'-ip tnkinp a siiuil in ins uik of painting. Getting His Discharge James A. Best, S 2c, of Rt. 1, Faison, is being- discharged after honorable service in the Navy, at the personnel separation center in Little Creek, Va. V Faison Man, Age Forty Blows Brains Out With Shot Gun John Sprunt Southerland, age 40, was found dead In his home Tuesday. According to coroner Ralph Jones it was a clear case of suicide. Mr. Jones said that a relative, ,susjjicloning( something had gone wrong, "went to his home and found him. He ws sitting in a chair with a shot gun between his legs and a fire poker he used to pull the trigger lying beside him. His brains were blown out and had stuck to the ceiling. JURORS DRAWN FOR MARCH COURT The following named persons were drawn to serve as jurors for the March term, 1946, Superior Court: FIRST WEEK: Herbert Wells, E. F. Strickland, C. T. Grady, W. T. Brock, Dallas Jones, Melvin Powell, Nick Ed wards, W. E. Hines, Alvin Korne gay, Albert Smith, Y. L. Smith, R. Southerland, H.W . Dickson, F. R. Carr, Wra, N. Hunter, Her man E. Rouse, Dulan E. Caven augh, A. W. Whaley, Earl Dail, K. J. Smith, J. E. Sheffield, B. G. Blanchard, McNeil Sholar, B. F. rather are seeking to find employ ment in other fields. Farm oper ations have been gradually becom ing more mechanized and the trend points toward more mach inery for farm work as rapidly as It can be secured. National TULIA, TEXAS Welcome Volunteer Tiff, the nuw N&USnal Three Year Old Jersey Champion for both milk and fat, made much of her record on wheat pasture in the plains country of the Texas pan handle. Her owner is former 4-K Club boy J. Chester, Elliff. Her recorded production made in the Register of Merit division of The American Jorrey Cattle Club and supervised by Texas A and M Col lege is 19,418 lbs. milk, testing 6.55 and 1,077 lbs. fat beginning - test at S years 8 months of age. The former class leader replaced by this great record is Dream Noble Blanche Ixia, a registered Jersey, owned by 4-11 Club boy, P. E. Miller, Jr., Richfield, North Carolina. " Her record was 19,129 lbs. milk, testing 5.63 and. 1,059 lbs. fat. John Lester Cruse and his bro ther, Eddie Cruse were convicted in court here last week for the as sault and robbery on Deputy Sher iff Major Sutton of Albertson Township. According to evidence brought out the two brothers attended a dance at the Outlaw's Bridge school house on the night of Jan. 19th. During the dance John Les ter went into the school building and asked Deputy Sutton to go out on the school ground and stop someone from trying to steal a car. He and Sutton went out and as they approached the road in front of the building one of them grabbed his arms and one grab bed his legs. They threw him to the ground, took his pistol find clubbed him in the face. Sutton's jawbone was broken and his head cut. They fled and Sutton was rushed to a Kinston hospital. Ho is nearly 70 years old. John Lester was given 10 years in the pen for robbery and 2 for assault, terms to run concurrently. Eddie was given 3 to 5 years for robbery and 2 for assault. John Lester has served about 8 years on various counts. Eddie was re leased from the Army about a month before the incident. Southerland was unmarried and lived alone. He had been in il! health for some time, it was said. Coroner Jones expressed the be lief that he shot himself sometime Saturday. His jtjodjr was stiff when found. Funeral services were held from the Tyndall Funeral Home in Mt. Olive Wednesday after noon, conducted by Rev. J. M. Smith, pastor of the Faison Pres byterian Church. Interment was in the Faison Cemetery. Brock, Walter Blizzard, G. S. Register, Robert Pickett, Gnvlor Maready, L. H. Thomas, Marion Quinn, R. Young, James A. Hardy, A. M. Benton, J. D. Jackson, I,. L. Flowers, Frank Wilkins, R E. Wall, R. L. Quinn, A. E. Williams, and M. B. Holt. SECOND WEEK: A. B. Fussell, Elbert Jones, Mar vin Bradshaw, Willie Wilson, Al bert J. Williams, Geo. Rhodes, Amos Jones, John D. Grady, Foy Goodman, L. H. Jernigan. R. M. Winders, F. J. Jones, B. B. Fus sell, Harry Grady, W. B. Register, H. D. Kornegay, L. R. Lanier, G. D. Sholar, Millard Edwards, II. L. Lanier, J. E. McNellis, F. N. Bar den, H. E. Blackmore, J. K. Sou therland, Paul Bass, C. J. Miller, W. J. Fussell, P. T. Fountain, O. A. Mathis, B. K. Bradshaw, Ed F. Bostic, E. A. Walton, Claude Dail, Ellis Raynor, Sr., R. A. Murphy, C. L. Stroud, Albert Askew, David J. Brock, Mathew Parker, and B. F. Rivenbark. Champion Major Joe Wallace Announced For Sheriff FOR SHERIFF srfTK? 1 1 Ml ii 5 ""JLSf i s. 1 -Kf MAJOK JOK WALLACE FAMED ORCHESTRA LEADER TO SELECT STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL QUEEN IN WALLACE 'vV.iii.i. . K.iy Kyser, the Old i"s I i radio and screen fame from P"e!:y Mount, will per sonally select I he queen of the Wallace Si r,m berry festival this sprint;, it was announced by May or .1. Aubrey Harrell. Photographs of conlestanls in the sixth annual festival will lie sent to -Kyser in Hollywood soon after March in order I hat ho may make his sel ection. Prcious commitments in Hollywood prevent Kyser from at tending the festival, Harrell said: AH girls bet wren 18-21 in Du plin, Sampson and Onslow coun ties are eligible to enter their photographs. Each intrant must submit a full-view SX10 photo ijraph to Mayor Harrell not later than March 1. Kyser will select the photograph of the girl who will be queen of the festival May 1st lhroui;h May lllh at Wallace. Runnersup will be named as attendant- a', the (,'ieen's court. Mr. llariell said the queen and her attendants would receive val uable prizes and be rujally enter tained during the festival. Crown ing of the queen will be one of the highlights of the festival, the first to be held since the war. County Negro Teachers Credit Union Report The Duplin I'ounly Teacher's Federal Credit I'nion Secretary Treasurer gave a condensed state ment of conditions fur the year ending December, 31, 1945: ASSETS Total Loans $205 Mfi; Cash in Rank, J875O0; U. S. Gov't. Bonds, S74.00; Total, $1154.45. LIABILITIES Shares, $1088.40; Reserve For Bad Loans, $63.52; Undivided pro fits, $2.53; Total, $1154.45. Certified correct by Robert A. Merritt, Treasurer. BOY SCOUT SUNDAY Outlaw's Bridge Church Sunday, February 10th will be observed as Boy Scout Sunday at the Outlaw's Bridge Universal i? t Church. The Outlaw's Bridge Troop and Cub Pack will partici pate in the sen-ice. The service will begin at eleven o'clock, fol lowing the Sunday School which meets at ten a. m. Rev. Gustav II. Ulrich, D. D. minister of the Church and Acting Scoutmaster will preach the ser mon. Outlaw's Bridge AUW Meets Saturday The Outlaw's Bridge AUW will meet Saturday afternoon at two o'clock with Mrs. Herman Out law. All members are urged to be present at this meeting and visi tors are welcome. . E 1 K W. V. I 7 No. 6 Sheriff Williamson to re tire after 28 years in of fice; Second Sheriff, in point of service in North Carolina. Major Joseph Wallace, recently retired from Army duty, this week announced his candidacy for Sheriff of Duplin County. Major Wallace, until volunteering in the Army was Deputy Sheriff of this county from Jan. 1, 1929 ntil May 11. 1942, when he enlist ed in the Armed forces and wns commissioned a First Lieutenant in the Army Air Ground Forces.. He is the son of the late Sheriff j Bland Wallace and Mary J. Mc- Gowen Wallace. His father was the first sheriff in Duplin follow ing the Civil War and served 14 years. Major Wallace was married to Katherino McKenzie of Wil mington in Dec. 1930. Since he enlered the service, Mrs. Wallace has served as office Deputy to Sheriff Williamson. Major Wallace was ordered to Miami Beach after his enlistment and was stationed there contlnous ly until his retirement. He enlist ed on May 11, 1942. In June, 1943 he was promoted to Captain and in May. 1944 he was promoted to Ma jor. In Oct. 1942 he was named assistant Provost Marshal of Mi ami Beach and in August, 1943 he was promoted to Provost Marsh al. He received his discharge in December of last year and since that time has been serving as Ser vice Officer for Duplin County. SIIKRIFF RETTBES David S. Williamson, probably one of the most popular Sheriffs in the history of Duplin County has announced his retirement. Sheriff says that while he is still young and healthy he desires to be relieved of the responsibilities of the office and give someone else a chance. He was first elec ted in 192 1 and has been reelect ed for every term ever since. Three times in his public career he has been elected without oppo sition. He first ran against the late Sheriff Ingram and defeated him. Prior to his first race he was Deputy under Sheriff Ingram and the late Sheriff Best. Edit. Note: In point of service Sheriff Wil liamson is the second oldest Sher iff in North Carolina. This fact alone is one of the finest tributes a person could have. Duplin Coun ty has been fortunate. J. R. Grady Warsaw Serviceman Gets Discharge James F. Coston, who has been overseas with the 81st Wild Cat Division has been discharged from the Army and is now making his home in Columbus, Ga., with his wife and mother, Mrs. R. H. Al exander. He was in the battle on Augar and Pelbin Islands and also saw duty at Leyte, Philippine Islands and Yokohoma, Japan. He was wounded twice and was out of service eight months. His medals include Foreign Ser vice, Good Conduct, Bronze Star, Combat Modal, and Purple Heart. He received the Duplin Times all the time while ocerseas, including 52 copies at one time, as they had gotten misplaced. He was really pleased at getting them, and said they seemed like a Christmas present to him as he received them right at Christmas in 1944. v- . Mrs. James Miller III In Hospital Mrs. James Miller of Miller town Is in Parrott's Hospital ;in Kinston recuperating from a heart ' attack suffered last week end. Her condition is reported to be good.
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