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-,1H ' n l-l - I -1 M xJi-tlHlt ii jii mm.wMnniiiill nil mi JttoI yajjjjipmwwMPKP. iliip wn Mmii.i n ' ' mmA ..yt:;,:m , - it 17r n jv$3g tr . t; - if ii riiag :- f - W 1 t f jgiii mmmm BETHEL CHURCH HOMECOMING eoulnr and children's day which " morning exercises, while the group of returned veterans, pictured below, were honored during the af V ternoon program. At top, the children, first row, left to right, axe Gail Grady, Clara Dail, Clarissa Dail, Catherine Dail, Dave' Summerlin, LInwood Grady, Carolyn Outlaw; aecnd row, John Gilbert Alpbin, Harley1 Hines, Nancy Alphin, Rosemond OutIaw,,Henry Summerlin, Eva Summerlin, Audrey Alphin, Frances Kelly; third row, Ernest Grady, Foye Ivey,- Anna Lois Grady, Mary Lou Summerlin, Jane Grady fourth row, Jim Summerlin Billy Summerlin, Alfred Dail; back row, Sannle Dail, Elizabeth Grady, Merle Summerlin, Eva Grady; BOTTOM; Veterans who were present for the program were, first row. Garland Alphin, Edward Grady,, Russ,ell Brock, Bill Sullivan, hack row, Wlllard Pate, thurman Jernigan, Lis ton - Summerlin, William Kelly, James Kelly, C, C Ivey, Jr and Alton DalL Hiss Helen Sullivan, Mrs. Perry . Grady and Mrs. Garland Alphin were In charge of the day's aotlvitlea,- A Tribute To Mrs. Cates , ' " . Faison, N. C. ; June 18, 1947 ' The Town of Faison' and all of "Duplin County lost one of its lead ing citizens Sunday morning, June ; 1st, when Mrs. H. R.- Cates died suddenly of a heart attack, "Miss Cleo", as Bhe was familiarly known to her host of friepds, both white and colored,' had been active for (years in most all phases of commun ity life. Her ; contributions to the various activities of(her community-' ' has done much to help make Faison a better twn in which to live. Her genial smile, her pleasing , personality; and her willingness to . help any worthy person or cause, : will be greatly missed by this en : tire communl.;. . p.- - Vy- Mrsf Cates was President of the Beard of Trustees of the Faison Community Building. It has been largely through her efforts that our Community ' Building has become the focal point of activity for both ' youth and adult groups in their - respective organizations. .' . z:: ' Mrs. Cates was before her mar riage Mlss .Cleo Mable of Decatur, Ga. She was graduated from Wes leyan College at Macon, Ga., and also attended Agnes Scott College in Decatur; Ga. She was a member of Phi Delta Theta Sorority., After her school days, Mrs. Cates waa a teacher-for a number of years and later workeoV with the Federal Re- rerve Bank in Atlanta, Ga. She " came to Faison with her husband in 1931 and soon established her self as a cooperative citizen in her new home. Mrs. Cates will be re- 'membered for her many altruistic, achievements and her cheerful philosophy "of, life will live in the hearts of those who knew and The two (roups pictured above was Meld Sunday. ' The children at Lasl Rites For Mrs. Applewhite ' Funeral services for Mrs. Erin Shealy" Applewhite, aged 4d,i wife of Ralph L. Applewhite, manager of the WarsawTlde Water Power Company branch, were held from Qulnn-McGowen Funeral Home on Friday afternoon at 4:00 - o'clock with the Rev. G. Van Stephens, pastor of the Warsaw Baptist CburcH.-officiating. Burial follow ed in Pinecrest Cemetery, in War saw. Pallbearers, were Messrs. O. H. Best, Stacy Brltt, Edgar Pollock, George Penney, Herbert Best, Jr., and Forrest Martin. ' t Mrs.1 Applewhite died Thursday afternoon at 2:50 following an ex tended and serious illness. Before moving to Warsaw three years ago with her husband, she had lived in Kinston and Georgia. She was the sister of the late M. L. Shealey, of Kinston. .'t,s . Surviving are her husband and a sonrEarl Alford, Jr., by a former marriage, of Sylvester, Ga. :?v- Hold Meeting The' Duplin County Farm Bureau will hold a meeting at the Court- hAURM An FrlilAV- Jim 27.. T947. aft . g P- m., to discuss and consider the following Items: . The Referendum on July 12, 1947 to decide on taxing our. tobacco acreage to support The Tobaccq As sociates Incorporated, g ' Tb Chapel Hill Blue Cross Hosn pltaiizat'an Association's Program; ... Leg' "- "i le.lng considered In Cr-'-rr --rt f J t--ne. ' ' ' "" Irs r iln " vera honored at the annual home- the top presented the program at the Hew Cars On Display Saturday Featuring the cab "that breathes" the new line of Chevrolet commer cial cars and trucks goes on dis play Saturday, June 28 at the War saw Motor Co., in Warsaw. Produced in a wide variety of models, -the, new Chevrolet line is manufactured in nine wheelbases with gross weights ranging from 4,000 to 16,000 pounds. t i ; . K - "It . Re-styled, the Advance-Design series are attractive and provide more room, more comfortable seats and other improvements for the comfort and convenience ; of the "man behind the wheel." ; ', - Chief of these is the cab that "breathes," in which a new venti- iating system circulates fresh air fin the cab and keeps windshield ana windows . tree oi tog. ""Windshield, and side and rear windows in the cab provide great er vision. Instrument controls are re-styled and rearranged for im proved driver convenience," Mr, Wall .said. A new dome 'light is aqother cab feature. , - "We predict that the new trucks will: be enthusiastically .welcomed aud endorsed by truck drivers and owners," Mr. Wall said. . f - , Legion Meeting Be Held At B. F. Grady Post NO. ' 379, of the American Legion Mill hold a meeting at the B. F. Grady School on Friday night, July 4th. The meeting is scheduled to commence at 8 o'clock. ? ,:;:ti$v The purpose of this meeting! is to organize an auxiliary.1. .: . ( ; V All members are- -requested - to i ring their wives, daughters and s v 1-0 C o (?alified to become YEPylT WHITE One of nature'i "oddities a white huckleberry has crop ped up on a farm near Beula ville.. - . .. -; ..... ' Samples of the albh:o berry were sent to the Food, and Drug Division of the State Depart ment of Agriculture b Hay woodGreen ol Ri 2, Beula- viiie. ; . - r . Department officials said the white huckleberry is very rarer-like , ad albino animal. Some of the - white berries have been placed in alcohol, for display in the State Mu- seumif they can be preserved. The berry was described as being much sweeter than the normal . blue Irackleberry. By MRS. J. B. TORRANS The Duplin County Club women left KenansVille on June 9, at 6:00 A. M., for a tour of New York City and other interesting points. Our first stop was at Mt Vernon, saw Rock Hich church that George Washington attended, also the grist mill he used. We toured through buildings,' exhibits, etc., also the tomb. We-arrived in Baltimore at Emerson Hotel for the night. Left next morning arriving in New York at Taft Hotel about 5 P. M. jOur first tour began at 6 p. m. to world't largest, broadcasting sta tion saw "Serenade Of America" broadcasted; . Radio City studio from-which all NBC serials are presented; newsroom; master con trol room; sound effects room; tele-vlsion;-and the largest radio studio In the world - 1100 capacity. Say Milton Burl, on Phillip Morris pro- Lgram. Then on to Radio City music hall, saw stage then picture show. Next day our tour began down down Broadway, Times Scjuare, Em pire. State -Buildingi Little church arpund the corner by N. Y. Uni versity. We saw Mrs. Roosevelt's apartment; the church in which Bing Cxocby's picture "Going My Way" Was made. Four level sub way to Brooklyn. We toured along this district, then China Town, the Bowery, All "nameless and alcohol ics" We saw the double j deck Manhattan bridge, where Stephen Foster was slain. Went through the Italian district, through the produce market, Federal Prison, the Chel sey district, (very restricted apart ments,) London Terrace. (3,000 apartments in one block). The Ca thedral of St John, under construc tion for about 55 years and about two-thirds completed; very beauti ful. ;t We saw Doris Duke's home. Miss Trombly's home (incidentally she is so wealthy she owns fifteen auto mobiles. We sjw the Sherry,- the Netherland Hotel where the movie stars stay. We saw the Cornelius Vanderbilt residence on which the taxes are $76 per day and also saw St. Patrick's Cathedral. We bad a wonderful three hour boat trip on the Hudson and passed eighteen bridges. We saw a show that night at Center Theatre, the ice follies and afterward to Billy Rose Diamond Horseshoe Club. Next morning our tour began on the subway to the Hudson river which we crossed by boat to the Statue of Liberty; back to Macy's Dept. Store, Empire State Bldg., and shopping tour. We left New York Friday at 8 o'clock by Prince ton University, where ; President Wilson was nomlnated.fdr the pre sidency. We returned via Philadel phia, saw Sears Roebuck retail store, down Broad Street (longest fn the world, 20 miles); Independ ence Hall , and arrived in Wash ington at 6 P. M. -. :;' -. ; " We toured the Congressional Li brary at night. Next morning we toured the Monestary, Capitol, Bo tanical ardens. White House, AAF airport and lunched in Richmond. Some of the ladies shopped at Mil ler & Rhodes and other stores. We arrived in Warsaw about- 8 P. M. Among those making the tour were Mesdames David Carlton, J. Bit Torrans, Bob Blanchard, Fred Revelie, Ralph Jones, W. H. Moore of Warsaw; Mattie Brice of Wallace; Phoebe '-. Pate, Gardner . Edwards, Walter Rhodes Vailie Campbell and Miss Ermle Sanderson, of Beula ville; Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Wells of Teachey; Mesdames Robert Will iams, L.- P.. Wells, Jas King, and C. M, Nicholson of Mt Olive; , E. Pope, of Magnolia; J. L.-Thorne of Farmville; W. M. Griffin, Lillian Outlaw, Penny Outlaw, Arthur Smith, Katie Outlaw, Sallie Out law of Seven Springs; Marie Totten ofSmithfield; Brantley Hawes of Rose Hill: Mae Swinson, Scott Her ring, D, W. .Smith, R, J. Smith of IPink Hill; J. W. Pickett and Misses Martha Pickett and Hilda Clontz of Kenansville. . . C "19 ?Tivals incrr- 1 s" ' "v Quinn CpGns'sw Store Ihre IfenansuillDaln On Tha arch Woodland Youth Hold Fellowship The Woodland Youth Fellowship held their regular monthly meeting in the Woodland Methodist church Sunday night. During business plans were made to visit, and send cards and flowers to the sick of our community: It was decided that we would continue having choir practice on Thursday nights in the members' homes. Beginning with our next meeting we will have a study of the Old Testament and Bibical characters. Various mem- .bers will, conduct the study. After business there was a devo tional program wTlich stressed tem perance and youth's part in God's world. This consisted of Bible dis cussion, hymns, poems, a religious story, "and prayer.' Climaxing the program we had- a Spiritual Life Clinic, which gave members advice n how to cure their sinful ailments. During the social hour the hosts, Rommie Herring, Dave Miller, Al vln Dunn, ; and Mercer Williams served delicious soft drinks and cookies to the 45 members present, several visitors from Pink Hill wert present. Mrs. Joe Westbrook dis missed the meeting with prayer. - iin auifii Sunday June 29 Mrs. G. V. Gooding, of Kenans-, ville, recently wrote the American Mission to Lepers, Inc .jnd recei ved the following reply: Dear Mrs. Gooding:. ' I am happy to be able to tell you that you can have the film "The Healng of M'vondo" for your meet ing on Sunday evening, June 29. We shall mail It on Monday, June 23 so that it will be sre to reach you in plenty of time. Please start it back to us on Mopday, June 30th. The rent Is $2.00 plus postage. It is an excellent film in colors taken at Elat Cameroun. I feel sure that it will be a blessing to your church and community. It is the story of a little boy who contracted the dis ease, goes to a colony, becomes an arrested case and becomes able to go home again. If we can do any thing else to help you, let us know. ' I shall certainly try to include Kenansville on my fall itineray. Shall let you know as soon as plans are complete. Cordially, Mrs. T. R. Husk. Local Woman Service Meet Mrs. N. B. BorMy of Kenansville, Mesdames J. D. Robinson and Hugh Morrison of Wallace represented Duplin County Chapter of the Am erican Red Cross at a meeting held on Wednesday, June 18 in the audi torium of the U. S. Naval Hospital at Camp Lejeune in the interest of community service to camp and hospital. , ' Mrs. Bone Meet In Raleighh Mrs. N. B. Boney, secretary of Duplin County Chapter American Red Cross with home service respon sibilitles left Monday morning to spend several days in Raleigh in order to take a basic training course in home service. The course is be ing taught by Miss Chloris Kellum. field representative for this district fram Atlanta, Ga. She has visited the Duplin Coutny Chapter several times during the past winter. Bible School At Pleasant View Miss .Louise Farrior, of Assem bly Training School, Richmond, Va., will be director of Bible School at Pleasant View Presbyterian church June 80 through July .4. Classes will begin at 8 a. m. Assist :lv$ I"!5 Farrior will be Treason Charged l f i ' '- J ' -LOS ANGELES, CAIu (Sound photo) Charged by American au thorities with being the instigator of , "dreadful atrocities" against capturea prisoners of war, Tomoya Kawakita, 26 - year old American born Japanese, was ui.-'ested by the FBI here on treason charges. One of the American soldiers he had mistreated recognized Kawakita on the street in Los Angeles last Oc tober and put G-men on his trail. Other former, prisoners have since identified him. the FBI said. Ka. iwakita went to Japan in 1939, prior to war, on an American pass port He returned here last year on an allegedly faked passport by concealing from the state depart ment agency in Japan hi, activities during the war. . . .. , LIVESTOCK GETS BOOST , ' Plans for pushing the devel opment of North - Carolina's ' livestock industry as one means - of fftettlng a possibly decline., la-evenue f rqaaf tobaeco ire 'being made by the State De partment f 'Agriculture fol lowing meeting of Eastern North Carolina producers and market operators. FlimFlam Artist Now James R. Redmon, colored flim flam artist, who swindled Hattie Parker, also colored, out of $1,070 in Warsaw some time ago is now being held in jail here under a $5,000 bond. Sheriff Jones took Hattie Parker to Tarboro to identi fy Redmon. where he was being held by authorities, and she said he was the man that fleeced her. Redmon Is a member of an or ganization of flimflamers that has been working, from New York to Florida. Other members of the gang are being held in Tarboro tand other county jails. Negro In Jail Here For Assault; Rape On June 15, James Junius Pear sall, colored, assaulted Lucy Jar man, a 60 year old colored woman, on her front porch and dragged her to her bedroom, forced her to lie down on' her bed and raped her. Pearsall is 24 years old. Both live in Wolf scrape Township near Summerlin Cross Roads. Pearsall is being held in Duplin County jail without bond.- - To Attend 4-H Short Course For Negroes At A &T James Thomas and Frank Mur phy will attend the State Short Course after winning in the Dist rict Contest which was held at the Pender' County Training School on June 19. The boys had previously won the semifinals which were held at the Echo Dairy Farm on June 5. In addition L to the two boys, the Home Agent, Miss Blackmore, is taking five girls from as many clubs an there will be three more boys to go to make the County delegation a total of ten. New Han over, Pender, Duplin, Sampson and Harnett Counties will charter a bus together. . v . t Farm price of the 1947 crop of soybeans grading U. S. No. 2 and L. H. (Pete) Quinn, promiiK ? Duplin County farmer, annoi" the opening of his new store . Kenansville this week. Mr. C moved to Kenansville from bis t home near Sarecta last fall and re cently purchased a lot on the Ks-nansville-Kinston highway and con structed an attractive brick stor? building. The building is very at tractive inside and out with floure Scent lighting on the inside to as sure the customers of . seeing all stock win at all times. ;-V Mr. Qulnn is stocking a general lin-j of groceries, hardware, feeds seeds, dry goods and notions, etc. You will find in this new store what one would expect to find in a farmer's trading store. 4 Mr. Quinn has as his clerk and main helper, Adrain Beetle, pro minent farmer of Kenansville. Mr. Quinn, who is more . commonly known as "Pete", plans to expand his business, taking on other lines as rapidly as possible. He Invites the shopping public in ; Duplin County to visit his store and trade with him The town of Kenansville, The Duplin Timer and all mer chants of Kenansville welcome "Pete" as a fellow merchant and wish for him much success. We in vite Duplin citizens at all times to via it ffccuaiwviiuj as mucn as pos sible and to do as much trading in Kenansville as possible. Kenans ville. your county seat town, is on the march. - r . ... ' 1 Duplin Murderer - Dies Today In was uiaracor; i . ' A. triple execution Is scheduled for. the gas chamber at Central Prison today. ' ; , One of the condemned men is Mose Artis ,42, who was convicted in this county last September of first degree murder in the slaying c! his landlord, George Houston. Artis testified at his trial that his lawyer advised him to use force, if necessary, to keep his landlord off the property he was tending. - Evidence showed that Artis shot Houston twice, then used the shot gun as a club, knocking Houston ' down, then shooting him again. - Governor .Cherry said that he couldn't intervene for any of the three men. ,'.'"". s-i:;' r The other two men to die are: Roy Kirksey, 25, guilty of the mvr der of his wife on July 4, 1945. And, Woodrow Brcwn, 28, convicted for the raping of a 5S-year-old white woman, Mis Stella Edwards,- who lived alone in LeesviUe town- . ship. Wake County. Two From Duplin j On Honor Roll " An Laor roll of 165 students at East Carolina Teachers college whose records showed outstanding achievement has jus tbeen released. Among those on the honor roll are Thomas F. Booth of Rose Hill and Alton H. Thigpen of Pink Hill. Jurors Selected For July Term County Court The following jurors have been drawn for the July term of County Court: - ' - ' D. R. Sykes, B. G. Teachey, W. A. Byrd, Jack Pickett, Mrs. Myrtle Harrell, W. C. Moore, R. B. Dick son, W. E. Davis, Sam Blalock, C. E. Brown, Wilton Sumner, II 1 Smith, Norman Tillman, B. I'. Boone, Mrs. Mamie Heath, E. P. Blanchard, E. H. Woodward, Harry Hall, W. A. Carroll, T. C. Cr- . Lucian Fussell, Ned Roberts, II r vey R, Harper, and A. L. Hunt. Melhodisfs l!:!J Picnic Sun.:y ' Sunday night, at 7:C3 t will be a picnic si'rper at f odist -CSi'iirrh, r-oiisW"l '' ". V. P. 1 ' 'nr and tea-
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