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VOLUME NUMBER FIFTEEN
i:!z Department Store Celebrates
C ; Its Twenty-fifth
With the approach of the Thanks-'
giving ; season . Katz Department
' Store Will celebrate Its 25th birth
day of business in Warsaw
I The store was organized in 19
Jz by A. H. Apple who moved to
Warsaw from Greenville and wai
located In the Cooper Building. A1
that time the store was known as
Apple's Department Store. Mr.
Apple died in 1828. .
-' His widow, the -. present Mrs.
Rats, took over the business. She
had four young children, Arthur
.being the oldest, was eight years
Of age. Mrs. Katz kept the business
going during ,the most: critical
. years of the depression from 1928
to 1932 and managed her house- .
hold and young children. In 1932
she met Simon Katz in Baltimore
and later they were married. Then
th name of the business was
changed to Katz Department Store. r
Mr. Katz was well experienced
In the retail business and operated
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. . At the age of twelve, Arthur
Apple, present manager, began
working In the store, doing odd
Jobs, learning the business and at
the age of fifteen Was buying on I
the Northern Markets. About that
time the store was moved to Its
present location and the building
was purchased. Mr. Apple continu-
, ed to be active and attentive to the
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Kuainesi ana ne is now manager
However, Mr. and Mrs. Katz are
still very active In the business,
s Katz Department Store has growr
steadily since 1932, until today It
rates as one of the leading and pro
gressive department stores In Du
plin County.?
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-)Ue.' the manaeer. is an
i wunanaiug: citizen of Warsaw, ac-
tave in community wprk, Masonry,
ftt!nrt Club, the Merchants Asso
e" .on, -and the Warsaw Baseball
i Katz rtepajent Store, has
very efficient end well-trained staff
of sales ladles headed by Mrs. Mag
gie Chambers. - Her helpers are
" vubwii ana sue wnne, '''
1 In other sections of this issue
you will see some of Katz special
anniversary bargains:
Candidates Are
L.cminafed For SCC
Five local farmers have been
nominated for candldatM tnr Tha
Duplin County Soli Conservation
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wommmee according to Mr. Lewis
Outlaw, Supervisor of the South
eastern Soil Conservation District
These men will be voted on in an
election to be held the week of
December 1 to 8, 1947, as provided
by changes made in the State Soil
Conservation District law by the
last Legislature. The three men
receiving the highest number of
.votes will be elected.
-The candidates are: H. C. Moore,
Ellis Vestal, Henry H. Hall, Gra
ham Reese, and Lewis Outlaw.
The SoU Conservation Commit
tee Will have the responsibility of
representing, the people of this
county and developing and direct
ing a soil conservation program.
The chairman of this committee
will represent this county on the.
- leastern Sou Conservation
i 1 M M (
uijvijci sown or supervisors, me
, committee will set up annual soil
conservation goals and with assist
ance from personnel of agricultu
ral agencies develop plans for
meeting these goals. In short, they
will provide a medium through
which any agency, organization, or
individual interested In soil con
servation can work In reaching the
farmers of this county.
Tie candidate receiving the high
est number of votes will serve for
a period of three years, the next
highest a period of two years, and
the third highest for one year.
Candidates are nominated by sub
mitting a petition to the State Soil
Conservation Committee In Ral
eigh. The signatures of 25 quali
fi"i voters residing . within the
' -nty -are necessary' to place a
name in nomination.
" Counfy-Vide-'J
Scout Rally
A rally of the Intermediate Girl
"s and the Brownie Scouts of
i County will meet for their
? "y on December second,
i en Scouts are urged to take
i cf this announcement -and
i it vita, troop leaders. The
T v "I fce held in Kenansvllle
l t2:t.ninjw at 8 p.m.
Birthday In Warsaw
fifes .
MR. AND KA'U.
owners of Kattf Dept, Store In
Warsaw. ,;
Red Cross Hews
. The Duplin County Chapter ARC
recently received the following let
ter-
November 18, 1947
Mrs. N. B. Boney
Executive Secretary
American, Red Cross
Duplin County Chapter
Kenansvllle, North Carolina
Dear Mrs. Boney:
This is to acknowledge receipt of
IS pairs of men pajamas.
On behalf of the patients and the
American Red Cross staff of this
hospital, we wish to express our
appreciation for your contribution,
Our bed patients were very happy
to receive these and are very grate
ful to the Production Corps for re
membering them.;.
Very truly yours,
(Mrs.) Mary Ellen Gardner
, Field . Director, A.-R. C.
V. A. Hospital
. .Tuskegee, Alabama.
Bowden Stabs
Branch Vho
Dies Instantly
On Sunday night, in the home of
Judd Bowden, ..Junior Branch was
stabbed to death by Bowden at
about 7:30 P. M. He died instantly
from four stabs of a butcher knife.
According to witnesses Junior
Branch, about 21 years old,, went
to Bowden's house to buy" drink
of whiskey on credit Bowden, about
65, who from all reports was drunk,
informed him that he would not
sell him or even his1 mother a drink
on credit The argument began, and
Branch knocked Bowden down. He
jumped up and ran into the kitchen,
came back with a butcher knife
and stabbed Junior four times, sev
ering his Jugular vein. Branch fell
dead without uttering a word.
Sheriff Jones and Coroner C. B.
Sitterson were called to the scene
and a coroner's Jury was empanel
ed. The Inquest was held In the
home of Bowden over the dead
body. The Jury ordered Judd Bow
den to be held for grand jury Inves
tigation Withoflt bohdVJ :'t
According to officers there was
on'fe a bit of evidence of drinking,
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KENANSVILLE NORTH CAROLINA
21 Negroes Are
Arrested For
rting
Two bus loads of Negroes were
arrested Friday night by Sheriff
Ralph Jones and deputies on charg
es of transporting and possessing
more than the legal quantity of
tax paid liquor, the sheriff said
Saturday. Twenty-one persons were
involved.
Ten gallons of whiskey, which is
eight gallons more than could be
legally transported on the two ve
hicles was found, the sheriff said.
3-Wav Wreck At
Middleton's Mill
Eugene M. Winecoff of Have-
lock was seriously injured Friday
night when the car he was driving
crashed into an asphalt tnsck at
Middleton's Mill bridge. Patrolman
J. A. McColman, who was driving
toward Warsaw, had stopped to al
low the truck, which was coming
towards Kenansvllle, to clear the
bridge. Winecoff s car passed Mc
Colman's car and crashed into the
asphalt truck which contained
1,000 gallons of hot asphalt and it
turned over.
The' highway truck and Wine
coff s car were both completely de
molished and the patrolman's car
was badly damaged. Winecoff was
rushed to the Goldsboro Hospital
suffering from a lacerated scalp.
His brother, W. P. Winecoff, of
Greensboro, Pa., was not badly
hurt
, ' Claude Autry and a Mr. Fair-
cloth, both of Autryville, occupants
of the truck, were injured.
OecTerm Civil
Duplin County Commissioners on
the recommendation of the Duplin
County Bar have requested Gover
nor Cherry to' cancel the December
term of Superior Court for trial of
civil cases. The reason is that the
term is not needed.
In place of the civil term the
commissioners asked the Governor
to call a special term of criminal
cases with grand jury to be held
the week beginning December 1.
Reasons for needing a special
term for trying criminal cases is
that many cases were continued
from the September term on ac
count of the illness of Judge John
J. Burney, the presiding jurist
New Super Market
J. Ellis West opened his new
Super Market in Warsaw on Thurs
day. This is one of the most modern
and; up-to-date 'markets ?n Duplin
County, offering customers every
thing from "soup to nuts."
His equipment is most up-to-date
and there is plenty of parking
space for alT customers.
Mr, West is not a new merchant
in Warsaw. He has operated Ellis'
Store on Main Street for several
years and is one of Warsaw's popu
lar merchants.
Christmas Star
. Dinah Shore, popular radio singer,
la featured with Laurita Melohior
and Robert Bmmett Dolan ant his
orchestra in a program of Christ
mas musle to be presented on radio
stations throughout the country
during the Chris Unas Seal Sale. The
Seal Sale .will be contacted from
Not. ii to Christmas by the National
Tuborcn' ' s , csociation and its
t,C: 9 ' '"tl ociatlons to raise
f " 'i f i r '"i-y'?a campfi'r
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Father, we thank thee, for the night
Ajad for the blessed morning light;
fttjr rest anjfood and loving care,
And all that makes the World so fair.
Help us to do the things we should;
To be to others, kind and good.
Inall we do, in work or play,
To grow more loving every day.
Thanksgiving Services To Be
Held In Warsaw November 27
Thanksgiving morning, Thursday,
November 27, at 7:15 there will be
an annual Thanksgiving service
held in the Warsaw Baptist Church
with the Rev. Lowell F. Sodeman,
pastor of the Clinton Baptist
Church, guest speaker. The pub
lic is corially invited to hear Rev.
Sodeman who is an outstanding
and gifted speaker. The annual
collection will be taken for the
Baptist Orphanages.
A Thanksgiving Service will also
be held in the Presbyterian Church
on Thursday morning at 9:00 o'
clock. The public is cordially in
vited to attend.
On Wednesday, evening at 7:30
a special Thanksgiving Service will
be held in the Methodist Church,
conducted by the Rev. A. M. Wil
liams. Please come.
Be Thankful
The following letter was received
by the editor. It did him so much
good to read it that he is passing
it on to you:
Nov. 24th. 1947.
Warsaw, N. C.
Dear Bob: r
If you see anyone this Thanks
giving that is not thankful teU them
my story, because using a friends
expression; "I got told."
Last Thanksgiving Mama named
a number of things she was thank
ful for and then said, "Now Blanche
let's hear from you." And I said,
"I have nothing to be thankful for."
She said, "What kind of talk Is
that?" I answered, "Well I have
nothing to be thankful for as there
is only you and me left" Of course,
I received a lecture, but I should
have gotten an old fashioned tan
ning. .: . , '
We drove about ten thousand
miles running away from our trou
bles (which does not pay) and did
nt have any trouble in our moun
tain driving, traffic jams and pass
ing through clUes and large towns,
except picking up a nail in Georgia
and a tack in Kentucky for which
I am thankful. ; ;i -.-J-.
On January 6th we drove to Ke
nansvllle on business and on our
way hnme we were on ot'r r! cf
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FRIDAY,
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmim
wmmmmmmm
Grady Ag. Students
Win 2nd Place
Five Vocational Agriculture
students and their adviser from the
B. F. Grady chapter attended the
Federation's Parlimentary Proce
dure contest held at the Rose Hill
High School Nov. 12. They, were
Bernard Kornegay, E. J. Kornegay,
Hunter Wells, William O'Quinn,
Boyce Wallace, and Mr. J IL Dot
son. The Grady team won second
place and the Judges said it was
the same as a flip of a coin, it was
so close.
Twelve schools were eligible but
only five entered the contest, B.
F. Grady, Chinquapin, Magnolia,
Burgaw, and Long Creek-Grady.
Rationing) we were meeting a car
and he stayed on his side of the
road until he got even with us,
turned and ran right into our car
(nothing good about our car now
but the back seat) I am thankful
we are alive because I do not see
how we are still living.
We should all be thankful that
we can eat (we were in so much
pain that we did not eat for days)
and we should be thankful we are
able to be out of doors and walk
around (we were in one room for
thirteen weeks). We should be
thankful that we can use our limbs
(I did not use my right hand for
months and still do most things
left-handed). We should be thank
ful for our good doctors and nurses
(we certainly are). We should be
thankful we have clothes to wear.
Just think of the many that do not
have a change of clothes. We should
be thankful for- our good fuel.
Think of all the freezing in Europe.
We should be thankful we live In
the garden spot of the world. Think
of all the floods, fires, tornadoes,
typhoons, blasts, explosions, plane
crashes, strikes, train wrecks and
car wrecks. I saw In your paper that
Duplin County has not had a death
in car wrecks for months. Think of
the starving and we are in the land
of plenty. r . r
If we lost a loved one, we should
know that none of us live forever
and life is short If we lost a son
'i ' t v-r we r" 'J be rr"1 cf
NOVEMBER, 28th., 1947
Families Are notified Of Arrival
Of Their Deceased Veterans
Lt Colonel Frederic W. Dennis,
Jr., Chief of the American Graves
Registration Division, Charlotte
Quartermaster Depot, revealed the
fact that the American Graves Reg
istration Division is being deluged
With telephone calls from the next
of kin requesting remains be de
livered on a specific date.
Col. Dennis issued a statement
today emphasizing the fact that it
is not necessary for next of kin
to contact the Division by telephone
or personal visits, as only a certain
fixed number of deliveries can be
made daily due to various limiting
factors, and in fairness to all next
of kin no deviation from this sched
ule can be made. He further added
that there will be an operational
time lapse between the date when
remains of the deceased arrives at
the port of entry and the date
when the final delivery is made to
Warsaw And Pink H ill Veterans Bodies
To Arrive On Transport Robert Burns
The bodies of 98 North Carolina
soldiers and sailors, many of them
killed in the D-Day assault on Oma
ha Beach, are scheduled to arrive
Monday or Tuesday in New York
harbor aboard the transport Robert
Burns, the Department of the Army
announced.
The majority of the Tar Heel
dead are being returned from Hen
ri Chappelle Military Cemetery ac
Eupen, Belgium. Others are from
the cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer,
ten miles west of Bayeux,
Blackburn Of Warsa
The winner of; North Carolina's
statewide National . Guard 'recruit
ing contest, Woodrow W. Black
burn, first sergeant of Company
M, 119th Infantry, Warsaw, will be
a busy soldier this week.
Commended Saturday by Gov.
Cherry and State Adj. J. Van Metts
for the achievement Blackburn will
be flown to Washington as the guest
of the Army, be taken on a tour
of Washington and the White
House, entertained at a luncheon
to be given by Secretary of the Ar
my Kenneth RoyalL and given a
reserve seat at the Army-Navy foot-'
ball game next Saturday.
Blackburn led 2,000 North Caro
lina Guardsmen in the two-month
$3,000 Goal Set For Duplin County -Tuberculosis
Association Xmas Seal Sale
THE TUBERCULOSIS CHRIST
MAS SEAL SALE IS NOW ON
AND IF THE CITIZENS OF DU
PLIN COUNTY RESPOND WITH
THEIR USUAL FORESIGHTS D-
LESS AND GENEROSITY THE!
GOAL OF $3,000 WILL BE MET.'
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AKiuvs arrui,
enterprising young manager of
Kata Dept Store in Warsaw.
I think each end every one of us
should name and count our many
blessings and be thankful for all
the good things God has given us
and not be blind as I was on last
Thanksgiving
Sincerely,
Blanche S. Wilson.
l!otice
Anv familv wishing tu have a
military funeral for their deceased
veteran, please ot!y Captain W.
Tl r-"- C--. I. IV b I f., P. O.
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next of kin. .
"In some cases, this time lapse
may be as long as three weeks," he
pointed out "This time lapse i"
due to the necessary amount of
work involved In processing final
papers concerning the deceased and
arranging train schedules for the
deceased and for the escort accom
panying the deceased."
Col. Dennis asks that next of kin - .
withhold public announcement of ,
the date of the funeral of the de- t
ceased until the final telegram is
received, indicating exactly whea
the remains will be delivered to ....
the destination and consignee as
designated by the next of kin. , .
'Our primary aim in this pro
gram is to carry out the wishes of .
the next of kin and to transport
this nation's fallen heroes in a dig
nified and reverent manner," CoL
Dennis declared.
France.
Most of the bodies of North Car
oiians will be sent to the Charlotte
distribution center from where they
will be sent with military escort
to the homes of the next of kin,
who have already been notified.
Among those heroes are: Richard
F. Jordan, pvt USA, next of kin,
Mrs. Meggie J. Jordan of Rt 2,
Warsaw; Marvin Whaley, S-Sgt. US
A next of kin, Joe Whaley, Rt 2,
Pink HilL
w Wins II. C.
recruiting campaign which ended '
November' Iff and resulted in the.. '
enlistment of 1,521 new members
for -National Guard units in the
State.
The winner will share honors
with winners from 47 states, Dis
trict of Columbia, Hawaii and
Puerto Rico.
A native of Warsaw, Blackburn
is in the oil business. During World
War H, he served in the Mediter
ranean Theater.
SSgt W. E. Fink of Company G,
120th Infantry, Salisbury, was runner-up
in the State. Blackburn's
unit enlisted 89 recruits during the
drive and Fink's 77.
THIS GOAL HAS BEEN SET
AS THE AMOUNT OF FUNDS
NEEDED TO PROMOTE THE
"BETTER CONTROL OF TUBER
CULOSIS PROGRAM AS PLAN
NED IN DUPLIN COUNTY FOR
1948.
How about shopping today far
Christmas 1857? There's one gift ea '
the market everywhere fat America -,
which not enly will warm the heart
ef the recipient this Christmas, but
II years hence when U will mature .
at the rate ef $4 for every $3 yea pay
for it bow. That's JDnlted States Sav -lags
Bends. Santa will be giad to
say to yew loved enes and Mends,
"Merry Christmas 1957," and leave ,
the present with a great fafatre. .
taeniae year bank or Boat eJBoe sav
ings bond window ea year Christ
mas sheppmf tour. -
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Invitation vj;
The public is cordially invited to '
an informal reception to be given -on
Thanksgiving aerating, Nov. 27,,
for Rev. John M. Cline The rev
ff!on 13 to he r''i rt the V 4.h
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