l !.i..'f 1 , 4 m VOLUME NUMBER SIXTEEN DRIVE IN! Maytte it won't ever come, but what we need in this country and I'm meaning now specifically in Duplin County is more sports ' manshlp in our political campaigns. This particular piece of wishful v thinking was prompted by the fact that .last week some of the boys, -who obviously are Kerr Scott, sup porters in the current gubernatorial campaign, pulled a job over in Ke nansviile that was unworthy of any political campaign, let alone one for so high a state office. The Charlie Johnson supporters gbt themselves together and hired Kenneth Currle to paint them a couple all-the-way-across-the-street i banners espousing the cause of Cousin Charlie. It was planned that v the banners be on display -across Kenansville. streets in time for the County Democratic Convention. The signs were put up and wav ing in the breeze telling the world that passed beneath them that they were "Johnson For Governor." The morning after they were stretched across the street they . were gone. The conclusion was that somebody, or somebodies, were far. more Interested in . their seal for Mr. Scott than i - they were for sportmanshlp, fair play, and a lot of other good thugs that have made the American Way of Life some thing rather special in this . world where there are a lot of sad, pathetic people because they do not follow the Ameri can Way of Life. It isn't Jit all because of the fact that I am Johnson Supporter that I personally, deplore 6uoh tactic The Johnson people can always get more signs to hang across the street If s Just that I rather like the usual spirit of fair play and good sportsmanship that have become synonymous with good Americans and it gives me pause for a bit of sad f thinking when somebody ! thoughtlessly comes along and pulls a trick like the Kenansviue inci- dent And, unless I have been com pletely fooled in people generally, the incident, instead of helping the Kerr Scott cause along, will actu ally hurt it. And, I believe, will Hive more of a boost to Charlie Johnson in Duplin County than if the signs had been untampered " with in the first place. The kind of folks that elect gov ernors and senators, and x presi dents in this country don't employ such underhanded tactics. Naturally,-1 don't know who did . the Job. And there's another thing. ' Usually the people who do such tricks do so underhandedly and . under the dark cover of night Pulling down banners put up for - a political candidate you aren't for reminds me somewhat of mobbing .the umpire because he makes a de ' - dsion that goes against your team. ') Only in case of the um ' plre the mobbing is usually tone in broad, open daylight ' ' and is prompted by the heat 'of the moment Anyway, mob bing umpires is an old Ameri- can custom, as much of a part of the game as a home run v by Joe DiMagglo, . But Joe hits home runs right out there before everybody. And you mil" umpires right out there in ', .the open. ' - . j ' ... Candidates' signs, thougl don't - ever get torn down before anybody. I suspect' that one reason for this is that whoever does such a trick ' . is ashamed of his actions even while A he's doing it It isn't that he's afraid of being caught He Just ' knows he's doing the wrong thing ' . and he doesn't want anybody to see orkuow about it '. . -, I'd like to see politics get back . into the same groove-as mobbing umpires and hitting home runs are Everything open and above ' board. No stealth and -skull-' duffery. Spirit ' of 1 fighting ; - hard for your candidate, but . no snooping around night be tas: unfair to the other guy ' I'm sort of glad most Americans play their politics In the sun. When political 'Shenanigans are pulled under cover of darkness tbe vay Eusslans, in their ton DuDllh farmers suffered from rain, hail and wind Monday after noon when a storm struck gener ally over the county and adjoining counties.- Tobacco, cotton and corn suffer ed most damage. Trees were up rooted in some sections and build ings fcnd outhouses were damaged. Accordlnn to reports the worst hit section was about three miles south of Warsaw near the- Carlton Crossing section. Charlie Glasple, negro, lost his pack house. Meat was strewn 75 feet away in the field and his cotton and -tobacco crops were a complete loss. In the neighborhood it was reported, 25 telegraph poles along the railroad were down and a number of tele phone poles. Damage was reported to power lines. This sectoln was James Kenan Chapter UDC Memorial Services Held In Warsaw Sunday By MRS. STACY BRITT , The James Kenan Chapter Uni- ted Daughters of the Confederacy held their annual Memorial Ser vice Sunday, May 16, at 3 o'clock In the afternoon with services in the Warsaw Baptist church. Mrs. C. J, Brown, organist, used for the processional Hanaeis "Largo" during which time UDC members. Veterans of World War I and II, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of Warsaw and Kenansville, enter ed carrying Confederate and Am erican flags. :. Mrs. R. L. West, president oi tne chaDter. was presiding officer and opened the service with "How Firm a Foundation" followed by the in vocation by the Bev. G. van btepn ens, pastor'ofthe church. Judge H. L. Stevens, tfr. of Warsaw, Past National Commander of the Am erican Legion, introduced the sneaker of the afternoon, Dr. C. C. Crittendon, Director of North Carolina Historical Commission of Raleigh, who spoke interestingly of the courageous efforts of our southern forefathers who gallantly fought for commoh causes in The War Between The States, The Span ish American War, World War I. and the late World War II. At the conclusion of Dr. Crittendon's talk t - rt-onoia f Warsaw, sane a n,.7JJ n v r-orrnii Recorder of Crosses, assisted by Mrs. West, be- stowed the coveted Crosses ot mu- i om,i ,.in nineteen bovs of World War II; namely, Ralph Leslie Best, Jr., Robert McDonald Brock, Lee Edward Brown, Robert Jackson Frederick, Vivian Best Johnson, John Anderson Johnson, Robert L. West and John Thomas Gresham, Jr.; bV proxy the foUow- ine received crosses, Norwood a. Boney, Jr., to his mother, Mrs. n. B Boney, of Kenansville; Kenneth F Brock.- to his mother, Mrs. J. C. Brock-Jehn Fonvielle, to his uncle w-u wnii- Fmest F. Hussey, to his mother, Mrs. E. J. Hill; Rivers D. Johnson, Jr., to his father, R. D. Johnson, Sr.; Henry L. Stevens, III, to his father. Judge Stevens; William J. Taylor, to his mother, Mrs. W. E. Taylor; David L. Pow- Commencement Exercises In Warsaw Schools The s 1948 commencement exer cises in the Warsaw schools got under way last week witn ine pre liminaries and finals in the recit tatjon-declamatlon-contest Medals of merit were presented little Miss Nina Garner and Alan Holmes in the Primary department ana , to Miss Jo Anne Britt and George West in the Grammar grades. - , The annual Baccalaureate ser mon was held , Sunday , evening May," 16, at 8:30in the high school auditorium. Miss Betty West was commencement 'pianist and. after the processional of the seniors and mascots. Miss Patsy Hiu ana uw terBill Rollins; the congregation sans "Come Thou Almighty King , followed by the invocation by the Rev.A. M. Williams, pastor of the Warsaw Methodist church. The High School glee club an anthem "La Largo' by Handel.. Rev. -Eugene Clark of the Pres byterian church introduced the sneaker of the evening, the Rev. its Wade H. Allison, pastor of Emanuel Presbyterian church in Wilming ton. A"-r f r-vmn "Holy, Holy, ' " " , ' " r renounced t KENANSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA Crops And ernoon without power and telephone com munication for several hours. Two houses were blown down. Huge trees in yards and woods were uprooted. Leon Merritt reports serious crop damage and one tobacco barn blown down. The roof was torn from the packhouse of Claude Ki venbark. Beulaville reported a twister across one of. Sandlin's fields that took the roof off a 20 X 20 cement block garage and tore down the rear end of the cement block gar age leaving only two walls stand ing in the yard of H. G. Campbell. Trees were torn up but the truck in the garage escaped damage. Farmers generally believe that crops have not advanced" sufficient ly for the damage to be fatal. ell. to his father. J. A. Powell; Char les L. Powell, to his aunt, Mrs. Kathleen Powell Snyder; Davis B. Powell, to his aunt, Miss Eula Pow ell; and James H. Hines, to his aunt, Mrs. W. P. Bridgers. Following the hymn, "Faith of our Fathers", Mrs.-C. A. Womack, Chapter Chaplain, read the roll call of deceased veterans and UDC members as follows: Confederate Veterans - Lipmon Aaron, Silas Bass, Captain W. R. Bell, J. W. Best, Isaac Brown, L. R. Carroll, H. J. Carlton, M. D. Copp er, Munroe Ezzell, Chris Frederick, Lemuel Hodges, Dr. Lafayette Hus sey, Amos Herring, Captain S. A. Johnson, W. H. Kennedy, William Kennedy, James Loftin, W. H. Mur ray, Kenyon Merritt, Dr. J. B. Ow en, H. H. Owen, Thomas Buckner Pelrce. John Pollock, Tom Rogers, Calvin Rogers, James Strickland, David Stevens, Edward D. Walker, William Winders, and Thomas Mc Calop; Spanish American War Veter ans - Rev. G. W. Rollins, Dr. J. H. Newberry, R. C. Pridgen, and Alf red DeNopolis; World War I Veterans - Vivian Best, Henderson Bridgers, Cleve land Blackburn. Marion Holland, Harry Woodward, Snyder Wood- ! ward, and Charles R. Gavin; world War II Veterans - Chaun ' cev Evis Boney, Bob Buck, Samuel R. Bowden, Jr., Harold Hales, Larry bosuc, onanes Bill Steele Wilson, Richard Jor- don, Ben Claude Brock, Claude uarner, James urauy, uu w-n Wiggs; UDC deceased members - Mes- dames W. L. Hill, F. L. Faison, Er- nest Hussey, H. F. Peirce, James H. Peirce, J. H. Newberry, Frank Fon- vieiie, l,ou Miicneu rusuu, ao: uuiJuoiun, raimic iuimn ward, T. B. Peirce, Alice Brown, Laura Carroll Wells, Winifred Peirce Best, J. T. Gresham, Sr., Margaret Peirce Orme, Jermina Carroll, O. P. Middleton, and Miss es Sallie Hill and Harriett Hodges. After the roll call George Best, Jr., bugler, sounded "Taps" and closed the impressive service. Class night was observed on Wednesday evening with "a wed ding uniting Miss Senior Class and Mr. Life of Service, which was most eniovable and inspiring. The bride, Miss TEstelle' Standi, ' was given in marriage by her father. Principal J. P. Harmon, to wed Billy Ray Cotton, the groom. Little Miss Patsy Hill was the mlnature bride -and BUI Rollins the ring bearer.'-Off iciating minister was James DeLuca. Prior to the cere mony1 Miss Barbara Thompson, pi anist gave a program of nuptial selections and Miss Sarah Gaylor, soloist, sang "Ah Sweet Mystery of Life" and "O Promise Me". At tending the bride were Mrs, Rhoda Cotton Bland, as matron of honor, Miss Lorine Mozingo, as maid of hnnnr anil bridesmaids. Misses Es ther Lamb,,Pearl Davis, Mae Brock, Dolllo CnamDers, iaizaoew mveu bark and Nan Scott, Herman- Bar nett was best man.';;--;;;?:T:,:; ';.j ' Act II was the Tenth Anniver sary of the wedding in the form t a Class Reunion, in Jhe home of tlie bride.'' Miss Pearl Davis was ' --in; T:ss ATse Profk was MrsfRarriell Pressley Be Guest Speaker At Federation Meet H. D. Clubs, May 26. Mrs. Harriett Pressly is to be the guest speaker at the 19th District Federation of Home JDemonstation Clubs meeting-whlclr is to 1 e held in Kenansville on May 26. Registra tion will start at 10 A.M., and the program at 10:30. All Home uem onstratioh Club women from Pen der, Lenoir, Onslow," and Duplin Counties are urged to be present for this meeting. Mrs. Pressly is .director of Wo men's activities and public affairs at Station WPTF in Raleigh, where she has been broadcasting regularly since 1943. She is (he wife o Dr. W. C. Pressly, president of Peace Junior College in Raleigh, the mo ther of five children, and was re cently chosen as the North Carolina Mother of the Year for 1948. In addition to her radio career and household dutieat she is active in civic affairs, being chairman of the Association of Women Direct ors of the National Association of Broadcasters; a member of the Ral eigh school board; vice president of the third district of the N. C School Board Association; a mem ber of the Governor's special coin mittee on education; a member, of the Wake County Community Chest board of directors; a member of the casting committee of the of the public affairs committee of Vandals Tear Down Candidate Banners Last week supporters of Charles M. Johnson, for gov ernor, spent $30 to have two banners painted. The banners were strune between electric , power poles on the' afternoon preceding the County Demo cratic Primary. The following morning the banners were gone. Later dur ing the day one was found burned up about two miles East of Kenansville on a dirt road and the other was found near town on the Tin City highway slashed to piec es with a knife. The story speaks for itselff Attend TB Meet In Raleigh The following persons from Du plin County attended the annual meeting of the North Carolina Tu berculosis Association held in Ral eigh Monday and Tuesday of this week: Mr. Lewis Outlaw, Mrs. Lula Parker, Mrs. Gordon Kornegpy, Mrs. Frank Thomas and Miss Mary Lee Sykes were there for only Monday's program, while Mrs. C. A. Brooks nnd Mrs. G. S. Best remain ed for the full two day's meeting. The North Carolina TB Associa tion is a voluntary health agency enmnosed of. interested medical and lay persons who give tneir valuable time and energy in order to promote a general program of TB control jn cooperation with' the official agencies of the State. The program has for its purpose the ed ucation of the public against the dreaded tuberculosis. Those attending had the. oppor tunity of hearing some very out standing speakers from the United States Public Health Service, The National Tuberculosis Association, The American Trudeau Society, The N. C. Board of Health and sev eral outstanding private physicians. New Business For Town Of Wallace Certificate of Incorporation was issued this week by the Secretary of State for incorporation of the Young Men's Shop of Wallace, Inc., to do a general business. Authori sed capital stock, $50,000 with $300 stock subscribed by H. E. Kramer, Ben Kramer and Vivian Kramer. aU of Wallace. . enbark. Historian, ' Graduation for the Class of it 48 will conclude Friday night when Judge H. L, Stevens, Jr., will ad dress them at 8:30 in the school auditorium. Commencement marshals were; Chief. Miss Mary Lee Jones; Misses Martha Anne Smith, Kathleen Mo Powan. Lois Rittcr and Joshua FRIDAY MAY 21st. 1948 the lpcal YWCA; a member of the Wake County Girl Scout Council; and co-teacher of her church Bible class. During the war she gave 1,500 hours to volunteer work. Raleigh Little Theater; a member 4 Mrs. Harriett Pressly, director of Woman's activities and public af fairs at station WPTF in Raleigh, who will be guest speaker at the 1 9th District Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs meeting to be held in Kenansville on May 26. Kenansville Baptist Calls Minister; Rev Lauren Sharpe of New Bern has been cjlled by the local Bap-. tist Church and has accepted; to begin work as a full time pastor on July 1. Rev Sharpe, born and reared id Statesville, graduated from Wake Forest College last August and has been assistant pastor for the First Baptist Church in Wilmington prior to this time. He was assistant dean of the School of Religion at Wake Forest College and also pastor at the Garner Baptist Church part of the- time while at Wake Forest. He has been supplying in the Kena is ville Baptist Church since July of Estimate Crowd Of Scott In Address W. Kerr Scott, fighting candidate for governor, told an audience here at a county-wide Scott rally Saturday afternoon, that in effect, he was the only candidate qualified for governor, that his primary in terest was in the farmer, since he was a farmer and that he lived on a dirt road. A crowd, estimated at about 150 r n.,i;n anrl ariinininf? cnun- 11U1II iui,t" " J o luipnprt to him talk for 45 min- utes He was introduced by his a tarA p Patps of Faison He and Mr. Cates were orfininino farms in Ala - mance County. The sppmed to be an air of !u miiw nhnnt Mr. Scott as ho lrpnt rpffrine to "mud-slinging" every time he would attack an op ponent, which was quite frequently in the corridor of the- courthouse before the speech and throughout the speech. He attacked Johnson for deposit ina State Funds in North Carolina banks. He accused him of being the "machine" candidate. He lam basted former Duplin Representa tives and Senators who have repre sented Duplin in the Legislature, saying they did not represent Du plin County but special interests. He came out for more industries in Eastern North Carolina, but in effect said Duplin could not hope for much because of the Tide Water Power Company rates. Mr. Scott said that Johnson had all the money1 behind him and that he, (Mr. Scott) did noL He criticized the teachers in Duplin for not at tending the rally, saying they were Charles R. Gavin Post In Warsaw To Elect Officers May 27 .' Commander J. C. Page, of the Charles R. Gavin Post American Legion, in Warsaw, announces the May meeting is scheduled for Thurs c" y, I'-y 27, at 8 p.m. in the Legion Democratic Convention Held" Here Last Saturday; Judge West Named Chairman Notice Warsaw Voters E. Walker Stevens, chair man of the County Board of Elections, has announced that the voting place for the War saw Precinct will be at the graded school building. Due to the construction of a new City Hall, it was necessary to move the location temporarily. The Ghosts Ot Kenans Return Two Warsaw ladies took a brief sojourn to Kenansville Wednesday evening with one of their husbands. While the husband was out of the car, Which was parked near the old Kenan home, the two ladies saw women, all dressed in white slowly walking around the yard in front of the Kenan home in the bright moon light. When the husband returned to the car the women in white had vanished. They told their story and the man just laughed at them. They probably didn't know it, but it's an old story in Kenansville that occasionally ghost figures are seen around the Kenan home. Church To Start July 1st. 1947. Key sharpe has accepted the Kenansville, Jones Chapel ana Ai- um Spring Baptist Churches and will nreach in Kenansville on the first .wd third Sundays, Jones Cha pel on me seconu ouiu,:v anu .hum Springs on fourth Sundays. He will come here on July 1 and will move into the new parsonage which will be ready by that time. Rev. Sharpe married an attract ive young lady from Garner about two years ago and they are looking forward toward working totether in their new charge. 150 Hear Candidate Here Saturday afraid of their machine bosses. In short his entire speech was mostly critising what the other fel low has done. On state-wide issues he offered very little. He said ht wanted to see North Carolina go forward, be progressive. Hp wanted to see North Carolina the Pennsyl vania of the South. (Incidentally, Pennsylvania Is a Republican bul wark in this country). . ...... i He related part oi ins ooynoou oays ana ioia now nc 1 man. earned his way to recognition 1 and success. This, he inferred, was ' oroof enough that he is a business I man enough to be governor and by , in-direcUon inferred that his op- position was not competent. He re ! feired to some departments of our state having lost in National pres tige under the present so-called ring. Mfr Scott was a member of that "so-called ring" while com missioner of Asriculture . nd sat as a member of the Council of State He did not say why he did not tell the people at the time that rreas urer Johnson was not handling State funds as they should be. He was on the inside and had the same vote as did Governor and Mr. John' son. he" admitted no state funds had been lost or misplaced. He advocated more surfaced roads but did not specify how con struction could be speeded up. Mr. Scott has come out for a State wide referendum' on the Liquor question, however, he did not men tion this in his speech. Mr. John son was the first candidate to come out for the referendum. Hut At this time officers for the ensuing year will be nominated and elected. Every member is urged to attend, i Free refreshments. Mr. Page says . . No. 21 Duplin Democrats gathered in the court house here Saturda . May 15, and held the regular bU annual County Convention. F. W. McGowen called the meeting to order. Judge Robert L. West of Warsaw was elected permanent chairman of the convention. A. T. Outlaw was elected secretary. Kev. J. G. Morrison lead the devotiorals. A cordial welcome was extended to all by Mr. McGowen. Following the roll call of each precinct, a representative of each precinct was named to the Resolu tion and Platform Committee and one to tne committee on delegates to the State Convention. The committees went into sess ion to draft their reports. While the committees were out chairman West called on various members of the audience for a few words. The Resolution and Plat form Committee, Dr. J. D. Robin son, chairman, and R. D. Johnson, secretary made the following re port: We, the Democrats rf Duplin County in Convention assembled at Kc-naiisville, on Saturday, May X5, 1948, renew our time honored al legiance to the Democratic princi ples as enunciated by Jefferson and Jackson, - exemplified by Woodrow Wilson and put into realistic prac tice by Franklin D. Roosevelt. We endorse the record of the Democratic Party, in the Nation, State and County, and commend to all voters, its slogan of "Equal Rights to all and Special Privileges to None." The noble heritage we enjoy, of States Rights, under the Constitut ion, guarantees to us liberty of speech, freedom of the press, and the right to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscien ce. These fundamental guarantees compel us to cling to the party of our forefathers - and we will no secede - so long as we bave those blessings bestowed upon us. We favor and will support better educational advantages, including State Aid for the building of schools, and for adequate compen sation for teachers, as well as other state employees, commensurate with the State's ability to pay, and the Tax Payers ability to meet the present demands upon the Stat. We favor the prompt and imme- -diate improvement of all rural roads, farm-to-market, home-to-school and church, post office to the homes of rural patrons; and we should not wait their construction from current funds, but by a State Bond Issue, to be submitted to the people at an election for that pur-. pos6, so that the people of this and the coming generations may utilize these benefits at the earliest pos sible date. We favor a division of the Sched- le "B" taxes between tne siaie. cities and towns, to aid our muni cipalities, vho at the present tune ,, are having to increase property taxes in order to function. ., Our servants in office in the County have given to all the people a clean, honest, and successful ad ministration, and we be-speak for hem your continued loyalty ind support. We. the Democrats, neneve in party fidelity and those who parti cipate in our Primaries we urge to support the Democratic nomi nees in the General election. We urge our Precinct Commit tees to meet often, to care for and Drotect the interest of the party in all matters concerning the in terest of Democracy. The delegates and alternates to the Slate Convention named were: DELEGATES: Rivers D. Johnson, Gordon Mul- . drow, John R. Croom, Dallas Her ring, A. C. Hall, E. J. Johnson, John W. Waters, Neal Smith. Lewis Out law, Alvin Kornegay, Cleon Smith, Weils Thomas, Arthur Wood, Jack Lanier, J. L. Quinn, G. H. Blanton, Faison McGowen, John D. Robin son, H. E. Phillips, Albert Outlaw, C. A. Precythe, H. T. Ray. G. E. Alphin. A. F. Bradshaw, Jerry Tea- ? chey. C. W. Surratt Jr., Ben V. , Byrd, Raleigh Lanier, E. Walker , Stevens, H. C. Thompson, Ralph J. '? Jones, Roy Carter, Robert L. West Cyl-us Fussell, Mrs. Lewellyn ko- inson. ALTERNATES: Mrs. Olivia B. Johnson, Mrs. Sal- lie B. Huie, Led Williams, J. a, - , Smith, H. E. Latham, Robert M. 1 - Carr, Henry S. TyndaU, John tM ward Williams. Freely Smith. Jer- f ry Smith. WUlie Jones. Tyson l i nier, Lemmie WUliams, L. R. Ha- good. D. D. Williams, O. P. John "" son. Vance Gavin, L. P. Wells, Lo- - land Teachey, Herman Henderson, Hugh Johnson, Norwood B. Boney Grady Mercer, John William Neth- 1 ercHitt Harry Oswald, Robert Gra . tCOKTINUED ON ACJ) ; 1 .

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