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Mi Mi MM m&$$ ' -v- VOLUME NUMBER SEVENTEEN KENANSV1LLE, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MAY 27th., 1949 WHY VOTE, ANYWAY? I did not vote for Kerr: Scott for Governor and I . ' have no apologies to make. I, did not agree with-every-thing he proposed and3 neither did I agree with every thing Charlie . JohnsenVproposed. Maybe my decision in choice was based on the1 lesser of two evils. Kerr Scott is a Democrat and he was elected. I am a Demo crat and so am going along with the Governor on his constructive undertakings. I , . At first I was inclined to be against the road bond issue but favorable to the school bond issue. After study ' ing the matter and securing; what information I could I came tdthe conclusion that the two are interlocking. What is the advantage of better school buildings if we - do notliave the roads to transport the children? Why attempt to improve our farming activities when we do . not have adequate farm to market roads? Why are city folks entitled to more good roads than are the country " folks when all alike have to pay for them? Since 1920 - the farmers have been paying for roads in North Caro lina designed primarily to help those living in cities. Now it's time for fair play, it's time for the country .; people to have more and better roads. We helped pay for city roads and made no squawk and we expect the , city folks to help pay for our roads without any squawk. But we know, however, they will squawk and are squaw ting loudly now with the aid of moneys being spent in - ;hisState from outside sources in an effort to kill the : joad bond issue. It is eternally true when large sums of money are spent by corporations or individuals to de feat mvDrotbsaI that is designed to help the people as a whole, those doing the spending are showing their true colors by puttuig selfishness above service. The'huge bond issue in 1920 will be paid off in 1953. No one can sav he or she suffered from taxation to pay for the road building. The proposed bond issue'of $200, 100,000 to be, voted on June 4th will be paid the same way. There will not be one cent of tax levied on real estate or personal property to pay off this obligation. Thp.avprflpp autoor farm truck driver will never know the difference aftec'-having paid one cent extra on the gallon- of gas. , In fact, the increased number.of paved roads will save him on car and truck upkeep more per year than he will spend in the one cent gasoline tax. The savings on school bus repairs and upkeep will run into -hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. Any way you might look at it the savings by motorists in - North Carolina will more than offset the increased gaso- line tax. The interest to be paid on the $200,000,000 issue -: 'L over a period of 20 odd years will be less than that paid . : on the $115,000,000 issued in 1920. We' carried that load C. trough the gay days of the 20s and the dead days of the - . 30s. If we could carry that burden through the depress - Ion of the thirties surely we can carry this load through iny anticipated economic period in the next 25 years Robert Franklin Williamson eon of Mr. and Mrs. D. S. William son, who was elected best all round boy i he Kenahwllle High School. VouuK Williamswi also took part in- athletics, having been on t'.ie baseball and basketball teams. Fun For Everyone In Warsaw Now Beulavllle High School graduat ed 115 seniors this year when th - largest graduating class In the his tory of the school marched down Uw aisle. The whole school program was said to have been one of the best in the school's history. Beula ville is justly proud of her newsch ool plant which sits back in junior college majesty. The whole com munity is proud of its school plant and are making particular efforts to keep it attractive. Much work Should a deDre'ssion comparable to that of the thirties 1 has been done beautifying its gro . . . ava ApnA uvuiu noiiinvtiir in the larsest con- strike us it won't matter u we owe $zuu,uuu,uuu or 0uu,-. -:t;r ::rred Vnd hiBh school in Duplin. Highlights of the closing exer cises featured the baccalaureate sermon by Rev. Alvis M. Whlttcd of Fuquay Springs who preached an inspiring sermon and the graduat- Yes, there is fun for the kiddies at Kaus Shows in Warsaw and Saturday. And fun for the old sters too. Located at the usual car nival lot next to the new city hall W. C. Kaus has brought his famous carnival for fun and frolic to the people of Duplin this week e The kids will find rides galore and the young people and older folks will find much. merriment in addi tion to watching the children a thrill of their lifetime. Open day and night. Lions Report Wag Their Tails Twenty-two Lions, guests and one Kiwanian converged on Roscoe Jones' Cafe here Wednesday night for the regular meeting of the Ke nansville Lions. Thrs year being the 100th anniversary of the birth of the safety pin, name cards were Dinned on coat lapels of all visitors with a huge safety pm. following the meeting one lion made a col lection of the pins and presented them to Lion Hubert Phillips. President Gilbert Alphin presid ed over a spirited meeting, Secre- tray Garland King read the annual fiiunc'al report showing the local club had made the following con tributions during the past year: $50 March of Dimes; charity, $4.16 State Commission of Blind, $51.37 Pageant, $100; Kenan Memorial Auditorium, $100; Christian Rural Overseas Relief program, $15; blind case worker, $60; Kenansville High School baseball team, $50; Treat ment of Viola Smith, $13; $25 to wards advertising North Carolina at Lions International Convention in New York. $50 has been promised .owards beautifying the Kenansville School Grounds. Lion Roy Sitterson was recog nized as the latest new member. The club voted to send some flow ers to Lion Halley Daughtry who is a patient at Duke Hospital. - The following guests and poten tial members were present: L. H. Quinn, Paul Ingram, Elmore Bell, Emmett Kelly Billy Lewis, Chas Nicholson and Vernon Reynolds. Also guest of the club was Neil Bolton, agricultural agent for the Tide Water Power Company and a member of the Wilmington Ki wanis club. The club meets eery 2nd and 4th Wednesday evenings No. 22 Former United States Senator Wm. B. Umstead, speaker at the dedication of the new city hall Warsaw Wednesday night, May 11. He is shown with the outgoing town officers. Left lo right - B. u. "Jlili Sheffield, ".inmi.s.'.iiiner, Mayer A. J. Jenkins. Senator Umstead; Com- missioners A. L. CavenauKh. Milton West, Floyu Strickland and SUcy Britt. Biitt is also the Warsaw fire chief. 115 Seniorsr Graduate From County's largest High School; Hear Voodhouse 000,000, we'll never know the difference. , V Duplin County now has about 220 miles of hard surfaced roads including No. Ill to Beulaville. Con ' struction is now. under way on: about 7 miles more on the Beukvule-Chinquapin road. If the road bond issue passes we will add another .300 miles of paved roads in the county giving us more 'than 500 miles of hard sur faced roads and about 300 miles of all weather roads in addition to the hard surfaced roads. There will not be a single community in' Duplin without hard surfaced or all weather roads. i "; A '- .: " ; If the $25,000,000 school bond issue passes Duplin will receive a total of $558,267 for school building cori- struction and-repairing. Without thi help it will, not be so very lon'g before the county will be forced to .issue "hnnrls fnr nppHpd work facing us. K'-t - Folks this is the chance of a lifetime. It is the first time Duplin has ever been dffered something for nearly - nothing. If it is defeated the city people will defeat it If it carries the farmers in Duplin and the 99 other coun- ties in North Carolina wiU carry it. It is not only your. ' " privilege but ' your obligation - to society, and to your . pocketbook to go to tiie polls June n ana voiei jh the road and school bond issues. This i one timewhen the voters in Duplin can vote for a tax increase that " will actually result in a tax: decrease by bringing about a decrease in costs and upkeep in otner public services. J. K.vUKAJJY. Sale of Tickets for Reserved Seats Ends May 28th Sam Byrd To Discuss Pageant With . Wallace Woman's Club; Other Groups Special X-Ray Clinic Announced Dr. G. V. Gooding, Public Health Officer announces that a ipeclal shtst x-ray clinic; will be held at tne Health Department In K.mans vllle each Wednesday afternoon from 1 to 4 p.ni. ..,.,.... These cllnlca are especially plan ned for the benefit of foodharidlera who find It more convenient '.to leave, their places of business" on Wednesday, afternoon than oh -days of regular chest clinics, which are rm Monday and Saturday mornings. nes will be a new attrac- '"vine, N. C. thM rammer. Hattie Gavin Is Convicted On Charge . ' Hattie Garln, SB year old colored woman of , Hanaw, was convicted by the Jury here last Friday on a charge of com mittlnf abortion. Judrmect vm continued by Jndtfe J. Panl.FriiielU nnUl the July term of Court. She Is free nn tit an $8,0C8 rond. For details of the trial, see liwMe psr. hffm0 '0mfe m0Sr 1 tin- no-.. ilv h;ill Mav lillh. reading . S. Best, I Warsaw's new Mayor and Town Board, pictured at the dedication of SIX CHILDREN IN SIX YEARS MOTHER ONLY NINETEEN lne adress by Prof. E. J. Woodhouse professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina. As usual Mr. Woodhoiife was serious and he gave much good advice. Note: Mr. Weodhquse was defeated for Mavor of Northampton, Mass. bv the late Oalvin Coolidge.before Mr. Coolidge became presilent of the United States. Also Mrs. Wood- "house has represented Mass. Congress). The following awards were made Citizenship medal, Joseph Jackson; Scholarship medal, Glenda Edward Valedictory medal, Lois Hall; Ath letic medal, Pete Wesson; Science medal, Sybil Pickette; English med al, Lois Hall; Salutatory medal, Evelyne Brown. Mr. Hay Humphrey is president and Mrs. Grady Mercer, Senior sponsor. from It'll to right are:U Woodrow Blackburn. W. E. Currie, Mayor, W. li. Fussell, Glenn Brown and A. Askew. Sam Byrd, of Charleston, S. C, who Is writing The "Duplin Story" will he In Wallace Friday night, May 27th, and will discuss the pageant with the Wallace Woman's Club, and other civic groups. This will give the Wallace members of civic organizations an opportunity to hear from the author directly some of the things he has in mind for The "Duplin Story" and should give them a keener appreciation of Just what the pageant can be made to mean to Duplin County n a whole and. will unquestionably in still in them a greater desire to work harder to make It a great success, The possibilities of the Pageant as a means of advertising Duplin County and Its historic background Is not fully appreciated by many of us Far too many of us merely look upon the Pageant as a ihow, to be seen, and perhaps, forgotten. As a matter of fact The 'Duplin Story" will long live in the memories-of those who see it whether they are Duplinites or not. Even those from other states cannot help but be Impressed with the pageantry , of yesteryear that was D:plin - even those who do nt now know that there is a Duplin Coint". Every true Duplin citizen should be keenly interested in the Pageant and determined 'to do everything possible to make it a great ' success, .The wholehearted support of every person living with in the -county 4s necessary to the suceess of the Pageant. Tickets for RESERVED SEVTS to the Pageant will remain on sale until Saturday, May 23th. After that date tickets will be placed on sale for Section "B" seats which will nof be reserved. If you haven't bought your ticket it is time you did if you want to be assured a seat in the reserved section. A meeting similar to the one to be held in Wallace on Friday night - will be held in Kenansville on Saturday night. May 28th, with Sam Byrd preserit to tell those present about The "Duplin Story". Mr. Byrd will also be heard ov: Radio Station WRRZ - 88 on your dial - Sunday, May 29th, at 3:00 P. M. Tune in.? EVERYONE IS URGED TO AT T5ND THE MEETING IN ENANS VILLE SATURDAY NIGHT. Six down and (??) to go and it all started, 13. Last week it was reported, a young negro mother, residing near Rose Hill, gave birth to her 6th child. She is 19 years old; mar ried when 13. She has given birth 'to one child each year since she married. Dr. Hawes made the delivery. Mother and all six children doing well. Cypress Creek Supports Bond Vote Duplin County, citizens are very strong in favor of the $200,000,000 Road Bond and $?5,000,000 School Bond issues if action favorirg those issues are to be judged from at tendance at special meetings held throughout the county and reso lutions passed as a result of those meetings. The Board of Commiss ioners of the towns of Wallace and Kenansville have gone on record through resolutions passed unani mously In favor of the bond issue. Other towns are expected to follow. fie it resolved by the Citizens of Cypress Creek Township assemb led at McNeal Sholar's Store in a Better Roads ard Schools meeting on May 24, 1949, that we hereby request and urge our friends and neighbors in all of our towns and cities to support the School and Road Bond Issues on June 4, in order that we may have better roads and schools, and a better community in which to live. We make this plea in all sincerity, and trust that our kinsmen, friends and neighbors will Join with us in building a bigger and better com munity. On motion, duly seconded, this resolution was unanimously ad apted. At a meeting recently held in Cypress Creek township, a wholly rural section, a resolution was pro posed from the floor and was Im mediately put on motion by Mr. N. P. Blanchar, and duly seconded and unanimously adopted. Some 250 persons attended the meeting. Truck Owner Responsible For Cargo Though Partners Are Co-Owners Judge J. Paul I'rizzi-lk' Monday ruled thai tlv owner and operator j of a truk vv iMiillv of transport-: ,ng t-ix paid w'li-kev when :t was admitted here in court that he and two passengers Willie Mathis and Andrew Keith, had in (heir pos session in the truck more than one gallon of tax paid whiskey with the seals unbroken. Willie Mathis aTld Andrew Keith were found not guflty. Judce l-'i i7''le 'loliUr.n that only the owner and operator of the truck, knowing that there was more than one gallon of whiskey in his truck, was guilty. The ease against the three charg ing all of them with transporting tax paid whiskey was tried in the General County Court in Decem ber. 1947. and a jury I'nii'id all three "Guilty of Transporting", and they .vere sentenced lo 90 days in jail, assigned to work the roads bv Judge Robert I.. West. From this verdict they all three appealed to Superior Court. On agreement be tween Mr. I,. A. Wilson, defensa : ttorncy, and Solicitor Barker, the appeal was heard by Judge J. Paul Krizzelle without a jury. Mr. W il ron stating to 1 ho Court that there was no question being raised as to the facts in the eases and only a question of law was involved. It lie defendant.; had in their pos session at the time of their arrest in the truck some two gallons of tax paid whiskey and that each of t.ie defendants owned a part of the whiskey - none of them owning more than the legal limit of one gallon The warrants upon which they were convicted in General County Court charged them wih "Transporting over the legal limit of tax pa'd. whiskey and aiding and abeting in the transporting of whiskey.' In the eases of Mathis and Keith Judge F-izzelle found them "Not Guilty" but ruled that Charlie R. Newkirk was "Gu lly". After hear ing a long list of prior criminal ae 'io s agilnst Charlie 1! Xewkirk involving dealing in whiskey and a plea f;-om Mr. Wilson, defer.se council, that Newkirk was farming and had a wife and two children, Judge Frizzelle stated that the only way he could let Newkirk remain at large was lo issue him a liceose to continue his infractions of the law and then sentenced Newkirk to two years in State Prison. The case should give pause to owners or operators of motor vehicles-in permitting others to have in their possession in their automo biles or trucks a total of more than was admitted by the defense that one gallon of whiskey at any time Snow Hill Church Plans Annual Home Coming Day June 12th apin Representative Hatch, Chairman of the House Roads Committee In the General Assembly, will be the principal speaker .at a Better Schools and Roads meeting at the Chinquapin High School on Friday evening, May 27, at 8:00 o'clock. urtell to attend . x li. I TOM WOLFE HOME TO BE OPENED BY MID-SUMMER Asheville The "Old Kentucky Home", where Tom Wolfe resided in his youth is now being recondi tioned and decorated as it was in the days when Wolfe resided there. Old furniture and famll mementos are being placed just as they were in the early twenties. "Old Kentucky Home" on Spruce St, was operated as a boarding house by Wolfe's mother and was made famous In his book "Look Homeward Angel" as Eliza Grants boarding house, "Dixieland." Bible School At Snow Hill Thsrc will be a Daily Vaeational Bible School held at the Snow Hill church beginning Monday, A-!ay 30 and crnt'nu'n? tern lgh June 3rd. Everyone that would like to atteid in the adjoining communities, a"re cordial lv invited to come whether you have been contacted personally or not. The School will be held each afternoon from 2 until 5, with competent teachers in charg? of each department and refresh ments will be served by a group of the Ladies Auxiliary each after noon after classes are over. FHA ENGINEER, D. G. Medlin of Raleigh spent last week in Du plin County, working with farm families in planning new buildings on Uieir farms. . The annual Home-Coming Day celebration of the Snow Hill Free Will Baptist Church will bo ob served on Sunday, Juae 12. All former pastors and members, as well as the general public is cordially invited to attend. There will be a special speaker for the occasion and we are also expecting several splendid choirs to supply the mu sic. Dinner will he servad on the grounds at the noon hour. Every body come. (Mrs. Edd Kornegav). NOTICE Tickets for Reserved Seats to the "Duplin Story" are now on sale in Warsaw at Warsaw Drug Co. ami Clark Drug Store; in KenansvJle at every store; in Mt. Olive at the Glenn-Martin and Lewis Drug Stores. Buy your tickets now. Reserved seat tickets will go off sale after Saturday.
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