North Carolina Newspapers

Mi Mil VOLUME NUMBER EIGHTEEN Ebrnor Gay 1 f'ora. Carolina Veterans Miss Eleanor Gay Herring, Queen of the Pink Hill post Veter ans of Foreign Wars, stole the show in Hendersonvllle last week-end, when she won the state-wide beauty contest and now reigns Queen of the North Carolina Division Veter '-. ana of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary. The annual state encampment was held lh the mountain town there last week and Miss Herring was ' chosen beautv aueen from list nf fifteen contestants. Miss Herring became the center of attraction al most on arrival and it was soon ap- parent that she was a serious con tender for the crown. She will represent the North Carolina Veterans of Foreign Wars, numbering more than 20,000 strong, at the national encampment in Chi-! cago August 21 to September 1st I and .will compete with qupeens from all over the United States ' for the national honor. I The choosing of Miss Herring as ' queen followed a street parade : climaxed by a beauty contest held at Laurel Park Lake. Closing the day for the delegates, their wives and the, new queen was a dance at the City gymnasium Saturday ' night In the contest, Dot Corpen ing of Hendersonvllle placed second and Ann Shelder of Henderson- ville was third. judges were jean eai 01 ureen ville, S. Ci South Carolina azalea queen; Captain Jack Schmidt of the U. S. Marine Corps, Cherry Point, and Lt. Charles Moody of Fort Bragg. . ' At the Saturday morning busi ness meeting Brig. Gen. Ridgeley Gaither., assistant commander of Uh 82nd Airborne Division at.Ft. Bras, told delegates i time army - IS the beetut my 2o years of experience, altnougn mall In size." ' "The Army Is young. Intelligent and can certainly fight, although we hope It won't have to fight," Gen. Gaither said. The big ues ' tlon, be said, Is what will back it up, and "that is where the veteran can help us." The training of regular troops U nmnllsstw1 hv the multlDlicity jt new and complicated equipment . and this means a serious training problem, be said. The report of the resolutions ' committee was approved. It lnclu- ded among 24 approved the follow ing: 't.,rw -. Opposition to decentralization of ' civil service control, a recimmenda tlon that World War II be aeciareo officially ended for veterans pre- . ference purposes, opposition to any weakening of the present veterans -': preference law. A restriction of civil service to United States citizens, opposition to any form of world government, - - ..1 n universal military ', a)HVTa - training for six months, opposition to any change in the present immi gration quota system, and opposi tion to any .act which would take i; the control of veterans affairs from the Veterans Administration. E. D. Knauff of Jacksonville took over as state, commander, mm. Wade Franklin of Hendersonvllle "was elected president of the Auxi liary and Mrs. atheryne, Zatkle wics of Wilmington was elected senior vice presiaeni. , , " Warsaw Bible School v vonunencemeiH y Friday Night Commencement exercises for the Dally Vacation Bible School of the Warsaw Baptist Church will be held Friday .evening at 7:30 p.m. in the church auditorium. : The school closed on Wednesday after having a week and a half of one of. the most successful schools of this kind in many years.' An average dally attendance of 101 pupils was enjoyed. One of the factors con tributing to the success of the school was the interest and cooper- - ation shown by the deacons of the church. Elbert Matthls served as Superintendent Glenn Brown gave - an hour's teaching each day. In all nine deacons visited and assisted in promoting this program. Wednesday' afternoon at 1 o'clock s a picnic was held at White Lake. The WMU of the church furnished food and drinks for the occasion. ' A large number attended. , 1 r w '": More .than 10 of North Caroli na's population are veterans of W Id War II.'"-l' : Herring Crowned Qusen r ! I hi J MISS ELEANOR GAY HERRING Queen of more tfian 20,00 Carolina Veterans of Foreign Wars, who will compete in Chicago ..i. for the honor of National Queen in late August. The winner will be featured in a new picture "Convention City" to be premiered in Chicago during the National Encampment of Veterans of Fore ign Wars. Photo by Chas Kraft, staff photographer Queen's Ball Veterans Foreign Wars Be Held Pink Hill Saturday Night Pink Hill Veterans of Foreign Wars, their friends from Duplin and Lenoir Counties and war bud dies - throughout Eastern North Carolina, will' celebrate in Pink Hill Saturday night when the Pink Hill Post will play host at a Queen's Ball, a toast to their Queen, Miss Eleanor Gay Herring, Queen of the Pink Hill Post and of the North Carolina Division of Veterans of Foreign Wars. Miss Herring will be the honor guest and will be assisted by about 19 girls who com TWO DUPLINITES AT CANCER CLINIC Forty persons were examined at the Cancer Detection-Diagnostic Clinic held at James Walker Hos pltal in Wilmington Tuesday,, ac cording to a report lust released by officials of the American Can cer Society. Thirty-two patients were referred to their physicians for medloal attention. Fifteen cases were studied at the Diagnostic sec tion which immediately follows the general examinations. Nine prior ities were given for the clinic of June 13. The report shows that toe coun ties represented at the clinic were New Hanover with 16 examinees, Columbus with 11, four from Pen der, 3 from Brunswick, two from Wake, 2 from Duplin, one each from Bladen and Robeson. " i The Clinic is held each Tuesday In J. W. M. Hospital in Wilmington Examinations are free to all North Carolinians and registration starts at 10 o'clock in the morning. DUPLIN SQUARE DANCERS GOING TO CHAPEL HILL The Duplin Story Square Dancers will meet In the audltorlunfhere Tuesday night for t final practice before going to Chapel Hill Tues day, June 16th to participate in a statewide square dance contest at the University that night. The con test is under the direction of Lamar Lunsford, director of folklore at the University. Foreign Wars peted with her for the coveted honor in the home contest held In Pink Hill recently. The runners'-up in the Pink Hill contest, together with their escorts, will be admitted free and will help hold the spot light. A round and square dance will be held irom 8 to 12 o'clock with music furnished by the Frazier Band- of Kinston. A feature of the evening will be the grand march, led by the queen. The public is invited to attend the celebration. CONTRACT LET FOR LOCAL ROAD WORK Contracts were let Tuesday for construction of a . new bridge at Middleton Mill run on the Kenans ville-Warsaw highway and for wide ning and reconstruction of high way from a point in -Kenansville near Grove Presbyterian church to Beulavlile and the Onslow County line. This jrojeot includes straight ening out the snake curves around the courthouse and will require the moving of some buildings. Also curbs and gutters and sidewalks will be built in town. The contracts let were: 21.46 miles of grading, paving and structures from a point on NC 24 in Kenansville through Beula vlile to junction NC 24 and US 258, V and bridge over Middleton Mills Creek approximately 3 miles West of Kenansville. Roadway, Ex-um-Cline Construction Co., Rocky Mount, ' $367,544.00; structures, Grannis & Sloan, Inc., Fayettevllle, $135,905.10; and moving buildings, Bailey & Phillips, Selma, $15,300. The local dancers took second place prize at the State fair last fall and are hoping to come home from Chapel Hill with first prize this time.- BLOODSHED BOXSCORE , t On N. C Highways Killed June 2 - i '-" 8 Injured same dates 143 Killed thru June 5, 1950 366 Killed thru June 8, 1949 r 315 Injured thru June 5, 1950 , - ' 4,748 Injured thru June 5, 1949 3,500 KENANSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA Kenansville Town Meeting Monday Night There will be a called meeting of every person residing in the Town of Kenansville for Monday night at 7:30 o'clock in the court house here. This meeting is very important and may effect the pocketbooks of every person in town. The matter of adequate fire fighting equipment for the town and addition of new and larger water mains and more fire hydrants, will be discussed. Every person in town is urged to be present and as near on time as possible so as not to delay the discussions. Rose Hill Boy Needs Help; May Be Question Of Life And Death Welford Teachey. young Rose Hill boy, now a patient at the. Rabat -Kaiser Institute in Washington City, is facing the possibility of leaving the hospital and undoing everything that has been accom plished in his behalf and resulting in his death in the not too far dis tance if some needed cash is not forthcoming. Welford is 18 years old and is afflicted with a rare type of dis ease that affects his muscles. Six months ago he was carried to the Kagat-Kaiser Institute, one of the only two such institutions in the country that could help him. When carried off he had no use of his hands or legs. His muscles were so weak he could hardly swallow. A late report from the hospital states that his progress is fine. He is able to swallow normally, feed himself and even push himself around in a rolling chair. He can now write legibly. The Institute is not endowed suf Sam Byrd To Present Play In Charleston Next November Premiere Showing "Bright Leaf Here Next Week Capital Theatre in Kenansville has been designated as one of the few theatres in Eastern Carolina for a premiere showing of the pic ture "BRIGHT- LEAF" the story of Tobacco. The new film will be shown next Wednesday and Thurs day. The theatre management an nounces matinee shows for this special picture. Matinees will be gin at 3 p.m. Joe Quinn, manager of the local theatre, says that it is a distinct privilege and honor for the town of Kenansville to be list ed among the select towns for the premiere. Third Suicide Attempt Fails Hubert "Pepsi Cola" Merritt of Warsaw, failed in his third suicide attempt Saturday night when he took 300 grains of aspirin after having drunk a solution of bean beetle dust, according to officers of Warsaw: Merritt went into a service sta tion near the high school building and ordered five boxes of aspirin tablets, telling the attendant that his child was sick. He then ordered a bottle of Pepsi Cola and took the aspirins, a box at a time. He would dump a whole box of tablets into his mouth and wash them down with the cola. Witnesses attempt ed to stop him but to no avail. He was carried to a Warsaw doctor and rushed to the Goldsboro Hos pital in an ambulance. He was un conscious on leaving Warsaw. Am bulance attendants said he vomited most of the way to Goldsboro and bis stomach was apparently empty on' arrival. He soon recovered. It is said this was his third at tempt to take bis life. He is about 28 years old and served as Janitor in the Warsaw high school the past season. ::.C- -.. HOT COLA EXPLODES SIX STITCHES TAKEN Last week Ralph Lanier of War saw suffered lacerations about the face requiring six stitches when a Cola bottle exploded as he was placing hot drinks into, a drink vending machine. . When' the hot bottle came into contact with the freezing part -of "the machine lt exploded. '!; ,-V. -fv --S FRIDAY, ficiently to take care of such pa tients free. It costs $450 per month to keep young Teachey there. The account is now $1600 behind and he has been notified that unless some money comes forth he will have to leave on June 15th. The Rose Hill Civitan Club, Wallace Lions Club and churches in Rose Hill and Wallace have raised be tween $100 and $1500 that has al ready been spent on him. People of Rose Hill are calling for help throughout the county. Doctors at the hospital say that another six months and Welford will be able to return home and help support himself. If he is dis- t missed now he will soon be back where he was six months ago and I will continue to get worse. i Anyone wishing to donate are asked to send their donation to Mrs. L. D. Brunnitt. chairman, Welford Teachey Fund. Rose Hill, N. C. Historical Sam Byrd's "Hr Those Who Live In The Sun," a two-act histori cal play, with music, will be pre sented November 21, 22 and 23 at the Memminger auditorium in com memoration of the 200th annivers ary of organized Jewish commufr ity life in Charleston, South Caro lina, the Charleston Jewish Com munity Bicentennial Committee an nounced today. Mr. Byrd, whose unusual page ant, "The Duplin Story", met with such success in eastern North Caro lina last summer that it is being repeated this September upon popular demand, has been at work on research and background ma terial for the Jewish drama for the past three months. Designed to portray the history and contribu tions of the Jewish community, the two-act, 16-scenc play will be fictionized history, with actual characters called by name and true events in real places. Among leading characters in "For Those Who Live in the Sun" there will be such figures as Fran cis Salvador, the Revolutionary patriot who was the first Jew to hold elective office in the modern world; Moses Lindo, whose devel opment of the indigo industry was the basis of the colonial prosperity of Carolina; Judah P. Benjamin, "the barins of the Confederacy" who spent his formative years in Charleston, and one blind Penlna Moise, considered the most inspir ed hymn-writer English speaking Jews have produced. Mr. Byrd, who presented four major Broadway productions under his own management, has also been engaged in his own play. He was born in Mt. Olive, N. C. educated at the University of Florida, and is well known in the theatrical ex periences which include 1151 con secutive performances as "Dude Lester" in 'Tobacco Road," two years in the Pulitzer Prize Play, "Street Scene," and the role of "Curley" in the Critics' Prize play, "Of Mice and Men." Mr. Byrd has had considerable success as an author. His first book, "Small Town South," won him a Life-in-America Prize and his sec ond, "Hurry Home to My Heart" was based on personal wartime combat experiences while serving as a beachmaster in the Normandy Invasion. The John Simon Guggen heim Memorial Foundation award ed him a fellowship in creative i-wrlting in 1946, and renewed that fellowship in 1948. At present he is Lecturer in Sociology at the College of Charleston. . . In discussing the forthcoming play, "For Those Who Live in the Sun," Mr. Byrd said, "Over the past two hundred years the Jewish com munity of Charleston has left a tremendous impression on the cul CONTINUED ON BACK PAGE JUNE 9th, 1950 Farm Bureau Conference, Work Shop Be Held In Raleigh June 13-14 n WILBUR A. PIKE Piki'ville. N. C. is a candidate of I fr DMi-ct Governor of Lions In- teinalnmal, Soulheastern Division of District 31-C, subject to vote of delegates at the State Convention in Charlotte on June 18-20. Lion Pike is at present Deputy District Governor of Region 4, Dist. 31-C. J Duplin Warehousemen j Attend Myrtle Beach Meet I Myrtle Beach. S. C. Warehouse men from the five states which grow flue-cured tobacco gathered here Monday to make plans for the 1951) auction season. They are attending the annual convention of the Bright Leaf Warehousemen composed of warehousemen from Georgia, Flori da, Virginia, North arir1-outh Caro lina. A major item of business was a set of regulations for the sale of tobacco which were proposed sev eral months ago by a committee composed of representatives of farm organizations, warehousemen and buying interests. These regulations will deal with rate of sales, hours of sales, size nf piles of tobacco, and others. In addition the delegates left to their board of governors the matter of fixing opening dales for the various flue-cured tobacco belts. Attending from Duplin: Charlie Herring, Star Warehouse, Kinston; A. C. Blanchard, Blanchard and Farriot, Wallace; W. M. Husey, Hussey's Warehouse, Wallace. UNIVERSALISTS PLAN PARLEY NEAR BVRGAW Young people and chin ch school leaders from North Carolina Uni versalis! churches will gather from June 9-to 23 at their summer meet ing ground at Shelter Neck near Burgaw. The North Carolina Universalist Youth Fellowship, led by President Bryant Balkcum, Clinton, Vice- President Maybelle Outlaw, Seven Springs, Secretary Peggy Ward, Rose Hill, will be in charge of the youth portion of the program. The Rev. Dra Eads. Hose Hill Universalist Church is dean of the meetings assisted by Virginia Ward of New Hanover; the Rev. Maurice Cobb, Chapel Hill, the Rev. Leon ard Prater, Outlaw's Bridge, and the Rev. Thomas Turrell, Kinston. Denominational leaders from headquarters in Boston, Mass., will be Alice Harrison, director of youth activities for the denomination and Mrs. Jean Fry, Children's Division, head of the Universalist department of education. The two leaders will conduct courses in youth work, churchmanship and religious edu cation. They will report on the new work with German refugees to be undertaken by the Universalist Service Committee in the British Zone of Germanyl FAISON LIONS CLUB The Faison Lions at their regu lar meeting last Friday evening installed the new set of officers for the coming year. The new offi cers will take over their duties the last Friday night in July. Friday night is the last time the club will meet in June and the next meeting will be the last Fri day night in July. It is customary during the produce season for. the club to eliminate their last meeting date in June and the first meeting in July each year due to the fact that many of , the members are connected with the market and are not able to attend, i . j).- No. 23 North Carolina's Farm Bureau's first presidents and secretaries con ference and third annual Associa ted Women's Workshop will be held at the Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, June 13-14, President A. C. Ed wards, Hookerton, has announced. Executive Vice-President, R. Flake Shaw, Greensboro, will give the opening address at 2 p.m. Tues day. June 13. Commodity problems will be discussed after Shew's talk. A banquet Tuesday night will have H. L. Wingate. Georgia Farm Bureau President and American Farm Bureau Federation director, as principal speaker. There will be special musical entertainment dur ina the dinner. Wednesday morning's conference will he in two sections, with county KB leaders dUeussing problems faoing farmers ard going over Fall membership drive plans with B C. Mangum. Henderson, cam paign chairman. The second sec tion will have Associated Women considering county and community problems, emphasizing community need. with Mrs. B. B. Everett, Palmyra, AW chairman, presiding. O. R. Long, AFBF representative in the Southern Region, will ad dress the whole group at 12 noon. Adjournment will be about 1 p.m. Tuesday's commodity sessions will have the following discussion leaders: Dr. J. H. Hilton, State Col lege Experiment Station director, livestock; Carl T. Hicks, Walston burg. tobacco; Thomas Cornwell, Shelby, cotton; J. F. Turner, Jack son, peanuts; and J. V. Whitfield, Burgaw, fruits and vegetables. Some 500 members are exjected to attend this first joint session of Farm Bureau presidents and sec retaries and the Associated Women. The Sir Waller Hotel has earmark ed rooms for those planning to at tend the meeting, but each member should make reservations directly with the hotel. DRUNKEN DRIVER HITS PEDESTRIAN Pete Matthews, white man, ran down a friend Saturday night Just after offering to give him a ride. According to Warsaw officers, Pete was driving down Main Street when he stopped and offered to pick up Jeff Britt. Britt told him he didn't want to ride with nor haul anyone when they were drunk. Jeff walked on down the street towards an in tersection. Reaching the intersec tion he attempted to cross. When he reached about midway his would be chauffer, driving down the street in a zig zag manner, struck him and knocked him to the pavement. Britt suffered scratches and bruises. Matthews continued driving. Britt reported the incident to the officers and when they arrived at Matthews' home to arrest him he had arrived home safely and com pletely passed out. He was given a hearing and bound over to county court under a $300 bond. COUNTY BOARD The Board of County Commiss ioners and the Board of Education met in regular sessions Monday. Principal business taken up was discussion of the budget for 1950- 51. At the next meeting in July the permanent budget is to be set. COMEDIES FROM EVERY DAY LIFE By: Mrs. Howard Joiner An anxious father accompanied his young son to the University to help him select his courses. Two of his sons were studying law, but so far his youngest son had been unable to decide what course he was interested in taking. The Dean listened attentively as the boy's father explained that his son din n't seem to have any special talent for anything. He raved forth, "All i!v hoy likes to do is gab, gab, gab." He turned around to see how his son who had been back of him, was taking what he was telling the Dean. To his surprise, he found that his son had disappear ed. "You see. Dean, he makes pro mises and doesn't bother to keep them, for he promised to stay here until we had his courses lined up." With a twinkle in his eye, the Dean replied, "Well, you say that your son has a gift of Gab, and continually makes promises that he doesn't keep. Why, with those qualities, our great college will add a bit of knowledge, a bit of culture, and we'll turn you out the finest first class politician that you can well be proud of." Jf