VOLUME NUMBER EIGHTEEN
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" Miss Eleanor Gay Herring,
. Queen of the Pink Hill post Veter
ans of Foreign Wars, stole the show
in Hendersonville last week-end,
when she won the state-wide beauty
contest and now reigns Queen of
the North Carolina Division Veter
, . ans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary.
The annual state encampment was
held . lit the mountain town there
tost week; and Miss Herring was
chosen beauty queen from a list of
: v fifteen contestants. Miss Herring
became the center of attraction al
most on arrival and it was soon ap
parent that she wag a serious con-
tender for the crown.
She will represent the North .
I Carolina Veterans of Foreign Wars, J
. numuenng more man zu.uuu strong,
at the national encampment in Chi
cago August 21 to September 1st
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
I and the, new queen was a dance
at the City gymnasium Saturday
I night In the contest. Dot Corpen-
Jng of Hendersonville placed second
I l - and Ann Sheider of Henderson
vllle was third.
Judges were Jean Neal of Green
ville, S. C. 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 busl
' " nest meeting Brig. Gen. Ridgeley
. Galther,. assistant commander of
:JSm 82nd Airborne Division aJ.Ft.
; Ihm. tnld delegates Y!)at 6uE peace
years, of experience, although
t:nan festal." -.
"The Army is young, Intelligent
7,' ..and can certainly fight, although
we hope it won't have to fight,"
k : Gen. Galther said. The big -ques-.?
tion, he said, Is what will back it
1' up, and "that is where the veteran
can help us'
- The training of regular troops
I is complicated by the multiplicity
V .of new and complicated equipment
1 and tills means a serious training
: problem, he said.
The report or tne resolutions
' committee was approved. It inclu
: ded among 24 approved the follow
' lng: -;;:; "-.
'-r ' ' Opposition to decentralization of
civil service control, a redmmenda
Ttlon that World War II be declared
officially ended for veterans pre
ference purposes, opposition to any
v v weakening of the present veterans
preference law. -4
i A restriction of civil service to
United States citizens, opposition
to any form of world government,
' ' approval of universal military
training for six months, opposition
?; ; to any change in the present Imml
' gratlon quota system, and opposl
: ; tion to any ,act which would take
"fc. the control of veterans affairs from
ij the Veterans Administration. ..
; ! . B. D. Knauff of Jacksonville took
V over as state, commander. Mrs.
6 Wade Franklin of Hendersonville
v 'was elected president of the Auxl
" llary and Mrs. Xatheryne; Zatkle
5; wicz of Wilmington was elected
' senior vice president ,, . :'.
" Warsaw Bible School
(rnmencement On
Friday Night" y, : :k
. Commencement exercises for the
Dally Vacation Bible School of the
V Warsaw Baptist Church will be
' ' held Friday evening at 7:30 p.nv
' in the churtcn auditorium. The
, school closed on Wednesday after
. ' having a week and a hall of one of
:-t the most successful schools of this
4 kind In many years. An average
dally attendance of 101 pupils was
' enjoyed. One of the factors con
"; tritouting to the success of the
school was the Interest and cooper
' atlon 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
a picnic was held at White Lake.
' The WMU of the church furnished
food and drinks for the occasion.
A large number attended. , ,
J More than 10 of North Caroli
. na'g population are" veterans of
' ' V, id War H.'. s'- '
Herring Crowned Qu
Carolina Veterans Foreign
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MISS ELEANOR GAT HERRING Queen of more Hfian 20,00
Carolina Veterans of Foreign Wars, who will compete in Chicago
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-
T WO 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 Just released
by officials of the American Can
cer Society. Thirty-two patients
were referred to their physicians
for medioal 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 thatYhe coun
ties represented at the clinic were
wow Hanover with 16 examinees.
Columbus with 11, four from Pen
der, 3 from Brunswick, two irom
Wake, 2 from Duplin, one each
from' Bladen and: Robeson. f
i The Clinic la 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 auditorlunThere
Tuesday night for a final practice
before going to Chapel Hill Tues
day, June 16th to participate in a
state-wide square dance contest at
the University that night. The con
test is under the direction of Lamar
Lunsford, director of folklore at
the University. v ' '
sen
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 he admitted
free and will help hold the spot
light. A round and square dance will
be held from 8 to 12 o'clock with
music furnished by the Frazier
Band of Klnston. 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
vllle-Warsaw highway and for wide
ning and reconstruction of high
way from a point in Kenansville
near Grove Presbyterian church to
Beulaville 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
ville to Junction NC 24 and US
258, and bridge ' over Middleton
Mills Creek approximately 3 miles
West of Kenansville. Roadway, Ex-ura-Cline
Construction Co., Rocky
Mount, i $367,544.00; structures,
Grannis & Sloan, Inc., Fayetteville,
$135,903.10; 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
, On N. C. Highways
Killed June 2 - 5 . 8
Injured same dates 145
Killed thru June 5, 1950 ' 366
Killed thru June 0, 1949 - 815
Injured thru June 3, 1950 4,748
Injured thru June 8, 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
for the town and addition of new
hydrants, will be discussed. Every
and as near on time as possible so
Rose Hill Boy Needs Help; May Be
Question Of Life And Death
Welford Teachey, young Rose
Hill boy, now a patient at the Kafoat
-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 stme 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 Historical
Play In Charleston Next November
Premiere Showing
"Bright Leaf
Here liext 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 Qulnn, 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 te 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 be 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. ' , i ,.
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 it
exploded. '.'.-t.-;-. ;;.
FRIDAY,
of adequate fire fighting equipment
and larger water mains and more fire
person in town is urged to be present
as not to delay the discussions.
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
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
asKea to sena tneir donation to
Mrs. L. D. Brunnitt. chairman,
Welford Teachey Fund. Rose Hill,
N. C.
Sam Byrd's "Br 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 commun
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-scene play will be
fictionized history, with actual
characters called by name and true
i 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
Llfe-ln-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
writing 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-
CONJINUED ON BACK PAGB
JUNE 9th, 1950
Farm Bureau Conference, Work Shop
Be Held In Raleigh June 13-14
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WILBUR A. PIKE
of Piki'ville. N. C. is a candidate
for Hist r'ct Governor of Lions In
ternational, Southeastern 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.
Duplin Warehousemen
Attend Myrtle Beach Meet
Myrtle Beach, S. C. Warehouse
men from the five states which
grow flue-cured tobacco gathered
here Monday to make plans for the
1950 auction season.
They are attending the annual
convention of the Bright Leaf
Warehousemen composed of
warehousemen from Georgia, Flori
da, Virginia, North anouth 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 of
piles of tobacco, anrt others.
In addition the delegates left to
their board of governors the matter
of fixing opening dates for the
various flue-cured tobacco belts.
Attending from Duplin: Charlie
Herring, Star Warehouse, Kinston;
A. C. Blanchard, Blanchard and
Farrioc, Wallace; W. M. Husey,
Hussey's Warehouse, Wallace.
UNIVERSALISTS PLAN
PARLEY NEAR BURGAW
Young people and church 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, Rose 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 comrng 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
durjng 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 ' v ( , .
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
ing the dinner.
Wednesday morning's conference
will be in two sections, with county
FB leaders dix-ussing problems
faoing farmers and going over
Fall membership drive plans with
B. C. Mangum. Henderson, cam
paign chairman. The second sec
lion will have Associated Women
considering county and community
problems, emphasizing community
needs, 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 Walter 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.
Brill 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
my boy 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 yon ,
can well be proud of." . , '