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CONTINUED 1935. ana .nnerintendent. since now president of the Duplin Coun ty Historical Association, which aponsors the play, announces the following assignments for schools: B. i t. Grady Schodl, Sarecta scene; Wallace School, battle of Rockfish Creek; Magnolia School, Liberty HaU scene; Beulavllle School, BeulavUlo poUtlcal rally; KenansvUle School, James Sprunt Institute . graduation exercises; Warsaw School, the Charles Gavin scene during World War I; Rose Hill School, Victory Sunday morn ing in Duplin County, Aug. 19, 19 49; Chinquapin, Falson and Caly pso schools will furnish soldiers for several scenes ,and all Negro schools in the county will be repre sented in the opening tobacco field scene .- and singing.1- v ' - i Schools Open. - Schools in Duplin County open ed August 17 and 24, to permit the pupils to assist in the harvest ing and housing of the bumper tobacco crops, and will cios earl ier than most other North Carolina schools in the spring to permit the children to help with the straw berry crops for which their county is world-famed. ! Thus, rehearsals are already well under way in the respective schools, the county-wide product ion being considered toy Superin tendent Johnson and the school faculties as a vital educational pro ject of value and interest to the school students. , Individual and club rehearsals started even earlier that the schools beginning August 10, under Byrd's directionThe first Joint rehear sal is scheduled for September 1, the second on September 2. Full scale dress rehearsals will be held September 4, 5, and 6 in the com pleted amphitheatre. . Governor to Attend. Governor W. Kerr Scott and Mrs. Scott are among the notables who have accepted invitations to be on hand September 7 for the premiere of the second season's run. They will be entertained at dinner in KenansvUle prior to the perfor mance, along with a number of other distinguished Tar Heels, In case of rain for any of the five nights of the show the per formance will be repeated on suc ceeding evenings. However, it is hoped that last year's good luck will continue, under favorable weather conditions. William Walker, who for two years has been on the Dock Street Theatre staff as well as an actor there in Charleston, is serving as assistant ' technical director for The Duplin Story". He will also play the role of Captain James Re voke u.. r L. y m - York City. He is the author of two novels: "SmaU Town South,". Life-tn-Araerlcan Prise book, pub lished in 1042, which deals with life in and around Mount Olive; and "Hurry Home To My Heart," a novel on the Normandy Invasion, published in '1943.' u-i ';.-.$" However, .Byrd is better known for his 1,181 consecutive perfon mances on the Broadway stage as Dude Lester in the widely-publi cized "Tobacco Road. For this ne received the Literary Digest award for the 1933-34 season as the "Best Actor on Broadway'.'. In 1937-38 he : was featured John Steinbeck's famous play, "Of Mice and Men.'.' Other shows in which he has appeared in New York are "Street Scene, "The No vice and the Duke", "Cae". "Good Neighbor," "We the People", '.'In cubator," "The Man Who Reclaim? ed His Head." and "The Man Who Killed Lincoln.' , : Broadway theatricals he has pro duced unoer nxs own management include: "White Man" ltMti; "Jour neymau't, oy isrskine. Caldwell, 1 37; "John Henry," byiioark urad- ioiU, iu; ana "Uooa weignuur , lutk. Many times he has oeen wa ttuea er flajionai and Columbia o ucung Companies. ui 4auuityt lwz, he entered the navai &eivice as an Ensign in the Nuvi iteserve. He participated to toe 1 invasion of Normandy as a .beat-nmaster of a section of Omaha Beacn with the Seventh Beach Bat talion from D-Day morning through the assault phase, being awarded the Bronze Star medal and the Army's Distinguished Unit Citation Badge. v From duty aboard the USS Kar nes, he took part as a beachmaster in the assault at Okinawa. Then ne served in the Philippines and Pa cific areas, following which he participated in the occupation" of the seaplane base at Sasebo, Kyu shu, Japan, in September, 1945, as beachmaster of Naval and Marine Corps units occupying the base. At present he holds a commission as Lieutenant-Commander in the Naval Reserve. K ley Cci ji I .-S Cc i V,. Pdl rein - : Byrd ant Pat Bolam recently spent two weeks in New York, lin ing up metropolitan equipment, which this time will be even better than before. Lighting effects will be specially good. A Wurlltzer or gan and piano are being loaned ' free by McGrath and Company of Wilmington. . 1 ' "-' : Traffic to Move Easily. . State Highway Patrolmen, under the direction of Corporal ' T. G. Brooks of Wallace, will again direct the traffic at the show grounds, ideally located on the arge field owned by H. D. Williams between bis ' home ; and the . KenansvUle school. Last year a remarkable ' safety record was chalked up, not a "tingle fender being scratched, despite the enormous flow of traf fic each night of the nerformance. Parking space across the highway wlU provide' for several hundred cars, and the patrolmen will help : the. motorists in and out of she places. This means that little or no time is wasted or lost when all want to leave the site at the end of the show each night . , Seats wiU be comfortably ar- , ranged for about 6,000 spectators, and throngs of persons are Expect ed from near and far. Last year the drama was so successful and so popular that its scheduled run was extended with additional perfor mances the following week. 1 Capt. William M. Buck.of Co. M. 19th Infantry of Warsaw, will , again supervise the battle scenes. which were viewed with tense ex citement last year. He and his as- ' slstants will also arrange the spec ial battle effects, which made the stage battles so strikingly realistic. o It'a Dynamite ' Colon Holland, last year's Master of Properties,' will have charge of the dynamiting. ; He is a: former naval engineering and construction . expert,- and had experience as a demolition expert at Guadalcanal during World, War II. Among the ,500 actors in the r'ay, Byrd will fegaln be outstand i t- Last year ne gave up other J tereats andjrlsked his entire ca- i er and reputation on thesue- .a of the Duplin pageantry. It v i well worth his while, for It v as even a greater success than la and J. R.-. (Bob) Grady, editor i : The Duplin Times at Kenans- !e, who conceived the original I a of the production, had even . famed in their wUdest flights of r ry and enthusiasm. -vT ( : ; -It was largely due to their spfrlt The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial . Foundation Fellowship in Creative Writing was awarded him for 1946-47, including a five- months study of postwar conditions in England: In 1940 he served as a lecturer for the American Infir- matlon Embassy In London. Under a renewal of the Guggen heim Fellowship for 1948-49 . he traveled extensively through Sou thern France,' Portugal, Gibraltar, Spain and North African In 1947 and 1948 he was a lecturer in so- ciolozy at the College of Charlston S. C, and during the past year has taught sociology there..- CbaracteristicaUy, he . la super vising every detail of "The DupUn Story". In working togs he has been daily hard at Work, to . be sure that the production will be finer and better, if possible, than was last year's magnificent success. 'With the able assistance of Rife, he feels confident that the play will run up another perfect run at KenansvUle. Rife, who was With the Kanawha Players at Charleston, W. Va., . The " Kalamazoo Players, the Cain Park Theatre in Cleve land and the NashviUe Community Theatre before accepting his "pres ent post in Charleston. During the summer of 1948 he was guest di rector at the Colorado University School of the Theatre at Denver. Microphones and amplifiers will carry the voices Of the actors and accompanying sound effects clearly to the audience, even to those on the back rows of the huge natural amphitheatre. For, the play does not have a' narrator, as is so often done in colossal pageants. The characters ' speak their- own lines. Through excellent lighting ar rangements, the nine scenes of the first act and the seven scenes of the Second act move rapidly and smoohtly, alternating from the GI and British children at the fountain to the various American action de scribed by the naval petty officer. On ": September 1, : Tuscarora Council, Boy Scouts or America Will start its annual fund raising campaign. This year the Council is seek ing S21.827.29 from the four coun ties ef Duplin, Sampson, Johnston, and Wayne. The budget for .1951 has been carefully worked out and the total is what is required for Tuscarora Council to carry on and develop its scouting program, -v Anyone who has had contact1' with scouting realizes that there Is more to the Boy Scout movement than a local troop headed by an unpaid scoutmaster. The organiza tion is world-wide and ' operates with paid executives Just like any other organization. There are sum mer camps to maintain, paid staffs to direct these camps, office equip ment and supplies, field expenses of the executives, badges and awards, leadership training and many other expenses,. These items make a considerable mil; parents of scouts and other interested peo ple have met this bill in the past; they will do so in the future. ! It is hardly , necessary to sen anyone on Scouting. Its outdoor activities, its practical lesson of life saving, its high standards of Christian living, its extensive train ing program, all focus at one spot ri scouting teaches a boy to be a lender. ' and more . Important, it teaches him how to get along with other people. No organization can boast of a greater accomplishment or ideal than this., In aU fields of life there are few great leaders who did not at one time belong to the Boy Scouts. , An Incident which happened to a Warsaw scout several years ago illustrates the practical train ing a scout receives Joseph West of Troop 20 was near a. tobacco barn, one day during a thunder storm when a woman was struck by lightening. Joseph applied arti ficial . respiration - and; saved the woman's life. : In this instance, a delay of a few minutes would nave meant: the difference- of whether the woman .Uved or died.: It was also . important that Ube rescuer knew "how to apply artiflbhiV. res piration; Tbertrainlng wnich young West; received: In Scouting was re sponsible for this...'- ...... - f There are; eleven troops m vu pltn County' with '280- scoutt. and scouters, plus two cub packs', one in Wallace, the other in Kenans vUle. Actual- cost Of piaintaining a scout forgone year amounts to S19.29. On top of this are the councU expenses. Altogether, they add up to more than $21,000 for the 'year-,V. ' Most of the individual expenses for 1950 will be repeated for 1951 with only minor changes. Nearly half the total amount will pay the salaries of the. Scoit Executive, Bruce Boyers, and his two field executives. Requested for this item is $10,500. To pay a full time sec retary and part-time assistant for .office work, $2,400 is needed. Of fice supplies require ; $360TFor 'raveling expenses of the execu tives, $2772 is needed. (The exe- cutlves . furnish their own cars.) Badges and awards' cost $500. ! To maintain Camp Tuscarora for 1951 it will' cost 1900, $100 less than In 1950. Expenses at Camp Carver will amount to $400, also $100 than this' past summer. This complete list, but from it seen that scouting costs oney. J .less Ifs not a can be It - , . , L PAtL A..1 Chairman of KenansvUle Finance Drive From Mothers To Teachers If you can keep your head .when forty chUdren . With forty different problems challenge you; - -If you can atUl their clamor, soothe their Spirits . f , , . And in each mind Implant a purpose true; - v . If you can prove to each of forty mothers ' . : That hers Is, of them all, your favorite child; If you can keep all happy and contented, ,. Though one would often drive his parents wUd; If yon can find It In your heart to love them, Attractive or unkept as they may he; If you can see not what la on the surface, . . ; But In each child a possibility, If you can wake In each a thirst for knowledge, - Then satisfy that thirst from day to-day, A . : If you can stir within each heart an interest,-' So that his lessons -seem .not work hut play; t If you can meet these never endmg problems ' -v, ' ! ' As well we know you have done o'er and o'er; Then you have won our gratitude undying. ,,! our staunch support la yours forever more. . ' - ..- Eve M. Bartela (Thla poem turned-In by Mrs. Wm. R. Teachey) i: t ... . V " t ' 5. i Susan .Goes To School . section and their hard work 'a the performance so out . v "h the faU cooperation 1 intc. .t of practically ; In citizens. ' i J I T'on Prize. 'J ( f. l C " Tyrd took The opening ,i Tobacco Field scene near Falson is regarded as one of the finest things of the kind ever portrayed in the nation. The unique chant of a -tobacco auction eer will lend reaUsm and interest. When Tony Carrington, the Eng lish boy, asks Johnny Lambert in the park about American Indians, be is shown the river barge landing scene at Sarecta in. 1755, . with Henry McCulloch, who came up the North East Cape Fear River and was welcomed by costumed townspeople and chUdren with dance and music in his honor, v The Command Post of. Colonel James Kenan is pictured at Rock- fish Creek In 1781, to give, a differ- ent type of battle scene for that phase of the Revolutionary War. The Kenan family is described with their large mansion; "Liberty HaU,"; with its several , hundred slaves, fine English furnishings and hospitable motto: "Who enters this open gate never comes too earlv and never stavs too late." : An ' open "field, "Somewhere in Duplin. County.'? in 1863 shows the ... .. 4 v niFiH mfidence, their pride In theirl headquarters of the Duplin Rifles. From the distance on the rolling hillside camn'r-s Rre V' J, and troops are s,.. ', "' '"nlng Tonight on the Old Cain t . und." Humor is'provided by the eMwly slave, Charlie Tf v. no frankly.1 "Courage h .,it In my !-'. act in June, 1865, at Liberty Half, jtarts with the Negro chorus chants from the direction of a terrifying xolosion. The musicians file in jiigrlmage fashion to watch a pro jesslon of tattered and torn Duplin Confederates returning home from the war. Col. Tom Kenan, tells his father. Mai. Owen Kenan: "The rar has ended . . , Our duty Is peace. We have 'come home to re build, -to cultivate, .to revive our ndustrles, o raise' patriots ana Christians to take- the places of hose who are gone ... We are a united country now." Act two starts with a lighter trend, a political barbecue in 1908 during the heated Taft-Bryan cam paign, with a brass band, square dance and poUtlcal speeches. ! . Commencement at the James Sprunt Institute. are depicted: for May 10, 1910, with the graduation address and some of the descend ants taking the roles of the seniors. A new locomotive of the period has been obtained for the colorful scene outside the Warsaw railroad station In 1917. Sollders are shown leaving for World War I duty "To make the world safe for Demo cracy." One of the characters is Charles R. Gavin, who was killed overseas Nov. 10, 1918. The Amer ican Legion Post .at Warsaw is" named for him. Inspirational Finale. , . An inspirational touch ends the performance. - Victory Sunday In Duplin; County in 1945 is enacted before a beautiful backdrop por traying a stained glass.' window in church, reoresentina Christ on a rainbow, as designed to Stephen Bridges, noted for his stained glass designs, used extensively through out the- country. Bridges IS asso ciated with the Rambusch Studios in New'York and is editor of the Stained Glass Quarterly, published by the Stained Glass Association of America. '-: :.", . :-' 4' The ; minister ' preaches in the mood of ''tills, poignant hour," and the choir sings "Ave Maria." Johnny Lambert closes the pro duction with a tribute to the Am: ericarf, Flag, -ending. "My stars and my stripes are your . dreams . and your labors. They are bright with cheer, firm w! h faith, because you;have mad" '" .ui. sa' out of your hearts.. Pr fii s re t"- r- t r I" She's gone to school, my Susan, '' So tiny, Just turned six. And, oh, the house is .empty,., . , The clockf how loud it ticks. No laughter in the garden,' , .., ' No swinging on the gate,. ,' Just quietness and Order- , And a fire upon the grate. She's gone-to school, my Susan, In brand new pinafore, . To learn the art of letters, And dip in ancient lore; ' , , She's eager for the future,'. ,. . And sturdy for; her size;. ' . But, oh, the heart is weary,,,,. Before the head is wlsejl, . She's gone to school, my Susan, ; So, sweet and .-unafraid, , Her toes in shiny slippers, ,. - Her brown hair In a braid; And here where she's been happy A UtUe prayer I pray; t ''God bless the host of Susans ' Agone-to school today."., , s ,. ,,, -Vivian Y. Laramore. .'. ' ' .;. .:fl(tyfl! The little lady-In the picture is Harriet Sue Johnston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Johnston, of Wallace, N. C. She Is in Mrs, Lou ise Ward's first grade class, in the Wallace School, Sue is one of the 1200 first grade pupils to enter the schools of Duplin County this year. - (Picture, and poem turned in by Mrs. WnljR. Teachey.) i " ' i F Thi "Baplia Sfcry i!y Reunions till J. C. MACMILLAN FAMILY All the, children of the late J. C MacMillan, ' Jr. of Teachey are planning a family get together on September 8th and 10th and plan to attend fThe DupUn Story" on the night of the 9th. Members of Uhe family will be here from New York, Greensboro.. ThomasviUe. Fayettevllle Teachey and High Point. ''- A. picnic dinner ' will be served on Sunday. .'....t.'rW.iii - 't PEARLIER JOHNSON CHILDREN ; The late Pearlle Johnson family will have a famlly- get together at KenansvUle ott Saturday night, September 9th, at the home of O. P, Johnsoa. All of the brothers And sisters will attend !The. Duplin Story",, that ,'nlght. . j : ' Ccunty Gals Approximately 85 miles of pav ing has been let in Duplin County to the Zelgler-Cllne Construction Company of Fayetteville. Mr. H. G. Xeigler and Mf. F. D. CUne head the company. , 1 . The most .important, contracts in the county are .the grading and widening of highway 24 from the Intersection of 258 in Onslow County , to KenansvUle; i the re routing 'of highway 117 through Warsaw which is completed; the Pink HUl-Beulaville road which Its completed; and the putting in of curbs and gutters In Kenans vUle sometime this year. . ' t' County roads-under-contract for paving, are: -KenansvUle to Chln quapin; Sarecta by Cabin to con nect with highway 41; Potters Hill to the Jones County line, east from Potters Hill-to NC 24; Hallsvllle west to NC 24; point on NC 24 north to Sloan; point on NC 24 to Charity; and Warsaw east 4 miles on NC 24. - " . Work began the first of July E, W. Stewart of the KenansvUle Field Office stated that they -expected to be here for some time. With the company here are F. D. CUne, Jr., supt; A. J. Shackleford, grade foreman; N. W. Newton, plant foreman; J.. K. Dean, road foreman; T. O. Little, pipe foreman-,- and B. . M. Royster, concrete foreman. t- ( -,. Disturbing The Pecce Of Duplin : The month of August gave Just ice of the Peace, C. B. Sltterson, Uttle peace. One case wlU be bound over to the Superior Court and another to the County Court in addition to -the minor cases . de cided by Mr .Sltterson. r ' i Hattie Junior Mercer (colored) was. given a hearing August ,23rd on a charge of forging a cnecx payable - to . Lewis Bryant in the name of I. J. Bostlc on the Wacca- maw Bank of KenansvUle. The case" goes to the Superior Court under bond of Jouo. The case of Edmund Wadell, charged with trespassing, armed with deadly weapon, was turned over to the County Court Charged with possessloq of non tax paid liquor were: Mrs. Will iam Henry Carr, John Robert Wells, Herletta Moore, O. Q. La nier. and Lear and ' Jeannette James with Intent to sell. Jean nette James was also charged with resisting an officer. w i Elbert Thomas Cottle, charged by highway patrolman- of - being Intoxicated while operating auto; John Robert Lamb, publicly drunk and resisting officer; William Da vid Boney, drunk; and WiUie Mer rill, driving drunk and disorderly conduct, were others cases heard before Mr. Sltterson. 1 : ;; ? : Traffic of fenses Involved -Amos Peterson for careless and reckless driving, Stanley Garfield Botts for speeding, and Jenny Miller Sand lin, charged by 1 ..trolman B.. L. Cook for Rnwillnff. ' ELEANOR GAY HERRING - runner-up for "Miss Convention Citt" at the national encampment of Veterans of Foreign Wars thla week In Chicago. Miss Herring,' beauty queen ofe Pink H1U Veterans of Foreign Wars was OriflnaUy entered in flie Pink HU1 contest hy FlaWus WillUamson of Ito lmiAiWlae.lMMrn In Pink Hill she was sponsored by the Pink HU1 post.ln theUt-, wide beauty contest held In Hendersonvllle this past June.- Sne came Sway from there with all honors and was sponsored W the North Carolina Veterans of Foreign Wars to compel for national honors TiT Chicago'. .,' A . ,v ' Miss Herring 'is the dauthter of Mr. and Mw. Henry Herring , of Albertson. She attended B. F. Grady school and will enter Peaoe Junior College In Raleigh next week. . . For her debu( in Chicago she was coached by Mrs. Hannah Block of WUmlngton, .xi'jpx,i. V Eleanor Gay plays the role of Miss Berringer, a school teacher, In the Sarecta scene In "The Duplin Story." ' , , The top winner In Chicago was Miss Grynne Shelor of Sumpter, S. C. Miss Shirley Stopler of Chicago placed third. " 1 T ' ' -J- i" H Your special edition of The Times this week -it portrays in words and pictures Duplin County's v education in history. Albert T. Outlaw, Register, of , Deeds and historian, has written all stories dealing" with history of schools, churches, historical mark ers and county history in general. Last year Mr. , Outlaw contributed generously of ; his historical . work to our special edition, hut this year his works cover a wider range of subjects. His reputation is that he is correct in what he writes. f, ' i : Mrs. Wm. Teachey of Rose Hill, supervisor of v Duplin County schools has 'edited, written, and su-- pervised the stories and pictures of Duplin County. schools today. - All historical marker pictures wer ". ' photographed by Vaden Brock of Mt. Olive. We hope you enjoy this issue of the Times. Savornl linnilrpil cnnipQ fin v lippn . nrintpH but -"-"1 if they go out like last year they will be gone in a few days. ,- i- This t issue represents many hours of work ' on the part of Mr. Outlaw,-Mrs.'i Teachey, your editor and the mechanical staff of the Times. If you nejoy it somewhat,, we feel that our. labors have not been in vain. , 1 ) .",-.;- - Next week's Times will carry general stories and pictures intended for this week but crowded ; OUt , . ' ; ""' " ' -..' t ' ' ' "J. R: Grady: '' CONVICT. . was located last week when police officers .Investigated.;; -The prisoner had escsped from the Halifax County PriEon in June Pat Turner, Ada and Randolph Miller : were indicted by: North Carolina ' authorities and placed under a $500 bond each until ap pearance In Superior Court on October 2nd. ' . County Court Convictions The County Court of Duplin had a busy session Monday, August 21 with the majority of the cases In volving traffic law violations. . The largest number of violators were those with no drivers license. Pleading guilty to the charges were: Robert Merritt, sentenced to a 00 day . jail term and work on the roads; Freeman Miller, Leon ard .Outlaw, and - Marshal) Lee Johnson, suspended on payment of $25 and costs; Elwood Potter, judgment suspended for 12 months on good behavior and payment of cost; Benny Campbell, 12 months sentence Suspended on payment of $2& and cost by Aug. 26th. 7 : Clyde Foss, Jr., pleaded guilty twice to the charge ot operating an auto after: license ' had been re voked. For the first offense he was confined to jail for SO days and work on the roads. The second offence netted him another f 1 '' .' s v '; on (Ju rn- -if' driving- while Intoxicated were William Herbert Pope and Mary Ross Hough Williams, both sus- pended on payment of $50 and costs. Johnnie Mathls convicted on ' the same charge wa& suspended for 3 yearS On good behavior, pay ment of $100 finer costs, and the., sum i of $125 for D. W, Fales. ' ' Vernell Hill pleaded guilty to careless and reckless driving, -sus- ' pended on payment of $25 and Costs. : Speeding cost ' Francis v Vernon High, Jennings Bryan . Deans, and Charles Troy West each" $10 and ' costs. ''.''-' ' f Lassie Green, charged With as sault on female and participating . In an affray was suspended on the payment of costs. : J : i Ozle Mitchell and Robert Mer ritt pleaded not guilty to separate . charges of larceny and receiving, ', Mitchell's judgment was suspend ed for 2 years on good behavior. payment of $10 for stolen hog, fine of $25 and cost. Merritt was found guilty and confined to the v Duplin County jail for 6 months with work on the roads. : , ;: It BLOODSHED BOXSCC ".3 l' !,';,.-', On .N. C, Elghwayi - ' . : Killed Aug.' 25 - 23 Injured same dates killed thru Ant. '21, Killed tni ' - It cof.J.ln's r-v T'" "
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