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V,'i '- v'PlaiiTo Attend East Caro- 't f v v.Va'-.H' Una Folk Festival Kenan THREE SECTIONS TWENTY TWO PAGES ,.THIS WEEK Memorial Auditorium Friday, Saturday, Septem ber 12 and 13. f A :..r. . ... .-, 3 -(XUv VOL. 19. NO. 34. Chinquapin From 25 . Twenty-nine cases were dispos ed of In the first three days of a two week criminal Superior Court Calendar, with Judge John J. Bur ney of Wilmington presiding, . In Kenan sville this week. With two cases of murder on )the docket, one was disposed of on Monday, when Graham Carroll Pic: kett, Chlnqua-pln, -was convicted of second degree murder and -sen tencedto from twenty-five to thirty : years in the state prison, x Pickett ; shot Cleo Hlghsmith to death in an affray in Chinquapin June 1 of this year when he fired a shot lnt a house full of people while he ; was intoxicated and happened to tilt the Highsmith woman. Pickett ' at present is in Duplin County Jail where he will probably remain un til this court session adourns, at which time be will be taken to the State Penitentiary In Raleigh, to i begin serving his term, of sentence. ' ( Other cases disposed l of jparly ' this week are as follows: lEarl Higgins, false pretense; Prayer for judgement continued i until October 8th. ,.'.....;' t A. C. Iiockamy, speeding;- plead guilty; fined fifty dollars and costs. . Gus Jefferson, possession-of jn tax ald whiskey for sale; Not guilty verdict directed by the court. A Thomas Gurganus, assault with deadly weapon; plead guilty; sen- tenced to six months on county Thomas. Gurganus, operating au tomobile while intoxicated; plead not guilty; .found guilty by the Jury and sentenced to six months on county roads.;: if. f Xt i Ernest Simmons, breaking, en tering, and larceny; plead guilty, ; 12 months on county roads. ; Haywood Sykes, larceny of au L tomobile; not guilty. ,' p.' Haywood Sykes; operating auto I mobile while Intoxicated; not gull- ty-....' ; r ..-...-. Fhiianoer raison, penary, pieaa guilty; four to five years in State Prison! . " '' " ILeslie Smith, Assault on Female, (two counts), . guilty; 18 months sentence in each case suspended on five year good, behavior proba tion plus COStS. ' ' iV George Leach, possessing and transporting non-tax paid whiskey for sale; six months; county roads, suspended on two years probation phis a $100 fine." ; '-, .Mordecai Wallace' possessing (UinttnM oflL. Ba.;-sect. t ErostBrinht Sentenced Year In Prison For Murdbr Of Vif e ; At noon, today, the Jury handed down a verdict of guilty of Man slaughter in the .-case of Ernest Bright charged .with the murder r of his wife last January. The Jury: decision came after a fifty minute deliberation and Judge Burney sen tenced Bright to from eight to ten years in State Prison. The at torneys for the defendant immed iately filed notice of an appeal to the State Supreme Court, and the case should come before that body in October. - - -" - -v- ' BricM was charaed with havine shot his wife on January ll of this year in a tussie at tneir nome near Magnolia. There were no witness 11 JACKIE BUTLEH, 12 'year old Ballad singer from Clinton who vlll be one of the more than five hundred East Carolina Folk Lore rtlsts who will perform on the stage of Kenan Memorial Auditorium ere on Friday and Saturday nights, September 12 and 13. ' Ba scorn Lamar Lunsford of Turkey Creek, director of the Ken nsville, Asheville, Chapel Hill and State Fair Folk Festivals, is letting i grass grow under bis feet down here in East Carolna's grass roots untry in his search forEast Carolina Folk Lore artists.- He is rrlng county after county and every time he reports his findings adds several more names to the list who say. they want to appear in tern Carolina's First Folk Festival. . ' v Section One Six Pages Murderer Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison F, H. A. Teachers Leaders Meet Here To Discuss Plans On Saturday.: August 23 Vocat ional Horn Economics Teachers and Presidents' of their Future Homemakerf of America Clubs met In th Keriansvl'le Home Econom ics Department for an all day meet ing on Saturday. Plans were made for' District 4 Rally which will be held In r the Kenan Memoral Au ditorium on Saturday. Oct. 18r Miss Mabel Lacy, State Home i Economics adviser for this Dis trict, met with the group which in cluded Teacher Advisers and their -officers' -representing the 'follow ing schools in this district of elev en counties: ! Miss Cornelia Quinn of Beulaville, Miss Thelma Dilday of B. Fl Grady, Miss Jean Pinner of Wallace. Mrs. Kathleen Synder of Warsaw." Mrs. Marlon Elkln of Chinkapin, Mrs. Alma Phillips of Trenton, Mrs. Clara Reld of Rlchlands. Miss Mary E. Ridge of Golds bo ro, Mrs. Agnes Gunter of Lucama,' and Mrs.' Carolyn Outlaw of KenansviUe. ' .!-HA r" " Smith. Brothers And Carr Open Appliance Store, Smith brothers and, Carr, old well known Wallace hardware firm is opening today the new addition to their firm. On U. S. Highway 117, northern end of town, they are opening an appliance depart ment with a full line of electrical appliances. , They are featuring the Wectin chouse line.1 Manv orlz- es are . being offered and special merchandise, bargain s during Thursday, Friday", and Saturday. Read thlr aftin this issue for de- es and Bright claimed that in the tussle the gun went off, fatally in juring his wife. . - He carried his wife to the home of Dr. Matthews in Rose Hill, who came out to the automobile to' ex amine the woman and she died shortly after he first saw her. The shoU entered her body below the left breast and came out near her hip, thus indicating that it was not fired directly at her, claimed the defense. '. : The state asked for a Second De gree ' Murder or Manslaughter Conviction to the charge of which Bright plead not guilty. . j performance in the .'in' ' tmrlum tiipre on Fr!( E r -illrv UOui. . n l i t" i s-"".'j.!i. T' ' 1 i r os ' Wtil- KENANSVILLE, , VERNON H. REYNOLDS , About Duplin's Hew County FarmAgent Vernon H. Reynolds, new County Agent for Duplin County, who took over the duties of his new Job on August 1, succeeding Lacy Weeks, who resigned to work with Tobacco Associates Corporation, is not a new comer to this area as he has previously served for five years as the assistant County Ag ent. (A ' . A native of Jones County. Mr. Reynolds was educated in the Le noir County Public Schools and graduated from North Carolina State College In 1946, with a B. S. degree In Animal Husbandry. - 'After his graduation from State College and prior to coming to Duplin County, Mr. Reynolds ser ved as Assistant County Agent in Currituck County. v A veteran of World War II, Mr. Reynolds vervad with the U. S. Army Ordinafte Section for forty nWnthk' Twenty-months of his army service ' was -., spent in the otiiined on-4Uck ffajre teeofc D oatbJWeuie.: From 8T0IO Three .Year Old Son Killed By Father Last Week Walter Thomas Hlghsmith, three year bid ton of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph S. Hlghsmith of Wallace, was killed Instantly on the afternoon of Au gust 21,- when his father accident ally knocked him down with his truck in 'his yard. Mr. Hlghsmith told authorities that as he started to get into his truck he had seen his son playing over on the right hand side, sev eral yards away, and that he had walked around to get into the truck and left.. The child evident ly wfilked into the path of the truck while his father was getting into the other side when he couldn't see him. ' - ' ' :- No charges were preferred (Funeral services were held last Saturday at 3 p. m. at Wells Cha pel Baptist Church and burial was held there at the church cemetery. The child is survived by his par ents of Route 1, Willard; his pat ernal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis-T. Hlghsmith; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Williams of Autrjrville, Route 1. Mrs. Pauline Sloan Johnson Is Hew Home Demonstration Agent For Duplin County Thiols Are Smoke Thirsty Someone most be a smoke fiend. A few weeks ado someone, broke in a store at Carlton's Crossln b etwee n ItyaeiioUa and Warsaw and got a number of cartons of eUrareties. " " At the Gulf Stations in Magnol ia operated by M. T. Tucker, an intruder broke the glass of a half Class door, entering from the aide where the grease ptt is lo cated, reached in and unlocked the night latch, walked in and carried away about 20 cartons of cigarettes Sunday night. Mr. Tucker was unable to find the glass which was broken until af ter lunch Monday when he found it on the grass outside. At least the robbfT ,ws he. On t- i ' ..t someone at- to "i .. j iiie Pure Oil 'ation, o"rated by Ro- a Wuon, located t fro t tie Gulf - -re t--'y the NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1952. Duplin County Future Homemakers To Nicholsoif Case r Scheduled Tomorrow i The case of Charles L. ' Nichol son, former deputy in the Duplin County Sheriffs office, charted with - embezzlement . of county funds, is scheduled "to come be fore Superior. Court tomorrow. There is speculatfon -that the case will not get underway this week as a special venire is to be ' drawn which will probably take' the remainder of the court week, 'officials said. fi.vt. iss;.; Is tleW) Duplin Service Officer : Irvln E. Rivenbark, son of Mr. and ' Mrs. Whitman Rivenbark of Wallace,? has been named Duplin County Service Officer, succeed ing Joe Wallace who resigned to become post master in Kenansvllle. Mr. Rivenbark is located in the Commissioners room in the Court House; . Also he is working with county auditor Falson McGowen. Now You Tell One Floyd Smith '- Armand "Bill" Usher of Route 1, Rose Hill told last week a genuine snake story and showed the rattles to prove It. He killed 16 rattlers in one day. Not only that but they were all In one, place. The event occurred. Usher said, as the crew was cutting through a right-of-wav for a 110,000 volt line from Burgaw to Ward's Corner. Usher found a log from which a 'rattler came. He killed it and the. 15 other rattlers that touowea we leaaer. - Fifteen of the snakes were be lleved to have been babies, being only two feet In length. The 16th tone, however was four feet 'long and bad is rattles in addition to the button, vi. " Usher said he believed another Tattler Tlled a few days before in (he rant vicinity was the -papa ft? thenerrb-dipatched-l8to& -rr-t- j-,S 'T wee IRENE -. Morehead City One of the smal lest greyhounds in the current meeting of the Carolina Racing As sociation here is Wee Irene. Pink Hill Lumber Mill Was Destroyed By Fire Around Midnight Tuesday The largest of two saw mills at the plant of the Wrenn Bros, Lum ber Co., located just outside Pink Hill on the KenansviUe road was destroyed by fire about 11:30 Tues day night. Persons living near-by discovered the blaze and called the Warsaw fire Dept. headed by John Johnson, who responded imrned- lately, after the Kinston fire dept. had refused to come because of the location outside of the coun ty' the dam' SZS uS at several thousand dollars. Mr, U r v.. niion, TUI Seth King, supervisor of operations there, was in New York, attending an American Legion convention, at the time, v ;;r . . Couple Banned From State For Changing $2 CheckTp $200; Buying Auto In Wallace Claud Frank and Ruby Overby, charged and convicted of forgery in Duplin Criminal Superior Court this week were given four days to leave the State of North Caro lina this morning by Judge Burn ey as he banded them their, sen tence which he had deferred ear- Mrs. Pauline Sloan Johnson took over Jier new .duties as Duplin County. Home Agent on August 21, coming to this county from Mea dow School, Johnston County. Having served ten years as an active home demonstration club member and being a farmer's wife, is a blg'aid to Mrs. Johnson in her professional 'duties. She has served in Johnston County as Coun ty and District Chairman of her Home- Demonstration Club, " and also she served on the North Car olina Executive Board of Home Demonstration' Clubs as' chairman of the Jane S. McKinnon loan fund. Last year, Mrsr Johnson served as home agent for Onslow County. She is a graduate of Flora Mac Donald College. . - '? - Mrs. Johnson, her husband, Nor man Johnson, and their three child ren: Luther, Paula Anne, and Cars Lynne, are Uvlng in Kenansvllle, ller In the week. BRUSH BROTHERS Morehead City When Tbomas ville's Brothers of the Brush staged a special night. at the Iiorehead City dog track Saturday, Autrnst 23, they were greeted by t' s I rft crowd of the season.. AU t 1-J of these bearded brothers iM.,a tae t i h re. ; 'Duplin Co., Future Homemakers of America chapters will be hostess to the District 4 Rally on Saturday Oct. 18. Teacher Advisers of the hostess chapters met in the Ken ansviUe Home Economics Depart ment Wednesday afternoon, Aug ust 27 for a follow-up planning meeting to make detailed plans for the rally. The hostess chapters are KenansviUe, ' Warsaw, B. F. Grady, Beulaville, Chinquapin and WaUace. Alphjn Urges Good Attendance At Local P.T.A. Meet Mon. . . -, .. . President Gilbert E. Alphin of the KenansviUe school Parent Teachers Association announces the first regular meeting of the As sociation on Monday night, Septem ber 1st at 7:30. All parents and teachers are urged to attend. Im portant matters will be taken up including just what is expected of the KenansviUe group before and during the Eastern Carolina Folk Festival to be held ' here on Sep tember 13 and 13. L. L. McLendon Refiresl From Extension Work CAMDEN, Aug. 21 L. L. Mc Lendori, Camden County Farm Agent, ' who has been connected with extension work since 1917, and came to Camden County in 1947, will retire September 2. No replacement has yet been announ ced. McLendon said the first thing he is going to do after retirement is to go to California to see his two children. .Then he said he would sit down awhile in his home at Sea board. : McLendon started work in Berk ley County, S. C, In 1917 and shift: ed from there to Duplin County. N. C, In 1922. He left that coun ty In 1938 to go Into Farm Secur ity work in Halifax cCounty and stayed there utoUl l4iTIitfi4 h became attached to thfr Awoit-i'my Division of N. C. State College stayed there until 194? when he took the Camden County farm ag ent position. . Annual Street Dance Here Friday Sept 5th. I ' TWavnr Amos Brinson announces PuUf nI will De neiu in iimn ui "l house here on Friday night. Sep- tember 5th. The dance wUl get un- derway about dark. Good music is scheduled for the occasion and The counle. charged with chang ing a two dollar check to read two hundred dollars, and buying a used car from E. G. Paddison, Wallace, for $125 and making off with the remaining $75 and thft car, were given a three to five year prison sentence which was suspended by Judge. Burney on the condition that they pay Mr. Paddison $100 and leave the State by September 1 and not return for five years, at least RECORD CROWDS f Morehead. City Attendance for the current meeting of the dog ra ces at Morehead City is setting an aU-time record. The official attend ance figures are up more than 28 per cent over last year. P.11. Clmirnian Announces Nevj Pc::t hr ' One of the important new fea turea of , the 1853 Agricultural Conservation Program will be the contact of individual farmers by their elected PMA community com mitteemen, says J. W. Warren, Chairman of the Duplin County PMA Committee. t The soil and water conservation practice or conservation measure, to' be carried out by Duplin County farmers under the 1953 ACP will be those which the Individual far mer and his community committee man determine are the most need ed f or the farm. . i. 'f &, .-.' -.' In the chairman's : (minion, ibis fctrorts" sp In pwi-n develon-r-..t i I e -ecsA;! y- t In ';.. res ::.iu i SUBSCRIPTION RATE: 3.56 counties; 14.M oqtside Boy Scout Fund Raising Campaign Gets Under Way Beulaville Family The family of Lt. Larry B. Bostlc of Beulaville are on their way to Join him in Japan where he is stationed with the U. S. Army. They sailed from California on August 22nd. Mrs. Bostlc is shown above with her two children Mary Frances and "Butch.'. Local Methodist Minister Leaving; Being Replaced by Rev. Goodwin! Duke Student The Duplin Circuit of Methodist Churches, composed of Kenans viUe, Magnolia, Unity, Friendship, and Wesley Churches have a new pastor. Reverend Robert Collins retiring pastor, accepted work in his home State of Alabama, and moved from the parsonage at KenansviUe on Tuesday, August 26. The congre gations of the various churches, having had no notice that such a nTove was contemplated, immed iately called Reverend C. D. Bar cliffe, District Superintendent of the Wilmington District. Reverend BarcUffe began work on finding someone to flU the vacancy. Wednesday representatives of three of the Churches were Infor med that Reverend Ray Goodwin, a student in the Duke Divinity School would, move to KenansviUe. and that he would hold, services in L. Sht K.n1lllf,..MetlKKilst hwh Sunday morning, August 31, and at Corinth Church To The Corinth Baptist Church Will have a dedication service Sunday, August 31 at 11:00 a. m. for the hew Baptistry painting presented to the Church in memory of the late Mr. Roy Johnson by the faiti-lljr-of Mr. Johnson. The canvass I sauare dancers can have their fling 22."? In0rning hurS " they The annual street dance here at the end of the tobacco season has become a tradition in Duplin and square dancers from all over the Grady-Outlaw Reunion Is All Set; Sat. Is The Day, Folk Music On Agenda The Gradys and the Outlaws, their in-laws and friend-laws are all set for the 21st annual Grady Outlaw reunion to be held at the B. F. Grady school Saturday. From all reports it promises to be one of the largest attended reunions since the first one at which 5,000 people attended. Judge Henry A. Grady, president of the Grady-Outlaw Literary and Historical Association, will pre side. Governor-elect Wm. B. Um stead, will deUver the principal address. Bascom Lamar Lunsford director of the Eastern Carolina Folk Festival will be introduced. Lt. Wm. H. Grady of Washington City wUl tell of his. experiences in Korea and Japan. Charles Carrol, North Carolina's new superintendent of schools OmamzatioaDurmg when the community committee man visits an individual farm, he wUl be prepared to go over the xarm with the farmer and help determine what practices or con servation measures are most need ed. A year by year, schedule of conservation ' operations werked out for each farm will enable the farmer to use program assistance most effectively. Mr. , Warren urges farmers to take advantage of this opportunity to get the most effective help from the program, from tae committee man and .from the agencies avail able in the county to help him with his conservation problems. It will be a t of the cwntttee system and at t of the I 's c per rear in Duplin and adjoining this area U N. C; $5.00 outside V In Dup hn County Sails For Japan Unity Sunday night at 8:00 o'clock p. m. The services at Kenansvllle will be held at 11:15 a. m. Mr. Goodwin is married and has one child about one year old. He has had seven years in the ministry, but recently decided to return to school for further, study. . The five, churches on the Duplin Circuit regret that Mr. Collins had to leave, but are happy that there wUl be no lnteruption in the ser vices at the churches. The regular schedule of services will be held in the various churches during the month of September, and each month thereafter. A special welcome Is extended to all to attend and worship at Ken' ansvllle and Unity for the coming Sunday, and each Sunday there after at any and all of the Church es on the Duplin Circuit Mr. Goodwin is expected to move IftJCenawville on Friday- 9tui day ;of Jihis.,wek. ' . . ,;,.. Dedicate Baptistry painting portraying a scenle river was done by Mrs. C. W. White of Zebulon, N. C. She is better known in the Corinth community as Mrs. Janie BeU Johnson White. The public is cordially invited to attend this service of dedication. . countv lonl forward to the event I each yearj Remember the date Friday night, September 5th. Thi' may be called the prelude to the East Carolina Festival here on Sept. 12-13, writes that it is impossible for him to attend. It was hoped he would be on the program. Following the morning session which Is called at 10:30 wiU be a picnic dinner in the school.s new cafeteria. After dinner a program of dancing and folk music has been planned. It is reported "that a large number of musicians from Duplin will be present to demon state what may be expected at the Folk Festival scheduled for Ken ansviUe Sept. 12-13.. Saturday night the Grady P.T.A. is sponsoring a square dance in the school gymnasium. , Judge Grady says everyone Is in vited to attend this reunion. Come all, he says, but be sure to bring a weU filled basket. i .- assure the needed continued pro duction, v., As the chairman sees it, this use of local farmers as members of committees to administer farm pro grams is putting democracy to work to serve the interests of all he peo ple. Progress has been made, but in this -direct and concentrateifaf fort farmers and their elected com mittee will determine the effec tiveness of this democrattic opera tion in assuring continued and in creasing production. 1 .- . When PMA community commit teemen of Duplin County, contact Individual formers In connection with the 1BG3 Agricultural Censer Tat'nn Prcm, tvy w 1 te pre- - t - I) i PRICE TEN CENTS C. The Boy Scout "Fund Raising Campaign.' gets underway in Du pUn County Monday. The cam paign is being conducted to raise money to meet the 1952 Tuscarora Budget of $30,007.40. According to Bruce Boyer, Scout Executive of Tuscarora it will take? an average of $12 per Cub Scout, Boy Scout and Explorer Scout in each county to meet the budget as set up by the Executive Board of Tuscarora. The campaign will last for two weeks and will be conducted simul taneously in Johnston, Wayne, Sampson and Duplin counties, counties making up Tuscarora Council. B. E. Bryan, Chairman of Finan cial Committee, said, "We must meet this year's budget If Tuscoa Expenses are high and too, we did not meet last year's proposed bud get. We cannot operate If we continue to go in debt." Bryan continued, 'We need the financial assistance of every person in the Council. A contribution does not have to be large to be ap preciated..' Roy Carter, Wallace, Is chair man of Duplin county's campaign. He will be assisted by Edgar Pol lock, Warsaw; H. B. Kornegay, Ca lypso; and Robert Holt, Albertson. Other chairmen throughout the county will also assist in helping raise Duplin's quota. J. E. Belton, principal of War saw Negro schools, will direct the Negro campaign in Duplin coun ty. Annual Fox Hunt In Albertson To Be On Labor Day Bill Sutton of Albertson, ace fox hunter, announces the annual Al bertson Fox Hunt on September 1, Labor day. Mr. Sutton says the hunt will start at his store as n has In the past. Hunters will fol low the dogs until about noon when a picnic lunch will be spread. After dinner the hunt will be re sumed and continue until nightfall. All fox hunters are cordially In vited to attend. . Leslie Boney Suffers Back Injury In Wreck Leslie Boney, Sr., architect of Wilmington and native of Duplin suffered a broken back in an auto wreck near Wilmington last week end according to reports. He is in the James Walker Hospital there. Mr. Boney and his sons are ar chitects for the Duplin General Hospital. Officers. Destroy Two Liquor Stills Sheriff Miller, assisted by Robert Fields, Norwood Boone, Oscar Hou ston, Marley and Murray Byrd de stroyed a large copper still Satur day in Faison township and 12 bar--rels of mash were poured out. The' still was cold. No one was arrested. Fields, Boone, Marley and Dick .Kisner destroyed another still aru the same day in Rock Fish towir ship. It was a copper outfit. 18 barrels of mash were poured out. No one was arrested. STRICTLY FRESH A CALIFORNIA judge order! that 50 bottles of liquor, held" as evidence since 1925, be po'ireo? down the drain. At least it means: a few more "cases" off the docket. The word from Moscow is that six government ministries missed their production goals for the sec ond quarter of 1952. Translated from the Russian this means six: government ministers will lose their heads in. the third quarter of. 1952 Judging from the number of men wearing suits to the office, a ITS GETTING. HOT few more summers like this should bring out the topcoats, ''.'-.' A Hartford, Conn., truck driver stopped to see if the dog he'd hit was hurt The' dog bit him. The poUce he summoned, arrested him , for driving without a license.. Now he probably feels that the coun try's going to the dogs. Ui'. - V. :-;''"'.! v A 23-year-old Londoner stole " kiss from a beautiful blonde whw. " turned out to be a policewoman- ' The $5.80 line may make a.henuiz of the by. 1 Monday