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v ( r Two Sections am! 14 Pages This Veek if- :Nv: I i TO BUILD X ly rr 29-30 nf i VOI 20 NO. 18 Section 1 Pwlin Towns Elect Officers Next Week , Three Warm Contest v Tuesday, May 5, will see all Dup , lin's municipalities, except Mag nolia, elect officers for another two year tenure. In most towns ' the election is 'merely a formality but In some issues have brought about several- candidates. .-,.( -: .:,. ..: Warsaw;-:-"u. Warsaw leads the list with May or incubent, G. S. Best being op posed by former Mayor A. J. Jen rnlns. For commissioners: Albert Askew, Woodrow Blackburn, M. V. Orr, Sanford . Packer, and X - N. West, incumbents; Wm. M. Craven, John N. Fonville, H. Finlayson Lee, Elbert L.'Mattma, D. J. Blvenbark, Y. I Smith and J. Ed Strickland Five will be elected. " . . .- .. v KenamsvUle 4 Onlyone slate of canidates will offer, there being no opposition in Kenansville. For Mayor, J, R. Grady Commisioners: W. M. Ingram, E. C. Tyndall, Leo Jacksorf, Ralph Brown and X Oliver Stnkei. Brown and v Jackson are incubents and Grady is 4own commissioner at present .,';" -. . v ' Benlavllle ; ." . . , 1 Russell J. Lanier is unopposed for Mayor in Beulaville and the fol lowing are canidates for town com missioners: Andrew. Jackson, Lula Q. Parker, Richard Bostic, Ransom Smith, Raleigh Lanier, Clinton Cam pbell, Cecil Miller, Archie Lanier, Herman Gore and W. D. Brown. The election will be held at G. S. Muldrow's station. '; Falson . : "..t- Three are in the race for Mayor 'of Faison; J. M. Faison, Chas. A. Decker and D. J. Oates. For Town Commissioners: . C R, Lewis, A. A. Banadyga, L. J.- Groome, R. D. Precythe, and J. R. Bell. . 1 Rose HiU V . Rose Hill reports to The Times that only two candidates had tiled as of April 21st, H. E. Latham for Mayor and Samuel Cavenaugh tor Commissioner. -... ; , - , ' : Magnolia''' Magnolia ' will hold its election on Monday, May : 3, according to reports. . To date no list of candi dates has tieen reeclvad bv Tha Times, m "if'.Mia. M-m- . Wallace '" ' No opposition developed "to" in cumbent Officers in .the tojra of Wallace so the election there seems to be just a formality. All offic ers filed for re-election, Willard Hoffler, for Mayor, and 'Commis sioners: E. G. Johnson, J.1 S. Blair, Dr. Bland, Melvin Cording and D. B. Townsend. Calypso ; The Calypso election appears to interesting. Three- have filed 'or Mayor: C. D. Summerlin, P. C vis and W. H. Hurdle. For Town Commissioners: James . Tadlock, Lawrence Flowers, James Strick land, H. W. Dixon, Albert & Wil liams, P. B. Sloan, R H. Burch, Alton Pope, Bill Best, Paul Grlce, Junie Strickland, Leonard 1: Guy, Carl Morgan, Roy E. Davis, H.- C. Cooke and B. C. Albritton. Brink 1 4 -4 ; - Open House ' Campbell College will hold open house Saturday, May 2, at 11:30 - a. m. at which time the Carter : Gymnasium will be 'formally op : ened. The gym' was donated by the late family of N. H. and Lou Boney Carter, church and, dvip ' ' leaders of Wallace; Almond H. Car ter, LeRoy B. Carter and Mrs. Lou ise Carter Hoffler of Wallace, and ' W. J. Carter and Harry C Carter : of Greensboro. Home Dent Events ' Farm and Home Week, State Col- - lege, June 8-1L 1 Spring Federation and County - Dress Revue, June 3, 2:30 p. m., Ma ;' sonic building, Kenansville. ' Demonstration for May Club meetings will be "Arranging Flow ers for the Home." There will be a training school f for several leaders during May and v June.' ,'( Cliffs ef Keavse Officials of the Clifts of the Neuse State Park state definitely that the new lake there will not be com pleted in time fat use during this tnipynftTai y j' r1'' ' Hamp WlUlains House For Sale ' . The Hampton D. Williams home i in Kenansville, North of the Court . Bouse on the hospital site will be sold at public auction here Mon day. The building will go to te highest bidder on the .site. BuiU lng must be moved, within 30 days 'aftes the sale.;,v :V Quite a number of advertisements in this Issue are directed to the High School Graduates. "Seniors it will pay you to read .them over. SPECIAL' :: .. :V;'! If you are .interested In Outdoor furniture It will -pay you' to read Oettinger's in Kinston ad. This ad Is worth cash. Look Inside. MAT COURT ATTTrsAUT Miss Joyce Jones at Warsaw will be one of the two freshmen at tendants In the' May" court In tha annual May Day celebration at ?:rediih College on Saturday, Hay ' ' i; t':e dwtfhtee of I."r. and 1 ... Jones of JT.'. Bcoufancus Man Killed In Road ; K. M. Nicholson, 30, road machine operator from Mount ' Olive, was killed near the - Beautancus Com munity, . Raleigh, Monday morning when his machine overturned and crushed him. . ',.-.'( - ;;!.;. . , Nicholson, married and the fath er of two young children, was found dead under , his ipset road scrape. after a passer-by discover ed him over an hour after the in dicated time of the accident Wake .Coroner- M, W. Bennett said Nicholson's watch was crushed and had stopped at (10:11 o'clock. He was not found until a few min utes before noon, though a Negro woman - living. ' nearby said later she saw the scraper disappear over an embankment but did not think it had . overturned, f The woman, Ollle Rogers, said she did not in vestigate, so knew nothing of the fatality until Job Foreman L. D. Matthews of Mt Olive was sum moned by another person. Coroner Bennett .-said tracks of the scraper showed it veered grad ually from its course in the center of the newly-graded road and ran off a steep embankment at an an gle, causing it to overturn on its driver. -. Bennett said tthis circum stance caused him to believe Nich olson either had fallen asleep or was stricken with an attack caus ing him to lose consciousness. ' Nicholson lived on North Church Street, Mount Olive, and had work- Beulavilb llaf. Guard Returns Home iiigs . Battery , 150th AAA Gun Bat talion North Carolina National Guard haft returned, hack, Ht 'State CmtrolajKHSagiUB-located-at Beulaville, Lt Richard S. Bpstic Commanding Officer. The unit" returned I April 19S3 with nine enlisted men and one Officer. At present it has approx imately thirty members and. with members Joining each night It has openings ...for Non-commissioned Officers in the' Radar section, 80MM Gun. Sections, Communication and Mess (Cook) sections. If anyone desires to join this Unit you may contact Lt Bostic any night at his home in Beulaville, or LeRoy J. Kennedy, Administra tive Assistant any day, Monday thur Friday between 8 A. M. r S P. M. Thos who have had prior ser vice may, provided they are quali fied, be enlisted at the highest grade hejd while on Active Duty with chances for advancement It you were released from Active Duty with a five year-or more. Reserve obligation with a Reserve Compon ent, you may contact either of the above men for information on be-, May 3-9 Is National Derm Week Over By Pauline ft, Johnson . National Home Demonstration Week will be celebrated through out the nation May 3 to 9 using agam the theme of "Today's Home jjuuos Tomorrow's World." This is the eigth annual obser vauon oi a week that has come to mean different things to different people. .;.'.. -r. . i. To the rural homemaker it has meant a recognition of the impor tance of her job as a homemaker, a recognition, of her place In the community, a recognition that she is a force for good in local, state, national and even International af fairs, v.' ;f y. Home Demonstration Club' work had its beginning In Duplin Coun ty 30 years ago, June 4. 1917, " when the County Board of Commissioners passed the following: "Ordered that the sum of two-hundred and fifty dollars be and hereby appro priated for canning demonstration work In Duplin County.' From that time, with few. interruptions, the work hat been successfully carried on. . '(-..".' v ui ibV V '.' i'-. The first Home Agent to come to the county was Miss Lucy M.Cobb of Chapel HiU '" North Carolina She served durlns? 1917 and 1918. &he or'anlzed. clubs .known as To mato Clubs. ,. However, when she came to the county: Rockfish Home Demonstration Club waa already organized. This club was organized at a "QuJ!ng Party" on one after noon In 1. i4 at the home of Mrs. W. B. Register. .". In 1919. Miss Helen Thomas of Bennettsvllle, S, C assumed work In the county as .Home Demonstra tion Agent She was succeeded by Miss Kate Norsmorthy in April, of the same year. ' The year's work Tlie Times lias about .100 extra copies tills wei:it for members of t'ie 'Senior cU-sies who want one. If j m fail: to cet yours on news- . s ii Fa' ..i, Xov ipn, .Warsaw, p i J a send 10 ' ' y ' 9 end one KENANSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, -' APRIIj 30TH., 1953 ay ed tor the Wayne Construction Co. for about six months. His wife is Mrs. Dorothy Nicholson,- and the couple have a boy three and a girl two. ' -. i--'v '' The accident occurred in Neuse Township, about 10 miles north of Raleigh. A new road is being hul'f Surviving Kater Morris Nichol son are his wife, the former Dor othy Bell of' Wayne County; two sons, James Morris and Mike Nich olson of the home; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. C M. Nicholson of Beau tancus; a brother, Charles Nichol son of Kenansville; two sisters, Mrs. Glanton Holland of Beautancus, and Ruby Nicholson of Richmond, Va. Funeral services were held Tues day at 3 p. m. at the home of nlsa parents, ' conducted by the Rev. Wade James, pastor of Bear Marsh Baptist Church, of which Mr. Nich olson was a member, assisted by the Rev. T. O. Byrd, Presbyterian minister of Faison. Burial was in the family cemetery, near the home of his 'parents. ?,;';.' Nicholson was a veteran of World War IL He served for 'four and one half years, three of them in the Pacific Theater.' He was a member of the Mt Olive post of the Amer ican Legion 'and of the Woodmen of the. World. : He was a former member of the Mt Olive police force, ; Vv . ' -. ing transferred to the National Gu- vAIti nraBariT vot-ilr In tha Reserve SomjentandL .drawing pay t that rank.' ioreach driU att ended as a National Guardsman. ' Young men within the draft age may join, providing .they join be fore they become eighteen and a half years of age. Men who- are seventeen who desire to join, must have a parental consent agreement before they can be enlisted. The regular drill night is Monday night ' Calypso Chief Edward Ernest Davis of Calypso was picked up by ' Police 'Chief Nathan Tadlock Saturday after noon and was turned over to the sheriffs office. Davis has been AWOL 'since March 16. He was stationed at Fort Knox, Ky. was completed by Miss Stella Har mon of Indiana. ; ; ;; For the next four "years ' there was no Home Demonstration Agent in the county. : ' Miss Ruth V. Eborn of, Washing ton, jn. toos: up tne wore tne first of September, 1923. Her first work was to start organizing boys and girls clubs and Women's clubs. Duplin's first encampment was in August, 1924, at White Lake. The last three days of the same month a Farmer's and Farm Women's school was held at Kenansville. The first County Council was or ganized in 1924 with members from seven women's club and 12 boys and sirls clubs. ., . Miss Madeline Eubanks, v Home Economics, teacher jrom Magnolia, worked during tne summer ox van while Miss Eborn attended sum mer school at Columbia University. Plana for first yearbooks to be used .by club women ' were : made in-1837.-.:.' .' ;.u w.viw'iwf i When Miss Eborn left the coun ty In 1928kshe had organized eleven women's clubs- ana fourteen Doys Miss Carolyn Garrison of Pelyer, S. C. now Mrs. A. T. Outlaw, Ken, succeeded Miss Eborn on March 15, 1928. - Mrs. Henry Mlddleton, deceased, of Warsaw, ..was . one of the five women to graduate from the "Jane S. McKimmon University,' having attended tour short ' courses. She was president of this, the 'first, graduating class, the class of 1928. In March, 1929, the Duplin Coun ty Federation of 4-H Clubs was or ganized. In November of the same year this organization 'observed its first Achievement Day. i .v .;. During the years -that Miss Gar rison was Home Agent there were mans new boys and girls clubs or ganized and several women's clubs. There were many outstanding ac complishments by 4-H members: Boyce Brooks was president of the state organization and King of 1. i'"!. Fa v i s-Vrpd to "end I'.. . t r I II), j In Race For Strawberry Queen ". - ' ' "" MARY LEE ROUSE ' ' Kenansville . High School senior who will represent the County Seat, at the annual Strawberry Festival' In Wallace next Thursday , . night and - will . be one of many vieing lor ine nonor 01 strawberry yueen lor ivsi. . Annual I'JallacG Strawberry Dance Sc!fPli!fyrTlii! ill ' 1 BRUCE (BUBBLES) BECKER who will bring his -band to Wal lace for the annual Strawberry Fes tival Dance next Thursday night, May 7.r '- ' '' Home Nation Deputies Get Two Stills InGlisson Deputies N. D. Boone, W. O. Houston and.T. E. Revelle picked up two stills on April 14 In Glis son Township. One was a 75-gal-lon copper, still, and the other was 100-gallon capacity, both had dou ble condenser worms. Eight barrels of mash was also picked up. No arrests were made. - K Thursday, April 23, a 60-gallon still, five barrels of beer and one empty barrel was captured in War saw Township. 'Charlie Moore was arrested on Saturday for operating the still, and released under bond. Deputies McKay and T. E. Revelle made the arrest Gospsl5in2ing ; Contest At D::;!is The" Douglass High.. School of Warsaw is sponsoring one of the greatest Gospel Singing Contests that-has ever been presented. In Warsaw, entitled "A Battle of Songs,", on Tuesday night May 8, 1993, at 8. p. m. The participants are from Sampson and Duplin Counties. Come out and applaud for your' favorite singing group. Prizes will be given to the best singing groups, both senior a n d junior, and to the church that raises the highest amount of mon ey. 'Admission adults 23c, children 15&, '. r' . The B. F. Grady music pupils of Mrs. W. T. Byrd presented their annual spring recital Tuesday night at 8:C0 o'clock in fra f hool audl- ftiiiiijt ill Southeastern Carolina beauties TONI YOUNG "-. girl - vocalist ' who will be in Wal lace for the Strawberry Dance with Bruce Becker's Band. She will sing the Lyrics while the band plays. Exposition Shows A... Milton McNeace of Chesney, S. C. is coming to Kenansville Mon day with all sorts of rides for the kiddies and amusements aplenty for the grown-ups of all ages. "The Palmetto Exposition Shows," as his entertainment is called, will pitch tent on the vacant lot in front of Capital Theatre, next to L. H. Quinn's store for a six day run, Monday, May, 4th through the 9th. His rides feature - ferris wheel, merry - go round, roller plane, kiddy swing and probably others. The Exposition is being spon sored by the Kenansville Lions aub.V.:;:v .vv: Broken In Warsaw Police Chief Coombs in Warsaw has cracked a petty thieving ring that has been molesting Douglass High School there for ' Several weeks. . Coombs arrested four teen age boys from near- Turkey and they were tried before Juvenile Judge R. V., Wells here yesterday and put on probation for one year. The four had broken Into the school building several times, ap parently- looking for money. They did some damage. A metal desk was broken open and $19 and some cents taken fro ma drawer contain ing t2ZS(r to crippled children's funds.. Two class rings were stol en. The four were: Willie James (Bobby) Hill, age 14; Paul Edward McCallbp, age 15; Henry Roy (Fox) Swinson, age 15, and Roland Louis McCalflp. age iX .. . .. iy;,' tornim.'. -..'i -i'- O'C -'"' On Wednesday, May 8th at 1:00 P.. M. jhe junior piano pupils will give their recital tho program for eaca recital win .conausi oi piano ensembles,, solos and vocal select-, ions. The" puf's 1 1 r "ally invited U t nd bo l j aances. ' . 1 rsdayHightMay . ........ i SUBSCRIPTION KATE: Ul per year la BnpUn and adjomteff onnflei ontetdo fal area n NCj 1R ewtelde C Duplin County Schools Will Graduate 350 Seniors In Excercises May 8-11 Jay's Jewelers Sponsor Contest ' Free Trip Europe JAYS JEWELERS Do you know a student who would like to win a free, all ex pense paid trip to Europe this summer? We believe every youth of your acquaintance would be thrilled at the prospect of seeing the famous sights of England, Fran ce, Italy and Switzerland during the vacation period. Jay's Jewelers of Clinton, N. C. are cooperating with the Wyler Watch Agency, Inc. in making such an educational tour possible for some lucky young man' or girl be tween the ages 'Of 14 and 24. All he or she has to do, is to write 2oo words or less on the subject: "World Travel Promotes World Peace" The writer of the best letter will sail this July for a Breath-taking 53 day tour of four European coun tries. In addition to the trip to Europe, there are 75 other prizes - all val uable Wyler Incaflex Watches (Es says are judged according to age and originality, sincerety and apt ness of thoughts.) No strings at tached - no obligations to buy any thing. So do drop in at Jay's Jew elers in Clinton and Pick up a folder containing the official rules. Also see Jay's Jewelers Special mat elsewhere in this edition. The,Wa1laeewbW Dauce will be held May 1. 1953, at Hussey's Warehouse with selection of Straw berry Queen starting at 9 o'clock; following the selection of Straw berry Queen Bubbles Becker's or chestra will start at lu o'clock wiw outstanding floor show, then danc ine until 2 o'clock.' t ; .' The following schools are repre sented! : - ty-, '. Atkinson High school, Miss Ber that Mae Woodcock. , Garland High School, Miss Mar tha Raye Thorpe. B. F. Grady High School, Miss Norma Smith. Penderlea High School, Miss Shir- ley Ellis. Mt. Olive High School, Miss Shir ley Lewis. Kenansville High School, Miss Mary Lee Rouse. Rose Hill High School, Miss Kit sie Harrell. ?' Magnolia, Miss Barbara Tucker. Chinquapin High School, Miss Auline Brown. c Warsaw High School, Miss Betty Phillips. f- Wallace High School, Miss Grace Annette Boney. Deadline for entrants will be Tuesday, May 5, 1953, at 5 p. m. The Wallace High School Band will play during the crowning of the Queen. ' " Johnson To Speak Burgaw Tomorrow Superintendent O. P. Johnson will be the principal speaker in the Bur gaw Court House tomorrow night when a portrait of T. T. Murphy will be presented the county to be hung in the court room. Mr. Mur phy is concluding 47 years of serv ice as superintendent of schools in Pender County and has been elect ed for another term. He is a na tive of the county and was elected superintendent on completion of school at Oak Ridge Military In- stitute before he was 21 years old. Mr. Johnson will say, in his ad dress that Mr. Murphy has a state record and Is believed a .national record ' for length of service as county school superintendent. Charleton Cox Lodged In Jail Charleton Cox, age 20, is being held , in Jail without privilege of bond, for breaking in Gordon- Ez zell's store Tuesday night at Sum merlin Cross Roads. Deputy Sher iff W. O. Houston Investigated and found that the lock on the door had been broken oft add upon enter ing the store found Charleton ly ing on a bench, apparently asleep. He seemingly had been drinking. -Cox . has previously been In the hands of the law In South Caro lina. He is a native of the Sum merlin Cross Roads Community. '.What Is needed most in the mod ern home Is tha fuii'V: CnouRcdTlisii School days in Duplin will be over after next week and thousands of youngsters will trek to t h e 1 r homes for a summer of work and play. Monday, May 11, will be the final day for all Duplin County Schools. The Times this week is carrying pictures of all graduating classes in the county. They will be found scattered throughout the paper. There are a total of 350 twelfth graders who will receive their di plomas; 265 are graduating from the white schools and 65 from the colored schools. ' Exercises Graduating exercises for the va rious white schools are: Wallace, Monday, May 11, at 8 p. m. Dr. O. T. Binkley of Wake Forest will deliver the address. Forty seniors will receive their di ploma. Mr. E. D. Edgerton is prin cipal. Calypso, Monday, May 11, at 8 p. m. Dr. Leo Jenkins, Dean of East Carolina College, will speak. Twenty-two graduates will get their diplomas. Mr. H. E. Grubbs is principal. Warsaw, 8:15 p. m., Monday, May 11. Dr. Sylvester Green of t h e Medical Foundation of the Univer sity of North Carolina will speak. Twenty-seven seniors will gradu ate. Baccalaureate sermon Sunday night May 10, at 8:15 by Dean Burkharte, of Campbell College. Mr. J. P. Harmon is principal. Faison, Monday, May 11, at 8 p. m, Dr. W. E. Marshall of East Carolina I College will deliver the address and 11 seniors will graduate. Mr. R. A. Gray is principal. B. F. Grady class night Friday evening. May 8, at 8 p. m. Bacca laureate sermon will be delivered Sunday, May 3, at 3 p. m. in the school auditorium by Rev. R. L. Pugh, superintendent of Craven County Schools. Mr. Pugh is a Baptist minister, superintendent of schools, and a 33rd Degree Mason, Shrine lecturer and noted speaker in religious circles. Graduation exercises Monday, May 11, at 8 p. m. Dr. E. L. Kosenatengal, Pro fessor of Education at the Univer sity of North Carolina. Thirty-seven seniors will receive their dl rVVvs and about 80. students will be vkven promotion certificates from eighth grade to high school. Farmers Buy Water Mr. B. W. Scott, owner of Scot ties Swimming Pool, Mt. Olive, N. C, Route 1, sells water to farmers in his community for watering to bacco beds, transplanting tobacco and other uses. He has a large pump and hose which will fill a barrel with water in a few seconds. The wtaer comes from three springs in the pool. The water sells for five cents per barrel and Mr. Scott said he was doing good business. The water in the streams in this community is coming from fields infested with black shank making Shad Season Is Extended A two-weeks extension of the shad fishing season, which was scheduled to end on May 1, has been granted. An appeal was made to the Board of Conservation and De velopment for a 30-day extension, due to the flooded conditions of the streams which made much of the regular season useless, but op position at Smithfield resulted in the two-weeks compromise. A meet ing of the Wild Life Resources the latter part of next week and the 30 day extension may be considered further at that time. Duplin Girls In May Day Activities At E C C Tomorrow Greenville, N. C... April 28, May Day exercises at East Carolina Col lege will include the crowning of a May Queen and the presentation before her and her court of a pag eant based on an international theme. Identity of the May Queen will not be revealed until ceremonies are begun at 5:80 p. m. Friday, May 1, In the college stadium. She will be one of fourteen students chosen n ageneral campus election as mem bers of the May Court Those selected - by their fellow students for this honor are Shirley Council of Wilmington and Shirley Saieed of Greenville, Patsy Smith of Greenville and Wilda D. Lindsay of Clinton, sophomores; Kitty Ger ringer of Draper, .Gale Dorsey of Wilmington, Barbara Moore of Ral eigh, and Lois Simpson of Wilming ton, Juniors: and Peggy Grice of Calypso, An Strole of Chadbourn, Mabel Ann West of Roseboro, Marie S tailings of Louisburg, Nora Ellen Faulkner of Kinston, and Verona Sparrow of Deep Run, seniors. , others who will participate as associates in the May Queen's Court are Janet Klrkland, Durham, and Joan Kelly, Sanford, heralds; Anne Straughan, Slier City, crown bearer; and Betty Talley, Ullington. and Mary Sue Burch, Kenansville, flo wer girls.' :' . " " ."' ' PRICE TEN CENTS Mr. H. M. Wells is principal. Beulaville, Duplin's largest school, will hold its graduation ex ercises on Monday, May 11,' at 8 p. m. Dr. D. Ray Lindley, presi dent of Atlantic Christian College, will deliver the address. Fifty-five seniors will graduate. Mr. Ray Humphrey is principal. Chinquapin, class night Thurs day, May 7, with a program en titled, "Seniorella." Baccalaureate sermon Sunday, May 10, at 3 p. m. by Rev. L. A. Taylor, Executive Secretary of the Wilmington Pres bytery. Graduation exercises Mon day, May 11, at 8 p. m., with Dr. Richard C. Todd, Professor of His tory in the Social Science Depart ment of East Carolina College, de livering the address. Thirty-two seniors will graduate. Mr. R. L. Pruitt is principal. Kenansville, class day exercises Friday night May 8, at 8 p. m. Graduate of the eighth grade will receive the certificates of promo tion to high school. On Sunday morning, May 5, at 11 o'clock Rev. A. D. Wood of Colfax, N. C, former member of the Kenansville school faculty, will deliver the bacca laureate sermon in the high school auditorium. Graduation exercises will be held Sunday night May 10, at 8 p. m. in the school auditor ium. Dr. Charles Carroll, State Superintendent of Public Instruc tion and a native of Warsaw, will deliver the address. Eighteen sen iors will be presented their di plomas. Mr. Z. W. Frazzelle is principal. Rose Hill-Magnolia exercises will begin Sunday, May 3, with the bac calaureate sermon at 8 p. m. de livered by Rev. J. D. Everett, Bap tist minister of Magnolia. Class day exercises will be held Wed nesday evening, May 6, at 8 p. m. Graduating exercises Friday, May 8, at 8 p. m. with Dr. H. Arnold Perry, Professor of Education at the University of North Carolina and member of the Kellogg Foun dation committee, delivering the address. Thirty-three seniors will ' receive their diplomas. The Times has not received all the information from the two Ne gro high schools. Charity will grad uate 44 seniors and Douglass in Warsaw will graduate 41. For Transplanting it dangerous for use in transplant ing tobacco. By purchasing the wa ter from Mr. Scott the farmers are saving labor as well as getting wa ter free of disease. It Is very Im portant that farmers get their wa ter for transplanting tobacco from a source free of disease. One farm er used over $20 worth of water. Mr. Scott has a small pond near the swimming pool in which the surplus water from the pool drains. In this pond he raises minnows and sells them for fishing bait Permits Ready For Combines And Threshers The following letter has been mailed from the office of the Reg ister of Deeds here: Dear Sir: If you own a combine or thres her and plan to operate it this season, will be interested to know that we now have the 1953-54 oper ating permits and record books on hand in the Register of Deeds Of fice. If you operate a combine or thres her only for your own use, your permit is free. If you do com bining or threshing for others, the fee for a permit is fifty cents ($.50). In accordance with the State Act all operators in our County are required to secure an operating permit from the Register of Deeds Office. Penalty for failure to se cure a permit is: Debarment from operating next year, or penalty of $25.00 specified in the Act. The permits are good from April 1, 1953 to April 1st next year. We do not have a complete mail ing list of all operators in our County, so if you happen to know of anyone in your community who owns a combine or thresher, we shall greatly appreciate your send ing us his name and address as we are attempting to compile an up-to-date list of owners. This program is sponsored by the Federal State Crop Reporting Service of the United States and the State Departments of Agric ulture, and it is of great importance to our agricultural program. Tour help in making it a success in our County will be, of immense value. With every good wish, I am '.. Yours very truly, i Mrs. Christine W. Williams Register of Deeds. , County Court County .Court will convene Mon- , day .morning,' May 4, with a two-; day heavy docket facing .Judge Phillips and Solicitor Mercer. A total of ,40 cases have been docket ed for Monday, and 28 cases for Tuesday. -
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