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SUBSCRIPTION BATES: (3.50 per Tear to Duplin Mid adjoining Counties; (4.00 outside this area in N. C.I IS.00 outside N. C. VOL. 21, NO. 41 SECTION 1 KENANSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1954 PRICE TEN CENTS R n '0T rmr 11 EDfIOf.f11 Boy Scouting Is No Joke! The apathy towards Boy Scouting in DuplM 'Coun ,.1y is becoming alarmmg. We are wondering what our I elders are thinking about We read daily atarast, and surely weekly, where youth some places have gone astray. Yes, we say, "it can't happen to my tooy" but letfs not kid ourselves, it can. Have we forgotten the " .marijuana incidents in Duplin not too Itmg ago. I (don't believe anyone questions Iflhe great work of Boy Scouting and records show the Boy Scouts do not indulge in these things nor do they get into many (Other -kinds of trouble. Folks it's time for Duplin people to wake up to their responsibilities to the youth of today and the men of tomorrow. It becomes disheartening when men volun teer their time and services to carry on a program and the people do not back them. Not only the general pub lic, but committee members seem to find excuses not to' attend meetings. It's a bad situation -it's alarming and we may be sorry tomorrow. It's time Duplin should wake up to the real value of Boy Scouting. Scouting is not play, it's serious work with the welfare of our youth at stake. What are we going to do about it? It's up to you. -J. R. (Grady MAaVllN IXFTHEB This is not Sntended as "an adver tisement but a suggestion to every on who nag not seen the picture "Martin Jjtrther" be sure and see it. In our wp'inion it is a great picture and those who do not see it are missing something real in life. It is history, real history of protestanism in this world. It tells how the prot ectant church came into being and is reported to be authentic. If you are not particularly interested In religion or history it is first class entertainment. It will show at Cap ital Theatre here through Saturday nl,'ht. Our Hats Off To The Men Who Dealt With Hazel DUPLIN DESIGNATED Duplin County has been designat ed among the National Emergency counties of Southeastern Carolina ijy the Federal Government.' This means that farmers , who suffered loss from the hurricane 'may secure federal loans, it has been reported. A PRAYER A six year old girl In Kenans ville this week kneeled down to say her prayer. Attempting to impreHS her mother with an original prayer she prayed tbusly: Dear 1ord for give me for my sins today, nd (for give for my sins tomorrow lor 1 know I am going to sin csrcse I can't hear you when ywu tell me not to. A LIGHT ARD KWOTS A six year old boy in the local school a few days ago went to 'buy a drum stick tee cream cone. 3fbt knowing exactly what to ask for said: Gimme one of dem ligHt'ard knots. NATIONAL GUARD The Warsaw National Guard was called out Monday for patrol duty at Long Beach to protect and property looting. . PROGRAM CARRIED . The Nickels, ior Know How,'c-4 tion was carried overwhelmingly' in Duplin as well as state-wiifie in 'the voting last week. ROBERT LONG FMHTOTKU Robert 3. Long, a member -of ' the Photo Lab Staff, was promoted ' to M-Sgt. recently. M-Sgt. 'Long was the only one in the 98th ABG to gain the coveted sixth stripe. Tie is stationed at Ft. Lincoln, Nebraska. He is the nephew of Mrs. G. ' V. Gooding of Kenansville and is mar ried to the former Elose Tege'of Pink Hill. M-Sgt. and Mrs. Long and their two children wre living at Ft. Lincoln, Nebraska. FIRST FROST The first frost c the season was reported in Duplin this week. Same was reported Monday morning ;and a rather heavy frost reportud non Tuesday. FOUND ANT tx4a A. R. Bland of Kenansville ire ports that last week he -was driv ing from Bowden to Kenansville with 3 pieces of 2 x 4s for the Hoos.1 Hurricane Hazel Jias wrought havoc in Duplin and all Southeastern Caro.-na. It is no longer news, in a sense, but because of L.azel there isn't much news left this week. Property has been destroyed, property has been damaged, one life in Dlin has been lost (and we send condolence to the family of Bill Taylor in Warsaw). People have been scaiw and in general the nerves of nearly everyone in .Duplin have been on edge. Thous ands of beautiful trees m the county have beendestroy ed and many lovely gro ves no longer stand. Some trees fell on houses but most homes were fortunate. J It seems 0 the, winds were with.ur,homes. Thepe. Jdfajsji to bacco barn in the county that hasn't been damaged if not destroyed. A few buildings have collapsed, includ ing two tobacco warehouses and one large wholesale house. Roads have been olocked, power lines .and tele phone lines down; radioi..and television sets have been cut off and many homeij.for a couple of days or more had no heat, light nor jnans of cooking, but with it all Duplin can be thankful. Suppose it had come, a few weeks earlier when all tobacco barns were at high-heat, or even a little earlier when all the good tobacco was standing in the field? Suppose Duplin had been on the ocean front as was Wrightsville, Carolina, Topsail, Morehead and other coastal towns? Yes, we are .to be thankful. In musing, I cannot overlook the heroic men of the m Carolina Power and Ldht. .the Tn-Uounty and U our- ounty REA, The Carolina .Telephone and Telegraph ..Company, who at the outset of Hazel braved the dang ers to keep service going and to restore it as soon as passible. Especially the Power Company men who pul-j , ied the switches as power lines fell, who faced the wind .and rain, the elements in all their fury, to see that no ,one was killed from fallen live wires. They then worked .day and night, 24 and 48 hours in a stretch without Presbyterian church. Near i-uiforWs - A . ' l i. T , V, , V, J Garage the 2 x 4s, 18 feet long KI1 J&Lctrp IU give us uauv uujl scjl viv-c ii naa uic ium mi. - line, the employees;-not theif f icials who braved Ihese .dangers and our hats are off Jto them. The destruction was so severe that hundreds ,of .homes still do not have power and telephones and .nat urally each home thinks there is no reason why it shouldn't have service when others do. But let's recoemn her these men are only human and .are going like wdld- iire even now to get complete restoration of service, JDuplin is lucky that no on was killed from falling elec tric wires and that we had no fires as a result of electric lines. So those of us who have not received complete service, power and lelephone, lef s ttry and be patient , and not criticise too much, for after all, it could have been worse and these fellows who climb the poles and handle hot Wires are doing everything possible. , And let's not forget our highway patrolmen and : town officers who literally threw caution to the wind ,or shall I say Hazel who braved the best and the worst of it patrolling the streets arid highways on the ?' lookout for wrecks and possibly injured people and di ' recting traffic to safety. They held the watch and did their duty like infantrymen on the front line. The State -w highway men who - went to work when the- first tree V, I blocked a road or street and even in the worst of it were sawing, pulling and dragging limbs and tree trunks from the highways so that must traffic could pass. As soon , as Hazel "passed they swarmed like bees in lightning ; speed all over the county to clear highways temporarily to let traffic by and for days; maybe weeks to come, (he t; , highwaymen,' me4ithe tanks, ;;;l;1'cleiilnrut' highways ana Dnnging jnem pacierto; mrcy. ej. .; Also in every town with a fire department the fire . men donned their coats and hats and patrolled the towns '.' on the lookout for fires, aiding in clearing streets, -car ; , rying elderly people to safe places and in general look L'lV" off si V V ft i f Mt-- 1 st f til " t i nOW HAZEL TREATED MILFOKD QUTNN. Above you see the remains of Quinn Wholesale Company in Warsaw. Hurricane Hazel literally destroyed most of the building, exposing thousands of dollars worth of merchandise to the weather. It is reported Mr. Qulnn's total loss, including building, one huge van truck, merchandise and damage to another truck, ran over $200,000. He says he plans to tear .down the remainder of the building and build new from scratch. Photo by Bob Grady. off the trailer and he waa lundUle to load them alone. He poshed thomi to the side of the road and came to1 town for help. When he retnrne&i they were gone. Whoever got them are reminded that they were churdh( property and if they can keep them (Continued On Back Pace) with a clear conscious they are wel , gntrirV-"" - r-'"-! ' FLORENCE ROCHELLE A native of Brooklyn, New York, Miss Florence Rochelle, will sing the soprano role of Gretel in Grass Roots Opera's forthcoming produc tion of Hansel and Gretel which will be given at Wallace High School Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 27th, at 1:15, at Kenansville High School Auditorium on Wednesday night, Oct. 27th, at 8:00 and at B. F. Grady School, Thursday after noon at 1:15, Oct 28. Miss Rochelle's experience has been varied, having studied and sung in "Mogarteum" productions in Salzburg, with Josef Witt in Vienna and with Otto Ehr hardt in New York City. In Salz burg she sang the roles of Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte (Grass Roots Op era's School For Lovers), Susanna in The Marriage Of Figaro and Zer lina in Don Giovanni. She has had network television experience and has performed concerts in and a round New York. The coming performances of Han sel and Gretel will be sponsored by Duplin County Unit Of N. C. E. A. and will be sung in English, it was announced by Mrs. C. H. Pope, pre sident. Tickets may, be obtained at all schools and the Duplin County Board 4k fMtoeaflbrt'TJmce. Matinee tickets 50c for both chil dren and adults. Night: Children 60c and adults $1.00 Ready money is seldom ready when one needs to borrow some. The Grass Roots Opera, well known throughout North Carolina comes to Duplin again this year lor the fourth consecutive year playing Hansel and Gretel. It will show in Duplin next week, October 2T and 28. On Wednesday, October 27th.it will matinee in the Wallace High School auditorium. The evening per formance will be in the Kenansville High School auditorium. On Thurs day, October 28th one afternoon per formance at the B. F. Grady high school. The opera Hansel and Gretel was first produced at Weimar, Ger many on December 23, 1893 and In New York on October 8, 1895". Be cause of the freshness of the story and the lovely melodies it was wel comed by audiences everywhere. The story of Hansel and Gretel is: founded on one of Grimm's Fairy; Tales of the same name, but Hump erdinck's sister, who wrote the story of the opera, changed several' things in the original story. For instance, in Grimm's story, the Mother is mean and deliberately takes the children into the woods, intending: to lose them. In the opera the Moth er loves the children, who get lost themselves in the deep forest. Many of the melodies in Hansl and Gretel! are familiar to everyone, having been heard from earliest childhood. Some of these are based on Ger man folk tunes. The Telephone The organization sponsoring Grass Roots Opera in Kenansville on Oct. 27 announced today that the amus ing American opera, The Telephone by Gian-Carlo Menotti will be giv en at the night performance only, in addition to Hansel and Gretel. This short work concerns the prob lem of a young man who wants to propose to his girl friend and is un able to pop the question because of the incessant ringing of the tele phone. He must meet a train sched ule and is forced to leave her apart ment while she is- in the midst o one of her lengthy conversations, with a girl friend. The young: main is required to adopt a rather novel procedure in order to get his query across to her. Hansel and Gretel will be pre sented in a matinee performance before the school students. Tickets may be obtained at all schools and the Duplin County Board of Education Offiee. EMERGENCY POWER GENERATOR of the Duplin General Hospital which provided water for the Town of Kenansville 'dunug httrrlcaae HaseL Last Friday about noon the water supply here legan running low due to lact f current. About anloVaXtenioon Kenans-ville spigots were dry. The loca fir? department, to gether with local mechanics weart to the hospital and ustcrated the emergency generator of the Umplin 'Gen eral Hospital, shown .above, set St mp and started It running. By 7:30 Kenansville had ample water, thanks to the generator and fire department. This proved a good test as to what wfll happen (he hospital to case of lights or water failure. The InspitaJ will be able to supply Its owil Photo by Bob fikrady. A Round-Up Of Hazel And Her Fury Last Friday About Duplin County (Conttnaed On Back Page) & C THOMPSON, JR, son of Mr. and Mr. K. C Thompss, of War saw ha recently been promoted front Private ( Corporal at River side Military Academy , whara hm la. a student, flo , la m post graduate student at Vvaonool. U Thompson la tasking an otatand- la : player the football team coring two touehdowns la the Bin Ridga - BlTcraUa , game Friday night Ho also soored tm toaeh. otewna ta a reoeut game. Thompson plays right ha hack. By I. r. GRAarr Kenansville A midweek roundup of hurricane damage through Dup lin County shows that the Duplin farmer has been the tracie loser. Practically 100 percent of tobacco barns in the county were damaged. damage extending from complete loss to lost foundations. Pack houses have been strewn across rural roads and fields. Winds estimated at 80 miles per jThour first swept through Kenans jwille, the county seat Friday, knock ing out an power. Town-water was off at noon. With the first blow all local streets were blocked by fallen trees. Electric power went off at 7 a. m. The Oliver Stokes home was dam aged by a falling tree; the roof of the Service Motor Co. was ripped away; plate glass windows through the flown were blown out, shatter ing glass from the C. E. Quinn Co, cutting Mr. C. E. Quinn, former state representative. The local fire department, High way Patrolman C. C. Hester and many volunteers began work of clearing debris before the first blow had abated. Trees blocked highway 24 in front of the old Ken an home. Within 45 minutes the workmen had cleared the highway for traffic. At 1 p. m, in the midst of the second blow, another tree fell in the same place, but was im mediately removed. ' The new county hospital, nearing completion, suffered only one plate glass window . and frame blows out.The firemen and volunteers un- erated an : emergency generator stored at the:bospitai for future Tise and provided emergency' water sup ply until -the regular iupply could be restored at 7:30 fi. m. The county seat was without wattr supply for only three "and one-half hours. At Warsaw, the death of Bill Taylor, 8)4 saddened the commun ity. Mr.iTa'ylor was Brushed fatally when the Hussey Tobacco Ware house at Wallace collapsed. All per- sodbbI lhad been cleared out of the warehouse in anticipation of the cave-in, but Mr. Taylor was injured when be returned inside the build ing in bjx attempt to remove his au tomobile. Daaaage in buildings and merchan dise has .been estimated at $200,000 at Warsaw. The Quinn Wholesale Co. banMinjt was vertually demol ished. The football stadium is t complete loss. A Negno home was literally jack ed up wben the root of a falling tree at Che slide of the house pried it off its foundations. Wallace was the hardest hit of the Duplin towns. Hussey Ware house No. 1 and Blanchard and Far- rior Warehouses -were leveled. Es timate of danctage at Wallace has been placed art $25. 000. The Ma sonic Lodge bttUding. majority of the homes and business establish ments were dam-aged 'by trees, wind, flying glass and limbs.. At Faison, the buildings of the Falson Auction Market were lev eled. Roof of the Cates Fickle Plant was partially blown away. At Pink Hill winds tore away the roofs of the C & M Cash Store and (Ontinaed On Baek Page) RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL Friends of Mrs. Louise C. Bullock of Mt Olive will be glad to know that she has returned from N. C. Sanatorium at McCain where she hat been receiving treatment for suspected tuberculosis since June. -Mrs. Bullock will be remembered in Kenansville as medical director of the State Blind Commission and hat work with the Duplin, Health Department In holding many suc cessful eye (dmics-bare. White lies often have to be whitewashed 'to prevent them from turning black. . . ,-r i '. ; MISS JOANNE FLOWERS, daugb. ter of Rev. and Mrs. Norman H. Flowers of Warsaw has been elect ed Southeastern District President of the N. C. Federation of Music Clubs. Kenansville Is Scene Of Third District Rally; Congressman Barden Praised By RUTH P. GRADY Yesterday, Kenansville was the scene of much activity when about 250 Democrats of the Third Con gressional District gathered to ral ly to the support of the democrats for the oncoming primary on No vember 2. F. W. McGowen, Duplin County Chairman, called the meet ing to order and Vance B. Gavin, county attorney expressed a wel come to the crowd, after which John D. Larkins, State Chairman of the Democratic committee, took ov er and carried the meeting at full speed. Delegates from Carteret, Craven, Onslow, Pender, Sampson, Wayne, Jones, and Duplin counties were recognized. Only Pamlico County failed to send a representative. Mary L. Richardson, vice-chairman of the state committee, gave a few remarks urging women to take a more active part in politics. Y. D. C. president, John R, Jordan, Jr. praised John Larkins for his help to the Y. D. C. Those on the lific enough to show the high es teem in which he was held by the state officials and all members present Barden is one of the na tion's outstanding congressmen. Congressman Barden thanked the third District for the many favors they had shown him and pledged his continued support Mr. Barden stated, "The past year has been the worst and the hardest year to serve. It is awfully difficult to cooperate with those with whom you are try ing to cooperate when they do not know what they want to do. There is a state of confusion among the Republican leaders. Even though they claim to have cut expenses in some places they have expanded in others. This Congress should be In the hands of the Democratic party,, the ones who have it now do not know how to run the Government" Junior Senator Sam J, Ervin said "being a Republican in North Car olina is like working for your board and losing your appetite"' This was Senator Ervin's first trip Democratic Caravan who were pre-1 to Duplin County. His few words were Dotn witty and at the same time full of praise for Cong. Bard en and the state of North Carolina as a whole. -ep Congressman Barden introduced members of his staff: L. K. Alder man, secretary, Janet Boney, assist ant Secretary and Fred Hussey, clerk of the Board. sent were recognized: Secretary of State, Thad Eure; Lt Gov. Luther Hodges; Edwin Gill, State Treas urer; Charles Gold, commissioner of Insurance; commissioner of La bor, Frank Crane; State Auditor, Henry Bridgers; Candidate U. S. Senate, W. Kerr Scout; U. S. Sen ator, Alton A. Lennon; Sam J. Er vin, Junior Senator of U. S .; and Woodrow Price and Kit Brewer, news reporters. All of the speakers praised Cong. Graham A. (HaD) Barden for his splendid work in Washington. Words were not pro- becue dinner. F. W. McGowen, secretary of the Duplin County Democratic com mittee, invited everyone to go to the Masonic Lodge building for a bar- Homecoming At New Hope Quite a number of members, for mer members, and visitors attend ed Homecoming held at New Hope Church Sunday, October 10. Rev. Paul Mull was id charge Of morning services and Ralph Carlton conduct ed the program for the evening. W. E. Taylor of Warsaw Hurricane Victim Funeral Sunday UTMII. M . . William EBborn Taylor. 64. mer. chant and tobacconist ol Warsaw, died Friday afternoon, October 15th in Sampson Memorial Hospital at Clinton of injuries sustained when the Hussey Tobacco Warehouse of Wallace was blown down during the nign winas of Hurricane 'Hazel a short Ume earlier. .. He was a Shriner. veteran of World War One, and an active mem. fee of the .local Methodist Church. " Funeral aarvicea were held Sun day afternoon at 9 o'clock from the Warsaw Methodlat ChimO v h. Pity the fellow who is Hong on Rev. C. VL HIrschl5 castai: haaiktM dollars and short on common sense. by the Rev. It L. Crosano of Dur- Glve the man who offers you something for nothing a wide berth. Things are bound to come to the man who advertises while he waits. ham, a former pastor." Burial was in r-mecresi cemetery with Masonic rites. He is survived by his-wife, thf former Eunice West, one son, Wil. liam J. Taylor and two granlsonc all of Warsaw; three sisters, Mrr -t Leon CahiU of WinstonSalem. Mrs Frank Towns of Rocky Mount. Va , Mrs. C. F. King of Stoneville, Va. seven brothers, JC B. Taylor ef Wll- ' llamston. Dr. L.. A. Taylor and M aV a Taylor of Winston-Salem: MaM- s ' on Taylor of Rcidsviife n u i ' , - ter and Jesir ville, Va A fi ' 1 A ' 1 v 3i. ill! ,-ar.f'
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