v :;J''k: 11' v ' v. ' v This week-end is Labor Day holidays. Monday is Labor Day and most places of business will be closed. It is predicted that 400 people will, be killed. Take it easy and save, a lif e. - Best thing is to stay home. v The Duplin Board of Commissioners -will not 'meet Monday but will hold their regular monthly meeting Wednesday, September 7th.- JRG. i ; ; HE DIED ON, THE COURT HOUSE SQUARE Monday I just had a visitor. A man .was dead. He was black, but he could have been 'white. He died ' on the steps of the court house in Kenansville. The reasons, I am told, is that he was here in court regarding a case in which $25 had been stolen from him. Did this $25 take his life? Maybe his time had come but maybe this stealing cost his life. What is the answer? J.R.G. I LEAF ACREAGE CUT ASKED FOR BY J. R. GRADY Jonathan Daniels has done a favor to the tobacco farmers in North Carolina. He has called on Benson to cut allotments. ' He showed the "guts" to ask for it. Sometimes it's hard to buck a Federal official but when the time comes the "press" must speak. Here is the story as appeared in the N & O and we compliment Jonathan: "The News and Observer yesterday called on Agri culture Secretary Ezra Taf t Benson to announce immed iately that he will take steps designed to reduce flue cured tobacco allotments for next year by more than 12 per cent. Jonathan Daniels, editor of The News and Observ er, sent a telegram to Benson asking him to make such an announcement. , ',, "In view of declining tobacco! prices on auction markets and fact Flue-Cured Stabilization Corporation is forced to take upwards of many cases, it appears a larger cut ihan 12 per cent of grower quotas is needed for next year," Daniels wired. "Increased tobacco stocks on hand by domestic companies and Stabilization are having a depressing effect on auction markets. Much dissatisfaction among farmers. , , ... . Announcement on your part that action win be 'taken to further reduce quotas in 1956 would undoubt edly have great effect on market this year. "Representative Cooley has said he will introduce necessary legislation if you request it. "Would appreciate immediate statement of your views in' this matter and whether you will seek such legislation." Daniels concluded. From Greensboro, R. Flake Shaw, executive vice i j j. i Ai t JL -i i"- -n t president of the North Carolina Farm . Bureau, com-1 mented that 'it looks like the Secretary will have to take i , i :a..j.:J a new iuuk. at, uie luoaccu siiuauuu umess i-uiiuiuuiis improve." "We must get the quota brdught into line with the disappearance of tobacco," he added. Shaw said, however that "we still have some time I yet." ' ,iw-iuw.tjSU.iiS3rifcr He said the Farm Bureau is "getting all kinds of calls and letters" from farmers about the situation.. "Vfe're fully aware of the facts and are keeping in close touch with conditions, he ISl 1 . . bnaw saia a meeung oi states would be heldin Raleigh in the near future to dis cuss factors affecting the tobacco program. He said the session probably would pot be held "until additional markets open and the situation firms up." "We need a better export market program for to bacco one that is more adaptable to curren condi tions," the Farm Bureau official said. "Competition from the t est of the world is getting stronger every" year, and we need to take full advantage of everything i we've got." 'i- ' ; X1. ... TW IT'S FUNNY Life is a funny game. You nfcver give anything. You only donate your thoughts. J.R.G. at- SEGREGATION f - 'BY J. It. uKAUI Duplin County is proud of the attitude of our Negro race in the segregation issue. Duplin has taken a leading start in providing better schools for our Negroes We ( i- mnct or 'irvmnitv Vlf mir aSDPCt in North nave uuuiyi r - - - Carolina. We like our Negroes. But we do not beMvfe ' in integration at present and we do, not. believ ur Negroes want it either. We want, and we balfcve. they want to see them build up their race, Just as tile whites have done, and to do that they; must do it themselves, with bur cooperation: The Governor has called for a voluntary cooperation and we believe the Negroes and "Whites of Duplin wiU cooperate. "The County has given -to the Negrtes- in "recent years a better school system and plants thaii they have given to the whites, and, the reason for this is that the officials, lelt that the Negroes were entitled to it. JVe are for the delinquent race but it will ' take ttime to get it worked out You cannot force an issue but through friendly understanding you can work out an issue if you willfce patient. :. Time has 50 per cent of offerings in, said , , 1 ' 11 1 uue-uuieu icaueia uuui an " IN OUR SjCHdOLS James Malpass Suicide; Victim Coroner Rules James Frank "Jim" Malpass, 48, of near Mount Olive was found dead in his car. near Mount Olive early Sunday morning. Coroner Garland Kennedy of Wallace ruled suicide ' after. . . viewing the death scene. ,' V Death was attributed to carbon monoxide poisoning. A hose had been run from the car's exhaust pipe m.o a side window of the machine. The car . was still run ning when the body was found by Allen King and Alton Malpass, the latter a brother. He left no suicide note. car was heard in the neigh borhood about 6:30. He was found uead at 8 and time of death was fixed at about an hour earlier. Mr. Malpass hud been in ill health for some time. Dr. Crumpler of Mount Olive told Kennedy that Malpass had been to see him two or three times on Saturda-v night He suffered from arthritis, gout and cancer. Kennedy ruled that no injuest would be necessary. Malpass was a tenant on the farm of C. C. Price and lived in Mount Olive. Dea'h took place in the back yard of the abandoned tenant house on Price's place. Surviving are his wife, the form er Mabel Holloman of Mount Olive; two daughters, Sybil and Sophia of the home; his mother, Mrs. Alice Malpass of near Mount Olive; four brothers, George of Goldsboro, Alex of Kinston, Alton and Maxton of pear Mount Olive; four sisters. Mrs. Roy Mozingo of Goldsboro, and Mrs. Fred Bradshaw, Mrs. Ceba Jackson find Mrs. Andrew Holloman, all of Mount Olive. Funeral services were to be held from the home Monday with the Rev. R. C. Joyner, pastor of Salem Advent Christian Church, of wnicn he was a member, officiating, as sisted by the Rev. George Lne of Mount Olive. Burial was in Wayne Memorial Park on Highway 117. Malpass was a merchant and oil dealer until hj health failed. For the -past two years he had been farming,. Dr. Bradley To Speak ; To; Baptists In Warsaw On Tuesday night, September 6 at 7:30 in the Warsaw Baptist church, Dr. Earl Bradley, Secre tary of ... Promotion of the North Carolina Bap'ist Convention will speak to the leaders of the forty churches of the Eastern Baptist As- sociation. He will speak on the Co- operative and Advance Program the convention, it is important that all leaders be present. Many North Carolina Farmers Will Find More Money From Gl Training Many of North Carolina's 3.000 veterans taking Korean GI Bill farm training will find more mon ey in the GI. pay envelope they will receive in November .under a new law signed this monli by the President, according to Walter J. , 1 1-1 1 gharri. n COCI1HC1U, UlllCCr 111 V ...C Goldsboro VA Office, Sochacki said the increased al lowance checks will cover training taken in October, the montk the new law goes in effect. Veterans need not write to thi Veterans Administration for their increases; they will be made au tomatically, ' Sochacki said. The new act, Public Law 280, pro vides that Korean GI farm train ees will receive the full rate of GI allowances lor their first year of training. Af cer that, the allowances will be reduced, every four months. Previously, fartn trainees receiy ed the full rate Only for the first four months, after ' Which the amounts Were reduced at four month., intervals. Top rates tor GI farm trainee's are $99 t month with no dependents'; $110 with one dependent, find $Y30 wt;h more than one.'depenAeVA. Veteran. ; farmers wh& will re-' ceive Increases In th 'che they get in November are those whose monthly training Oay already had been reduced, wfder the old sys tem.' Sochacki $Srther said that veter ans getking the full rate of GI al fowtAOe t the time the law goes in effect, as well as those who (tart their GI training in the future, also -will benefit from the new law, in the months ahead because they will1 receive the top- allowance rate tor their first year in training, ra ther than tor merely their first four months. After the first year, the monthly amount will drop at four-month in tervals, as (they progress in their Bumper Crop Of Cabies v During the month of August, D C. F.i Hawes reports that, thirty babies were delivered at his clinic in Rose JUIL' ' ' Beginning with the Issue of Sep tember a we will carry a complete list of recorded birth from the IHawea Clinic. , ' " BURNING MONEY No one would stick a match to a $1,000 bill, but yet, when tobacco barns burn more than that Is lost Negligence is attribu.ed as the main cause in most instances. Some of the fires can be prevented according to experiments over the years. (Pho.o by Paul Barwick.) Tobacco Barn Fires Numerous During Past Curing Season; Why Not Prevent? BY PAUL, BARWICK Thousands of dollars have gone up in smoke this year as a result of tobacco barn fires. Each year numerous tobacco barn fires are reported throughout the flue-cured tobacco belt but because of a bumper crop of The Golden Weed, it seems that there have been more than the usual number of to bacco barns lost by fire. Along with barns have gone to bacco and burners, running the loss upward and upward. Down through the years, this has been one of.tha 4nersmain. pre blems during tobacco curing times. On farms which have small acreag es, often the loss of one barn, the burners and tobacco in it, means the loss of all the profit. How ever, on larger farms, it only takes a cut out of what-would-be the net profit. State College has recognized this problem for several years. A pro. gram designed to educate the farm er and tenant in regards to tobacco barn fires has been launched. It has been recommended that all burners be thoroughly checked af ter each curing before fire is put training. At the end of June, nearly 35,- OOOKorean veterans were enrolled nation-wide in VA's institutional on farm training program. Only one Regional Office in the nation, Chi cago, administers a larger farm pro gram lor K-orean uu tnan tne Winston-Salem office, according to Sochacki's announcement. Rev, Caviness Is Christian School Director, Warsaw Ihe BeV W. D. Caviness of Wal lace, will be Director of the ChrUt-' ian Workers School to be held in the Warsaw .Methodist Church the first week in October. Thi school ils-for all Metbyodist Sunday School Workers. Courses .UrUl be offered in Childrens' Work. Youth Work and Adult Work. A Class on Meth odist Beliefs will also be held. 4 .very able faculty has been secur ed. The charges that will be rep resented ia this school are! Dunlin. Rev. Graham Nickeas; Pink Hill, Rev. Robert Regan; Tat soa, Rev. Harold t. Minor; Warsaw, Rev. vey T. Poole; Rose Hill, Bev. c m. vaie; wauace, ml, " . v. CsTlnees. - . f 1 'iM, i . v f. i.i -M , 1 r v - i t " ii into them again. Often cleaning a burner will mean the difference be. tween cured tobacco, smoked tobac. co or a tobacco barn burned to the ground. It has also been suggested that stretching ordinary chicken wire just under the tobacco and over the burners will eliminate tobacco fires. This prevents tobacco leaves and broken sticks of tobacco from falling directly on burners, pre venting fire. In Eastern North Carolina, lar.ge and small town fire departments ar equiped,. tA.AOSwer. calls to .ru ral fires. This has saved many a tobacco barn this year. There is no hope of saving a tobacco barn once' It is afire, but the firemen usually ar rive in time to prevent a nearby barn from catching fire. It has also been suggested that By not constructing a tobacco barn near another tobacco barn will cut down on the tobacco barn mortality. Now is the time to begin plan ning and thinking about prevent ing tobacco barn fires next year. $1,500 to $2,090 losage is not to be taken lightly. Duplin Citizens Called Upon To Contribute Money To The Red Cross Duplin County Chapter of the American Red Cross has sailed en us to provide $500 for relief in s disaster area In the New Eaglaad States. MM. N. B. Boney, executive sec retary of the Duplin Chapter, say; only $20 has been received to date. "We hope every civic minded citi zen in Duplin Ceanty will contri bute to this worthy cause," she Bald. . In a telegram' te Mr. Harry Kram er, chairman ef the County Chap ter, E, Roland Harriman said, "Needs eentinue te grow in the disaster affected areas. Estimated number of families looking to the Red Cress for assistance exceeds 10,000 sad continues to mount This will resuire funds la excess of 8,- 00,000. Your chapter has been assigned a rock bottom quota of $500 and expect you will make every effort to have it substantially oversubscribed." Contest Winner John M. Edwards of Kenansvile won the Sealy Posturepedic Mat tress Contest and received a Sealy Posturpedic mattress given by Holt Simmons Ca. Wreck Injures Cherry Point Marine " Pfe. Raymond Badger, a Marine from Cherry : Point, suffered both bones of his left leg broken as. the result of the overturning of the car )n which he was riding, The name of the driver la unknown- ' ; Badger was brought to 'Duplin General Hospital, by the- Kenans ville Ambulance, and -was given first aid by Dr. R. Ti Willis. He was immediately transferred to the base hospital at Cherry Point The aature and details of the wreck have not been learned but it is thouglH that the' wreck was caused by excess speed. -.' B. F.Grady HD Club Has Annual Homecoming '.' The B. F. Grady Home Demon stration Club held its annual family picnic wi h an "Old Fashioned Chicken Fry" Saturday afternoon August 27th. It was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Ivey Smith with "John Ivey" frying the chicken his own special way. Sandwiches, po tato salad, cake and iced tea were enjoyed also. Thirty-five people attended Announce Births From Duplin Co. General Hospital Several bir.hs have been record ed recently at the Duplin General H-iital. ' Mr. and Mrs. William Lowe, of Wumaw, announce the birth of a son, August 31. Mrs. Lowe is the former Dora Frances Smith. Mr and Mrs. Joseph Carlton, of Warsaw, announce the birth of a daughter, August 30. Mrs. Carlton is the former Versell Lamb. Mr. and Mrs. M. H Parker of Wallace, announce the binh of a son, August 27. Mrs. Parker is the former Susan Norris. Mr and Mrs. Samuel W. Miller of Beulaville, announce the birth of a son, August 25. Mrs. Miller is the former Esther Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Rouert D. Hooks, of Rose Hill, Route 2, announce the birth of a daughter, August 26. Mrs. Hooks is the former Lilhe Wells. Mr and Mrs. James McDuffie, Jr., of Warsaw, .announce the birth of a daughter, August 25. Mrs. McDuffie is the furnier Dorothy Boykin. Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette H. Fred erick, of Kenansville, announce the birth of a son, August 22. Mrs. Frederick is the former Mary Ag nes Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Hand, of Bqwden, announce the birth of a daughter, August 22. Mrs. Hand is the former Es;her London. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Middleton, of Warsaw, announce, the birth "of a daughter, August It. Mrs. Middle ton Is the former Jolynn Bowden. Mr. and Mrs.' Wayne Kenan, of Kenansville, announce the birth of a daughter, August 19. Mrs. Ke nan is the former TheMma Souther land. Turkey Supper Is Sponsored By Kenansville Church The Kenansville Baptist Church members have planned a supper to be served on Friday night Sep tember 9 at the Kenansville School lunch room. The feHowship en joyed last year was so heart warm ing the membeis felt tney must do it again. Supper will be servac .rom 5 p.m. un'il A Turkey olate will be ser 'erV Tickets will be on sale by members of the church and at Ken ansville Drug Co. The charges will be $1.00 adult and 50c for children under twelve. Raleigh Sholar Being Held For Hit-And-Run Raleigh Sholar, 48, of Beulaville was being held without bond today pending an inquest Thursday into the circumstances surrounding the death of Bdna Aslene Davis, Ne gro, 20, Beulaville. Coroner Garland Kennedy inves tigated and said the following story had been given him by witnesses: The Davis woman had been on the west side of N. C. 11 in south Bs-ulavllle about four blocks from the N. C. 24 junction and had crossed to the east side. , She was standing about fcot or more on the shoulder of The pav ed road when as auto diivci. uy Sholar approached at a rapid rate of speed. His vehicle hit her and sideswiped the truck, knocking ner about 99 feet from where, she stood. Sholar proceeded to his home about ten blocks away without stop ping and went to bed. Witnesses recognized his car and Highway Patrol officers, arrested him ac his home a few minutes later as ten sion mounted in south BeulaViK He allegedly was alone and intoxi cated when arrested. They took him to the Kenansville jail after Sher iff Ralph Miller promised "we can take care of any situation that may arise." Sholar, - ' jwno numbered among his friends , several of the witnesses, was blamed for "Just not Stopping. Sholar said, when arrested, that "he thought he hit something but he didn't know what." ' An attorney was seeking to make bond for him today. Two Duplin Negroes Jailed After Hitting Young Boy And bumping Him For Dead Two drunk Negroes are in jail from the center line over to the awaiting Superior Court trial, pos- . shoulder and left sibly this week, after committing one of the most inhuman crimes I heard of in these parts in a long I time. I After running into the rear of a newspaper carrier boy on a scoot I er they picked him up, carried him I over eight miles, dumped his ap parently lifeless body in the yard of an old burnt house on a country road after taking his money and left him. Deputy Norwood Boone accident ally happened to run across the car before the body was even found. He gives the following account of the affair: About 7:30 oclock Leon Rawls. 16-vear-oId son of Marvin Rawls of Willard, News and Observer paper carrier was returning from Rose Hill on his motor scooter. About 200 yards nor.h of Teachey he was s; ruck from behind by a 1940 or 1941 Plymouth operated by Hay- ridH Svlrpo Mporn nf npqr Chur- ' ity. Sykes had a passenger in the car, identified as Johnny Moore, i The latter alleges he was picked ; up by Svkes hitchhiking in Mag- nolia. He lives four miles north I west of Magnolia. Both were in toxicated. I The white boy was knocked off on the highway's shoulder when struck. Moore said they picked him up, pulled the motor scooter Masonic District Meet To Be Held At Kenansville The forty seventh Masonic Dis trict Meeting will be held at St. Johns Lodge No. 13, Kenansville, on Thursday, September 8 h, 1955. The afternoon session will begin at 3:00 o'clock. Supper will be serv ed by the host lodge at 6:45. The lodge will open at 8:00 p.m. at which time the Grand Master of Masons in N.C., Most Worshipful Charles H .Pugh of Gastonia, N. C, will deliver the evening address. The District Deputy Grand Mast er, Quincy J. Sutton, Sr., urges the officers of all the lodges in Duplin County to attend the afternoon ses sion. All master Masons are cordially invited to attend both afternoon and night sessions. Notice An important meeting of the War saw Ground Observer Corps has been called for Monday night, Sep tember 5, at the Warsaw High School 7:30 p.m. It has been an nounced by Bill Boyette, Chief Ob server. All ground observers and other interested persons are invited te be present at which time report ing procedures will be explained and Identification cards presented. This will be a prelude to a three day watch beginning Tuesday morning and everyone is especially nrged to take part in this under taking. Jurors For Duplin Term Of Civil Court September 5 Hie following is a list of jurors for the Duplin County term of Civil Court, beginning September 5, 1955. Carl MiHer, Clifton Stroud, C. D. Fussell, E. L. Register, Noah Dail, Perry Smith, Alton Sanderson, George C. Kennedy, H. R. Harper, L. M. Sandesson, Jr., Colon F. Tho mas, If. B. Best, Thurman Haywood pEtnholnr Rndnlnh Sanderson .R. C. Cavenaugh, A. R. Teachey, Frankie Bell, David H. Wells, James S. Wells, Alvin Smith, A. L. Batts, Hampton Baker, W. J. Mercer, Jo seph A. Sutton. Kenansville Baptist Plan Homecoming For September 18 The members of the Kenansville Baptist Church are planning a home coming for third Sunday September 18, 1955. Further plans will be announced next week. All former members and friends are urged to begin to make their plans to attend. Beulaville Tax Rate Is Reduced At a recent meeting of the Besu-d ef Comsuisslonera of BeukvrUto, H was decided that with the extend ing ef the city Umlta and bringing In new taxable prerierty the tax seta would be reduced from il.M te SIJU an the hundred-dollar valuatten. . The dJeoount had penalty as stem wiK be the same this year as It has been for the peat two years. . . He alleges that he requested Sy kes to take the boy to a doctor or hospi.al. When he refused he said he offered to pay for the expenses if he would. Instead, Sykes drove up the Hubert Boney road and on up N. C, 11 to Register where they turned off on an unpaved county , road. They stopped at an old burnt house 8.1 miles from the accident i when the boy lapsed into uncon. 'fciousness and he was left for dead in the yard of the abandoned house, i Wallace Police Chief Earl Whita ker contacted Norwood Boone about 9 o'clock and told him there was an accident reported at Teachey but that people had checked with all the doctors and hospitals around to see how the boy was getting along and could find no doctor or hospital that had treated anyone. Boone and Wallace Policeman Floyd Murray drove up to Charity and on up N. C. 11 toward Ken. I ansville. A witness to the tragedy i had said the Negroes drove off he ! thought to take the injured man to a hosnital in a 40 or 41 model Ply mouth. The officers found no trace of the car and turned around and were coming back down N. C. 11 when they spotted the car, the imprint of the scooter was on the grill and wet blood on the rear seat. It now contained Sykes and four other Negroes. He steadfastly denied any knowledge for about fifteen minutes Finally he broke down and confessed and led them to where the boy lay in the yard. Boone picked up the boy from the hot Saturday morning at 11 o'clock, raaioed ahead on his po lice radio to Kenansville where preparations were made for the youth's arrival at the hospi:al. He drove the eight miles in slightly less, than five minutes, reaching speeds Of 110. Sykes was jailed and Moore ev entually picked up and jailed also. They may be tried at the term of Superior Court commenciag thi week but will probably be held for trial at the next session in October. A whole host of Charges have been placed, including kidnapping, high way robbery, drunken driving, careless and reckless driving and hit and run, as well as others. Some are felony offenses . but none are capital offenses. Deputy Boone saxu mat he has secured a previous conviction for. Sykes -on highway robbery charges. Rawls condition upon arrival at Duplin General Hospi.al was re portedly serious but not critical. He was removed to Duke University Hospital about midnight Saturday night where he is reported to be still in serious condition. Another five minutes without medical atten tion may have caused his death, it is thought, due to the extensive head injuries he sustained and the hot pre-noon sun. Hi iiimh.i .1 i i .i"iil.nijrl.,piiiw .'.A ' , Allen Draughoh Associated With Warsaw Agency ALLEN DRAUGHON: JH. is now connected with the Aubrey Cave naugh Agency, General' Insurance, Warsaw, N. C. firm. He was born in Warsaw and at tended Warsaw High bchool. Ai terwi"ds. p rn1-' ' - "-pc- byteriaa College ih the Spring of 1949 after a es.r Oi ci.-.fe. 'ui Wake Forest College and two years in the U. S. Navy. He was Coach and Teacher in the Warsaw Public School for four years, from 1948 to 1853. Draughon left Warsaw in 1953 to aecept a position as head football and base ball coach at Hargrave Mili ary Academy in Chatham, Vo. In two years at Hargrave his teams have been most successful and the next few years win see many of thai boys from Hargrtve at the larger colleges in the Southeasv Draughon and his wife, the form er Mary Baldwin, and two chfldresa. Mary B. and Stephen Allen, new reside at the Draughon , home pm Pine Street ih Warsaw. -ir . - Allen expresses his sincere hap piness at the opportunity to returst to Warsaw to live and work. He welcomes the chance to again serve the people of Warsaw asd Duplist County. Would like to take rats time to ask the people of this coun- fty to please call' on him anytime that ha might be of any assistance te any ef them in aay way. it's effect. , v . , f . ;4 ! '