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Duplin'sFirst Hi-way Fatality
TakesLifeQf4YearQldBoy
vf Duplin's first highway fatality
for 1958 occured yesterday morn
' Ing in fronts J. D. Sandlin's lum-
ber mill on the edge of Beula-
! vlUe. A little after ten o'clock little
Tomm Brock, 4VS year old, son
of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Brock, who
live on the mill site ran across
''..! the highway to the mill to get a
dollar fr6m his daddy. When he
started back home he bad crossed
, the highway and decided to re
turn to his father A passing truck
', just barely missed him. His father,
-' seeing an' joll tanker approaching
- from the north hollered to Tommy
to stop. He failed to stop, possibly
did not hear his father, and dar
ted right -into' the truck at 10:23.
His face hitting the hub of the
front wheel. Mis entire face and
forehead was crushed. His father
watching, ran am picked him up.
"When he reached the porch of the
home his father realized little Tom
my was dead. .
The driver of the truck, War
'Gilbert Chaulk of Wilmington, Sla
mmed on brakes, shldded the trucff
deliberately jacknlfed the trae
, toe end intc a ditch in an effort
' -to miss the boy,
Patrolman Stewart of Rose Hill
-wag called to the scene' and stated
It was an unavoidable accident Ho
' charges were placed gainst the
"driver, the father of th TteHni
' aid H was unavoidable. 'The rck
Iwlonged to ' tlw Qoaltty Oil Ce.
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Pairkeri ftnnoinc
,127, Farei Fcsmilles ;
In 1$.tip1i Gaf Lozns.
B..A; Pfcrkar. saprrier-Tf tiw
XhapUa 05ot Karmws Horn 44
snbdstrmtlbli' anw)neM thi week
" that approximately U7 farm famt
, )ies In Duplin County! are operat
ing their farms with loans obtained
.. ' through IV H. A, 'i i
Most of the loans are foil oper
ating; purposes Md thm averagej
per farm is approximately z.ouo.
. The bulk of the operating loan
; money in this area is being used
for the purchase of Equipment and
livestock ,
" Many of the changes "being made
v, with the loans hve -resulted In
better and more, efficient' hog en
.' term-ises. and more , and .better
pastures and improved crop enter
- prises with the net result being a
- renter farm income and a more
1 efficient use of tabor.
, Parker .says he can make oper
" atlng loans Only to families who
have or can acquire land and labor
, i resources needed to help "them
ImproveVtheir farming and who
are not presently able to turn to
private or cooperative lenders for
adequate financing of the type they
require. ";,. , . , ,
Operating loans run from one to
seven years at five percent inter
est, and all borrowers graduate! to
" conventional credit as soon as they
can ,;.; '
Stop guessing and start testing
the amount of fertilizer needed
to grow crops on your farm. .
Uncle Pete From
-, i v " t SATS ' .i
- I was' reading-'this morning
where the American Public Health
i Association 3 announced yesterday
that more farmers was killed on
' the Job last year than "in any other
occupational group " Farming, -they
allow, "to the third most dange
: .. rous occupation." ' , ; ' . ' ' '.
They don't know the half of it.
Mister Editor. Them that survives
i Just barely makes '' It s Last sum
mer, fer instant, I tried to work
, the farm by sun time gffto church
' by standard time : and git to ed
by God's time. In a manner of
speaking, .1 was having a, helluva
. time. After X wore out three clocks
I Just went back to sun time and
stayed there. ' '
Them, that .survives spends a
hout all their' time between "to-
taUng"1 and "estimating.' K Some
times I think the- surviving alnt
worth It Fer Instant; afte-a farmer
suveya his patches so's he can ro
tate according to law It's time to
'estimate how much he's going; to
make fer income purposes. T)at
"estimating" calls fer supernatu
ray powers.
To git a "estimate" that'll be ac
cepted, a farmer has got to guess
" th annual ralnfaU. Just when Mil
come and when it won't He's got
to figger about what date the first
frost will hit, which way the boll
devils will be migrating In June.
Mercer Announces Community
Red Cross Drive Chairmen
Duplin County 1958 Bed Cross
Fund Campaign is now on with a
Goal of $5,000, Grady Mercer
County Chairman,' ' announces his
co-workers as follows and commu
nity goals as follows: Beulaville
1. J. Sandlin, Jr., $250 B. F Grady,
H. M. Well,' $250; ; Bowden, Mrs.
Morris! Jordan $50; Chinquapin,
Miss Effie Pickett," $175; Calypso,
Mrs. Charles Sloan, $300; Faison,
Garden Club, $300; Kenansville,
Andrew Scott, $425; Magnolia, Mrs.
Andrew Joyner, $100; Potter's HiU,
h. M. BosUc75; JRose Hill, Wo
man's Club, : $450; Teachey, Mrs.
Charles Hearn, $100; Warsaw, Rev.
Gordon Tart, $l,000;iWallace, Geo
rge Powell, $1,200; egro Division,
W I Pierce. $500;
AM!0U;!CEONT
At present there l ino surgeon
at Duplin . General Hospital In
order to prevent unnecessary delay
in securing proper treatment the
Medical Staff of Duplin General
hospital request thai alt persona,
eonaet their own family physician
before going to tb hospital for
esswrgeiiey fn rtreatmeiji, ,
ooctttt covneau TO BOOR
The Daplln Ceaaty Coaaeil of
Bps - Pemeaatratioa Chibe win
sbeet Wednesday, Uarck M at MO
a. la : h JkCrtssjltoM BuUdlng
tostoad of Mareh fl s previoosly
WM. DCLEY BOBBINS,
Wiliam Dudley Bobbins, 36, of
Willard N. C. is the State Comm
ander of The North' Carolina De
partment of The American Legion.
He was elected to head the 60,000
member veterans' organization at
the Convention in Durham on June
15, 1957. He will speak at the War
saw celebration' Friday. . ,
Chifflin Switch
All of this' distracts a farmer's
mind from farming. I wouldn't be
surprised if some of them that
got- killed: , last year . fergot jj hnd
stuck their, head; in the mowing
machine while .they Was trying to
rotate and estimate y -
I See he the: papers- where a
feller named Daniel F. Gilmore,
writing fer the United Press from
Londo, says from now en "world
attention ill' focus ' on the moon."
I got news fer. Mister Gilmore
and them United; Press fellers.
Farmers baa heea focusing their
attention 'on the moon fer. cen
turies. Any farmer that's got sense
enonch to know-how to drink out
of a coord knows that agriculture
would never have been Invented
without the moon.
There's certain things that's got
to be planted In the dark of the
moon and other things that's got
to be planted in the light of the
moon. If you do it uadcwajias.
you'd Just as well sign up the land
fer Benson's soil bsnk. And, the
saving of hog meat' depends en
tirely on the moon. Salt your hog
meat away in the dark of the moon
and you'll have bad tasting meat
Farmers knowed that since hogs
was hogs.
Tours traly,
' ' Uncle Fete
HENANSVILLE, NORTII CAKOLINA, THURSDAY MARCH 20, 1958.
Charlie J. Herring Purchases 10 Year
01(1 Planters Warehouse In Kinston
Charllo X Herring, sea ef Dup
lia, ETativo of the B P. Orady ae
tlen, who aaa olimbeot tha dhoqr
haighta f top raaklng" tobacco
wareheuae operator, last week pur-
ahased .tbo 1 yeaf. old Planters
Warehouao la Klaston. Tap follow
lag story, about tha purchase ap-
American tegionnafres are plan
titng a gay celebration for the Mth
anniversary of the birth of The
American Legion, which occurs in
March 1998.
A birthday party has teen sche
duled by the Charles RGjavin Post
No. 127 of the American Legion
of Warsaw for the night of Fri
day, Mar. 21, at the Legion home
at 8:00 p.m.
Charter members of the Charles
B. Gavin Post No. 127 of Warsaw
will be honored at this celebra
tion. They are urged to be present.
All . Legionnaires of the Eighth
District are invited to attend.
A free dinner will be served for
this Occasion '
The principal speaker for this oc
casion will be State Department
Commander Dud Bobbins and the
Eighth District Commander Dur
ham Grady.
Stress fact that they want Cha
rter, members to be present.
45c Share Dividend
Paid By Waccamaw
' CI- Lacy Tate, President of the
Waccamaw Bank and Trust Com
pany, announces that the Board of
Directors approved payment of a
quarterly dividend of 45c per share
to all stockholders of record as
Of March 7, 1958, payable on or
before March 15, 1958. Mr. Tate
states that payment of a quarterly
dividend was adopted by the Wac
camaw Bank several years ago ad
has proven to be very satisfactory.
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i' fiow ready is your lawn mower to
go to work when spring'comes?
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"Paul Amen Wake Forest head
football coach, will be the print'
cipal speaker at the annual JK
Booster- Club banquet, to be held
April 18, . in James Kenan School
cfeterla.;''V "'ivin- i,:xv-i-The
banquet will begin at 7:30 p.
m. and it is hoped' that a large
number of the school patrons will
secure tickets J
and attend the
awards banquet. and, at the same
time hear head Coach Amen, : U
All; awards for the 1957-68 sth
letic, season for. football and' bas
ketball, for James Kenan athletes
will be' made -during the program.
Tichets for the banquet can be
secured in Magnolia form; Albert
Pope-Kenneth Taylor, and Melvin
O. Pope; in Kenansville from W, E.
peared in last week's Kinston Free
Press: . ! I
Charlie J. Herring, owner and
operator of. The Star Warehouse
there for the past 10 years has
purchased the 11-year-old Planters
Warehouse for a sum reportedly in
excess of a quarter of a million
dollars, it was reported on Thurs
dayw The deed was recorded at the
Court-house there Wednesday af
ter noon.
' The Planters was operated for
10 years as a corporation of farm
ers and business men. It was sold
last year to the Kinston Co-Opera-tive
Warehouse Co-Op No. 2.
Herrins is a native Of Duplin
County, who moved to Kinston af
ter World War to and built the
Star, which is one of the largest
independently operated . - Ware
houses oa the Kinston market The
Planters ss scrosi 204,900 square
feet ef floor space and It is adja
cent te the Star oft South Queen
rlead:;:.V';3;,''.f7:
Herri JMd 'fo vea glad to
have the dee! eompleteC It I
feoea lay the proeesa of aosjotiatloM
fer essae tune, Hsf M Hinls
ahotit tke WW leaf aale entloek ae
well aa ee the futart of the grow
Cmtttmui m haaft '.
mis
Fire Prevention i
The fire season is at hand and all
persons in the county should be in
terested in the control of fires for
one or more reasons, wheather they
be fields, grasslands, or forest fires.
First the beauty of our country
side which everyone, enjjoys so
much is marred.
Second one of the greatest po
tential sources of income we have
in this county is our forests. The
greatest threat to these forests is
fire.
Third nearly everyone enjoys
gome outdoor sport and in this
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Draff Office Be
Closed Mar. 25-31
- The office of the local Draft
Board in Kenansville, will be clos
ed from 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday,
March 25 until 8:30 a.m. on Monday
March 81.
The induction call for April 1958
is for 5 men to be delivered on
April 2, '58. 2 registrant will be sent
for Armed Forces physical Examin
ation on the same date.
Warsaw Choir To
Present Easter Service
The Warsaw. Baptist Choir will
present "The Story Of Easter' in
scripture and song by Frederick
Swift on Easter at the II o'clock
worship service.
.The choir is made up of twenty
voices, under the direction of Mrs.
Glenn Brown with Mrs. Paul Pot
ter as organist.
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Wei
lit n
Iff
Craft, Ellis Vestal, V. H. Reynolds;
In Warsaw from Dr,. Troy Korne
gay, Hugh Carlton Sidney Apple
and Allen Draughan Jr. ' 'ft. i '''
- The JK Boosters Club- has elect
ed officers for., the 1958 -69 year
and Dr. Troy Kornegay, of Warsaw,
will serve as president Other of
fleers are George Penney, vice
'president, Kenansviue; Joe -rouse.
vice-president Magnolia, and Sam
Godwin : vice-president . Warsaw,
Joe CSstin, secretary, . Warsaw;; and
J. ;, P, ; Harmon treasurer, Waruwj
Board of Directors - Albert Pope,
Magnolia; E L. Matthls, Warsaw;
and W. E. Craft Kenansville.
It has been pointed out by mem
bers of the Boosters Club that an
athletic field is badly needed at
briefs
' :. It's Spring
Today i the first day of Spring
1958 Old man winter officially
bows out. And it bowed out
not too gracefully. We've had too
much rain in recent weeks. 1957
58 has been one of the coldest win
ters ever- experienced in these
parts- And with that - winter was
not fair to the youngsters. They
saw gome snow but not a real old
fashioned snow so they could make
snow men and snow cream to their
delight. .
Packer Remodeling
Sanford Packer has begun remo
deling his grocery store in War
saw. To date a new front has been
put in with two doors. New shelves,
lower for self-service have been
installed. Mr. Packer says he ex
pects it s will be around the first
of April before the job is com
pleted. Business is going on as
usual though and the work does
not Interfere with shoppers.
J. C Page Expanding
J. C. Page, proprietor of Page
Home Appliance in Warsaw, has
taken over the store building for
merly occupied by A & P next
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Career Day For
Duplin Juniors
Mrs. Lee Brown, County School
Superriaor for Child Guidance, an
nnees that the annual Career Day
will he held in the Kenansville
eeheel auditorium Wednesday,
tfareh -'MibjTbia year parents of
paella to be Instructed are tavftef
te sttwd the opening program
from Male 1 in the auditorium
, Only members of the Janler ea
sw will attend.
Thie year. Mrs. Brown aald Dr.
Ralph Btremley. direeter of publlo
mlattane ,nd foundations et Barn
CarolfaaleoBece, Greenville, wftl
'Representatives from 29 various
occupations1 and 13 colleges will be
present to instruct the Juniors.
Mrs. Wilnia Pate
Named Acting
Administrator
Duplin General
The Executive Committee of the
Board of Trustees of Duplin Gene
ral Hospital announced the appoint
ment of Mrs. Wilma M. Pate, R
N. as Acting Administrator of the
hospital today.
Mrs. Pate will act in the capa
ci'y of administrator until an Ad
ministrator Is apponited to assume
the duties of I. O. Wilkerson, Jr.
who has resigned to acept the posi
tion of Assistant Adminstrative
Hospital Consultant with the North
Carolina Medical Care Commission.
Mrs. Pate has been with the hos
pital since Its opening date in
March of 1955. She was first em
ployed as Operating Room Super
visor and was later made Direc
tor of Nurses. She is a native of
Onslow County ' and received her
training as James Walker Memo
rial Hospital in Wilmington, N. C
Prior to coming to Kenansville,
she was employed by Parrott Hos
pital in Kington and by Dr. J. A.
Parrott as office' nurse. She Is mar
ried to Hubert Pate and has two
children, Carol and Jerry.
Several applications for Adminis
trator have been received by the
Board of Trustees and a meeting
has been set for Sunday, March 23,
1958 for the purpose of interviewing
some of the applicants.
fees!!
James Kenan School. Transporta
tion has become a real problem so
far as practices concerned.,
In an effort to get a practice
field at James Kenan School for
football next fall and Athletic Field
Committee has . been ' appointed
headed by George Penney, of Ken
ansville. Others named to work
with him are: Harry Phillips, A. J.
Jenkins, Melvin Pope, Jim' Fulford,
Allen Dunn,; J. P. Harmon and Bill
Taylon ' f 'v-"i-;.y
: Before practice can be held on
any field which might be constr
ucted, It must be Allowed to settle
snd be properly seeded. ,' V -v
The 30 members also pointed out
that the purpose of the JK Boosters
Club It to support the lnterschol-
b)fjui
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: f3.M
Oenatiea; HN satslde tbia area
STUDY POULTRY INDUSTRY -
A caravan ofbankers from six
counties shown as they visited
Banter's
Leading Broiler Producing Area;
f. C. Thompson Heads Bank Group
. Bankers from Duplin, Pender,
Sampson, Lenoir Greene and Way
ne Counties toured Duplin Coanty
Thsneday ef last week observing
the pealtry enterprises which have
skyrocketed DapUa Cenaty Into a
leadmr broiler aad tarkey predae-
tB Coanty in North Carolina.
. C Themseoa senior viee-pre-atdeat
aad eaehler ef the Warsaw
i ih Banking aad Treat Co. was
looted t meeting ef the Soakers
to head aa orgaatmUea wMsh Is
deslgaed to assist aad advise aay
farm groap m sstehHshmg farm
Duplin General tiospita!
Cooperation Noted
Notes From Our
County Agent
By
V. F. REYNOLDS
(1) Prepare the treating solution
in the barrel or drum in the pro
portions given; (2) Completly sub
merge a basket of potatoes in the
solution and allow them to remain
for 1 minute; (3) Remove the bas
ket from the solution and set it
on the drainboard and allow a
bout 1 minute for the excess sol
ution to drain back into the bar
rel; (4) Remove the basket from
he drainboard anl set in the shade
until bedded (potatoes should be
bedded and covered as soon as pos
sible after treatment); (5) Repeat
the- process until 60-80 bushels for
each pound of Semesan Bel in the
dipping solution have been tr"",.t
ed or until the solution no longer
covers the potatoes then mnke
up a fresh batch of solution.
For Small Operations: 1) Pou.
1 gallon of water into a 2-gallon
bucket ad stir in the contents of
a 2-ounce tube of Semesan Bel;
(2) Nearly fill a similar bucket
with potatoes; (3) Pour the dip
ping solution from the first buc
ket over the potatoes in the sec
ond bucket, covering them; (4) Put
the next potatoes to be treatel in
the empty bucket and pour over
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sassivA
astic athletic program of James
Kenan School - including football,
basketball and baseball.
The Club also points out that
'everybody is eligible to a member
annual membership fee is only
$1.00.
Curren members say they want
all of the patrons of the James
Kenan School district to be a mem
ber of the JK Boosters Club in
cluding men.women and children.
A goal of $5,000 was' set to be
raised to support the 1958-59, ath
letic program and it is hoped- that
everybody- in the -school district
will get behind the program. '
per tear In ftaplln and adjoining
In N. C-; t&M vnteide N. C.
poultry enterprise in Rose Hill on
Thursday of last week to better
acquire themselves with the rap
Tour Shms Duplin Co. fs
enterprise, in the six county area
named above.
H. C. Wootea, Jr., vlce-rreeident
of Commercial National Bank Kin
sten; sad Lawson Withers, vice
president of Wachovia Bank and
Tract Co. GoldsDors, were named
to serve a the eommttte with
tastrameatal with sr-
gaaknag the tear ef Dnplia poul
try terms aad bosiaoasos premottag
the program, ' aleog with books,
mid the arimary parpoae of ike or
taanatioa Is to give soakers aa
Some applications have been re
ceived for administrator of Duplin
General Hospital and a list of sur
geons is being considered to replace
Jim Wilkerson and Dr. John A.
Parrott. hospital administrator and
surgeon respectively, who resigned
recently effective the last of March.
Fai'fn McGowan, secretary to
the Executive Committee of the
Boarti of Trustees, said today that
"five or six applications have been
received for hospital administrator.'
The Executive Committee is ac
cepting 'hese applications, but be
fore a selection is made each appli
cant will be interviewed by the en
tire Board of Trustees The doct
ors on the Hospital Medical Staff
will be invited and consulted, on
the selection of the hospital admin
istrator. "It will definitely be a
cooperative effort," McGowan said.
In Magnolia, Dr. C. L. Quinn,
chief of staff of Duplin General,
said today that two official appli
cations have been received to fill
the position as surgeon but that
" list qf surgeons who are known
to hp i.'.i'inp to change or want to
orf tr Nrth Carolina are being
??rsidccd.'
The job of securing a surgeon
has been left up to the Medical
Staff. A committee composed of
Drs. Quinn of Magnolia, J. R. Blair,
v . i tr . f tlT 1 1
jr. ana uray n-ornegay, i
anu ui. . ryc ui .. o
ville and Chinquapin, have been
made to secure the applications for
the position of surgeon.
At a regular meeting of the Ex
ecutive Committee and Medical
Staff at the hospital Friday night,
the doctors proposed to the Exe
cutive Committee that resident sur
pons at Duke Hospital Durham.
Carolina Memorial Hospital Chapel
Hill and; or Bowan Grey Hospital
Winston - Salem, medical schools
bp secured to do the surgery at
Duplin General Hospital through
April, May and June.
If was also stated that the doctors
of Duplin County will underwrite
the surgeons salary to the extent
of $800 monthly.
A full time surgeon is expected
to be at Duplin General Hospital
by July 1
The doctors point out Sampson
Memorial has secured the services
of such a surgeon to relieve Dr.
WMton Kitchen.
Dr. Quinn Issued to the Duplin
Times this week the following
notice in regards to the present sit
uatlon at Duplin General Hospital
as regards a surgeon.
"At th present time we do not
v a surgeon at Duplin General
HoFDitaL In the interest of public
welfare, and in an effort to avoid
unnecessary ' delay in ? securing
proper treatment, the Medical
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PRICE TEN CENTS
Kit
idly growing industry and its pro
blems. (News-Argus Photo)
opportunity to get together and ex
change views and ideas aa to hew
to increase farm production aad
marketing aad on financing of var
ious farm programs.
The grasp will also work toward
efforts te bring new industries to
the area aad te assist farmers ia
flnaBelng aad plaaatag their pro
grams. A program m plaaaed for
Goloskoro marsh U.
Ramsay reed Mill, Nash John
son aad Sob and the Coastal Plata
Millar Co. toope rated with Bank
ers ta setMag ap the tens. It is
these three milling sempaales
which have had a treat deal tov
with Dnpltr's rapid growth la the
pcnTtry tieniaess.
Oa the" tour, bankers and ether
Interested parties saw broiler boo
ses under contraction from 5,900 to
16.AM capacity. Ia addition, mill
operation were shown and how the
feeding program and cooperation
between banks, milla, ard farmers
and then on the marketing are im
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Kenneth Turner
Is New Chairman
Elections Board
List Filers
Kenneth W. Turner, Rose Hill
Attorney, was named chairman of
the Duplin Board of Elections at a
meeting held by the board Monday
Turner was named to the county
board on March 12th to replace
Wm. E. (Pot) Craft who resigned
to enter the rase for solicitor of
the General County Court. Other
members of the board are C. A.
Precythe of Faison and S. J. Wal
ler of Glisson township.
Mr. Turner, yesterday morning,
reported the following candidates
have paid their filing fee and are
officially candidates.
Grady Mercer, State senate; Rus
sell J. Lanier of Beulaville and
W. E. (Pot) Craft, county solicitor;
David Newton Henderson. Wallace,
judge county recorders court;
Lcon Brown county commissioner
from 3rd district; E E. Kelly,
county commissioner from 2nd
dis'rict Ralph Miller for Sheriff;
J. W. Hoffler, county commissioner
from 4th district; and W. J. Mid
dleton and H. F. Lee for justices
of the peace from Warsaw.
Grady Seniors To Have
Cake Bake In Mt. Olive
The B. F. Grady senior class will
hold a Bake Sale in Mt. Olive on
Saturday March 22nd. Cakes, Coo
kies, pies, ad candy will be sold.
So for good eats see the B. F.
Grady Seniors in M. Olive Satur
day
Uy Neighbors
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1 don't care what yovr,
illy stick says. When I or jr
SIM 4 I WANT Sire 4f , '