North Carolina Newspapers

... , ' . .'-I-- t 'A .1 i u I -f : i! fe I . VOLUME XXT v No. 11, Jt's'Easter, in song and fctory; the glorious Easter messang it bring to you gladness of heart and exaltation tabors b Duplin "Jd Battle lo StoOnicrJ; Uuw Changes i (Editor's, Note The following story was released by the United Press on its wire service to mem ber papers dlpicUng the plight of many small farm families and their efforts to stay on the farm.; The Duplin Times reprints this story In, public Interest giving fuU cre dit for Its source to the United Press. Paul Barwick.) -,;':fK,bjr WHIsm A. Shires &There is a very human factor in th6 strggle for survival being ' waged by the" small farmers of Drhfc '' Of ' - i,; " . Duplin County "Schools were weU represented at the North Carolina EducatloDi (Aasotlfttlon meeting hel" in AsheviUe recently.: Those at tending wer Supt and Mrs. O, P. Johnson, Mrs. W. M. Ingram and "! J Mrs. ;, Richard ) Williams of ? the James Kenan School, Mr. Ragan ' of the Faiaon School Mr. and Mrs. Bucklew of the Beulaville School. J'-V Mr. R. U Pruitt, principal of the .ii.-j jMigenon oz wauace, ana x-rm. a. ,4.T . Wells of th . B. F. '. .Grady School. , ' 1 re shows f. 3. tavKle, haiidlng 1 ft the t I Jve, a J time of rejoicing, of hope and tobacco - growing Eastern North Carolina, the desire to stay on the land. v State Farm leaders this week ci ted the major farm problem in the state as being marginal pro ducers who have no other source of inhome than their small farms Industry has been emphasized fis an answer but agriculture leaders say It is not a complete answer.;. .' Instead, they contend that it must be a balams between agriculture and g industry - that industrial centers must be ballanced ' areas supplying food . fiber and raw mar terials.) Such a large typical agricul tural area is Duplin County where the nearest thing to heavy indus try was a Confederate arms fac tory during the War Between the States. There is one textile punt employing 1,000 people. . 'Tarn To Poultry Duplin , ranks high in tobacco production, Like ' in most , eastern counties of the state tobacco Is the principal crop. Duplin has a total of some 15,000 acres of tobacco. divided) into average allotments, of between three and four aires. Duplin's farm population is de- Continued on back v $100.00 check as a donation, to the Red Cross from I, J. Sandlin Store in Beulaville:.;: -v ; :-.:it KENANSVILLE, faith renewed, when is heard again. May of spirit. TWo Break - Ins In Duplin During PastWeek Two break ins were recorded In Duplin County . during the past week, according to Sheriff Ralph Miller. " Horace Foss, 20, white, is in Duplin County Jail under $1,000 bond for breaking into and stealing several items-worth approximately $10.' He is charged with entering Rassie Howard's Store in Glison Township, on Thursday night. Recovered was , ' 197 pieces -of bubble gum. 40 bars of candy, some lard and crackers. All this is val ued at about $4.00. (Houston Howard's . Store .near Pink Hill, was broken into Sunday night and between 40 and 50 car tons of cigarettes and two automo bile tires taken. In addition bet ween $83 and' $70 in cash was taken. : The store is located on Sherrtff Miller! said no one has been Hexed up as yet ana investi gation is continuing. Easter Egg Hunt For Hospital Babies. The Woman's Auxiliary of Dup- plin General Hospital plans to Sponsor an &aner 4 mum uere on the hospital grounds at Kenans ville with the babies that were born in our local hospital since it opened, as our sweats, -fri: Good Friday, April , 1958 from S-4 o'clock is the time set for the white children, while the next day, Saturday April Sth from 5-4 o'clock ia scheduled for the Negro children. ' ' " ' llosp NORTH CAISOLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1958. Mrs. Loraine Bell and Hiss Edna Rouse Injured In Kenansville Wreck Saturday A wreck In Kenansville Satur day afternoon resulted in .hospi talization ' of two LaGrange citi zens and one car almost totally demolished. , James F. Britt, LaGxange in surance man, was Involved in the wreck with L. H. "Pete" Quinn, of Kenansville, a local merchant. Miss Edna Rouse and Mrs. Lo raine Britt Ben, of LaGranee and occupants of Britt's car, are hos pitalized in Duplin General Hos pital. Miss Rouse has several bru ises and cuts. It required' 25 stit ches to repair cut in her right leg. Mrs. Bell received broken rib or ribs and injuries to her Beulaville Easter Sunrise Speaker To Be Rev. Raper; 16 Churches Participate Rv. ,Mr. William Burkette Ra per, president of the Mount Olive Junior College will be the speak er for the Interdenominational Easter Sunrise Service to be held April 0, at 5:53 a.m. on the foot ball field of the Beulaville School if the weather permits if not, in the school auditorium. Mr. Raper was born in Wilson County in 1927. In 1836 he entered -I 1 l . M L Hew Communion furniture Is Dedicated Groye Presbyterian " Sunday morning Maroh 23rd du ring the worship hour the Grove Presbyterian Church dedicated for sacred use a new communion ta ble and two new communion chairs. The communion table was given as a permanent gift by, Mr. J. E. Jerritt, a former member ;of the church, and members of the local congregation. The two chairs, hand carved to match the pulpit chairs, was given as a memorial tor Miss Jessie1 D. Farrlor a long time resident of Kenanscille. The memorial was given by Miss Hes, ter P. Farrlor of Raleigh, niece of the one honored. Miss Jessie O. Farrlor was the daughter of the late William J. and Mary Pickett Farrlor. She i Sam Taylor Of Bowden Named President Duplin Community Development Ass'n. Sam Taylor of Bowden has been named president of the Duplin County community development as- Pleasant Grove Plans Beautify The Plefsant Grove Community Development club met recently and adopted' a project to beautify the community grounds and made plans to conduct a corn variety test. ' Before these projects were ap proved it was announced that ap proximately 39 persons attended 4lhe tractor hialnteance school held in the community last month. And it also was announced that se veral thousand! pounds of paper were collected in the scrap paper drive, headed by Alton Warren on March 8. K.t-;v'V! . Mrs. Tipp Scott and Mrs. Taft Herring Were appointed to investi gate the possibility of . securing shrubbery tor ' planting x on .the community building grounds. , As for, the corn variety test, ft was announced , all newer varitiet will bev included in this demon stration( anidi each will be tested for yield and adaptability to the The dub also voted to purchase! a camera, witn flash attaenment for use. by.tne club. Mrs. Elmo Blizzard and Rodney ,. Kornegay were appointed to this committee. At Xhe close- of the. feting it was announced Joe Costln, Dup lin sanitation officer, ' will be the guest speaker, for the March 2.' meeting. A supper will be served. left shoulder in addition to cuts and bruises. James Britt driver of the 1950 Ford, received bruises and cuts but none of them serious. Quinn was not injured In the wreck in which his 1957 Oldsmo bile was damaged betweenMOO and $500. Britt, at the time of the acci dent, was traveling south on High way 11 through Kenansville. Quinn is auegea w nave pulled Irora a side street into the path of Britt's car. Patrolman B. D. Surge, of Beu laville, investigated the wreck. A hearing was to have been held Wednesday in Kenansville. the Free Will Baptist Childern's Home at Middlesex, N. C. and re mained there until his graduation from the Middlesex Hish School in 1944. Te then entered Duke University and received his A. B. Degree in 1947. In 1952 he recei ved his B. D. Degree from Duke Divinity School He served as pastor of the Hull Road Free Will Baptist Church of Snow Hill, N. C. from 1951 -1954. In 1954 he became president of the Mount OliVe Junior College, a co-educational, liberal arts col lege sponsored by the Free Will Baptist denomination. Everyone is invited to attend this service and urged to be in place before 5:53 a.m., the time when the sun is supposed to rise above the horizon in this area. The choir of about one hundred voices, composed of members .from the sixteen participating churches is expected to open the Service by singing "Christ Arose" promptly at 5:53 a.m. ;'In addition to the Sunrise Ser vice Mr. Raper will be guest speaker at the Beulaville, . Presby terian Church at-ll :, o'clock, A Utvery - Mlttl invitation ia attend iia extended to all. Church Sunday spent the large part of her life in Kenansville and was active in church and community activities. The latter years of her life, after the death of her .parents and sister, Mi.vs Elizabeth J. Farrlor, were spent in Raleigh and New Bern. She died on October 22 1941 at the age of seventy and was buried in the local cemetery after ser vices at the Grove Church. The memorial and gift were re ceived in the name of the Grove Presbyterian Chorch by its pastor, the Rev. S. T. Snively. They were dedicated1, by prayer and thanks giving. Following the dedication the local choir offered as its an them "Praise Ye The Lord'". sociation. This is a group compo sed of two members from each of the community development clubs In the county. Serving with Taylor are Elmo Blizzard of Pleasant Grov vice president; Mrs. Lillie Mae Cottle of Potters Hill, secretary; and Bill Sullivan of Oak Ridge, treasurer The group met this week to work out rules and regulations for in ducement prizes for the coming year. CP&l Plans Belie 'Recession' Talk Tit's hard to detect "recession" in the planning by Carolina Power & Light Company. Last Tuesday the eompany sold $$20,000,000 in bonds to finance current growth and onthe ' same day announced plans for a multi- (oontlnaed on baek) ". i.'. : 1 Reettal ta Bose Hm ' Edgar Alden and William S. New man, Artist Members of the "Music Department of the University of North Carolina win present a re cital of music for Violin and Piano in Rose Hill, at the j Community Building Auditorium on April 9 at 8:30 P. IS. This recital is sponsored by. the Rose mil Junior Music Club, Tickets will be tO0. Vl Dr. Alden and Dr. Newman have enjoyed several highly successful seasons of playing together. Their annual recitals have become ". ust' for audiences 1st the eom. niunRies where they nave played. MnMCttPTION RATES: KM per ? H HM saWde this UN In Poultry Proces Constructed In Rose A poultry processing plant equ ipped to dress thirteen million bro ilers annually will locate in Rose Hill as soon as a suitable building can be .erected according to an announcement by H. E. Latham, mayor of Rose Hill today. The center of a repidly expand ing poultry producing region. Rose Hill chosen by E. T. Wa'son, owner of Watson Seafood and poultry Company of Raleigh, as the loca tion of a new plant to expand his present operation. The site of three larje feed' mills operating successful 'poultry pro grams under which farmers feed chickens furnished by the mills with feed produced by the mills. Rose Hill and the surrounding a rea have already reached an annu al production of smoe ten million broilers in addition to its well es tablished turkey enterprise. Farm ers are given a guaranteed minim-. um price for each bird produced and are free to realize additional profits as the market affords them. An option has been obtained on an excellent site of ten acres on U. S. Highway 117, accordlg to Mayor Lathan. The site is well drained, being adjacent to a main drainage canal classified for waste disposal by the StateBoard of Health, but near the town's water mains. Two additional wells cap able of producing 500 gallons of water per minute will be drilled on the site for the plant's exclu sive use, but a tie in with the towns system will be affected to increase the pressure available. The Farmers Industrial Develo- Seated left to right are: Robert L. West, Mas ter of Ceremonies; Dudley Robbins of Burgaw, State Department Commander; Henry L. Stevens vens, Past National Commander; Durham Grady of Albertson, 8th District Commander and J. C. J District Rotary Convention Met In Wilmington Rotarians and Rotary Anns were guests of the port city of Wilming ton, when they convened there last week, for the 773 district convention. The two day sc'on held at the Cape Fear Hotel, with H. A. "Ham" Marks, past prrsMrMit of district 773 presiding over th? Monday session. Mayor E. L. Wade welcomed the guests to the city. During the session, James A. Ba tson, past president of the district presented the conference program. W. Eugene Edwards addressed the group and introduced the district officers for the new year after which delegates were named to attend the Rotary Convention to be held in Dallas, Texas In June. Speakers on Vocational services were Walter Dudley, Red Springs; Charlie E. "Chuck" Crawford, (continued on back) " Wm. E. "Pot" Craft announces his candidacy for Solicitor of Gen eral . County , Court ot Duplin County. " . i I fMr ia DnpUa and adJolnlBc N. C; IS.M Mtalde N. C. isiEg Plant To Be pment Corporation will be organi zed to erect the building for the processing plant,, which Wirton will lease with an option to pur chase. All equipment will be fur nished by the processor. Plans for financing the $175,000.00 building include the sale of stock in the corporation to poultry producers, merchants, farmers, feed mills and other Interests in this section. If required long term financing of a part of the buildings cost will be sought from sources which already have expressed an interest in the sections rapidly growing poultry in dustry. Incorporators of the local com pany being organized to erect the facility are, in addition to mayor Latham, D. W. Ramsey, owner of Ramsey Feed Mill, Marvin Johnson, of Nash Johnson & Sons Feed Mill Marlowe Bostic, of Coastal Plains Milling Company; R. S. Troy, cash- j ier of Waccamaw Bank and Trust Company; H. S. Johnson, Jr., and W, D. Herring, Rose Hill business men. Some three hundred farmers in this area are engaged in poultry production under iie prograna's sponsored by the three mills.. Ac quisition of a processing plant is expected to strengthen the enter prise for all concerned. A unique experiment in inters grated farming', the poultry pro gram has worked successfully in other localises, notably in Georgia. Climati? conditions in southeast ern North Carolina are said to be ideal for poultry production and the area is closer to northern markets. tMf ft i JP fit 1 ! i Page, Warsaw, Past District Commander. Standing: Robert Price, Treasurer; Woodrow Blackburn, Commander; Pete Stalllngs, Adju tant; and J. F. "Jimmy" Strickland, Acting Chaplain. Charles R. Gavin American Legion Post Celebrates 39th Anniversary March 21 Charles R. Gavin Post No. 127 of Warsaw celebrated the 39th an niversity of the America Legion on March 21. A well planned program made the celebration highly suc cessful. Each Post of the Eighth Distrtiot was represented at the party. ' In the absence of our Post ChaP- lin, Jimmy Strickland returned I hanks for the meal we were ser- vpd by Post 127 Robert L. West was Master of Ceremonies for the celbration Distinguished guest included Judge Henry L. Stevens, Past National Commander, State Dept. Command er Dudly Robbins of Burgaw, and Uncle Pete From SATS Dear Mister Editor: I see by the papers where this feller Gallup conducted a poll and found that one ont of ever 30 per sons would volunteer to go up In one of these earth satellites. That settles a argument that's been going on in this country ter years. There's always been s dif ference of opinion among author ities on the subject as to what per cent of Americans was crazy. One out of 20 is five -per ce nt That fixes it final and beyond any act of Congress. I got a hunch that five per cent is higher than when I was a young man. In those days folks didn't have but three things to worry about, religion, starvation, and the tariff. This generation aint un duly concerned with religion know the.; Government won't let'em starve, and they aint never heard of the tariff. . . , But . they , got a million Other things to worry about A feller, fer instant 'cant even step across the road to hunt rabbits without X glttingV.'Jils worries. Ed DoolItUe PRICE TEN CENTS Hill Soon The plant will give employment to some 125 individuals, most of whom will be women. The value of poultry produced in Duplin County has been estimated by V, H. Reynolds, county agent, at $10,000,000.00 and the figure is ex pected to exceed the value of to bacco produced in the county in 1958. The Duplin Times learned today i that construction of the processing plant at Rose Hill will begin with in the next 30 to 60 days. Plans have to be drawn and stock sold before much can be 5one toward construction. After that the proiessor will move into the building which will be leased to Watson Seafood and Poultry Co., and equipment set up. A training period for the employ ees will then be necessary before the plant can operate on a full capacity. It will probably be around Aug ust or September before the plant gets into full swing. Mayor Latham said today that every body associated with the processing plant is pleased to have Watson as the man who will lease 'he building. He is a native Tar Heel and has had 12 years of ex perience with poultry processing He has built an operntion frein one which processed 42,000 broil ers ann3lly to one which now processes 12,000.000 broilers annua lly. "We are indeed fortunate to have a man such as Mr. Watson associated with us," Mayor Lat ham said. the Eighth District Commander Durham Grady of Albertson. The first speaker of the evening was J. C. Page, Past District Com mander, who reviewed the history of Post 127. He gave the group some very in teresting facts on the organization and growth of the Post. He read a list of the 15 Charter members of Charles R. Gavin Post No. 127. Charter members present for the. celebration were Judge Henry L.' Stevent. Walker Stevens, R. E. Wall, , Jim Barden, and Edgar Pol lock. These men were recognized (oontiaeed on back) Chiftlin Switch said he went hunting Saturday and aU he got was $14.20 worth ot game warden. Ed gits about $50 worth of game warden ever year on account ot htm being convinced it's un - American to charge a feller fer hunting and 0j neighbors t ; "He's been sitting on that cload ever sltfce he hctrd nbont that tax reduction bill pending la Congreaet', .