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V I 12 Pcnss i ? ,iX. tt f I XL 0 r This 7esk 4-. A . ' -.5 , r i 1 i .v(;, -.' V-fftVVvV V vCLim xxv No. 24 kENANSVlLLC, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1958. WVtUfCUmon RATES) US per lew to Dnlf ad PRICE TEN CENTS i Ale araa In IT. C4 SU ee M. OL 1 Jl s-?' - : . . -A r T k-. i I sr-: ST' ,r T, I In Tbe Newt - Aim , -j ,. man women wouia loun tn i reapowlbillty of man wing a farm I that, p oducei Upwards of 60.000. turkeys annually, but not Mrs. ' Verna Church community of Duplin ' County. t i;,;i:'WJi.K i''i-' V ' s lrs.Ca cawan and 'her tHee hionUvr n camg to vupiin -ouniy ul the Fall of 1955 and since that ' tim -she has produced and aver- ';Sge of more than 60,000 turkeys." : i TURKEY'S TURKEYS EVERYWHERE Mrs. . V. ma Carrawan of the Unity Church community " ; of Duplin County is shown with a few of the 23,000 " baby tukeys she is hoping Will mean money In 16 More Miles Of Steam Clearance For Duplin Ccunfy Streams i Plans were snounced here mur, sday(June 5) by the Corps of Ed -J ' llT 1 mtrMtP'V ilVil IIIVIVUJV ' Hop lumbers Recklessly Here North Carolina farmera shoaldat kicreaoe thlel hoc. flocks at a reeklese rate. -. t. R. Woodard, animal huu bandry speeUlist for. the, N. , C Agricultural Extension setw vice, says that despite the fact that hog prlee are around ,f twice the 1955 tow of IU per hunderad, fanners, should ex i pand eanUoealy. - ' He adTtses farmers to - ' nlgner s quality, ; neav i-, wi" ' ! ' hogs that will help Increase ' I the consumption of pqr. TU ' ' will help keep ' the market ., , ' price of hogs high.' ' .. ,u As he puts H,.We do not - want 111 hogs again. A 408817 i, prodojt will help ' Ipevtnt ;;" this. .;, . . .i - 2 i ! Wocdard also urges farmera " r- a nnah their spring pigs and , tr to market 1 them by Au- . 'f' ' gust 15. Prices usually hit their peak In July and early' August.-:'- the I f ' ; ; Minister's Desk ' By D. E. Psrkerson, Warsaw. When Theodore Roosevelt , was police commissioner of New York vl he asked an applicant' for a posi- 4 tion on the force; a you were j'jordered to disperse a mob what f would you do" 'Pass around the v 'hat. sir, was the reply. ' When I read this It struck me for ? clbly. I thought perhape that, is one reason we preachers have to preach' to pewi Instead of people ' we too often emphasize the hat i Instead of the heart,;, I personally ; believe that If the heart Is In the right place so, will the hat be. in flU right place. . Foff that reason ':f I beUeve that byv-emphasMng the essentials of i the - Christian . life. Stewardship which Is an exprea- ' aion of the Christian life, will be a forthcoming reality la practice. . Perhaps y've heard about, the young hoy who come to his mln ' later1 with a problem. It seems he -had swallowed e quarter and wan ted the minister to rgetv it out of him; WBy did you come .to me". I - said the minister,; instead of the doctor?" To which the boy: replied 'My mother said jfou ould get '. money1 out ot anybody," i- "i Now, I wonder who could have started such 'fantastic thins as . thatlj"V ):i4,'::e:A','i;h.;,4 , - t, J,. I. I 1 The Carrawuu moved tn Dnnlln rrom mnuco county. Tney pro- duced turkeys on their 800 acre' Pamlico farm until the hurricanes of .1955 almost, put th:m out of business. In August of 1S55 they! had M.000 turkeys to drown. , Most etnne larm was mandated With ' salt water therefore making It impossible to ralsa anything for several years. ',. Sln;e the Carrawans moved tp.they w re in Pamlico., There isn't uupiin i-ouniy, jne jranmco, iarm the bank come has 16,000 that gineers lor penorming ; isu miies of . stream clearance work, to fr countlesand jthwii CUnton TA rePWt b ColHljC. Rowland, Jr.. District Engineer, lists five for Bladen County. 16' for Duplin, four for Onslow, 17 for Pender, 108 for- Sampson, four for Clinton. ;, ; Invlta kmi for bids are scheduled to be issued June 17 with the open lrg of bids to follow on Julyl631ds will " be opened in tne msirici Engineers office here. , The successful bidders will be required to start the work within 30 days after receipt of notice to proceed and to complete pait of the Job by December 81 and the remainder by .March 31, 1959. ; , Colonel Rowland said the sever al parcels of clearance . work were approved by the Federal Civil De fense Adminsitratlon and Ahat the Corps of Engineers had been aut horized . to pe-tform the (assign ments for the FCDA oik a compet lve basis by .. contracts .with pri vate enterprise. 7 "The Duplin 'County Chapter1 of the (National Foundation for In fantUe Paralysis has "used up al available local pollo-f Ightlng funds and has to turn .to national head quarters;: tot .help, ft r, V:. . , ':' . This, .was revealed by Russell J. Lanier, Chapter Chairman, hen he announced the receipt ' of a check for $2,125.00 from the nation al headquarters of the March' of Dimes organization; ' p.. ; :, The money will be used toaa aist local polio patients with' hos pital, medical and appliance bills' Mr. Lanier said. "Although there have , been no new", polio cases In our area so far this ytar, this many Is -vitally needed for the rehabll ltation of 'old' cases. Some of .the patients now being - helped "Were Stricken,in''-i956. ' .tf-rtfhfW?.; Duplin County's situation Illus trates the national, polio problem today, according to Mr. Lanier. 'New" eases '-continue to decline, I. -. II. C. Uses Lot Of Wafer &m is . North' Carolinians', water use is running at a rate of some 014 mil lion gallons a day, She State Board of Water , Commissioners reported today. By 1975. it added, the rate Is expected 'to approach a figure twice as large.v -v -. f:, w; The Boarip developed it estimat es in the first statewide survey of water use ever attempted in North Carolina.-They are part of a large store of Information belng'assemb led as the basis for legislative recommendations, "VXi'-v" ,"The first question that arises, of course, la whether we will have 5'V:! GrovMtM 10 hu been nturt 1 in lohlnllv nliuia. ana they eem to bo doing very nicely according to Mr. Ca-rawan. ' Mrt! Ctn-awan decided to move to Duplin because it seemed to-be a budding poultry center. Pamlico ani t Crav n CounUes had slowly begun to go down as poultry areas. M Carrawan says now that she thinks the weather conditions in Duplin ane much better than . quue as muon water. fall. Also, at the pres:nt time she are 17 weeks old. (News - Argus Photo) Faison Produce Auction Market In Full Swing eaa "sale! .H-' the Pabon Pro duce Auction "Market reached 20, 000 : bushels last Thtiraday, with 13.006 of these being the Black Valentine variety Prices ranged from 81.75 to $2.50. Friday's bean market was firmer. ' - ' Wax beans ahd round beans are in good demand wl'h rounds rang ing in price from $2.35 US $2.65 and wax beans up to $3.40. 1 Yellow and Italian squash have ranged in price fro.iN 75 cents to $1 , per half-bushel. The demand tor yellow is exceeding the de mand for the green type. The sup ply of squash has been light so far but it is expected to increase next week. A heavy movement of cucumbers la anticipated around the 13th or 16th of June. A few cucum bers have been sold this week and they have ranged in i price from $3.50 to $5.15 per bushel. Wilson King is market sales manager. but the cost of taking care of 'old' cases has declined very little. Last year, about 90; pr ? cent of all March of Dimes patient and funds went to ' help persons Who were stricken with polio in 1956 or ear lier. y--. -'. ' ' Xocally, two polio . patients are being helped tey the,.' Marsh of Dimes organization. ; The Polio chapter, chairman also stressed the ' importance of all three Salk shots for residents of this area. . The fact that there . Js a success ful polio vaoiine siitinj on drugsto re shelves is no guarantee that the re won't be polio epidemics this summej), 'Mr. Lanls-; aaklf The vaccine has to be" Injected into people's arms to do '' any good. I urge all pet sons to see their doctor of the l'ial 'healith departmen' about starting their series of three Salk shots right now. ,' - If estate Will Have liter In 1075 the water to supply our 1975 needs' said ' General :.y. ; R, v'Townsend, Board!' Chairman, In commenting On the ' survey .summary: The an sewer la that we will, . provided we manage -ur water resources properly and not waste them) as we have done In the Paat.V . 4 i, j . ,The brakdown of curt-ent use Is: domestic including both rural and urban homes), a rate of 253 million gallons a day; ' Industrial; 301 mil lion gallons; ,' and : agricultural (water tor irrigation and livestock) 361 million gallons. : Estimates for ,197$ are: domestic, 1 Post Vcars A 500 acre farm i was leased In Duplin and there houses were built to accomodate' the turkeys after the Carra wans moved. Only 75 of th.j 500 acres Is cleared. 'Oates and soybeans are planted on the cleared , acres, some of which is couble - oropp d. This is us d lor grazing the turkeys. Also they ar grazed in the woods. Pens of varying sizes are set up in the woods and the birds are placed there in groups of three or four thousands. The woods provides good graz ing, but it isn't quite as good as the cultivat d areas. The woods has a great advantage in some seasons when the weather is hot. Turkeys n ed shade and this is difficult to find In cultivated fields Large self-feeders aie placed in all thj pens. Mrs. Carrawan says she prefers feeding the hire's once a day but it is not practical to do this in all cases. This is done how ev r with the smaller turkeys. This year she is renting an addi tional 156 acres, mostly woodland. For this she is paying $150. By having many acres of wood land the Pens can be mov d as oft en as ne.ded and will not have to go in the same plac.s year after year. j Most of the feed has to be bou ght since there is so little area to raise crops and graze the tur keys. (continued on hack) Mrs. Huah Johnson New President Mrs. Hugh Josnson, of Rose Hill has been elected president of the Duplin General Hospital Auxili ary. Other officers elected to serve with her are: Miss Viola West brook, !Albnlsoft;vfcepresident; Mrs. GeofTe Can:., Rose Hill, sec retary: add Mrs." R. W. Powers, J Wallace treasurer ' mrs. dunason ucceeus p B: Guthrie, Sr. as president., Elected To Board Directors B. B. &T. Mr. eC Thompson, Sr. .'vice president of Branch Banking and Trust Company, announced today that Henry, L. Stevens IU and Q. J Sutton Sr of Warsaw have been fleeted to the Board of Directors of the Branch Banking and Trust Company of Warsaw. DOKSCORB I.C.MIIItraYS The Motor Vehicles Departme-, nt's summary of traffic deaths thr uogh 10 a.m. June 9, 1958. v Killed this year: .MV 378 Killed to date last year: 432 Melvin Cording Named Vice President American Jersey Cattle Club ; In a Record breaking attendance members and delegates to the 90tb annual meeting of the American Jersey Cattl!e Chb jmee,ting n LoUjisvilM, Kentucky Rje-EQeated Charles S. Kelly of Chisago, Ill inois president and chose a silvery tongued orator from the South land, ' Melvin . Cording, Wallace North Carolina as Vice president The American Jersey Cattle Cluh is the oldest dairy breed organize tion in the world. In a four day meeting delegates representing every state in , the Union; Canada, Mexico and several Foreign counties attended to th business at hand, toured point of interest In the historic state, attended a national sale which saw a jersey- bull sell for the record price of $20,000 going to Sunbeam Farm 'at Cherryville, North- Caro rate of 549 million gallons; Indus trial, 801 million gallons; ahd agrl eultrual, at least 600 million gallona General Townsend said the cur rent use figures are considered fairly accurate, although they in dude ' some ? etinest.H:; ':;i, i- The : munlblpal had- Industrial survey was made through questio naires sent to the 335 municipali ties' uv the state, which have public water supplies ; and to the . 3,000 Industries listed in the Department of Labor directory, r yJ-s "Hot all municipalities and in dustries hav metered records of a' - ..: i .';...- 1 W 1 1 Wis -.i Preventative maintenance high-voltage power lines will on essitate 4 power interruption Sun day morning in part of Duplin County, accouding m L. A. Pearce, Local Manager tor Carolina Pow er and I4ght' Company. : Pearce :". explained that early morning was chosen as the time a power interruption is least likely to cause Customers inconvenience. The interruption will permit linemen -to make repairs on the main lines; and crews will take advantage of the outage, Pearce added, to perform mainteance work that would be dangerous with the lines energized. Power will be off between 5:00 and 6:30 o'clock Sunday morning, June 15, 1958. The area to be af fected includes Warsaw, Bowden, Turkey, Kenansville, Lyman, Chin quapin, and Beulaville. Miss Sykes Attends Convention Nurses The 1958 Convention of Ameri can Nurses' Association was held at Atlantic City, New Jersey, June 9th to 13th. Nurses attending from District 14 of State Nurses' Asso ciation are as follows: Mrs. RuUi Peters, Veterans Adm. Hospital, Fayetteville- Delegate. Mary E. Bullock, Veterans Arm. Hospital, Fayetteville-Del. hirs. Eunice Holmes, Veterans Adm. Hospital, Fayetteville - Al ternate Del. Mary Alice Whitfield. Cumber land County Health Dept. Alt. Del. Ann E. Lamb, Consultant, State Board of Health, Alt Del- Louise C. Bullock, Sampson Co unty Health Dept., Alt. Del. Mrs. Cora Marsh, V. A. Hospi tal, and Miss Mary Lee Sykes, Kenansville Two student nurses represent ing the student body of Highsmith School of Nursing are Margaret Allen and Joyce Brown. We as parents and adults work ing in Little League can and have improved leadership in this im portant, and to continue to main tain this fine American tradition with ts contribution to our com .. unor aeaun ua .aeais oi ia!r play, we must continue to encou rage our boys to take an active ' nart in tK aama Wtth nil Mtr i TIMES SPORTS WITH JOE COS TE contributions Little League needs I n one in December the Book our whole-hearted support so mobile did stop on the road on a lets get out and follow our Lit.le curve. Mr. Edd Kornegay towed League. I us into Scotts Store. When Ralph Lions Stop Rotary 10-4 Brown's mem came for us they said Last Wednesday afternoon at we had a burned out clutch. At the Grammar School Diamond the time it was decided that the Manager Paul Britt's league-lead- Bookmobile needed a new set of lng Lions handed the Ro ary their heavy duty tires. That is the big second defeat of the young season , Eest bill for reDairs we have had behind the five hit pitching of stylish Scotty Lockamy 10 4. Louie Ezzell and Charles Ander son lead the Lions with two for Continued on back lina and in general discussed cur rent problenls affecting the in dustry. The expected bitter debate on constitutional amendments regard ing redistricting failed to develop into more than a mild family squabble due largely to the adroit chairmanship of Melvin Cording who presented .the proposed amen dments in behalf of the board of directors with a powerfully worded oratorical apeal for . continued unity and then in tense moments sent the delegates into galees of laughter with some homespun philosophy or anecdote. . Newly elected directors added to the twelve man board were Grover Sellers of Texas, Harold Turner, Vermont: Dr Clyde Rou gou, Lonisianna. use," said General Townsend, 'but we had realiable guides to follow The agricultural estimates are bas ed on Department of Agriculture reports of llvesstock numbers and irrigation land acreage. Unfortunat ely, our irrigation law , does not make possible a more accurate jre cord of water use for this purpose' The heavy demands of the future can jbe met, he said, by careful dev elopment of the state's water re sources.. ;. yi'i , "We must store more water In limes of high flow to release dur . (joontliraed a hek)-.; ' mHmsh "S(il 1 it V J TAKING IT OVER - Mrs. Alta vKimegay, cen er Duplin Home .Agent, is shown here talking over this year's Farm Week program with Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Boney, of Teacheys," who have Duplin Couple Mr. & Mrs. Hubert Boney, Holds Farm Home Wk. Record by Paul Barwick When Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Boney of Teacheys' packed their bags last (weekend land 'headed for the campus of N. C. Sate Col lege, they were on their way to their 31st year of attendance at Farm Week without missing a year. 'ihls is ihe longest unbroken Miss Wightman Reports On On the whole we have had a good year in the County Library and a very busy one, even though it was a long cold Winter for every body and the Librarian could only sit over, the good gas heater and wait for better days. On the few day the Bookmobile could travel. it never faltered. The motor re- , spoaAeA quickly every time, thanks to Ralph Brown's Garage which looks after the Bookmobile. on the Bookmobile since it came to us in July 1948. The old Book mobile is checked every three mon ths and repairs have been minor. All winter the Bokmobile has stood here by the building taking all that weather! During those long cold weeks, the Librarian checked through old magazines, old worn out books and 5 or 6 box of clippings and pam phlets for Duplin County history items, and then gave the rest away to teachers, Home Demonstration leaders. The teachers seemed pleased to find much North Caro lina material. How would you like to hand out 10,82 books - supposedly as many being handed to you? That Is the number of books circulated since July 1st from this office and from the Bookmobile not counting those delivered to our four Branches. They too must be handled, each one. 1187 new books have been added to the County book collection. The July meeting of the Ameri can Library Association in San Francisco is too far away for your Librarian to attend but The Southeastern Library Association meets in Louisville, Ky., in Octo ber. The County Librarian is planning to attend. Recreatipn Pro. For The Children This is a reminder that the sum mer recreation program Is now un derway. This-program, sponsored by the Kenansville Lions Chib, is for all children fn and around the .vicinity oj Kenansville and Duplin County. ;'.';'.. .'.:' The program Is hot self-suppor ting and depends largely on .contri butions. If you have a contribution and are not contacted, please send or give it to Mr. Phil Kreteih the Waecamaw Bank or . Re,. Lauren Sharp, Treasurer of the Lions ..W.fi f.iv.1, r..Jte' attended Farm Home Week for 31 years without missing ayear, the longest record of attendanc for a couple in North Carolina. ( Photo By Paul Barwick attendance of any man and wife in North Carolina. Farm Week, which last this year through Thursday night, is something more than a get-together of farm folks from over No rth CarolinU. The Boneys have seen it come a long .vay and have had a great deal to do with the success of the organization. When Mrs. Helen Boney attend ed her first Farm Home Week in 1927, there were only about 500 persons present. She enjoyed the fellowship' so, much, however, that her enthu about, lift lasm of telling husband made a big tmpresstooi So, he went the next year and has been going ever Since In 1937, Mra.'; Boney served as president of the Sta;e Home De monstration Federation, which ma kes up the. State's-Women's organ ization at Farm Home Week. Du ring her jyear of presidency, the major object of the group was to have more Home Demonstra Registrants Del. With Draft Board The following registrants are delinquent with the Duplin Cou ntv draft board: James Sylanver Glasper, Ernest Stanford Simons. Gerald Smith, Donald Ray Willis, Henry Roosevelt Washington. Jr., Willard Franklin Matthews, Hay wood Fisher, Jr. Anyone knowing the whereab outs, of any of these men should 'report' suop. information to the office of the local board. These men are subject to immediate in duction and also to imprisonment and. fine. . : Uncle Pete From SATS DEAR, BUSTER EDITOR: Last night my old lady sets down at the kitchen table and pro ceeds to give met the benefit of some of her cornfield and cotton picking advice. It's a waste of time, she allows, fer me to always be worying and complaining about Congress and them folks arguing in Washington. Fer instant, she says folks has got to put up with the cackle of the hen if they aim to gltAany eggs. I thought that was a pretty good one but I didnt let on I thought ao. Give her a little encouragement and shell be want ing to write this column instead of me. She says this world is set in its ways and that nothing 1 com plain or worry about is going to change it.' According to her, the younger generation is going to the dogs and .the older generation has done gone. , Tkxes, dhe infofmfe, me; aint gonna be no more due next year than this., and onct you re delinquent what's a few more years. She figgers that If you ain't got no Cotton you -won't have no bool -weevils and farmers ought to look 00 eorft as., being in their weeds instead of weeds being in their oorn.. She allows as how the country has.; been headed down bill ever since folks started wear Ihg theti' Sundayclothe on week days, - She'' says things ain't gonna git an better -till folk atait ask ing if spmepun ia right Instead jot asKing jp, -n)i legal. J?iat; pwjt gopnafcarpen In, eur feneration. y:x;:A'-a.. tion Clubs o ganized in North Ca rolina and to develop a strong Home Demonstration Board. In 1938, when Mr. Boney was elected president of the Farmer's convention,. The other half of Farm Week personnel many im portant decisions were reached. I was during 1938 that a reso lution was finally adopted which was presented to the State Legis lature to establish a rural road imp ovement program. A member of that committee who served do- , i esly wi h Boney - was W. .'Kerr Scott. And whpn Scott became"' Governor in 1948, he carried with - hirn the thought of getting rural' No th Csp-lina out of the mud and it came about. It was also in 1938 that Farm Home Week delegates passed a re solution asking for an auditorium to seat 3,500, 'We thought that was really something.'' Boney said (continued on back) "Dirty" Whiskey Still Destroyed In Duplin County Duplin County Sheriff's Departm ent destroyed "a dirty" whiskey still in Smith Township last Thu rsday near Tapp farm Sheriff Ralph Miller said the 10 barrels of mash were stored in steel drums and the kettle was also a steel drum. It is this type whiskey still which has known to kill bootleg whiskey drinkers in the past. On the raid were Sheriff Mil ler and Deputies W. O. Houston, T. E. Revelle and Murray Byrd. Chittlin Switch she figgers, and I ust as well quit complaining. I just set there, Mister Editor, and let her rave. But all the time I was thinking what wimmem (continued on back) Times and Gazette Will Continue Publication To the people of Duplin and Lenoir Counties, and sur rounding areas, I would like to announce that we plan to con tinue operation of "The Dup lin Times In Kenansville and 'The Weekly Gaiette", la La Grange. Our policy shall be the con tinuation of the g-owth and ' development of Duplin and Le noir Counties the dream and ambition of my late hund ' and we HaH Mv. tn pnWhH papers of which he would he V prond. - i-' We sincerely appreciate te . V jnmon-t of our mapv fine f ends in the past and hepe Ut s i. ' you will continue tn auoort . n .ln the future. We shall .' , strive, in every way, lo serve "If. ; t peonle in a wholesome. ". ' '. and oonshwetlve manneni i:-, Buth V -ady. Owner and , -v Publisher, The Duplin Times "and The Weekly Gasette ;'. . aul A. . Berwick, BdMor,v. i 'l ' The. .Weekly sette. ';"-.;-:.";. '.' r I: J. -. ".' v. '-t .rtv-sr ! 'rP: -,' .'.'.-I'fv- .," ',"'.'-,?-'.' . '!' ,- J- - i ; v.- ,. , ! -s t it "'" . - - ' V ;'.;' '