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1 - lias .V I urn hmmMmm ) . , ala-' the tioa son-, pup; M If. Vi Of' t , ,,i!r,)' r.V'.' KENANSVILLE, NOBTH CAROLINA, , THURSDAY NOVEMBER 27 1958 'SUBSCRIPTION KATES $3.00 Tear fa) papHn and adjoining Oanntleai SCM oaUJoe this ares, in N, C.i . raMif W. r. PRICE TEN CENTS' 1 kvaJ' it.v.',tt: sful ake - i ' ON. t ot in I he late' uV Inst the be. bsr, said Hate ber, and- I is 6. Foriltonds Diili Good Drainage By Pani Bwwkk A project to clear debris and VPTOtted trees from NorJieaste t .flCpe. Fear) River .Jrom HalUvllle .f-to-.'DupIW County to Rocky Point r u - -u-nr county wiu oegln with 'yt in w next s days. i'.h '!'X Although no specific figure of cost has ben released, it is under- wuu tnat me monej is already In band to complete the pioject. The Army Corp ot Engineers will do the work." Sermon , Nov 30 ' ' The Masonic Sermon tor the 9th Masonic District will be held In to Kenansvflle Baptist Cbujrcji 0n Stday nighi;irfovember 30,: A 7i3Q P. M. The Rev Uuren Sharps, will be the speaker. AH Masons and Eastern Stars, as well as their families and friends are invited to take advantage of this excellent opportunity to meet as a district The 8tb Msaontc District is ,;om for worship. posed of Beulaville, Kenansville, Rosj Hill, Wallace and ihe Warsaw Lodges. After Worship, there will be a short period of fellowship and re freshmehts. S,. John's Lodge and Kenansville Chapter of The Order ot the Eastern Star will act as hos tess. Officials To Agriculture officials . from In "' dohesia will visit Duplin County next t week, Wednesday, Thurs day" and Friday to observe the " .Community Development pro ',:''gram. Vernon H. Reynolds, County i Farm Agent, said today that the f'lndfc?esian Ag. 1'. . officials will visit farmers in se veral of the communities and . Development meetings while in 'Duplin County, Ground Observer Corps Goes Out Of Business Effective The Secretary of the Ai? Force announced today that by Janu ary 31, 1959, the growth and scope of the nation's air defense radar- net will permit the mact ivation of the United States" Gro und Observer Corps. The Ground Observer Corps is currently com posed of some 280,000 active ci vilian volunteers, manning 16,000 observation posts and 50 filter centers throughout the nation. The' GOC has served faithfully FcrTax Refund Farmers Should Keep Gas All farmers using any type of 1 - powir -equipment on the farm ' should keep accurate records of , their gas consumption. This is for the purpdse of gasoune. tax re ' fund botl the Federal and State - wx. . " For state refund, the application ' . must' be filed between the first of t ; JanuSry and the I iiteenth of Aprw. t For federal refund, file between Julv' V and September 30. The mount of refuad, at state1 Uvel i six cents per gallon Snd the reruno ' M t federal level U three certi i srallon.' vv';- , ,If Wefed.vebic.U. wing ' tasollne'-irom the' "brags I & ait accurate record wust, p - , No refund Is du en this gasoline. ' v only thaJlasollne 4hat ,i ued on , f the farm and in the act of farming . . and harvesting may be used r the'purpote coUectlng a,xefund. For a state refund, all invoices of purchases must be attached to the application ft refund. These Invocies musf 'beciew fnd '-. plete . with th purchasers ijan . , and address wM ; OV" dealer. It rnut slo 'Contain the date, cost and amount Of put&ue. ' This Js not necessary lor a ieuri refund. In both cases, however, ah ' r -urate record of gasoline, usage t r all equ pment mutb on band U case' of lasptcUon. Information concerning the pro ject came today to the Duplin Times from Congressman Graham Barden. Colonel H. C. Howard, Jr. Corps of Engine .s, Wilmington, says that the clearance Of the segment is a continuation of a project which nas already been completed. Last year. Nor heast River was Cleared in Duplin County from Halisville north to two miles above Korn gay Bridge, which is located near B. F. Grady School. This project was for 10 miles. Too, Nor theast River wasV cleared for 15 miles in the Rocky Point section. The segment of , Northeast River between Halisville and Rocky Point was not cleared undir the original program. This is the segment now to Pe cleared. It Is 39 miles. This will bring good drainage to, farm, lands along 1 the Northeast George Penney Attends Five-Week Soil Conservation School At U. Of Georgia George Penny, Duplfn County Soil Conservantionlst, has recently completed a five-week course of intensive training ,in Soil Conser- Duplin Co. Soil Election Dec. 1 Soil Conservation District Soil Supervisor elections are to 'be held in Duplin County VDec. 1-6. George Penny, Duplin Soil Cimsfer,y&Uor,.8aidtoeiltP ballot boxes will be distributed over Duplin County'at, prominent places and farmers wjU have all feek to vote. James Albertson and George Cowan have been nominated to fill the three-year .term. The one elected Will take the place on the Supervisors committee which has been filled by Joe Sloan before this. , All farmers are urged to get out and vote. for nine years as an adjunct of the Air Defense System. The decision to relieve thesei volunteers from active partici pation in air defense is based On the following considerations: 1. The growing scope and ef ficiency of the air defense radar net give increasing assurance to air defense authorities that an enemy strike can be detected and identified before it reaches the continental United States. He re ferred specifically to the elec tronic Distance Early warning (DEW) line across the Arctic, & its seaward extension by ship and aircraft into the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; to a similiar ra dar line across mid-Canada, and to radar coverage in the, areas of both coasts .with air and ship born radar. 2. The fact that the GOC sys tem of receiving, processing and transmitting air defense informa tion Is fast becoming unable to keep pace with the increasing speeds of enemy manned;, bom bers and the weapons systems now being used in air defense.; 3. The Air Force responsibility to relieve the volunteers of their burdensome duties when the air defense detection system bid re ached the point in operational tfci.?: . Duplin County 4-H County Council will hold election of of ficers for 1958-59 at 7:30 p.iri. Monday in the , Agriculture Buil- Mrs Anne Loll i'.'Pritt,' County Assistant' Home Agent, .said to day that all 4-H)- Chib officers in. Duplin : County aa .well as alt Adule Leaders are urged to attend the meeting.-..- ' v The program for the - cOming fiscal .year viSi to be pjanned ,)n addition to officers being elected.: River basin,.". Those farmers who are now viftyolved jin getting the Muddy1;' Cteelf; .Watershed project approved. Boom-out, tnat the clear ing of Northeast River at the point now to be cleaned will make the Muddy Cretk project even more effectivo than bao originally been anticipated.'. , Duplin and Pender County gov ernment -officials are cooperating with the. current project, as they have oh all oftbe past cleaning and drainage projects by securing' right-bf-entry permits. . Only a few right-of-entry per mits have not been obtained but those not in hand are those who reside outside the area and are having to be contacted 'by mail. s A soon u these fight-cf -entry ; pftrtnits have byeri "secured, work will begin, according to Congress I man Barden . I vation work. The course was taught at the University of Georgia and was at tended by technicians from the nine Sou .heas tern States. Puerto Rba, and - Southern . Rhodesia, South Africa... - . , The Instructors were specialists in their respective fields, such as soils, -irrigation, drainage, agron omy. The regular staff is perman ently located at Athens, . a. bn they were ' assisted by specialist from various sections of the South east. -' i V ' Along with the classroom In struction, studies "and observations WeM wiadrf of . jppUed solVosper vatfon 'practifce!fat the soU eonsee- vation service experiment station, Watkinsville, ,the Coweeta Forest Experiment station and many in dividual .farms in Athens area. This training is designed to train technicians of the soil conserva tlon 'service so that they will be able to assist their local Soil Con servation Districts, and individual farm owners to develop a more complete! soil and water conserva tion program in their county. January 31 effectiveness where it no longer required human backup. Manual methods of handling air defense problems do not meet present and rapidly emerging re quirements. Because of -this fact, all phases of manual air defense operations .'are. being replaced by automatic -equipment capable of processing information in com pressing time. limits. The revol utionary ; heW. Semi- Automatic Ground ' Environment (SAGE) System, with 'Its lightning - fast computation of. data and its phe nomenal-Memory and storage capacities, its already taking over many of the time - consuming processes of the manual opera tions of the past. ' Improvement oi air defense ra dar coverage) was first felt by the Sorps with its reduction from 24 our duty to Ready Reserve sta tus on -January 1, 1958. At that time, air defense officials felt that the GOC could be placed on stand-by status with no ad verse, effect on the operational capability of the organization. Under alerting procedures then in effect, tests proved that most GOC units could, become opera tional - In - - a - maximum of 45 minutes. Other developments and improvements in our air defen se system during the past year give, assurance that by - January 31, 1959 ; edequate ; air ' defense can be provided Without the GOC , continuing .to- bestpe.eavy Duraen or past, amies. i , . .y 4The GOC has been properly characterized as . the greatest peacetime civilian volunteer de fense, organization in the history of the nation. The dedication and patriotism of its individual vol unteers who have contributed so much to national security have received the highest . tributes from: toeVcpun try's leaders ovr the"past nine ftm.'':"M! ''After.' January 81, . all GOC volunteers are ,. urged to give their ifvlture' ' valuable -tervices to .civil defense in order that the wealth of experience gained in the GOC can be further uti lized In vltal .civil defense' pro grams. , f ' TOES -:- WHAT IS A FOOTBALL PLAYER? Between the innocence of boy hood and the dignity of a man, we find a sturdy crea.ure called lootoall play, r Football players come in assorted weights, heights, je.sey colors and numbers, but all football placers have the same creed: to play every second of every minute of every period of every game to the bes. of tlieir ability. Football players are found very where - underneath, on top of. running around, jumping over, passing by, twisting from or dri ving through tiie enemy. Team- Meet Your ASC er This week Duplin ASC recog nizes an outstanding member 0f "Its Happy Family", Mr. Rufus Elks, Jr., our County Office Manager. Rufus was born in Pi.t County on July 25, 1910. He was the only boy in a family of three children. He grew up on his iainers larm be fore the day of "A farm tractor in every shed", when most of the work was done the hard way. Mr. Elks early lite on the farm even though he was unaware of it was laying a fine foundation for his futu-.e coreer with ASC. He attended grade school in Grlmesland, North Carolina. In 1922 .h and his family moved to Washington, North Carolina, where Rufus continued his studies and graduated from high school in 1927. While in school Mr. Elks' favorite sport was baseball. He has also played semj-pro basefall. The fol lowing year Mr. Elks entered Oak Ridge Military Academy and gra duated in 1829. H. next attended State College and then Baltimore Busiuest Jool.4U4rhere after, a short period of time," due to an ill- ness, it was necessary for him to discontinue school. Elks returned to Washington and farmed until 1939; when he began working with ihe railroad .He con tinued to work with the railroad until the year 1946, when he once again returned to the farm. In 1950 he began his career with the ASC as compliance supervisor in B.aufon County. Due to thp Secretary of Greene County be coming inn Mr. Elks was asked to serve as Acting Secretary in Greenp County from June to August of 1951. Elks was then employed in Halifax County as Secretary, where he served in this capacity until March 1956, when he was trans ferred to Duplin County. During the time he was with Halifax ASC, the title of Secretary was changed to Manager. Rufus Elks, J. a & Alice Chaun cey who is also from Washington, N. C. wej-e married in '37. The Elks have one daughter, Betty Lou, who is now a sophomore at Meredith College. Elks and his family at tend the Kenansville Methodist Church. Outside ot his many duties as County Office Manager, he finds a little time for his hobbies, which are fishing, hunting, and enjoys occasionally a good baseball game also, he Is a very loyal T. V. fan. his favorite, Is Wagon Train. Elks is a conscientious person, and has a Joyial personality. He is a man who is concerned with all farm programs. He continually strives to be of equal service to all farmers, while administering the various farm programs. We feel that Duplin County is fortunate to have Rufus 'F-ks and his family as a resident, and the fanners are for. tunate to have him as Manager of their County ASC Office. Streets Paved In Beulaville '. The Barrus. Construction Com pany of Klnston bas been paving severartr tha streeu in fieulaviUrf this week.: The , street, that runs side of Arthur Kennedys home has been pav.d, one block of Wilson Street,;, that lu'ns by the National Guard Biulding; two blocks of Ste ward' S,reet, 1 block has :, een paved that runs by the Town Be- creatoln Building; Brown Road ex tension to N, C. highway 24 to Broad, street. ; 'ime . Town , Clerk alsq reports that, soma of . ihe patch ing haS b'efn completed .and hope that '-. by;i the early part .of next week the job ' will, be completed. Mr. brown also reported that at the: lastTowH' t nwetjng thht the Building which has, been known-ss the Scout Hut has been officially named the Town ' Recreational Building. ' ' ' , SPLITS By JoeCoslin mates rib them, officials penalize - inem, students cheer them, kid brothers idolize them, coaches cri tlcez them, coll.ge girls adore them, and mothers worry about them. A', football player is Cour age in cleats, Hope in a helmet, Pride in Jpads, and the best of You ng Manhood in moleskins. When your team is behind, a foot ball player is incompetent, care less, lazyj indecisive, uncoordinat ed and stupid. Just when your team threatens to turn the tide of be tie, he misses a block, fumbles the ball, drops a pass, jumps off side, falls down, runs the wrong way or completely forgets his as signment To an opponent publicity man, he has the s peed of a gaz elle, the strength of an ox the size of an elephant, the cunningness of a fox, the agility of an adagio f Racer, the tuickntss of a cat and the ability oi Red Grange, Glenn Davis and Jim Thorjpe - combined, To his own coach he has, for the press purposes, the stability of mush, the fleitness of a snail, the mentality of a mule, is held to CoBtinnc On BMk Carolina Tel & Tel Installs 81 Rural Phones Recently, Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company expan ded its telephone service to ser ve sections that heretofore have had no cummunication , means other than going distances to place calls through pay stations or using resident phones of ot her people. Sixty phones have been instal led in the .Kenansville area and embrace's Warsaw route 2, Ken- ansville route 1 and Magnolia ro ute 1. Twenty - one phones have been added to the Beulaville listings. As a public service to our rea ders we are printing the listings in order that they may be clipped and attached to telephone direc tors. This will eliminate calling the telephone office for the new numbers that are not in the pre sent phone books. The following are Beulaville listings. BEULAVILLE: James Brinson CY8-3421 Kit Brinson CY8-3426 Wilbert Futrell CY8-3521 Preston Sendlin Radio and TV Service CY8-3921 Elmore Sandlin Recapping Co. CY8-3926 H. B. Kennedy CY8-4091 Norman V. Sandlin CY8-4092 Harry Miller CY8-4096 Annie Ruth Kelly CY8-4097 Norman Mercer CY8-4421 Norwood Williford CY8-4441 Susie Griflfin CY8-4442 James Albertson CY8-4446 Lillie B. Hall CY8-4471 W. L. Wade CY8-4472 Everette Miller CY8-4477 W. M. Everton CY8-4511 Leo Brown CY8-4516 Cicero Lanier CY8-4591 Eddie Earl Griffin CY8-4596 James W. Kennedy CY8-4951 KENANSVILLE listings are as follows: John A. Ferrell Jr 311-1 Otho L. Holland 311-2 Roscoe J. Whitman 311-3 A. D. Benson 311-6 C. H. Holland 311-7 Norman Benson's Store 311-8 Mrs. Ira. Whitman 312-1 D. F. Chambers 312-2 Cameron 'J. Stroud 312-3 Raeford Smith 312-4 Johnnie Benson 312-6 Davis G. Evans 312-7 Herman E. Whitman 312-8 (ntinned ea been December 4 In : ' A county-wide, tobacco meeting will be held in Duplin County December 4, according to Vernon H. Reynolds, - County ' Agent Boy Bennett,, Extension Tobac co Specialist; and Vurney Todd, Extension Pathologist, will be in Kenansville at l. 7:30 p.m. to di rect the discussion . Reynolds . points out that far mers interested in tobacco veri ties and disease, control should make a special effort to Attend. "You cannot realize how im portant meetings such as this are. Reynoids t said. . v"More farmers-! should take advantage f them before they begin another year's tobacco crop." Uf 1' 7" Ml ' f Thanksgiving is Time God For Blessings Of Past Year ' The first Presidential Thanks-1 cn give the full meaning to I sings ii we tried, and we so of giving Proclamation was issued Thanksgiving Day. It means very ten take them ,"or granted. If I ry George Washington in 1789. It reads thus: "WHEREAS it is the duty of aii nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to im plore His protection, aid and fa vors .... NOW, THEREFORE, I do re commend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being,' who is the Beneficent Author of" all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and pro tection of the people of this co untry, and for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us." This Presidential proclamation on the part of our first president, as has many others since it was first issued in 1789, concerned our national advantages and pro sperity. Sometimes, however, ge nuine responsibility has been deemed essential to the spirit of gratitude. Coolidge, for instance, wrote: "We have been a most favored people. We ought to be a most generous people. We have been a most blessed people. We ought to be a most thankful peo ple." Truman suggested: "May our Thanksgiving be tempered by humility, by sympathy for those who lack abundance, and by compassion for those in want.' A Presidential proclamation brought Thanksgiving day into existence and other proclama tions like it have set aside a certain day each year ever si nce. But no written proclamation Dwight Smtih Gets Eagle Badge At the Court of Honor held in Rose Hill Friday November 21, Dwight Smith of Troop 20, War saw, was presented his Eagle Ba dge. Mr. Bruce Boyers, Scout Ex ecutive, gave the badge to Mrs. Hop Smith to pin on her son. Dwight gave to his mother an Eagle Necklace and to his father, a lapel pin and tie clasp as a to ken of appreciation for the work they had done with him. His Eagle will be presented later in the Warsaw Methodist Church of which he is a member. - Other awards presented were the following: Lee West - Life Award and Nature Merit Badge; getting the First Class awards were Billy Knowles, Bobby Pear- salL Bobo. Potter, and Billy rWoods. Winston Henderson re ceived his Second Class award. Boys who will receive their ten derfoot at the scout hut are Bon nie Batts, Arthur Minshew, and Fred Easoa. Merit Badges' were presented to the following boys: Allen, "o untain, Canoeing; Jack Sauls, Hog and Pork Production; Corn Farming and Camping; J. D.'ta- son. Wildlife Management, Geo rge Clark, Bugling; Micky Ben ton,- Home Repairs; Jimmy Stri ckland, Swimming, Rowing en4v canoeing; jerry -AiDertson, no ma Repairs, Walter Bostic, Wild Life Management; Charles' .Ste ven - Cooking: Home Repaint Fishing; Bobby. PearsalL Canoe- ... -itet little more than nothine unless gratitude is written in the hearts of the people. Thanksgiving is something that cannot be writ ten down or said verbally and mean as much as if it is expres sed by the way we live. We in Dwplin County have been particularly blessed geogra phically, agriculturally, cultural ly, and in many other ways. God has been good to us. We co uld not enumerate all our blcs- Girl Injured Whelfi Thrown From Fender Of Automobile Edna Strickland age 15, daughter of E. A. Strickland of Beulaville, was thrown from the fender of a 1948 Tudor Desoto on Thursday night receiving a possible brain concussion and internal injuries, according to a report by Fa'.rolman G. R. St. wart. , Johnny Futreal, age 16, of Potters Hill had been working on his bro ther's car and after getting it fixed, he drove it off and went to Cabin Crossroads and picked up four boys and four girls, with two of the girls riding on the fender. When they got In front of Brenda Brinson's noma, one of the girls asked Fu treal to stop. He did not s.op then, but went on about 100 yards down the road and stopped. When he did, Edna Strickland fell off the fender The Futreal boy picked her up and took her to Brenda's home, and thinking she was all right, he left. When her father came to get her. Duplin Chosen Top 4-H Group In SENG Land Duplin County's 4-H organiza- James Barwick of the Oak Ri tion with more than 1,800 me- d,ge Community Club won first mbers in organized clubs was place in the tractor operators named in Wilmington on Satur- contest. Barwick outclassed three day as the most progressive 4-H other semi-finalists to win the grpup Li . ine Southeastern No rtli Carolina counties. The honor was announced by R. B. Page, publisher of the Star - News Newspapers, dur ing an awards luncheon at Le gion Stadium following comple tion of the first annual Star News Newspapers 4-H Honor program. On hand to accept congratula tions for the title were Mrs. Lois Britt, Duplin's assistant home a gent and Ed Simpson, assistant farm agent Simpson and Mrs. Britt directed the award winn ing 4-H programs during the year."".. Presentation of the award high lighted a brief ceremony honor ing 324 exhibitors, eight tractor driving contestants and several talent show performers. , V Duplin County collected anot her top-notch honor a trophy for the most outstanding 4-H Club boy in SENCland. y The award went to Mike Good son. 17 year old senior at B. F. Grady High School, and 1958 state 4-H champion in beef pro duction. A 4-H participant for past seven years, Mike is cur rently president of both of the $VJVGfady School' Senior class tt)A pleasant Grove Community 4-H Clubs and vice president of the county Council, , 7o Praise you W!i. look ovtT our fair co- unty w '.h your eyes open you will sec written on everything in sigh; the doxology: "Prai.-i; God from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heaven ly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." by D. E. PARKER SON , j . she was unconscious. He then rush, ed her to Duplin General Hospital. Johnny Futreal is out under a $500. bond charged with careless and wredk-ss driving, personal injury and no operators license. Program Slated For Pleasant View Ch. There will be a picnic supper at 5:00, followed by a program on Campus Christian Life at the Plea sant View Presbyterian Church Sunday evening, Nov. 30th. The program on Campus Chris tian Life will be presented by two young people of the Westminster fellowship at East Carolina Col lege. Come and join us at the picnic supper and at the program. N. P. Farrior Pastor. tractor competition. He posted a time record of three minutes and 48 seconds. He is a previous district tractor contest winner. State extension service pen : -. nel praised his tine as "one i f. the better records ever establi shed in 4-H competition." Mary Catherine Bass of James Kenan High School won second place in the dress review. Duplin County also won 9 blue ribbons in the exhibits. "This program is designed to encourage greater interest in 4-H work and to recognize achieve ments by the members of the many- 4-H dubs in our area, ' Rye B. Page, Published of the Star - News Newspapers, said. y 7 SHOPPING I f C jjtWEEKS LEFT