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' "A. ll:is Week c 8 00WI V1 , I 1(11 VOLUME XXVIir No 22 KENANS VILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY JUNE 1, 1961. SUBSCRIPTION RATES $3.00 per year In Duplin and adjoining Counties; (4-00 outside this area in N. C; $5.00 outside N. C. PRICE TEN CENT 4. - '1' i x r f i c L r m a. ' W- 1 1,! Pb'8 u r, i n ft . In Kenansville- Tuesday In Special '" The rape-murder trial of Theodore Boyklnf Is scheduled to ret underway Tuesday IS a special session of Duplin Crim inal Superior Court. -.- The previous trial of Boyklns, jrhlch bet;an oa April , was declared mistrial when Sup erior Court Judge Chester R. Morris suffered a heart attack while hearing evidence In the ease. t Superior Court Judge George M. Fountain will be judge dur ing this special term which be-, gins Monday. . ' -. .' - : . Boyklns, a Teachey Negro, Is charged with the rape-murder of Mrs. Lena T. Garnes on Duplin Softball . I paniiP Fnrmpfl ftv iiV'-. BaWWMHW S VI III VM rft I : J -j Community Clubs Six 'Duplin County Community i Development Clubs have organize a Softball league, Play will 'begin rba Saturday, June 10, and continue ifor 10 weeks. 'i ?r:;:C',. v-vy-'. : ' -The games will be played on a 1 , home and home basis. Two games ,. ' will be played each Saturday. Each of : the Community Clubs partici pating will have two teams, one for boy and girls 16 years and j 1 under and. one for men and wo .1.1 v men.. 16 Tear and over. The teams If v ' can be mixed with boys nd girls Krnd.nan nasi mnthS Lj Club entered 4n4he new torm i ed league are Beutancu, Cedar J , Fork, jPleasan;,, 'Gry, , :.: Potter Hill, Oak Ridge and Rones, A 10 r game schedule has beenarranged. At the end of the seasbv PW , off wiU be held with the County winner receiving a trophy ' in both the adult and Junior divisions,. The - runner-up in -each division ' will also be awarded a trophy. ,; S; Farm Tenancy Shows decreased sharply from "1954 to 1959, reaqhing its lowest level since 1880. A preliminary report from the 1959 Census of Agriculture . (hows -that S1.4 per cent of the farm; in North Carolina were, tenant ope rated in 1959 a compared with 36.9 per cent five year earlier. The na tional percentage was 20.3 In 1959. Translated Into actual number, 57,000 Fires Are: Originated In ; Rubbish-Cosily ' Fires originating in rubbish, cau sed $21-million property loss tn 1959, toe latest year for which sta tistics are complete.' ;fl This terrific loss, estimated by the National Fire Protection As sociation, was the result of homes, tores,- and. factories; t allowing accumulation of rubbisUr . "Now while you are hot busy at tending furnace, stoves or fire places, use that time to clear out old newspapers, broken furniture, oily rags, , and other combustible material that you have put in the crap heap,' advised Fire Chief Lauren Sharp ' ,. V i, &. ' He added, "Don't give fire a place to start' aat)"9l f f KF To 1959 In North Carolina Sh ii r-i 1 - " I T Tern 01 Court, . Christmas' Eve soon after she returned to her home In Rse ' Bill from Christmas shopping trip., - . - , Boyklns Is alleged to -have . been waiting for Mr. , Barnes 'i Inside her house. He I charged with strlcklng her over the head with a poker, dragging her to the living room of her home when he raped her after which he drug her to the -basement of her house and 'shot her with a -JSt caliber pistol. J, . . . A special venire has not yet . been ordered for the trial, ac cording to R, V. Wells, Duplin Clerk of Superior Court '. How-; ever,; M regular - Jurors have been drawn. If a special venire to called. Wells said it wUl . likely be Monday afternoon, f To Cash Checks, Urqed To Get :. Merchant in oupun County Sheriff have been ted vised by Ralph ; Miller not to x take a check Jtrem p stranger, without proper and sufficient Identlfica- tl6B.i.iyV' i. v x.v-. VTho SBI hasl notified Us," Sheairr MOier said, "that a ; large number ! bad checks hJ-iKi;.all- nyer Korfi riollO' to r-rwnt miNK : ths.and that merehant . who" eaab , cheeks from . straagere wMbMt ' snfficiertl tdeiitifica. Vw are asking for trouble." . Credit s eards and c driver's , Ucense, getting dates off M, and the number , of the ante tag are Important when eash!nr checks of strangers, , Sheriff Miller pointed out. : Decline From 1954 North Carolina bad 59,925 tenants in 1959 as compared with 98,819 In 1954. The total number of farms in the state declined from 267,908 to 190,567 during the period. A change lii the definition of .a farm account ed for 16,661, of the loss. V Dr. Selz C. ' Mayo, head of thr Department of Rural Sociology at North Carolina State College, say that farm tenancy in North Can Una reached its peak about 1930. While, the percentage of tenant has been declining since then, th decrease in North Carolina has n been as' rapid as in other Souther thtes. -:' '. He attributes -this slower di crease to tobacco, which has bee called. America's , last great unme chanized crop. ,, - In 1959, for example, 18 Tar Hee counties still had over half thei farms operated by tenants. Edge combe led the list with 74.1 pet cent. Others ( listed in order o tenancy percentage)' were Greene WUson, Pitt; NashRobeson, Hert ford, Granville. Scotland, Person Lenoir, Martini Vance, . Halifax, Wayne, Bertie, Hoke and Caswell All counties falling in .the. ovei 50 per cent category are heavy pro ducers of tobacco with the excep tlon of Scotland, Bertie and Hoke which produce either cotton or pea nuts in large amount. . Watauga had the , distinction b having the lowest . percentage o tenants in 1959 1 per cent as com pared with 8 per cent in 1954. ' i Most mountain counties had very few tenants. Alexander, Tlleghany Vvery, Burke, Caldwell, Macor and Watauga, for example had lea than 5 per cent. Hyde, Jackson, Mitchell and Or ange had ' more tenants in 195! than they did in 1954. Percentage of increase was small in each o) these counties, however. . Dr. Mayo says that where tenancy rate are low the tenant is usually on one of two feteories: first, he may be a- young farmer without much capital working toward farm ownership; or secondly, he may be a relative of the landlord begin ning to assume ownership. , "In e " r case, "Dr.. Mayo add '. Vf ! n Is r- i c.""ererX Trial & Error This little item was meant for last week, but due to many things, it got in this week' paper. Many of you know Faison and Susie Smith of Albertqpn-the -V'square-dancingist' couple in North Caro lina. Well, Faison and-Susie have a birthday right close together and it is an annual affair for them to have a barbecue supper and pic nic and follow it with a square dance, I happened to be one the fortunate ones to be invited this year, and I'm telling you it was plenty of fun. Square dancing to the people of that neighborhood is as natural as walking and they love it. I can assure you that, cook fng is not a lost art in that neigh. Dorhood either. Death caroa to a very dear uncle of mine this week. Uncle Cam Pridgen of Warsaw passed away suddenly after he had gone to bed on Saturday night. When I read the death notice in the r obituary column, it was a shock to me when it gave his age as 78, as he was an ageless person, and I had never stopped to realize that he was oid in years. Uncle Cam was never a person to make a big show in poli ticis, civic affairs or organizations; yet he had a keen interest In every one and everything that was going on. and could tell you what was happening throughout the .county and state: To his twenty-five or 30 nieces and nephews,' he was just "tops". I have never seen him when he' was too busy, no stop and listen to jtrgr.nrtu:ppieiSNpieasurers, excitement' an&ut wlXiHiots , and even to swap a nught jkeiii contagious laughters was always ready to spring .up at . the least provocation and yet when neces sary, he wai a strict discipilinarian mii always fair. He could give ad vice without -your ever knowing it the type that could make you figure your own problem. Uncle Cam will je missed so much by all of us, ind makes us realize more and nore that "The moving finger wri tes, and having writ, moves on," Have you attended a graduation heard from Miss Dorothv WiM- n-law graduated Saturday, and leek's iamijy and Rogers famuy were all there for the fine occasion. t is really thrilling to see 1500 iraduates file into the auditorium, i Ve happened to be sitting where e could see their expressions as hey filed in and out-expressions of seriousness, nonchalantness, hap Iness, indifference and pride. Latest report on the rocker-it is turned out to be a Kennedy ocker. RUT H .ibrary Board Members of the Duplin County jbrary Board with only one ex ception w.re present at the annual meeting of the Library Board meet a& It met In - Kenansville last Wednesday afternoon in the Lib ary. . Mrs. Lawrence Southerland, 'Jiairman, presided, assisted ' by Irs. Hugh Morrison as Secretary. t splendid report of the Library vork and Bookmobile Service was heard from Miss-Dorothy Wikht nan. County Librarian. She stated -hat she had circulated 12,083 books luring the past ten months and '.hat 1298 volume here have been idded to the county collection bringing the total count to 21,278. The budget lor 1961-82 was adop ed by the group prior to their ad 'ournment, which it is hoped will be approved at the next meeting of the County Commissioners. . co::ccoae . I V III (RALEIGH ... The Motor Vehicles Department' summary of traffic deaths through 10 A. M. Monday, May r, 1961: ' T) r "e I r ! Year .... 430 : 4M I TV A ; , I if' 9 ' ' J ' f I mw REV, JOHN MAIDES Reverend John Maides, Evange list, will hold services at the Ken andsville Methodist Church. Ser vices will begin Sunday nk;ht, June 4, at 8:00 P. M. and last thro ugh Friday night, June 9. Rev. Maides is an East Coast man, born near Maysville, North Carolina-a man with a passion for Swimming Permitted Cliffs Of Nuese 'Opens for Sumer The summer season, will open at the Cliffs of the Neuse State Park, near Seven Springs, on Saturday, June 3. Bruce Price, Park Superintend ent, said today that the bathhouse will be open for swimming in the Cliffs' Lake. Swimmnig is permit ted daily from 10:30 a. m. until p. m. The Park gate opens at a. m. and closes at 10 p. m. daily. Boating is also available for per sons who desire to go boating on the lake. Because of the acid con dition of the water, fish will not live in the Cliffs' Lake and little fishing is done, although it is ava ilable . Picnicking facilities and nature trails are also open to the public. "We are looking forword to the biggest season we have eve had at Cliffs of the Neuse," Price said. "If weather conditions are favor able we believe this will be a big year.' J.G. Pridgen, Sr. Succumb Suddenly John Campbell Pridcen, 78 died suddenly Saturday night at' his home near Warsaw. Funeral services were conducted at the Friendship Methodist Church Monday afternoon at 3:00 O'clock by Rev. Mel Johnson, pastor. Bur ial followed in the Family Ceme tery near the home. He is survived hy his wife, the former Nellie Dixson, two sons John Campbell Pridgen, Jr. of Warsaw and Joseph H. Pridgen of Greenville and one daughter Mrs. Claude Plyer of Greenville, four grand children. One brother A. L. Pridgen of Perry, S. C, two sisters Mrs. L. A. Sally and Mrs. Maggie P. Salley both of Salley. S. C. Active Pall Bearers were: O. L. Holland, J. B. Jones, Cameron Stroud, Isam Byrd, Herman Whit man and Lee Kornegay. Furney Todd To Be Oak Ridge Speaker Friday Furney Todd, pathologist with the N. C. State College Extension, will be principal speaker Friday night June 2) at Oak Ridge Com munity Building at 8 p. m. Todd will show slides on the blue mold epidemic which struck Ger many tobacco fields last year. The blue mold epidemio did extensive damage to the tobacco crop in Ger many in the field and was a major problem for producers. , ' vaf Beg i ns Sun day I saving souls for the service of God. He entered in the service of the Conference in 1946 and is now ser ving the Lone; View Gardens Chu rch in Raleigh. He is a graduate of the Divinity School at Duke Uni versity. He is also secretary of Evangelism of the Raleigh District. The Methodist Church in Kenans ville is very fortunate in having se cured his services as an Evange- j list. The public is welcome and people of all denominations are cordially invited to attend. Causing Widespread The introduction of a bill to provide sick leave for teachers is causing widespread discussion statements being made about the across the State, with conflicting provisions of the bill. Representative William Z- Wood, Forsyth County, sponsor of HB 713, states that the bill in no way diangfcs the present provisions BRIEFS Kenansville Bible School The annual vacation Bible School of the Kenansville Community will be held June 5-8 from 8:30 -11:30 each morning in the Kenansville Baptist -Church. All children be tween the ages of 3 and 15 are urg ed to attend. Mrs. Amos Brinson will serve as Principal of the school. AUXILIARY MEET j The Duplin General Hospital Auxiliary meeting will be held in ' Ihn staff rnn mat the hnsnilal on . i.. i ot n -m r. m inotoiiatinn nf ! officers for the new year and re port of activities of the past year will be the program. BIBLE SCHOOL Daily Vacation Bible School will begin at Unity Methodist Church on June 5 and will continue each day through Friday, June 9. The school will begin at 9:00 through 11:00 A. ,M. Studies in Christain Living will be taught and handi crafts conducted for children from ages 4-16. Refreshments will be ser ved. Teachers are the women of the local church assisted by Rev. and Mrs. Thomas House. Each and all are invitcfd to attend. HOMECOMING Jones Chapel Baptist Church of Albertson will have homecoming on Sunday, June 4, with Sunday School at 10:00 A. M. and services at 11:00. Picnic lunch will be ser ved at 12:30 and afternoon ser vices will begin at 1:30. The pub lic is cordially .invited to attend. . BIBLE SCHOOL The Harper Southerland Bible School' will begin June S and go through' June 9 at Harper Souther land Church. Hours: 8:00 until 11:00 A. M. All children in and around', the community are Invited to attend. Mrs. Willie Harper will be the director. v ,.; f-H COUNTY COUNCIL 4-H County , Council will i meet Monday Night. June 12, at 8:00 P. M. in. the Agricultural Building, Kenansville. This change in. meet ing is due to being at 4-H Camp on regular meeting time. Bill louiye Teachers Sick Leave Is Membership By Eastern By Paul Barwick Brolier producers throughout Eas tern North Carolina are being con tacted beginning this week and being asxed to join the Eastern North Carolina Broiler Growers, Inc. I. J. Sandlin, Jr., chairman said today that over 85 members have aiieaay joined and that from all indications over 200 broiler pro ducers will have joined the organi zation within the next two weeks. Interest in the new organization has increased sharply in recent days. Persons who are not broiler Warsaw Little League Talk The "Little League' over in War saw got underway Wednesday afternoon of this week. The Legion team coached By Allen Draughan, Sr. lost in the opener 23-7, to a power-packed Lions team coached by Charles Tanner. In the second game, Ted Wilson's Rotary just did sneak out a 4-3 win over Gene Hol land's Jaycee nine. Last week on opening Hny of "try outs" everyone was really happy to see the big turn out. As one old timer put it "I've never seen as much interest in baseball I thought everybody's only interest was foot ball." Twenty eight boys came out for practice for the first time and ' I believe that's what you would call having baseball at heart. The Discussion In N. C. for subsitute teachers as provided by the regulations of the State Board of Education, i Dr. A. C. Dawson, Executive Secretary, NCEA, points out that the bill is in keeping with a long- standng objective of the United Forces for Education and of the NCEA I "Teachers are now penalized $8.00 per day for the privilege of being (iick," he declared, "and th'v have no definite Inns term luugiciiii protection for prolonged and ex pensive illnesses, especially if the lose their contract." "It is only fair that teacher'-' have at least half as many days of sick leave as is provided for all other State employees and that it be cumulative indefinitely," Dr. Dawson stated. Children would benefit most f'Oiii ti.e .sick lijjve 'program, "because teachers continue to hold class while too sick to teach properly," Wood stated when he Wood also pointed out that introduced the bill. North Carolina loses teachers to other states where sick leave is provided. , The substitute teacher regula tions which now govern teacher absences for sickness require that the teacher's salary be reduced I. by $8.00 per day as pay for the substitute. The portion of the State Board regulation governing sion V-l, Items (a), (b), and (c), length of absence states: "For causes enumerated in ,cec pay may be allowed as herein provided as a matter of course by the superintendent under whom a teacher is seving for a period of one or more days, as in hs judgment necessity requires, not -exceeding twenty teacmng days, and such twenty-day period may be extended for such additional time as the county board of edu coation or the board of trustees of the city administrative unit may approve, provded each ex-! tension shall not be in excess of twenty school days. The general regulations of the county or city board shall govern as to the ex tension of time in the event that the tweny-day period ends be tween meetings of the respective boards or in case an extension has not been approved or disapproved at a prior board meeting." ( It local boards find it necessary the replaced teacher is cut off from any income. A cumulative sick leave program, even if only five days would allow a teacher who ha served the State for 20 years a total of 100 days of income. "We feel that teachers will make every effort to cumulate leave and reserve it for extended ill nesses, for this has been the ex (Coatlned mi Back) - Drive Being Conducted N. C. Broiler Growers producers but concerned with the industry in Eastern North Caro lina, are joining the Broiler Grow ers group as associate members with no voting privileges. Annual membership dues are $5.00. "We have representatives in all communities throughout Duplin County," Sandlin said, "and are making arrangements to contact broiler producers in all other coun ties in Eastern counties already and are expecting more counties to join," The Eastern North Carolina town is really wrapped up in the Little League ... but I'm afraid we are looking over something real important in our summer program. Boys from eight years old to thir teen are eligible ' then what happens. They are turned on the streets. . . to to speak . . . again . Some FATHER somewhere must come forth and start the ball rolling to organize a "Pony Lea gue". Second baseman Pat Matthis and Danny Best led the slaughter as Tanner's Lions ripped into the American Legion team at will. Matthis and Best had three for four as the Lions pounded Billy Martin and Melvin Hines for 16 hits Winning pitcher Tommy Benton struckout ehdit, walked seven and allowed 10 hits in winning. The Le- "loh's..big nJtbafte' 6amc froro-.ii-i lowinc; 15 men to walk accounting for two or three Lions rallies. Dean Lane and Larry Hilton had two hits apiece for the losers. Robert Blackburn, Duane Millard also had i two hits for the winners Pitcher Larry Cook made the difference in the second game as the Jaycees were only able to get two hits. Cook struckout 12 Jaycees on his way to victory. Left fielder Henry Carlton paced the Rotary j with a home run. and single. Geor ! ge Garner with a double and two 1 RBI's led the Jaycee attack. i TU. nn,nr tVnui p.m.. in ' ' c mice lum 111 , , , ... , ...oil. I Ml'- in y ui inc urn ii uu unc nam, I and error, and Carlton's home run. LITTLE LEAGUE SCHEDULE 1961 All games to be played at Junior High Date May 31 Time Visitors 2:00 American Legion 4:00Ttotary vs June 3 Home Team vs Lions Lions 2:00 Lions vs t wi American Legion Jaycees vs Rotary June 7 2 00 Lions 4.00 Jaycees vs June 10 2:00 Lions vs 4 00 Jaycees June 14 2:00 Jaycees vs American Rotary Legion American Lecion vs Rotary vs Lians American Legion 4:00 Rotary vs June 17 2:00 Rotary 4 00 American vs Legion Lions vs Jaycees vs Lions Jaycees Jaycees vs Rotary- June 21 2:00 American Legion 4:00 Rotary vs June 24 2:00 Lions vs 4:00 American Legion June 28 2:00 Lions vs Rotary 4:00 Jaycees vs American Legion July 1 2:00 Lions vs American Legion 4.00 Jaycees vs Rotary July 5 2:00 Jaycees vs Lions American Legior 4:00 Rotary July 8 2:00 Rotary vs Lion; 4:00 American Legion vs Jaycees July 12 2:00 American Legion vs Lions 4:00 Rotary vs Jayceer July 15 2:00 Lions vs Jaycees 4:00 American Legion vs Rotary July 19 2:00 Lions vs Rotary 4:00 Jaycees vs American Legion July 22 2:00 Lions vs American Legion 4:00 Jaycees vs .. Rotary July 26 ' 2:00 Jaycee v Lions 4:00 Rotary vs American Legion July 29 - . -r-- 2:00 Rotary ' v i, Lions 4:00 American Legion vs Jaycee Broiler Growers, Inc. came into ex- istance after low broiler prices hit . ; North Carolina producers to a point that they wee losing money on ; operations. - The purpose of the organization, . as set forth in the article's of in- ; corporation, is: (1) to insure a t closer relationship between Broiler .. Growers and Feed Producers. (2) . to establish an organization of ' -Broiler Growers in order to com- ' t bine knowledge and experience in an attempt to maintain a more profitable and healthful broiler in- . dustry. and 3i to collect and dis- ' 1 seminate information which tends to keep Broiler Growers informed on the trends in marketing. Since the group has been organi- , zed, a vote of the member has put the Eastern North Carolina Broiler Growers on record opposing any ; contro's on broilers, from either ! : Federal, State or local legislation. The resolution adopted stated, "that the poultry producers throu ghout the United State govern them selves and production without any intervention by the Federal Gov-' ernment; because it is believed that if an industry gets itself into difficulties that it is up to said in dustry to correct its own difficul ties for the good of all concerned." : The resolution was Prompted by . consideration at the present by the Agriculture Committee of the U. S. House of Representatives to place broiler production under con- v I trols basing it on a 10-year histor- ical production period. Should this become law, then the ' broitpr industry in Duplin County, the. tyke's '?aitK-JbrGSto praducs " cMrttf ,'mMF. 'airtn&er Easftenv-, North Carolina counties would be v decreased by more than 50 per cent of its present production. J ; ' Ed. F. Sykes Named Division Supv. , ii ; I A n ikh in rn Ed F. SYKES Ed F. Sykes, a native of Kenans ville, has been appointed Division Commercial Supervisor of Southern Bell's West Division, effective June 1. In his new position Sykes will be responsible to the Division Com- : mereial Manager for the coordina tion and supervisor of business of- fice operations in the Asheville, Charlotte and Gastonia Districts. Sykes started to work with Sou thern Bell in Raleigh in 1940, and since that time has held various positions throughout the state. He .: was appointed Manager of the Hen dersonville. N. C. group in 1957 and has held that position until coming to Charlotte to assume his new duties. White in HenderSonville, Sykes was active in civic and church af- .'airs, being a member of the ,; Ciwanis Club, 1st Vice President, . Henderson County United ''Fund wid Chairman of the i960 'fund. Irive. board of directors Hender son County YMCA, member B. P. j. Elks Lodge No. 1616, board of directors Valley Hill volunteer fire department, member of the Hen dersonville Chamber of Commerce ' and secretary to the official board of stewards of the First Methodist , Church of Hendersonville. r: Sykes is the son of Mrs. R. L. Sykes of Kenansville and is mar ried to the former Doris Turner of Greenville, & C They have two children, Edward F,,' Jr, and Anna . Turner. ' '' '" -, v'" The Sykes will move to Charlotte ip the near future:. ? -
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