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ALL IN READINESS FOR BOOK 1
WEEK PARADE ON NOVEMBER 16
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Alice in Wonderland, Little Women,
Winnie the Pooh, Ferdinand the Bull,
Hanael end Gretal, Tom Sawyer,
Hock Finn, Hitty and Red Riding
Hood are some of the characters who
will step forth from the pages and
come to life in the Book Week Parade,
to be held at 10:30, Saturday morning
on Main street.
The Brownies will portray Mother
Goose characters. All the other chil
dren of school age hare been asked,
to participate in the parade.
Further evidencing the interest
taken in International Book Week
was the good attendance at the Story
Hour, Monday afternoon, when Mrs.
Elbert C. Holmes related the stories
of "The Twelve Princes" and "Why
The Sea Is Salty" to an appreciative
group. Afterwards the children visit
ed the library and many of them
checked out books.
Surveys show that there are over
a million children in this country who
have never seen books outside of their
. school texts. This means that there
are all too many children who have
never read a book "just for fun," or
in search of new experiences in
science, in nature, in the realm of the
imagination, in art and music, in
handicrafts; of new games to play
and stories to laugh about.
Backed by the Children's Book
Council, libraries, schools, book-stores
and civic groups throughout the
country will make an intensified ef
fort during this week to awaken the
nation to the importance of books to
children.
Twenty-seven national organiza
tions are cooperating witK the Council
and enthusiastically endorsing the
Council's slogan, "More books for
more children." Together these
groups are working to provide greater
reading opportunities for children
because they believe in the power of
books to educate an open-minded,
thinking citizenry.
The local library is joining hands
with thousands of libraries in our
country and the libraries of 3ft other
countries in encouraging and empha
sizing international understanding
through the medium of books.
Afi excellent arrangement of books
showing the 1946. theme "Books Are
Bridges" is on display in the window
of Leona's Beauty Shop.
At The Kiwanis Club
President Charlie Hotchl. iss presid
ed and made several important an
nouncements at the Kiwanis meeting
Monday evening, stating that Kiwanis
Ladies' Night would be held Friday
night, November 22, and that this
meeting would take the place of the
regular meeting on Monday night,
November 26. He then turned the
meeting over to program chairman
Frank Allen. *
Chairman Frank asked each mem
ber of the football team, who were
special guests at this time, to stand
and be recognized, giving his name
and position on the team. The follow
ing were present; Harry Albritton,
Bruce Darden, Cedric Davis,Jay
Flanagan, Billy Fulford, Bill Gregory,
Jamea Hiljard, Albert Hinson, Thur
man Joynelr, R. H. Lloyd, Ernest Mor
gan, Richard Nanny, Tommy Ramey,
Robert Rollins, .Bobby Russell, Ferd
Satterthwaite, Jr., Jimmie Stocks,
Claude Tyson, Jr., Aaron Tyson and
Jackie Willis. They were given a
rousing applause.
Frank then called on Rev. Ernest
Clegg, Coach Carey Hairetl, Supt. J.
H. Moore, Jim Joyner, Sam D. Bundy
and President Charlie Hotchkiss to
say a few words and they responded
with inspiring remarks, bringing out
the fact that though the team had
test several games they bad profited
by their training and the leadership
at Coach Hairell, and that good clean
athletics are of inestimable value to
Fmrmville and community. Jackie
Willis made an excellent response in
behalf of Ms team mates.
It was annouaeed (hat as many
Kiwanians as possible would attend
the basketball game the following
Right in a group.
J. R. Peeler, of Walstonburg, and
t. L. Joyner w?u guests for the
Hubert Joyner will have the pro
J. H. Moore To Preside
At Principals' Meet
Supt. J. If. Moore, of the FUrm
ville Public schools, will preside over
the Northeastern Principals' Associa
tion which convenes in the Greenville
Armory, tonight at 6 o'clock.
Following the dinner, the Farm*
ville High School Glee Club will ren
der several selections under the di
rection of Miss Rosemary Holmes
with Mrs. Arthur F. Joyner as ac
companist.
O. E. Dowd of the Greenville High
School, will introduce the speaks
Professor Guy B. Phillips, of U.N.C.,
Chapel Hill. Newman Lewis,' of the
Chicod school, will give s summary
after which the nominating commit
tee's report will be heard.
Other officers of the association
are J. B. McDuffie, of the Elisabeth
City school, who is vice president,
and Miss Agnes Fullilove, of West
Greenville school, secretary.
Methodists Ask
Dry Referendum
Henderson, Nov. 12.?The North
Carolina Methodist Conference has
asked that the 1947 General Assem
bly authorise a state-wide-' referen
dum .on the liquor issue.
The conference took this action
Saturday, adopting a report of its
board of temperance. The annual
conference ended yesterday with the
reading of appointments by Bishop
W. W. Peele.
The temperance board's report also
requested all pastors not to appoint
to official church .positions persons
who drink, advertise, manufacture,
sell, advocate its use or in any other
Vyay seek , to promote the liquor traf
fic. The report was made by Mrs.
B. B. Slaughter of New Bern.
Final Rites Held
For Dr. G. L. Lang
Concord.?Dr. Gideon Leon 'Lang,
64, first president of the Piedmont
Optometric Society and charter mem
ber of the State Optometric Society,
died Wednesday, November 6, at the
Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem,
where he had been a patient for some
time. He had been in ill health for
several months and seriously ill for
fom weeks.
Funeral services was held at the
First Baptist Church here Friday,
November 8, at 11 a. m. Burial fol
lowed in Oakwood Cemetery.
Dr. Lang was a native of the
Farmville section, Pitt County, where
he was born January 7, 1882, son of
the late Joseph and Mary Ward Lang.
He had resided in Concord for 30
years and was active in church and
civic affairs. He was a dcacen of
the First Baptist Church and a mem
ber-of the Woodmen of the World.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Geor
gia Biggers Lang; one son, Dr. G. L.
Lang, Jr., of Concord; two brothers,
JwW. Lang of Norfolk, Va., and E. C.
Lang of Gatesville; six sisters, Mrs.
A. R. Shearin and Mrs. Ruth Davis
of Whitakers, Mm. Lula Mewborn,
Miss Mamie Lang, and Mm. Wesley
Moore of Snow Hill, and Mrs. Ber
nard Edwards of Wake Forest
Barbecue - Dance
At Country Club
Members of the Fannville Country
Club enjoyed a barbecue rapper at
the club house, Wednesday evening.
The supper, consisting of barbecue,
slaw, sweet potatoes, corn bread,
pickles and drinks, was served buffet
style.
Dancing was enjoyed afterwards.
Nearly all the members were in at
tendance.
The club house is open every after
noon, including Sunday. Several new
members have joined the club but the
quota of 125 has not yet been
ed.
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ATTENDS KIWANIS MEETS
Sam D. Bundy, Immediate Ptast
Governor of the Csrolinas Kiwanis
District, left Wednesday far Charlotte
where he attended the Council Meet'
ing and Training Session for the
nrly elected lieutenant governors.
Mr. Bundy discussed the subject
"Club Visitations by the Lieutenant
Governors."
Friday night, Mr. Bundy will bo
the guest speaker at (ha Morgan ton
4-H Achievement
Day Held Friday
h Greenville
The fifteen 4-H Clubs of Pitt Coon
ty held their Annuel Achievement
Day in the armory in Greenville at
7:80 o'clock on Friday night. The
week of November 4-0 had been Mt
?side aa 4-H Achievement Week for
the nation. Pitt County 4-H Club
members felt this time appropriate
to review their achievements. There
were approximately 220 4-H Cfub
members, parents of Club members
and guests present.
Naomi Garria, president of the
Pitt County Council of 4-H Club and
a member of the Belvoir Senior 4-H
Club, presided over the meeting. The
program was begun by singing
"America." This wss followed by
the pledge to the U. S. flag and 4-H
Club Pledge.
The devotional for the evening
was conducted by members of the
Sweet Gum Grove Community Club.
Beth Briley read the Bible Scripture.
Doris Whichaid gave a reading on
Youth, stressing the development of
character and living so as to "make
the best better." Orval Whichaid led
in prayer. The 4-H Club Hymn "Fol
low the Gleam" was sung, concluding
the. devotional.
The roll call by clubs was conducted
by Kenneth Randolph, secretary to
the Pitt County Council of 4-H Clubs
and a member of the Belvoir Senior
Club. There is a 4-H Club gavel pre
sented at each Achievement Day Pro
gram to the 4-H Club with the high
est percentage of their members pres
ent. Urn Club that wins the gavel
keeps it and uses it at local meetings
until the next year's Achievement
Day. Sweet Gum Grove Community
4-H Club won the gavel by having 100
percent of their members present
Ruth Moore, president of the State
4-H Club, gave a tplk on the Achieve
ments of club work during the past
year in Pitt Ruth is rf member of
ling's Community 4-H Club and was
elected State President during 4-H
Club Week at State College, Raleigh,
during last August There are over
90,000 4-H Club boys and girls in
North Carolina.
Kenneth Randolph gave a talk on
his project accomplishments in Hy
brid Com. He is the County winner
in the project, having harvested 110
bushels of com per acre. Kenneth is
an oatstanding 4-H Club member in
Pitt County.
S. C. Winchester, Pitt County farn\
agent, introduced the speaker of the
evening, Miss Eleanor Barber, assis
tant State 4-H Club leader from the
Extension staff, State College.
Miss Barber complimented the Pitt
County 4-H Club members for their
achievements In the past year. She
told them that there were real oppor
tunities for each boy and girl to learn
the art of better living in their rural
communities. She thanked the Club
members for asking her and gave
tbem best wishes for more club work
and better club work the coming year.
At each Achievement Day program
certificates and'awards are presented
to each club member who has done
the most outstanding work in his
project. Miss Lillian Hines, assistant
home demonstration agent, made the
presentations for the girls who were
winners. Certificates for sucoesaful
yean at ekib work were given to 28
girls. Atnoag those suoeesafuUy com
pleting one year ct dub work were:
Carolyrt Bsabsny, Racket Meeks,
Eleanor Owens and Grace Daniels, all
of the Bell Arthur Ctab; Cornelia
Lang's Community Club.
Ms#re? of the Lang's, sad Elisa
beth Nanny, of Hie Fbrmville Clubs,
kana nAmnlAihil fnrA VA&JM a# wnvlr.
liavv wiupivfuw saw ymsms as* iiui ana
Three year*, Sailts 8. and Reba
Gold Morgan, of~tbe Parmville Club;
Hasel Garris, of Lang's. Five years,
Ruth Moore and Frances Jones, of
Ladg's.
Jean Moore 6f the Lang's Commun
ity Club, war awarded $6.00 for camp
expenses in i?4T f or being elected the
best all-round girl camper at the
me 4-H Chitf^Osmp.
Cornelia Mlfts was presented a cer
tificate and meddl as winner for the
Senior Dress Revue.
Medals and certificates were award
ed the following: Food Preparation
contest?Hasel Garris; Clothing con
test?France# Jones; Records winner
?Hasel Garris; Home Beautification
contest?"Ruth Moore; Dairy Foods
Team winhftrs ? Ruth Modre and
D. Bnfr, Supervisor)
viHe Tobacco Market on
Tuesday of tit* week surpassed the
foal set foT the season, and.it is
will exceed 81,860,000 or thereabottta.
Tuesday's sales amounted to 889478
pounds with receipts of #178^.10.50
for an average of $44.80. Wednes
day's sales amounted to 168*06 fbr
$84,788.09, for Mi average of $42.26.
This makes a total of 30,646,928
pounds for $16,384,276.16 for a sea
son average of $53.80 per hundred.
Some markets have closed and
others are setting closing dates, but
the FVrtnville market plans to run
until all the tobacco in this section
has had a chance to be sold. Closing
date will be announced next week.
It is interesting to note that the
Famville market has sold mere
pounds and paid out more dollars per
set of buyers than any other market
in this belt. ' '
Tysons-Mays To Hold
Their . Annual Assem
bly, Friday, Nov. 29
Invitations to the annual Tyson
May reunion are being issued today
to out-ofrtown descendants of the
This reunion, to be held the day
after Thanksgiving in the D. A. R.
Chapter House, marks the 26th gath
ering of the Tysons and the 14th
Joint mooting of the Tysons and
Mays, who* have'welded themselves
into one of the 'strongest family
groups in the state.
The custom of carrying the spirit
of Thanksgiving Day over into the
next day, will be continued again, and
the .reunion will convene atlO o'clock,
Friday, November 29.
The main speaker will be Dr. Perry
Yates Jackson, of Baltimore, Md., a
native of Pitt County.
Malcolm Mills, Lang's; Clyde dRal,
Farmville; Hubert Garris, Lang's;
Mart Hassell Smith, Bell Arthur Sen
ior Club.
Among those completing 3 years of
club work were:JRoy. Flora, Farm
grille; Dean Stocks and Roland Young,
Bell Arthur Senior Club.
Among those completing 4 years of
club work were: Jesse Forrest and
William Stocks, Bell Arthur Senior
Club; Bobby Fulford, Farmville.
A medal and'certificate,of achieve
ment was presented to: Mark Has
sell Smith, of Bell Arthur Club for
Field Crops.
A county Championship certificate
went to Roy Flora of the Farmville
Community Club for the Swine proj
ect.
Hybrid Com is the project that
has been stressed throughout tj?e
county during the past year for club
boys. The Greenville. Chamber of
Commerce was the instigator of this
program. Winners and donors* of
prizes were were as follows: Kenneth
Randolph of the Belvoir Club har
vested 110 bushels of com per acre
and received one ton of fertilizer
from the Blount Fertilizer Co.; Bill
Tucker of Grimes land Club harvested
97 bushels and received one ton of
fertilizer from W. A. Tripp, S.-D.
Dealer; Carroll Alexander "harvested
88.4 bushels and received one-half
ton of fertilizer from the Greenville
Fertilizer Co.; I^lton Rollins har
vested 80.3 bushels and received one
half ton of fertiliser from the Green
ville Fertilizer Co.; Billy Stokes har
vested 76,8 bushels and received one
half ton fertilizer from the C. C.
Fertilizer Co., in Greenville. Run
ners up in the contest and their yields
?
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Vflle
*ently in
frrned of
The
ommending that: (1), the alley* be
hind the stores in the business sec
tion of town be better lighted; (2),
that garbage collection in the allays
be more regular and frequent; (S),
and that the town return to the cos
torn of decorating and Ugh ting the
streets for Christmas. A further
recommendation was to the effect
that the owners of the Post Offioe
building flrovide better light at night
in the Post Offioe building.
The Farmville Chamber of Com
merce welcomes into its membership
the Kaiser-FTarer Motor Company
and extends its help and assistance
to this new firm,.
This gives this organisation a
membership new of 99, whick is the
largest in its history.
Letter of Commendation
' The Chamber of Commeroe is in
receipt of the following words of
oommendation set forth in a recent
letter from W. L. Dowell, of Raleigh,
executive secretary of the N. C, Mer
chant's Association;
"I wish to heartily congratulate
you on the splendid increase in mem
bership your association has enjoyed
in recent weeks and I hope you will
attain your goal of 100 members be
fore your present membership drive
terminates. If you reach that num
ber you will have as fine a number
of members as there is to be found in
any community in the State of com
parable size to Fhrmville. You oer
tainly deserve the heartiest congratu
lations for the fine work you have
done In this respect,"
November 16, "Play
v Day" For Women
Raleigh, November 9. ? The flret
All-State Intercollegiate "Play Day"
for Women is scheduled for the Mere
dith College anrf Saint Mary's Junior
College campuses in the Capital City
on Saturday, November 16,
All colleges in this State who sup
port Women's athletics will send dele
gates and contestants. Registration
opens on the Meredith campus at 1:60
m. and the program of events is to
be announced at that time.
Contests in tennis, swimming, vol
leyball, badminton, hockey, and arch
ery are.set between the schools; and
election of officers to a permanent
state organisation will follow the
Country Roads Are
Dangerous At Dusk
I Four times as many people are
killed on the country roads in the fall
and winter months during the three
hours after sunset- as during the
same period just before sunset
During early evening there is heavy
automobile traffic and the driver of
the automobile or truck has the great
est difficulty in seeing.
Days are growing shorter and dark
ness comes earlier. Therefore, there
is a need for special care to be taken
by those who walk country roads at
this season of the year.
Motorists cant be held responsible
for all the accidents that happen.
Pedestrians must cooperate, says
Prof. David S. Weaver, who has in
terested himself in all types of safety
measures for farm folks, from what
to do with bad balls and dangerous
farm machinery to rickety stairs that
need repairs.
Prof. Weaver reports the safety
suggestions that have .been given so
many times before for those who
walk along country roads, especially
just-after sunset.
These suggestions are: (1) Walk
on the extreme left aids of the road,
facing the oncoming traffic. (2) Walk
on the she^der, off the road, if there
is enough room/ (8) Be alert for cars
coming in either direction. (4) Look
careful 1 for approaching traffic, in
both directions, before starting to
ernes the highway. (6) Don't walk out
from behind a ear or truck into the
roadway- (6) When walking at night,
something white or carry a
light. Help the motorist to see you.
.
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will
to aid, care for
tie nation's needy
and disabled war Oetarans, their de
pendents and the widows and orphans
of America's deceased heroes of for
eign conflicts.
Prise winners in the local sale
were Louise Lovic, Videan Joyner,
Faye Mewborn, and Ellen 'Norris
Spencer. '?*
Farmville Teams
Defeat. Chlcod
. Farmville boys defeated the Chicod
high school beys basket ball team,
Tuesday night, 26 to 12. Farmville
used a total of 24 boys in this game.
The first string boys were in the
game only a few minutes. Jackie
Willis accounted for 7 points for the
short time he was in the game to
lead the scoring for Farmville. He
was followed by Joyner and Dupree
with four each. Edwards with five
points was best for the visitors.
'The Farmville girls nosed out the
Chicod sextet by the score of 26 to
28. KilUbrew was best for Farm
ville with 17 points, followed by
Jones with 4 and Corbett and Moore
2 each. Mills was best for Chicod
with 9 points, with Smith ringing
the basket for 8 points and Adams
with 7.
Farmvlle defeated Arthur on two
early games of the season. Hie girls
score was 80 to 26 in the first game
and.26 to 11 in the second game in
FSrmville's favor. The Farmville
boys defeated the Arthur quintet 28
to 16 and 27 to 12.
The -FannvHie boys and girls are
expected- to- have two of the best
basketball teams in Eastern Caro
lina this year. A complete schedule
of games will be announced St an ear
ly date, i *
Rural Industries
Conference, Nov. 30
Goldsboro, Nov. 18.?The program
of work of the Rural Industries Di
vision of the North Carolina Depart
ment of Conservation and Develop
ment will be outlined at a one-day
rural, industries conference in Golds
boro, Wednesday, November 20, be
ginning at 10 o'clock. ?
The sessions will be held in the
Wayne County Memorial Community
Building, and feature a number of
specialists in the agricultural, indus
trial and marketing fields in North
Carolina.
The Goldsboro conference is one of
11 similar meetings being held In
North Carolina during November and
early December, and is a part of Gov
ernor Cherry's Rural Industries Com
mittee activity.
Development of the state's agricul
tural, mineral, forestry, and market
ing resources will be discussed by
half a dosen of the top men in this
field, a spokesman for the committee
indicated here today.
The Goldsboro Chamber of Com
merce and Merchants Association is s
co-sponsor of the conference. fts
executive secretary, James W. Butler,
ernor Cherry. InvftattVns have been
mailed to several hundred eivk lead
ers throughout the 12 Northeastern
counties of Nash, Edgecombe, (Jreene,
Wilson, Pitt, Lenoir, Duplin, Samp
son, Wayne, Cumberland, Northamp
ton, and Halifax.
ATTEND WELFARE MEET
Mrs. J. M. Hobgood and Mrs. B. L.
Lang si I airbill the group meeting of
the Northeastern District of the Pub
lic Welfare Commission held in Ply
mouth, Thursday, at which Mrs. Hob
? Washington, D. 6. Nov.I2?Joeephus -
Daniels, Raleigh, publisher and Secre
tary of the Nary under President
Wood row Wilson, predicted Tuesday '
that there will be no honejgnoon of
coopesation between President Tru
man and the new Republication Con
glees. <e
He made the statement after call
ing on the President, who
Khan Congress to cooperate for the
welfare of the nation.
Daniels said he came to Washing
ton to find out how the honeymoon
Was getting along.
"There ain't going to be any hon
eymoon," he saM.
He added thst .be did not thing
there should be s honeymoon. He
said that each party bettered He own
policies were for the beet interest of
the nation and that they should stand
behind them. x
He said he hoped that President
Truman has a "very big pen" to"v*to
as hard as nails" any reacttonaty
legislation passed by the RepubticaM.
He referred specifically to his belief
that the OOP would try to pam fee
Case Labor Bill, repeal toe Wagner
Act, enact high tariffs and pass other
legislation based on "ati Republican
Daniels predicted that
be a^fetalemate in the government for
the next two years similar to the one
in -191140 when President WHeen
bed to deal with a Republican Cue
Regarding international affairs,
Daniels said he hopes earnestly feat
bath parties wiH work far woHd
peace. He said feat Senator JartMf
H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., and Warren
Austin, U. S. delegate to fee Uaftfed
Nations, w-j abandoned leydfen
isolation. v He added, however, tote he
did not think the Chicago Tribune and
converted tp
Daniels declined to say whether be
had discussed his beliefs with Mr.
Truman.
At The Rotary Club
Irvin Morgan, of tha bylaws Ma
mite, was program leader at tha
Rotary Club, Tuesday evening, and
choee for his subject the club's by
laws. Inasmuch as there had beaa
no change m these for some tints
apd due to the change of the tineas
since the bylaws were drafted, rec
ommended and approved, the dub
deems it necessary to do this again
at an early dat&r
The speaker began by reading softie
of the proposed charges sat forth by
Rotary International, after which a
discussion waa held in this connec
tion, and some timely revisions were
suggested by the members them
selves.
Rotation Morgan, a past district
governor, was weU qualified to pre
sent this subject, which was particu
larly interesting inasmuch aa it af
fects each member of the club. Flash- _
dent Join M. Mewborn urged the
members to give serious ooutidsra
tion to the proposed cbsnges in the
interns before a vote is taken.
Visllartaas were Joe Jordan, of
Conway, 8. C* aad Randolph Eagfri, '(
of Tarhoro. D. R. Conley,
of Pitt county
of Dr. Paid E. Jonas. A.
L. Maxwell, of Goldsboro, was a
gueet of J6hn
President
ward of welcome to the baby
bee of tha club, a M. Pay lor, tiki*
took over tin duties of towa
A ? ? . _ri .l.., rtll d- T am.
Amendment iDscsp
A complete but unofficial tabula
tion of the votes cast in last Tues
day's general election shows that the
State defeated by a narrow margin
the DroDosed amendment to provide
legislators with an expettae allow
With all of the State's
cincts reporting, the ama
ceived 14SJU4 favorable
vutes.
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