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VOLUME THIRTY-EIGHT . - FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY I* IMT NUMBER THREE
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TRADE PROMOTION DAYS
SCHEDUIED FOR ffiXT WEEK
Chamber Of Commerce ? Sponsors
Event As Trade Stimnhis Daring
'Slack* Season; REA Meeting
Will Help Draw Visitors
Sponsored by the Farmville Cham
ber of Commerce, a trade promotion
event has been planned for next
week with Thursday through Satur
day having been designated as Farm
ville Bargain Days. It is the first
event of its kind scheduled for Farm
ville since pre-war days.
The decision to have these bargain
days next week was influenced by the
fact that the annual meeting of the
REA on Saturday, June 7, will at
tract several hundred additional
visitors to Farmville and it was felt
that a promotion event would be an
extra incentive for persons in out
lying areas to visit, and trade in,
Farmville on those particular days.
The goal of the Chamber of Com
merce is to have one or more of these
special events annually but some ex
perimentation will be necessary be
fore it can be determined what the
most approriate times will be. Since
the late summer and early fall sea
sons usually take care of themselves
insofar as trade is concerned, it is
generally agreed that a promotion
event of some kind in the dull sea
son would be of especial benefit.
An invitation to attend these sale
days was enclosed in the notices of
the annual REA meeting which Town
Clerk Cleveland M. Taylor mailed
several days ago to the 1500 mem
bers of the organization. Advertis
ing circulars will also be mailed to
persons living in the Farmville trad
ing area.
Since Farmville is the center of as
rich an agricultural area as there is
in Eastern North Carolina, the town
should be the shopping center for
thousands of persons in rural areas
who have been by-passing Farmville
and traveling a greater distance to
larger towns. f
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Company Seeking
Pipeline System I
Manry Corporation Plans Network |
Of Oil Unes Throughout Eastern
Carolina
The State Utilities Commission re
ceived an application from the East
ern Pine Lines Company of Maury
for a certificate of convenience and
necessity for a proposed network of
pipelines throughout Eastern North
Carolina.
The application said that it pro
posed to begin construction of . the
lines as soon as the certificate is
granted. No date for hearing on the
matter has been set by the commis
sion.
The pipelines would be used to |
transport petroleum products.
The application said that the firm I
proposed to build ,a line from Wil-1
mington to Roxboro via EHzabeth
town, Wilson, Nashville and Hender
son and a line from Morehead City
to Durham via New Bern, Kinston,
Raleigh and Durham.
In addition, there would be seven
lateral lines leading from these two
main lines as follows: from Elizabeth
City southward to'a point near the
South Carolina line; from Whiteville
to Lumberton; from Fayetteville to
Kenansville; from Lillington to Mt.
Olive; and from Tarboro to Nash
ville and Rocky Mount.
R. E. Mayo of Maury was listed as
president and Willie E. Mayo, also of |
Maury, as secretary-treasurer.
PITT RANKS 61st AMONG
PEANUT-GROWING COUNTIES
Eleven North Carolina counties
among the 100
ing counties in the
to figures
of Ag
J. C. Oapt,
11 No
240,896
for:
nation's
GROVER WEBB
Who was elected director of Bastern
Carolina Warehouse Association at
the annual meeting fn Wilson. Mr.
Webb, whose home is in Pinetops, is
one of the operators of Farmers
Warehouses here.
Telephone Company
Seeks Permission
To Increase Rates
Business One- And Two-Party Lines
Will Cost $1 More And Residence
Phones Will Coot 50 Cents More
If Petition Approved
A request for permission to in
crease telephone rates in its nearly
100 exchanges was unopposed at the
public hearing conducted by the State
Utilities Commission on the Carolina
Telephone and Telegraph Company's
petition to adjust its charges upward.
The proposed increases average
approximately 25 per cent. .The
granting of the request will mean
subscribers of the Farmville ex
change, which comes in the bracket
having more than 500'and less than
700 subscribers, will pay |1 more if
they are on a business one- or two
party line and 60 cents more if they
are on a residence one- or two-party
line.
The company based its request for
increased rates on continuing in
crease in costs of providing telephone
service. The company's announce
ment of its request for adjustments
stated that present rates are insuffi
cient to provide and properly main
tain service.
The increase is only one of many
increases in the cost of living which
have been based on the assertion that
higher wages are (jireetly responsi
ble.
At The Kiwanis Club
Mr*. J. B. Joyner gave the Ki
waniam an excellent talk Monday
night on their'duties and responsibi
lities as club members. She was the
guest of Seth Satterthwaite.
Mrs. Joyner's talk was on club
work in general but the Kiwanians
all agreed that their dub would ?be a
better one if it lived Op to the ideals
outlined by the speaker.
Carol Modlin wAs welcomed into the
club as a new member.
The group voted to dispense with
its meeting Monday night of next
week in order that the members eogld.
meet Tuesday night with the Tar
boro club. 17 -
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Baptist Bible School
Opens Monday, June 2
Vacation Bible* Sfchool opens Mon
day morning at 9 o'clock in the flarm
ville Baptist church. It will continue
through the 'week, each day's session
lasting until 11:80. Beginner, Pri
iry, Junior, and Intermediate de
will be represented in the
Workers enrolled in the School are:
Director, Mrs. E. W. Holmes; Be
ginner*. department: Mrs. Chester
Outland, superintendent, Mrs. Curd
Lee, Mr*. Ben Lewis, Miss T1
i, Hiss Joyce Tyson;
Huge Truckload Of
Clothing Given For
, Shipment Overseas
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Boxes Of UMfal Article* Collect
J For (frans
Te War-Tern
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MeMng up an e*ti*e track load, 33
-huge boxes of diocarded clothing col
lected in Farmville have been ship
ped to the Church World Bervice
Center, New Windsor, -Maryland, for
transshipment to overseas countries
whose people are dying from lack of
food and clothing. x
C, Hubert Joyner and Frank Wil
liams, who represented the Kiwanis
and Rotary clubs, respectively, as co
chairmen of the drive here, were well
pleased with the quantity and quali
ty of the clothing which Farmville
people dug out of closets and trunks,
and turned over to the collecting
groups. Merchants also contributed
many useful articles which no long
er had any sales value.
While the drive has formally and
officially ended, clothing is still be
ing accepted and will be forwarded to
the service center. It is requested
that articles be delivered to Mr. Joy
ner or Mr. Williams.
More than 200,000 pounds of re
lief goods were received at the
Church World Service Center, New
Windsor, Maryland, from various
points in North Carolina last week,
officials reported to Rev. Henry G.
Ruark, Chapel Hill Methodist minist
er and chairman of the statewide
drive for overseas supplies/
More than 40,000 . pounds arrived
in one day alone, it was said. Ac
cording to Mr. Ruark, this makes
$200,000 worth of material donations
coming from this state in five days.
"Officials at the Center continue to
praise the quality of the goods and
say that almost 100 per cent of some
shipments are fit to forward over
seas," he said.
Rev. Ernest J. Arnold, executive
secretary of the North Carolina
Council of Churches, which is spon
soring the collecting, said: "This is
the finest example of cooperative
Christianity I have ever seen. This
drive proves that our people are gen
erous when asked to share and told
how they can help their unfortunate
neighbors overseas. Every pound
that goes from our state will not
that this was the first church-spon
I sored statewide collection ever held.
1 According to Graham Hodges, di
rector of the Church World Service
Canter, - New Windsor, Maryland,
North Carolina will be used as an
example of what can be done any
where. "North Carolina has set the
pace," he declared. "There is no
reason why othpr states should not
follow next fall and winter and con
tribute many millions of pounds of
clothing to our destitute friends
abroad. We have enough evidence
from North Carolina's experience to
ask every state in the union to do
the same kind of Job."
only mean life and health for unfor
tunates overseas, Jjut should lighten
our hearts as well."
Mr. Ruark stressed the fact that
every community should continue
its plans to have a collection of goods
even though the original closing date,
May 11, has been passed by more
than two weeks. "The date of May
11 was originally set for closing the
collection," he spid, Twit when we
saw it was simply impossible for this
to-be held to, we moved up the
date several weeks. One large city
is having its door-to-door collection
as late aa June 16."
More than 88 counties have been
well organizd, with some 230 local
communities, having taken part sepa
rately in the drive. This means that
many thousands have given liberally
of time and goods to make the col
lection a success. Mr. Ruark said
Agnes Quinerly In
Salem Senior Class
Mitt Agnes Quinerly, daughter of
Mrs. F. M. Davis, Jr., 811 N. Main
street ,1 Farroville, will receive a
Bachelor of Arts Agree at the 17Sth
commencement exercises at Salem
college, Winston-Salem, on Monday,
at 11 o'clock.
At this time, John Temple Graves,
and author from Birming
wmm
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sermon
o'clock in
DAR Congress
Sombre ifote
(Editor's note: This article was
written at the request of The Enter
prise by Mrs. T. C. Tuniage, who
attended the National Congress with
Mrs. J. 0. Pollard as representatives
from the Benjamin May chapter.)
With ppproximatey 6,000 members
in attendance, typifying what is ba
sically American, the fifty-sixth Con
gress, National Society, Daughters
of the American Revolution, formal
ly opened a week's program in Con
stitution Hall, Monday evening, May
19. The beauty and the glory were
all there?the stirring music of the
U. S. Marine Band, as well as those
of the Army and Navy, flowers, ex
quisitely groomed women, and many
other social occasions of grace and
loveliness.
But all were merely a melodious
overtone to what, according to one
concensus of opinion, was, witnout
question, a Congress of prayerful
deliberation, resolute, steadfast pur
pose, and a deep consciousness of the
critical, ever grim issues confronting
our Nation now.
Gen,. Eisenhower struck the note
in his opening address, and it rang
out clear and unmistakable through
the entire week?That Americans at
the crossroads?The dangers subtle
and insidious?The foes formidable.
It was a proud ' moment to see
Mrs. Julius Talmadge, President
general, and a Southern woman of
unusual and patrician beauty, pre
side with charm, of course, but also
with equity, discernment and a cer
tain ease which comes only from an
inner righteousness and a complete
knowledge of a field so vast and
complicated. '
Cedric Foster, the well-known
news analyst, prefaced his unforget
table "talk with this?"I come
to speak harii words to you"?and he
did, in phrases that were as matched
pearls. After describing world condi
tions as they now exist, from a first
hand experience, he stated that the
white race could not survive another
war.
Dr. V. T. Davis from the U. S.
Marine Hospital, Ellis Island, spoke
of the rehabilitation service being
done, stating that the Society was
the pioneer in Occupational Therapy.
"Black market" Immigration war
an address by the national command
er of the American Legion. He told
of the methods being used to get the
really enemy alien into America,
even as guest students.
Life is a painting of lights and
shadows?and splendor. The work
and outpouring of gifts provide the
radiant life. Great accomplishments
in student loans, veterans' hospitals,
training boys and girls in the many
approved schools of the Society, work
with the desirable type of immi
grants, National Tribute Groves, and
all needful objectives for the Better
Way of life were reported.
Grave and sombre was the admoni
tion: "Do not basely relinquish what
with difficulty has been obtained."
Activities Of Local
Church Organizations
Baptist
Sunday School,-9:45 a. in.; Montr
ing worship, 11 a. m. sermon: "Into
a Par Country-"
Baptist Training Union, 7 p. m.;
evening Worship, 8 p. m.; sermon:
"Safeguarding the Marriage Vow."
Prayer meeting, every .Wednesday,
8 p. m. '
Christian
Group 8 met with Mrs. CS. R. Town
send, Tuesday evening, with Mrs.
Arch Flanagan presiding. "The
Second Mile for Happiness" was dis
cussed by the devotional leader, Mn.
L. E. Turnage. The Hidden Answers
quiz was conducted by Mrs. C. L.
Ivey.
Strawberry shorteake was served
to the 19 members present.
|f - Christian
Mrs. Louise Harris led the Hidden
nswers from the "World Call" at
Group 1 in the home of Mrs. Will
arrett with Mrs. Sue Robinson as
jstess, Monday night. The devo
onal was conducted by Mrs. Henri
VFW Compiles Data
On Service Men For
s National Honor Roll
Names Of AU Veterans Will Be In
scribed On PfcrmaneJh Roll Of
Honor In Washington Cathedral
If Information Provided
lite Burnette-Rouse post, Veterans
of Foreign Wan, is doing its part
in establishing in Washington Cathe
dral, Washington, D. C., a perman
ent honor roll containing the names
of all veterans by collecting data on
ex-servicemen in this section and dis
tributing official enrollment forms to
veterans, members of their families
and to next-of-kin of -deceased ones.
Names and ^service records of men
and women who served the nation in
the recent and past wars are to be
preserved in a national shrine in
what will be known ad the national
roll of honor. The Patriots' Transept,
as the proposed memorial will also be
known, will be a tribute to those who
placed their lives at the disposal of
the nation. It will be for the soldiers
and sailors who are known *what the
Arlington Cemetery is for the soldier
who to the nation is unknown.
R. R. Newton, Jr., commander of
the Farmvilie post, has a sufficient
sufficient number of blanks for all
veterans in the community. Veterans,
members of their families or surviv
ing relatives are urged to get blanks
from him so" Farmville's sons and
daughters may have their names per
manently recorded in the cathedral
which will be one of .the Bhowplaces
of the nation's capital. Newton ad
vises that he can obtain more blanks
if the supply now on hand is ex
hausted.
Harvey H. Mitchell, chairman of
the National War Memorial commit
tee of Washington Cathedral, ad
vises that the privilege of enrolling
names and records is open to all and
is not contingent upon any considera
tion other than the expressed wish
of the individual veteran, families or
next-of-kin. The "uniformed forces"
include such groups as the Merchant
Marine, Rid Cross, war correspon
dent and overseas technicians, as
well as the Army, Navy, Coast Guard
and Marine Corps auxiliaries.
Sponsors are having to depend up
on veterans and their families for
the success of this project since they
were refused access to records of the
war and navy departments.
Attention is also invited to the
fact that this permanent honor roll
will contain the names of veterans of
all this country's wars, not just the
two recent global conflicts, provided
the required information is furnish
ed.
Wallace Speech Will
Be Aired By WPTF
Station WPTF has scheduled ' for
broadcast addresses by three nation
ally prominent political figures, to
be heard within the next week.
On Monday morning from 11:05 to
11:45,'the address of Kentucky's Sen
ator Alben W. Barkley, Democratic
Senate leader, will be heard. The
distinguished Senator will speak from
the campus of the North Carolina
College for Negroes in Durham
Mrs. Helen Gahagan Douglas, De
mocratic Congresswoman from Cali
fornia, will be the speaker at the
76th commencement exercises at
Peace Junior colege, Tuesday. Her
sggech will be heard that night from
10:30 to 11 o'clock.
Thursday night, the station will
broadcast, between 10:30 and 11
o'clock, the speech Henry A. Wal
lace made earlier in the evening in
Raleigh's Memorial auditorium. A
former Secretary of Agriculture and
vice president of the United States,
and one-time Secretary of Commerce,
Wallace appears in North Carolina
under auspiees of the Committee fpr
North Carolina, an affiliate of the'
Southern Conference for Human
Welfare.
At'The Rotary Club
K. T. Futrelle of Greenville, coun
ty welfare officer, spoke at the Ro
tary club, Tuesday evening, on the
services his department renders. He
was introduced by Joseph D. Joyner,
program chairman.
Levi Walston received the attend-^
ance prize.
O. G. Spell was welcomed as *jj
new member and Martin Schwartz of
Greenville was a "viaitarian."
Services
speak at the
sponsored by
o'clock.
Girl Scouting Here
> Allows Rapid Growth
Dotdee Janes, Jean Cayton, Carolyn
Roebuck Are Farmville's First
First-Class Scouts
Starting with one troop in 1M5,
the Girt Sc-rnt organization in Farm
ville has increased to two Intermedi
ate troope and one Brownie troop.
A Senior troop for girls over 14 will
be organized in September.
Due to the expanding of troope and
their activities the need for a per
manent buildir in which Giri Scouts
can meet has been felt. A fund for
the purpose of building a hot has
been started with the money from
the plays and operetta given by the
three troops Friday night going into
it.
Dotdee Jones, Carolyn Roebuck
and Jean Caytoh, majoring in the
field of literature and dramatics,
were given their first class pins,
Friday night and became the first
ever to receive this honor in Farm
tiile Several other giris majoring
in this field will soon receive their
first-class badge. To be awarded this
badge, a second-class Scout picks a
field in whidi to specialize and after
mnch work in this major she is pro
moted to first-class rank.
Most of the Intermediate girls have
attained ? second-class rating with
Marcia Forbes, Janet Harris, Mary
Frances Joyner, Louise Lovic and
Grace Miller reaching this rank in
the spring.
As is the customary, the troops
suspended meetings with the closing
of school. Some of the girls will go
to Scout camps and plans have been
made to send a Senior Scout to a
leadership training camp each sum
mer.
Bookmobile Is Sought
For Pitt Rural Areal
W. L. Whedbee, supervisor of the
Greenville Tobacco Board of Trade,
announced that at a special call meet
ing the Greenville Tobacco Board of
Trade had voted unanimously to
sponsor a bookmobile or traveling li
brary for the people of Pitt county
outside of Greenville. Before ad
journing, approximately one thousand
dollars was raised by voluntary sub
scriptions from- the' various members
of the organization. This will pay
one-haff of the purchase price of the
bookmobile. .
The president of the Tobacco Board
of Trade, W. S. Boat, appointed the
following committee.to contact the
civic organizations and citizens of
Greenville to raise the other one half
of the purchase price: W. S. Bost,
chairman, Guy V. Smith, James T.
Keel, A. C. Baffin and W. L. Whed
bee. , . ^
J. H. Rose, representing the Board
of Trustees of the Sheppard' Memo
rial Library, appeared before the
Greenville Tobacco Board of Trade in
behalf of this project. He* stated
that the Beard of County Commis
sioners of Pitt had agreed to furnish
Hie money for the operation and
maintenance of the bookmobile for
the next 12 months. This includes
the salary of a trained librarian who
[will operate the bookmobile.
H. Pittmen, member of the
Board of Commissioners, and a mem
ber of the Board of Trustees of the
Sheppard Memorial Library, inform
ed the library trustees last week of
the action of the commissioners.
The bookmobile, or traveling libra
ry, is designed primarily to carry
books to the citizenfe of Pitt county
outside Greenville. It will operate on
regular stated schedule serving all of
the consolidated school centers,
ing centers of the county and
towns in Pitt,
area will
bookmobile
will be
will be
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Junior Woman's Club
Cited At Convention
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Other Awards Given Farmville Uait
For Its Projects And
Civic Activities
m
The Farmville Junior Woman's
club, of which Mrs, J. T. Noleo is
president, is the Jkdpient of hearty
congratulations this week from
friends for awards and. recognition
won at the 46th annual convention of
the North Carolina Federation of
Women's''ehibe, held May 21-23 at
Wrtghtsville Beach. ? .
The Junior club won the Louellen
Williams Robinson dogwood bowl for
the second time (the first in 1944),
for having the most outstanding pro
ject, the local sponsorship of the Girl
Scouts and Brownies.
A blue -ribbon and a rating of
second place were given the group
for its splendid serapbook, which
was on exhibit at the convention and
the chib was the recipient also of an
honor certificate given for having a
place on the honor roll this year.
Mrs. W. Jesse Moye, president of
the fifteenth district, Mrs. W. C.
Gamer, Incoming president of the
Juniors, and Mrs. J. R. -Harris were
delegates from the Farmvflle club.
Mrs. Moye served on the nominating
committee.
The Farmville Woman's club was
represented at the meeting by Mrs.
J. M. Hob good, who is state chair
man at the Sally Southall Cotton
Loan Fond, Miss Annie Perkins, a
member of a state committee, and
Mrs. R. W. Rader.
Golf Tourney Finals
Being Played Now
Plymouth was host to Fermville
and Rocky Mount golfers Wednesday
afternoon. Althugh the local players
lost to Plymouth, the tricky sand
traps and fast grass greens made the
matches most enjoyable.
Golfers who won points were Dr.
Ashby Winstead," Lewis Creech and
Roy Mewbora of Snow Hill.
Kelly Kee, Farmville Country club
professional, played in the tourna
ment held at Wilson. Kee was award
ed |75 for having the lowesf score of
any professional entered in the tour
nament. There were professionals
entered from all over the state.
The semi-finals matches in the
city golf tourney were reeled ott at
the Country club during the past
week and the winners are as follows:
B. 0. Taylor over Arthur F. Joyner;
Shelby Roebuck over Dr. G. L. Gil
christ; A. W. Bobbitt over Dick Har
ris; Dr. Wooton of Snow Hill over
Charles Quinerly; Dr. Frank Harris
over P. K. Ewell.
The match between B. 0. Taylor
and Bill Royster will probably be
played this week end. This match
will pair Royster, a former president
of the Country club, against Taylor,
the current president.
Finals must be concluded and the
prises awarded not later than June
4. A list of prises is now on display
at the City Drug Company.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH CANCELS
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
ition Bible School for
Church has been can
summer, according to
flppinrawi
repairs and
it has been decided to be impractical
Children of the Sunday School have
been urged to attend Daily Vacation
Bible School in the othe
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