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VOLUME THIRTY-EIGHT
FARMVTLLE, PITT COUNTY, NO*FH CAROLINA,
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FARIYILLE GRIS WIN COUNTY
BASKETBALL TITLE AM) BOTS
GET SECOND PLACE HONORS
Girls Defeat Grfmeslsnd, 17-12, In
Tournament Finals; Local Boys
Almost Succeed In Ousting
Highly-Favored Bethel
Turn about’s fair play seems to be
the prevailing policy with Farmville
high school basketball teams. The
boys, who last year captured first
place honors in the Pitt county tour
nament, are taking a back seat—
though not too far back—this year
and the girls are basking in the lime
light, with another well-earned
championship to their credit.
In the final round staged Tuesday
night in the Wright gymnasium at
E. G T. C., Greenville, the girls de
- feated Grimesland, 17-12, taking an
early lead and managing to hold it.!
On the previous night, the Farmville
tjnm eliminated Aydtm, 23-16, with a
fourth quarter scoring spurt which
netted eight points while holding Ay
- den to a single field -’goal. Ayden
dominated the pltay in the first quar
ter, which ended 8-3. Teams were
deadlocked at the half, 11-all.
In the championship contest, Jean
Baker was high scorer for Farmville,
scoring 12 of her team’s 17 points.
Faye Corbett accounted for the other
five. Farmville guards completely
‘ bottled the Grimesland offense in the
last quarter, holding Grimesland to
a single free throw.
Boys’ Game
Speeded in fourth place' at the be
ginning of the tourney and given lit
tle more than an outside chance of
winning the county title for the sec
ond consecutive year, the boys start
ed hadly in the final game and it
looked as if the Bethel five, favor
ed to win, would have little trouble
walking away with an easy victory.
The first quarter ended 12-6 in Beth
el’s favor; at half-time, Farmville
had whittled the lead to three points,
with the score 18-15, and continued
the improved play in the third quar
ter, which ended with the teams tied
at 22-all. A spurt in the final quar
rrotro SUlri title.
as the game ended with the score,
, 28-24.
Line-ups were: Farmville— Carrae
way (9), Hathaway (3), Satterth
waite (4), Allen (5), Bennett (1),
Barrett, SJtroud, C. and G. Windham
(2), Dupree; Bethel—Whitley (6),
House, Hemingway (5), William
Keel, Earl Keel (2), M. Whitehurst,
Worsley (13), Tom Whitehurst, Rol
lins, Smith (2), Tetterton, Bullock.
line-ups were': Parmville ;— Faye
Corbett (6), Joyce Corbett,'Jean Bak
er (12), Grace Brock, Murphy, Pip
pin, Hathaway, Bynum, Rouse, Kemp,
Corbett, Rollins; Grimesland — Gal
loway, Edwards (8), Campbell (4),
Bailey, Hodges, McLawhom, Tyer,
Bailey, Hardee, Daniels, Edwards,
Sutton.
Supremacy of the Farmville play
ers was also shown in the all-tour
nament teams selected by coaches
and officials. Farmville boys placed
Ed Allen on the first team and Sid
ney Carraway and Dewey Hathaway
on the second team.
Faye Corbett, a forward, and
Grace Brock, a guard, were Farm
ville’s selections on the guts’ first
team. Others picked were: Crawford,
Arthur; Whitehurst, Ayden; McLaw
hom, Grimesland; Mozingo, Arthur.
The second team was composed of
Crisp, Bethel; Turaage, Ayden; J.
Crawford, Arthur; Bailey, Grimes
land; White, Bethel; McLawhom, Ay
den.
POWELL SPEIGHT APPOINTED
ASSISTANT COUNTY AGENT
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On Monday morning, the Greene
County Board of Commissioners, in
regular session, approved the ap
pointment of Powell Speight as As
sistant County Farm Agent He will
begin work on April 1.
Mr. Speight is the son of Mr. Lew
is Speight of Winterville. He served
three years in the Army and gradu
ates this month from State college,
where he is majoring in agriculture.
He comes to Greene county well
qualified and highly recommended by
the N. C. Extension Service and
State college officials.
His wife is the former Elizabeth
Spruill of Greenville. They have one
child.
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At The Klwanis Club
Robert TM Humber’S proposal for
a world federation of all oountries to
insure law and order were explained
to the Kiwanians Monday night by
the author, a Greenville native, who
reviewed events leading up to present
world crises and outlined what he be
lieves is the practical solution of the
current dilemma.
Mr. Humber was the guest of Jim
Joyner, by whom he was introduced,
and John B. Lewis was also Jim’s
gue^t for the evening.
Humber has been preaching his
idea of a world federation to preserve
peace for years, and has spoken on
the subject before numerous aiudien
ces in many parts of the country, and
has had his plan approved by a num
ber of state legislatures, including
the North Carolina general assembly.
He prefaced his talk by paying tri
bute to Frank Graham, president of
the Greater University of North Ca
rolina, and praising him for the fine
manner in which he handled negotia
tions leading to a peaceful settlement
of the differences between the Dutch
and the Indonesians.
Humber then drew a historical
background of the Palestine crisis,
and also outlined some of the events
that might take place. The Jews
moved into Palestine about 30 years
ago and, protected by the British
from the native Arabs, real owners
of the country, have made great
strides. The British have stated they
will withdraw this protection—May
15 has been set as the date—and the
United Nations has formulated a
plan, entirely unacceptable to the
Arabs, which cplls for petitioning Pa
lestine, with part going to the Jews
and the remainder to the Arabs. 1
The Arabs have stated that they
will oppose the partition plan with
force. When the British move out,
the Arabs may move into the Jewish
territory. The United States has
refused to intervene with military
help for the Jews and the UN has no
auinonty to uoc& up xu» uuu»»w?. w
cording to Humber, the Jews may ap
peal to the Russians, who will gladly
respond and will use the foothold in
Palestine as a springboard for push
ing on into Iran, Iraq, India, and no
one knows how much farther.
He stressed the present world
crisis and said it was one of many
through the centuries. Answering his
own question as to why the present
generation is afflicted with a cycle
of wars, he said it was because the
“present generation lacks the cour
age and the will to settle its prob
lems in realistic manner. Until that
is done wars will not cease. The pres
ent is one of the significant stages of
history. Once the city was the center
of life. Gunpowder came and then
the province became the cesitSr. With
the industrial revolution the pro
vince was superseded by the nation
and the individual became a citizen
of the nation. Now that age is dy
ing mid we are the architects of a
new age. The atom bomb ended na
tionalism and civilzation is now on a
world level, like it or not, and we
must bring our thinking up. to that
point*
He clarified his point by explain
ing that the British Government, be
cause of its tobacco purchases, is of
more importance to the people of
Parmville than is Buncombe county,
in the same state.
“WTe have today a world communi
ty and order must be established ,itt
that community,” Humber continued.
“Evety war has the faculty of ending
used in World War I but were not
effective, although they shaped the
course of World War II, Hiroshima’s
atomic bleat ended the war and the
next one will begin with the atomic
bomb,, if there be another. Atomic
bombs have been developed with 200
million times the explosive power o#
gun powder, and they will be carried
by jet pianes.
‘"Etore are two ways of stabilising
the world community. It must be done
diplomatically as nations have adopt
ed diplomacy, only more effectively.
There have been and are treaties but
they have not prevented ware. Courts
have not provided the solution.
“The United Nations is set up on
a diplomatic basis, without enforce
ment power, if diplomacy fails de
cisions are enforced only by war.
The March of Dimes drive has of
ficially ended and the Rttnrrille
school reports a very successful cam
the direction of Sam D. Bundy while
a similar campaign was directed in
the colored school by Prof- It 8*
Sugg.
Mr. Bundy stated today that he
wanted to express thanks and ap
preciation to all who had a part to
the giving and the
praise is dae the teachers ttmdipipUs
of the **wot who actually did the
work in connection with the
fund «!«*■*
mary department with $42,55;
mnd1 the satire .school—
irith ?100; MBS Duke* Mth grade
ed rite high division with $23J0. The
undunt raised per UtaOurmaA room
is given below: -l
Miss Darden, first grade, $2026;
Miss Lewis, first grade, $8111; Mis*
Herring, second grade, $42.55; Miss
Hardy, second grade, $24.77; Miss
rhompson, third gyade, $36.73; Mrs,
Batchelor, fourth grade, $38.36; Mra.
Saskins, fourth grade, $100; Iflss
Robinson, fifth gride, $37.59; Miss
Baker, fifth gnde, Mss
tones, sixth grade, $48.58; Mrs. Joy
ler, sixth grade, $61165; Mrs. By
Mtor seventh grade, fK.06; Mrs.
rhomas, sewarth gride, $29^ Wm
Spier, eighth grade, $8.45; la
Thitehurst, eighth grade, $17.45;
'tm ' ■ Mri
Ire. Brown, ninth grade, $8;
hum, ninth grade, $18*80; V
ier, tenth grade, $21; Mr.
elev
mth grade, $23.10; Mrs. Wheless,
welfth grade, $15.64; hall game,
110.50; boxes, $12.35.
Total amount raised was $681.66.
Mr. Bundy stated that the pupils
tad been promised a half-day holiday
or this work if $1.00 per child was
aised. The present enrollment of
he school is 675 and thus the holi
lay has been earned. It will be giv
n a little later to the spring when
he weather gets a little wanner,
'he school superintendent also_stat
ville’s contribution an even $700 and
would gladly accept any gift from
any who might .have failed to donate
Interesting News Items
From Ballard’s
At the Youth Fellowship meeting
in the home of Mrs. Preston Elks on
last Thursday evening Marianna Hoi*
loway gave the devotional, taken
from Deuteronomy Malachi and
Matthew. She then gave the pro
gram on the topic, “How to Spend
Your Time and Your Dollars,” bring
ing out the thought that a part of
your time and your dollars should
be used in the work of the church.
There were 12 members present
and we were glad to have a new
member, Ted Vandifoid, join us.
The Rev. Hi win S. Coates closed
the meeting by a prayer.
The hostess served delicious re
freshments consisting of jello with
Mr. and Mrs. Boh Davis of Ayden
were guedts of Mr. and lbs. J. $
Elks Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Harris and Mr.
and Mis. C. L. Jones are spending
several days m Florida. *
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hart, Mis. Al
fred Grimsley and Mrs. Bessie Byrd
visited Mr. Levi Humbles who is very
ill in Duke hospital, on last Thurs
day.
Miss Edith Tyson, who teaches at
Black Creek, Wilson county, spent
the week end with her parents, Mr.
and Mrt G. T. Tyson.
Miss Juanita Sugg of near Farm
ville will be a guest of Miss Marian
na Holloway Wednesday night.
Friends of Mrs. Mark Smith will
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tian Church in Aydan on Saturday.
Mr. Ras berry was a delegate.
Miss Marie Bailey of Weldon was
a recent week end _ guest of Miss
Mary Elisabeth Worthington and
Miss Doris Dunn.
Mr.and Mrs. Abe Carraway and
Charley Carraway visited Mr. and
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rnur article ohm it Mr
E5 1wkM
ago. Mn. Sager taught here with
her brother, Isaac Chestnutt. The
school was located in the building on
the comer of Wilson and _ Walnut
streeta and was lata: converted into
the Horton apartments. Among her
pupils still living are Mrs. Dora H.
Keel, Mrs. W. A. Pollard, Sr., and
Dr. D. S. Morrill. Mfb. Sager was
she usd of J. E. Garris and Mrs.
Essie Baddies of Earmville. The ar
ticle ~fellows:.
Funeral services t
Chestnutt Sager, 84,
n. Meta
of Grady
i, will be
cssrtnetsd Sunday in the First Chris*
tion church by Bev. Kenneth Garri
son, pastor. Interment will be in the
Bose Hill cemetery.
Mrs Sager, who was actively con
nected with education*! work in
Grady county for more than 50
years, died in a local hospital, where
she had been a patient since Sept.
25, 1947 In poor health for several
years, she was hospitalized following
a fall at her home in which die frac
tured a hip. She had just been home
one day from West Virginia and
Nnrth Carolina, where she had spent
several months visiting a niece, Mrs.
Connelly T. Snidow of Princeton, W.
Va., who is here now, and other rel
atives.
for Women was at half mast today.
A resident of Ghickasha for 26
or more yean, Mrs. Sager was a
member of the college facuty begin
ning in 1932 until the past few years.
Mrs. Sager has been identified in
education in Grady county since the
first school was established at old
Silver City, not far from what is now
Tuttle.
Bom on a Southern plantation in
Lemur county, North Carolina, Sept.
8, 1863, Mrs. Sager was educated in
private and district schools, Bethel
academy and Greenville institute.
She received an L. X degree from
what is now George Peabody college
for teachers and an M. A. degree
from the University of Nashville.
had taught several terns in
North Carolina before coming to the
Indian territory on Sept 8, 1889, to
take up her work with seven pupils
in a little house at Silver City. A
year later die moved to Minco when
the early settlement at Silver CSty
was abandoned for the new town,
opened when the Bock Island had
been completed that far south. The
school was continued in Minco as
Sunny South,” but in October, 1894,
it moved into a three-story building
and became the El Meta Bond col
lege, so named by its co-founder,
Mrs. W. J. Erwin. The college con
tinued in Minco for 30 years.
Men and women whose children
have completed their education and
have families of their own in schools
today ware once pupils of Mrs. Sager
at Silver City and Minco and much
of -the data relating to the county's
early history has been furnished by
her. ' . ■
, In one of her narratives she told of
efforts she had made to have a play
ground leveled off hr Silver City
school yard for children. That plan
was abandoned when she learned the
‘deep ruts” were the last trace of the
old Chisholm Trail leading north to
the South Canada river crossing.
1 -i’v-x’r—st (■
who live in North Ca
rolina, California, Washington, Vir
PITT 4-H BOYS WILL EXHIBIT
LIVESTOCK AT ROCKY MOUNT
The subject of the Sunday evening
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be a picture message 'with she slide*
being projected on the sown to Il
lustrate the story. * ' l
Music wHl be furnished by the
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Junior cnoir.
At the morning hour Rev. Holmes
i of a series #
with the Eastei
messages in 1
season. The
ries wffl he
The Sunday morning topic will b«
“The Road ofPargaaa,” Other mea
sages are ‘♦The Road of Opposition,’
“The Road to Sacrifice,” and "Bp
Road to Immortality.”
;■ ■ . Christian
Rev. Z. B. T. Cox will preach or
“Our ConfeSsion” at the Sundaj
morning service at the Christian
church. ’
Mrs. Louise Harris was hostess t«
Group 1 Monday evening with thf
leader, Mrs. Flave Harden, having
charge of the devotional. Plans yr?it
laid for having flowers In the chxueli
each Sunday during the month and
for giving the program at the coun
cil meeting." *'
The program was taken from the
“World Call,” church paper.
Hie Lord's Prayer was used and
sentence prayers were said. ^
Ambrosia, salted nuts, mints and
cookies were served to 13 members.
The quarterly meeting of the Loyal
Woman’s class Friday night was fea
tured by the election of new officers.
Chosen to serve for the coming year
are: co-teachers, Mrs. «A. C. and
Mrs. L. E. Tumage; president, Mrs.
George W Windham; secretary, Mrs.
Lee Corbett; treasurer, Mrs. L. M
Flowers.
. Mrs. J. B. Taylor based the devo
tional on Psalm 16, after which Mrs.
Z. B. T. Cox conducted a St Pat
rick’s day quiz.
part in the quiz of “Hidden Answers”
conducted by the leader, Mrs. Ernest
iy night at the meet*
Bussell,
the church basement. Mrs.
Robert McClary conducted the de
votional. *
Sandwiches, nuts, ice box cake and
drinks were served by the hostesses*
Mrs. Warren Gurg&nus and Mrs. W.
E. Forbes. -
Group 3 met with Mrs. Zeb White
hurst Tuesday evening. Mrs. L. E.
Tumage was the devotional leader.
After a short business session, Mrs.
J. 0. Pollard confewted ^fae' quiz vt
“Hidden Answers."
Individual chewy pies, emit J»d
coffee were served to 12 menttaHf
and a visitor, Mrs. Corta Barrett
Episcopal
The Episcopal auxiliary met /with
Mrs. Frank A. Williams Monday
afternoon. Prayer and scripture read
ing, given by Mrs. R. C. Copenhaver,
president, were followed by a Short
business session.
Mrs. G. Alex Reuse opened the pro
gram with a hymn. She summarized
several chapters from die book,
“Committed unto Us,” after which a
hymn was song.
Mrs. John H. Howard of Nashville.
Tenn., who is visiting her daughter,
Mrs. W. T. Candler, was a special
Mrs. J. T. Nolen was hostess to the
.evening circle, 2, which opened with
a prayer led by Mrs. S. E, Ewell.
toe schedule of Satnrday teaching
for the Farmville white schools foi
the remainder of the year follows:
March 18,M*rch 20, April 8, April 17,
Graduation exercises will be on the
night of Friday, May 21, and school
witJiformaHy end Saturday, May 22
Easter Monday will not be ob
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At The Rotary dab
4
The subject of his talk was “What
Are You Worth as ah Individual to
Your Community?” Every person,
whether he is conscious of .the fact
or not, has influence in the communi
ty in which he lives, and should be
cmntfol of his daily living bo that he
will be an asset rather than a liabili
ty to the community- Using tin mot
to, "Service Above Self,” he brought
3Sycee (Starter Night
Is Gay Occasion
Demonstrating that they intend to
contribute to Farmville's civic bet
terment—and right away at that,
of~a scout hubbere^
foe Joyner- served as toastmaster
^thnhar^^Ji^afc^J>M*ry
dsUghtfu! evening was te*store for
all who attended. Places were set for
88 guests and 87 of them had been
taken when the session was called to
order and Rev. E. W. Holmes, pas
tor of Farmville Baptist church, pro
nounced the invocation.
While there were no principal ad
dressee of the evening, several short
talks were made by prominent visit
ing Jaycees. Bill Redding of Wilson,
iMTh1
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iation last1
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R. Gregg '
^Teacher Assoc
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1 aitemoooi
r to call a special ata
sider the question of increasing the
salaries of school teacher* and order
ed that copies of the resolution " be
forwarded to Pitt county members of
the assembly, who will also be urged
to support a higher wage seal* for
Pitt's three members of the Legisl
ature are Senator Arthur R. Corey
of Greenville, Representatives Sara
Worthington of Greenville and Prank
Kilpatrick of Ayden.
Action was taken on the proposal
after Supt. Sam D. Bundy talked on
the subject, “Should a Special Ses
sion of the General Assembly Be
Called?" He pointed out that there
were 39 fewer state allotted teach
ers in 1947 than there were in 1942.
Only 217 teachers in the state.have
master's certificates. Since 1932
over three thousand A certificate
teachers have dropped out for other
jobs and have been replaced with
tachers holding lower certificates. In
North Carolina, he continued, $76.64
is spent per child for education com
pared to $236 per child in New York
state. With a grade A certificate
and 11 years experience the maxi
mum salary is $2400.
Mrs. Haywood Smith presented
Sue Flanagan, Lou Taylor Lewis,
Grace Hiller, Guitta Cannon, Donald
Bullock, Albert Monk and Martha
Holmes in a {nano recital at the be
ginning of tiie meeting. Geneva
Braxton sang. She was accompanied
by Jane Joyner. Marcia Forbes was
the announcer.
In celebration of Ftamder’fe day,
Mrs. C. H. Flanagan gave a short
talk on the founder, Mrs. Alice Bur
ney, of Marietta, Ga. When the
association was first begun, it was
named the National Foundation of
Mothers. 1
A special collection was taken for
Founders’ day.
The room roll«ul was won by Miss
Lillian Herring’s seoond grade.
George Alien New
VFW Commander
George M. Allen, veteran of World
War II, will serve as commander of
Bqrnette-Rouoe Boat, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, during the year begin
ning April 1. He succeeds R. R. New
ton, Jr.
Other officers me: Paul R. Bur
nette, Senior Vice Commander; Leon
ard Scott Peele, Junior Vice Com
mander; Robert C. Darden, quarter
master; Archie G. Cayton, advocate;
Charles F. Baucom, Chaplain; Red
mond R. Newton, Jr., Surgeon; R. L.
Rollins, Trustee, 1 year; Warren H.
Gurganus, Trustee. 3 years.
New officers will be installed at
the next meeting, Tlmraday, March
26. Appointive officers wil also be
aruManoed at the next meeting by the
new commander.
Take Pictures Of *
. Children Tuesday
Mot Tomd»y is th« day for the
of youngsters (and
). The Enterprise is having
pictures made oi endoren wnp are
DrOugflt Dy JokxV parents w
to the:
between 1 o'clock and 8 o’clock.
The Walt* Studios <& Des Moines,
Iowa, will be in duuege and will fur
nish The Enterprise with aa engrav
ing of pktunes of all chidren whose
parents examine the proofs and pick
oat the one they want published. >
These pictures nftU be incorporated
in a- feature “Citizens of Tomorrow,”
and the more parents who eoopeuate
the better the feature will be. > I
It often seems to parents that chil
dren are little one minute and- are
irmum un th£ bazL bo fut - idocs ft
child's growing stage pass.Here is a
not' h**e to
though addft
tained from
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