North Carolina Newspapers

■ V' ' VOLUME THIRTY-EIGHT rTSSC-rrrr PARMVILLE, PHT C©UNTY, .....rasas NUMBER FORTY-SEVEN J ;7„>,..;;-'1.,;.s-^--------- ■-■ .. ",.,'i."-~g= (By Thompson Greenwood) GOING HOME—There iB a greW deal ot talk that Governor R. Gregg Cherry is now attempting to build a political organisation which wp eventually send Mm to Washington to succeed Senator Clyde R. Hoey. This is all a lot of boosbwah and bflge water. Gregg Cherry confided to friends last week that he has one ambition and only one. He wants to go back to Gastonia and practice law. ' After he was nominated Governor in 1944, he sold hie large home in Gastonia for a sum that ran well into five figures. He figured at the time that-he would have to buy or build another for a residence in 1949, see ing as how North Carolina governors cannot aicceed themselves. He did not think, however, real estate and building prices wouHd remain high during the four years- Now he is getting ready to build a cottage for himself, bis wife, and dog, and settle down, to a relatively quiet life in the lahd of the spindles. HOW TO SPEND IT—People are asking what the State plana to do with the huge surplus it is accumula ting- . Some time'within the next few days—and possibly within the next few hour—this old $64 question will be raised again and again as the newspapers headline the income tax revenue. The radios will hem with it The statisticians and pencil-push ers in the State Revenue Department have been totaling up the income tax fa»*» for 1947. This has been in prog ress since March 16, and gossip leak ing out of the department says that it will be tree-mendousl All of this worries Governor Cherry, for he knows it will raise another hue and cry for a special session of the General Assembly. The, teachers want it. The counties would" like to have a slice of it. The State employees are clamoring for it. They want that money. However, .Cherry will not call a special session, come what may. And so yonr lSte session- of the Legislature will concern itself large - ly with how to spend the surplus. 1 HOW IT OCCURRED — Why aj> the surplus? Well, the Advisory Budget Commission must always look ahead for months and months and attempt to estimate what North Carolina's income will. be. For in stance, in the fall of 1946 they had to come up with an estimation what this State would collect in taxes this year. Late this summer, the new Advisory Budget Commission will start guees-timating on what the in come will be in I960. For years now the estimates have been a mile off. The Advisory Budget Commission gives the Legislature its estimate, and the Legislature tries to stay within it- The estimates were low; the surplus is high. Governor Cherry, keeping a sharp eye on his legislators, has succeeded so handsomely jn staying within his fetsome fhat he will leave the State bi its best financial condition. In Such good condition, in fact, the popple age beginning to think that North Carolina is collecting more money than it actually needs. MOTES—A group of business men the State 8 now laying plans to m an organization to be hpcwn. as s “-Associated Business Men of dgt Qirolina"- -or some Mi?h tiiie mIm Truvisoir fn ITapr Soott. to nww uivivzy w *wwyv. *y figure h« is art.«0MffiH? op* sed to the eoopesaiives. Half the ton flew in last week for »» eeriej o» ecnferenojs locking to the forming of the associatim. As it happens, the head man of the whofle shebang is another Scott, Vemor Scott of the ■IS* Equality organization in Chica go. And the man who is advising on the legal angle* of it in North Caro lina is Elrank Shns of Charlotte, who happens to be hand of the liquor in Charlotte. Sims, by the tnpy, hi husband of Marian Sims, the M&K. . . . . . The W. B. Umstead J. M, Broughton for Senator Is quiet MW,- but plenty of dirt, moat of it will pubtfeh weekly * column ef state news prepared by Thompson GiMQittodi Rtldgb newsman. The BaterpriaaittUeveB the news column wiQ be M especial interest at this time in view of the forth coming Democratic primary. years has adopted, prevents the State being given an opportunity to vote on liquor. He knows the Governor has no power in this respect. L. A. Mar tin should ask the candidates for the Speakership of the House in the next Legislature how they stand on the referendum. The Speaker of the House has control . over the Rules Committee. Kerr Craig Ramsey of Salisbury wfl be the next Speaker of the House, and if he appoints the right people to the Rules Committee, there will be an end to the “gag rule,” which fixes it so that a twe thirds vote of the House is necessary to get a bill off the unfavorable cal endar after it leaves the committee. The representatives from the ABC areas know they can control enough votes to keep down a referendum if a two-thirds vote is required rather than a majority. £|» how does Ram sey stand? Not how does Albright, Scott, Johnson, Barker, Boyd, or Stan ley stand. Mr. Ramsey, are you for a liquor referendum ? Or are you a fraid you cannot become Speaker of the House (tips is left do a vote of the members) if you say you are for referendum? That is, against the gag rule. the bess in her behalf . Ho hii on. and that is low the story got out. Pam Blount and Abie tfp-hurch are making a grand team for the N,»rth Carolina chapter of the U. S. Brew ers Association. Although they have been in charge of the office for only a few weeks now. careless beer handlers are being givpa notice to clean up or shut up. .... . Despite reports of dissension ip Chartes M. Johnson’s headquarters, the organfea tion of the campaign is moving smoothly. Tom Pearsqll and Qpcar Richardson, Johnson managers, are well on the way toward haying the 60 county managers which this day of this week and on Saturday of next week, making five Saturdays in which it was necessary to have classes in order to complete the work of the term by Hay 22. The Farmville high school baseball Farmville School in Southern Asso elation was sustained. Your school ® therefore accredited for the school year 1947-48. _ “Recgnition by the Southern Asso ciation is a mark of distinction and 1 hope that it will stimulate you and your associates to even greater ef forts to render an increasingly effec tive service.” : Mr. Bundy stated that the Farm ville school returned to the preferred rating during the school year 1940-41 after a lapse of several years, hut, has been an the Southern Associa tion Accredited list since that. time. There ate.-only a few schools in North Carolina which have this rat ing-last year there were 69—and Farpiville is the only school in this section of the state that is not a specially chartered school which does have this high rank. Patrons of district have every rea son to feel proud of the honor and distinction accorded the school. Membership in the select group means that a graduate of the local school can alter college anywhere in the. South without entrance examina tions. WALSTONBURG ... NEWS ... Miss Katy Beaman of Washington, D. C., spent the week end at her home here. Mrs. W. E. Lang, Sr., Mis. W. A. Marlowe and Mrs. W. V. Redick at tended a tea at the home of‘Mrs. Al beit Meijcer in Fountain Monday. J Mr. and Mis. Tomihy Heard and , small aim of Florence, S. C„ spent the week .end with Mis. Heard’s pa- , rents, Dr- and Mrs. W. A. Martowe. Dr. E. W. Circle and W. A. Circle of Springfield, Ohio, were'guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Re dick over the week end. They were ; accompanied hack to Springfield by Mrs. E. W, Circle, who had spent a week here with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Holloman, Miss Edna Ear! Holloman and James and Jarvis Holloman and AHie New- . ton attended the funeral of Mrs. Samuel Sink in Lexington, Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. William Eagles of Pitfunond, Va., were dinnerguests pf ' Dr. and Mrs. W. A.1 Marlowe Sun- ■ day. Mr. and Mis. Jimmie Gardner spent Sunday with Mrs. Gardner’s parents, Mr. and ftjjs. Herman Owens, at Sa ratoga; Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Letchworth and children spent Sunday with Mr. : and Mrs. J. F. Letchworth near Snow Hill Sunday. ; „ £ { Mr. and Mrs. Warner M. Burch and children of Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. H. E, Burch of Asheboro, jMip. C. H. Floyd of Birdsnest, Va., and Mrs. Melvin Perry of Colerain spent the Week end with Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Burch. ’ - i Among the students at home for the holidays were Ola Grace Gardner and Leonard Mann of A. C. C., Wil son; Misses Margaret Reids, Frances The Woman’s Society of Christian Service met in the home of Mrs. Rosa McKeel on March 24. Mrs. C. H. Walston, tiie president, called the meeting to older. Mia. James E. Shackleford, as spiritual life leader, gave the devotional Mrs. R. D. S. Dixon, the program leader, gave a study on Japan. Miss Ann Hicks and Claude Tyson first at the Jr., whose arrive sometime of both posts was Wilson which bring servicemen back for a final represent ... r, 4 ■ . - —.;S_? returning to their native resting place. ||j| posts on the guard: Alfred H. Lewis, Henry Owens, James P. Forrest, Hubert Moore, A. P. Joyner, Jr., R. Kasberry, Wiley num, Jr., Joe Gregory, Jr., J. D. Joy ner, Pratt Gaskins, Paul Allen Jr., Archie Cayton, Warren Gurganns, Robert Darden, Harry D. May, Paul Burnette, Leonard S. Peele, Fountain, Herbert P. Norman, Clarence Davis, Julian C. Gaynor, Fountain. Claude Tyson, Marvin Hinson, Robert C. Teel. EL L. Joyner, Charles Yelverton, J. H. By United Choirs Present Easter Musical Program A program of Easter music and scripture reading was presented gt the Methodist church Sunday evening by the united choirs of the Baptist, Christian, Methodist and Presbyterian churches. Those tfcking part were: Sopranos — Misses Joyce Corbett, Selita Tuckerr Lola Grey Kemp, Nell Taylor Beaman, Julia Satterthwaite, Janet Stansill,- Jane and Nancy Kit trell, Jen Easley, Miriam Sutton, Jean Moye, Dora Mae Barrett, Betty John son, Mary Frances Allen, Bille John son, Carolyn Roebuck, Joan Atkinson, Carolyn Rasbeory^Garol Pippin, Jess Gattaway, Mary Elizabeth Carr, Wil lie Rae Harper, Jean Boyce, Mesdames C. F. Baucom, Clifton Corbett, Tal madge Pollard, Clarence Moye, Ben Atkinson,. Rom Webber and R. P. Wheless, and Miss Rath Moore. Altos — Misses Pat Corbett, Nancy Lu Moore, Ann Bynum, Jean Bynum, Gayle Flanagan, Gaye Pippin, Faye Corbett, Mary Thome’ Tyson, Dot Hathaway, Rathe Tyson, Margaret Lewis, Elvira Tyson, Connie Rollins, Mesdames E, W. Holmes, Raymond Shearin, J. M. Hobgood, Alton W. Bobbitt and Warren Palmer. Tenors—l£aymond Shearin, Charles Baucom, Sidney' Carraway, Robert Everette Roebuck, Rufus Beaman and Joe Bynum. Basses — James Thome, Jay Flan agan, Maynard Thome, Jimmy Stocks, Bobby Danten, Elbert Holmes, J. H. Bynum, Bob Morgan and John Rus sell Joyner. Mrs. W. A, Pollard, Jr., directed the performance which was attended by around four hundred people;. Mrs. Haywood Smith was organist. RED CROSS REPORT Falling over $300 short of the goal of 12660, the Red Cross, drive offi cially closed in Farmville yesterday wrth collections totaling $1706.80. George W. Davis, who served as chairman, was gratified with the re sponse sinpe Farmville’s quota was about one-fifth of the county’s quota. Davis o accept further SATURDAY CLOSING HOUR WILL REMAIN UNCHANGED A spokesman for the Farmville Merchants Association announce that stores will continue to dose at seven, o’clock on Saturdays and will not close at six o'clock as had been an nounced. The new hours were to be come effective tomorrow. The stores, however, will close each ■HmaHH ■ A pre-school clinic for children an tenne school in Sentember for th< first time will be given in the Farm vflle school next Tuesday morning April 6, beginning'at 9 o’clock. ' The fturent-Teacher A has pUimed a program of ment for the children, who will be registered and then sent to th| family doctor for the examination re quired. 1 "i ; i Following are excerpts of a lettei prepared for parents by Principal Bbndy: v' 'X , “Children will not only be given a physical examination hat will be vac cinated. ( Yon perhaps know the ‘law requires that a child be vaccinated a gainst smallpox, ” diphtheria, and whooping cough before entering school.) Vaccination for smallpox and diphtheria will be done at the school but wfeooping cough vaccination, which is made' up of four doses given one week apart, will be done later on at the typhoid clinics. Babies and other small children will be vaccinat ed at the pre-school clinics as well as at the typhoid clinics. “We certainly hope it will be pos sible for you to come to the pre school Clinic with your childfor it is always helpful for the doctni to talk to the parent about the ehild’s health and of course the principal would like to meet foe parent before the child actually enters school.” The registration questionnaire ac companying the letter states that the child must be six years old on or be fore October 1, 1947. Information is requested concern ing any previous vaccinations the child may have had. At The Rotary Club The Tuesday evening- meeting of the FarmviUe Rotary dub was given over to a business session under the di rection- of President James Monk. Richard A. Joyner won the attend ance prize. . ' ■ Activities Of Local : Church Organizations Christian Mrs. L. E. Turn age conducted the devotional at Group S Tuesday night making a talk on the ninth command ment. Presiding at the meeting was the chairman, Mrs. Arch Maangan. "Hidden Answers” were conducted by Mrs. Blanche Paschall. Ice cream andcookies wen.served during the social hour by the^ hostess, Mrs. J. R. Cowans, to 12 members. Miss EHzabeth Moon had the de votional at Group 4 Tuesday night and used the topic, “Our Shadow.” After the business' session and the “Hidden Answers” quiz, the hostesses, Mrs. C. L. Ivey, Jr., and Mrs. Ronald Nichols, served cup cakes, pimento cheese sandwiches, pickles, potato sticks and coca colas. Eighteen members attended the meeting which was held in the home of Mrs. Ivey. Mrs. vlvey*s mother, Mrs.* P. F. Brennan, of Texas City, -Texas,' was a guest. . Mrs. Henrietta M. Williamson was hostess to Group 1 Monday night Mrs. Uoyd Smith conducted the “Hid den Answers” and made a talk on the “Crusade for Christ.” In lieu of serving refreshments, the hostess made a monetary dona tion to the treasury. Catholic Thursday evening the ladies of St. Elizabeth’s Altar Guild met at the rectory. Father Loyola O’Leary con gratulate^ them on the beautiful ar rangement of the altar and the flow ers on the feast of the Resurrection. Mrs, J. W. Hardy was the hostess, and served a delicious repast after the meeting. v- • Special devotions will be held Fri day, the first one in the month. The morning mass is at 7:30. Father Jude McCauley of yanceboro will have charge of the evening service, using the topic “The Love of the Sacred Heart for Men.” Monday afternoon children of the parish had their annual Easter egg hunt in the field- across 'from the church. It was unde? the direction was followed by Low! laby” was sung by the entire group, Mary Ellen Dail and Grace Miller rendered an Italian duet, “Gondolie rs,” six fifth graders, Theodora Al britton, Faye Mewbom, Ann Morgan, Sybil Crumpler, Jane Russell and Clara Bell Flanagan, sang "Spring Is Coming,” “Whistle While You Work” was sung by the club with Presiding over the business session was Mrs. R. T. Williams, president, who announced the following commit tee appointments: Nominating—Mrs. Will Jones, Jr., Mrs. John. D. Dixon, Mrs. Frank Williams; charter and constitution. — Mrs.' LeRoy Rollins, Mrs. Ted Albritton, Mrs. W. H. Moore, Jr.; entertaining committee for the pre-school registration to be held April 6—Mr*. Lewis, Mrs. Irvin Morgan, Jr, Mrs. George Farr, Mrs. R. T. Williams, Mrs. Ted Al britton, Mrs. J. M. Mewbom, Mrs. John D. Dixon. 1 Sam D. Bundy; principal, told the group that the music room is ready for use and he. expressed the school’s appreciation for all the gifts which made the zoom possible. Mrs. Hay wood Smith reported that the three pianos have just been toned end are In good condition. The roll call prize, given to the room which has the largest percent age of parents present, was won for the secpnd time this year by Mrs. Marjorie Gaskin’s fourth grade. i;vA ,y) mrm Installs VFW Officers Hugh Marr of Elizabeth City, commander of the first district, Vet erans of Foreign Warsr installed new officers of Farmville’s Bumette Rouse post, at the supper meeting on Thursday night of last week in the school lunch room. Officers are: George M. Alien, commander; h. Scott. Peel, of Foun tain and Paul R. Burdette, mce com manders; Archie Cayton, judge advo cate; Charles Baucom, chaplain; R. R. Newton, Jr., Surgeon; Jake Joy ner, adjutant; Robert Darden, quar termaster; LeRoy Rollins, Pratt Gas kins and Warren GurganuB, trustees; committeemen chairmen are: Claude Tyson, membership; Scott Peele, pro gram; Archie Cayton, Buddy Poppy; Jasper Dudley, legislative; Marvin Hinson, sports; Jake Joyner, publici ty; J. B. Hockaday, public relations; Joe Bynum, Sr., relief; Pat Bundy, greetings; Paul Allen, finance; H. D. May, attendance; Bflly Smith, carni val, and R. R. •Newton, Jr., service book. Joe Batchelor was appointed captain of the degree team. The post is now concentrating its efforts on the service volume which, to be published soon, will mirror the records of service men from this area, contain histories of churches and civic dubs, and a section of pic tures of children under six years of age. ' Miss Haz«8 Garris, an attractive young lady with pleasing manners t the Kiwania and voice, presented club Monday night which brought her ca .. .... . topical contests conducted recently in this section of the state. A high school student, she was the and plans have gone forward for the contest to take place as scheduled. The inevitable loss of arms, legs, teeth and eyes that accompanies these games will: undoubtedly be greater than ever before as both teams are primed for an all night battle—winner take alL Rotary will call on the survivors of last year to start their team and will add new Wood as the fight pro gresses. Included on the defending Flanagan and “Dawgmeat” gan, high scoring brothers, Tale Grey*’ Ewell, “I’m Wrong” Jones and “Spider” Others who are expected to t ty of action are “Sawbonei bom, Charles “I’m so'Hahds Embarrassing” Rasberry, “O; Willis, “Sf.rloin” Coates - and ' “Blubber” Williams. Rotary de they are prepared to sacrifice last man, even the club’s patit Joe Rasberry. Aitnougn notary nas Been accused of using- everything from Mariuana to adrenalin in past, games, it is usu ally agreed that both organizations ✓ stick pretty well to the rules, since there aren’t any. ; . J Kiwanis has declared that they are going to take the title this year , and have the material to do it with. Such stalwarts as “Digger” Edwards, “Sport” Tumage, “He’s Too Eat” Quinerly, “Painful Prank” Harris and •Edgar “The Beast” Barrett yitt be on hand to back up this statement. Oth ers who will be called on to give their services—and their Jife if nec essary — are “Dead Eye” Holmes, “Sure Shot” Clegg, Prank “The Kill er” Allen, Alex “McNasty” Allen, “Scoop” Hockaday, and a host of r near professional athletes in the very pink of condition. 1 • It is reported that tickets are a vailable at the gate or in advance. Spectators who cannot stand the sight of blood are advised to stay* at home. Hospitals in neighboring towns are being asked to have ail’ facilities ready for emergences. Chief of Po lice Lucas has been warned to be have a riot squad of Boy Scouts ready for duty. ''■■■■'■ ■ '' ~ Those who plan to attend are be ing warned that weapons will be checked at the gate. Medical’ assistance will b* rendered the players by Doctors “Oink” Gregg and “Drench ’em” Gilchrist. 1 It is expected that there will be a large blood-thirsty crowd to witness the animal contest and yon are ad vised to come early for good Teats. n OFFICERS INSTALLED Eight elective officers, whose names were announced last week were installed along with the appoin tive officers at a special meeting «f the Eastern Star Tuesday evening. Appointed officers are: Hiss Ma mie Davis, chaplain; Mrs. Sam D. Bundy, marshal; Mrs. Haywoed Williams, Martha; Miss Dude rett, Electa; Mrs. 0. G. Spell,' er, and- Mrs. Claude Joyner, se Conducting the installation mony were Mrs. J. W. Parke: