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EVERY DAY!
I VOLUME THIRTY-NINE
By Eula Jfixon Greenwood
SCdOPEROO — J. M. Broughton,
Democratic nominee for the U. S.
Senate, has pulled another fast one
on the wise boys—a “scoop,” the
newspaper folks would call it.
A few hours after W. Kerr Scott
had been nominated for Governor and
while hundreds of people throughout
the State were saying, “Look where
R. Mayne Albright would be now if
he had thrown his support to Mr.
Scott,1* Mr. Broughton contacted Al
bright and requested him to become
his administrative assistant.
This position now pays .upwards of
$10,000 per year. Will Albright ac
cept it? Well, he hasn’t as this
column , goes to press, but since his
wife is a Washington, D. C., girl, and
since you could name on the fingers
of one hand the jobs with the State
that pay as much, chances are he will
go with Broughton.
TWO SURPRISES — The first
surprise is that J. M. Broughton of
fered the position to Albright—you
would think there would be at least
100 bright young men closer to the
Broughton campaign—and the second
eyebrow-lifter is that Mayne Al
bright didn’t snap it dp the second
it was offered—or proffered. '
The answer to the first is that
Broughton needs more strength a
mong the youthful members of the
party. You will have to look iir the
back of the book for the second: Mrs.
Albright knows her husband is smart
and it could be that she doesn’t look
with *favor on his playing second fid
dle to anybody. It might also be that
Albright feels his political future
would be' brighter if he .remained in
the State. >■.
OUT WITH! BREWER — Kidd
Brewer, who succeeded A. Hand.
James as assistant to the late J. W.
Bailey, was thrown for a loss when
W. B. Umstead was beaten—some
thing that seldom happened to Brew
er when he roamed the backfield for
the Duke Blue Devils back yonder
when Bailey was serving his first
term in the Senat.e. Brewer tor a
time was coach at A. S. T. C. at
Boone, leaving there to become a
schoolbook publisher’s representative
in North Carolina, then*a polished
Navy man in the war, and filially to
Washington, serving Bailey and then
Umstead.
Hand James, Laurinburg native and
good friend of Revenue Commission
er Edwin Gill, resigned from Bailey’s
office for something more secure if
less remunerative. He became clerk
of the Eastern District of the Fede
ral Court in North Carolina shortly
after the retirement of Judge I. M.
Meekins of Elizabeth City, still holds
this position, which served as a re
tirement cushion for the late Thomas
Dixon,
Its
GETTING TO SCOTT—Everybody
is trying to get Kerr Scott’s ear. The
man is getting more advice than he
knows what to do with, and he still
hasn’t been able to read all his con
gratulatory mail. Various groups are
sending emissaries to the Scott farm
in Alamance. Scott’s every footstep
is dogged by advisors, schemers, and
some well-wishers. Long forgotten
friends have renewed acquaintances.
,Who is closest to Scott t Cap,us
Waynick. Next in line probably is
J. M. Broughton. Scott is in the pos
ition of being friendly with U instead,
Brighton, Cherry, the Farm Bureau
State Grange, Presbyterians,
, Methodists, with a few
Episcopalians thrown in. They all,
seem to Jove him. Rot Scott is a good
listener, and so far his visitors have
done most of ttie talking. He’s very
popalar. Reminds one of the words
of Old Tom in the “Lost Colony,”
whidh is now packing them in on
Roanoke Island. As'he - walks his
he **ys4o himself, “. . / . I who was
lately nothing,am become somebody.”
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Here’s relief for your eyes, if nothing elsej. Out in California
workmen are etSuring through 30-foot drifts of snow (remember
it?), on highways leading to Lassen Volcanic National Park near
Mineral to enable mid-summer skiers to get to ski-trails and peaks.
Note the ranger at left in shirt sleeves. *
PITT SCHOOLS ADOPT
RENTAL PLAN FOR BOOKS
The Pitt County High Schools have,
adopted the rental plan for basal
books beginning for the school year
1948-49. v -
By this plan the State Textbook
Division supplies all basal books to
each student for $3.00 . per year.
Books are furnished for all subjects,
both academic and special. At the
end of the year the student returns
the books as they remaiif the proper
ty of the state. Students will take
care of the books in a reasonable
manner, for books damaged beyond
reasonable limits or books lost must
be paid for by the Students to whom
they were rented.
The plan goes into effect this year
because several new books have been
adopted for the high school. It is
explained, however, that pupils who
wish to do so may still purchase their
books but the cost of one series a
lone will be more than the $3.00 ren
tal fee charged. *
Principal Sam Bundy of the Farm
vile School says he believes the
new system will be a financial saw
ing to parents who, .Under the new
plan, will pay only $12 for books used
during the entire four years, pro
vided the student takes good care of
the volumes and does not lose oz
damage any of them.
Pupils are advised to save fill of
their old 'books which may be turned
in, when Bchool opens, for credit on
the rental fee.
HELP NEEDED
A first degree burn, one amputated
leg, the other one broken,' and the
urge tb help have caused a small
community to reach out into neigh
boring areas.
William Ellis, 31-yearnold seta of
Mr;, and Mr. Hardy Ellis, was severe
ly burned last March 6 and spent
nearly four months in the hospital.
While in the hospital, the doctors had
to amputate a leg. Released on July
3, William is now back in the hospi
tal. On—July 4, while practicing
walking on crutches, he fell and
broke his leg. The#leg wasn’t very
substantial, anyway.* It had been
badly burned in the first accident.
Doctors say that William, who weigh
ed only 100 pounds before' being
burned, will never work again.
A few people of his community saw
that William and his folks were not
able to pay the $2,000 hospital bill
and started a drive to raise the
necessary funds. ,
If anyone wishes to help in this
cause, all contributions win"
‘ ed. They should be mail
Hardy Ellis,^ William
FIELD MEETING FOB PITT
TOBACCO FARMERS TODAY
(By S. J. Weeks, Ass’t Farm Agent)
There will be a field meeting held
for farmers of Pitt county, at the
Lower Coastal Plains Tobacco Re
search Farm, Friday afternoon, July
16, at 2 o’clock. The research farm
is located about 2% miles south of
Greenville on the old Tar Road.
Farmers who attend this meeting
will have an opportunity to observe
different varieties being grown in
yield and quality tests. These va
rieties will include several strains of
Black shank resistance, along with
some strains that are being produced
in an effort to get both Black shahk
and Granville wilt resistance in the
same variety. Experimental work us
ing hormones, for. sucker control will
be shdwn to the group attending the
field meeting.
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FLAMES STARTED IN GRILL
THREATENED BUSINESS AREA
Flames, which broke out in mid
afternoon, Saturday, and threatened
for a time the entire business district,
wrought damages estimates at a
round $4000.000 to the fumis'.' lgs
and to the two story building locat
ed on the corner of Main and Wil
son streets, owned by Mrs. J .M. Hob
good and occupied by the Royal Grill,
first floor, and the Masonic lodge up
stairs. . Damage from water and
smoke was’ reported by the Roberta
jewelry firm next door to the Grill
and in the same building.
The fire is said to have started
from a grease flare on the cafe stgre,
which enveloped the exhaust -pipe and
was fanned up the stairway by the
exhaust fan. This was the second
time a fire has occurred at this point
in the past two years; the first, how
ever, being extinguished before much
damage.was done.
Prompt action by the local firemen
caused the flames to be confined te:
the one building and they were
brought under control after fi period
of furious fighting in a dense smoke.
_ Fire chief Haywood Sniith was in
Wilson at the time of the alarm but
returned and assisted in “moping
up.” He said today that the two most
important things in connection' with
fire fighting is “getting there and
working on the strategic points.”
And he further commented with jus
tifiable pride on the prompt response
made by his fire fighters to an a
larm and their ability to spot those
points. He stated that a lG
In getting the hose, go
ing at this fire would have probably
disastrous conflagra
SUNDAY SERMON TOPICS
AT BAPTIST CHURCH
The Rot. E.'W, Holmes has an
nounced that his sermon topic's* the
11:00 o’clock worship hour will be
“The Spirit of Christ, Our Guide For
Christian Living.” . >
In the evening, at 8:00 o’clock,
there will be picture message, the
to be centered about a familiar
of Christ’s ministry.
Following up a recent movement
made by organizations here to add a
high school hand and public school
music to the opportunities afforded
Farmville students, oomes the an
nouncement of committees appointed
in this connection and notice of -a
meeting to be held Monday evening
of next week, the 19th, in the Town
Hall at 8:00 o’clock for laying furth
er plans for a campaign and appoint
ment of a steering committee.
Irvin Morgan will be campaign
chairman and requests that every
organization representative of the
following list make a special effort
to be present and assist with plans so
that the campaign may be waged
with speed and vigor: •
Kiwanis—Louis Williams, presi
dent, Lewis Allen, Charles Quinerly,
Bill Garner, Sam Bundy; Rotary—
C. H.. Flanagan, president, J. Y.
Monk, Walter- Jones, Mr. Bass;
Masons—-John King, master, E. Cf.
Holmes, Herman Baker, J. B. Briley,
W. C.- Wooten; P. T. A.—Mrs. John
Miller, president, Mrs. L. W. Allen,
Mrs. Eli Joiner, Jr., Mrs. T. S. Ryon;
Girl Scouts—Mrs. J. M. Carraway,
Mrs. Alex Allen, Mrs. R. E. Pickett,
Mrs. Coy Monk; Boy Scouts—Ed Nash
Warren, Dr. J. M. Newborn, Dr. Chas.
E. Fitzgerald, Archie Cayton; '
American Legion Auxiliary —
Mrs. LeRoy Rollins, Mrs. M. V. Jones,
Mrs. Alton W> Bobbitt, Mrs. B. R.
Fields; Book & Bridge—Mrs. Walter
Jones, Mrs. Frank Allen; Mrs. J. M.
Mewborn, Mrs. Irvin Morgan, Jr.;
Literary Club—Miss Mamie Davis,
Mrs. H. E. Hart, Miss' Elizabeth
Davis, Mrs. J. W. Joyner, Mrs. J. H.
Harris; Woman’s Club—Miss Tabitha
DeViaconti, Mrs. Jesse Moye, Miss
Annie Perkins, Mrs. A. B. Moore;
Junior Woman’s Club—Mrs. W. C
Garner, 'Mrs. Rhoderick Harris, Miss
Elvira Tyson, Mrs, Bill Candler; Jr.
Chamber of Commerce—Joe Joyner,
Bill Creekmur, Charlie Rasberry, Red
Newton, Jr.; V. F. W.—George , M.
Allen, Jake Joyner,” LeRoy Rollins,
Charles Baucom; American Legion
Dr. "Frank Harris, R. O. Lang, Jr.,
Jim Hockaday, Joe H. Bynum, Sr.;
Chamber of CdnpherSe—^ffili Garner;
P. K. Ewell, Billy Smith, Hal Win
ders; Tobacco Board of Tredd—R. D,
Haras.
The above Organizations are sup
porting the Farmville high school in
its effort towards an addition of
music to the extent of furnishing
instruments and uniforms, and an
nouncement has already been made
of the acceptance by Newton C.
Maenhout as band director for the
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next session. Mr. Maenhout has been
serving as band director at Fork
(Jnion Military Academy in Virginia.
Miss Alma Whitley has been en
gaged to take charge of public school
music next year and to work with the
glee club. •
J. -GLASGOW SMITH HEW
PARTNER IN FURNITURE FIRM
It’s back home for J. Glasgow
Smith, who recently purchased an
interest in Thome-Wooten Furniture
Company and is now managing the
store.
Mr. Smith lived in Farmville 36
years, before he moved in Greenville
in 1942, an# worked for 11 years
with the Farmville Furniture Com
pany.
In Greenville he was in the electri
cal appliance business, selling out his
interest there on January 1 of this
year.
years, before he moved to Greenville
commuting daily until housing can be
found here.
iTLANTA
PASTOR SPEAKS ON
iflYTERIAN HOUR SUNDAY
Presbyterian Hour Sunday, July
18, will present over the independent
network of the Southern Religious
Radio Conference the Rev. Dr. Ver
non S. Brpyles, Jr., pastor of
IHHH ... 1. the
North Avenue Presbyterian Church in
Atlanta, Ga. He is a native Tennes
sean, educated in Davidson College
and Union Theological Seminary of
Richmond, Va. He did post-graduate
small guns fmd her turrets in 1
ton battleship New Jersey Is tugged through New York harbor on
her way to the Bayonne, N. J„ Naval Annex far decommission. A
veteran of Pacific fighting, she will Join the Navy’s mothball fleet
and be held in reserve.
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Activities Of Local
Church Organizations
Baptist
Presiding over the Annie Perkins
circle, Monday evening, at the regu
lar July meeting held in the Church
parlor, Miss Annie Perkins present
ed Mrs. Albert Lewis and Mrs. John
Turner Walston and Assisted them al
so in developing a program dealing
with the rural churches of the South
ern Baptist Convention. The meeting
was opened with'the singing of I
love Thy kingdom, Lent Mrs. C. L.,
Langley was in charge of the devo
tional based on the >4th chapter of
John. < 1 '
Mrs. R. L. Manning and Mrs. lloyd
Bouse were hostesses at. this meeting
and served banana splits to the
seventeen members present and to a
special guest, Mrs. Jh K. Britt Glad
ioli were used in decorating the
Church parlor.
Christian ' j
Mrs. Howard Moye presided at
the meeting of the Christian
Woman’s Council, held Monday after
noon in the Church, and opened the
session with a poem, “A High Way
And A Low,” followed by prayer. An
nouncement was made that this group
had won an honor roll position-in the
past year.
■ Mis. Clarence Moye, program lead
er* discussed “Our Frontiers,” bring
ing out pertinent facts relating to
Alaska, Midway, Hawaii, Puerto Ri
co, Guam, Canal Zone and the Virgin
Islands. '. * 1- V
Mrs. Edison Moore conducted the
devotional exercises, based on Psalm
119 and Mark 12, with "The Lord Is
My Strength” as the theme.
The meeting was closed with the
missionary benediction.
Episcopal
Mrs. J. W. Joyner was hostess to
the Woman’s Auxiliary Monday
afternoon. Summer flowers were
used as a setting. Mrs. R. C. Copen
haver presided and conducted the de
votional from the Forward Day By
Day booklet, which wa| based on the
theme, "I Am The Truth," and
brught this portion of the program
to a close with a poem, “Lift Up
Thine Efres Unto The Hills.”
Communications relative to dispen
sing of a contribution to CARE were
read bv the president who also re
ported that $20 had. been turned oyer,
afternoon, was in charge of Mis. E.
R. Clegg, who Had as her theme, “Re
storer of Paths,” and in this cormec
I tion talked on the work of the Church
in Poland, which is supervised by
Bishop Paul Garver, of Durham, a
former instructor at Duke University
and a personal friend of the Clegg
family. The program was brought to
a close by the singing of a group of
appropriate hymns with Mrs. E. C.
Carr at the piano.
The hostess, Mrs. A. J. Greene,
served ah ice beverage, cookies and
salted nuts following adjournment.
Presbyterian 1 '
Circle 1 of the Woman’s Auxiliary
met Monday afternoon with Mrs. G.
E. Beckman, Jr., as hostess and Mrs.
E. C. Coates presiding.
Mrs. J..M. Mewborn led the Bible
study under the subject jnpic, .“The
Message of HistoriCaf Books,” and
Misses Wilma Stansfll and Jean Beck
man, special guests, presented a time
ly program on Young Adult Work,
the concluding feature of which whs
a solo, “In The Garden,'" by the lat
ter;
Vanilla ice cream and homemade
caramel cake were served after ad
journment. Zinnias, daisies, ragged
robin and other garden flowers -gere
used in mixed arrangement in the
JAYCEES PLAN TO ERECT
SUITABLE STREET -
The Farmville Junior Uuuuu
Commerce held its semi-monthly
meeting Friday night and made plans
for a bingo party Wednesday night,
July 21, proceeds from which will l
used to erect suitable
™ town.
The Jaycees also went on recoru hl.
willing to do its part in the organiza
tion of a band and the secretary, Jack
McDavid, Jr., was authorized to write
the school principal that-the dub was
ready to do its part.
J. C. Brock heads the committee in
charge of the bingo party, which will
be held at the Recreation Center. On
the committee with him are Bill
Candler, Charles Townsend, Hap Ni
cholu, Chester Outland and J. T. Wal
ston. ...
> The Jaycees are also planning to
enter a soft ball team in the state
tournament in Wilson the week end
Aug.7-8.
Program for ’48
At their meeting "last Saturday
morning, directors of the Farmville
Chamber of Commerce adopted an
ambitious schedule of work which
has the following for its goal:
X. Complete and distribute an in
dustrial surrey of Farmville.
2. Provide complete information
service.
3. Publish semi-monthly bulletin to
the membership, ahd provide reports
to those desiring the service:
4. Publish directory of business,
civic organizations and industry in
Farmville. '
6. Cooperate with civic cluhs and
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
6. Organization of a high school
band.
7. Providing lighted athletic field.
8. Establish file of rooms, apart
ments and houses for rent.
9. Complete and distribute a new
“Farmville” folder.
10. Erect entrance signs on all
highways leading into Farmville. >
11. Carry out advertising program
for merchants and tobacconists.
12. Promote “Courtesy” campaign
in stores and businesses.
.18. Sponsor trade promotion days
in the Fall and Spring.
14. Sponsor Christmas Festival and
provide appropriate decorations.
15. Set up advertising resolution
and distribute to membership.
16. Offer Notary Public services to
members without charge.
At The Rotary Clab
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Manly Liles presided at the Rotary
Club, Tuesday evening1, in the absence'J
of president Curtis Flanagan.
' Featuring the program was a trav
elogue by Mrs. J. T. Lewis, of Reseda,
California, who was presented by the
program leader, John B. Lewis. Mrs.
Lewis, who, with her family, is visit
ing relatives'of her husband in this
section, gave a graphic description of
the- Grand Canyph, Death Valley and
other points of interest hi the West
and along the route from California
to North Carolina.
The attendance prize was won by
Leon Eason.
Special guests included the speaker,
Mrs. John B. Lewis and Harold Rouse.
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PERSONAL ITEMS
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Joyner
. . Mrs. C. C. Joyner and daughter,
Mrs. Jack Gates, of Greenville, have
returned from a trip to Richmond,
Ya., and a motor tour of points of in
terest around Charlottesville.
Dr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Fitzgerald
and children are expected to return
during the week end from a two
weeks vacation at Virginia Beach,
Va. ' (
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Welsh, of
Baltimore, Md., are spending this
week with Mr*. Welsh’s, mother, Mrs.
Bertha J. Gardner. Mrs. Gardner,
Mr. and Mrs. Welsh and Mrs. Geoqje
Wilkerson, of Greenville, spent Wed
nesday with relatives at Morehead
city. . . - ,
;'s Mrs. Cora L. Barrett is spending
this week with relatives in- Durham.
Bill Bundy and son, Raymond, of
Chester, and Sam Love, of Sharon,.
S. C., were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Bowling during the week end.
Mr. Bundy’s mother, Mm S. H.
Bundy, returned with him for a two
weeks visit to his family in Chester.
Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Spell and
daughter, Miss Hazel, retumed-Mon
day from a motor trip to northern
states and Canada. They visited
Thousand Islands, Berthierville, Que
bec, Toronto, points in Vermont and
New York state, including Rochester
and Niagaar Falls, visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Sprague in RocSester where
they were joined by their daughter
and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Addi
son Sprague for a trip to Niagara.
They returned via Skyland Drive and
visited the caverns in Virginia.
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LUTHER THOMAS
AT HIS OWN GARDENING