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BUT.... BANK ...SELL... IN FABMVILLE .VOLUME THIRTY-NINE FARMVILLE, PUT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1948 NUMBER TWENTY-SEVEN === pr TV DAVIT BUI o • • • ttAJXiL ■ ...SELL... . IN FARMVILLE **♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* Sales Near 24-Million Figure As Farmville Brings Curtain On Another Successful Season Farmville tobacco market closed Wednesday, November 10, with a season much better than had been dreamed of when the auctioneer’s chant opened sales less than three months ago. At the beginning of the season, there were doubts and speculations on the amount of tobacco that would be sold here this year. Acreage had been cut 28 per cent. Unfavorable weather during tljp early growing stages caused additional losses and spread gloom among those in terested in the growth and develop ment of the market. There were pre dictions that the total sales would be between 20 and 22 million pounds. A few were brave enough to go to 23 millions, but many would have been willing to settle for two-thirds of the 1947 figure of 31 million pounds. Final figures give the Farmville market 23,986,176 pounds, selling for $11,626,703.46. Therefore, the local market maintains its reputation for being the steadiest market in the state. The first two weeks of the season were medium heavy in sales. After wards, the sales volume and average mounted and reached a peak in Octo ber, attaining a peak of $57 per hun dred. The first two weeks in Octo ber were the best of the season. Success of the market this year is a tribute to the warehousemen dnd resulted from the wholehearted co operation given the market by local business people and citizens. Tobacco, this year in Pitt county, did not have the quality that it was noted for in previous seasons. As everyone knows, Pitt county suffered one of its worst growing seasons this summer. It will be reflected in the official averages. A survey was made by the sales supervisor of the many farmers who brought their tobacco crop to Farm ville market and in nearly all in stances found they were well satis fied with the price they received for their tobacco and were pleased with the efficient manner in which it was handled and sold by the warehouse men. The Farmville market drew a large number of customers from as far a-* way as 120 miles, thus increasing its drawing area by several miles this year. The Farmville Advertising service sponsored two radio programs, ad vertised in a local and state news paper, mailed 5,000 almanacs, dis tributed several hundred Farmville automobile tag advertisements, gave away pencils, farmers record books, and painted six new signs on high ways approaching Farmville. There fore, many farmers came here for the fi^st time this year. They were satisfied with the market and left with promises that they will be here again in 1949. Some Pitt county farmers who had not been seen on the local market for several years were back, supporting it The Farmville Advertising service, along with merchants and ware houses, have felt that the advertis ing campaign was a success. There fore, the advertising will be increased, next year. The sales supervisor, Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Associa tion, as well as the Tobacco Board of Trade, thank all who had a part in making the 1948 season a success ful one. * REV. TYSON TO HOLD REVIVAL AT WESLEY Reverend M. E. (Jack) Tyson of Carrboro will be the preacher for the . revival at Wesley Community church, beginning Monday night, Nov. 15, and continuing through the week. The public is cordially invited to attend. The church is the new white brick building located one mile from Joyner’s Crossroad on the paved road ' to Bell Arthur. New Golf Pro Takes Charge Local CouVse And Country Club Albert Boaze, assistant golf pro fessional at Greehsboro Country club for three yean, arrives today to take charge of the Farmville Coun try dub and golf course. , A native of Greensboro, Mr. Bo axe Duke Professor . .. ’ Addresses Rotary Banquet Group Annual Ladies’ Night, Held Tuesday, Is Top Rotary Social Event Of Year The traditional spirit of gaiety and warm fellowship, which characterizes the annual Rotary Ladies’ Night, prevailed as usual at the banquet, Tuesday evening, when the graded school faculty of' 30 members shared honors with Rotary Anns. The affair was held in the school dining room with tables arranged as spokes in a huge wheel, signifying the Rotary International emblem. The Rotary colors of blue and gold were effectively carried in the table speads of gold crepe paper with a blue center runner and in the tapers illuminating the scene. The harvest seas n was suggested in the cornu copia of fruit decorating the wheel’s huh table. Covers were laid for 125 and places were marked by autumn leaf cards i and boxes of handker chiefs, which served as favors for the ladies. , The reception committee, headed by Mr. and Mrs. R. LeRoy Rollins, greet ed guests as they arrived and direct ed them to one of the class rooms where tomato cocktail and hor d’oeuvres were served from a beau-, tifully appointed table. A turkey plate and a dessert course were served by Mrs. L. E. Flowers and her assistants in their usual ef ficient manner. The invocation was offered by the Rev. Edwin S. Coates. The president, Curtis Flanagan, .spoke briefly, fol lowing the dinner1 and turned the program over to Dr. Chas. E. Fitz gerald, toastmaster of the occasion. Rotarian Walter B. Jones extended a cordial welcome in rhyme, to which Miss Miriam Moore, of the faculty, responded in original verse "also. Ro tary Anns were presented by their husbands and the faculty members by the principal, Sam D. Bundy. ' Miss Annie Perkins, a veteran primary teacher in the school,, was presented with other special guests and receiv ed a round of applause. Dr. Robert S. Rankin, of Duke university, was speaker of the occa sion and delighted the group with witticisms regarding the recent pres idential election, with information re lating to election machinery and com ments on the good natured way in which the American people accept tho vistory or defeat of their candidates. Dr. Rankin gave labor and tillers of the soil credit for President Harry S. Truman’s recent re-election, which took the country by storm and sur prise, and closed ■with the statement, “It is the people who make the coun try great.” ' The speaker was presented by Ir vin Morgan, Jr., a former class stu dent of the professor, as two men: Dr. Robert S. Rankin, A. B., M. A., Ph. D., Professor of Economics 61 and occupant of the chair of the De partment of Political Science at Duke University, and as “Bob” Rankin of Greenville, Tenn., the immediate past president of the Durham Rotary club and a jolly, good fellow. ' „ A musical program was presented by Miss Alma "Whitley, public school music director, and by N. C. Maen hout, band instructor, _ who accom panied the soloist and played a med ley of favorite popular piano num bers. Mrs. M. V. Jones played selec tions addle the guests were as sembling and accompanied the group in the opening and closing songs, which were announced by Ed Nash Warren. Paul Ewell, in charge of the ban quet arrangements, was assisted by the following chairmen and their committees: LeRoy Rollins, recep tion; Joe Joyner, program; John B. Lewis, entertainment; Ed, Nash War ren, decorations; Joe Rasberry, food; Jesse Moye, clean up. < PROGRAM POSTPONED The program, *A Sfaarch in Vain,” scheduled to be presented Sunday at Pentecostal Holiness church, has been postponed indefinitely due to unforeseen circumstances. A later date will be announced, GEN. TURNAGE VISITS HERE G«ne«l Hal Tuifnage returned to his home at Widewater, Va., Friday after spending a few days with his mother, lbs. W. J. Tumage. He was guest speaker at' the Greenville American Legion’s Atmistice Day ex ATTEND CONCERT Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Lang, Mist Agnes Quinerly, Mr. and Mrs. Ber nice Tonnage, Misses Seleta Tucker and Janet StanaOI, Mr. and Mrs Lewis Allan, Rev. end Mrs. E. S Coates, Rev. and Mrs. Z. B. T. Cox Robert Rollins, Bob Morgan, Mr. anc Mrs. H. D. Johnson and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George Daria, Mist Mamie Davis, Mrs. J. B. Hockadaj and Mr. and lbs. W. Jesse Moye were among those attending the Christopher Lynch concert in Green ville Friday night. Rev. Clegg Leaving Rev. E. R> Clegg, the kind of preacher you’d like to hare on a fishing trip, leeres Saturday to take over his new Methodist pasto rate in Siler City. He and Mrs. Clegg wifi be sorely missed by the community. Rev. H. L. Davis of Iittleton has been appointed to take over the Farmville charge. Rev. Davis will preach his first sermon here Sun* day morning. Mr. Clegg asks The Enterprise to express-his regrets at leaving. Leo Norville, Successful Illinois Lawyer, Says I Got The Breaks - -----. Leo Tilman Norville, an outstand ing Chicago lawyer who is given a formidable listing in "Who’s Who in Chicago and Illinois," and whose list of clients reads like a directory of big corporations, modestly attributes his success to hard work and good luck. Some people, says the Pitt county native whose wife and their three children returned to Chicago this week after visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Norville, are cap able and are good workers, but never get the right breaks. He says he did. Now a member of the firm of Nor ville and Dpnt, which maintains of fices at 105'VW. Adams street, Chi cago, and a branch in Washington, D. C., Mr. Norville was bom in Foun tain and attended school in Farmville until he was in the eighth grade. His success story began in 1932 when he graduated from the Univer sity of Michigan where he had been a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s highest scholastic fraterhity. Jobs were hard to find during the depression, but he was fortunate enough to obtain work in the trust department of the Continental Illi nois Bank and Trust company of Chicago. Finding that most of his assignments called more for a knowl edge of figures than law, he knew that to advance he must know ac counting. For two years he took courses in accountancy at the North western University night school. . February 1, ,1933, he began work for the law firm of Hopkins, Starr and Godman. Mr. Starr died before Mr. Norville joined the firm and by 1938 the other two partners had pass ed on. Mr. Norville and several men who had been associated with the firm decided to form a new firm which they calle Dickinson, Sprowl, Norville and James. It was merged with the partnership of Bowden and Taylor in 1944 and acquired the name Bowden, Taylor, Norville and Sprowl. Two years ago Mr. Norville went in to partnership with a Missourian, uouis uenu At no-time has he been associated with a firm which' dealt with crim inal cases. Securities and corpora tion work, which he handles, are a routine sort of thing, but assure a steady income. Each corporation, or company pays a fixed sum each year for the firm to handle its legal work. Seldom, if ever, does that type of law practice make the newspaper iieadlines., Much of the work is composed of Federal taxation, corporate finances, stock and bond issues, registering these issues with the Sesurities and. Exchange Commission and the Inter tate Commerce commission and quali fying securities Under laws of vari ous states in which they are to be sold. Among the companies and corpora tions which this law firm represents as counsel are: Central Scientific company, Chicago; Cenco Corpora tion of New York; Crucible Steel Foundries, Milwaukee; Kropp Forge company, Chicago; Consolidated In dustries of Lafayette; Ind.; Bendix Home Appliances, South Bend, Ind.; Majestic Radio and Television corpo ration, Elgin, . 111.; Edward Valve company, East Chicago, Ind.; Gear the government would pay them for the privilege of flooding the land. Mr. Norville and his associates were suc cessful in proving that already South Carolina has more water power than is used for manufacturing and that there was no need for a navigable river between the capital and the sea port since there are good railway and highway connections. A 14-million dollar suit which the Chicago office of the Reconstruction Finance corporation brought against stockholders of the Central Republic bank of Chicago was the largest case Mr. Norville has handled. In the outcome a judgment against the stockholders was secured and 10 million dollars were collected. Financing for the Higgins Boat company of New Orleans was one of the firm’s war jobs. Ten million dol lars were raised. Mr. Norville finds that during time of war there are fewer suits and similar types of litigation, due to the fact that most all companies are prosperous. Additional laws control ling taxes create more legal work. Some of the clubs to which the lawyer belongs are the Chicago Athletic, South Shore Country and Forty club, all of Chicago; the Chick aming Country club, Lakeside, Mich.; the British clbb and the Saints and Sinners club-in New York City. In the Martindale-Hubbell direc tory, which is to lawyers what Dun and Bradstreet’s directory is to busi nessmen, the firm is given a rating of AV, the. highest obtainable. A is for the legal standing and V for the credit rating. The Norvilles reside' at 2363 East Seventieth street in the South Efiore section overlooking Lake Michigan. They are about 10 miles from down town. * In thfe summer, they live at their cottage, Norvilla, on the Michi gan side pf the lake. Their cottage is perched on a sand dune, which towers about 80 feet over the water. Sand dunes near thp lake are unlike those found on Carolina shores. They are covered with woods and other vegetation. For hobbies, Mr. Norville reads the classics and he also terms work a? a pastime. Although he is a member of two country clubs, he seldom plays golf unless a client wishes to. Asked what Chicago thought of the Truman victory, he expressed a be lief that 'Chicago was surprised and the Republicans disappointed. Chi cago Republicans were not for Dewey in the convention—they wanted Taft —so their disappointment was not as j great as it would have been had Taft been the defeated pandidate. In 1936, the barrister married Miss Marion O’Boyle, They have: three children, Nancy, 9, Diane, 6, and the favorite of the whole family, Leo Til man, Jr., called Timmy, who is about eight months old. Monday, the girls visited the warehouses and watched the Last of the season’s tobacco being sold. They found some leaves to carry home with them and probably took along some cotton after their visit to the cotton patch Tuesday. The Norvilles moved to the farm where Mr; and Mrs. Gordon Lee now reside, when Leo was nine years old. Later they came to Farmville to make their home. Leo went to At lantic Christian college high school for one semester, after leaving the eighth grade' here. He finished his high , schooling at Oak Ridge Military academy, where he was a member of the debating team and president of the Philomathean Literary society. His senior year he received the scholarship medal for having, the highest average of any one in the school and was president of his class. At Oak Ridge, he decided that if he ever did go to college he would study law. t: . ■- - .. Wf FOOTBALL GAME BETWEEN FAISON AND L0CA1S Jack Freedman -has again been named as local chairman of the fund raining campaign for United Jewish Appeal, beginning November 12 and continuing until Thanksgiving. The following explains the work and goal of the campaign: This is the month for being thank ful and somehow we can’t help as sociating the significance of Palestine with that of Plymouth Rock ‘where the Pilgrims landed. To both came the homeless people seeking liberty and refuge from oppression. At Ply mouth fcock as in Palestine the wan derers dedicated themselves to plant their ideals in the new land and to be diligent that they grow and flourish. The bitter struggle of the early years around Plymouth Rock is repeated in another version in the new land of Israel. Israel is now shin to absorb 100, 000 of these Pilgrims from displaced persons camps each year. The money raised in the campaign will be used to rehabilitate these people to become useful once more in the eyes of man and God. BALLARDS CLUB HAS* OLDEST DELEGATE AT ACHIEVEMENT DAY IN GREENVILLE More than 30 members of. Home Demonstration dubs in this commun ity assembled in Greenville Friday for the annual Achievement Day pro gram at which a native of the Netherlands spoke. Mrs. Josie McArthur, who is more than 80 years ' old and the oldest member of the Ballards club, received a prize for being the oldest person present. A member of the Fountain club Won the award for the youngest person present. Attending from the clubs were: Ballards—Mrs. J. F. Tyson, who gave the devotional, Mrs. J. R. Gowans, Mrs. C. L. Jones, Mrs. Howard Moye, Mrs. G. S. Nichols, Mrs. Lloyd Al len, Mrs. Janies Moore, Mrs. Letha Edwards, Mrs. J. D. Jones, Mrs. James R. Jones, Mrs. Jasper R. Jones, Mrs. L. R. Jones, Mrs. E. W. Mills, Mrs. McArthur and Mrs. A. J. Garris; Farmville—Mrs. J. R. Lewis, Mrs. Bill Fulford, Mrs. Pete Baker, Mrs. Bennett Tyson, Mrs. W. J. Co rey, Mrs." Coley, Mrs. Bob Hinson; Seven Pines—Mrs. Clifton Ellis, Mrs. Farrell Morgan, Mrs. Jasper Mor gan, Mrs. Ichabod Allen, Mrs. Roy Jones, Mrs. Russell Meeks, Mrs. W. L. Clark and Mrs. Lester Cobb. YOUTH DAY OBSERVANCE To inform others about youth work in the Southern Presbyterian chureb, several members of the Farmville Presbyterian Youth fellowship will present a Youth Day program at the Presbyterian Sunday School Sunday morning. An offering to carry on the work of cavarans in the synod and general expenses in the presbytery will be received. TURKEY SUPPER » - The Woman’s Society of Christian Service of Maury Methodist church is sponsoring a turkey supper and harvest sale Friday, Nov. 12, begin ning at 5:30, in the school lunch room. Plates are $1 for adults, 65c for children. Pie and coffee are included in the menu. BUNDY’S SPEAKING SCHEDULE Sam D. Bundy was guest speaker at the Fountain Ruritan Ladies’ night on Wednesday of this week. Qn Thursday night he was guest speaker at the Scottish Rite Ladies’ night party at the Virginia Dare jjotel in Elizabeth City. WALSTONBURG LEGION Meets tonight Tonight at 7:30 the Walstonburg American Legion and Legion auxili ary 'will hold their meetigs at the school bmldirig. Preceding the meet ings, members will eat at the bazaar which the Howell Swamp Missionary Bociety is having in the school lunch room. i i .... I , .1 i ■ . enter thefschool in 1927. When he Matriculated as a freshman that sum mer he made the highest score on the entrance examinations of any of the incoming Btudents. Delta Sigma Rho (forensic) and Delta Theta Phi (law) were the fraternities to which he was admitted. During his senior year in the undergraduate school, which was also his first year in law school, he was initiated into Phi Beta Kappa. By going to summer school and get ting his literary degree the same year.^e was a first year law student, he finished in five years. » « IS Mmhuhmmi Activities Of Local Church Organizations Christian Mrs. Howard Moye presided at the Woman’s council in the church Mon day afternoon, announcing the open ing hymn, “Lead on, O King Eternal.” Prayer was offered. Clothing for the Hazel Greene Aca demy in Kentucky, the fall project of the four groups of the council, was brought to'the meeting and will be packed and shipped this week. Members were- reminded of the convention in New Bern, Wednesday through Friday of this week. Mrs. Lloyd Smith and Mrs. Clarence Moye brought echoes of the training class held in Wilson last month. Mrs. Jame Moore introduced the main part of the program by listing some of the problems in,the frontiers of Alaska, Manama and Hawaii. Gayle Flanagan spoke about the problems in the Virgin Islands and Carol Pippin discussed those in Puer to Rica. Aim Bynum concluded the program with the devotional based on the year’s theme, “The Lord God Is , My Strength.” Group 3 was hostess for the social hour and served tea, sandwiches, cookies and pickles. Episcopal Setting a tentative date for the annual church supper, voting to meet jointly with the Christian, Methodist and Presbyterian women’s organiza tions to study the home mission book and hearing a report from Mrs. R. C. Copenhaver on World Community day were some of the things' the Episcopal auxiliary did in its Mon day afternoon session. Mrs. T. S. Ryon was hostess and Mrs. Copen haver presided^ opening with scrip ture and prayer: * The amount collected for the Unit-1 ed Thank offering, Mrs. J. H. Dar den reported, was $30.60. Mrs. John D. Dixon, supply secre tary, gave the amount needed for that work during the year. A continuation of the study of “The Way of the Witnesses” was made, with Mrs. C. H. Joyner pre senting the chapter titled, “First Im pressions of a Pagan.” Prayer closed the meeting. Ice cream tarts and salted nuts were served by the hostess. > Presbyterian Several appeals for various causes were made at Circle 2 which met in the home of Mrs. J. I. Morgan with Miss Edna Robinson and Mrs. J. T. Nolen as hostesses Monday evening. Mrs. I. D. Kirklin, assisted by Mrs. William Easley, presented the Friends of the Seminary call. Mrs. E. S. Coates asked that clothing and linens for a missionary family delay ed in returning to the foreign field be taken to Mrs. Frank Dupree, Jr., or Mrs. M. E. Pollard. The program, led by Mrs. Glenn Newton, portrayed the financial con dition of the orphans home at Ba rium Springs; she urged that spe cial consideration be given to the amount of the Thanksgiving offering for the home. Mrs. Nekton also de scribed the high school girl, whom the auxiliary clothes. The business session was presided over by Mrs. G. L. Gilchrist, who an nounced that Mrs. John B. Lewis would be the December hostess. For the devotional study, “The Four Gospels,” which is a part of the theme, “Fitly Framed Together,” Mrs. Easley compared the study up to that point to rooms opening off a corridor. Each month's study in* the Old Testament has taken the mem bers to another room on one side the corridor. The particular group to whom each gospel was written was discussed, as well as how the books apply to certain situations today. Mrs. C. F. Baucom, spiritual life leader, named the things for which special prayer emphasis was being placed in November, one of them be ing church attendance. Mrs. Easley opened and closed her study with prayer and Mrs. Coates said the closing prayer. \ The hostessses served cpoldes, salted pecans, colored potato chips, cereal candy and hot chocolate. There were 23 present, including five visitors. * _ ;*§£§: Baptist Mrs. Robert Joyner and Miss An nie Perkins were hostesses to the Annie' Perkins circle in the home of the former, Monday evening, with Miss Perkins presiding. The program was developed bv Mrs. C. H. Outland and Mrs. A. B. Tvson had the devotional. Puaver was led bv Mrs. Josenh Batchelor and there was an opening song. OM clothes tor overseas neaiy Farmville’s new lighted athletic park will be dedicated tonight at 8 o’clock with a football game be tween Farmville and Faison. The new field will furnish the town with facilities that have long been needed and will make it possible for a Well-balanced recreational pro gram including softball and baseball games during the summer months. Arrangements have been made to play under the lights here again on Friday night of next week. Oak City will play Farmville. Coach Elbert Moye’s Red Devils bounced back into the win column last Friday afternoon with a 7-0 vic tory over South Edgecombe. The game was a scoreless deadlock until the last quarter, when Farmvi}lo went to work and scored the only points of the game. Farmville, up to that point, had moved the ball up and down the field with little trouble but had always failed to cross the goal line. Farmville scored on a 60-yard drive led by Harry Albritton and Frank Dupree, backs, and Jay Flan agan, Bobby Fulford and James Foun tain, linemen. Dupree went over tackle from the two-yard line to cli max the rally. Wilbur Bennett pass ed to Carl King for the score. South Edgecombe gained ground readily in the first half but was completely halted in the second. Line play for Farmville was paced by George Wooten, Bobby Fulford, Jay Flanagan, Albert Cannon, Wil bur Morris and Carl King. Morris blocked a punt in the last quarter. Harry Albritton and Frank Dupree were the best running, backs, while Bennett passed well and Clarence Joyner and Emest Morgan did nice defense work. At The Kiwanis Club - % Farmville Kiwanians Monday night laughed until their sides ached at the program presented by Mrs. B. L. Ty son of Greenville, route 1, who is good enough to be a professional en tertainer. Mrs.. Tyson directed sing ing, played the piano and accordion, and gave a reading. She, her hus band and Miss Tripp were the guests of Billy Smith, who had charge of the program. Next Monday night Dr. O. K. Corn well, director of physical education at the University of North Carolina, will appear on the program and wilt present moving pictures of several football games. Dr. Cornwell will be' the guest of Charles Quinerly. Hubert Joyner has been elected as vice president and will succeed John Parker on January 1. Jack Lewis had as his guests R. T. Norville and his son, Leo, Chicago attorney. President Louis Williams express ed the club’s regrets at losing Kev. E. R. Clegg, who leaves this week to assume his new pastorate in Siler City. . ~ were packed. Mrs. A. J. Melton read the report of the nominating commit tee for the missionary society and announced that Mrs. Batchelor would be circle leader for the new year. A chicken salad plate was served to the 17 present. Mrs. J. R. Shearin and Mrs. H. D. Johnson were guests. Baptist Y. W. A. members packed their towel for World Community day ded ication at .their meeting last Thurs day night and appointed Mrs. Her bert Moore to take it to thd service. Names were drawn for a Christmas gift exchange and it was voted to entertain new Y. W. A. members in January with a supper. The assistant adviser, Mrs. George Davis, was in charge of the devo tional, reading from Malachi, Mark and Matthew. Miss Myrtle Nichols, who presided, opened with the watchword. The hostess, Mrs. H. D. Johnson, served refreshments. Baptist The slate of officers presented by the nominating committee was ac cepted Monday afternoon by the Woman’s Missionary society at its meeting in the church. January 1, Mrs. H. D. Johnson will suceed Mrs. J. R. Shearin as president. Others named were: Mrs. George W. Davis, first vice presi dent; Mrs. E. C. Holmes, second vice president; Mrs. Lang Davis, secre tary; Mrs. C. H, Outland, young people’s director. Assisting Mrs. George Davis in