♦♦♦< »1' »♦»♦♦♦♦♦» i VOLUME FORTY 1 Wk *' • • f ■ S'-"W - FARMVILLB, PITT COUNTY, NORTE CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1M9 NUMBER TWRNTY-FOUR J, a TT t n_t. I • The Parent-Teacher association will sponsor its annual Hallowe’en carni val tomorrow (Saturday) night in. the high school gymnasium with proceeds being used to help pay the salaries of the school librarian and a maid, projects undertaken by the FTA this year. Leaders of the carnival guarantee that a full evening’s fun is in store for all who attend. Sinoe they want the patrons to get an early start, they have set up .booths at which supper can be secured and those attending the carnival are invited to eat wth them. The following booths have been erected and will be in operation when the carnival opens at 7 o’clock: Bean bag, ballons and darts, fish V- pond, shooting gallery for little folks and old ones, ring toss, fortune tell ing, novelty booth, penny pitch, pick up-fish, weight and age guessing, bowling, cakes, candy, -cookies and pies, grab bags, cake walk, bean guess, hot dogs, sandwiches* and drinks, bingo.' For those who can’t find entertain ment in any of these places, the FTA will rig up a special run-way and ramp for them to race with their wheel chairs. Those arranging the event have been extremely pleased with the fine cooperative spirit shown by local citizens and the generous manner in which they have responded to pleas for items that can be awarded as prizes. Among the more handsome prizes are a $40 Elgin watch donated by Mrs. D. R. Morgan’s Jewelry store and a chest of Rogers silverware giv en by Robert’s Jewelry company. The Farent-Teacher association will see a skit on books, given by Mrs. W. E. Joyner’s sixth grade in observance of American Education week and Children’s Book week, when it convenes Thursday afternoon at 3:15 in the high school auditorium. Mrs. John Edwards, school libra rian, will make a talk on the “School Library and Its Use.” It is expected that this program will bring together almost as large a number of parents as attended the night meeting in October. JAYCEES ATTEND DISTRICT .MEETING IN KINSTON The Kinston Junior Chamber o Commerce was host to the Eighth District meeting of the State organi sation on Monday of this week. Ber nard Leary of Morehead City, district president; presided. A very enjoyable and informative program was enjoyed j>y a large delegation from FarmvUle. Highlights of the evening were talks by David Harris of Charlotte, State Chairman of the Hoover Com mission Report, and by M. F. (Cou) Brown of Raleigh, president of the North Carolina Junior Chamber , of Commerce. A fine spirit of fellow ship existed throughout the evening, beginning with the excellent barbe cued chicken dinner served by the Kinston Jaycees. Jaycees from Farmville attending the meeting were:.Bill Creekmur, Bill Candler, Jimmy Darden, Grimes Lew is,'Herbert Moore, Chester Outland, ] J. C. Brock, Jr., Hap Nichola, Marvin Speight, Arthur Joyner, Jr., and Joe] Joyner.. COL. HARRELSON TO BE REUNION SPEAKER Col, J. W. Hafrelson, chancellor of North Carolina State college, has accepted an invitation to be the guest speaker for the annual reunion of the Tysdn-May reunion at the D. A. R. chapter house on Friday, November c. H. Mozingo, president of the reunion which meets annually the day after Thanksgiving, has an nounced the appointment of the fol lowing ■ committee chairmen: Pro gram, Guy Jones of State’ college, a former director of the. experiment station at Greenville; arrangements and decorations, Mrs. W.. C. Holston and Mrs. Jack Lewis; food, Mrs. C. R. Townsend; registration, Mrs. Ed Nash Warren; publicity, Elizabeth May. Rachel Barrett Will Do Research Work In Leprosy As excited and thrilled as a student about to enter college, Rachel Barrett, bacteriologist, will leave Saturday night for Boston to begin research at the Leonard Wood Memorial founda tion on leprosy, or Hansen’s disease, as it is now called. An old hand at working with test tubes and records in cancer research, this will be Miss Barrett’s first experience in leprosy research. Her first interest in the rare dis ease came from hearing accounts of work done by Or. John H. Hanks, un der whom she will work, while he was m her department at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Hanks and his family had gone to the Philippines before the war. He was associated with the Culion lepro sarium and had been interned there. She will learn something of her new job under the direction of a friend, Dr. Hanks’ technician in both Balti more and Boston, who will vacate the post in January. •- • A field in which there has not yet been too much research in the Upited States, leprosy is an endemic disease and she believes its study will prove as interesting as that of cancer did. In Baltimore, the young Farmville woman was associated with the di vision of cell physiology, department of surgery, John Hopkins university, tissue culture, which means maintain ing tissue cells outside the body, Dr. George O. Guy, the head of the di vision, is principally interested in fundamentals of tissue culture and maintenance of many strains of cells for long periods. He developed the Guy roller tube technique which uses regular-size test tubes for culture work, making it possible for small laboratories, which could not afford the greater expense of other tech niques, to carry out experiments with tissue cultures. Tissue fragments, taken from rats, are attached to the sides of the tube due to the clotting of a mixture of chicken plasma, beef embryo extract, placental serum and a salt solution. A supernatant fluid containing the same materials as the clot, except for the plasma, is added and the tubes are incubated at body temperature in a drum which, as it revolves, causes the tissue to be constantly wet by the fluid. Each tube is observed two or three times each week under the microscope and information about the growth of the tissue recorded After the old cells have made new ones and died, the tissue is removed and transferred to other tubes. Various numbers of tubes are in use on each problem and problems require several months to several years for completion. “Cancer research has made a lot of progress, but it may be many years before the cause of cancer is discov ered and a cure developed. The can cer fund (referring to tile money raised each March by the American Cancer society drive) has done much frn nHvAiu>A-f1iA poiioo Timn onii funrlo are very important factors in a field as complex as cancer research where the cooperative efforts of many dif ferent fields are necessary to solve each problem,” said Miss Barrett. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Barrett of 215 Belcher street, Rachel was graduated from Farmville high school and WCUNC in Greensboro, where she received a degree in chem istry. After graduating from WC, she and a classmate secured jobs at thp State Health laboratory in Raleigh where they assisted in pre paring typhoid, whooping cough and smallpox vaccines and diphtheria tox oids and antitoxins. Miss Elizabeth Robinton, a teacher, helped them get the Raleigh positions and about a year later found openings for them at Hopkins in Baltimore.' There, Miss Barrett's first nine months were spent as a bacteriologist in the department of pediatrics working on synthesis of vitamins by bacteria. The job ended when the chemist in charge of the work gave up his position. Looking for another place, Rachel — till divfsio: ' ' _ —_ ‘ ‘ A At rue juotuus uud Rev. H. L. Devil brought e timely program on safety, with State Highway Patrolman Ernest Guthrie as the speaker, Monday night at the Kiwanis club, end he outlined the many things that, if practiced, would help to decrease accidents. The actual figures on fatalities and injuries were appalling* Patrolman Guthrie concluded his very interesting, and constructive talk with a poem, a parody oh the 23rd 'Psalm, and' with the statement, “Everyone be careful. You may save a life and it may be your own." The club accepted tire invitation of Stantonsburg Kiwanian* to have an act in a program the dob is sponsor* ing to help defray expenses of the Stantonsburg’s school athletic pro gram. Dr. Frank Harris, chairman of the Ladies’ Night committee, announced thatDr. I. G. Greer had been obtain ed taA speak at the annual event, on Friday night, Nov. 18. Dr. P. E* Jones was the guest of Frank Harris and Mr. Mackay of Ra leigh was the guest of George Allen. David Starling, agriculture teacher in the Walstonburg high school, recognized as a new member. HOMECOMING AT MARLBORO CHURCH IS WELL ATTENDED About 400 members and friends at tended homecoming services Sunday at the Marlboro Free Will Baptist church and enjoyed a barbecue and picnic dinner on the grounds at lunch time. Special music for the morning ser vice, at which the pastor, Rev. L. B. Manning of near Fountain, spoke ,wag provided by the Anderson sisters of Kings Cross Roads and the male quartet of Spring Branch church. In the afternoon Rev. C. J. Harris of Greenville preached and the Spring 4U01 ict, juuuips uivwen w Wilson, Mrs. J. C. Moye\>f Snow Hill and Zeb Morgan of Rocky Mount provided the music. GREENE FARMERS CONDUCTING TOBACCO PLANT BED TESTS Two tobacco plant bed demonstra tions have been placed with Carl Bar row of Snow Hill, Route 2, and J. L Taylor of Snow Hill, Route 3. The purpose of the demonstrations will be to compare 16-8-2, a combination fer tilizer and weed killer, with a com bination treatment using Uramon and Cyanamid. Cyanamid alone will be used on the acreage being sown by the farmer. , , The 16-8-2 is being used at the rate of three pounds per square yard. No additional fertilizer will be used on this plot next spring. Where the combination treatment is being used, one-half pound of Cyanamid par square yard is used with one pound of Uramon. This plot will receive one pound of 4-9-3 fertilizer per yard next spring. Each farmer is using one pound of Cyanamid this fall and will use fer tilizer next spring on the other yard age in the beds. PINE TREE SEEDLINGS ARE AVAILABLE TO 4-H MEMBERS At the present time, there is a shortage of timber products facing the nation and at the same time there are thousands of acres of idle, non productive land available. It is im portant that the farmers, especially the young farmers, become interested in a program of reforestatioiC The North Carolina Pulp company] of Plymouth Imd the Champion Paper and Fibre company of Canton have made available 1,500,000 pine tree seedlings. One-half of these trees have haan allocated tar t A- H rlnh members and they will be distributed free by the North Carolina Depart ment of Conservation and Develop ment. - • I Any 4-H members desiring these trees shonld make application on a form which bean a speeiai notation indicating thafclthe trees an distri buted- to 4-H members through cour tesy of the pulpwood industry of North Caroliiuu ..'Vi ATTEND DISTRICT MEETING . G. A. Rouse, secretary and treas urer of the Farfnville Building and Loan Association, was -in Raleigh on Wednesday attending a district meet ing of the North Carolina Savings and Loan League. He was accompanied by Mrs. Rouse and Mrs. J. M. Gibbs, the assistant secretary and treasurer. V CUBS MBfT TONIGHT The Cub Pads wiD asset tenh 3:30, in the Chrtatian dumb. Ill ^i'l — m aJL|||| ft ml ^raBjBppwROiy ftBft ', F|k* ToJ’laj On Local Field Farmville high school and William ston high school football teams will meet here tonight (Friday) at 8 o’clock in the local park in the fourth contest to be played here this season. To date FarraviUe has won tjo Jtnd lost two while Willaimston has four wins and one defeat. Farmville lost to Tarboro and Ayden but defeated Vanceboro and Robersonville. Farmville will be seeking to avenge a loss to Williamston last year when WilUamston won handily, bttt the two teams appear to be more evenly matched this year. Coach Elbert Moye of the Farmville Red Devils and Coach Stuart May nard of the Williamston Tigers say their teams are in good shape for the game. The Farmville high school band will famish music for the.game and will entertain the crowd at half-time. Local Students Visit Williamsburg Seventy-five Farmville high school students left for Williamsburg^ Va., Monday at. 6 o’clock. The Mariners Museum in Newport News was their firilt stop. They saw a display of marine relics and ship models from ancient times to the very' latest submarines and ship instru merits. The Moore House, where the terms of surrender were drawn at the end of the War for American Independ ence in 1781, proved to be the most interesting among the historic places at Yorktown. Restored, colonial Williamsburg had 'many points of interest to the stu dents. Tkose toured by the group were the governor’s palace, the capi tal, the old “gaol” and the powder magazine. The buildings have been restored and furnished with original 18th century furniture and paintings. Guides in the buildings were dressed in Colonial costumes. The governor's kitchen proved to be one of the cen ters of interest aa the Negro attend ant told about the use of the 'things seen there — especially the shoo-fly chair and sparking lamps. The group enjoyed visiting the site of thp first permanent English settle ment in America on Jamestown Is land. After much walking and sight seeing, everyone agreed to. go £n to Newport News for supper. Out-of-town persdnS making the trip were Mrs. R. G. Leggett and hei three daughters, Irma, Mary and Georgie Ann, and Ben Johnson, all of Raleigh, and Ardene McLawhom, Harper Rasberry and Bill Erwin of Bell Arthur. Chaperones for the trip were Mrs. Albert Lewis, Mrs. R. G. Leggett. Miss Beatrice Flayer, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Johnson. Students making the trip were: Billy, Raye Allen, Aimer Moore,' Dot Johnson, Lois Galloway, Charles' Hen soil, Edna Clark, Nancy Kittrell, Em ily Owens, Vondel • Mozingo, Frank Moore, Everette Roebuck, Jackie Wil liford,. Margaret Andrews, Edna Hedgepeth, Mittie Rouse, Betty Lee Owens, Janet Hobgood, Marie Phil lino Rafin TJViranc Mownnrifd TVtnm as, Clarice Gray, Joyce Morgan, Mac Bowling, Jesse Carraway Joann Thomas, Hagar Hart, Ruthe Tyson, Margie Lilly, Raye Hathaway, Robert Pollard, Bette Johnson, Carol Pippin, Gayle Flanagan, Randolph Brock, Elizabeth Nanney, Emma Sue Nan ney, Mattie Dail, Bobby Brock, Rebec ca Corbett, Frank Dupree, William Weston, Jack Tumage, William Moore, Jean Bynum, Jean Flora, Carl King, Pat Corbett, Peggy Burgess, Marie Cannon, Billy Russell, Jennie Murphy, Ernest Morgan, Miriam Sub ton, George Wooten, James Thorne, Grace Brock, Charles Joyner, Jimmy Horton, Douglas Pierce, Roy Flora, Ann Bynum, John Russell Joyner, Bill Oakley, Sue Worthington, Eunice Lit tle, Conrad Mozingo, Howard Evans, Lyman Craft, Bobby Fulford, Mac Mills, Nancy Lu Moore, Alfred May, Bob Smith and Carolyn Roebuck. PROGRAM PLANNING SESSIONS lH I960 Sunday School officers, teachers others interested church members ' ” Ml J.11C UUUUJf vwo Sports-minded Rotarians found'|j| program of unusual interest Tuesday night. Program director for the evening, Paul Ewell, ably assisted by Plato Bass, presented on the screen one of the outstanding basketball games'of the 1947 season—that of West Virginia against State. Arch Flanagan called attention to the annual Boy Scout drive and ap pointed committees for each of the five teams called upon to canvass the town. The result of the efforts be-f; ing put forth by various individuals and groups will'be brought to light next Tuesday night, Ladies' Night Three members were absent and John Stansill was very much'to the "driverY seat," being awarded both the attendance and the fellowship prizes. .. ’t-st Club President Charlie Fitzgerald presided. Band Committee Starts Drive To Pay For Uniforms The Farmville high school band • steering'committee, of which Louis Williams is chairman, takes this op portunity to express their apprecia- j tion for the loyal support given the ! band in the first 12 months of its ’ existence. The number of Farmville citizens who have contributed to the project is too numerous to list, but the committee is giving public recog- i nition to the following out-of-town firms who have contributed i Green ville Packing Co., Brown Oil Co., Bil brp Wholesale Co., Ormond Whole «te Co., Pepsi-Cola Bottling. Co., and Carolina Dairy Products, afrof Green- ■ vile; George S. Edwards Co., Rocky Mount; Boykin Wholesale Co., Wil son, affd Harcourt, Jewelers, Louis ville, Ky. The high school band, recognized as one of the most promising units in Eastern Carolina, is beginning its second year under the direction of N. C. Maenhout. With the continued support of the citizens of the community, the orga nization will be a great asset to the town and schooL The steering com mittee is conscious of the fact that the band, is an expensive undertaking but the interest shown is greater than had been anticipated. Mr. Maen hout now has a waiting list of approx imately 76 boys and girls who are anxious to become members of the band, • The'band consists of 66 members. Each member has a new uniform. All instruments have been paid for. The uniforms cost $3,686.60, $1,800.00 of which has been paid, and the balance, is to be paid not later than December 15, 1949. The committee is making plans tot raise the additional fund? before expjrhtion of the contract. Those who Wish to make contribu tions are requested to mail their checks to Louis Williams, chairman of the steering committee. ' SELETA TUCKtJK WILL SING AT ' STATE BAPTIST CONVENTION Miss Seleta Thcker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Tucker of near Farmville, will sing "My Task" at the Btate convention of Baptist Student unions in Winstonr Salem . this week and. Miss Tucker, a freshman at ECTC, will leave Friday for the convention with about 30 other ECTC students. She is a member of the choir" at one of Greenville’s Baptist'churches. MRS .HOLMES TEACHES IN BAPTIST CLINIC AT SALISBURY Mrs. E. W. Holmes will be a mem ber of the faculty in the Bible clinic at the First Baptist church in Salis bury next week. J. L. Corzine, secre tary of Sunday School work ih South Carolina, is director. Mrs. Holmes will direct conferences in the intern mediate department. SEVEN PINES CLUB .Home Demon The Seven Pines stratum- club met on Tuesday after noon, Oct. IS, at the club house #vith Mrs. Roy Jones* and' Mrs. Russell Meeks as hostesses; The president, Mrs. Jasper Morgan, presided. There were 17 members present and one visitor, Mrs. C.E. Case of Fountain. Miss Lowery conducted the pro <rrmm “fVimmoivnal ‘MTothrvla lTl fjlnth September 1 the age requirement For a boy to became a Scout vu low ered from 12 to 11 yean. The great est reason for tins change was that national headquarters decided that a !>oy of 11 today was aa far advanced in (life as was the boy of 12 fn 1910 vhen Scouting was begun. At the opening of school the ' Farmville troop began to function after the July and August holiday when many of the Scouts were work ng or at the beach or camp. Seven ioys from the 11-year-old group, wne of whom had been Cub Scouts, ioined Troop 25 last mouth. All hoys in the troop 14 years old were trans 'erred to the Explorer unit of Scout ng or Senior Scouts. Functioning as i separate unit, this group is known is a crew.' The following boys com pose the . crew: Harold Flanagan, Fesse Spencer, Emmett Pickett, Bob >y Hathaway, Franklin Bowling, M. /. Horton, Jr,, (Eagle Scout), Walter iurgess and Charles Greene. Ex jlorers may remain In regular troop tatrols as patrol leaders or assistant ; >atrol leaders provided ihey train an >ther member of the patrol to be pa rol leader. At present there are three patrols ‘ u Troop 25. The Eagle patrol con- < lists of Wilbur Red tins, patrol leader, < Fiddle Bass, assistant, Frank Wil iams, Jr., Mack Holmes, Chandler Sox and J. P. Jones. Bert Warren is eaaer or me won patrol, jay uay ;on 'is assistant and other members ire Jack Lewis, Carl Blackwood, Mark Newton, Carroll Allen, Cliff Simpson and Glenn Bundy. Composed mostly of new boys, the jeopard patrol has as members Cecil. Winstead, Bob Harper, patrol leader, rhoir'as Bay Allen,- C. E. Modlin, II, Bud Wooten, Carol Wooten, Billie Saker and Wiley Cobb, assistant. The Scoutmaster is Ed Nash War ren 'with Archie Cayton, Charles Juinerly, Bernice Turnage and Joe lynum, Jr., as assistants. Paul Ewell, Or. John M. Mewbom, George W. Davis and James Monk make up the ,roop committeemen. .Arch Flanagan s the district finance chairman. The :roop operates .through the East Ca rolina council, whose midn office is n Wilson. - Recently, Harold Flanagan was ap pointed Senior patrol loader; Jesse Spencer was named scribe and Walter Surges*, camping advisor ' for the :roop. All of these boys have been loing a good job in their positions. With the assistance of the scoutmast er and an assistant, Harold organized he Leopard patrol. Jesse Spencer '.as his books arid, records in shape md is kept busy collecting dues, re rording advancements and purchasing »dges and insignia. Several scouts passed some of their requirements necessary /or advance nent on an overnight hike near Ay ien on the Blount farm. While on he hike Mark Newton, Cliff Simp ion, Frank Williams, Carl Blackwood, Hack Holmes and Chandler Cox were nitiated and received into tb* troop vith an investiture ceremony by the ceep the oath and laws in all their ictions. The boys i . * - iftemoon, declaring a good time and wanting the promise of another'" >Iayed capture the lad to find 10 eaves and be Phey were also he trees from There were not many boys on the like, but all had a fine time. Bud iVooten was about as weary as any, leclaring that he couldn’t do much valking when there was something to •ide on. The troop meets each Saturday light at the school building;. Attend ince is good. e A court of honos Was held Tuesday night, October 11, at the Botary meeting. The Famville Botary club sponsors the troop . The following soys were presented badges and cer tificates for advancement by Walter Jones: Cliff Simpson, Mack Holmes, Fred C. Moore, supervisor .of sales on the Farmville tobacco market, an* nounces that the local market will wind up its season’s work on Friday, November 4, the earliest the market has dosed in several years. Sales for the season have passed the 24-million pound mark and the mar ket ha» an average of $49.37, as com pared with the belt’s avenge of H8.80. Although prices in the earlier part if the season, were lower than had Jeen anticipated, due to the inferior IBality offered, the market staged a :ome-back and finished the season as strong or stronger than any of the ither markets'in the belt. World Community Day Program To ^ Be Given Friday ‘Pieces for Peace” To Be Dedicated At.Service In Christian Church The main parts of the World Com nunity Day program to be presented Friday, Nov. 4, in the Farmville Christian church at 3:30 are a dra nutic skit, “Peace Is Possible,” by Croop 4 of the Girl Scouts and a panel tiscussion by women from different hurches on “Three Ways to Peace.” Information about some of the work vhich three organizations of the United Nations are doing will be lassed on during the discussion. juiwuuuBry joapuai lames will con luct the worship service which will ipea the program, sponsored by the fermville Council of Church Women. “Pieees for Peace” bundles, packed >y various church groups and women «id containing materials and thread 'or Europeans and Asiatics, will be ledicated. The monetary offering, vhich will be received, will be used to ?ay for program materials and to ship the bundles through Church World Service overseas, with any ad litional .amount being sent to the Lfnited Council of Church Women to support a program for bringing dis placed orphans to American homes. Invitations have been extended through .the presidents to local and surrounding church women’s groups vho do not have representatives on he local 'council. Members of the United Council of Dhurch Women, believing that peace s possible without force of arms, xmtinuaily try to- enlarge their sphere of influence end thereby edu :ate people to a Christian ideal and dan. the United Council was form al in 1941 and is a fellowship of wo rsen around the world. Three special lays are observed during the year. 5n the World Day of Prayer, the first >f these special days, women repre senting 81 countries unite in praying ’or peace and brotherhood. On May fellowship day, the celebration 4n phasizes brotherhood in the Ideal immunity and on World Community lay, the particular aim is to share vith the dispossessed. Before the fermville Council of Church Women vas formed in 1948, several local Jmrches united yearly for the World Day of Prayer. Last year World Com nunity Day was observed. CREATES fund UAL WELFARE WORK Mrs. J. C. Brock, Sr., presided at meeting of the American ‘ discussion on since she was elect afternoon in Louise Harris. After it >rganiaation for welfare work, iberg were urged to carry their lutions for the gift shops at ns hospital to Mrs. R. L. Rollins

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