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Heart Ailment Proves Fatal For Farmville Lawyer Richard Theodore Martin, Sr., 62, Farmville lawyer, died in a Rocky Mount hospital Satuday morning fol lowing a lengthy illness of a heart ailment. The lawyer was born in Martin county in 1887, son of the late Joseph A. and’Laura Burroughs Martin. Me was graduated from the Wake Forest law school in 1912 and practiced in ■ Belhaven for two years before com ing to Farmville, where he practiced his profession until his health failed. He was a member of Emmanuel Epis copal church, - He was married in 1915 t» Mamie Tolson of Belhaven. To this union was bon a son, Richard T., Jr., -of Norfolk, ‘Va. In 1920, after the death of his first wife, he was mar ried to Josie Jones of Blackstone, Va., who died in 1947. i Funeral services were held from the Farmville funeral home on Sun day at 1:30, conducted by the Rev, ’< Jack R. Rountree of Kinston, rector < of Emmanuel church, Farmville. In- : terment followed in the Robersonville J cemetery at 4 o’clock. Services at-the I grave were in charge of the Rev. J. | M. Perry °f the Robersonville Christ ian church. ' ( Active pallbearers were R. J. Wain- I wright, J. B. Briley, Jesse Carraway, i Ed Nash Warren, Hubert Joyner and j Jalmer Bynum. - 3 In addition to the son, Mr. Martin ( is survived by one pi^ter, Mrs. L.'N. 1 Vick of Robersonville. | Activities Of Local 1 Church Organizations, Methodist Mrs. H. N. Howard had the de votional at the Woman’s society of Christian service 'in the Methodist { church Monday afternoon. Her topic < was “The Whole of Love Is Our An swer.” She stressed the golden rule as a basis of living. Mrs. J. I. Mor gan made a talk on stewardship, re minding the- members to be joyous ' Christians and to give more of them selves for the Master during the com ing year. Mrs. W. M. Willis, president, dis played a silver chest given by Miss Bettie Joyner. * During the social hour, Circle 5 i served coca colas, pimento sandwich- 1 es, potato chips and cookies. Dail Harris entertained the nursery t group, serving ice cream and cookies i to 14 members. Packages of chewing ( gum were given as favors. Presbyterian Mrs. James Hockaday was hostess to Circle 1 Monday afternoon with Mrs. E. S. Coates presiding. After the opening prayer by Mrs. W. H. Moore, Jr., the Bible study, “The Pathway of His Passion,” was presented by Mrs. Cherry Easley, in the absence of Mrs. G. R. Smith. Mrs. Garry Bergeron, program lead er, talked about foreign missions. Thoughts on the new year were giten by the chairman. Thirteen members and one visitor were present and were served re freshments. 1 J I 1 , ' Preabyteriau Miss Wilma StanaiU R&nnttBRss; .. •>. : Folkingham, England, airfield. The car, made from parts assembled by over a hundred British firms, has been designed to secure world supremacy with sn expected speetLof 200 miles anhour. At The Rotary Club John Lewis, program director' at he Rotary dub Tuesday night, made tome .very interesting observations on he natitorial economic structure as t might affect our individual free born. Said Mr. Lewife; the prevailing Jtitude to let the g<n%rament pay is til wrong and can’t go on indefinite s'-. We must come around to the hinking of saving, or we stand a food chance of losing our freedom. Quoting statistics, it was pointed ut thatthe total expenditures of all he presidents up to the Truman Ad linistration was 179 billions, as com iared with the 191 billions in the five ear Truman Administration to date. Constant spending cannot be jjontin led without subjecting our. freedom o those “handing out,” and it is mperative that thrifty-minded people e put in office. ' _4 Five members were absent, and it ras reported that the attendance ave age for the six-month period ending lecember '31 was 91.97%. Eldon Jones of the Dunn club was a isiting Rotarian and J. M. Fitzger ld was the guest of his brother, lharlie Fitzgerald. Eli Joyner received the attendance rize, John Stansill the fellowship rize and club president Charlie Fitz erald presided. Walstonburg News . WOMAN’S CLUB MEETS Mrs. Frank Shirley was hostess to he Woman’s club at the December leeting on Thursday afternoon of ist week. The meeting was called to order by he president, Mrs. Sam Jenkins. She ead a poem, “Faith,” by-' Edgar luest, and followed with a prayer. No,reports were gixten but atten ion was called to the fact that the immunity Christmas tree had been eeo rated by the Men’s club and a ote of thanks given to them in the ndertaking, ind its succ'ess. Mrs. Henrietta M. Williamson of ’armville was presented by Mrs.; enkins. Mrs. Williamson introduced fiss Louise Harris of Farmville. Miss larrt* in a charming manner gave a escriptive talk about her trip to Eu ope last summer. She told of cross fig the Atlantic on the Queen Mary nd then described her trips into each, own and country, highlighting it nth personal incidents. The hostess, assisted by Miss Mari laire Shirley and Miss Marilu Burch, erved orange chiffon pie, coffee and Uts. Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Marlowe re amed home Friday night after spend ng the holidays in Phoenix, Arizona, [hey were accompanied from Char otte by Mrs. T. V. Heard'1 and son rho are spending the week here. Mrs. C. T. Hicks took her daugh er, Ann, back 'to Peace ^ junior col ege in Raleigh, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Sadi Jenkins, Mr, ind Mrs. R. G. Fields and Mrs. Henry Vheeler were Wilson visitors Tues. Mrs. Lossie Batten spent Tuesday n Farmville. Mr. and Mrs. Bryant pay, Jr., of demphis, Tenn., have returned to heir home after spending the hoii lays with his parents. Mrs. Ed Taylor returned from Au gusta,1 Ga., Saturday. Her son, -ftfu en, and his family of Rocky Mount ipent Sunday with her in her new tome. Mrs. J.. C. Redick and mother, Mrs. and Mrs. William Redick of in were’ visitors here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Jones and Smily of Fountain have moved here, Hr. Jones having accepted a poai ;ion with Sam Jenkino. Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Craft have re uned home after spending the hoii layB in Miami, Fla., and points in BUSINESSMEN, ECONOMISTS SIGHT PROSPEROUS 1950 ' The government will shape its poli cies for 1950 on the, basis of good business prospects for the coming year. '‘Prospects for our immediate fu ture am good,’’ the White House has just been informed by Secretary of Commerce Charles , Sawyer, in an exr tensive . report from Hie economic front The extent of the administration interest in these trends is indicated by the fact that Mr. Sawyer’s report is based on the most exhaustive busi ness survey ever undertaken by the Department of Commerce, and one which he conducted himself on a 15,000-mile, nationwide trip during which he" personally interviewed some .3,000 businessmen and 1,000 labor leaders and public officials. While sizing up business prospects as good, Mr. Sawyer at the same time suggested to the White House the “wisdom of a tempered, opti mism.” He stated i& saf detftled re port to the President’s assistant,-John R. Steelman: “It is probable that bus iness will continue at its present high level throughout at least the early part of 1950.” He added, “certain factors, how ever, .would indicate the wisdom of a tempered optimism. Many small bus iness men, although still operating at fairly high levels, are suffering a substantially reduced profit margin. These reduced earnings 'make contin ued expansion of plant equipment somewhat less attractive,.. ” But, he found among those with whom he talked during his travels no fears of any imminent recession.'All expressed belief that “our economy is essentially sound,” he said. Mr. Sawyer reported “a general plea for tax relief as a means of sta bilizing costs and prices and as a stimulus to business expansion. ‘'“Taxes most frequently mentioned were_ the wartime excise taxes/’, he said. These are the taxes on travel, furs, jewelry, luggage, and other items which were imposed during the war either as a means of added re* venue or to discourage luxury buying and unnecessary travel. On labor-management relations, he found “an almost unanimous agree ment that the interests of labor and management tn» identical in main taining tr prosperous and growing American business. “Many businessmen are increasing ly concerned, however, over demands for wage increases at a time when profit margins are being cut and they are trying to .reduce or hdld down costs.. Small firms anticipated difficulty in adjusting to wage and pension patterns worked out between countrywide unions and the larger companies,. “Next to taxes, uncertainty over labor costs was the major deterrent to plant and equipment expansion and replacement. In some areas, labor was concerned with the import of ag ricultural workers from outside the country. Labor leaders also pointed out inadequqacies of present unem ployment compensation benefits." With regard-to government business with business—Mr. Sawyer reported:' “While it was generally agreed that government contracts should be let impartially to the •lowest and beet bidder, certain suggestions were made, among them that some leeway be given, through legislation, in the matter of negotiated contracts; that large contracts be broken up so that smaller firms could bid on them;,that a longer period of time should elapse ing of bids; nouncing bh nomic Coo; interfering D. H. Conley, superintendent of Pitt county schools, wants fewer de trations from basic school studies in the\jtemester which started Monday of^h^j week and has called on princi palsand their teachers to get children “down to bedrock” in classroom work. In a statement issued last week end Mr. Conley asserted the teachers in the county school system were being called upon to re-emphasize work in the classds as a part of. an intensified program fo' bring the schools of the to the scholastic level they en joyed before the war. ‘Classroom work has been sharpen ed considerably,” Conley said, “but it has to be sharpened more to get back to what it was before the war. We are going to call on the teachers and principals to get the children down to their classroom work. We don’t want any studies to be lost sight ofj in the other things the schools are trying to do." The superintendent'said tjie mem bers of the board of education and other leaders in the. county school pro gram have taken steps to hold down sports and to de-emphasize other extra curricula activities which have distracted a great deal ef students from studies. He said the schools have 'been instructed to hold their basketball schedule to 20 games while last year several of the county schools played more than 20 basketball sche dules. . "■ ' Conley said the teaching staff of the county schools has been built to above the pre-war level, and added that the physical plants of the in dividual schools are being constantly improved. “The whole program is to give each diild an opportunity to come out a jood reader, a good writer, and to lave considerable instruction on how to adjust himself to the economic situation.” Conley said. “With inten sive effort, through the rest of this pear and next year, we should have sverything back to the pre-war scholastic level.” BUNDY HEADS STATE CHURCH LAYMEN’S LEAGUE Sam D. Bundy, principal of Farm ville high school, was elected as the first state president of the North Carolina Christian Church Laymen’s League, at a state convention held recently in Washington, N. C. Several Christian churches have local leagues and several of the dis ticts have been organized on a dis trict basis. It is the aim of~ the church to organize local and district groups on a state-wide basis in order to effectively carry out men’s work in the Christian church. - jvpy Hie new state president is a mem ber of the Farmville Christian church and is supeintendent of the Sunday School, as well as serving on the board of deacons. His expeience in working with organizations on a state-wide basis includes a term as governor of Kiw&nis International. The new position automatically gives Bundy a position on the Na tional Laymen’s Commission and he will attend'a meeting of the commis sion tomorrow and Sunday in Indiana polis, Ind. He will be accompanied by Rev. C. W. Riggs of LGrange, director of men’s work in 'Christian churches of this state. SENATOR-F Humphrey, who' political arena in Huron. S. D, white Congress was adjourned, pa i ■ In' the business. still a pajrtaer FOUNTAIN NEWS Mrs. F. S. Powell and daughter, Margaret Ruth of Greenville, Mrs. Bertha Crane, Mrs. J. W. Taylor and Mrs. L. L. Ward of Bethel spent a few days last week with Mrs. J. W. Redick. Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Edgerton and son, John, of Kenly were Sunday guests of Mrs. J. W. Redick and Mr. and Mrs. Carter Smith. Pvt Alexander L. Owens left Tues day for Fort Benning, Ga., after a furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Owens. Mr:' and Mrs. C. C. Howell and children of Herald Harbor, Md., ar ived /Sunday to visit relatives in Eu reka, Fountain and' Stantonsburg. Josephine Howell remained for a visit with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Owens. Mr. Howell’s father, John Howell of Eureka, accompanied his son bhme Monday afternoon. Mrs. Lum Jefferson, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bell visited in Jacksonville Saturday and Mrs. Jefferson femain ed for the week end with her son, ivey Galloway, and his family. Blackie Trevathan, John Fountain, Jr., John Bishop Gay and Bob Foun tain, III, have resumed their studies Ett UNC. Others students who have returned to their classes are'..Misses Daphne Yelverton and Ann Horton of Meredith college, Raleigh; Warren Peele, Duke; A. C. Gay, Jr.. Wake Forest, and Miss Melva Jean Baker, Mars Hill. . Mrs. W. B. Whitehurst of Conetoe spent Monday with her sister, Mrs, Jimmie Sutton. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Newton and children of North Wilkesboro spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Newton. Leslie Yelverton, Jr., has. returned to his work in southeastern North Ca rolina after spending the Week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Mverton. ,* : ■- " Captain and Mrs. R. L. Perley and laughter, Lyn, of Ft. Knox, Ky., re tuned Monday after spending a few Jays with Mrs. Periy’s mother, Mrs. J. W. Redick. Mr. and Mrp. Johnnie Gardner and children spent the week end: with his mother, Mrs. Ada Gardner, who is ill at the home of her son, W. B. Gard ner of Farmville. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Eagles attend ed the reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Herring, Sr., near Walstonburg, honoring their son and his bride, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Herring, T. ' ; : ‘ , Mrs. John Fountain,'Sr., spent the weak end in Lumberton with her mother, Mrs. J. W. Baker. . . , . Mrs. J. W. Redick and Mr. arid Mrs. Carter Smith had as their dinner guests; on Thursday night of last week Capt. and Mrs. R. L. Perky and laughter, Lyn, of Fort Knox, Mrs. F. S. Powefl and daughter, Margaret Ruth Of Greenville, Mrs. Bertha Crane, Mrs. J. W. Taylor and Mrs. L. L. Ward of Bethel, Mrs. M. D, Yelverton, Miss Lucille Yelverton, Wylie Yelverton, and Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Hefcry of Thomasville. Mrs. B. F. Speight spent Monday with her mother, Mrs. I. W, Laaun, who has been a patient at Woodard Herring hospital in' Wilson since Thursday of last week. '• to his job Monday after spending the holidays with his toother, Mrs. C. L. Owens. . ' ; f-,.' Richard Albert Bell left Monday for Tennessee tobacco Roscoe Bell returned ton Kentucky belt. Miss Mamie Nichols Pa., is expected home t an extended visit with Mn. J. P. Nichols. At The Kfwanls Club lieutenant Governor Holloman of the Seventh Kiwanis division installed new officers Monday night at a meet ing of the local club. NeW officers are Frank Allen, president; Ernest Petteway, vice pres dent; Seth Barrow, secretary; George Allen, treasurer. New members of the board of di rectors are Jake Fields, Jack Lewis, Glasgow Smith and Alton Bobbitt. Members of the board retained for' another year are Garl Hicks, Lewis Allen, Heftry Johnson and Billy Smith. , i The following perfect attendance awards were presented: Sam Bundy, seven years; Alex Allen, Frank Allen and Lewis Allen, five years; Louis Williams, Alton Bobbitt and John Parker, four years; Jim Hockaday and Carol ModUn, three years; Hu bert Joyner, two years; Seth Bar row, Earl Holmes, Henry Johnson, I. 'K, Peeler and Fred Thomas, one year. Committee appointments will be an nounced next week. CENTIPEDE GRASS MAKES IDEAL LAWN IN THIS SECTION Centipede grass is being used in several people in Greene county to start a lawn. The grass makes an ideal lawn in that it requires little mowing and grows well on light soils. To establish a lawn with this grass, the soil should be plowed and the grass set in rows 12 inches apart. It helps to water the newly set grass often until growth begins. Mr. and lbs. Preston Jones of Snow Hill started a lawn of centipede grass in the spring of 1948. By the second growing season, the grass had made a thick sod. They are. well pleased with the centipede grass, for a lawn. Farmers are preparing plant beds for the I960 tobacco crop. Eight farmers have purchased disease resis tant varieties of tobaoeo to plant their crops. The varieties being used ire Dixie Bright 27 resistant to Gran rille Wilt, and two combination va rieties resistant to Granville Wilt and Black Shank—-Dixie Bright 101 and 102. A large acreage will be planted to Oxford .1 where black shank is pres ent MRS. WHITE HOSTESS TO BETHLEHEM WSCS MEETING the Bethlehem mm T. H. LeCroy, farm relations offi cer for the People's Bank in Rocky Moupt, overall supervisor of the Pe can Grove Dairy under terms a* the will of the late John Tr^fhornX has notified Paraville's Board of Com missioners through Town Clerk C. M. Paylor that the bank does not now plan to install a pasteurization plant at the dairy and therefore will put out of _the local retail milk business as soon as satisfactory arrangements q*in be made for another distributor to take over- the local route. LeCroy*B decision is in keeping with a gentleman’s agreement between the dairy operators and the town boerd, which nearly a /ear ago investigated the advisability of adopting a muni cipal ordinance preventing the distri bution of raw milk and requiring that pasteurized milk only be sold here. Phe board conferred with J .W. Wil kerson, manager Of the dairy, and later with LeCroy, spokesman for the bank, to ascertain if suitable ar rangements qould be made without additional laws. LeCroy told the city executives that the bank would install » pasteurizer about the first of I960, if financial operating conditions of the dairy warranted such an expendi ture, or would withdraw entirely as a retail distributor of raw milk in Pannville. The motion for the milk ordinance was tabled in April, pend ing the final decision of the bank. It has been estimated that an ex penditure of from* $10,000 to $12,000 ‘rill he required to install a pasteuriz er that would requirements of the or dinance contemplated by the town sommissioners. It is believed that the bank’s decision against such an expenditure is based on the fact that the business does not warrant the additional investment. Fears that Parmville will be left without a milk supply are ground less, according. to Manager Wilker Jon, who added that several dairies in this section would welcome the op portunity to take over the customers >f the Pecan Grove Dairy. It is quite likely, however, that the milk bill for Farmville families will be increased, since pasteurized milk in neighboring towns is higher than the 22 cents per quart charged tere now. WESLEY NEWS Aaron G. Tyson few returned to Gtailford colleger alter spending the holidays with His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tyson. Mr. and Mrs. David Puiford and family and Bobby and Carol Hob jood, sons of Mr. and Mrs. William Hobgood, visited Mr. and Mrs. Geo. [arson in Morehead City-Friday. Mrs. Larson is Mrs. FuIford'S sister. Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Madry of Ra leigh and Mrs. D. M. Beardsley of Charlotte are visiting Mr. and Mrs. ft L. Fulford. Mrs. Madry is Hr. Pulford’s sister and Mrs. Beardsley s his aunt. Mr. and Mm. R. L. Fulford spent Sunday in Greenville with Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Fulford. Mrs. Fulford md son returned'for a week's visit, Mr. and Mm. W. D. Andrews and in Maysville Friday.
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