**+*++*+**4>+ -s'*. f.*\ ii BANK IN FARMYILLE CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1950 FARMYILLE, FEET COUNTY, NORTH VOLUME FORTY ============= Represented At, Farm Convention Alex Allen, president of the Pit Farm Bureau, and Mis. Allen will head a large delegation from this county at the State convention in Raleigh next week. Mrs. He-man Baxer will preside over a sessi’i of the Farm W< men. She is state v eo.-chairman. Mrs. Ruse.ua*->' Holmes Tumage is to render a solo at Monday morning’s session. Sam Winchester, fa^m agent for Pitt county, has announced the names of those persons from this county who will serve as commodity chair men and voting delegates to the State Farm Bureau meeting in Raleigh next week, beginning Sunday. and ( ending Wednesday. The delegates with alternates ' named second are: Ayden—J. D. Cannon with R. L. Collins; Mrs. Mattie Hardee with J. J. Edwards. 1 Beaver Dam — P. S. Rasberry, 1 Farmville, with W. W. Young, Green ville. ' Bethel—F. L. Blount with Z. V. ' Bunting. Belvoir—Mrs. Clarence Barnhill, ; Greenville, with Julius C. Parker, ' Tarboro. Carolina—Richard Barnhill, Stokes, with T. L. Perkins. Chicod ‘— R. G. Little, Grimesland, 1 with Mrs. W. V. Spencer, Greenville; ^ B. Alton Gardner, Ayden, with Roy ^ Gaskins, Grirr^land. Falkland —H. Pittman with ^ Woodrow-Wooten and Ralph Stokes. * Farmville—Jack Lewis, Arch Flan- ' -agan and Mrs. L. R. Jones. Fountain—S. L. Dilda with R. A. ^ Fountain. 1 Greenville—Hugh C. Winslow and Jamie Wilson, Winterville; Mrs. H. B. ■ Randolph and Mrs. Thelma Hardee. 1 Pactolus—Noel Lee, Jr., Washing ton, with J. P. Davenport. 1 Swift Creek — W. C. Chauncey, Grifton, with M. B. Hodges, Grifton. 1 Winterville—C. D. Langston with I Wayland Hunsucker. The commodity chairmen are (al- ^ temates named second) are: , Peanuts—Jartjes Keel, Greenville. ‘ Cotton—J. I. Morgan, Farmville; R. * J. Whitehurst, Bethel. < Tobacco—B. B. Sugg, Greenville; R. D. Rouse, Farmville. i Dairying1—Ola Forbes, Greenville. i Livestock—Howard D. Moye, Farfn ville; Henry Smith, Fountain Poultry—B. B. Drum, Greenville; < J. E. Moye, Winterville. 1 Field Crops—J. B. Speight, Winter- 1 ville; Curtis Martin, BetheL Fruits and Vegetables—W. I. Bis* > sette, Grifton; L. N. James. 1 THERE’S PLENTY OF TURKEY ] IN ’SQUIRE BEN LEWIS LOCKER ' ’Squire Ben Lewis, his wife and ■ daughter aren’t likely to want - for turkey any time soon. On Feb. 1 Ben killed a turkey that weighed, when dressed, 33 pounds. The bird, one of the last two in a batch Ben bought back in the sum mer, weighed 42 pounds. The other bird weighed 26 pounds. He said that it was the largest turkey he had ever seen . DR. P. EL JONES, JR., PROMOTED IN NAVAL RESERVE Dr. Paul E. Jones, Jr., is one of 280 staff reserve officers ■ in the' Sixth Naval district, which comprises seven southeastern states, recently promot ed to higher ranks. Dr. Jones,' who is a member of the Watts*hospital staff in Durham, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. FOUNTAIN RURITANS DISCUSS TWO OBJECTIVES .The Fountain Ruritan dub met Thursday evening in the lunch room at the school and discussed two ob jectives for the year: (1) Working with the State Highway Commission to get streets paved; and (2) Coopera ting with the woman's clubs to find _ .-.Li. .fi. j L . __ Walstonburg News ■M ’ / * Mrs. Fred Beaman, who left her* last spring to make her home h Washington, D. C., has recently mov ed to Raleigh. Min« Alma Guay Beaman, daughtei of Mrs. Fred Beaman and the lati Mr. Beaman, was married to Malcolm Clark of Bath, on Jan. 28, at Arling ton, Va. .. * , j I ■ Among those from here who visited in Raleigh Monday were Mrs. Ed Tay lor, Mrs. I. J. Rouse and daughter Joyce, Mrs. W. A. Marlowe and son. limmy, Mrs. C. T. Hicks and Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Redick. Mr. and Mrs Cameron West ol Fairmont were the week end guests >f Mr. and Mrs. Ray West. Rev. and Mrs. JL B. Bennett and ion, Bob, of Macclesfield were the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sam fenkins. Mrs. W. E. Lang is visiting friends ind relatives in Fountain. Mrs. Henry Gay and Mrs. Arthur Say complimented Mrs. Charles Phil ips of Kenly, recent bride, at a mis cellaneous shower at the home of the atter on Friday night. Mr. and*Mrs. C. T. Hicks' attended he funeral of Mrs. George Edgerton n Goldsboro Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Dixon, Jr., md children are visiting Mr. and drs. Phillip Dixon. Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Fields, Mrs. Ed Paylor and Miss Lillian Corbett were n Snow Hill on business recently. MERCER-WHITLEY } Miss Virginia Whitley, daughter of dr. and Mrs. Lonnie Whitley, became he bride of Wallace Mercer, son of drs. Jesse Mercer and the late Mr. dercer, Feb. 1. Sam Jenkins took his mother, Mrs. imma Jenkins, who, had spent some ime with him and his family, back to ter home in Fpirmont, Thursday. Mrs. Ed Taylor was the guest of dr. and Mrs. J. C. Hooten near Grif on, Wednesday. Miss Ann Hicks of Peace college in laleigh spent the week end here with ler Darents. William Whitley, resident of Ra eigh, was here for the week end. Mrs. Nets Shackleford, Mrs. Clar ence Jones and Mrs. William Wind 1am spent Tuesday in Durham. Mrs. H. A. Livermore visited her *thor in Ayden recently. Miss Hazel McKeel of Goldsboro ird Stewart McKeel of UNC visited tn.ir mother, Mr«. Tryphenia McKeel, luring the week end; ' * Mrs. Henry Wheeler spent Tuesday is the guest of Mrs. Claude Wheeler n Wilson. CYF Holds Service On Sunday night members of the Christian Youth Fellowship conducted he worship service at the local Chris iar. church. The president, Darrell Dail, made announcements and read the scripture esson. Myrtle Lou Jenkins gave the itory of the “Talking Picture.” Ger ild Hinnant and Miriam Windham ilso helped with the program. Leonard Mann, ministerial student it ACC,„ brought a most inspiring nessage, using “Opportunity” as the opic of his talk. IAYCEES ATTEND DISTRICT DUSWlMti iiN (itCKtiAVlUA Farmville Junior Chamber of Com nerce was represented by ,11 members i%tne district meeting Tnursday ughtat'the Greenville Romans cluo. State President Micou Brown of Ka eigh spoke and a discussion on the sconomy movement, a national pro tect, and the forming of new Jaycee groups were discussed. Attending from FarmviUe were President W. D. Creekmur, R. D Rouse, Jr., Chester (Jutland, Grimes Lewis, Marvin Speight, Hap Nichola I. C. Brock, Jr., John T. Walston, Dr Frank Earns, A. E. Allen, Jr.; ant Herbert Moore. JIMMY DARDEN IS HEARD ON CHESTERFIELD SHOWS Jimmy Darden is in New York thii week as the guest of the Liggett Myers Tobacco company and is ap pearing on radio and television shows advertising Chesterfields. He wai heard on Arthur Godfrey's show Wad nesday morning and on' the Chester field Supper club Wednesday night. The Supper club featured Ferrj Referees Walk Oat Bat Games k Gym Go do After the Ayoen xugix school gins nau ueieaieu rarmvuie Dy a one-point u.i u ruin snnl ut me .anal unee seconds of a basketball game coat caused so much antagonism the two rererees walked oil the court at its. conclusion vand caned it v'qdits” for the evening, the Farmville boys turned the taDies oh their Ayden counterparts, and- turned in a 65-40 victory featured fy a ssrond-half ral ly that literally stopped the. clock. flayed here Friday night, the game was a “na:u»i’ a’id the Farrav.ie gymnasium was packed and jammed for the contests which br. ught the '.earns together for tor second time this season. In the first meeting, the girls'had tied and the Ayden boys had come through with a one-point victory. ' - -- The 21-20 ly&s to Ayden Ins the, first'defeat of the -year for *Cuach John Dunn’s girls. Alice Jean Cox, who turned 'a 13 points for her team, sank the winning foul shot. R&ye Hathaway led the Farmville scorers with 11 points. The Farmville for wards, whose shooting had brought their team through 19 names without a defeat, weren’t hitting the basket with the same deadly accuracy that marked previous games but the guards turned in^a superlative game. The start of the boys’ game was held for an hour until officials could be obtained frim Wilson to replace Referees Hayes and Lancaster, ECTC students who had called the girls', but who refused to offlicate at the second game because of the abuse they said they had received. Coach Dunn, apparently, was the chief of fender, rushing from {the bench at the conclusion of the contest for a heated argument with the referees. The officiating \»y. Hayes and Lan caster was far short of perfect. The best that could be said for" the two is that they were inexperienced and lacked confidence. They were “booed” several times during the courfe of the game they called but the jeers were not excessive nor were they limited to supporters of one team. After Hayes and Lancaster walked off, Farmville’s mayor, Walter Jones, who assigns officials for the larger high school games "ta this section of the state, brought in Red Benton and Gardner Ashe. Trailing at half-time by two points, 25-23, CoacK Elbert Uoye’s local team held a 32-30 advantage at file three quarter mark and then scored 23 points in the final eight minutes. The electric cloit went cut of commission with less than'two minutes remain ing. The feature of the game was the deadly shooting of Randolph Allen, whose long set shots brought roars of approval from the Farmville support ers. He was good for 19 points. Carl King had 15. Albert Cannon connect ed on several hoook shots from the foul circle and rtbred 13 points. * Tuesday night the local teams con tinued their march with victories over Chicod. \ KIWANIS-ROTARY GAME WILL .» be PLAYED FEBRUARY 23 The annual basketball game be tween the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs will be played w the school gymnas ium on Thursday night, Feb. 23. Players on both teams have started an intensive training grind which in cludes a diet of raw meat and sweet milk. . '' The feudin’ clubs are risking their liveg in this game for the benefit of the Boy Scout hut, to which proceeds from the', game will go./ ATTEND CONVENTION Mr. and Mrs. Bernice Turaage, Mack Erwin and Frank Alien attend ed the Carolinas’ Farm Equipment Dealers cohyention in Charlotte early this week. Tumage and Erwin represented the Turnage company; Allen represented the FannviUe Implement company. • jrR- WOMAN’S CLUB AND JAY CEES TO PLAY SCHOOL TEAMS i —-- / ■ , The Junior Woman’s club will play the high school girls and the Jayceee / NEW POST OFFICE It was alwwunced in Washington Saturday morning that the General Services administration and the Post Office department had alloca ted funds for the acvdsitioit «f a site and the drewtng of plans for a new post office building in Farm vilW. . - The total Ifot of the site and con struction will bo less than - $200,000,' but the exset amount is not known. * The OenefgU Services administra tion plans 4* begin soon looking over possible sites for the proposed building. After the site is selected, the plans #111 then be drawn. ' Farmvfiie has been on the waiting list for setoral years and the news was received here with mueh joy. At The Kiwanis Club Dr. J, D, Messick spoke to the Kiwanis clubMonday night and told of what ECTC, of which he is presi dent, means to this sectiton . Bandy, chairman of the local March'of Himes campaign, re ports that the drive here has been very successful and the response has been Very gratifying. >• . Although he feared Farm-vile would fall short of its quota, he states that $1,444.26 had been collected through Tuesday of this week. Other contributions are to be made that will bring the total to the $1503 mark, as compared with the $1370.20 raised here last year. A complete report will be made next week. Meanwhile, the chairman had nothing but praise for the stud ents and teachers who did most of the work in the drive. At The Rotary Club “Such as I have, I give," was the theme chosen by Rev. H. L. Davis as he addressed, the Rotarians Tuesday night. He sts^d that our obligation to humanity is no . less because we might not be endowed with great worldly possessions. Marvin Jones was program: director and $ev. Davis was introduced by Richard Joyner, in the absence of Mr. Jones/ Four members were absent but it was announced that the attendance was 100% for January 31st meeting. Dr. E. R. Smith, who is affiliated with the Williams and Smith clinic, was the guest of Walter Jones. Arch Flanagan received the attend ance prize and Walter Jones presided ini the absence of the club president, Charlie Fitzgerald. Riddick Freeman will be in charge of the program Tuesday. ' MRS. ADA GARDNER, 74, DIES AT SON'S HOME HEBE Mrs. Ada-Bell Gardner, 74, j widow of the. late 0. N. Gardner, died at the home of her son'on Main street in Farmville early Tuesday morning fol lowing several years of illness. Mrs. Gardner was bom in Pitt county and spent most of -her life in tho.-Fouataia .community. * - Funeral services were conducted from the home of her son, W. T. Gardner, in Farmville on - Wednesday, afternoon at 2:30, conducted by tbs Rev. E. W. Holmes, pastor of Farm ville Baptist church. Interment was in the family cemetery near Fountain. . Mrs. Gardner is survived by two sons, W. B., with whom she made her home, and J. T. of Fountain; one stepson, Herman (Red) Gardner of Farmville; a sister. Mtb. Joe Jeffer son of Fountain; and a brother, L. R. Bell:of Fountain; and four grandchil dren. * . , MRS. JIM HEATH Mrs. Carrie E. Heath, .53, wife of Jim Heath of Snow Hill, Route 2, died in Memorial General hospital, Kinston, Wednesday afternoon of, last week. Mrs. Heath was taken ill Wed nesday morning. Funeral Services were conducted Thursday afternoon at the home by Rev. B. L. Davis, Baptist minister, of Snow Hill. A native ,, — Heath had made her home near Stantonsburg for 18 years. Survivors include her husband; four daughters, Lillian and Doris \ of the home, Betsy and Mfs. Dollie Ballard of Farmville; three sons, Charlie and James of the home ana Robert ef Snow Hill, Route 3; one brother, Joe EdmOndson of Snow Hill, Route 3; one sister, Mrs. Leona Coifibs Of La Grapge; suod two grandchildren. LEAVES TUESDAY TO • JOIN HUSBAND IN JAPAN Mrs. E him. W. C. (Lum) Wooten has stated that he will be a candidate for county commission er from this district Lum’s no Btranger to governmental matters, having served as a member of the town board here. Congressman Herbert Bonner drop ped a hint to Parmvilie people at the recent Jackson Day dinner in Raleigh' that a new poet office for this town was “in the bag,” hot ask^ ed that no public announcement be made until the post office department was ready to make it* Since dffidal announcement has been made that $200,000 is available for the structure, Postmaster Henry Johnson expects, and hopes, that officials will soon be herb to look over the situation, pick out a site and give the green light for construction to begin. There is much spocijlatioh as to where the post office will be placed. The impwdaattkin*, however, ie that at long last the town is getting a new post office. v quota (not of the ones variety; were passed back told forth when the town commissioned met Tuesday night for their monthly session. Mayor Walter Jones congratulated Commissioner Fred Moore for Ms work with colored citizens of the town in an effort to locate a site for a cemetery and thanked Commissioner 6. 6. Spell, street committee chairman, for the improved appetgance of streets. And, that, tob, was a compliment for J. B. Taylor, street superintendent. Com missioned John StansUl congratulated Town Clerk Cleveland Paylor for the fine financial statements he has been giving the board. The optimism was based on a report, from thy Mayor that the town is keeping within its budget and that if revenue for the remaining five months of the fiscal year meets anticipations the treasury will be able to offset a deficit incur red two years ago when expansions to the power plant and street improve ments cost more than anticipated, through circumstances beyond the control of local officials. Pitt countians don’t begrudge other counties and section of North Carolina any of the benefits they may be re ceiving from the road improvement program, for which $200,000,000 in bonds are being issued, but there may be just cause for a bit of speculation as to what improvement* are being made '}n this immediate section. Citi zens of this county certainly wouldn’t frown upon having a few projects in-, eluded In lettings, a list of which is so long that State officials require more than one day to canvass the bids and compile the results. The rapid rate at which the State High way Commission is issuing the bonds gives fish to an opinion that *200 million won’t be enough to finish the DRIVER EDUCATION COURSE ESTABLISHED IN SCHOOL Farmville in drivei led in the Prihcipal Sam school states the 1 P. T. A. Observes Commemorating Founder’s day, a pageant, “Our Golden Tribute,’’ wap presented at the Parent-Teacher as sociation meting Thursday night in the high School auditorium. The nar rators, Mrs. J. B. Joyner and Mrs. Z. B. T. Cox, opened the pageant and thev girls’ glee cluB sang “America the Beautiful." The prelude, “Before It Began,” was read and at the' conclusion, a park scene depicting the gay nineties was shown. Taking part in the panto mine were Loji Taylor Lewis, Billy Burke, Faye Mewbom, Shipley Ryon, Johnnie Mewbom, Noel Lang and Elaine Walston. Act one, “And a Little Child Shalt Lead Them,” was narrated after which the glee chib sang Brahm’s “Lullaby." The curtains opened to reveal Edith Ain Lee portraying a little girl with her doll. Continuing the story, the narrators told of the convening of the first Parent Teacher Congress of Mothers, relating how Mrs. Theodora W. Burney, founder and first president, pleaded with the congress to make the child the watch word and ward of the day and hour. This act was concluded by Geneva Braxton singing "The End of a Per fect Day.” Act two, “The Turn of the Cen tury,” brought forth, in the narration, the importance of the child. Its grow th- was evidenced in many ways in playgrounds. The curtain rose on a scene where the children danced and sang “The Pawpaw Patch.” Taking part were Kay Allen, Faye Avery, Shirley Ellis, Connie Allen, FayeAl- - len, Jimmy' Pollard, Howard Moye, Rod Williams, Shipley Ryon and Johnny Mewbom. Act three, “‘Intervening Ydars,” 1 emphasized a great nationwide cam paign for home-school cooperation and parent education. The great feminist movements took place and the organisation of the General Fede ration of Women’s clubs. Norris Spen cer and Clarabelle Flanagan carried feminists’ placards and Janice Atkin son represented a member of the Women's clubs. Bringing this act to a dose was the singing of “There’s a Long, Long Trail” by die' glee dub. “Whence Have We Come,” act four, true.. Jane Joyner^aa “Vision,” ap peared with a lighted candle. Ca mille Simpson was “Observation,” Nell Willoughby was “Knowledge,” and Nancy Carroll was “Understand ing.” - A quintet composed of (Jonme Hol lins, John Joyner, , Jack Williford, Willa Rae Harper and Pat; Corlfett 3ang “Lead Kindly Lights” The finale, “Whither Shall' We Go?’’ brought out the important vork to be done, the crusade for better homes, parents, health and education al facilities for children. It also em phasized that people must realize that this earth is now ona worldand that today is a scientific age.- A chemist, James Thorne, was shown surround ed by his experiments. The narrators 'continued their story and brought the pageant through the invention of the atom bomb and the formation of United Nations. ' There was a fanfare of trumpets offstage as the, curtains opened wide and revealed girls, dressed as na tives of some of the nations who, make up the U. "N., bearing placards with names of the UN countries. The girls were Carol Gardner, Mary Gay, Sybil Crumpler, Emily Cannon, Anne Morgan,,Martha Holmes, Jane Bus sell, Ann Pollard, Theodora Albritton and Sue Flanagan. As the narfator said, “One world—we remain united,” the girls joined in this chorus. Concluding the pageant was the singing of “Our World” by the glee club. ... ' . , Miss Alma Whitley directed the music. Miss Margaret Lewis was ac companist and Mrs, Frank Allen, chairman of the program committee, Was in charge of the pantomine and staging. - , Rev. H. L. Davis; pastor of the Methodist church, led the opening prayer. Superintendent Sam Bundy urged that more contributions be made to the March of Dimes in order that Farmville might meet, its quota Mrs. Joseph Batchelor’s fourth grade, winners of the room roll call