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PARMYILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY *4, 1950
VOLUME FORTY
Former Christian
Pastor Returns To
Talk On Missions
Rev. C. Manley Morton will speak
Tuesday night at 8 o’clock in the
Farmville Christian church on behalf
of the Crusade. He was pastor of
the local church in 1909-10.
Rev. Morton has been a missionary
to Latin American fields since 1916,
under appointment by The United
Christian Missionary society. During
thig year he is in the United States
doing special field work for a Gru
sale for a Christian World.
Rev. and Mrs. Morton went first to
Argentina to do evangelistic work. At
that time a survey of tire need for
missions in Paraguay was being made
and after it was completed the Mor
tons were transferred to that new
field. Here they helped to establish
Colegio International, a coeducational
school which has grown to be the
best in Paraguay.
In 1923 the Mortons were appoint
ed to Puerto Rico which has been
their field of service for those more
than 25 years. Mr. Morton has taught
in the Union Theological Seminary
at Rio Piedras. He has also directed
the religious education program of
the Disciples Mission, and helped to
bring 20 of the 29 churches to self
support. An outstanding accomplish
ment of the Mortons was the estab
lishment of McLean Conference
Grounds in the midst of the depres
sion, on mission property which had
not been in use. With courage and
determination they managed its e
quipment to care for conferences,
conventions, and all church groups.
Mr. Morton is a graduate of Atlan
tic Christian college, the College of
Missions in Indianapolis, and Hart
ford School of Religious Education.
He has also done graduate work in
the University of Paraguay and Chi
cago university. He is the author of
“Paraguay, The Inland Republic” and
“Kingdom Building in Puerto Rico.”
Rev. and Mrs. Z. B. T. Cox will
honor Mr. Morton at an informal re
ception in the church basement im
mediately after the service.
Walstonburg Club
Votes Against Joining
Lions International
The Walstonburg Men’s club met
February 14 in the Walstonburg cafe
where a delicious barbecue dinner was
served.
The business session was opened
by discussing the proposal to affiliate
with Lions International but the club
voted not to accept the invitation.
A committee composed of Earl
Lang, D. D. Fields, and D. G. Starl
ing was appointed to write a com
plete history of the club since it was
organized in 1941. Another commit
tee, composed of Harold Bailey, Earl
Lang and Henry Burch, was ap
pointed to dmw up a 1960 program
of work for the club.
A heated discussion then followed
on the topic of consolidating all the
white high schools in Greene county.
GUEST SOLOIST SUNDAY
AT CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Carl Perry of Danville, Va., and
Chapel HiU will be soloist Sunday
morning at the Christian church.
At Oie morning service, Rev. Z. B.
T. Cox wil speak, on “The Future
Tense.” In the evening at 7 :S0 he will
preach on “A New Beginning."
SPEECH TOURNAMENT WINNEB
Miss Hazel Garris, Farmville higl
school junior, won second place ir
Division 2, original oratory for , ex
perienced speakers, at the fifth an
nual speech tournament held in Green
ville Ugh school Saturday.
Mira Garris was one of the two en
trants who won awards in last year’i
contest.
To Speak Here
REV. MANLY MORTON
At The Rotary Club
Complacency might well jeopardiz<
the sound .tobacco nrogjram which w<
now enjoy, said Alonza Edwards o;
Hookerton, president of the NortI
Carolina Farm Bureau, as her address
ed the Rotarians Tuesday night To
bacco growers come nearer getting i
satisfactory price'for their commodi
ty than producers of most other fame
products. In the marketing of cotton
peanuts, potatoes’' and corn, there ii
much dissatisfaction and this weal
link can ultimately ruin-the program
Facing the fiiture in a realistic man
ner, diversification and learning t<
produce more per acre on a quota
basis might be a big selling job, bu1
will be'far easier than trying t» worl
out the details to finance the so-call
ed Brannan Plan. We must keep oui
feet on the ground and hold Wash
ington in line, and this can be accom
plished by being realistic and develop
ing a sound financial program at
once. Robert Rouse was program di
rector and introduced Mr. Edwards.
Charlie Fitzgerald" received the at
tendance pribe and Bobby Rouse, th<
fellowship prize. Five members wer<
absent and W. A. Allen and C. T
Hicks were guests of Robert Rouse.
Charlie Fitzgerald called attsentior
to the fact that on Saturday, Feb. 25
at 5 p. m., a program covering th<
anniversary of Rotary would be broad
cast by the National Broadcasting
Company and would be carried bj
WPTF in Raleigh.
It was agreed that the Farmvilh
club would participate in the Inter
city Meeting to be held near Kinstoi
on Thursday night, March 16, bui
that this would not take the place o:
the regular Tuesday night meeting.
W. A. McAdams will be in charg<
of the program next Tuesday.
Club president, Charlie Fitzgerald
presided.
ENTERTAIN AT BIRTHDAY
DINNER FOR THEIR SO?
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bundy had «
turkey dinner Sunday in honor o:
the birthday of her son, W. J. Bund;
of Greenville, solicitor of the Superio:
Court for the fifth judicial district.
Present for the occasion were Mi
and Mrs. W. J. Bundy of Greenville
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Harper, Jr., am
son, Bill, and J. A. Harper, Sr., o:
Rocky Mount; Mr. and Mrs. Sam D
Bundy and sons.
Roland Parker
Dies In Texas
Word was received here Thursday
morning of the death of Roland . B.
Parker -at Port Bliss, Texas, Wed
nesday.
The body is being retutmed to
North Carolina for burial but ar
rangements for the final rites had
not been completed at the time this
paper is being published.
Mr. Parker was the son of the late
Roland A. and Lola Bryan Parker of
Farmville. He was a graduate of
Farmville high school, Davidson col
lege and attended the University of
Wisconsin and the University of
North Carolina. For a number of
years he taught and was dean of boys
at Darlingt >n school, Rome, Ga.,
where he was greatly beloved. Later
he was dean of men at the University
i of North Carolina. During the war
. he was an American Red Cross as
• sistant field director in India.
His death was attributed to a heart
attack.
He was a half-brother of John C.
Parker.
Two Pitt Projects In
Latest Road Program
Two Pitt county projects are a
mong> those being advertised by the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission for private contract let
ting early in March. Both projects
are part tof the Commission's $200,
000,000 secondary road program.
One project calls for the hard-sur
facing of 9.6 miles beginning at Cali
fornia on NC 121 on a county road
to NC 43 via Kings Ooss Roads and
Dupree’s Cross Roads and from Kings
Cross Roads to Falkland.
Another project is a combined one
with Qreene county and jcalls for the
j hard-surfacing of 10.27 miles from
Willow Green to Longs Cross Roads
! on US 264 from a point east of
Stokes, east to Beaufort county line
and from junction of a county .road
in Penny Hill east to a county road
between Belvoir and US 264. ,
Specifications were also advertised
on 60 other highway projects through
out the state in the largest letting
ever held by the Highway Commis
1 sion. Commissioners at their month
ly meeting on March 7 will review
iow bids after which contracts will bd
; awarded.
CYF TO GIVE PLAY AT RETREAT
Farmville Christian Youth fellow
ship members will preesnt a play on
the Christian World Friendship fund
at the mid-winter youth retreat to be
held in New Bern at the Broad Street
Christian church . Friday and Satur
day.
i The theme of the retreat, to which
; fellowships in the Pamlico, South
’ eastern and Hookerton unions are
• sending representatives, is Japan,
with^mphasis on young people’s mis
, "Sionary activities at home and abroad.
Attending from the local fellowship
[ will be Zeb Whitehurst, president,
! Joan Atkinson, Billy Russell, Mar
. gery Lilly, Jean Moore .Carol Pippin
and Mrs. J. O. Pollard, counsellor.
(By Elizabeth May) .
Thirty-five members of loc^l
church chain reported for the first
practice of the Easter cantata to be
presented Easter Sunday evening in
the Baptist church. This will mark
the third year that the choirs have
banded together to present one of the
best services of the Easter season.
Mrs. W. A. Pollard, Jr., directed the
first cantata; Mis Alma Whitley was
in charge last year and Mrs. Rpee
mary Holmes Turnage is director this
time.
Farmvdlle is indeed fortunate iii
having musicians who will give part
of one afternoon and one night each
week to provide meaningjful music for
the community.
Mrs. W. R. Harris of Fountain was
one. of the contestants on tire Streit
tnan program over a Raleigh station ,
Friday afternoon,
good radio voice.
She has a very
Several Farmville people are enter- ,
ed in the Eastern Carolina Zenith <
Dealers contest, which has been going .
on for several weeks. It is sponsor-' <
ed by a Rocky Mount station.
Of particular interest to Mrs. J. A.
Forbes was the article in a state pap
sr Sunday about W. W. (Cap) Eagles
>f Macclesfield. Mr. Eagles is named
'or the grandfather of Mrs. Forbes’
ate husband, Captain Billy Edwards,
[t was from Mr. Edwards’ Civil War
:itle, Captain, that Mr. Eagles re
ceived his nickname.
Mrs. Forbes has known Mr. Eagles
since he was a baby. He grew dp- in
3risp and she lived in Tarboro; later,
she lived on her grandfather’s farm',
vhere Macclesfield is now located.
Asked what she enjoyed most about
the Associated Farm Women’s meet
ing in Raleigh last week, Mrs. Arch
Flanagan replied, “the tea at the
Governor’s Mansion.” Mrs. Scott in
vited the ladies to come ahead of time
and ramble through the recently re
decorated mansion. Mrs. Alex Allen,
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who" enjoyed most seeing Mrs. Her- a
man Baker preside, says that pictures
of the interior of the mansion do not •
do it justice. Ia
Mrs. Baker, who is vice-president^
I of the Associated Farm Women, was (
I one of the two ladies pouring tea at t
the function. j
Mrs. L. R! Jones and Mrs. R. D. j
Rouse were also present for all three
days of the convehtion.
Congratulations to Ann Horton and (
Babs Williford for ba^ng named to £
the dean’s list at their respective
schools, Meredith and WCUNC. Babs *
wos saiutatorian of the local senior f
class in 1947. 3
Brian Palmer, 2%, son of Mr. and 1
Mrs. Warren Pamer of Raleigh, has j
an unselfish slant to the well-known ^
child’s prayer, “Now I lay Me Down v
to Sleep.” His version goes:
“Now I Hay me down to sleep
I pray thef Lord my soul to keep. <
If you should die before I wake, i
I pray the Lord your soul to take.” '
A friend suggested'to his mother 1
recently that she should break him i
Winners of Gold Medal Tournament
MARCH 2, 3 AND 4 TO BE DOLLAR DAYS;
FARMVILLE MERCHANTS SAVE ATTRACTIVE
INC MADE HERE
Day Of Prayer Wffl
Be Observed In Service
At Episcopal Churcl
I All women in the community an
invited to write in grayer for peao
with people around the earth in th<
Episcopal church today (Friday). Th<
service, “Faith for Our Time,” will h
held at 3:30, but the church, will b<
open all day for worshippers.
“The chain of prayer will be mad<
of millions of people worshipping ii
all corners and centers of the eartl
and praying in sixty different langu
ages. Following the sun, it will be
started in the Fiji Islands at dawr
and continue westward from tin
crowded ports of Singapore. anc
Shanghai into isolated villages oi
China and Pakistan; from the Afri
can jungles to the Arctic wilderness
es."
General chairman for the local pro
gram is Mrs. Mabry Pollard. Posters
showing an Oriental artist’s concep
tion of Christ have been placed up
town.
“The artist, Takai Sadakata, is one
of the great religious leaders of Ja
pan. When he was in the sixth grade,
he made up his mind to become a
painter. But he found his life goal
one day in junior high school when his
teacher,, the great artist, Mr. Kolshi,
said to him, ‘You are a Christian. You
ought to make a picture of Christ. As
I was bom in a family of profession
al artists whose work has been to
paint images of Buddha, I cannot
draw Christ, even if I wished to, but
you can,’ The boy,took these words
as a message from God. From that
day bn he was determined to over
come, all difficulties in order to at
tain his goal, which he called ‘being
a good painter of Christ.’
“It is now more than fifty yean
since Takai Sadakata first enrolled
as a student at Kwansei Gakuin, a
Christian high school in Kobe. The
Christian education that.he received
there together with the skilled teach
ing of his art instructor helped him
finally to achieve his goal.”
When in 1946 Mr. Sadakaha com
pleted a picture of Ohrjst that satis
fied him more than forty others that
he had painted before -that; time, he
said, “I had to recognize from the be
ginning that it is not an easy task to
draw the picture of Christ. It is dif
ficult to draw my Master in the Ja
panese way. It thas been like climb
ing the Himalaya Mountains' tc
reach the highest place in the world
I had to risk everything for this
task. ... I have now reached the
end of forty-nine years’ striving."
of putting you and your in the last
two lines before he memorizes it that
way. Mrs. Palmer replied that she
has tried, but he has memorized ii
already.
Match In Child’s Hand
Causes Fountain Fir<
I The mules and most o/ the corn
beans and guano stored in a com crit
and stables at the hope of Beasley
, Bell, one mile south of Fountain
, were saved Monday afternoon when
Fountain firemen helped extinguish s
fire believed to have originated by
! matches in the hands of children.
Two small children, five and three
years old, respectively, were in the
crib when the fire was discovered and
one of the children had a match.
Two Local Workmen
Stricken Fatally
About Noon Monday
Two workmen employed on differ
ent housing Jobs here in Farmville
were stricken with heart a
bout noon Monday and died within 15
minutes of each other.
Johnnie Floyd Williams, 51, was
working in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
John B. Wright, Jr., when stricken!
Services were conducted Wednesday
morning at the Farmviile' Funeral
home by Rev. H. t. Davie, pastor of
the Methodist church. Be is sur
vived by his wife, a foster daughter,
Sudie Mae Spear; eight sisters, Mrs.
Daisy Pippin of Farmville, Mrs. Wil
son of Greenville, Mrs. Bettie Hedge
peth of Ayden, Mrs. Floyd Flowers of
Richmond, Mrs. W. E. Allen of Farm
vile, RFD, Mrs. Richard Murphrey of
Wilson and Mrs. Linwood Hobgood of
Farmville RFD; one brother, Lee Wil
liams of Greenville RFD.
The second victim was Jesse Cyrus
Cobb, 49, who was working on the
home of a nephew, Marvin Cobb. He
was the son of the late Z. D. and
Pennie B. Cobb. He was a member
of Friendship Free Will Baptist
church and resided at Route 1, Fanp
ville. Funeral services were held
at the Friendship church on Tuesday
afternoon, conducted by the pastor,
Rev. J. D. VerNelson.
He is survived by h* wife, the
former Dora Tyson; two daughters,
Mrs. J. 0. Beamon of Kinston and
Gladys Cobb of the home; four sons,
A. H. of Rocky Mount; Leslie and
Ivey Z. of the home, and Lynwood of
R-l, Farmville; two sisters, Mrs. A
F. Shirley of Greenville ar.<l Sadie
Cobb of Farmville RFD; five broth
ers, W. J. of Saratoga, K. Z. of Farm
ville R-l, G. C. of Walstonburg, L. B.
of Greenville and R. E. of R-l Farm
ville; three grandchildren also sur
vive. i
Basketball Games
Benefit Girl Scouts
The doubleheader basketball games
between the Junior Woman’s xlub and
the high school girls and the Jaycees
and the high school boys Thursday
night netted $98 for the Girl- Scout
hut fund.
In spite of absence from the-basket
ball court for a number of yean,
soreness and catches inthair joints,
the Junior Women made 81 points.
The final score was 85-21 in favor of
the. high school girls.
Playing for the Junior Women
were Mrs. Dewey Fuquay, Mn. Allen
Harris, Mrs. Carroll Oglesby, Mrs.
W. C. GaTner, Mrs. J. C. Brock, Jr.,
Mn. Marvin Speight.Mrs. R. D.
Rouse, Jr., Mn. L D. Kirklin, Mn.
James Mathis, Mrs. Mark Joyner,
Mrs. Jack McDavid and Miss as Agnes
Quineriy, Mary Leah Thome, Joyce
Wood, Myrtle Nichols and
Jones.
The Jaycees, more experiei
bstketbali than their feminigb afaM
dub, were also defeated by the high
school boys. ®
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Fam>vjlle merchants are preparing
t4r another slam-bang trade promo- '
tion designed.to give people of the. -
community real bargains and to bring
to the town trade that has been go
ing. elsewhere.
The merchants are cooperating to
stage next Thursday, Friday and
•Saturday as' Dollar Days, an event
that means savings to those smart
enough to shop here.
Fred C. Moore, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, has arranged
for the banis from the colored
white schools to parade through
town on Thursday morning at 10:80.
This feature is an added attraction.
Farmville merchants have ample
stocks of quality merchandise, at
tractively arranged and reasonably
priced.
At The Kiwanis Club
Wilton Wilkerson had charge of the
program at the Kiwanis club-Monday
night and presented two artists from
ECTC, Miss Rikard, a contralto who
sang three numbers and an encore,
and George Perry, pianist, who ac
companied the vocalist and played
two numbers. The club thanked Wil
ton for the fine program and he, in
turn, expressed his thanks to Mrs.
Wilkerson, a member of the ECTC
faculty, for helping Mm arrange it
Two Key club members, Albert Can
non and John Fountain, were guests
of the club.
President Frank Allen announced
that the club had been asked by file
Jaycees to nominate three young men
as Farmvflle’s man of the year for
1950.
Farmville Playing In
District Tournament
of
Championship basketball teams
eight counties in this section are
staging a tourney in the Farmville
gymnasium for the right to represent
this district in the Class B state con
test.
Play opened Wednesday night with
Ahoskit, Hertford county champs,
defeafng Hobucken, in Pamlico coun-~
ty, by 4 score of 44 to 2b. In the
second game of the evening, Vance
boro of Craven - county defeated
James'-.iiie of Martin county, 32-25.
Thursday night, Farmville, champ
ions of Pitt, is playing Manteo, Dare
county, and Elm City plays Colerain,
champions cf Bertie county.,
Semi-finals will -he pnryed tonight
and the final game to decide the title
will be played Saturday night.
This makes the’second straight year
that Farmville has been chosen as the
site of the tournament.
Mrs. Maude Smith »
Dies Early Tuesday
Mrs. Maude Tyson Smith, 66, wife
of W. Ed Smith and an outstanding
woman of the Kings Cross Roads com
munity, died at her home Tuesday
morning at 6:40 following a lqpg ill
Mrs. Smith was the daughter of the
late Henry S. and Caroline Joyner
Tyson. She was bom in Pitt county
and attended Littleton Female Aca
demy. She taught tor several years
in the Pitt county schools. She had
been a member of Otters Creek Bap
tist church for 25 years. Funeral
services were held from the home on
Wednesday afternoon, conducted by
the Elder R.B. Denson of Rocky
Mount, assisted by Rev. R. L, West,
pastor of Fountain Baptist church.
Burial was in the family cemetery