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IN FARMVILLE ... Funeral Rites To Be Held Today For George Burnette George Henry Barnette, 75, one of Farm villa’s oldest and most respected citizens, died at his- home on East Grimmersburg street at 9:15 Wed nesday night following a long ill ness. Mr. Burnette was born and lived all his life in Pitt county and the Farm villa community. He was the son of the late William and Orphia . Hemby Burnette. He was a devout member of the Farmville Christian church in which he had been an elder for many years. 'Prior to his retirer ment 15 years ago, due to failing health, Mr. Burnette was in the em ploy of the State Highway Depart ment for 10 years. Most of his life was engaged in farming activities. Funeral services will be held from the home this afternoon (Friday) at 3 o’clock, conducted by the Rev. Z. B. T. Cox, pastor of th e Farmville Christian church, assisted by Rev. Philip M. Cory, Presbyterian minister of Fountain. Burial will be in the Forest Hill cemetery. Surviving are his wife, the former Annie Tyson; a daughter, Mrs. Earl Forbes of Hampton, Va.; a son, Paul R. Burnette of Fountain; four grand children; a sister, Mrs. Nancy Tyso-» of Ayden, and a brother, Alonza Bur nette of Richmond, Va, Bishop Wright To Preach Here Sunday The Rt. Rev. Thomas H. Wright. D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of East Carolina, will preach at the Episcopal church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock and confirm a class to be presented by the rector, Rev. Jack R. Rountree, The community is invited to the ser vice. The cypress paneling of the chan cel, an Altar Guild project, which was completed this week, will be oonaecra - ted by Bishop Wright at the service, Mrs. John D. Dixon "is directress of tre Altar Guild. The crurch is indebted to Wayne Mitchell, Jr., of Kinston, who spent nine and a half hours aloft on a plat form in the chancel of the church Monday and Tuesday evenings taking off for cleaning and reassembling the hundreds of prisms from the im ported crystal chandelier. The chan delier was presented to the church in 1946 by Mm Madeline H. Rountree of St. Petersburg, Fla., as a memorial to h«r son, Charles S. Rountree, wb° served with the Armed forces in the recent war, Fine Art Exhibit N At Farmvilie School A splendid opportunity for Art Education is afforded in the exhibit Of Fine Art f^nfe which will fee pn display Friday afternoon and night in the Parmyille high school. Ppring tfee week this exfeibit has been open to the school pupils gnd also has attracted many people from outside the school. There are abopt 1§0 of tfee ppegt paintings pr reproductions and it if well worth anyone's time to come gad fee fliis fine exhibition. There is no charge; hqweyer, an opportunity is given for gnyone to rofike a contribu tion and the proceeds go to purchase jnetpres for tfce sehool Jt was giro announced fey Pfififliptl Sum Bundy that individuals may place Orders for any o* the reproductions. C. SYLVESTER GREEN Dr. Green will be the principal speaker tonight when Roterians gath er at the Southwood school near Kin an inter-city meeting. He iurmer district governor and has long been active in Rotary. Dr. Green is executive vice presi dent of the newly-created Medical Foundation of North Carolina with offices in Chapel Hill. - ieentative or imperial Tobacco company, anils from New York Monday on the SS Breim for South Africa where he will spend six months buying tobacco foi his firm. Pat’s ship is sohedued to land at Capetown after an 18-day journey. Then he will go 1800 miles inland to Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. He expects to fly back by way of Egypt and England and will spend a brief time at the company’s head of;. fice in Bristol, England, .LITERARY CLUB den. Artistic arrangements of spring flowers were used in decoration, After the usual business period, presided over by Miss Mamie Davis, president, the program chairman for the after noon, Mis. J. B. Joyner, brought gn inspiring program an “Religion ip Literature.” Throughout the life of our nations, from the earliest begin ning to the present day, she traced the expression of faith in the worics of William Cullen Bryant, Whittier. Emerson, Lqngfellow, Lowell, Hqlmes. Whitman, Lee, Lincoln, Lanier, Emily Dickinson, Markham apd others — illustrating with excerpts from the loveliest and best writings of these great spiritual minds. After adjournment Mies Jen Easioy assisted Mrs. Holden in serving a salad plate with cheese biscuits, guts and pickles and coffee. ' Special guests wore Mps. fare B. Lamar, Mrs. S. E. Ewell, Mrs. Arch Flanagan and Miss Egsley. The next meeting wiR be with Miss Maude Davis. At Tlte Kfwani* Qwb Mrs. Cherry Easley, a keen analyst of current and religious events, gave an interesting talk to tRe Kiwgtt a club Monday night on “business-ism/' and explained tiwt pR of the ills b^ setting bur government and the world could h« cured if Christ's principle* were applied. Mrs. Easley was introduced by Re?. E. W. Hplmes, who dub Miss Annie Perkins entertained the Literary Club Wednesday after* noon at the home of Mrs. Q. M, Hoi* Jaycees Having Annual Banquet, * l)ance Tonight --* A big. night is planned for Farm ville Jaycees and their ladies 'when they meet tonight at the Country club for a banquet and dance. After everyone hat consumed a more than ample supply of £;wd they will sit back and tear themselves praised by the nimble tongue of Sam D. Bundy who will be the principal speaker of the evening. At 9 o’clock, after the dinner has been settled by the laughs which will result from Bundy's after dinner speech, the Jaycees and their ladies will dance to the music of Walter Plemmer and his band. Honored guests expected to attend this affair will be Micou Brown of Raleigh, state president of the Jay cees; Bernard Leary of Morehead City, district president; Mayor and Mrs. Walter Jones; Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Moore; Mrs. J. M. Gibbs, president of the Junior Womanto club, and Mr. Gibbs; Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Fitz gerald of the Rotary club; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Allen of the Klwanls club; Charles Rasberry, commander of the American Legion, and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Hinson of the VFW. • WALSTONBURG SUPPER The Woman’s. Missionary society of the Waistonburg Christian church is sponoring a barbecue-brunwick stew supper from 5:30 to 8:30 tonight (Friday) in file school lunchroom. SPEAKS ATJgCTp v Rev. % B. T- Cox,, Christian minis ter, was one of the speakers for the Religious Emphasis week at ECTC on Tuesday and Wednesday. His topic was '‘Race Relations.” ._ At The Rotary CSufcv ' Few realise just how the Stefa Fish and Game Commission gees a bout the restocking of rivers am streams with game fish, and the high iy specialized manner in which thii The technicolor film entitled **Trou Factory*' was presented at the Rotor] club Tuesday nfight and showed th< exacting and cueful treatment re ceived by the fish from the time lift begins in the hatchery until they art secretly released in numerous fishing areas. As an added attraction, t picture which in part waa taken alonj the North Carolina coast, depicted tht acquired art of surf casting foi strikers and channel boss. Jack Dar den had charge of the program ant Plato Bass ran the projector. Three members were absent, bul the president announced that a 100% meeting was recorded for March 7. The ctyb was again reminded oi the Inter-fcity meeting to be held at the Southwood school near Kinston, Friday night, March 17: Farmville, Kinston, Snow Hill, Ayden and La Grange to be represented. Milton Eason received the attend ance prize and Jack Darden the fel lowship prize. \ Arch Flanagan will be responsible for the program on March 21. Charlie Fitzgerald, club president, presided. Bonnie Allen Plans For Baseball Team Bonnie Allen, who would have had the winning baseball team he deserved last summer if Lady Luck had been a bit less Unkind and if he had had a bit more hitting power, promises that Farmville will have another team this year. Bonnie already has lined up several outstanding players who should make a winning aggregation if townspeople support the team as they should. They Laughed When Cox Started Making Fnrnitnre, Bnt Stayed To Buy Necessity brought out the genius in Rev. Z. B, T. Cox, local Christian minister, who is almost -as well known for his furniture making as for holding revivals and caring for his congregation After his marriage in October, 1936, to Elizabeth Chandler of Weqt Point, Virginia, where he wgs pastor of the Christian church, he declared that' he would make a dining table. The Cqxes were living with her par ents and. had no furniture of their own. The townspeople heard about the minister’s crazy idea- It WS* fantas tic that a man who had never had any instruction in building. vJw couldn’t even read blueprints and who had not even glued two piece* of board, together edgewise would at tempt to make « dmpieaf Heppie whito table.' Qrn merchant gave him some walnut board* and Mr, Qox ad to work With » borrowed S*W, ham mer and plane and a few smaB tods of his own in his fatherdn-lawfe ga rage. Two. six-indr hoard* nailed tc the garage wane his wosk bench and Bail The table, in tM room today, turned he started on a comer < out even a picture to help replace the tods, With a ww aaw and jwner, Mr, Cox was back in the furniture-making business the next week, - At West Point, his work was main ly with the church by that name, but he also served two nearby country churches. During his stay the West Point church parsonage was redeco rated and five new classroom* with modern heating system were built- In 1938, the Coxes moved to Salem, Un der his pastorate the parsonage was repaired and the church was repaint ed. In Marsh, 194|, he joined the Army to serve a yew?, which period was stretched hy Pearl Harbor apd Worid War. K into five yean. He was stationed at damp Croft, South Carolina, until January, 1943, when he went to England: where he was attached to a hospital, .Later he was *ent to Frenoe and Belgium, be coming better acquainted with the people and countries through right seeing tours. Returning to the States, he was sent to Whiter Reed hospital. Had he been able to secure Bring quartereja Wash * Local Chapter Awafded $5.00 9m Having Largest Nepker Of Art idee Published Paul LaRoque, Kinston and, for the : past few yean, 'executive director oJ the Kinston Housing Authority, wa< guest speaker Saturday afternoon a1 a meeting of the Major Benjamin May chapter, Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution, Mrs. Henrietta M. Williamson, re gent, announced that she had been notified by the state press chairman that the chapter had won a first prize of $5 for having the most published in the mterestof the chapter. Presented by Miss Helen Smith, Mr, LaRoque spoke on “Juvenile Delin quency,’’ based on his personal obser vations. Mr. LaRoque stated at the begin ning of his enlightening address that his theory as to the cause of juve nile delinquency was not that of an inherited tendency to commit crime, but a direct result of environment. 4s proof of this theory he gave an ac count of the razing of 1,700 houses with slum conditions in Kinston and of (ha erection of modern unite under the Federal Housing program, after a struggle involving months of bitter controversy and court action. The Rev. Jack R. Rountree of Kjpeton has been president of this organization during its ten years of existence, > The speaker depicted the miracle like awakening of a sense of pride in citizenship among the dwellers of the new units, the betterment of health, the decrease In vandalism and lessening in expenses to the city of fire and police protection as results noted from the standpoint of crime prevention- Among the benefits now recognized, even by bitter opponents of the public housing project in its infancy, the speaker cited the fact that it has not discouraged private housing interests and told of the con tribution of $30,000 in the past* five years to the city treasury in lieu of taxes. In closing Mr. LaRoque announced a special survey for a new program involving an expenditure of $2,250, 000.' Prior to the talk, Miss Smith pre sented Miss Grace Miller who sang “little Lad of Dreams" and*“When Love Is Kind.” In the absence of Mm. E. 3. Beas ley, Mrs. Ellen Carroll conducted the devotlonala. Mrs. M. V. Jones led the pledge of allegiance to the flag. The chapter voted to sponsor Mrs, James B. Patton of Columbus, Ohio, first vice-president general, for president general. The George Perry concert W»J? announced for April 18. Mm. Margaret Bell Farley of Greenville was presented as a new member. During the social hour, the hos tesses, Mm. D. S. Morrill and Mrs. Preston Murphrey, served heavenly hash, cheese wafers and coffee Spe cial guests ware Mr. and Mrs. George W. Davis, Mrs. E. W. Holmes and the Heads Trade Group T. ELI JOYNER, Jr. New directors of the Chamber oJ Commerce met Wednesday afternoon and perfected their "organization fox the year starting A^ril 1st. Joyner succeeds Ernest Petteway aa presi dent and Hal Winders -was elected vice president. Fred Moore is secretary. Plans are now being made for -a Farmers Day. Girl Scouts Are Celebrating Birthday The Girl Scouts are celebrating their national birthday this week. On March 12, 1812, Juliette Low organiz ed the first troop in Savannah, Ga. She secured her idea from Lady and Lord Baden-Powell in Great Britain. As a part of their celebration Troop 5 entertained the Parent-Teacher as sociation *two weeks ago with two plays. The troops are also prepar ing kits to send to school children overseas. In addition to the needed school articles, each package will con tain a love gift Johnny Jane Joyner, Aim Morgan, Martha Holmes and Ann Pollard have completed requirements on first class badges. Faye Mewborn and Lou Tay lor Lewis hive nearly finished work on theirs. Several of the troops are planning a skating party for Saturday night Activities Of Local Church Organization? Presbyterian Twenty-five members were present Monday night in the home of the pres ident, Mrs. M. E. Pollard, for the fi nal meeting of the'year for the Farm ville Women of the church. Mrs. Charles Baucom conducted the devotional and Mrs. I. D. Kirklin re lated two stories tor the program, which* was titled “Why Don't You Change?" In an impressive ceremony, led by Mrs. E. S. Coates, the following were installed as new officers: Mrs. Bol lard,' president; Mrs. J. T. Nolen, vice president; Mrs. Russell Oarra way, secretary; Mrs. Wave Holston, treasurer; Mrs. F. G. Dupree, Jr., chairman of Circle 1; Mrs. C. E. Fitzgerald, chairman of Circle 2; and Mrs. Allen Drake, chairman of Circle 3; committee heads—Mrs. J. C. Cor bett, spiritual growth; Mrs. G. P. Bergeron, missions; Mrs. KKrUin, church extension; Mrs. W. H. Moore, Jr., education; Mrs. P. K. Ewell, stewardship; Mr;. Nolen, annuities; Mrs. Coates, assembly’ causes. *s were urged' to turn ~ih ——_ litres htf winrlnif mjssknariee to - -- attend the offi " • 1 half-time lead of 26-5. ABrnt Gn ooa paced the scoring^with 15 paints. Carl King and Harry Albritton were the defensive aces. . Friday night the locals played Win terville in the semi-final game. Farm ville Was unable to fund the basket and was behind 4-3 af the end of the first quarter. The pace was speeded up in the second period and at half time the locals led 13-9. The Bed De vils maintained the lend throughout and won 31-25 to advance to the fin al*. Carl King and Hairy Albritton f Jd the attack while Johnny Bar net was the defensive star. In the finals Farmviile was pitted against Bethel for the fourth time this season, the other three meetings having resulted in Farmviile victories. Saturday night, howover, it was al most obvious at the ohset that it was simply not FarmvUle’s night. Bethel was sharp in its shooting while the locals for the second straight night had extreme difficulty in locating the basket At the end of the first half Bethel had a two point lead, 17-15. They increased this margin to 11 points midway of the fourth quarter. At this point the Farmviile team suddenly came to life and came up to within three points of a tie at 30-27 with 45 seconds left to play bat the rally fell short and Bethel walked off with the county title for the third consecutive year, the final score being 31-27. The defensive work of the local team was outstanding but the inabili ty to locate the basket proved to be their downfall. The play of Harry Albritton, both offensively and de fensively, was the bright spot for the Red Devils. 1 ' The all-county team which was an nounced after the game was com posed of two Farmviile stars, Carl King at forward and Harry Albritton at guard. The play of these two boys was outstanding in almost every game. The local midgets entered the bas ketball tournament starting Wednes day night but lost fe Wanterville in the opening round. The midgets, a scrapping bunch, won a tournament at Fountain a few days ago. Members of the team are Bert Warren, Carroll Allen, Bobbie Hath away, Teddy Allen, Jack Allen, Bob bie Evans, Douglas Norville and Mack Holmes. The girls, in the county tournament, won their way to the finals with vic tories over Bethel (36-31) and Grif ton (36-30) and played a marvelous game in the finals, losing to Ayden by the score of 27-26 in a game that went into an overtime period and was m . nj! mp m : WIUKT 1
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