Farmville Legionnaires will open their fall activities with a barbecue supper next Friday night, Sept. 1, at 7 o’clock, in the recently-purchased Legion home on West Church street. A joint meeeting with the auxiliary, veteran non-members and wives will not be held until a remodeling program is completed and necessary furnishings purchase*! Commander Bill Creekmur exprtssed hope that a joint meeting, an axmuaT custom, can be held within a few months. Archie Cayton, chairman of . the membership drive, is anxious for those who have not rejoined and for those who wish to join to see him or Chester Outlaw! before Friday night. Each additional member en titles the local post to a larger share of the Nproceeds from the Pitt fair, sponsored annually by the three posts in the county. t -7 ; ^ I Town and Country | ———-mm~————h—* (By James B. Hockaday) As an admirer of Sirs. Cherry Eas ley, I have often marvelled at the large number of activities in which she is interested and have wondered how she manages to do it. Mrs. Eas ley teaches an adult class in the Pres byterian Sunday School and prepares her leseon with the' painstaking thoroughness that a uastor works on a sermon; she is active-in the Liteiary club and always Cooperates in seeing that the meetings are .‘written.’ for the paper; she takes prominent parts in the work of the church organiza tions, and quite often is called upon to make talks at various civic clubs All of this is in addition to her work in the office at the A. C. Monk com pany. The answer seems to be that Mrs. Easley gets started early and works late. It was she who answered the telephone at the Monk factory at 7 o’clock last Thursday morning when I called, trying to get in touch with Lath MorriSs. • • * • Bill Gamer, whose work with the Gamer Gas and Equipment company' has mushroomed that plant into one which has dealers throughout the state, knows the disappointment ol having a truck-load-of critical items - in his hand, only to lose it. Last week Bill had a local transfer truck pick up 260 gas cylinders at the Weather ! head plant in Cleveland, Ohio. Bpt the workers at the plant went on strike and had different ideas about letting the Farmville dealer have his truck-load of cylinders. Although the truck, was already loaded ang. the driver was getting ready to pull out, the strikers refused to let the truck opt of the yard until the cylinders were taken off. Despite his brush, with the strikers, Bill fared better than one Ohio dealer whose truck is still on the yard at the plant. * • * * Rev. Z. B. T. Cox, the Christian pastor, is quite popular with Fara viHe people. Not only does he rank high in the estimation of his flock, but the other townspeople like him and admire the manner in which he performs his pastoral duties. Jt is no wonder, then, that they disagree with him on a label that appeared on a grocery-store box which the parson obtained from Louis Williams as a filing cabinet for some seimon notes he. wished to keep- In big letters, the box wad: “Prune Juice.” Mr. Cox is now making olans for a revival that will be held in his church, beginning Sept 3. Dr. Ray Liudley, president of ACC, will be the guest pastor. Everyone interested in the spiritual welfare of the commun ity will seek to worship with the Christians ddring the week. , • Dr. Paul Jones,, who represents 4! Pitt county in the upppr branch of the North Carolina General Assem bly, believes that the Legislature ~ intended for the teachers to be paid at the end of the fiscal year any surplus that might be left in tile rather than at the end ol a biennium. The question now is, whether there is a surplus or not Bill Jones Not Fooled By Russian Claims Of Hands-Off Policy When Mrs. U E. Jones returte Thursday from a visit to her siStei Mrs. E. L. finch, near Southeri Pines,'she found siren letters, tb first of which was written August h ■tram hetson, Pf« Wflfihm Jones, wh is with the Army engineers in Ko In the following excerpts fron three of the letters, he tells of work of the a& 'force, guard TEty ahd the mid of a plane tfhich alippee through the line of defense. - “JnBt a few lines today (August 7) to say I’m still okay and hope tfcij finds everyone the same. We are still taking it easy, waiting for orders for our next move. Maybe it will come tomorrow or the next day. Every thing is fairly quiet up front now, waiting for the big push forward. Supplies are really piling up now, so things should take a turn for the best "Maybe if Russia" will keep'her hands off, we would soon have this mess over "with. We may have her to fight when we get rolling forward, and, if so, it will be a long and hard figh£ Just as well do it now as lat er, because the troops over here are really getting bitter over the equip ment Russia is giving the North Ko reans. We have captured some jeeps, trucks and other equipment that came from Russia. Wonder who she thinks die is kidding? /The air fbrce over here anffthat in Japan are really blazing away. The way they are dropping bombs up there, there probably won’t be much left when we get through over here. “Guard duty over here is nearly as bad as being on the front lines be cause some of the enemy get through and back of our line and try lots of dirty tricks. A fellow doesn’t feel any too good walking at night. "Well, here I sit (August 8th) un der a big tre with a nice breeze after eating a big .dinner. We are camped out in a woods. . . . We still have no orders to move as yet, but we stay, prepared at all times. Since we are engineers, we will probably move many times before the war is over. When bridges are to be built, we have to be right up front to get everything moved. Wouldn’t be so bad if all we had to do was build, but sometimes you have to fight, alao. The last time we were up front, we had to clear roads and build two bridges and the enemy really poured it into us for awhile. Most trouble we had was planes coming over straf ing us and some enemy snipers. All of ui returned safely but quite scar ed. Today I saw a whole division of men just getting here from the States, so now things should take a turn for the best “We really had a good chow today, steak and potatoes. The bread we had was a little old bat still good. When anyone comes back from the front lines for a rest veil, he gener ally gets the best food that can be had. About all we get up front is K rations. We have been getting all the gum and cigarettes we need so far. As the saying goes, ‘everything will come out in the wash’. "The mail man came in today, but still none for me. Can’t understand what the trouble is. I have lots of papers (Enterprises) that should al so be here.” On the ninth he wrote: “I’m doing alright except for this hot weather. Today has really been one for' the books. Maybe it will rain tonightoor tomorrow and cool things off. We have a real nice river about 60 yards from camp and most everyone, stay* in it about all day. It’s really nice for bathing and swimming. We wen lucky to get this place to camp. The only trouble we have is that we have to keep about IQ men on the look out for planes coming in strafing^ with machine gun fire. When the] do come we really get in a hob quick. There was one in our are: Dollar Days Here Farmville merchants, wider the auspices of the Chamber of Cbm ■wee end Merchants Association, have designated next Thursday, Friday and Saturday as Dollar Days, at which time special bar gains will be offered those who t aim advantage of them. The merchants plan to have two of these special events a year, and persons who live in the Farmville ^ trading area have already learned* from experience that local mer chants offer outstanding bargains, real money-savers. Fountain School Will Open Next Tuesday HUf-- : A few minor repairs have put the Fountain school in readiness for the 1950-51 term, beginning Tuesday. , The renovation Job of last" sum mer, plus an excellent faculty, fur nishes the Fountain community with a school pisftt of which the commun ity is justly proud. The faculty will be composed of the following: Mrs.- Koma Lee Walker, first grade; Mrs. Anne W. Mercer, second grade; Mrs. Emily S. Merfcer, third grafts; Mrs. Mary D. Horton, fourth grade ; Mrs. Geneva Phillips, fifth grade; Mrs. Glendon S. Gory, sixth grade; Mrs. Edna E. "Baker, seventh grade and principal; Mrs. Laura H. Tanner, eighth grade. Mrs. Carlos Walston will teach piano and public school music^ Mrs. Martha Bundy and Mrs. Mildred'flor ville will be is charge of the. lunch room. At The Kiwanis Club Tommy Lang arranged a very in teresting program for the Kiwanis club Monday night and presented Major R. J. Bolish from Camp Le jeune who gave a. splendid talk on features of the atomic bomb and its relation to civilian defense. He ibf gatt with the development of atomic energy in 1932 and the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, which inaugurated a new era in war fare. as five square miles were de stroyed and more than 100,000 casual ties resulted. The dropping of this bomb was undoubtedly responsible for bringing World War II to a .rapid conclusion. Major Bolish explained that the atom bomb disintegrates in three forms: (1) Blast effect and shock waves, (2) heat radiation, and (3) radio activity. The blast effect is over in 10 seconds and people and buildings are "demolished within a large area. The best protection would be underground installations or con crete shelters, home basements, if reinforced, afford safety. Unshelter ed persons would be burned severely on exposed skin up to 3600 yards. The following steps should be taken by civilians in preparing for atomic defense: (1) Train personnel. (2) Have a director of civilian de fense. (3) Get information from _polid8', doctors and others as to what their "problems and needs would be in event of attack. (4) Coordination with government and armed forces.; j, • a - Vv-J (5) Prepare for mass feeding, shel tering, medical supplies, evacuation coordination, nurses, firemen, police, doctors, neaas of utilities, and their I naiiics. Under the guidance of ‘W. Connor Eagles of Greenville, the president, the Eagles-Smith family held its sec ond annua^ reunion Wednesday after noon, August 16, at the Farmville muicipal park. $ The business session was opened with^a prayer by Rev. Leslie New man of Buckner, Va. Ur. Eagles ex fended a welcome to all present. Mrs. Ivey Smith of Walstonburg paid tri bute to all those who had died since the last reunion. Eric Copeland.of Durham welcomed all"those who had entered the Eagles Smith family, either t/ birth or mar riage, since the last reunion. Mrs. Russell (Louise Eagles) Wil liams of Nashville then read the his tory of the ‘Eagles-Smith family. The late Theophilus Randolph Eag les of Edgecombe county, upon his re turn from service with the Confede rate army, married-the late Bethiah Smith Edwards, a native of Wilson county, and they made their home in Wilison county until claimed by death. W. W. (Cap) Eagles of Crisp read a message to be Bent to those mem bers who were absent because of ill ness. Mrs. Leslie Yelverton of Foun tain, secretary of the reunion, read the minutes'of the last meeting. After the appointment of the com mittees for next year, the group ad journed to the iawn for pictures to be taken. The invocation was*deliv ered by Rev. Ed Spruill of Plymouth before all were invited to enjoy the' picnic supper that had been spread on the tables. . • „ - , Around 200 members • and .close friends of the family attended from the following places: Erijj Pa.; Buck ner, Franklin and Richmond, Va.; Spartanburg, S^ C.; Wilson, Golds boro, Durham, Nashville, Tarboro, Crisp, Rocky Mount, Leggetts, Foun tain, Snow Hill, Halifax, Saratoga, Plymouth, Greenville, Hookerten, Louisburg, Dunn, Stantonsburg, Wal stonburg and Farmville.,. The reunion will be'held next-year in the Farmyille park, during the lat ter part of August. 1 BUYER IN NEW YORK Mrs. T. E. Joyner, buyer for the gift shop of tde Farmvile Furniture company, left Monday to attend the New York Gift Show being heldjn tne Hotels *Tew Yorker and Statler. She was accompanied by Mrs. Fred T. Langford of Greenville. Major Bolish ended his informative alk by giving sources of interesting eading, which have appeared in nany bopks and magazines. J. A. Collins, Sr., and J. A. Collins, r., were visiting Kiwanians from lreenville.j*Roland Lang, Jr., Frank Wiliams, Chief of Police L. T. Laeas, Jraham Davis, and Joe Joyner were heats. : i Dr. E. R. Smith will be in charge ■f the program Monday night. .. ...— Abouf Farmville service store. The Rbuses'lived in Parroville while Mrs. Rouse was teaching sixth grade in 1948-49. Friends will he glad to learn that Mrs. T.*W. Lang is improving from a recent HineSs.' Miss Shirley Dean Saulter is 111 at her home. Billy Gregory, who has been on the Quitman, Ga., tobacco market, spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.'X. Gregory. He will wot® in Wilson for the next few weeks and from there will go to Henderson for the remainder of the bright loaf sea son.,. _ _y.* & ^t:. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Nichols' and daughter, Cheryl, spent the week end in Plymouth vdth Mr. and Mrs. CarlyleMMl. Jo Ann Nfchoh*rfefiio had been spending the week with Billy Hall, returned with them. ‘ ft : Miss Ann Fowler of Durham spent i Thursday with Miss' Betsy Morriss. They are classmates at WCUNC. Mr. and Mrs. Jhck Lewis and daughter Caroline^ returned during the week end froip- 'a* visit to Mr. Lewis’ sister, Mrs. L. O. Crawford, in Hot Springs, Ark. Misses Nancy and Etna Lewis, Vann Carroll and Char&e Fitzgerald spent last week at Morehead. Mrs. Ellen L. Carroll returned Fri day from New York where she had been attending summer school at Co lumbia university. Miss Nancy Jane Carroll returned last week from Camp Green Cove, Tuxedo, where she had been spending two months. , Miss Mattie Daif'Ts visiting her uncle, Jimpay- Graves, in Fayetteville. Mr. and Mrs. W. V. DeFariey of Tampa, Fla., spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. J. STWheless. Mr. DeFar iey wtis the first manager of -the lo cal theater. " Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland PayJor and daughters spent last week in New York, Washington, D. C., and Peters burg, Va.*. j> . . ; ! Mr. and'M&.J. C. Smith and chil-' dren, Carolyn, Malcolm and Kather ine, and Mrs. Carson of Rocky Mount visitedJtfiss Tabitha DeVisconti Sun. day afternoon. • Mrs. L. E. Jones and son, Jimmy, and Mrs. D. B. Murpbrey and daugh ter, Nola Ann, spent semM days last week with Mrs. E. L. Flash in South sister of A. A. and E. Wv May, is ill at McPherson hospital, Durham. Mrs. E, i. Trafton and children, Earl and Kay, of Birmingham, Ala* spent Tuesday and Wednesday with Mrs. Trafton’s sister, Mrs. J. C. Cor bett. Mrs. Corbett and daughter, Pat, accompanied the Traftons to South Mills to-vlsit Mr, and Mrs. J. G. Etheridge for a few. days. Mr. Corbett joined them for the week end. „ Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lee Jones and Mrs. C. W. Morris spent Friday in Raleigh. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morgan of Norfolk, Va., were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ferrell Morgan on Sun day. Miss Vivian Morgan returned with them for a week's visit. % Mr. and Mrs. Roy Braxton and son, Charles, of Raleigh spent last Thurs day with Mr. and Mrs. Ferrell Mor Billie Cooper Oglesby of Clinton is “Lost Colony” at' Mar Robert Dixon resum< schools in Lillington duties ha ; county Mrs. H. L, Davis and daughter, Jean, left Tuesday for a visit to friends in Littleton: Mrs. Virginia Howerton spent sev eral days last week at Carolina Beach with relatives at the Ralph and Anita Strickland cottage. p I Archie Speight, who underwent an operation last Thursday in a Wilson hospital, is improving slowly. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cockrell of Columbia, S. C., spent last week with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Johnson. Miss Mamie Davis re turned with the Cockrells Friday foi a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Mewbom and children of near Farmville and Miss Bernice Mewbom of Washington,, D. C., are spending this week end with Mr. and Mrs. Joe D. Mewbom ip Newport News, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Mewbom. Mr. and Mrs. J.- C. Nethercutt and Jackie, Mrs. Mary Moore and chil dren visited Mr. and Mrs. Joe D. Mewbom in Newport News, Va., last week. They, spent the week end in the Blue Ridge Mountains and in the Shenandoah Valley. Miss Minnie Overstreet of Whi takers is visiting hjsr sitter, Mm. F. G. Dupree, Sr. X week end with Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Cobb. ” ' < Betsy Ross Flake, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Flake, is ill with mumps. She was confined to a Greenville hos pital ^last week with diphtheria* from Duke university where he has «day at Pitt General Mr. an3 Mrs. Lloyd Smith will leave tomorrow for a visit to Mr. Smith’s couainT Mrs. Erma Franklin, in Sanford, Fla. _ Maxine McLeod of Dunn and Judy Bass spent last week ' witfe- their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bass. v-;-' , \ ' >■ Mrs. C. M. Kelly, who had been ill at the home of her daughter, Jdrs. T. E. Gladson, in Greenville, is a patient Woodard-Herrihg hospital, Wilson Wednesday for examination. Robert Goodaon of New York ar The Bale of 866,000 pounds of to bacco on Monday, the opening day of the 1860 selling season, at an of ficial average in excess of 687.00 par hundred pounds brought smiles to the faces of growers and successfully launched what is expected to be the best year in the history of the Farm ville market. /■'" . ~ . . ..... Monday’s average was hindered somewhat, according'io'tobacco men, by a bad break of tobacco—that is much of the weed offered for sale was of inferior quality. Although the market had a full sale on Monday, with both sets of buyers going the limit, the amount of to bacco offered on Tuesday and Wed nesday was off. Leaders of the market are announcing that there is plenty of room to sell in Farmville, and thr prices are high, too. Peak *>f the marketing season is still about a month array and It la fully expected that the prices will rise as the better quality of tobacco finds its way to the auction floors. Elizabeth Lang Aboard Ship That Burned, and 5 Passengers Killed jjgjgk: fp . ZB Miss Elizabeth Lang was aboard the ship, Quebec, owned by the Cana dian Steamship line, which homed Monday afternoon, August 14, at 6 o’clock at Tadoussac, Quebec, with five fatalities. Miss Lang lost all her clothing, except that which she war wearing. There were 400 pas sengers and 160 crewmen aboard the pleasure boat. The cruise was part of a tour Miss Lang and other passengers were tak ing in New York and Canada. The accident cut short' the trip a night and day.- - ' V Miss Lang returned home yester day. ^ Special music will be rendered b> a quartet composed of Hiss Ann By num, Mrs. C. H. Moye of Mayry, Bob Darden and Charlie Letchworth, si the 11 o’clock service at Sh''Chris tian church Sunday morning. Rev

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