* t + + BUY... . BANK SS8 . SELL... IN FARMVILLE - !-■ 1 1 ~ • jjtifljSls rvXsH'i* : ■ BUY.... BANK Mpppif IN FARMVHXE 8MW1 ■ . VOLUME FOBTY-ONE Iteafig ■'—1 • '.' Il1' -1' I?|n 11."'.'\ iJi''?!^^1 . Argues Against Rate Increases Attorney John B. Lewis, Hal Win ders, vice president of the Farmville Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association, and President Frank K. Allen of the Farmville Kiwanis dob were in Raleigh Wednesday attend ing Hie hearing called by tile State Utilities Commission to consider the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph company’s request for permission to increase rates in the area it serves. The Farmville delegation appeared in opposition to the increase. They presented, in person, the stands taken by the Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs and other organizations who felt that an in crease is not justified. The company bases its request for higher rates on grounds that addi tional revenues are necessary for ex pansion and that additional revenue is needed if investors are to be attract ed by the comany’s stocks and bonds. Request for the increase was filed with the Utilities Commission in June. At The Kiwanis Club D. D. (Jake) Fields, program chair man at the Kiwanis dub Monday night, told the club that he took one look at his own household, decided that he had a program right there, and that it would have been folly for him to run a big telephone bill try ing to line up an evening of enter tainment when it could be furnished by members of his family. According ly, Jake explained that he brought along three of his daughters—he still had more girls at home—to present his program. Jane, the youngest of the three, sang two numbers. She was accom panied by Evelyn. • Margaret, the eldest, who has just returned from a citizenship encamp ment at Fieldston college in New York, told of the work at the en campment and some of the problems they discussed. The group attended a session of the UN Security Council, and heard lectures by such important personages as Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Ben Cohen. The program was thoroughly en joyed. College Students Resume Studies Approximately half of FarmvJle's college students resume their studies this week and next. Misses Mule Cannon, Fat Corbett, dean Bynum and Btot Lucas, and Bobby Baker of-Fountain, who grad uated from Farmyilie high school in May, entered ECTC this week. Dot will commute. Misses Mary Franses Allen, Seleta Tucker and Janet Stan siO, sophomores, returned to the Greenville college this week. Two other members of the class of 1950, Dot Hathaway and Jennie Murphy, will leave Friday for WC. Misses Babs Williford and Betsy Morriss, seniors, and Dora Mae Bar rett, junior, leave Wednesday for WC. Babs is majoring in English and Betsy in recreational sociology. Dora Mae, who studied organ and short hand this summer, is a Spanish French majo^ Miss Betty Rose Wilkerson will travel to Greensboro college Sunday tp begin her junior year. Betty Rose hap been s member of the glee slab fpr two ye*rs Cedric Davis, who is majoring in history, begins Ms spiiuy yes* Wake Forest colleg* Tuesday. Milton Williamson, a student in the Wake Forest law school, leaves Thursday. terthwaite, who finished high school at Fork Cnnion Military academy F»k Won, Va,, will enroll in the freshman class at Wake Forest or MjBwfRy* was graduated this year from Man HBl, will be a junior at Wake For e* - BETWEEN ROUNDS—u. a Marines on the front lines in South Korea are shown taking time out between enemy assaults to up on badly-needed rest Amid a weird setting of twisted trees, some chose to rehash the last enemy assault while others were grateful to sprawl out on the hard forest floor, In the true tradition of the Marines, however, all keep their weapons dose at hand. Market Report ' Sales Supervisor Fred C. Moore of the Farmville tobacco market reports that 714 million pounds of tobacco had been sold on ike local market in cluding Wednesday's sales. All seven warehouses have had full sales, evidence of Fkimville’s popu larity as a selling center. Moore reports that all of the to bacco marketed so far has been lugs. He adds that when the better quali ties find their way to market, the averages wHT begin to rise, placing Farmville up near the top. The markets are now selling only 414 hours a day, instead of 614, be cause plants were taxed to capacity throughout the belt. Activities Of Local Church Organization* EPISCOPAL The Woman’s Auxiliary of the Episcopal church met Monday after noon with Mrs. Madeline It, Rountree as hostess. Mrs. G. A. Rouse presided and conducted a meditation based on John 10:10 and with, the life abun dant as its theme. Mrs. T. S. Ryon was announced as auxiliary hostess for the second Sep tember meeting and Mrs* F< A, wil liams and Mrs, w. ». Greekmiir as the committee on church care. Mrs, Ryon and Mrs. R. S. Scott were ap pointed to serve with the latter as a special church care committee during the month. Suggestions for September study and service were read from the man ual by the president who also ap pointed committees to serve in that connection. Mrs. Williams had charge of the program for the afternoon and con ducted a meditation cm the twenty third Psalm and a Bible <W& Mrs. W.-C Murray of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Horton Rountree were guests. Mm Murray offered a. tot of en cyclopedia* for use by the church pe riodical dub. presbyeriAn The September meeting of Circle ‘2 of the Presbyterian church was held at the home, of Mrs. Glenn Newton with Mrs. Emma Jones as co-hostess Monday night. Mrs. John Lewis, vice chairman, presided in the absence of Mrs. Chas. Fitzgerald. Tha' opening urayer was given by lira. Bill Morton*. - . The group decided to order two books, ‘‘Hearthstgnee" and'Hfour Church and Your Home,*' for mem bers to read and stqdy. ■ Mrs. Ohgzles Bapcom presented the program and «M*p. WfP«» had the Bible s&df: After adjournment, the hostesses served homemade desk's food cake, an iced pineapple drink and spited School Enrollment The Farmville school opened o)| Monday of thin week with reednd-en rollment for the school. The elemen tary school enrolled 500 pupils and the high school enrolled 276, for a school total of 776. The Farmvllle school operated on a short-day sche dule this week due to work on lights and plumbing. Beginning Monday, however, the schgpl will operate on a full schedule, opening at 8:30 and dismissing at 8:06, ' ■ The school has a staff of teachers numbering 32 and has sue practice teachers—two in home economies, two in physical education and two in ma thematics. : _ s.-. Greene Music Council' Meets in Waistonbnrg The Greene County Music Council will meet tonight1- (Friday) at 8 o’clock in the Walstenhurg Methodist church. Marion 3- Egbert, who is a repre sentative of the American Music con ference, will be present and direct the singing. This council was organized in April and has met regularly since that time Those who enjoy music and would like to become members are asked to attend this meeting, Plans will be discussed for programs during the coming year. REV. L. B. MANNING HOLDING REVIVALS Rev. L. B. Manning, pastor of the Marlboro Free Will Baptist church, Cove Creek church at Cove Creek, Grimsley’s Chapel near Maury and several other churches, began a series Of revival meterings August 21, which continue through Die first week in November, August 21-27 he assisted in con ducting a revival at the Marlboro chufch. He opened * Week's-revival the evening of Augugj 27 at Core £peek church.. This week ho is con ducting services at Pearsall's chapel near Kenansville. ( Next week he will be at Beulah ville. September 17-24 he will hold a meeting at Hickory Grove church near Bethel. WESLEY REVIVAL ■M : I:« BEGINS MONDAY Rev Henry Lewis of Cedar Grove charge near Hillsboro will open a revival at Wesley Community Meth odist church Monday night at 7:46. Services will be held each evening next week, Mr. Lewis conducted a revival last year at, 0*e Wesley church and was returned by popular demand. Bob Morgan will lead the singing. CLAUDE TYSON TRANSFERRED t TO ILLINOIS AIR FORCE RASE sag! Claude Tyson, Jr., has been ' . ‘ Air,'F<#a?:: Air Force Base, been prompted to paved 38.4 miles of secondary roads in Pitt county so far this year under ttie state-wide accelerated road Con struction program.'' j Piv* of the ate projects finished have been built with funds from the ^00,000,0*00 bond issue. The sixth was financed by regular highway fund income. W. Guy Hargett of Richlands, Second Division Highway Commissioner, says fhat the projects finished are only part of the total progfam planned for Pitt during the remainder of the I960 paving season and throughout 1961. The projects finished are: From a point on the Craven county line via Gardnersville; Stoke*town to Chicod, 6.4 miles; from California via Kings Crossroads, Dupree’s -Cross roads to NC 48 and .also to Falkland, 9.5 miles; from Chicod to Black Jack, 3.8 miles; from Shiloh to Penny Hill. 4.3 miles; from Gurganus Bridge toward Stokes to NC 903, 4.5 miles; from St. Johns via Hanrafiln to Scuf fletoii, 9.7 miles. Pitt’s share of the first $126,000, 000 in bond fund is $1,725,780. With the exception Of $831,214.9$, tMs a mount has been allocated to specific work in the county. The Secondary Road Bond Act ’ as passed by the' General Assembly divided the bond money equitably among the counties The cost of read construction under the secondary program is less than expected by tho State Highway Com mission and consequently-more mile age of roads may be paved under the program than was expected In many areas. As of July 1,1950. about one fifth of the proposed Scott paving program had^ been finished through out the state, P ■ AH 1' '•iWPP in aaaiwon w Tne secondary roao work completed, the Commission also paved, widened or resurfaced 8 num ber of city streets in Greenville, Ay den and Farmville. This work waa finished July 1, During 1948 the Commission also resurfaced the seven miles of road from the Prison Camp to Belvoir, paved 18 miles of road from Belvoir to Penny Hill, from Belvoir north to US 264 and from Bethel to Flat Swamp church, widened three miles on US 264 from Farmville to Greene county line, widened and resurfaced five miles on US 264 from Greenville to Grimesland, and paved a county road from Ballards to the Greene county line <2.7) miles and from Whi te rville .to NC 48 (4.6)’ miles. Dr. Henry Jordan, chairman of the Highway Commission, recently nounced that 1868 would be Carolina’s greatest pear of ing, if good weather continues and the war crieia does not intervene. Some 2,376.8 miles of secondary roads have been paved so far under the program. At the same time work is progressing on the primary highway system utilizing funds set an in the regular highway fund budget. NIGHT SERVICES GIVE AWAY TO CHRISTIAN REVIVAL Due to the revival at Hie church, night services will not lay in. the Famville 1 Baptist churches. Dr. alley, president of Atlantis n college, is conducting ich closes with the Service. W', Dr. Lindley has been preaching ex cellent sermons Ads week and the attendance has been good. He will tonight at § o’clock, and at two Sunday sendees, morning and Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Cobb of Forsyth, Mo., arrived last night for « two weeks’ visit to Mr Cobb’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. X. Z. Cobb. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baocom^ and son, Donald, will leave Monday for on Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Bert McCollum and son, Billy, of Louisville, Ky„ are vis iting Mrs. McCullum’s brother, 0. B. Askew. . Mna Mattie Taylor moved Friday Into her home on Wilson street. Mrs. John B. Wright, Jr*'attended the fonezal of Elaine Bfcant in Wil nMA. ■WWW;' IPWItt, . elementary acnoou. Mr. and Mrs, G. P. Bergeron** tended the funeral of a relattee la WisouijwQ ottuniiy* Mr. and Mrs. George W. Davis and aona, Cedric and Gerald, and Robert Goodaon of New York apeatFriday and Saturday at Morehead City. Mr. Goodaon returned to hia bom Sun day. Mia. Harvey ' Tomage of SRv«i Spring, Md., and Mra. Charter How ard and daughter, Cynthia, of Gteen^ vflte apcht Monday morning with Mra W. J. Tarnage, „,Mra, ii B. Briley and aoa, Johnnie, Godwfii|:at Newton win has been ill far • few days this week with m» af Mr. and Mrs. Jr. ■ ■ a fee day* Flaaacan Leon retina. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Albritton and daughter vent the week Mid with relatives at Morehead. Mr. and Mrs. Carey Upchareh and son, Carey, Jr., and Judy Allen of Ralei^i visited Mi*. Upchurch's sis ter, Mrs. E. G. Carr, Friday. lay Addison Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Skinner, and Mr*. Httdneli of Luwreneeville, Va., and Mr. and Mr*. K C, McClary of Raleigh spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Skinner. Mrs. Skinner and Joe Skinner returned to Lawrence ville for a week’s visit with Mr. jtnd Mr*. B. J. Skinner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Jackson and daughter of Hertford were week end guests of Mrs. a .CL Simpson,Mr. Jackson's sister. Bobby Russell, who has been at tending summer school at'the Uni versity of North Carolina, is'visiting his parents, Mr. and Mr*. E. L. Ru3 seU. ■ .liiwS'i- '■ Dr. R, T. Williams is visiting has brother, Dr. J. N. Williams, in Madi son, Wis. Mrs. Williams will join him this week. Miss Selcta Tucker spent last week in Snow Hill with Mr. and Mrs. Brax ton Davis. Bob Baylor of Clarksville, Tenn., spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Paylor. ' Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Gay of Ra leigh,Mr. and Mrs; J. T. Horton, of Fountain atd Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wooten of Falkland spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs, J, D. Owens. Mr. and Mrs, C. A, Lilley aud daughter, Margie, spent the week end in Gatesville with M£ and Mrs. J. H. Lilley. Mr. and! Mrs. Cecil Modiin, Jr., and of Petersburg, Va., Mrs. Earl Modiin and jBarbara, of Portsmouth, Va., spent. Hie week dad with Mr. % -Mr and Mr* Harry Lovie 'of Fay etteville spent the week end with Mr and Mrs. Wffl Lovic. r. and Mrs. T. H. Nichols. Mr, and Mrs. K A. Joyner, Jr. daughter, Frances, spent the week end with Mys. Jones’ sister, Mrs. Joe Voss, in Richmond. Va. J. P. Jones, Jr., who had be^pMping a month LaCrosse, Va., with his grandpar “ Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth XMfflPw Lexington, Ky., who are on the Dunn tobacco market, spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Corbett. Cecil Modlin, III, who has returned from | visit to relatives in Peters burg, Va,, will soend the winter with his grandparents. M*. azu Mrs. Charles A. It iJL’ ! rtrriijr ii Vi life': iles‘ andk - ifiSrl Brother-In-Law Of Fammlle Man The bodies of B. J. Holloman of Jacksonville, brother-in-law of A. J. Melton of Ftrmviile, and three Ma rines from Cherry Poind wire found cornfield near New Castle, DeL, where Holloman's plane crashed Saturday. Mr. Holloman his pa^ffleogen left Jacksonville Saturday afterhoon about 4 o’clock and fueled the plane at Salisbury, M<L, about 8r30 that evening. There he made a flight plan, which indiciated he woufd follow the coast to his destination, Teterboro, N. J. When the plane failed to reach its destination, about 76 Civilian Air Pa trol planes, four helicopters and ra dar equipment were used to search for it. Funeral arrangements had not been announced as this paper is be ing published. Mr. Holloman was a former lieu tenant-governor of the Seventh Ki wanis district and had extensive real estate holdings in • Jacksonville. He was president of the Jacksonville air port, was one of the’founders and part owner of Piedmont. Airlines and bad had his private licenses for sev dnl years. He secured a commercial license about a year ago. He is survived by his wife, the former Etna Melton, and two chil dren. At its meeting Monday evening, the FarmviHe Kiwanis club paused out qf respect for the missing aiftnan and prayer was led by Rev. E. W. Holmes. LT.-COL. DUKE ATTENDING ARMY SCHOOL IN KANSAS Lt. Col and Mrs. Charles M. Duke and children have gone to Jackson ville, Texas, for a visit to his rela tives, followingwhich they will go to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where Col. Duke will attend a Ktanonths course al the Command and General Staff School. They Bpent.several weeks here with Mrs. Duke’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. P. E. Jones. CoL Duke was recently detached from West Point, where he taught civil engineering for three years. Casualty Farmville colored • ounded in fighting lefront and is now itagtal in Tokyo. ther of the wound . t M - Faison fint joined' the Army in 1944 bat did not see any service over seas during Woijty War IL When he re-dalisted, h* was sent to Japan and was then transferred to the Korean front. Faison graduated from Farmville colored high school in 1944. Principal H. B. Sugg described Faison as being Milton Eason, in charge of the program at the Rotary club Tuesday night, presented Mr. Dillingham of Greenviile, head of the Greenville or ifice of the NjJrifa^C&rolina Unemploy ment Office. He explained some of the workings of the Soda! Security Board and its related agencies, as wetk as the North Garolina Employ iWent Security Commission. The func tion* of these two agencies are con fusing to many individuals, said Dil lingham, and he explained that the

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