*************** NUMBER THIRTY-THREE Prayer for Peace Sunday, December SI, is being ob served by a great many churches in America as a day of prayer for peace. .The Farmville churches are being called upon by the Ministerial asso ciation to devote just as much time as possible between now and that day for .special prayer for peace. At 3 o’clock on that Sunday a special community service will be con ducted by local ministers in the Chris-, tian church. All people, irrespective of faith, are urged to come. A pro gram is being planed that the minis ters hope will place upon ike hearts the need for peace and Christians’ re sponsibility in helping bring peace of God to men’s hearts. As a call to worship, chimes will he played at the Methodist church, be ginning at 2:30. Farm Workers Will Be'Covered by Social Security After Jan. 1 Regular farm workers—perhaps as many as 6000 of them in the area served by the Rocky Mount office of the Social Security Board—will come under the Federal social security law beginning January 1, according to Marshall H. Barney, gianager of the Rocky Mount office. Dairy fanning will lead to old-age and survivors insurance protection for the largest number of farm people in this area, Barney believes. He em phasises that it is tiie regular farm worker who is paid cash wages who will come under the law—not the itin erant, or part-time worker. A new leaflet, “Notice to Fanners with Regular Hired Help," explains how. the farm operator can tell wheth er any of his employees are covered bythe law. Issued by the Bureau of Internal Revenue at Greensboro, the leaflet is available at the collector's office in Greensboro, or at offices of ceupty agents or PM A. Ifahy banks , alsf have copies of the notice. In addition to explaining just what workers are covered, the leaflet a tear-off slip which the Ml operator should complete and K_if he has employees who will be tm by the law. the new law firings iann the aoeial security system ; time, the system will not [thousands of the farm ■my of them made a sub ■ toward old-age and sur ■tce payments by work Kiai or industrial jobs Hjfnce 1936. Some of ■war plants, and oth B of World War II, ■k>eial security eresl. > qualifying earn social succeeding by con —— *+* - —--—_ „ ♦ •♦♦•♦♦♦♦♦—♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦'I »»»«♦■»«♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦< joritjs but both ueem to be too opti mistic. So-called political experts be who are waiting to see which wap the1 wind blows before jumping—will de cide the outcome. In other words, the speakership may go to the man promising file most in the way of committee assignments. The holidays provided little hi the way of news. Most departments were too busy getting their pleas ready for the General Assembly, putting year, end reports together, and worrying a bout what presents to buy to take time out for politics. However, some Capitol Hill squat ters were jawing about Utilities Com missioner McMahan being pushed for president of Lions International. The interesting part about the rumor go ing around ip that some of the state's, big power companies’ bigwigs are the ones doing the most pushing for Mc Mahan. They really are touting the Utilities Commissioner for the num ber one Lions’ job. Meantime, McMahan is making a, lot of speeches around the state telling about the operation of the Utilities Commission, of course, but apparently doing a little Lion hand shaking at the same time. There’s no public fanfare, but th£ Highway Department is ptiffiung a safety campaign continuously. Care lessness costs money* a recent bulle ttin sent to all hands pointed out. As an example, the bulletin called atten tion to a recent avoidable accident. Seems the driver of a highway truck packed a mite too close to a railroad track. The result: a train came by, smacked the truck, and it cost the highway department $250_worth of repairs. Signs of the road-building times : on the Smithfield side of Clayton, this sign greets the motorist—“Slow to 20 miles per hour if you can’t turn around.” The governor’s press conferences recently have brought these remarks Pitt and Greene REA Installs Two-Way Manager Gilbert Whitley of the itt and'Greene Etectri^MemSendnp irporation states that radio _ equip ent *a.-t instaUed which will tern needs $300,000,000 worth of re • Iwidfftf-fixine wideninir and by-pass building to pat it in shape. That increased aid in any shape to cities and towns for their street building will call for . new taxes. That building — particularly of schools—should not be held back be cause of high cost during the emer gency. Income will be high, and building should continue — if it is at all possible to get materials—so that there will not be a backlog of build ing needed when the emergency is over. That Governor Scott will make some recommendation to the General Assembly on the question Uf separat ing the highway and prison depart ments. He did not say which way his recommendation woud go. ~ Everette Doffermyre, publicity-lov ing Dunn lawyer, found himself in much the same position of the man who . sat on his own false teeth and got bit Doffermyre jumped into the fight about the Emmett Garner case, re* centlj in the headlines. Judge Ham ilton stated publicly that he had not intended for the-man to die, that he had thought Governor Scott would in tervene and commute the death sen tence. The governor <Sd not inter fere, and Garner went to the gas chamber for beating Ms wife to death. Doffermyre charged that Gamer died because “the Governor of North Carolina did not follow the advice and counsel of a person who is iednnfd in the law.” The resulting publicity brought Out a published fetory that Doffermyre had served as attorney for amaif he sentenced.to jail while serving as Dunn Recorder's Court Judge, and helped get a parole for that man. Doffermyre denied any improper pro cedure in the case, but it was tamed over to the State Bar'Association, for study. No disposition of the case has been made as yet by the Bar Associa people from are invited to fcer-oommunity enterprise to help a. contribution to the spiritual of youth. It is to be conducted ung people for the youth of thbr who are cordially invited to and Spend the hours between Directed by Mrs. D. R. Mercer aruf Mrs. J. M, Horton, the third and fourth grades sang “A Child’s Even ing Song," “Christmas Carol” and “Esther Christmas" The fifth and sixth grades, under the direction of their teachers, Mrs. Bennie Phillips and Mrs. Philip M. Cory, Sang three Christmas songs, “Carol of the Shep herds,” “Silent Night" and “I Heard the Bells on Chrigtma* Day,” The seventh and eighth grades pre sented a pageant, “Christmas by Candlelight.” Bjlly Baker played the role of Joseph, Betsy Oakley played the role of Mary. Others in the cast were Janice Johnson, Aim S. Everett and- Teresa Moseley {angels); Bill Abrams, Horace Corbett and Gene Jones (shepherds); Tommy Phillips, Carlton Vanford and Cbafles Sum merlin (wisemen); Woody Hunt was the narrator. Tdrs. Bslipr.iiM Mrs. program. Mrs. Emily Walston, music teacher, served as pianist and directed the musical numbers, all of which were outstanding and were heartily praised. The first and second grades sang several songs, among which was “Here Comes Santa Claus.” The Old Fellow entered while the children Spread Christmas Cheer for the Billy Gregory returned to Camp Atterbury, Indiana; 'Wednesday after spending the holidays with his par-* Miss Ernestine Moseley of Foun tain spent the holidays with Miss L. D. Mowing of near Snow. Hill and Poe Mooring, BXZFC student, were guests of Mrs. Mooring's daughter, Mrs. John T. Walston Christmarday. Mr and Mrs. J. W. Miller had as their guests Christmas eve Mr. and .Mrs. Snodie Parkerson, Mrs. J. E. Parkerson, Sr., Mr. and' Mrs. Joe Parlwrson and family, Mr. and Mm. Johnnie Parkerson of Greenville and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Cobb and family of Bethel. Father Alophoneus Benson, who has just returned to the United States after a year, and a half in Europe and .a tour of Palestine, visited his broth, er, Father Joachim Benson, pastor of St Elizabeth’s Catholic church, the day after Christmas. He-was accom-i panied by Father Lawrence Brediger of Silver Spring, Maryland .. |f Donald Baucom, who underwent an emergency appendectomy on Sun day at Memorial General hospltai in Kinston, returned: yesterday to the home of his parents, Mr. add Mrs. C. nry Johnson and e, left Tuesday to ■ of tllfe week with ter in Columbia, S and son of Newport News, Va., Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Tugwell and son, and Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Stamper and son of .Roanoke, Va, C. A. Mozingo left Tuesday, for Charlotte to attend a ratting of representatives of the Southern Ap In contests recent pliance company. In contests recent ly sponsored by the company and the manufacturers they represent, Ho zingo has won a cocker spaniel dog, a Lord Elgin wrist watch, a man’s dia mond ring, a lady’s diamond ring, a> Kodak duraflex camera, two brass end tableB “MSSpash-button electric stove. Within the .near future, he is to receive a child’s swing. In an* other contest, he won an electric sew C. A. Mozingo was in Woodard Herring hospital, Wilson, Saturday through Tuesday of last week for a check-up. ; y$-\ Vtti and Mrs. Arnold Pittman and Mr. and Mrs. Leon Poster of Selma spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mr* J, A. Gregory. Sfrrand Mrs. W. J. Bundy of Green vilfe, Baxter Carson of Norfolk, Va., Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Harper and son, Bill, of Rocky Mount and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bundy and sons, S. D., Jr., and James Henry, were dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. X" T. Bundy. a«d Mrs. C. W. Casper and children spent Sunday and Monday In Rocky Mount with relatives. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Mrs. Ervin Evans announce of a son,. Ervin Allen’,' on 21, at Carolina General i Wilson. Mrs. Evans is the iss Mildred Southerland of Band To Give: At Nest Pf A Meeting ■ ■ ■ . The Farmville high school baud will present a concert at the meeting of the Parent-Teacher association on Thursday, January 4, at f:30 inthe school auditorium under the direction of N. C. Maenhout. i Parents and friends are Invited to attend. -v-rrr —... i.. ’sshuffl*. A ten Korean pn a bridge » the cold as •nvoy wheels Crain blanketed ingtotu 7, -- : \ sight i:/T’ m'W M» ham, Va.,

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