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Rural Carrier
Completes 31 Yeais* Service On
Farmviik Bootes; Ed Nadi
Warren Takes Over
Rural Post
Henry Tyson’s retirement as rural
mail carrier on June 30, after more
than 31 years of service, will result
in several major personnel changes
in the Farmville postoffice.
Archie Cayton, who has been serv
ing as carrier on iflute 1 since Joe
Henry Bynum’s retirement several
years ago, will take over Mr. Tyson’s
route, number 2. Ed Nash Warren,
a clerk in the post office for 14 years,
will shift to the position of rural
‘" carrier and will take over the Cayton
route. These changes will become
-effective at the same time.
Mr. Tyson rounded out 31 years of
service as a carrier in April. He has
_ faithfully served the rural inhabit
ants on Farmville routes. Of his total
service, 28 years and three months
were spent as rural carrier on route
1, and the remainder of the time,
three years, as route 2’s carrier.
Three Teachers
Appointed For
School Faculty
Three teachers were approved this
week for the Farmville High School
faculty. Sam Stell of Tarboro, will
be the Social Studies teacher and as
sistant coach. This position was held
last year by Charles Tucker, who will
be coach and Physical Education in
structor at the school next year. Mr.
Stell comes to this position from 2
years at the Aydeh High School. Mrs.
Stell will be the 6th grade teacher
replacing Miss Elizabeth Parker who
has accepted a position in William
ston. Mrs. Sue McGee Pope who has
taught In the Bell Arthur and Clin
ton schools will replace Miss Mary
Grace Gaylord as 4th grade teacher.
The eight grade teacher vacancy has
not been filled.
METHODIST MEN
HAVE FISH STEW
25 members of the John T. Thome
Parolees In Pitt 1
• Have Good Records
As of April it Pitt County Welfare
Department had 15 active parole
cases. Daring the month one paro
lee’s case was terminated after he
had been on parole some over four
years. He had compiled with all the
requirements of the Office of the
Commissioner of Paroles and the
_ Welfare Department while on parole
and received recommendation Of the
Parole Officer, Miss Elizabeth War
ren. He Was granted by order of
Governor Scott a final discharge
from parole. . ; ' &
One parolee waw killed during the
month of April, therefore the file on
his case was closed.
After the above-two-named case*
were closed, this left 13 active cases,
of which 7 are farmers. Two of these
made additional money over and
MRS. BARRETT WINS
CONVENTION TRIP
Mrs. Edgar Barrett was winner of
a trip to the Inter-State Convention
of the North America Assurance
Society in a recent campaign. 'Hie
convention opened in Richmond, Va.,
on Wedneeday and will continue
through Saturday. The Inter-State
Convention embraces ■ the states of
North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Virginia and West Virginia.
Men’s Class of the Methodist Sunday
School attended the fish stew given
Friday night by the class. Eddie
Carraway. was in charge of the cook
ing and was assisted by Dr. E. H.
Oakley and Ernest Petteway. The
supper was cooked and-served on the
church lawn. Edwin Mall was the
guest of R. E. Mayo.
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Mr. and Mr*. H. 1* Wat*m
children, Bade, Baa and
Wilson, went Sunday with
here. They were the sapper
of Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Fiaer, (
.night.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lee Quinn and
•son. Lee, of Wilson, visited relatives
here Sunday.
Mrs. j. C. Corbett and daughter,
Pat, are visiting relatives in South
Dr. and Mrs. S. H, Aycock, Jr., will
spend the week end and Monday With
Mrs. Aycock’* brother, Dan Aycock,
and Mink. Aycock in Charlotte.
Misses Mary McKensie and' Bee
Wright of Richmond, Va., were the
week end guests of Dr. and Mrs. A.
W. Smith, Jr.
Mrs. Marvin Speight and infant
daughter, Vivian Marie, returned to
their home Monday from' Partott Hos
pital in Kinston.
Mrs. Bob Joyner of Wilson visited
her son, Mark Wesley Joyner, and
family, Sunday afternoon.
Miss Mary Ellen Kittrell, who has
been employed as dietitian at the
Ochsner Clinic of the Foundation
Hospital at New Orleans, La., ar
rives Sunday, for a vacation at her
home here.
Miss Ruthe Tyson arrives today
for tile sunyner vacation. Miss Ty
son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B.
Tyson, was a student at Meredith
College, Raleigh, during the past
school year. She will be accompan
ied home by her mother and Mrs. C.
H. Flanagan, who have been in
Raleigh today.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen M. Harris and
son, Al, spent the week end in Raleigh
with Mrs. Harris’ mother, Mrs .Layne
Bail, and Miss Jane Dail. Warrant
Officer George Dail, brother of Mrs.
Harris, recently arrived in Raleigh
from shore duty on the west coast.
After a visit with his mother he will
be assigned to duty at Jacksonville,
Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Harris were ac
companied home from Raleigh by
Mrs. Louise Harris, mother of Mr.
Harris, who has been visiting her
sister, Mrs. Walter Hartman, in
Raleigh.
James Bennett, Marvin Horton and
Bruce Neal Tugwell, who have been
training with the National Guard at
Fort Jackson, S, C., spent the week
end at their homes here. Mrs. Ben
nett accompanied her husband to
Rockingham on the return trip. She
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Mary S.
Perry, there and will return to Farm;
ville this week with Mr. Bennett who
completes his training schedule at
the South Carolina camp.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Drake and
children, Nancy and Al,' spent the
week end in Hertford with relatives.
Mrs. G. R. Smith is—visiting her
sister, Mrs. B. F. Wagner, in Sparta.
Mr. and Mrs. Darius White, Jr.,
and daughter, Becky, spent the week
end visiting Mr. White’s sisters, Mrs.
S. G. Etheridge and Miss Nellie
White, in Elizabeth City.
Mrs. Darius White, Jr., and daugh
ter, Becky, are visiting Mrs. Thomas’
brother, J. E. Thomas, and family in
Raleigh.
Mrs. G. E. Bowdoin of Elkhart,
Ind., visited her mother, Mrs. & E.
Ewell, and brother, P. E. Ewell, and
Mrs. Ewell, last week.
Mrs. Dunbar Lamar is visiting her
sister, Mrs. L. A. Everette, and fam
ily in Monroe.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Barrett, Jr.,
and daughter; Julia Brent of Hender
son, spent the week end with Mr. and
Mrs. E. L. Barrett, Sr.
Miss Sybil Barrett, teacher in the
Dunn Schools, will return to her home
here for the summer vacation, Wed
nesday, Miss Barrett is on d house
party at Atlantic Beach with girls of
the Dunn High School basketball team
which she coaches. The party left
for the beach following (he gradua
tion exercises at the Dunn School
this week. 1 '
'Horace Allen of Kinston visited
.relatives here Sunday.
Sgt Jack Turaage returned to
Kessler Air Force Base; Miss., on
Monday, after a visit with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Turaage, Sr.
? Mrs. L. W. Allen returned to her
.
ave re
Ur. and Mrs. N. !>.,
Ocean View, Va.
Mre. G. Alex Rousei,
Murray and house
Neel, spent Saturday in
were accompanied home by
B. Wright,
had been visiting
Mrs. John B.
Jack, spent
visiting friends
Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
turned from a 2-week visit with rela
tives in Louisville and Horse Caw*
Ky.
Rev. W. F, Elliott of Petersburg,
Va., was the week end guest of Mr.
and Mrs. R E. Mayo.
Lillian Turnage Lupton of Nash
ville, Tenn,, is visiting her grand
mother, lira. B. O. Turnage. Warren
Lupton, father of Lillian, spent the
wefck end here with Mrs. Turnage.
W. M. Willis, Jr., "of Charlotte
visited with his mother, Mrs. W. M.
Willis, Sr., Sunday. William M.
Willis, III, who has been staying
with his grand*other during the
school months returned to his home
in Charlotte with his father. Mr.
Willi# was accompanied to Farmville
by Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Fusquay and
son, Jones, of Charlotte, who visited
with the M. V. Jones family. Mr.
Puquay returned to Charlotte with
Mr. Willis. Mrs. Jones and son re
mained for a longer visit.
Matthew Dail returned to his home
Saturday from Dukfe Hospital where
he has been a patient under observa
tion and treatment
Mrs. Riohard Welsh of Baltimore,
M«L, arrived Friday of hut week for
a visit with her mother, Mrs. S. G.
Gardner. She will return this week
end with Mr. Welsh, who arrived Fri
day for a week end visit
Bonnie Kay Allen, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bonnie Allen, returned to his
home Tuesday after undergoing an
appendectomy at Carolina General
Hospital in Wilson, Thursday of last
week.
Miss Faye Corbett of Kinston
visjted her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R
L. Corbett Tuesday night
Mrs. Edgar Barrett and daughter,
Brenda, ivere Rocky Mount visitors
Monday.
Many New Homes
Under Construction
Many new homes are being con
structed in Farmville. Daring the
past winter three new developments
for homes were opened up, Langdale
Incorporated, Dhvte Circle and the
development on the Fountain High
way on the outskirts of town.
Ready for occupancy soon will be
the homes of Mr. aiui Mrs. Frank K.
Allen and Mr. and Mrs. Mack Abram
in the Davis development on the
Greenville Highways.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Pope, Jr., and
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Yelverton recently
began gynstirUcfion of homes in the
Davis Circle. Mr. and Mrs. Rex
Hodges and Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Turn
age are building on the Fountain
Highway. Mi\ and Mrs. N. Cannon
are owners of a home being erected
cm the comer of Church and Waveriy
Streets.
The laying of a foundation was
planned this week for the home bf
Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Fiser , on the
comer of Grimmershurg and Pitt
Streets.
Homes of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Mayo
on the Fountain Highway and Mr. and
Mrs. J. I. Morgan, Jr., on South Main
■Street will be ready for 'occupancy
this summer.
Mrs. Dearie Mayo -Tripp recently
occupied he? new home on Waveriy
Street. Mra. Tripp, mother of Mrs.
J. B. Briley, was formerly a resident
of Greenville.
Dr. and Mrs. M. J. Gregg have
added extensively to their home on
Fountain Highway.. ..
little-used path near Beaver Dam
lake. A blood-stained raxor blade
found on the seat beaide him indi
cated that he had inflicted the
wounds, on his right arm, with the
blade , -
The services were conducted by
Bev. Z. B. T. Cox, Christian minister.
Interment followed in Hollywood
cemetery,
Mr. Wooten was a member of the
Farmville Christian Church, the Bed
Men, and Woodmen of the World. For
a number of yews he had been farm
supervisor for Dr. Jones. _ _
He was the son of Mrs. Elisabeth
Evans Wooten of Farmville and the
late Owen Wooten. In 1916 he was
married to Mamie Williford who died
in 1927. In 1980 he married Bettie
Lovic who died in 1960. In 1951 he
married Elisabeth Whitehead of Wil
son, who survives.
Surviving besides his mother and
wife are three children by his first
marriage: Mrs. Glenn 'Analey, Farm
ville, lbs. W. H. Crocker, Chimp Le
jeune; Staff Sgt. W. W. Wooten, Fine
Castle, Fla.; four sisters, Mis. Harold
Melton, Mrs/W. B. Gardner, Mrs. Bob
Norman, all of Farmville, and Mrs.
Van W. Little of Monroe; four bro
thers, W. (a Wooten, J. A. Wooten,
Abe Wooten, all of Farmville, and
Sam Wooten of Chicago, III., and
eight grandchildren.
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Rotary On Top -
In Little League
LITTLE LEAGUE STANDINGS
V L Pet
7 2 .778
6 S .667
‘4 6 .444
1 8 .111
The Litle League has completed
one-half of its regular schedule. The
standings above include Tuesday's
games.
Next week’s schedule:
Monday—Jaycees vs. Yets
Tuesday—Kiwarns vs, Rotary
Wednesday—Kiwanis. vs. Jaycees
Thursday—Rotary vs. Vets
The players and their dads enjoyed
a weiner roast-Wednesday night at
the Boy Scout Hut
Kiwanis
TWO LOCAL BOY SCOUTS
TO ATTEND NATIONAL
CAMP IN NEW MEXICO
Bert 'Warren and Mack Holmes' of
Troop 26 of the Boy Scouts leave to
day to attend the National Boy Scout
Camp at Philmont Scout Ranch near
Cimarron, New Mexico. Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Nadi Warren will accompany
them. Mr. Warren will attend the
scouter’s training course classes while
there. The party will 'return the
latter part of June. • ,:
Director Installs
Jaycee Officers
Mike Harper of Sanford, national
director of the Junior Chamber ot
Commerce, installed new officers of
the load club 'Wednesday night , and
made a speech that was interesting
and well received. Emerson Smith is
the new. president, succeeding J. T.
Walston. .
Three visitors were present for
Wednesday's meeting: Sheby Roe
buck, Calvin Herndon and H. .B,
...
. The sudden shift to the left, by
ruHnnti Democratic party leaden in
cluding President Harry Truman,
bodes no good for party harmony at
the Chicago convention. In the first
election of officers for the convention
the national Demo group pot its
regular slate through without trou
ble—Gov. Paul»A. Dover, of Massa
chusetts, was named keynoter, loyal
party man Sen Rayburn waa named
permanent convention chairman, and
Fair Dealer John W. McCormack was
named to head the preliminary pint
form drafting dommittee. - :
Conservative Southerners, who ere
demanding that the party platform
tone down its civil rights plank this
year, and reinsert a strong states'
fights plank, can find little comfort
in this selection of officers. And to
pour more salt into Conservative
wounds, President Truman is report
edly backing Senator'Hubert Hum
phrey, of Minnesota ns a major
speaker at the convention, also in
sisting on a strung civil right and
Fair Deal stand by the Democrats.
This certainly lodes like the brew
ing of another convention storm for,
whereas the Truman bloc ts pressing
for more Fair Deal declarations, a
bloc which has been led up to now
by Governor James Byrnes, of South
Carolina, is pressing, just as insist'
ently, for less Fair Deal philosophy
in several fields. And Byrnes has
threatened to withhold support of
tile Democratic ticket if his
In a Miaaisaippi Speech recently lie
even suggested a third independent
party might again be needed this
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JIMMY DARDEN SETS Iff ’ £
^ HOLE-IN-ONE record
After IS yean of playing golf,
Jimmy Darden made his first hole
in-one shot, recently. Flaying in a
threesome Friday, with Bo Rahil and
Arthur Joyner, Jr., he scored his
second ace within several weeks. The
first hole-in-one was made in four
some play on the 9th hole of the local
greens. The aeoond shot was accom
plished on the 14th hole of the course,
par-8, distance 18S yards with a num
ber 9* iron.
Ballots To Be Used Tomorrow
SAMPLE BALLOT
FOR. COUNTY OFFICERS
1. To vote for a candidate on the ballot make a
cross (X) mark in the square at the left of his
name.
2. If you tear'or deface or wrongly mark this
ballot, return it to the -registrar and get
another.
FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS
(Vote for One)
□ BLAIR COX WHELESS
□ CARSON R. JONES
Q CHARLES O’H. LITTLE
□ LARRY L. AVERETTE
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
/ District No. 5
(Vote for One)
□ M. BROWN HODGES
□ R. GUY JACKSON
SAMPLE BALLOT
OFFII1AL DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY BALLOT
FOR STATE OFFICERS
L To vote for a candidate on the ballot make a cross (X) mark in
the square at the left of his name. -
2. If you tear or deface or wrongly mark this ballot, return it to
the registrar and get another.
FOR GOVERNOR
(Tatar ferOM).*,.
LIEUTEN.
u,i 1^,4''ty»i i<
-SAMPLE BALLOT
OFFICIAL REPUBLICAN PRIMARY BALLOT
1. To vote for a candidate on the ballot make a
ber of the county Board of Commis
sioners- Mr. Bodges, the incumbent*
has served on the board for 10 years.
Two years ago, Mr. Jackson was un
successful in his attempt to defeat
Mr. Hodges but defeated him in the
district, which fact is being used by
Mr. Jackson in his attempt to per
suade voters in the remaining sec
tions of the county to cast a ballot in
his favor. Both the contestants have
been working hard.
In some sections, a heavy vote will
be cast ThiswiU be in precincts
which have “favorite” candidates.
For instance, Farmviile will probably
turn out in large numbers to support
the candidacy of Mrs. Blair Cox
Wheles, who is seeking election ss
Register of Deeds, a post she now
holds by appointment
The governor’s race—between Hu
bert Olive and William B. Umstead
has been the topic of debate in politi
cal circles. In this section, Mr. Urn
stead apparently baa the advantage,
ed the late J. M. Broughton in his
successful fight against Mr. Umstead
several years ago for the Senate are
now arrayed in the Umstead camp. It
is admitted, however, that Mr. Olive
has been gaining strength in this
locale in recent days.
The palls will be open from 8:80
a.m. to 6:80 p,m.
Ormandsville Wins
In 12th Inning
Ormandsville defeated Farmville,
8-7, Wednesday night iff a 12-inning
game in the local park Heath start
ed on the mound for Farmville and
was relieved by Benton. V. Jones
started for Ormandsville and was re
lieved by Garland little.
In games last week end, Farmville
split the series with Greenville. Box
scores of these games follow:
Farmville 12—Greenville S
Farmville..; AB B H
Gay, as-1_6 3 3
Webb, Zb_6 2 3
Tugwell, cf___ 4 1 0