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Edna Earle EBia, 16-year-old Negro
of near Farmville, shot* hdr iter
father. Hoses Thomas Joyner, 36,
through the forehead with a .22 rifle
him instantly. The
Sunday,
bullet e .)
thfe left eye, causing death
According to a report bi
gating officers Monday, the
occurred at the Joyner hom
Tumage’e farm, which ii
about three mile* weat of
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on the Wsft^ lnpnnQ[i 1
.Officers stated that tile j
was threatening to heat his wife With
a wheel from a toy wagon, and that
the young Negro girl intervened.
Joyner then advanced on her with thq
wheel and as he did so the girl shot
him. ' " \ .it ,i
The girl is free under a eornnorri
bond of |800 pending the outcome of
an inquest to be held Friday night at
7:30 o'clock in the Faraville city
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Police Chief L. T. Luca stated that
Joyner married the girl’s mother hurt
March and that the couple had been
having trouble since the marriage.
Conducting the investigation were
Lucas, Sheriff Ruel W. Tyson mid
County Coroner Griffin H. Bouse, ail
of whom said Joyner had been drink
Grimes Lewis, who represented the
Farmville Junior Chamber of Com
merce at the national convention re
cently in Dallas, Texas, summarised
his trip Thursday night at the regu
lar meeting of the local Jaycees. -
Emerson Smith, president, presided
over the meeting in the American
Legion home. A steak sapper was
served.
Mr. Lewis reported tCU Harry
Stewart of Raleigh had beep elected
first national vice-president, and that
the scrapbook of the Rocky Mount
club, showing its projects, had been
judged the best m the nation. He
stated that he attended two all-night
caucuses prior to the selection of the
vice-presidential candidate. Outstand
ing in the entertainments was a track
and wagon supper and rodeo given by
some of the Texas clubs. North Caro- ■
lina had one float, promoting Chester
fields, in the large and colorftd pa- -
rade staged during the convention.
R. D. Rouse, Jr, officiated in the
induction of the following new. mem
bers: Elbert Moye, Hany May, De
wey Fuquay and Billy 'Maroton. In
inducting the men, Mr. Rouse stated
that the main purposed of the club -
wen to stimulate leadership qualities
and to make the community a better
place in which to live. “
Harold Rouse, chairman of the new
ly-started membership drive, report
Hags 1. Hnuui, w», aiea ai nope,
,; Wedneaday afternoon at 12:10 o'clock.
Funeral services will be eoadutffrf*
the home Friday ^morning at U
o’clock. Burial will be in CSterry Hill
Cemetery. The Rev. Leon BaMBi
pastor of the Jama Memorial Method
" diet Church, will officiate. Mr. &nith,
non of the late Louia Edward and
S Mattie Taylor Smith, waa bom and
reared in Htt County near Fountain.
He operated ji mercantile business in
: Roanoke Rapida for > number of
years before moving to Greenville in
1932. He owned, and operated a
Mrs. C. Ik Laskey, the organist,
selected “I Need Thee Every Hoar"
and “Hymns of Childhood” for the
prelude and selected “O, Kove That
Will Not Let Me Go” and “In U»
Sweet Bye and Bye" for the postlude.
Members of. the Emily B. Holmes
Sunday School class and ladies of the
church and comihunity served as,
floral bearers.
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ADJOURNS FOR SUMMER
Mrs. Grimes Lewis and Mrs. Sim
Weisner were hostesses last Thursday
iftemoon to the,- Ferroville Home
Demonstration Club at the drib’s
Final meeting until September. Mrs.
here, Tuesday. He wflT spe
day furlough visiting his
Mm. W. M. Willis.
Tommy Willis of Newtek «
week end with his mother,
Iren, Roy £e* and MBe Irene, of
Iseksonvilie, visited Mr. and Mrs; J.
k. Carraway, Sunday.
Mr. and Mm. J. H. Bynum were
die guests of Mr. and Mis. Glasgow
Smith at their Bnad Creek cottage
lear Washington on the holiday and
luring the week end.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Corbett had as
ruests, Sunday and Monday, Mrs. Cw
jitt’s sister, Mrs. E, J. Trafton and
ion, Ensign B. J. Trafton, Jr., and
laughter, Kay, of Birmingham, AK
dm. W. H. Southerland, sister «F
rlrs. Corbitt, and Mrs. Sanford Chaf
in of South Mills vis ted the Corbitt*
Sunday night. ~
Mrs. M. 0. Hall and children, Bill
ind Linda, of Jacksonville, Fla., ar
rived Monday for'a visit With her
nother, Mrs. Mary Bussell. “Skippy”
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nother for several weeks, will return h
o Jacksonville with his mother.
Mr, and Mrs. W. R. Burke and son,
Silly, Spent the holidays with Mrs.
Surke’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Srady in Bennett.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Davenport spent
he holiday and the week end with
frs. Davenport’s parents, Mir, and
Irs. J. R. Manning, in Plymouth. Mr.
lavenport was in Farmville Satur
lay and returned to Plymouth Satur
lay wight
MisS Annie Lee Jones, and rala
ives from Massachusetts, who are
isiting in North Carolina, are gpend
ng a 10-day yacatioh on the Psmliep
liver near Washington.
Mrs. Chrystelie Parker of Benson
.rrived Monday for a visit with Mrs,
). R. Morgan.
Mr. and Mrs; Horton Rountree and
on, Charles,’ were the tolidsy and
Creekmnr; Club Senior Cleveland
PajQor, ehabrmaa, »ab-CQ«*in»leo
heads, Plato Base, Joe Joyner, JL Ai
Joyner, Paul Eweflj lrvin Moigan, E.
N. Warren and O. G. SpelL «
P. K. Ewell, chairman of the pro
nun committee, save the pTOfirram
ratline and pxoglemchairmen for the
next six months. - «£■
Plato Baaa, chairman of we leBow
ship and attendance committesian
and would honor Botarians who act
grandfathers. • ■dg.iJi-<.;)>? ■>
Joe Joyner, chairman of the dnaai
ticathm committee, read the classifi
cation of each member, in order that
ante might be taken of the Vacancies
Farmville, currently ridin
:rest of a winning streak that
3B victoriee over Hnetops an
nont, haa anopportonitythu
>nd to rise above third place in
i tendings.
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The locals play OnnopdaviU
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Tomorrow niriife Jtantonabw
i’amviQe are tcfodift the fan
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community. He spent all bis me in
Pitt County, in and around Foontain
and FarmvUle. He came to Fsrmv,lle
aba young man in 1886 add opened a
grocery apd general store, on Hie
comer where the Royal Grill is now
located, continuing hie farming inter
est at 'the "same time. From 1903 to
Utfd he /wgi A nuial : mail carrier.
Since that time he has devoted his
time and interest
farming interest Pitt County. He
ras a member of the Otter Grade
Primitive Baptist Church near Crisp.
f jjjkla survived by his wife, .Hit
former Martha Worthington of the
Renston community near Avden. one
daughter, Mrs. Gordon R Lee of
Parmville, one son, Uo T, NorviUe
of FarmvUle, Diane, Nancy and Leo
rUgbmau NorviUe, j&, o| Chicago,
and ajtfj^tonthsfi 6. T. NorviUe of
Active pallbearers were: Gilbert
W$tle* J. B, BrUey, Andy Martin,
Cecil Johnston, Archie Cayton, R. 6.
fa#gr Jr., James'phslesg and Leroy
eople attending were:
add Mrs. Walter Lee,
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A Court of
the July 10 referendum on the 10.
«nt an acre self-assessment to pro
tiJfflNi total tobacco income tor the
crop WTU about #522,982,000 on ?
738,000 acres with an average per
time yield of 1,338 pounds in North
Caroline, and about #88,838,000 on i j
132»0W «w® with an average yield
W> Pounds in South Carolina. '
Some 40 per cent of the annual crop
is exported so that meant a value of
|«W»2^00 on the portion of North
Carolina's 1951 crop that went tor
foreign buyers, and #36,582^00 worth
of .South Carolina'^ tobacco that was -
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“This means that producers in both
states have more than a #200,000,000
stake in the referendum on the 10
cent an acre annual self-assessment’ .
in 1958,1954 and 1956 to promote eat- '
ports through Tobacco Associates." ^
Vaughan and Hamer said the To
bacco Association program has, won If f|
the admiration of other- commodity