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PITT COUNTY,
CAROLINA FRIDAY,
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Wall of Raleigh, reported to the
Farmville Board of Commiaaioners
recently that the annual audit of the
town’s books showsvthe municipality
is in a sound conditiim, one which re
flects credit upon the Commissioners
and their employees.
Several interesting facts about the
town are revealed in the audit report
Among other thing*, it showed that:
(1) Operating the town's water and
light department is a big business
itself. Revenue from the depart
ment amounted to $195,849.69, or
$29,280.77 above expensed. Depre
ciation was listed at $16,091.62, and.
$16,666.76 was transferred to the
town’s general fund from the light
and water receipts. The plant, the
water works, sewer system, and the
distribution, system of the plant are
valued at $800,000.
(2) Total receipts of the town were
$294,007.42.
(3) The town has outstanding
bonds in the amount of $411,000.
Bonds in the amount of $27,000 were
paid during the year.
(4) Paving assessments in the
amount of $13^11.76 are due the
town. Collections during the year
amounted to-$4^)71.50.
(6) The net total combined surplus
of all operating funds amounts to
$64,691.98.
(6) The town power plant produced
7,691,260 KWH during the year.' This
wait to 848 domestic retail cus
tomers, 181 commercial retail cus
tomers, 28 power retail sales, 2
wholesale power sales, and 360 rend
farm retail sales.
Cars Damaged
In Accident
Monday At Noon
Air Cadet Richard C. Garbrick of
Stallings Air Force Base in Kinston,
whose training to become a pilot in
cludes intensive work on remaining
alert, went to sleep at the wheel of
his automobile Monday at noon and
drove into the back of the car operat
ed by R. D. Moore, Kentucky tobac
conist who serves as a buyer on the
local market for the R. J. Reynolds
company. Mrs. Moore was riding
with her husband at the time of the
acddent The three occupants of the
cars escaped uninjured, but damage
to the two vehudes was estimated by
Patrolman Bruce Jackson at between
|900 and $1000.
The wreck occurred on the Foun
tain highway, just north at Farm
ville, only a short distance from the
scene of a similar accident on Mon
day morning of last week and cir
cumstances were similar.
Moore stated that he was driving
about 86 miles an-hour, in the direc
tion of Farmville. Garbrick, whose
home is in 'Pennsylvania, told the in
vestigating officer that he must have
been driving about 68 miles an hour,
dosed off momentarily and rammed
into Moore's car, a 1948 Buiek sedan.
The cadet was driving a 1960 Chevro
let -
Charges of careless and reckless
driving have- been Jodged against
Garbrick, and the case has been set
for Mai' h«fore Judge Walter Jones
In the local court on Monday, Sep
tember 16.
m« pm Corbitt m house
party at the home of Min Dot
Howard in Garland last week end.
Misses Annie Lurie Jones and
Ann Coot of nanr Walstonburg ac
companied Min Corbitt and were'
among the others attending.
A/Sc Cari Creech of Donalds
Force Base, S. C., spent the wash end
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis'
Creech. * v 1
Patrolman and Mrs. Bruce Jack
son ami sons are visiting relatives and
friends at Dunn this week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. White at Nor
folk, Va., spent the week end with
Mrs. White’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
£. L. Barrett
Min Anne Bynum was the week
end guest at Lyman Ormond at the
Blount Creek cottage of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Ormond, Sr., of
Greenville. '
Mrs. B. F. Britton of Edenton
spent last week with her daughter,
Mrs. R. C. Carraway, and family.
Mr. Britton arrived for a weak end
visit and accompanied Mrs. Britton
home.
Bill Gray ot Shelbyville, Ky., re
turned to his home Tuesday after a
visit with his aunt, Mrs. R. E. Pic
kett and family. 'Mr. end Mrs, Pic
kett accompanied him to Raleigh
where he boarded a plane.
Mr. and Mrs. Alva Jordan and Mrs.
Mamie Harris of Greeliville
dinner guests Sunday of Miss
Williams.
Mrs. W. J. Turaage had as guests
Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Turn
age, Jr., and daughter, Patricia, of
Atlanta, Ga., Mrs. Harvey Tumage of
Washington, D. C, and Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Howard and daughter, Cyn
thia, of Gkeenville. Mr. and Mrs.
Turaage and daughter remained over
night
Mr.-and Mrs. Vassar fields return
ed Tuesday night from a vacation in
Canada and other points of interest
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Sutton had as
guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
Edmonds of Rocky Mount Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Suttop, and children of
Tafboro and Mr. and Mrs. Johnny
James* add children of Robersonville.
Mrs. Jack Gates returned to her I
home in Lumherton Sunday after
spending a week with her mother,
Mrs. C. C. Joyner, and other rela
tives^
Marry narper spent tne ween ena
at his home here. •
Mrs. Louise Harris and house guest,
Mrs. B. Hampton Ellington, were
Wilson visitors Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Eagles, Jr., of
Crisp were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Lee Sunday.
Mrs. R. A. Fountain and Mrs. W.
B. Harris, both of Fountain, and Mrs.
E. W. Hunt of Daytona Beach, Fla.,
vriu> is visiting relatives in Ftnm
tain, visited Mrs. R. T. Norville Mon
day.
John Hill Raylor spent the week
end at his home here.
Dr. P. E. Jones, Jr., returned to
Kannapolis, Wednesday, after visit
ing with his parents here and at
their Bogue Sound Chib apartment
Mrs. J. F. Bailey- of Salisbury is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Payton Boyce.
Robert Dixon of Fayetteville, spent
the week end with his parents, Mr.
Rldeich.
Town Tax Sala
Set For Monday
-In compliance with laws governing
tax foreclosures and collections, Clerk
Cleveland M. Paylor next Monday
will sell at auction real estate on
which 1961 town taxes wee in arrears.
Failure to pay town taxes constitutes
a lien on the property^and only settle
ment with the collector will zemove
the cloud to the title.
The delinquent list appears in The
Enterprise this week for the fourth
:y club
MANAGER
' , v smui
Bill Kenndy, who has been manager
of the municipal pool this summer,
has accepted a position as manager
of the Country (huh and golf course.
The pool closed last week, mid Ken
nedy takes ovt& his new position im
mediately. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy
and their one child' are living in an
apartment in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Glasgow Smith.
AMERICAN LEGION
TO MEETTONIGHT ;
Faraville’s American Legion Post
will resume its regular monthly
meetings, following a one-month lay
off, tonight (Friday) at 7 o'clock in
the IXgioa home on West Church
street Horton Rountree is comman
der of the post Veterans planning to
attend have been asked to notify
Chester Outiand, so that ample food
will be prepared. ^
w com
art fer jart ni*ht (Thuredey), and
Meet In St. Louis
3 Dr. Paul £. Jones left yesterday %
train to attend the »8rd annual ses
sion of the American Dental Aaaodar
tion which begins in St, Louis Mon
day and continues in session through
Thursday. Attendance at the four
day meeting is expected to exceed
12,000.
Heading the state delegation will
be five official representatives of the
North Carolina Dental Society who
will serve as members of {he AJD.A.
House of Delegates, top policy-mak
ing body of the dental profession.
The delegates are Drs. Neal Shef
field and C. C. Poindexter of Greens
boro; A. C. Current of Gastonia; Paul
E. Jones of Farmville, and Wilbert
Jackson of Clinton.
Alternate delegates from North
Carolina are Dta R. Fred Hunt of
Rocky Mount; Cecil A. Pless of Ashe
ville; Frank Q. Alfred of Charlotte;
T. W. Atwood of Durham, -and Paul
Fitzgerald, Sr. of Greenville.
More than fifty of the nation’s out
standing dental scientists will pre
sent papers dtpring the scientific
meetings which will be held at Kiel
auditorium. A highlight of the pro
gram will be color television of surgi
cal procedures. In addition, there
will be more than 200 clinics, 250
scientific and technical exhibits' and
a continuous. program of films de
monstrating the latest advances in
dentistry.
RETURNING prom japan
Julian Boyce, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Payton-Boyce, embarked from Japan,
August 15 for the states. He is ex
pected to arrive in San Francisco,
GalH., September 20.
Boyce recejhred his basic training at
Seattle. Wash. He volunteered for
service in the Navy Air Corps soon
after graduating from Fannville
High School in 1961.
Summary Shows
Fewer Students
In Greene Schools
2807 pupils enrolled in the Greene
County White Schools, including
1712 elementary pupils and 595 high
school pupils.
Statistical figures on the enroll
ments of the Greene County white
schools for the 1952-68 term,' as
figured at the dose of the second day
and.compared with similar attend
ance at the opening ofthe 1961-62
term, reveal that there is a slight de
crease in the elementary school and
the high school in each school, with
the exception of the Snow Hill High
School, where an increase is shown.
The princi]
schools state
a few more p
to day during
s to enroll from day
. first two weeks,
.dent of the county
Tournament, one of the finest event*
of it* type in North Caroline.
- Pnhii»ho»i on vase two at this
issue of The Enterprise, ft* now.
rules specincauy state mat scnoois
can not enter tournaments sponsored
by individuals- or organisations other
than schools, m**, furthermore, par
ticipation of girls’ teams is limited to
one tofmiament> the boys to tiro.
From the local standpoint, the ml
logs mean that rooniojvfiib of the
Gold Medal Tournament must be
When over by the school, if it is to
continue* and that ihe local boys’
team would be forced to withdraw
from either the eountv or
conference tourneys, while the girls
could enter only one event. Hereto- j
fore, the teams have taken part in
three tournaments—the county, coas
tal conference, eM the Gold. MedaL
The tournament has been super
that under his interpretation of the
rules—and state officials have bear
queried by him in detail an the sub
ject—some changes must be made if
local teams participate in the Gold
Medal XbuJnamaut. He adds that
schools which violate the regulations
are subject to lose their accredited
standings, and that other schools can
be ordeied not to schedule events
with them.
Robert D. Rouse, Jr,, a leading
Jaycee whom efforts bad much to do
with establishing and developing the
Gold Medal Tournament, hopes tint
some revision and changes ean be
made which will enable the tourna
ment to continue. He takes a rather
dim 'view of the far-reaching regula
tions, and is of the opinion that the
tournament should be allowed to con
tinue, ' since the schools' themselves
are the main beneficiaries.
Scout Troop No. 26 of Faxmville,
acted as Cdort of Honor Tuesday
evening tor toe presentation of toe
Eagle Scout Badger to Harold Flsna
gan, member of the local .aroop, Chief
Scout Executive of toe East Carolina
Council, Ralph Mayo, made toe pre
sentation, by presenting toe Eagle
Badge to Mrs. Arch Flanagan,
Harold's mother, torher to pin upon
her son. Harold in turn pinned a
miniature badge on his mother. While
Arch stood by beaming with pride,
which he justly deserves.
Harold has held every position in
the troop from patrol leader to Jun
ior Asst. Scoutmaster. He shared
honors with a scout from fflaxbero as
bring the best alkroupd scout , in toe
Edgecombe District He is a member
of the Order of the Arrow and holds
the Brotherhood nude in that organi
sation. Active in churto and school
as well as scouting, Harold deserves
. AtwMBI _ ^ __
buck., aon of Albert Q. Roebuck of
306 N. Kite Street, bu ben aaaigead
Amarillo Aar ram mm, Texas,
a* a jet mechanic student, Colonel
Bay h. Clark, Base i^rnnwiiWiilftTi w*
nouneed through the Public Informa
tion Office recently.
Amarillo Air Force Base* cue of
seven technical and three indoctrina
tion boat* in the Technical Trite**
Air Force, a division of the Air
Training Command, la tile only Air
Force Base devoted exclusively to the
trainteg of Jet fighter and bomber
Jaycees Signing
Up Donors For
Bloodmohile .Visit
Dr. A. W. Smith, who ia serving as
general “'■■I’yaa te charge of com*
pitting arrangements for the visit Of
the Bed QwiB Bloodmobile to
ville ia TnMdav. flnntaniTmi 1# and
other of go Jonior Chamber
of Commerce are lining m
five donors to the blood bank.
Goal of the'dear’s work is 180 pints,
and this amount vna exceeded on
bloodmobile’s initial visit to Fanm
a few months ago. It ie expected that
at Mist 228-260 prospective donors
will be reamred if the ml ia undue
mnrhml Soma of tlwise willing to
donate bkrfd are refused in tea medi
cal screening testa teat precede tee
actual taking of blood.
Headquarters fdrthe Mm»1i<i«W»
will agate ha set up in the Presby
terian church. . .
A canvass .will be made by tee Jay
eeea to "M**11 signatures from those
willing to donate bided. Following
this, the prospective dooms will be
notified of the time they will be ex
pected to report^ This ia tee
procedure that utes used on tee pre
vious visit.
FOUNTAIN SCHOOL
ENROLLMENT IS UP
POLICE PATROLMAN HIRER
Hie Town «f Faraville recently
hired PtoydL. Owen* of Fountain, as
a police patrolman. *lf* Owen* as*
Burned M» duties, which iiwMf gen
eral police work and motorcycle
MtTftHny » Milton Cul*
towii in this capacity resigned to ac
Mom*
ville will enter
w©ek» Mfmwtn 1
d W.080 pounds for w
. tFueaday’a sales ware 747,670
Farmville’s football team will prac
tice under the lights for the first time
Friday nlg^it The team is develop
ing and will be ready for the opener
against Norlina on Kidsy, Septem
ber 12 at 2:00 o'clock at Norlina.
The bo$rs have been hard at work
for the past week in teaming funda
mentals of biockiug «nii tackling.
The first injury occurred teat Thurs
day when SVgbe Dilda twisted his
ankle. Tuesday the team - went
through an hour's scrimmage, in hope
of finding the weak spots. Several
of the new boyB have shown determi
nation to play football. She offense
has been better than the defense. It
is hoped, that the defense will im
prove by game time.
The guards are a bright spot in
the line. These are lettermen filled by
WilUsm Allen and Carroll Wooten.
Four boys competing for eni are
really having a fight, these are Tom
my Norville, Toll Taylor, Freddy
Thome and' Glen Bundy. Two of
these b%S are 9th graders and rbajly
want to play. The hoys seem to be
in good physical condition,
-ariety of subjects related
d&m $ho heard from
Uderaon, newly-select®*
ib Garoliiui JPteimer. This
monthly by tik6