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f >. ' ' • **. - V Tlw Hem# Newspaper for 49 Years ■ Published Each Tuesday and Friday —- Subscription Rates: Wayne and Adjoining Counties, $4.00 Per Year; City Delivery, $4.50; Elsewhere, MOUNT OLIVE, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1954 VOLUME 50 The Mouth Talking this week with the Mur ray - brothers, Bill and Durwood, made it appear folks in the Mount Olive area, especially those who . have trouble making both ends meet,.are missing out on a won derful opportunity to have their own. economical cheat supply. They said it was well known in other • sections of the nation, but apparently not in this area, that one pound of rabbit meat could be raised cheaper than a pound of any other Tcind of meat. Rabbits borh and toed in captiv ity, fed proper diets, etc., certain ly should provide some of the. ten derest, cleanest and tastiest meat of all. Stanley Shoe company will open its new store here next week, and an announcement of this fact will appear in Tuesday’s Tribune. Some of you probobaly already know it is a subsidiary of the B. B. Walker Shoe Co., of Asheborp, and that Mr. Walker, who is head of- the company, is a son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Andrews of Mount Olive. He is married to their daughter, Edna: This is the third retail outlet of this wholesale concern, the oth er 'two stores being in Asheboro and 'Albemarle. Waters of the Neuse river pushed on their' eastward journey by a strong west wind Wednesday af ternoon, rose several inches in a couple of hours. One Mount Olive person, going to Goldsboro that afternon, saw no Water on the ac tual highway on his way to the county seat, but when he returned two hours later, the flood had risen to cross the pavement. The new roOT being built to tie in the Neuse’s new bridge, and which at present consists of a roadbed hauled in to create the fill, has taken a terrific beating from the recent rains and high water. Lee Williams, on his way to Goldsboro early Thursday morn ing, where Mrs. Williams was to undergo a relatively minor ope ration in Wayne hospital, decided he’d go by way of Broadhurst Bridge and eliminate the chance of having his way blocked. 'n order to get to Goldsboro in e, he was eating breakfast /ntown almost before it was «gHgbt, and admitted he usually dfent’t get up that early. * He admitted, also, that he hard ly knew What the world looked like at that time of the morning. What appeared to be a conven tion of loO@i barbers took place in a grill berre one evening this week, and when they came out one of them, Bill Upchurch, stopped right behind us and said, “Look, boy. Every one of us fellows needs your head in our business.” We checked, and sure enough, we needed a haircut, and plan to get one sometime between nqw and corn-planting time. If everybody else tended to'his own business like Joe Outlaw tends t<9his own, there’d hie nobody med dling in your business except your self. It'was only, after the customer - had finished his first cup of cof fee, and had eaten almost half ' » of his hamburger, that the walt >. ress here remembered the cus ? tomer’s hamburger meat was still cooking, and the customer was ^eating just so much roll, lettuce, mustard, etc. Hit’s the truth! - x Somebody brought us the follow ing little poem on taxes. Best we remember, it originally appeared almost 10 years ago, and it’s an other one of those things which we believe have already appeared here, but we .print it again for whatever it might be worth. The farmers are complaining about the many taxes being levied upon them at this time, as is evi denced; by the following verse in serted in the “Congressional Rec ord” the other day by Congress man Daniel A. Reed of New Yo{k> Now he is a common man, 1 , Tax him, tax him all you can,' Tax his bouse and tax his bed, Tax the bald spot on his head. § Tax his bread, tax his meat, >x his shoes clean off his feet, ax his pipe and tax his smoke, Aach him government is no joke, x his “lizzie,” tax his. gas, x the road* that he must pass; *ax the farmer, tax his fowl, r .Tax the dog and tax his howl. Tax h^ plow and tax his clothes, $ •’ Tax the rag that Wipes his nose. " Tax his pig and. tax his squeal, . Tax his boots run down at heel. Tax his cow' and tax his calf, - Tgx him if be dares to laugh; ; Tax his bafns and lax his land*, Tax the blister* on his hands; .V- Tax the water, t*x the air, * * . | (Continued on page I) f - * .V, f. .^I' \ -V ' U ' , -'v ;'"YV ; :V '■ : :■ Patten Again Accepts Chairmanship Local Committee to Put Town in 'AFC' Race Mount Olive’s entry in the Fin er Carolina contest was assured this week when Paul Patten ac cepted the local chairmanship for a third term and project chair men were .appointed to handle the programs being set forth in this year’s contest. Patten, who has been chairman of the Mount Olive committee dur ing the two yearS the Carolina Power and Light company has sponsored^ the contest, announced four projects will be undertaken this year. They are landscaping and beautification of the town; paint up—fix up; municipal work; and education institutions. Members of Hie steering com mittee ere D.' F. Odom, Jr., J. A. Batson, Edward Carroll, W. H. Franklin, Mrs. Ralph Warren, Mrs. Calvin Porter, Mrs. Jack Loftin, Mrs. Maude Kornegay, and Spencer Durante. Of these members, Mrs. Warren is in charge of the landscaping and beautification project; Franklin in charge of paint up—fix up; Odom, municipal work; Batson, educational institution^, Mrs. Porter, city park; and Carroll, cemetery. Patten said other persons might be appointed to the steering com mittee and placed in charge of projects as needs arise. Un'der the i project of landscap ing and beautification, four major goals have been set. They are planting shrubs, grass, flowers where advisable; removal of un necessary or’ dangerous trees; cleaning up of vacant lots; church ground improvements; construc (Continued on back pago) Menus for Next Week Given Here Miss Althea Herring, cafeteria manager, announced mentis at the Mount Olive high and elementary schools next week are as follow: Monday — 1/2 pint plain milk, baked pork ham, string beans, creamed white potatoes, whole wheat bread, butter, canned peach es with cream,"- *+»*■.("■• ■ - Tuesday — 1/2 pint plain milk, luncheon meat loaf basted with honey-cloves, turnip greens, cream ed corn, butter, corn bread, gra ham crackers, sandwich'with pea nut butter filler spread. Wednesday — 1/2 pint plain milk, buttered cheese toast, vegetable soup, carrot strips, sandwich bread, crackers, doughnuts. Thursday — 1/2 pint plain milk, chicken with noodles, buttered Eng lish peas and carrots, hot biscuits, butter, stewed apricots and prunes (cup), tomato juice. Friday — 1/2 pint plain milk, tuna fish salad on lettuce, canned lima beans, hot rolls, butter, cook ies. Strickland, Bennett at Convention Junie Strickland and M. R. Ben nett, Jr., of the Calypso club, at tended the Ruritan National Con vention in Washington, D. C. They left Sunday morning and returned Wednesday afternoon. They were among nearly 1,000 Ruritan club, delegates from 13 states attending the gathering it the Statler hotel. ' Included in the business taken up at the convention Was the election of William H. Brake of Rocky Mount as president of the National organization. Brake had appeared at a recent meeting of the Calypso club, and at that meeting the lo cal club went on record as favor ing him for the national presidency. War and argument have never settled a single dispute. AFTER AND BEFORE—Lot owners working at Maplewood Cemetery clean-up day Wednesday, shown above, made quite a change sin the appearance of the'graveyard. Shown below is a view of the cemetery before the campaign was started to make the graveyard more attractive. Lot owners and city employees worked together cutting weeds, dead trees, and in other ways beautifying the cemetery. Local Cemetery Cleaned Wednesdayby Lot Owners They didn’t come in hordes, but by nightfall Wednesday, Maple wood cemetery was no longer a wilderness, rather an attractive resting place for the dead and an attractive sight for those passing by or stopping to view the grave yard. . Alderman D. F. Odom, Jr., had called for a clean-up day at the cemetery Wednesday, and while the response was not over-whelm ing, it was sufficient to turn the weed-grown graveyard into oqe of dignity. At no time was there a large croWd- working at the ceme tery, but all day lot owners came quietly, cleared the graves', oc casionally some placed flowers or wreaths on the graves of a loved one and just as ^quietly as they came,'they left. The city had volunteered a crew to help with the clean-up and a dozen or more of the city em ployees, along with individual lot owners, cut broomstraw, weeds and dead trees growing in Maple wood. ■ While a large number of lot own ers did not turn out for clean-up day Wednesday, they have had weeds and broomstraw growing on their plots cut and their plots made more .attractive, since the unat tractiveness of the cemetery was first called to the public’s atten tion in December. Although clean-up day was term ed a success by Odom, a small minority of lot owners still neglect ed their plots, and left graves in need of beautification, but on the whole it is believed the pemetery is 100 per cent more attractive now., than it was when the drive started to clean up. Odom expressed his thanks to those who cooperated with the clean up and extended -an invita A»y MARK OOFORTH, ^ , • • ■ Wayne Farm Agent There’ll be a series of agricultur al schools held in the Wayne coun ty Agricultural Building on Wed nesday and Thursday, February 3 and 4. Wednesday morning, February 3 at-10:00 o'clock. Hie class will bo on CommerelaJ Poultry Pre , duction. Thursday'morning, Feb urary 4, at 10:00 o'clock, the class will be en (cotton, corn, small grain, and fertilisers. Dis eases 'are taking art increasing toll on our yields of cotton and small groins as well as tobacco. VThqpe .classes will be conducted by the best trained specialists in •4* t *•. » <" S*1, * - »■ ’ > •,'t •»* <? - ■•V. ^'. -v <■ ■ ' ' ' ' V; V , '* X .' ~\’-r 'T +’’--V various fields 0* agricultural. Both men and women are urged to at tend. ' “The application of recent agri cultural research ' results here would mean a vast improvement in the incomes of individual farm ers and would bring a great con: tribution to the economy of the whole county," Farm Agent Mark Goforth, declared today. V 7 Goforth said this is the think ing back of the Agricultural schools to acquaint Wayne- farm ers with the practical application of recent research results affect ing various agricultural enterprises on farms in Wayne county. .• (Continued on page ()' i v * i". » - . ';7 y: i ■ 7 /■ ■sty* vvl -*- ‘ - .V v i .V* V'- ■ tion to the citizens of this sectib* to drive By the cemetery and see for themselves the improvements that have been made. - He also invited lot owners to con tinue taking an interest in the up keep of their plots and to main tain the attractiveness and digniiy of Maplewood cemetery. . . Quarterly Meeting by Methodists The. first Quarterly conference for the Mount Olive Methodist Cir cruit will be held at the Smith’s Chapel,church Sunday, February 7, at 11 o’clock. Holding of this conference on the first Sunday in February nec essitates a change in the circuit schedule, the Rev. Paul Maness, pastor, said in announcing morn ing worship services at the Brown ings church will be this Sunday, January 31, instead of next Sun day. The Rev. H. K. King, superin tendent of the New Bern District, will preach at the 11 o’clock serv ice and conduct the confere^e at the close of the worship hotl^^ _The Rev. Maness urges aHm bers of the conference to attend. .Deadline Near ' Citizens uf Mount Olivo mutt list their city and county taxot by tomorrow night or bepenaliz od. Taxot aro baihg yttod in tho ; courtroom at city hall, batwaon tho hourt of 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Citizens alto aro romindod thoy mutt havo. thoir auto li eontet on thoir vohidat after mid-night Monday or ttand in danger of being apprehended for violating the law. Local Man to Have Car in Florida Race Included among the North Caro lina entriM for the annual winter speed claroic over the famous 4.1 mile beach and road course at Day tona Beach, Fla., will be Bill Duff of Seven Springs, entered for the Saturday race. Duff will be driving a modified Ford owned by Arnold Jernigan of route 3, Mount Olive. This will be his first appearance in Daytona for the annual winter races. Duff competed in the Eastern Carolina area during the 1953 season. The Daytona Beach program for 1954 Calls for five days of speed trials and time trials in addition to the three major stock car races scheduled for the famous 4.1 mile track and road course and the tour nament of champions program for top modified and sportsmen’s driv ers at city staduim Tuesday night, February 16. (Complete Change L Western Union The Mount Olive Chamber of Commerce moved into its new of fices at the Western Union build ing Tuesday and took over opera tion of telegraph service here. This operation was taken over by the Chamber after Western Union had petitioned to close the agency here on the ground the lo cal agency was operating in the red. With the Chamber acting as agent, expenses can be cut, it was stated by both company officials and the Chamber manager, thus allowing service to be continued. An official of Western Vnion said Wednesday that Miss Blanche Har •srove, Chambey secretary, was given about 30 minuter instruction on how to operate the board and then sent her first telegram. He 1 said she “catches on quickly.” Bedding Burned in Blaze on Thursday Burning mattresses were drag ged from the home of Hoyt Mc Cullen on Park avenue yesterday morning, Thursday, and the flames extinguished before heavy prop erty damage resulted. Firemen answered the al£rm about 8:30 and found two mattres ses on fire. They were dragged into the yard where water was poured bn them. Both were considered a total loss. Fire Chief Ennis Kornegay said he has not completed his investi gation, but believed only a small amount of damage was done by the blaze. He said hfe believed the fire started from a cigarette spark. Still Raided in Area Near Town Another still in the Indian Springs community was destroyed this week when L. R. Cobb, county jailer, raided a 40-gallon copper one in that community Monday. This was the third still raid in the Indian Springs community this month. COFFEE TO FIGHT POLIO—Reuben Bur gess is placing a donation in the March of Dimes can held by Mrs. James Reaves at Reaves’ Restaurant on coffee day Thurs day while, left to right, James Fairley of Birmingham, Ala., Hank Morris, Ray Scar borough and Norman Anderson, also partici pants in coffee donation drinking, watch. Patrons drinking coffee at Reaves’ Thurs day were asked to contribute any amount from a dime up for each cup they drank to the March of Dimes. The coffee was donated by James Reaves, proprietor. Rusty’s Grill will hold a Coffee Day February 8. Campaign for March of Dimes Funds Here Gets Off to Good Start, Parker Reports Young People V/ill Conduct Presbyterian Service Sunday Young people will conduct, the1 worship service at the Mount Olive Presbyterian church Sunday morn ing. Members of the Presbyterian Pioneer and Senior High Fellow ship will be in charge of the 11 o’clock worship service as part of Youth Week of 1954. Youth Fel lowship all over the south will observe this week, which will be climaxed by Assembly’s Youth Sunday. Dave Gillis, Jr., will be modera tor at the morning service. Others taking part include Sue Williams, Kay Mitchell, Jimmy Carroll, Johnnie Thigpen and MoHy Dotson. The choir will'be composed large ly of young people. Gillis announced the order of service as follows: Prelude, Chor al call to worship, Invocation and Lord’s Prayer, Gloria Patria, Hymn, “The Church’s One Found ation,” Worship music, offertory, Doxology, talks by Miss Mitchell and Carroll, Hymn, “There Dawns A Glorious Day,” Prayer and Re sponse, Hymn, “I Love Thy King dom, Lord," and the Benediction with response. Mrs. Fancis Kornegay, adult ad visor to the group, and the Rev. B. E. Dotson, pastor, offered val uable assistance in preparing the program, Gillis said. Miss Williams will be organist ahd Miss Dotson will read the scripture. Thigpen will lead in prayer. Circuit Churches To Join in Crusade The Rev. Paul Maness, pastor, announced that the Mount Olive Methodist Circuit will join in the Church Attendance Crusade, which will enlist all members to attend at least one service of worship each Sunday during the drive to improve church attendance. Superintendents of the various Sunday schools on the circuit will be asked to make an attendance report each week during the cam paign. ►—--—---— New Arrest In Robbery Of Couple With the arrest of another Negro woman this week, Mount Qlive po lice-believe they have solved the gun-point robbery of an aged Ne gro couple. The latest to be arrested in con nection with the robbery of Mr. and Mrs. James Hinton of Nelson street is Willie Manley, who, Chief of Police P. O. James said, has confessed to taking part in the rob bery on January 14. Arrested earl ier in the week were Marcellus Leach and Geraldine Lennon. The trio is charged with entering Hinton’s home, taking his gun and at gun point robbing the couple of about $35 in cash and the gun. James said the Manley woman confessed to taking about $7.90 in cash from under a pillow and about five pounds of sugar from Hinton’s house. Leach and the Lonnon woman were apprehended in Kinston Mon day,, while police arrested the Man ley woman Tuesday. Union Meeting for Town Sunday Night There will be a union meeting of all Mount Olive churches at the Presbyterian church Sunday night < at 7:30. Members of all denominations are invited to attend, W. A. Pat terson, president of the Allied Church League, said in explaining the League was formed from the defunct temperance union, to bring congregations of all local Churches together on fifth Sunday nights. A guest speaker is being secured for the occasion. It’s nice to be important—also important to be nice. North Carolina Commissioner qf Insurance Charles F. Gold was the principal speaker at, the Mow* Olive volunteer firemen’s banqi Tuesday night in the elemental school cafeteria. ■ City of Mount Cuve was host to the firemen, their wives, anti Special guests. Entertaining of the firemen by the city has . been an annual tradition for the past 25 years with the exception of the last two when this custom was dis pensed with and the city contri buted financially to the department. Firemen and their guests were given a turkey feed and immediate ly following the eating, Commis sioner Gold delivered a brief ad dress. FIREMEN HONORED—-The city of Mount Olive snowed their appreciation to»their volunteer firemen Tuesday night by Entertaining them and their wives with a banquet at me . ~t - ^ ■ ■ •' Xi K MM: elementary school cafeteria. Commissioner of Insurance Charles Gold, sitting at Fire Chief Ennis Kornegay’a left at the speakers’ table, was principal speaker. ,'y;. ■ . ?■> H'.'I- \ ' ■-V' ;V • Mount Olive’s contribution to fight polio has not been officially tabulated since the March of Dimes drive got underway here a couple of days ago, but Louis Park er, local drive chairman, said yesterday he believed the drive has gotten off to a good start and that Mount Olive’s donation of last year will be surpassed by the time the drive ends February 13. At a meeting of-the. sponsoring Junior Chamber of Commerce Mon day night, Parker solicited the aid of about 25 Jaycees to solicit the business district, or to take part in a solicitation program; Theonlymajorprojecttodateof f The only major project to date of any consequence in raising funds for the March of Dimes was the coffee day held yesterday at > Reaves’ restaurant. Coffee drink ers at Reaves* restaurant were do nating a 'dime or more to 'the ~ March of Dimes campaign for each cup they drank. At the time The , Tribune went to press, coffee was still being sold on die donation basis and a final count of funds * raised was not available. > Parker announced that another coffee day will be held February 8. Rusty's Grill will sell coffee on a donation basis that day. Coffee drinkers at Reaves’ eat ing establishment yesterday also could purchase individual pies and the proceeds from this sale was turned ever to the drive chairman. The pies were made by Mrs. D. H. Outlaw. The Jaycees appointed at the meeting Monday night to help so licit funds will visit each business establishment and personally ask funds for the drive. At Calypso/a dsnC* will be held tonight, Friday, with proceeds going ito the March of Dimas. Calypso post of tha American Legion is sponsoring tha dancer ' which begins at 8:30. Last year Mount Olive was good for approximately $l,3Q0'in fight ing polio. This year, the local chair man would like to see that figure raised; since medical scientists be lieve they can lick polio if suf ficient funds are provided for re search and to care for those al ready afflicted .with the disease and those who will contact infan tile paralysis before the malady can be conquered. Pastor to Speak On Tobacco Case The Rev. R. C. Joyner, pastor of Salem Advent Christian church, has announced that he will speak on “The Case Against Tobacco” during the worship hour next Sun day morning. According to the Rev. Joyner, the decision to use this subject was reached only after a thorough con sideration of radio and press com ments on the relation of the use of tobacco to the spread of throat and lung cancer, and because of the possible economic readjustments that may1 lie ahead for many rural church members. He invites all interested per sons to be present at 11:00 i.m. to - hear this sermon. n Meet Nahunta Tonight Mount Olive’s basketball teams t play at Nahunta tonight, Friday, and will return here Tuesday night to meet Grantham. f In other Wayne Conference games tonight, Pikeville is at Sev- -•• en Springs, and'Rosewood is at f New Hope, mint -- the law administers re--'' vensa." ' J v-V
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